Solana’s Alpenglow consensus upgrade is expected to begin its mainnet rollout on October 21. It targets finality in roughly 150 milliseconds, but it will also remove validator vote transactions from blocks, meaning Solana’s total transaction and TPS charts may drop without any decline in user activity.
Interactive Brokers has added Ethereum staking to Client Portal for eligible Interactive Brokers LLC clients. Clients can now submit staking requests alongside their usual brokerage activity, though the ETH is held and staked through Zero Hash rather than by Interactive Brokers itself.
Ethereum is drawing a much more optimistic crowd response than Bitcoin after its rebound. CryptoQuant’s Binance data, however, points to a different contrast beneath the discussion: ETH’s leverage ratio has stayed elevated, while Bitcoin’s has eased from earlier 2026 readings.
A UK High Court has ruled that Chinese law, not English law, will determine whether alleged victims of a Chinese investment fraud have proprietary claims to more than 61,000 Bitcoin seized in London.
Privy’s developer documentation now lists XRP Ledger support, giving apps a way to create and use XRPL wallets without sending every new customer to separate wallet software first.
XRP has slipped below the $1.53 Fibonacci retracement, bringing the next two support zones into focus as the September recovery faces a deeper pullback.
Arbitrum’s dropped to $0.209 at the time of writing, down about 7.7% on the daily chart and returned to a former September breakout shelf, where the chart could show whether the wider rally can withstand renewed macro pressure.
XRP’s recovery has revived a $2 chart setup, but heavy Binance turnover and leveraged trading leave the rally facing a more demanding test.
PI traded near $0.0907 after rebounding from last week’s low, but the first test is a daily close through the $0.09-$0.091 resistance area.
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