USDC’s new EU classification will transfer supervision of its reserves, liquidity and capital to the European Banking Authority on November 12, alongside continuing French oversight.
Higher inflation can strengthen Bitcoin’s scarcity argument while making it harder to hold through restrictive financial conditions. Matt Hougan and Peter Schiff emphasise opposite sides of that tension.
Crypto losses deepened on Thursday morning, with Bitcoin trading around $80,500 as uncertainty over the Federal Reserve’s next interest-rate decision weighed on markets.
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Stellar fell 3.57% to around $0.1836, reaching its 200-day moving average after slipping below the $0.1850 Fibonacci level and its 100-day average.
NEAR has retreated roughly 19% from its recent peak near $6, slipping below $4.94 and approaching the rising channel boundary that has framed its September advance.
Zcash fell 4.45% on its October 14 daily candle, approaching $1,140 support after slipping below its 50-day moving average.
US inflation accelerated to 3.7% in September, coming in above expectations. The result adds another macro risk for Bitcoin just as is close to a key daily support area.
CoinShares has made its on-chain strategy available through Safe’s enterprise wallet platform. The launch is less about a new yield product than a new distribution model: clients can access managed strategies from the wallets where they already hold digital assets.
A token can move between wallets in seconds. But when its holder needs to exit, the important questions are whether there is a buyer, what legal right the token carries and whether any redemption route will work under pressure.
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.



