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Hedge funds cut their net bearish Bitcoin futures bets nearly 15% even as the cryptocurrency tumbled toward $80,000.Data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) showed leveraged funds held a net short position equivalent to 30,611 BTC as of Oct. 13, down from 35,903 BTC a week earlier.The 5,292 BTC reduction came as Bitcoin fell nearly 3% during the reporting period, from about $85,600 on Oct. 6 to $83,100 on Oct. 13. The cryptocurrency briefly slipped below $81,000 as rising Treasury yields, weakening institutional demand, and a global technology stock selloff weighed on risk appetite.The decline gave bearish traders opportunities…

Tether lost $4.6 billion in USDT supply across 19 selected cryptocurrency exchanges and lenders during the third quarter as rival stablecoins gained ground.During the same period, the 19 institutions added approximately $1.9 billion in competing tokens, including $569 million of Circle’s USDC and $493 million of Ripple’s RLUSD.According to the Crystal Intelligence report, Bybit recorded the largest reduction, shedding $1.66 billion in USDT while adding $315 million of RLUSD. Binance reduced its Tether holdings by $987 million and acquired $223 million of USDC, while OKX cut $899 million in USDT and added $273 million of USDC.Across the wider market, USDT’s…

Aave’s proposed USAT gateway would require approval for every return swap, allowing access to be revoked after an institution had exchanged its deposit receipts for GHO.TokenLogic’s Oct. 15 governance proposal would introduce a permissioned GHO Stability Module, or GSM, on Avalanche. It would let approved counterparties exchange waUSAT, a receipt for the dollar stablecoin USAT supplied to Aave V4, for GHO. Approval would apply in both directions, so revocation could prevent a participant from returning GHO to recover waUSAT.That creates three separate conditions on the route back to dollars: access to the return swap, the ability to withdraw underlying USAT…

Binance’s perpetual tied to SOXL, a leveraged semiconductor ETF, recorded a 5.9% opening-to-low fall in the mark price used for margin risk during the 21:00–22:00 UTC hour on Saturday, Oct. 17. All 60 sampled minute-close gaps between that mark and its reference index stayed below 3%.The two observations measure different risks. Binance’s published weekend band constrains the mark’s distance from the index at a particular moment. The index can move away from the trader’s entry price, leaving cumulative price exposure open. In the sampled hour, the index itself fell almost 4%.For a leveraged trader, that distinction leaves room for losses…

Vitalik Buterin has called for a hard ceiling on Ethereum proving costs per unit of block gas, adding a resource-accounting test to the push for faster zero-knowledge proofs. For independent prover operators, the issue is how much work the hardest permitted block could demand, even when ordinary blocks finish quickly.In his October 15 post, Buterin congratulated ZKsync’s Airbender team and set out three formal-verification priorities: matching the mathematical representation of execution to Ethereum’s specification, bounding prover cost relative to block gas, and securing the proof system itself.The cost requirement reaches beyond a speed leaderboard. Gas gives Ethereum a way to…

Circle is removing its separate net-redemption overage fee from USDC and EURC conversions into fiat under a revised Circle Mint fee schedule that starts taking effect Oct. 19, 2026. Existing customers move onto the pricing at the start of their next billing period on or after that date.Under the public schedule, institutional customers can choose Standard redemptions with no Circle redemption fee or Express redemptions charged at 0.05% of the gross amount before credits. The overage surcharge disappears across all tiers, while the Express base fee remains.Circle Mint serves institutions such as exchanges, banks, wallet providers and institutional traders. It…

A Kraken-distributed USDC vault will direct part of its yield to XRP-linked collateral providers underwriting DeFi losses.On Oct. 15, Firelight announced the addition of Kraken’s Protected Strategies USDC vault, extending a coverage protocol launched earlier this month to an investment product available through the exchange’s DeFi Earn service. Sentora, the vault’s independent curator, arranged the enrollment.The deal creates a potential source of recurring income for holders willing to deploy XRP-linked capital on Flare. Fees from the vault’s returns flow to Firelight, where collateral providers share in premiums in exchange for accepting losses from eligible exploits and protocol failures.For Kraken’s depositors,…

US-listed XRP exchange-traded funds ended a 13-week inflow streak as investors withdrew nearly $576 million from four major cryptocurrency ETF categories.Data from SoSoValue showed that XRP funds recorded $1.84 million in net outflows during the week ended Oct. 16, reversing the $11.31 million inflows registered a week earlier. The withdrawal ended the longest active weekly inflow streak among the four categories, removing the last source of positive flows as Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana funds continued losing capital.Bitcoin ETFs recorded $228.58 million in net withdrawals, while Ethereum products lost $319.97 million and Solana funds shed $25.52 million.Together with XRP, the four…

Key takeaways ADA futures open interest fell to $475.58 million from $549.14 million, reflecting reduced derivatives exposure. Positive funding shows a modest bullish tilt among perpetual traders, leaving longs vulnerable if prices fall further. ADA remains below key moving averages, with $0.1894 emerging as a potential downside target. Cardano Stabilizes After Sharp Weekly Decline Cardano held above $0.2200 on Monday as buyers attempted to steady the price following a roughly 12% decline last week. ADA has lost more than 10% so far in October, while weakening derivatives activity and subdued large-wallet positioning suggest limited conviction behind a recovery. The daily…

Hacken recorded 107 crypto security incidents in the third quarter, with estimated losses rising 55% to US$1.18 billion. Around US$906.8 million, or 77% of losses, involved compromised suppliers, developer tools, unpatched vulnerabilities or components outside audit scopes. Four major incidents involving Bitget, Liquid Network, Tectonic and Coldcard accounted for roughly 80% of reported losses. Approximately US$387 million was recovered or reversed and US$410 million reimbursed, leaving around US$384 million neither recovered nor reimbursed. Crypto projects lost an estimated US$1.18 billion (AU$1.69 billion) to hacks and exploits in the third quarter of 2026, a 55% increase from the previous three months,…