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Key takeaways Cardano trades below $0.22 after failing to sustain a move above its 50-day EMA. ADA’s long-to-short ratio stands at 0.79, approaching its lowest reading in more than a month. Negative funding rates indicate increased demand for bearish derivatives exposure. Cardano recovery stalls below key moving average Cardano remained under pressure on Thursday, trading below $0.220 after buyers failed to sustain the previous day’s recovery above the 50-day Exponential Moving Average. The rejection leaves ADA below its 50-day and 200-day EMAs, maintaining a bearish near-term outlook. Price is now hovering just above the 100-day EMA around $0.220, placing immediate…

Solana activated Alpenglow on mainnet on Oct. 21 at slot 459,653,000, replacing TowerBFT with a consensus design that targets about 150 milliseconds to finality. Under the new protocol, confirmed and finalized become the same state.At the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC), multilateral netting cuts the value of equities payment obligations by an average of 98%.Alpenglow shortens the time until a transaction becomes irreversible, and netting reduces the amount of money participants must move to complete trades.What Solana’s Alpenglow changesThe first phase of Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade, Votor, has validators exchange votes directly and aggregate them into certificates, which allows finalization in…

The OCC finalised stablecoin regulations covering reserves, redemptions, custody, risk management and supervision, effective 18 January 2027. The Treasury will work with regulators on separate rules covering financial crime and sanctions compliance.  Meanwhile, Ripple welcomed the SEC’s proposed Regulation Crypto Assets framework but called for greater legal certainty around tokens and secondary-market transactions. Stellar, Cardano, Chainlink and other blockchain firms urged the SEC to formally include the “digital commodity” category in its rules. The US is advancing its crypto regulatory framework while several blockchain firms have urged the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to adopt clearer rules for crypto…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent compared the GENIUS Act to the National Currency Act of 1863 on Oct. 21, the day the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released its 721-page stablecoin final rule.He called the law a cornerstone of America’s position as the world’s crypto capital.The American Bankers Association (ABA) responded the same day, saying the final rule gives indirect stablecoin rewards room and invites deposit flight that would weaken bank lending.As Eleanor Terrett reported, the ABA said:“Attempting to address deposit flight and economic harm after it has occurred is the wrong approach.”The 1863 law standardized money issued…

Bitcoin briefly reached US$84,835 before retreating to US$82,802, wiping out around US$2,000 in gains within hours. More than 90,000 traders were liquidated over 24 hours, with losses totalling US$349.72 million, including US$129.13 million in Bitcoin positions. Glassnode identified US$87,500 as a key upside level, while a close below US$80,000 could bring US$77,600 into focus. US spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted over US$1 billion in net inflows this week, with BlackRock’s IBIT accounting for approximately US$930 million. Bitcoin had been eyeing the US$85K (AU$121.1K) mark as the coin topped out at US$84,835 (AU$120,929) in the wee hours Australian time. It has since…

Bitcoin holds the $80,000 area, where Glassnode places the estimated average acquisition costs of US spot Bitcoin ETFs and publicly traded corporate treasuries, while ETF inflows slowed by 95.6% in a day.Farside Investors recorded $526.7 million in net inflows on Oct. 19 and $23.2 million on Oct. 20, with both sessions positive. A $26 billion five-year TIPS auction on Thursday, then flash PMIs and final University of Michigan inflation expectations on Friday, arrive before the Fed’s Oct. 28 decision.Bitcoin buyers at the cost basisGlassnode’s Oct. 21 report shows the Oct. 15 selloff closing hourly near $80,100, briefly below its estimated ETF cost…

Standard Chartered signed definitive agreements on 21 October to acquire 100% of Zodia Custody, subject to regulatory approvals. Zodia’s custody business, with entities in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, the UAE and Luxembourg, will join the bank’s Securities Services unit. Zodia’s software arm will become Zodia Solutions under SC Ventures, with investors including NAB Ventures and Northern Trust. Standard Chartered has signed definitive agreements to buy Zodia Custody, a crypto custodian its venture arm agreed to launch with Northern Trust in 2020, including the custodian’s Australian business. The bank announced the agreements on 21 October, after Zodia’s shareholders and noteholders accepted…

Elon Musk said on 20 October that Tesla and SpaceX have each formed a committee of independent directors to consider a merger, with no terms agreed. BitcoinTreasuries puts the two companies’ combined holdings at 30,221 BTC, worth US$2.54 billion (AU$3.61 billion) at 30 September. Analyst Dan Ives estimates a merged company would be valued close to US$5 trillion (AU$7.1 trillion), and Musk said a deal needs the backing of half of all Tesla shares. Elon Musk said Tesla and SpaceX have each formed a committee of independent directors to weigh a merger, a deal that would put both companies’ Bitcoin…

SideSwap, a swap provider on the Liquid Network, has reopened conversions from the synthetic Bitcoin token L-BTC into Bitcoin.Direct withdrawals from the Liquid Federation, which manages the network’s Bitcoin reserves, remain restricted. SideSwap’s payouts can still queue during refills of its own Bitcoin wallet.In its Oct. 21 update, SideSwap said users had made about 600 peg-outs, and it had paid more than 60 BTC since reopening on Oct. 20.In Liquid’s Sept. 23 assessment, Blockstream said an Elements verification-cache flaw created approximately 4,000 unbacked L-BTC and led to Bitcoin leaving Liquid’s reserve through SideSwap.What holders receive, and why they may waitUnder…

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) outlined a waiver route on Oct. 21 for existing US payment stablecoin issuers awaiting its approval, warning that an application alone will not authorize continued issuance after the GENIUS Act takes effect on Jan. 18, 2027.Under the new waiver guidance, the OCC generally expects to grant requests to waive prior approval for existing issuers operating in the US that submit substantially complete applications before the effective date. It can still deny a request if its review identifies more compelling reasons to do so.As of Oct. 21, the OCC’s application page said…