Deutsche Bank says its first crypto custody service is weeks from launch in Germany, starting with Bitcoin and Ether. The bank's product page lists five tokens, so the gap between a supported asset and a usable service is what clients will meet first.
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Schwab charges 0.75% on bitcoin and ether trades across a $13.33 trillion platform
Schwab has opened bitcoin and ether trading to eligible retail clients on a $13.33 trillion platform at a 0.75% fee. CEO Rick Wurster calls it transaction revenue, and each $1 billion traded would yield $7.5 million.
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Bitcoin traded to just above $80,000 as South Korea's Kospi plunged 8% and triggered circuit breakers, CoinDesk reported. Altcoins took the heavier losses, with the CoinDesk 80 down 2.2% against 0.7% for the CoinDesk 5.
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Exchanges closed $483 million of bitcoin and ether futures over 24 hours as bitcoin fell below $81,000. CoinGlass data in two reports agree on the total, but only crypto.news ties it to the 3.7% September CPI and an 8% Kospi drop.
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Standard Chartered, with VARA approval, now lets Professional Investor clients in the UAE trade Bitcoin and Ether from existing bank accounts. The bank keeps custody and settlement itself, so exchanges are now its competitor for these clients, with price still untested.
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Bitmine bought another 12,532 ETH last week, lifting its holdings to 6,028,946 ETH, or 4.9% of supply. Chairman Tom Lee says purchases end at 5%, 76,000 to 100,000 ETH away, so the position is close to its final size.
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Small tokens outrun majors on order books that have kept thinning since the October 2025 crash
Net outflows from U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs reached $681 million last week, according to SoSoValue, their highest since June. Small tokens rallied through it, and CoinDesk research says their order books are still thinning.
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VS Trust's 3x bitcoin and ether funds won SEC approval of their exchange-listing rules on Oct. 2, moving daily-reset leverage closer to trading. Because the triple exposure resets every session, a holder can be right about bitcoin for months and still lose money.
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Papertrade's launch-day open interest ran at 41 to 67 times its pre-deposits
Papertrade drew $3 billion of Bitcoin open interest after its October 10 launch, against pre-deposits Crypto Briefing estimated at $85 million to $138 million. The gap matters because losing trades fund winning ones, so a sharp one-way move would leave winners relying on delayed settlement and a profit haircut.
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US spot bitcoin ETFs took in $21.13 million on October 9 as ether funds lost $56.10 million, a ninth straight day of outflows. Netted together, about $35 million left the two groups, so the bitcoin rebound is too small to show institutions coming back.
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CoinDesk Research found about $11.7 million resting within 1% of bitcoin's price, roughly 75% more than on the day $19 billion of positions were liquidated. Altcoin books have thinned in dollar terms at every reading since January 2025, so the recovery belongs to bitcoin and ether alone.
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US bitcoin and ether ETFs shed about $965 million in two sessions as ether funds logged an eighth straight day of redemptions. Most of Thursday's selling sat in Fidelity's FBTC and BlackRock's ETHA, consistent with a few large holders trimming positions.
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Hyperliquid whale rebuilds its ether long 8% above the next forced sale
One Hyperliquid whale lost 28,716 ETH, worth $69.69 million, to forced liquidation on Oct. 9, then posted 10 million USDC of fresh margin within half an hour. Its rebuilt 78,955 ETH long now liquidates about 8% below the market, Bitcoin.com News reported, at prices anyone can see.
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Citrini Research's 79-page report argues fee-collecting platforms and protocols could gain more from tokenization than bitcoin or ether. Even if bitcoin and ether set new highs, the report says, there are better ways to bet on tokenization.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs shed a net $484.9 million on Oct. 7, their largest one-day outflow since June, Farside Investors data show. At about $82,700, Bitcoin now trades inside the band where Glassnode maps its nearest liquidation cluster, so the next move depends on how leverage is stacked there.
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Bitcoin fell below $83,000 as Brent crude reached $102 a barrel and US Treasury yields climbed to their highest since 2002. Oil set the timing, but the fall landed on a futures market that had shed $2.8 billion of open interest since September 22, CryptoQuant data show.
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Kalshi's 15-minute gold markets recorded 542 million contracts in September, beating Ether's 318 million in their first full month. Ether's own count kept rising, so the data show gold adding to Kalshi's short-dated business.
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Bitcoin ETFs took in $6.34 billion in the third quarter as the coin rose nearly 43%, about $3.1 billion of it in a nine-day September streak. The money is real, but its late arrival leaves open whether it drove the rally or chased it.
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Standard Chartered's $2 ENA target needs Ethena's USDe to grow eightfold
Standard Chartered set ENA targets of $0.42, $1.10 and $2.00 for end-2026 through end-2028, the first formal targets a major bank has put on Ethena's token. Nearly all of the upside depends on the USDe synthetic dollar growing back past a buyback trigger that it currently sits well below.
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Crypto liquidations hit $547 million on Brent's jump as open interest slips only 1%
Crypto liquidations rose 235% to $547 million after Iran's tanker attacks pushed Brent above $101, yet futures open interest slipped only 1%. Leverage was already thin, so the selling moved token prices far more than it cleared out positions.
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