Author: Jeremy Ryan

Q4 has not lived up to the bulls’ expectations so far. According to CoinGlass data, Bitcoin [BTC] is down over 3.5% in October, closing in on last October’s 3.95% decline. With the month approaching its end, attention is already shifting to November. And there’s a reason for caution: In November 2025, BTC fell more than 17%, recording the biggest drop since November 2019. So, could history repeat itself, or will Bitcoin finally break the bearish November pattern? Notably, ETF flows suggest that caution may already be creeping into the market. As AMBCrypto reported, Bitcoin ETFs have recorded $625 million in…

The Glamsterdam upgrade on Hoodi, previously scheduled for October 26, 2026 at 17:42:48 UTC (epoch 132,352), has been postponed. A new activation date has not been set. This update supersedes the schedule and activation instructions in the Hoodi testnet announcement. What Has Changed? Core developers decided on ACDE #248 to delay the previously scheduled Glamsterdam network upgrade on the Hoodi testnet to allow for further investigation of interactions of EIP-8037 with mainnet smart contracts. The delay removes the scheduled Amsterdam execution layer activation and Gloas consensus layer activation. It also removes the gas-limit schedule that would have raised Hoodi’s gas…

For now, Dessa remains a research preview rather than a publicly available product.Shock and aweDessa’s demo quickly drew attention on social media, with some users praising how natural the interactions sounded. X user Alexander Hoff said he had never “heard anything artificial that sounded so… human,” while user Hesamation described it as “straight up sci-fi stuff. Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao also chimed in, pointing to potential uses in education, where natural voice interactions could help children learn through conversation.“This might be very good for GiggleAcademy. Teaching kids in current ‘AI voice’ was a challenge,” Zhao wrote, referring to his…

“Perpetual preferreds have brought bitcoin to income investors, a group that ETFs never reached,” said Mark Palmer, a senior equity research analyst at StoneX.Ryan Rasmussen, the head of research at Bitwise, also sees the products attracting buyers who might avoid bitcoin exchange-traded funds, though he expects the ETFs to remain the bigger demand channel.“Over the long run, I expect ETFs to be a larger source of demand for bitcoin, with perpetual preferred offerings acting as a second tailwind addressing a different type of investor (yield investors),” Rasmussen said.James Butterfill, CoinShares’ head of research, said STRC alone, which pays a variable…

NEAR Protocol’s open interest has dropped 9.5% over the past 24 hours, according to data from Coinalyze. This coincides with a 7.9% decline in the token’s price. NEAR is currently trading near $4.50, with a market capitalization of approximately $5.86 billion and daily trading volume of around $618 million.Source: CoinMarketCapOpen interest measures the total number or value of outstanding futures and perpetual contracts that have not been settled or closed. It helps gauge the amount of exposure remaining in the derivatives market, although it does not independently indicate whether traders are bullish or bearish. Shiba Inu (SHIB), Dogecoin (DOGE), XRP and…

The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is preparing to overhaul its voluntary disclosure program, with plans to reduce penalties and accelerate the resolution of tax violations, including those involving cryptocurrencies, according to a Friday report by Forbes.IRS Criminal Investigation Chief Jarod Koopman said the agency aims to introduce the revised program before December, with a target of resolving cases within 120 days of taxpayers completing the required submission process.The overhaul would reportedly not establish a separate disclosure process for digital assets. Koopman told attendees at the UCLA Extension Tax Controversy Conference that the IRS would handle digital assets through the…

Sorare is a fantasy sports game where the player cards are NFTs. You pick lineups from cards of real footballers, basketball players or baseball players, and your score each Game Week comes from how those athletes actually perform. You can start with free cards, but the competitions with cash and card prizes need paid ones. This guide covers how it works in the 2026/27 season in five steps, and when it makes sense to spend money. Risk note: Sorare cards are tradable digital assets with prices that can fall sharply, and paid competitions with prizes are treated as close to…

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This is a weekly newsletter on the latest Solana engineering news this week. If you want to stay updated on Solana tech every week, follow Solana Changelog at @solana_devs and @readylayerone and turn on notifications. PSA npm install @solana/web3.js@3 Solana Web3.js v3.1 has been released. Update your web project dependencies using the command above. This version interoperates more closely with Solana Kit, Solana Wallet Adapter, Surfpool, Anchor, Codama, and SPL interfaces. Releases New versions Ecosystem work Community Validator Discussions October 8, 2026 SIMDs Compute unit costs for syscalls on the Secp256r1 curve were proposed WTM (what this means) – Solana…

Crypto is kind of like email in the 90s. 👉 At first, it was this magical thing. Instantly send something across the world. 👉 Then people realized… oh. Spam exists. Phishing exists. Scams exist. The tech didn’t change. Humans just started using it differently. That’s basically what this one recent report is showing – except instead of spam, we’re talking about something way darker. Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis published new data showing that crypto flowing into networks linked to human trafficking increased about 85% in 2025 compared to the year before. Let that sink in. We’re talkin’ hundreds of millions…