Ethereum

BitcoinBitcoin lost 2.3% on the week. Monday opens with a push to $78,740Your Asia-afternoon, European-morning market read for Monday 2 Nov 2026.2 Nov 20263 min read BitcoinBitcoin closed October 7.3% lower. November opens with Binance’s withdrawal testYour Asia-afternoon, European-morning market read for Sunday 1 Nov 2026.1 Nov 20263 min read EthereumAn Ethereum draft would let wallets switch off EIP-7702 delegation for goodThe feature at the centre of this week's $6.3 billion Binance loss could become something an account can refuse, permanently.31 Oct 20262 min read Crypto HackSecurity Alert: Binance loses about $6.3B in the biggest crypto hack on recordBinance says attackers used a compromised engineer's laptop to push unauthorised withdrawals from its wallets on Thursday night, with an estimated impact of about $6.3 billion, the largest crypto hack on record. It says about $3 billion has been frozen, that it will cover all losses, and that withdrawals should start to resume within 48 hours.30 Oct 202610 min read EthereumENSv2 goes live as the ENS DAO freezes v1 .eth registrationsNearly 900,000 live .eth names now have a place on the new registry, and their owners got 62 free days, worth about $1.8 million at ENSv2 prices by one tracker's estimate last week.27 Oct 20262 min read Blockchain TechnologyEthereum patches a Glamsterdam deposit flaw that could hand validator stakes to buildersA standard 32 ETH validator deposit is worth about $73,900 at today's price, by our arithmetic. Under the old draft rules for Glamsterdam, one of those could have landed in someone else's builder balance at the moment of the fork.27 Oct 20262 min read EthereumArthur Hayes says Maelstrom sold its directional book; trackers count up to $26 millionThe BitMEX co-founder, who posted "Long $BTC $ETH" nine days ago, said he now thinks the market has to fall before it rises.24 Oct 20262 min read DeFiSentora opens the first outside-curated Aave V4 markets, lending RLUSD, PYUSD and OUSDA risk manager that says it allocates more than $2 billion now runs its own corner of Aave. The DAO keeps the keys and half the revenue.23 Oct 20263 min read EthereumSecurity Alert: Swell pauses swETH and rswETH to reset their valueSwell has paused deposits and withdrawals for its swETH and rswETH staking tokens while it works with Seal911 to secure its systems. It says the tokens' net asset value must be returned to the correct figure before they reopen, and that all funds are safe.23 Oct 20263 min read Blockchain TechnologyEthereum calls off Glamsterdam’s Hoodi test over a gas-pricing riskA first write to an empty storage slot would cost about 110,000 gas under the proposal behind the delay, against 22,100 today. At 1 gwei and ether near $2,383, that is roughly 26 cents instead of 5, by our arithmetic. The bigger cost is the one nobody has priced yet.22 Oct 20263 min read EthereumEthereum researchers file EIP-8453 to split votes, cut finality timeA bridge fronting $5 million an hour on a 15-minute wait has about $1.25 million in limbo at any moment. Cut the wait by four and that drops to roughly $310,000, by our arithmetic.22 Oct 20263 min read BitcoinStrategy raises its buyback limit to $3 billion and adds 267 bitcoinThe company spent almost nine times as much retiring STRC preferred stock as it did on bitcoin, then gave itself room to keep going.19 Oct 20262 min read Crypto ETFsSignal Board: Ether sinks against bitcoin as stablecoin supply shrinksBitcoin held its range over the week while ether, solana and XRP fell 4.6% to 6.5%. The ETH/BTC ratio sits below its 90-day band, stablecoin supply contracted and spot ETFs had a second week of outflows.19 Oct 20265 min read Blockchain PaymentsJPMorgan takes its JPM Coin deposit token to Ethereum after BaseThe bank's dollar deposit token can now move between vetted clients on Ethereum mainnet, 11 months after it launched on Coinbase's Base network.19 Oct 20263 min read BitcoinBitcoin bounced $2,100 off Sunday’s low. It needs $1,800 moreYour Asia-afternoon, European-morning market read for Monday 19 Oct 2026.19 Oct 20264 min read BitcoinBitcoin spent Friday night in a $425 box. The Fed has gone quiet tooYour Asia-afternoon, European-morning market read for Saturday 17 Oct 2026.17 Oct 20263 min read EthereumOpenAI model spent from a Sepolia wallet found via a public seedAn internal coding agent needed deployment fees on Ethereum's test network. It had no funded wallet. It looked for one anyway.16 Oct 20263 min read ETFsVanEck withdraws Lido staked ether ETF filing a year after S-1VanEck has asked the SEC to let it drop the registration for its VanEck Lido Staked Ethereum ETF, a fund that would have held Lido's stETH token rather than plain ether.15 Oct 20262 min read EthereumInteractive Brokers launches Ethereum staking for clients through zerohashA broker built for stocks and options now pays out staking rewards on ether, which puts on-chain yield one tab away from a margin account.13 Oct 20262 min read BitcoinBitcoin dipped below $81,000 as Korea sold off. It is back above $83,000 before CPIBitcoin traded near $83,350 on Tuesday afternoon in Europe, about 3% above an overnight low of $80,951 and up about 2% on the day.13 Oct 20263 min read BitcoinBitcoin’s Saturday range was 0.7%. Options still price about 2% a dayYour European-morning market read for Sunday 11 Oct 2026.11 Oct 20263 min read AltcoinsStarkWare calls an independent Starknet L1 its ‘clearest path forward’STRK has more than doubled in three days on an idea. The company behind the chain has now said it is the plan it likes best.11 Oct 20262 min read EthereumEthereum developers set Glamsterdam’s Hoodi test for 26 Oct and advance eight Hegotá EIPsGlamsterdam cleared Sepolia on 6 Oct. Developers have now picked the next rung: Hoodi, on 26 Oct. Mainnet is the rung after that, and nobody has set a date.10 Oct 20262 min read BitcoinBitcoin is quiet into the weekend. Funding is quieterYour European-morning market read for Saturday 10 Oct 2026.10 Oct 20263 min read DeFiStarknet weighs becoming its own L1 to be quantum-safe by 2027An Ethereum layer 2 wants to own its upgrade clock. The idea has moved the token, but nothing has been proposed, costed or voted on.9 Oct 20262 min read BitcoinBitcoin ends the week near $82K. Positioning is leaning long againSpot recovered from Thursday's $80,328.6 low without fresh leverage, but long positions are back near two to one. Here is what we are watching into the weekend and Wednesday's CPI.9 Oct 20264 min read BitcoinCoin Levels 9 Oct: BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, SOL, HYPE, DOGE, ADABitcoin's bounce from $80,329 faces ETF outflows and the same 50-day average it just tested.9 Oct 20266 min read BitcoinBitcoin climbs back toward $82K. The $80K test still echoesYour European-morning market read for 9 Oct 2026.9 Oct 20264 min read BitcoinBitcoin price tests $80,000. The 50-day average holds, for nowBitcoin price traded near $81,700 at 20:00 UTC on Thursday, 8 Oct, down 1.9% on the day after a slide to $80,328.6, its lowest since 20 Sep.8 Oct 20263 min read