Bitcoin held near $82,100 after Thursday's first break below $80,000 in a month, while odds of an October Fed hike fell to about 15% from almost 30%. Derivatives data in CoinDesk's report points to short covering, so the level rests on thin conviction.
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Ripple Prime opened 24/7 perpetual swaps on more than 100 traditional markets to institutions on October 15, with Virtu among its clients. The swaps reference perpetual futures that Trade.xyz lists on Hyperliquid, so the weekend price they track is set on a crypto venue.
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Ethereum fell 5.5% against Bitcoin's 3.1% in 24 hours as high-beta altcoins were hit harder
Ethereum fell 5.5% and XRP 5.1% in 24 hours against Bitcoin's 3.1% after September CPI rose 3.7%, Decrypt reported. Two analysts it quotes split on the cause: one points to the dollar and rate-hike odds, the other to profit-taking after a strong run.
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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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Crypto's $876 million long liquidation flush hit a market stuffed with leverage, with longs up to 92% of liquidations at the peak
Leveraged crypto longs lost more than $876 million to liquidation in 24 hours, Crypto Briefing reported. A second tracker's October 15 tally puts longs at 84.5% of liquidations, under the 88% to 92% peak share.
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Boros turns the Hyperliquid-Gate funding gap on ETH and BTC into one tradeable position
Boros launched spread markets on October 15 that let traders hold one position on the Hyperliquid-Gate funding gap for ETH and BTC. Cryptobriefing's 25-35% APR figure comes from older four-leg setups, so returns on the new market are unmeasured.
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Coinbase and Deribit open weekend leverage in CoreWeave, Oracle and Dell to non-US traders
Coinbase and Deribit launched six USDC-settled equity perpetual futures on Oct. 14, giving non-US traders 24/7 leverage of up to 50x on some products. At 50x, a 2% move against a position erases its margin, according to CryptoBriefing.
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Traders are closing bitcoin positions before a CPI print forecast at 3.6%
Bitcoin traded around $83,450 in the European morning as economists forecast US CPI inflation of 3.6%, up from 3.4%. CoinDesk reported open interest in bitcoin is down 3.5% as positions are closed ahead of the print.
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MNX, built by Manifold Markets, launched futures on OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek and Moonshot that expire at end-2027 and allow 3x leverage. Settlement may differ from what private shares fetch, so a holder is betting on the exit rule as well as the company.
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Blockchain.com has applied to the CFTC for futures exchange and broker licences, one of 12 applicants this year against six approvals. Established venues such as Crypto.com and Gemini would gain another US rival.
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Deribit's Oct. 16 Bitcoin expiry holds $451 million of put notional at $76,000 to $80,000, a put-to-call ratio of 1.43. Laevitas put seven-day implied volatility at 32.01% going into Wednesday's CPI, down from about 34.5% a week earlier.
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NEAR futures open interest has grown to about a quarter of the token's market cap
NEAR futures open interest rose 19.16% to $1.95 billion as the token neared $6, CoinGlass data cited by crypto.news showed. The contracts equal about 25.5% of the token's $7.65 billion market cap, though price alone explains much of the increase since August.
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Bitcoin's return above $84,000 coincides with short liquidations worth 0.06% of open interest
Bitcoin traded near $84,025 on Oct. 12, up 1.3% in 24 hours, as shorts made up $39.61 million of $46.68 million in liquidations, per CoinGlass. ETF inflows on Oct. 9 replaced only 2.9% of the Oct. 7-8 outflows, and the seven-day loss of about 3.3% is still open.
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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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Blockchain.com has applied for two CFTC licenses to offer US prediction markets and crypto derivatives ahead of an IPO targeting $4 billion to $6 billion. Until the agency rules, buyers of the roughly $500 million raise Crypto Briefing reported would be paying partly for a US business that exists only as a pending application.
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Bitcoin climbed back to about $83,000 on Friday even as spot bitcoin ETFs shed more than $700 million this week. Bitwise Europe's Luke Deans told Decrypt that level is also the funds' average cost basis, so a typical holder can sell there near breakeven.
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Bitcoin recovers to $82,500 on Trump's Iran pledge with futures leverage flat
Bitcoin climbed back to about $82,500 after Trump said the U.S. would not attack Iran before the Nov. 3 midterms, still about 4% down on the week. Futures open interest barely moved on the way up, so traders bought the bounce without taking on fresh leverage.
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JPMorgan's $66 billion crypto inflow pace now leans on ETFs and CME futures
JPMorgan analysts count about $50 billion of crypto inflows so far this year, an annualized pace of roughly $66 billion. Third-quarter buying moved away from corporate treasuries toward ETF holders and futures traders who can exit in a day, at about half of last year's pace.
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Coinbase will relaunch Pro by the end of 2026 inside a Global Exchange built on Deribit, the derivatives venue it bought for about $2.9 billion. Whether that pays depends on high-volume traders joining one regulated pool while access is still opening region by region.
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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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