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Global trading markets for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP, encompassing price trends, exchange activity, and regulatory developments.
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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Zcash fell 11% in 24 hours to an $18.5 billion market cap, per Decrypt data, after a 460% run from its March lows. Liquidated longs came to $17.9 million, under 1% of the roughly $2.3 billion lost, so leverage alone cannot account for the fall.
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Bitget's Ryan Lee says a September CPI hotter than the 0.6% monthly forecast could trigger another round of bitcoin liquidations. Core is forecast at only 0.2% for the month, so the leverage test depends on which line misses.
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Fundstrat's Tom Lee warned that Korean brokerage margin calls after an intraday KOSPI plunge of more than 6% could add selling pressure to ether. Ether lost only 0.96% over 24 hours, so the contagion he describes had not yet appeared in its price.
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Bitcoin traded near $84,050 on Monday after U.S. spot ETFs shed $681 million last week, the largest weekly outflow since June. That leaves it about 2.4% above the $82,000 support analysts name, with the Oct. 14 U.S. inflation data due next.
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Telegram widened access to its non-custodial Money wallet as GRAM rose 9% to $1.56, crypto.news reported. The wallet appears only after a user receives a transfer, so its reach across a billion-user app depends on people who already hold GRAM.
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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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Federal Reserve minutes from September record market contacts blaming heavy AI infrastructure borrowing for part of a 35-basis-point rise in Treasury yields. Crypto buyers counting on a Fed pause may find the relief stops short of a 10-year Treasury paying 5.28%.
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CME's FedWatch has Wednesday's quarter point at 94.5%, up from under half a month ago, and the ten-year at 5.04% shows bond desks bought it in advance. The forecasts still diverge on what follows.
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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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Zcash rose 3% and Monero 2.14% over 24 hours to lead the largest coins, while Bitcoin gained 0.59%. The $30.25 million that left Grayscale's Zcash ETF on Sept. 30 equals about 0.13% of Zcash's $23.18 billion market value.
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Bitcoin rose about 44% in the third quarter, its best since 2017, as US spot ETF flows swung from about $5 billion out to $1 billion in. The price has tracked those funds more closely than bond yields, so the fourth quarter turns on whether they keep buying.
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Bitcoin came within $650 of its $87,177 Friday high on Sunday while weekly US spot ETF inflows fell to about $83 million from $2.39 billion. October's seasonal record now has to carry a rally that fund money is backing at a fraction of September's pace.
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Bitcoin rose to $86,757 after August core PCE came in at 3.0% against 3.3% expected and October hold odds jumped to 74% from 35.8%. The year's sub-$1 billion ETF total understates the buying, because a strong third quarter first had to cover first-half redemptions.
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CryptoQuant's scarcity index for XRP on Binance has fallen to its lowest since January 2025, with the token trading around $1.10 to $1.13. The index is scored against a shrinking baseline, so it shows that supply is returning more clearly than it shows how much.
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Bitmine added 17,362 ether last week to hold about 4.9% of supply, while Strategy bought 1,665 bitcoin to reach 847,666. Both kept buying as prices eased, with Bitmine now near a 5% target it set itself and Strategy adding about 0.2% to its holdings.
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Bitcoin traded near $83,000, down about 1.8% in 24 hours, after Trump rejected Iran's seven-day ceasefire plan and Brent crude climbed back above $100 a barrel. Futures now price a 64% chance of an October 28 Fed hike, a rough setup for a non-yielding asset.
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The Senate's 49-50 procedural vote left the securities-versus-commodities test where it already was, with the SEC and CFTC free to keep writing rules under existing powers and those rules open to court challenge.
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Cryptobriefing traces every dollar of crypto's $740 billion gain since late August to the Treasury's expanded bond buybacks. Cointelegraph, reporting the same prices on the same day, does not mention it. Perpetual futures leverage is near $160 billion in both accounts.
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Japan's 10-year bond yield hit 3.075%, its highest since 1996, after the Bank of Japan raised its policy rate to 1.25%. BlackRock's scenario for money shifting home from Treasuries puts it at $55 billion, 5% of Japan's $1.1 trillion holding.
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