On October 2, American XRP ETFs recorded net outflows of 3.28 million dollars, exclusively concentrated on the Bitwise fund. However, their assets experienced a decline of 37 million dollars during the session, a gap notably triggered by the drop in the price of Ripple's cryptocurrency.
Charles Hoskinson believes that crypto has just entered a phase of exponential growth. During a speech at the United Nations, the Cardano founder compared blockchain to the Internet and artificial intelligence, two technologies whose adoption accelerated after slower starts. His most concrete example: tokenized stocks, which rose from about 600 million to 3 billion dollars.
TOKEN2049 opens its doors on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, for two days and 25,000 participants expected, according to the organizer. For this edition, the only one of the year since the Dubai event was postponed to 2027, the president of Nasdaq, the leader of Franklin Templeton, and officials from BlackRock, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs are among the speakers. Cointribune explains what this presence of Wall Street says about the event, what to follow on the program, and the cost of the ticket one week before the opening.
Polymarket raises new concerns in the United Kingdom. The predictive markets platform records nearly 77,500 dollars bet on the failure of major banks, including HSBC and Lloyds. Facing the risk of manipulation and banking panic, a British MP calls for regulator intervention. Polymarket, for its part, defends the usefulness of these markets.