Bitcoin fell back around $81,000 after US inflation exceeded expectations, reviving the risk of another rate hike by the Federal Reserve. The simultaneous decline in stocks, copper and bond yields, while gold rises, mainly reveals a general flight to assets deemed safer.
Donald Trump's Crypto Council has just lost its last known leader. Patrick Witt, its executive director, left his position after the expiration of his temporary assignment at the White House. He confirmed his departure on October 15, 2026, and announced his return to the private sector. No successor has been publicly designated, while the Clarity Act, one of the main American crypto reforms, remains blocked in the Senate.
American XRP ETFs continue to attract capital. After thirteen consecutive weeks of positive inflows, these funds are approaching $1.8 billion in cumulative net inflows. Meanwhile, Ripple is multiplying initiatives with two new agreements in international brokerage and South Korea. However, the XRP price remains under pressure.
The crypto market regained momentum in the third quarter of 2026 after several months of decline. According to the latest CoinGecko report, its total market capitalization increased by 39.6%, driven notably by Ethereum and flows into Bitcoin ETFs. However, this recovery is not accompanied by an equivalent return in trading activity. Spot volumes are declining, while leveraged positions are rising. This discrepancy raises several questions for the coming months.
MERGE Madrid runs October 27 to 29, 2026, between the Madrid Stock Exchange and the Palacio de Cibeles. Cointribune lays out the schedule, the institutional summit panels and the official ticket prices.
Elon Musk claims to see a trajectory that would allow SpaceX to be worth several times the current global economy. The entrepreneur himself acknowledges the highly speculative nature of this hypothesis, greeted with optimism by Michael Saylor.
Artificial intelligence agents have made more than 138 million payments via the x402 protocol on Base, according to a Chainalysis study published on October 14. However, this figure measures the number of transactions, not 138 million dollars: more than 87% of the analyzed operations are worth less than ten cents.
The crypto network Solana plans to activate Alpenglow on October 21, 2026. The update targets transaction finality of about 150 milliseconds, compared to 12.8 seconds with TowerBFT.
A listening device hidden in OpenAI's premises by an employee was detected and then identified thanks to the company's AI models. The suspect is in the hands of justice.
