Kazakhstan brings its financial system closer to crypto again. The country’s National Bank, Tether, and the Alatau city administration signed an agreement to study a stablecoin backed by the tenge, the national currency. The project first involves a concept and a pilot. The partners also want to tokenize real assets potentially using Tether’s Hadron platform. No new stablecoin has been launched yet.
Bitcoin trades around 84,000 dollars as institutional demand shows signs of slowing. Between September 28 and October 2, US spot ETFs recorded only 241.1 million dollars in net inflows. Meanwhile, the futures market is reducing its leverage. These movements now place ETF flows and several price levels at the center of upcoming market developments, as investors closely watch the next price moves.
Bitcoin wiped out its gains from early October by falling back to around $83,300 on October 7, after surpassing $86,400 the day before. The $81,300 level now draws attention, but its loss would only become truly worrying with ETF outflows and loss-making sales by recent investors.
Wealthy investors now look at digital assets with growing attention, despite the persistent reservations of some advisors. A CoinShares survey conducted with 2,230 people in seven major economies shows that the majority already hold crypto. On average, these investments account for about 10% of their portfolios. Above all, many still plan to increase their exposure in 2026. The decline observed in February therefore did not change this trend, which relies mainly on diversification and a long-term vision.
From November 18 to 20, 2026, the Singapore FinTech Festival, organized by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the GFTN network, brings together central bankers, regulators, and digital asset players at Singapore EXPO. Piero Cipollone, who leads the digital euro at the European Central Bank, and the chairman of the supervisory board of Qivalis, the euro stablecoin of European banks, are among the speakers. Cointribune details what the program offers for crypto, what interests a European reader, and the cost of the pass.
From October 27 to 29, 2026, Merge Madrid brings more than 3,000 attendees and 250 speakers to the Madrid Stock Exchange and then to the Palacio de Cibeles, according to the organizer's press release of September 30. Santander, BBVA, BNP Paribas, CaixaBank and Qivalis, the consortium of 37 European banks preparing a euro stablecoin, will present their projects there. Cointribune went through the official speaker list to tell you who is speaking, what these players already offer and what a ticket costs. To get the MERGE x Cointribune partnership discount (20% with the code MERGECOINTRIBUNE20)
Justin Drake, a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, believes that artificial intelligence could discover a method to break certain cryptographic signatures before sufficiently powerful quantum computers arrive. He calls on the sector to prepare a "bunker mode," while specifying that no attack has currently been demonstrated.
AI Expo Europe takes place in Bucharest on November 1 and 2, 2026, with more than 100 announced speakers including NVIDIA, Microsoft, ING and crypto lawyers. Cointribune cross-checked the agenda, biographies and AI adoption figures in Romania.
Nvidia is no longer far from a threshold never reached before on the Stock Market. The AI chip giant is now worth about 5,780 billion dollars, after a new peak of its stock at 239.24 dollars. At constant capital, a rise of just under 4% would be enough to raise its valuation to 6,000 billion. The global race for artificial intelligence infrastructures continues to fuel the movement.
