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Visa moves stablecoins from the lab to commercial operations. The payment giant has just put Visa Direct's stablecoin capabilities into production with Inyo Global. Eligible businesses will notably be able to use USDC to pre-finance their cross-border payments 24/7. The change comes as Visa's stablecoin settlements now exceed an annualized pace of $20 billion.

Charles Hoskinson believes that Cardano will be complete after the deployment of Leios. For the network founder, this upgrade must bring the processing capacity that the blockchain still lacks. But between technical ambitions and field reality, several steps remain to be taken.

Sending 200 dollars via networks using stablecoins costs about 2 dollars, compared to 12.72 dollars with traditional channels. This is according to the quarterly report from Borderless.xyz. In addition to reducing fees, these solutions speed up transfers: a few minutes are enough where banking circuits often take several days.

Bitcoin brushed $80,000 on Thursday before bouncing back above $82,000. While buyers managed to defend this key threshold, Glassnode notes a sign of fragility: buy orders supporting the price are becoming scarce below this symbolic level. A situation that deserves attention, as tensions over US inflation continue to weigh on markets.

Russia will close an important door of its crypto market. From July 1, 2027, two individuals will no longer be able to buy or sell bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies directly between themselves. The Bank of Russia just confirmed this in an FAQ published on October 12. Transactions will have to go through an authorized intermediary, including a broker or a platform registered with the regulator.

Bitget has rolled out a series of limited-time promotions across Cash Plus, Simple Earn, BGSOL and BTC. The campaigns offer additional returns on assets users already hold, combining boosted interest rates, balance-based bonuses and incentives linked to futures trading. Some offers promise annual percentage rates (APR) of up to 15%, although eligibility rules and deposit limits apply.

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.

Coinbase wants to prepare Bitcoin for the arrival of quantum computers without waiting for them to become a concrete threat. In a publication dated October 13, the platform emphasizes that modifying the network rules and supporting the migration of its ecosystem will take several years. It claims to hold nearly one million BTC, about 5% of existing bitcoins. Its document presents technical avenues, not a plan imposed on the network.

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 whale sold 1,074.36 bitcoins for $89.5 million and bought 36,159 ethereum for $90.6 million in three days, according to Lookonchain. Here is what is known, and what this operation hides.

Last week, I warned that Bitcoin was approaching the $87,000 area, but that there was a high probability of a correction toward $80,000 before another attempt to break through higher resistance levels. For that reason, after the previous bullish move, I decided to position myself in the opposite direction, opening a short position around $86,000 with a clear target at $80,000. The market went on to make precisely that move. Bitcoin corrected to $80,000, approaching the 50-day exponential moving average (EMA 50), an important technical area within the current structure. Once my target was reached, I closed the entire short position, secured the profits, and used that same price level to increase my spot Bitcoin holding.

Polymarket still has not launched its own crypto-asset. However, its founder, Shayne Coplan, mentioned this possibility again during a conference in Singapore. Without date or concrete details, his words are enough to rekindle airdrop rumors, while the company is also considering going public.

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.

More than 400 scientists want to seriously strengthen the monitoring of the most advanced AI models. Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and Stuart Russell are among the 406 signatories of an open letter published in October. They call for an international body responsible for setting containment standards and recording security incidents. Their first recommendation is even more concrete: by default, isolate from the Internet models capable of conducting cyberattacks.

Binance will close Binance Pool and several services related to crypto mining on November 10, 2026, at 07:00 UTC. Pool Savings, Cloud Mining, and Transaction Accelerator will also disappear. The exchange is already asking miners to redirect their machines to another pool. Binance does not give any specific financial or regulatory reason and simply talks about a regular review of its products and services.

Bitcoin operates in a crypto market that has become more cautious again: CoinMarketCap's sentiment index drops to 56 out of 100 on October 13, 2026, compared to 57 for Alternative.me. Cointribune compares the two indicators and the flows of Bitcoin ETFs.

The ranking of the top ten largest cryptos, excluding stablecoins, is evolving. Zcash, Monero and Hyperliquid are now entering the list, while Cardano and Chainlink are falling back. This reshuffle reflects a capital rotation towards more volatile assets, as several major cryptos go through a difficult period.

Cointribune launches a new Read2Earn quest in partnership with OKX, a centralized cryptocurrency exchange. On the agenda: a series of articles to discover the platform, understand its specifics, and explore the services it offers. But this new adventure also holds a surprise for readers: a 13-inch MacBook Air is up for grabs!

Spot ETFs backed by ether recorded $542.1 million in net outflows last week. This is their worst weekly performance since January. The trend is also continuing on Solana, whose ETFs have just ended fourteen consecutive weeks of net inflows.

Strive's SATA program reportedly generated about 55 million dollars this week, enough to buy nearly 638 bitcoins. But this financing capacity depends directly on the preferred stock price. From Wednesday, the stock fell below 100 dollars, preventing the company from continuing its issuances. A limit that recalls the risks of the Strategy-inspired model.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on October 9 the awarding of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay. However, on Polymarket, where bettors had wagered over 32 million dollars, her name was not even among the proposed candidates.

The tokenization of financial assets promises faster transactions and markets open 24 hours a day. Yet, the sector remains limited. In its latest report, the IMF highlights that volumes remain low compared to traditional markets and that platforms struggle to communicate with each other.

Pump.fun retained $18.64M in crypto protocol revenue over seven days, according to DefiLlama. A Coin Metrics study shows that 81% of the 150 memecoins analyzed have lost at least 90% since their peak.

NEAR has just gained about 138% in only 30 days and now joins the top 20 of the crypto market by capitalization. The token is trading around 5.50 dollars, for a valuation close to 7.2 billion. Behind this rise, NEAR Intents now exceeds 31 billion dollars in cumulative volume, while a first American spot product dedicated to NEAR has just arrived on Wall Street.

American Bitcoin ETFs have just experienced their worst session since June. On Wednesday, 484.9 million dollars left spot funds, wiping out in one day all the inflows accumulated since the beginning of October. BlackRock accounts for more than 207 million dollars in withdrawals. Bitcoin followed the trend, returning around 82,700 dollars.

Bitcoins continue to leave exchange platforms. On Monday, October 5, net outflows reached 24,073 BTC in a single day, a record since March. At the same time, the share of supply held on platforms fell to about 6.5%. This decline comes as bitcoin is already erasing part of its gains from the beginning of the month.

The CEO of Polymarket, Shayne Coplan, describes the hunt for x100 crypto tokens as a game of irrational exuberance (Token2049, October 7, 2026). According to the Pew Research Center, 7% of Polymarket accounts gained more than $1,000 over six weeks and 9% lost as much.

Pi Network is entering the final stretch of its 2026 roadmap. Protocol 28 is set to launch on the mainnet on October 16, following a node migration scheduled by the 13th. However, on the market side, PI still struggles to bounce back. The token is worth 0.0824 dollars, 97.2% below its all-time high.