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Daily Bitcoin & Crypto News Summary - Monday, October 26, 2026

➖ A $68 million Bitcoin options position is making a big bet on a price surge toward $90,000 after the midterm elections.

➖ More than 100 economists, including former governor Jacob Frenkel, condemned Netanyahu’s plan to use crypto to evade sanctions, warning of the risk of economic isolation.

➖ Twenty-two major companies, including Wells Fargo, Cisco, and Intuit, have formally objected to the OKX-ICE exchange’s plan to trade their tokenized shares.

➖ Spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded around $301 million in net inflows, ending a two-week negative streak, although a late-weekend correction weighed on October’s performance.

$ENA rose 7.8% in 24 hours to $0.207199, despite Arthur Hayes selling $2.7 million worth of ENA. The rebound comes amid a monthly decline.

The price moved between $0.1887 and $0.2108, with volume of around $420 million. No new protocol announcements have been confirmed.

ENA is still down more than 20% over 30 days following a correction from $0.30. The $0.2108 area is a level to watch.

$QNT rose 7.0% to $190.82 in 24 hours, after The Clearing House selected Quant technology for its US tokenized deposit network.

The network connects digital deposits to RTP and CHIPS, and is targeted to become available in H1 2027.

24-hour volume was $72 million, with a volume-to-market-cap ratio of 3%. It remains unclear whether banks will buy or hold QNT.

$NEAR rose 5.9% to $4.67 in 24 hours, but fell 1.7% over the week. KuCoin highlights ETF demand.

KuCoin named NEAR one of the large-cap assets with the strongest rallies. The first US ETF is said to be driving institutional demand.

24-hour volume was $502 million, equivalent to 8% of its market cap. Its 19th-place market-cap ranking and weekly correction are limiting momentum.

Daily Bitcoin & Crypto News Summary - Sunday, October 25, 2026

➖ Bitcoin slipped below $80,000 amid weekend market pressure triggered by U.S. evacuation instructions in the Middle East.

➖ HSBC Hong Kong activated its Hong Kong dollar stablecoin in 3 million PayMe wallets to test mass adoption of banking tokens.

➖ The Swedish government officially banned civil servants from using ChatGPT and Claude, allowing only Microsoft Copilot.

➖ Argentina halted its criminal investigation into President Javier Milei over the LIBRA memecoin collapse.

$WLD fell 3.5% in 24 hours to $0.466152, in line with selling pressure that dragged the price down 13.55% this week.

Heavy selling triggered the liquidation of $4.68 million in long positions over the week, according to Pluang.

24-hour volume was $366 million, with a volume-to-market-cap ratio of 21%. The 7-day decline of 3.8% keeps volatility risk high.

$NEAR -6.3% to $4.48 in 24 hours, extending the 7-day correction to -10.1%. Intents said it would add Nasdaq and NYSE venues.

Polosukhin gave a hypothetical example: shares are bought on Nasdaq, tokenized, and then transferred to a wallet. This is not a real transaction yet.

Volume: $754 million; volume-to-market-cap ratio: 13%; market rank: 21. The actual implementation of the integration remains to be seen.

$HYPE fell 3.4% to $75.64 in 24 hours. The main catalyst: Jeff Yan is pushing for U.S. regulation to focus on market operators, not blockchain.

The Hyperliquid founder believes compliance obligations should be imposed on identifiable operators to enable legal access in the U.S.

24-hour volume was $815 million, with a volume-to-market-cap ratio of 5%. $HYPE also fell 3.6% over 7 days; regulatory risks remain under watch.

Bitcoin & Crypto Daily News Summary - Saturday, October 24, 2026

➖ Initia halted its network in an emergency after an exploit reportedly drained more than $2.6 million from the protocol.

➖ U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal demanded records of Tether payments to a firm co-owned by former White House crypto adviser Bo Hines.

➖ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for blockchain-based plans to be prepared in anticipation of potential banking sanctions.

➖ Franklin Templeton moved $150 million worth of fund shares onto XRPLedger into a single wallet.

$PUMP fell 4.9% in 24 hours amid scrutiny over alleged promotional payments to a trader known as kimchi.

According to Lookonchain, kimchi may have received 1.35 billion tokens worth $6.25 million before removing Pump.fun from their bio. The payment has not been confirmed.

At $0.00453138, the price is still up 5.2% over 7 days, with 24-hour volume of $153 million.

$PEPE up 10% in 24 hours and 24.3% in a week, supported by renewed interest in meme coins and retail buying.

CoinCodex notes a break above the downward trendline; analyst World Of Charts sees potential to reach $0.00000865.

The price of $0.00000487 is nearing resistance at $0.000005. A drop below $0.00000450 could weaken the recovery.

Daily Bitcoin & Crypto News Summary - Friday, October 23, 2026

➖ Bitcoin held steady above $81,000 as turmoil in the AI market eased and crude oil prices rose.

➖ The Cysic exploiter immediately moved all the stolen funds to Tornado Cash, despite the project offering a 10% ransom or bounty.

➖ Ethereum had to postpone the Glamsterdam fork testnet after auditors found a gas security vulnerability that could cause contracts to fail in real-world use.

➖ HSBC officially expanded access to its first stablecoin to more than 3 million daily retail app users.

$UNI fell 6.6% in 24 hours to $6.97, as Uniswap introduced Aggregator Hooks, opening up a new source of token burns.

The integration connects seven external liquidity sources to Uniswap v4. Protocol fees from transactions routed to other exchanges also help fund $UNI burns.

24-hour volume reached $437 million; $UNI fell 6.7% over seven days.

$STRK down 11.3% in 24 hours as the community approves research into the option of Starknet becoming an independent L1. No decision has been made to leave Ethereum.

The non-binding poll received 93.52% of the votes. A network switch would require a separate binding vote.

Price: $0.053756, down 38.8% in 7 days. 24-hour volume reached $88 million.

$ZEC fell 11.6% in 24 hours to $1,198.46. The move comes as Zcash’s privacy advantage is back in the spotlight.

According to Pluang, the Winklevoss twins highlighted Zcash’s privacy amid advances in AI-powered blockchain analytics.

24-hour volume reached $1,237 million, equivalent to 6% of market capitalization. Despite the daily decline, $ZEC is still up 3.4% over seven days.

Daily Bitcoin & Crypto News Recap - Thursday, October 22, 2026

➖ Bitcoin fell below $82,000 as AI doubts returned and a sharp sell-off led by DeFi tokens took hold.

➖ Chinese prosecutors are seeking the confiscation of $5.1 billion worth of Bitcoin from the Qian case, previously seized by the UK, sparking a cross-border asset battle.

➖ Italian police dismantled a secret bank run by the 'Ndrangheta and Camorra mafias, which laundered $24 million through crypto.

➖ Amid the price correction, U.S. Bitcoin ETFs recorded $528 million in inflows, bringing the total to over $1 billion in three days.

$NEAR fell 3.8% in 24 hours to $4.99, as co-founder Illia Polosukhin warned of widespread internet security risks.

Polosukhin highlighted vulnerabilities in PHP, TLS certificates, Node.js, and LiteLLM, and called for AI-assisted defenses.

NEAR is still up 8.2% over 7 days. 24-hour volume reached $1.015 billion, with a volume-to-market-cap ratio of 16%.

$ZEC rose 10.1% in 24 hours and 17.8% in 7 days, as a schedule for activating the NU7 upgrade was proposed.

NU7 targets 25-second blocks and the retirement of Sprout privacy pools. Old Sprout funds must be moved before activation to avoid being locked.

The price of $1,343.08 is near the $1,343 level that has rejected rallies throughout October. 24-hour volume reached $1.222 million.

Daily Bitcoin & Crypto News Roundup - Wednesday, October 21, 2026

➖ Buying activity from top-level buyers is holding back Bitcoin's price gains, with the $87,700 level now a critical point watched by the market, according to Glassnode data.

➖ Banks in the UK have faced 10,000 customer complaints about blocking crypto transfers over a 90-day period. Lloyds recorded the most complaints, despite having no official restriction policy.

➖ The OCC has officially finalized stablecoin rules under the GENIUS Act ahead of the January deadline, setting strict reserve and redemption standards, though it has yet to announce when permit applications will open.

➖ Zcash's price surged 12% after developers set the block height for activation of the NU7 network upgrade.

$HYPE rose 4.7% in 24 hours to $81.54, while the Hyperliquid Policy Center urged the SEC to clarify crypto rules.

In a letter to the SEC, the organization requested revisions to the proposal related to token classification, airdrops, and trading in secondary markets.

24-hour volume reached $852 million; the 7-day gain was only 0.2%. $HYPE ranked 11th by market capitalization.