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Plasma XPL Unlock on September 25: 1.81 Billion Tokens Come Free
On September 25, 2026 Plasma's one-year lock-up for team and investors expires: 1,805,555,556 XPL come free on a single day, around 65 percent of the current circulating supply. Here is where the figure comes from, what follows month by month, and how to verify the date yourself.
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By: Dennis Weidner
Published: 09/01/2026
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Updated: 09/28/2026
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Table of Contents
What Happens at Plasma on September 25, 2026: 1.81 Billion XPL for Team and Investors
Who Stands Behind the Investor Allocation
Why Today's Circulating Supply Proves That Not a Single Team Token Is Free Yet
Cliff or Linear: How the XPL Vesting Schedule Is Actually Built
The Ecosystem Tranche on the Same Day: Why 1.81 Billion Becomes 1.89 Billion
The July Misconception: Which XPL Lock-Up Really Ended on July 28, 2026
Unlocked Does Not Mean Sold: What a Token Unlock Means Economically
Why Liquidity Makes the Difference Here
Measure Dilution Instead of Guessing: Circulating Supply, Maximum Supply and FDV at XPL
What the Unlock Has to Do With Validator Reward Inflation
What Comes After the Cut-Off Date: Monthly Tranches Until September 2028
Where to Check the XPL Unlock Calendar Yourself
The Documentation's Key Terms, Briefly Explained
The One Calculation That Makes the Rest Unnecessary
The XPL Price Since the Mainnet Launch and What It Reveals About Expectations
Four Common Errors in Reading a Large Token Unlock
XPL Unlock: What to Take Away
On September 25, 2026, Plasma frees 1,805,555,556 XPL in a single day. These are the tokens held by the team and by investors, subject to a one-year lock-up that has run since the mainnet beta launched on September 25, 2025. Measured against the amount in circulation today, that is around 65 percent. Add the ecosystem tranche falling on the same day and the total comes to 1,894,444,445 XPL, or 18.94 percent of the maximum supply.
The figures come from two independent places: Plasma's own tokenomics documentation and an emissions dataset that recalculates the rule independently. Both name the same day and the same amounts. This piece shows where the quantity comes from, what follows month by month afterwards, and how to check the date without relying on anyone else.
One term first, because everything else builds on it: an unlock is the moment at which contractually locked tokens become transferable. Unlocked expressly does not mean sold — it is a statement about quantity, not about price.
What Happens at Plasma on September 25, 2026: 1.81 Billion XPL for Team and Investors
Plasma is a layer-1 blockchain which, according to its own documentation, is built around stablecoin payments and optimised for stablecoins; the XPL token is its gas token, the currency used to pay for transactions on the network and to reward validators. The initial supply at the mainnet launch was 10,000,000,000 XPL. We covered that launch on September 25, 2025; the date now approaching is its first anniversary, to the day.
How those 10 billion are divided is set out in the project documentation, in four pools: public sale 10 percent, ecosystem and growth 40 percent, team 25 percent, investors 25 percent. Two of these pools matter for September 25, 2026.
One third of the team allocation of 2,500,000,000 XPL comes free, which is 833,333,333 XPL. The investor allocation, also 2,500,000,000 XPL, follows the same schedule according to the documentation and therefore contributes another 833,333,333 XPL. On top of that, each pool releases its first monthly instalment of 69,444,444 XPL. Together that gives 1,805,555,556 XPL.
Item Amount in XPL
Team, cliff portion 833,333,333
Team, first monthly instalment 69,444,444
Investors, cliff portion 833,333,333
Investors, first monthly instalment 69,444,444
Total team and investors 1,805,555,556
Ecosystem and growth, separate event on the same day 88,888,889
Total on the day 1,894,444,445
To put the amount in context: at the price of $0.084301 that CoinGecko showed on September 1, 2026, the insider tranche is worth around $152 million. XPL's market capitalisation at the same moment stood at around $234 million. The relationship between those two figures is the real reason this date is news at all.
Who Stands Behind the Investor Allocation
The documentation names Founders Fund, Framework and Bitfinex among the backers. For the date itself the list of names makes no difference, because all investor tokens follow the same schedule. It still helps with context: these are professional holders with their own lock-ups and their own reporting duties, whose behaviour differs from that of a retail investor.
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Why Today's Circulating Supply Proves That Not a Single Team Token Is Free Yet
That claim can be checked with a single number. The circulating supply is the quantity of tokens that is actually transferable; the maximum supply is the ceiling that will ever exist. For XPL on September 1, 2026, CoinGecko shows a circulating supply of 2,777,777,778 XPL.
That figure is not an odd number. It is made up of 1,000,000,000 XPL from the public sale plus exactly twenty ecosystem tranches of 88,888,888.89 XPL each. The arithmetic works out to the decimal place. Two things are therefore established without having to take anyone's word for it: Plasma has followed the documented schedule precisely so far, and nothing from the team and investor pools has reached circulation to date.
The independent emissions dataset confirms this from another direction. For the current distribution it puts the team at 0 percent and investors at 0 percent, while the public sale stands at 100 percent and the ecosystem at 44.4 percent. Two sources, two routes through the arithmetic, the same result.
In practice that means September 25 is not one tranche among many at XPL; it is the day these two pools open for the first time at all. Anyone comparing the date with the small monthly ecosystem releases of recent months is comparing two very different orders of magnitude. If you hold XPL through an exchange and want to know which venues list the token at all, you will find the overview in our crypto exchange comparison.
Cliff or Linear: How the XPL Vesting Schedule Is Actually Built
Vesting describes the schedule under which locked tokens are released step by step. A cliff is the lock-up period before that, during which nothing at all is released and at the end of which a larger block opens at once. XPL combines the two, and the order is the point at which many summaries lose precision.
For the team and investors the documentation states: one third of the tokens is subject to a one-year cliff from the public launch of the mainnet beta on September 25, 2025 and is released on September 25, 2026. The remaining two thirds then follow pro rata each month over two years, so that three years after the mainnet launch, on September 25, 2028, everything is unlocked.
The ecosystem and growth pool runs to a different rhythm: 8 percent of the total supply, or 800,000,000 XPL, was free immediately at launch; the remaining 32 percent follows monthly over three years and is likewise fully unlocked on September 25, 2028.
The public sale had a third rule, which we will come to separately, because a widespread misconception has attached itself to it.
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Around 2.78 billion XPL in circulation before the cut-off date, around 4.67 billion afterwards: the jump happens on a single day.
The Ecosystem Tranche on the Same Day: Why 1.81 Billion Becomes 1.89 Billion
The emissions dataset lists three separate events for September 25, 2026: the team tranche, the investor tranche and an ecosystem tranche of 88,888,889 XPL. The last of these belongs to the regular monthly rhythm of the growth pool and would be unremarkable on its own; it merely happens to fall on the same calendar day.
The distinction still matters for the arithmetic, because both figures circulate in summaries. Anyone speaking of 1.81 billion XPL means the team and investors. Anyone quoting 1.89 billion has included the ecosystem tranche. Both figures are correct, they simply answer different questions.
Measured against today's circulating supply of 2,777,777,778 XPL, the insider tranches alone come to 65.0 percent, and all three events together to 68.2 percent. After the cut-off date the circulating supply works out at around 4,672,222,222 XPL, which is 46.7 percent of the maximum supply of 10 billion. Before it, the figure was 27.8 percent.
A note on precision that appears in almost no overview: the emissions dataset carries a time for the date, namely 05:48 UTC. That minute comes from projecting forward the moment of the mainnet launch, not from any statement by Plasma. The project's documentation names the calendar day only.
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The July Misconception: Which XPL Lock-Up Really Ended on July 28, 2026
Several summaries of the subject claim that the unlock for team and investors had already begun in July 2026. That reading cannot be reconciled with the documentation, and it cannot be reconciled with the measured circulating supply either, which is explained in full by the public sale and the ecosystem tranches.
A July date does exist, but it concerns a different pool. From the documentation: public sale buyers outside the United States received their tokens in full at the mainnet launch on September 25, 2025. Buyers from the United States were subject to a twelve-month lock-up, which ended on July 28, 2026.
Conflating the two dates leads to a false picture of the state of supply. The July date concerned part of 1 billion public sale tokens; September 25 concerns 5 billion tokens from two insider pools. That distinction is why it pays to do the arithmetic against the circulating supply rather than lift a number from an aggregator.
Unlocked Does Not Mean Sold: What a Token Unlock Means Economically
An unlock lifts a transfer restriction. It obliges nobody to sell anything, and on its own it moves not a single token to an exchange. What changes on the day is solely the number of tokens that could be sold.
That this distinction is not academic becomes clear from the structure of the recipients. Team tokens are, according to the documentation, subject to further vesting rules tied to joining dates on top of this schedule. Investors hold stakes whose sale is governed by fund lifetimes and internal rules. Experience suggests that some of these tokens will never reach the market and others certainly will, and nobody knows the split in advance.
What can be said responsibly is the quantity side: how much is released when, and what share of what it represents. Anything beyond that would be a price forecast, and this piece deliberately does not offer one. How far the pure question of quantity can diverge from the question of price is something we have written up at greater length on the relationship between circulating supply and fully diluted valuation.
Why Liquidity Makes the Difference Here
Whether a large release is noticed in the market depends less on its absolute size than on its relationship to daily trading volume and to the depth of the order book. A tranche worth $152 million lands differently in thin liquidity than in deep liquidity. That is why two nominally equal unlocks in two different tokens can have completely different effects.
Measure Dilution Instead of Guessing: Circulating Supply, Maximum Supply and FDV at XPL
The fully diluted valuation, or FDV, is the value a project would have if every token were already in circulation today: price times maximum supply. For XPL on September 1, 2026 that was around $843 million, while the market capitalisation stood at around $234 million.
The gap between the two figures shows how much supply is still outstanding. A ratio of roughly one to 3.6 means, in this case, that for every token circulating today there are around 2.6 more still locked. September 25 shifts that ratio to about one to 2.1 in a single step.
For forming your own view that is a firmer basis than any headline, because both figures can be looked up at any time. The only thing that matters is not to confuse maximum supply with total supply: at XPL the two are identical, at many other tokens they are not.
What the Unlock Has to Do With Validator Reward Inflation
Alongside the vesting schedule, Plasma has a second source of new tokens, and it is not yet active. The documentation describes validator rewards starting at 5 percent annual inflation and falling by 0.5 percentage points a year until a long-term baseline of 3 percent is reached.
The condition under which this starts is decisive: inflation only takes effect once external validators and stake delegation go live. Until then the emissions side is determined by the vesting schedule alone. Locked tokens held by the team and investors are, according to the documentation, expressly not eligible for rewards.
What is still missing for this is stake delegation. The documentation lists it as an intention: XPL holders are to be able to take part in consensus by assigning their share to a validator and receiving part of the rewards. Only when this staking goes live alongside external validators do the validator rewards begin to run. Any later change to this reward schedule must, according to the documentation, be voted on by the validators, which amounts to a piece of governance for users of the network: the emissions side is then no longer a fixed plan, but something decided within the network.
On the other side stands a burn mechanism modelled on EIP-1559: the base fee paid for transactions on the network is destroyed permanently. Whether this mechanism offsets the emissions depends on how far the network is actually used for stablecoin transfers. Only the rule can be evidenced today, not its result.
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After the cliff, release becomes a permanent state: month after month another instalment follows, through to September 2028.
What Comes After the Cut-Off Date: Monthly Tranches Until September 2028
September 25 does not close the subject; it is where it begins. From October 25, 2026 the remaining two thirds of the team and investor pools follow monthly, at 69,444,444 XPL per pool. Together that is 138,888,889 XPL a month.
The monthly ecosystem tranche of 88,888,889 XPL continues on top of that. In total, from the end of October, around 227,777,778 XPL a month flow into circulation, without interruption, until the schedule expires three years after the mainnet launch.
Period Monthly amount released in XPL
until September 24, 2026 88,888,889 (ecosystem only)
September 25, 2026 (cut-off date) 1,894,444,445 one-off
from October 25, 2026 227,777,778
until September 25, 2028 fully unlocked thereafter
No headline that names only the cut-off date answers this follow-up question. For context it matters more than the day itself, because it shows that the supply pressure from the vesting schedule persists for two further years. Anyone looking at XPL over a longer period reckons with that monthly rate rather than with a one-off event.
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Where to Check the XPL Unlock Calendar Yourself
You need no second-hand summary for this date. A search for Plasma XPL leads almost exclusively to price pages; two addresses spare you that detour, and both are reachable without registering.
The first is Plasma's tokenomics documentation. The rules are set out there in full: the four pools, their size, the cliff for team and investors, the monthly rhythm afterwards and the end date. That is the authoritative source, because it comes from the issuer.
The second is the public emissions dataset for Plasma. It contains every single release event with a timestamp, a category and an amount, along with an overview of the current distribution. Open the file and you can check the amounts in this article line by line.
The Documentation's Key Terms, Briefly Explained
Open the primary source and you meet labels that do not explain themselves. The vesting schedule is a token's release plan. The ecosystem and growth pool is the growth pool from which the monthly tranches come. Base fees are the basic fees on a transaction, which Plasma destroys. And in the emissions dataset circulating supply stands for the transferable quantity and maxSupply for the ceiling. With those four expressions the documentation reads without further help.
The One Calculation That Makes the Rest Unnecessary
If you want to know for any token whether an announced release has already happened, a simple test helps: compare the current circulating supply with the sum of all tranches due to date. If the arithmetic works out, the project is following its plan. If it diverges, the question is worth asking. At XPL it works out to the decimal place, and that is precisely why the claim that insider tokens are already in circulation can be cleanly refuted.
Anyone wanting to keep track of such dates across several tokens will not get far with a calendar in their head. Tools that bring together release dates, circulating supplies and holdings take that bookkeeping off your hands; the selection is covered in the final section below.
The XPL Price Since the Mainnet Launch and What It Reveals About Expectations
A look at the price history belongs to the context, without turning into a forecast. According to CoinGecko, XPL reached an all-time high of $1.68 on September 27, 2025, two days after the mainnet launch. On September 1, 2026 the price stood at $0.084301, or 0.072666 euros. That is a fall of around 95 percent from the peak.
In the seven days before this article's cut-off date the token was down around 14.5 percent, and over thirty days up around 9.6 percent. What these numbers do not answer is whether the coming unlock is already priced in. Price data cannot answer that question in principle, because it presupposes a statement about the expectations of other market participants.
What can be observed are indications: how trading volume develops in the days before the date, how deep the order books are at the largest venues, and whether and how many of the freed tokens actually move to exchange addresses after the cut-off. That movement is visible on chain and therefore verifiable after the fact.
Four Common Errors in Reading a Large Token Unlock
First: percentages without a reference figure. 18.06 percent of the maximum supply and 65 percent of the circulating supply describe the same event and sound entirely different. Quote a number and you quote the reference alongside it.
Second: equating release with sale. A tranche worth $152 million does not automatically become selling pressure of that size. What the date creates is the possibility, not the event.
Third: ignoring the instalments that follow. The cliff is the visible part; the monthly 138,888,889 XPL afterwards are the permanent one. Over two years they add up to a multiple of the one-off tranche.
A fourth point stands out at Plasma in particular: the project has published a white paper under the EU regulation on markets in crypto-assets. That document covers the 2025 public sale only and does not contain the schedule for team and investors. As evidence for September 25 it is therefore of no use, even if it is valuable elsewhere.
XPL Unlock: What to Take Away
Do the arithmetic on the date once yourself. Open the tokenomics page and the emissions dataset, and compare the circulating supply with the sum of the tranches due to date. For this kind of ongoing observation across several tokens a tool is worth having: which ones deliver is set out in the comparison of analytics platforms.
Settle where your tokens sit before the date arrives. Holding XPL on an exchange means carrying that exchange's counterparty risk; holding it yourself means carrying responsibility for the keys. Which devices are suitable and what separates them is shown in the hardware wallet comparison.
Check your venue's terms before the cut-off date, not after it. Fees, withdrawal limits and the available trading pairs differ considerably, and a volatile day is when you notice it first. The overview is in the crypto exchange comparison.
(As of September 1, 2026. This article is not investment advice. Prices and fee structures change; check the terms with the provider before you buy.)
Transparency note: This article was produced with the assistance of artificial intelligence and reviewed by our editorial team before publication. All figures and claims were checked against the primary sources linked in the text. The feature image was generated with AI.
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October 13, 2026 10:18 PM
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Papertrade loses $1.28 million on launch day: the reference price came from Hyperliquid
The perpetuals venue Papertrade launched on October 10 with leverage of up to 1,000 and drew its execution prices from the Hyperliquid order book. One trader moved the Ether price there by around three dollars and took between $1.28 million and $1.54 million out of the liquidity pool, according to several trade publications.
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Alexander Schmidt
October 13, 2026 7:49 PM
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NEAR drops below five dollars and comes back: down 11.7 percent after the Nasdaq purchase
Nasdaq-listed SVRN has bought FastNEAR, the operator of the servers through which NEAR wallets talk to the blockchain. NEAR stands at around $5.09 at midday on October 13, 11.7 percent below the previous day, and at its intraday low of $4.90 sat under the five-dollar mark.
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Dennis Weidner
October 13, 2026 7:36 PM
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Binance Pool closes on November 10, and the second deadline expires 17 hours later: what you can do now
Binance is retiring Binance Pool, Pool Savings, Cloud Mining and the Transaction Accelerator on November 10, 2026 at 07:00 UTC. Besides that deadline, two more sit in the calendar: 23:59 UTC the same day for outstanding payouts, and November 24 for the statements the tax office wants to see.
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Alexander Schmidt
October 13, 2026 7:27 PM
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Dogecoin is missing from the new CME index while Chainlink is in, despite being a third larger
Dogecoin trades at $0.0848 on Tuesday afternoon and, at $13.2 billion, is markedly larger than Chainlink. In the new emerging index from CME and CF Benchmarks, Chainlink is in all the same and Dogecoin is not. Why that is, what the usage filter behind it measures, and what follows from it for holders in Germany.
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Alexander Schmidt
October 13, 2026 7:17 PM
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Zcash price slides from $1,315 to $1,185 before the NU7 decision on October 20: the level that decides
Zcash has lost 8.2 percent in 24 hours to $1,184.90 after leveraged long positions worth up to $26 million were force-closed. At the same time the developers decide on October 20 on the activation height of the NU7 upgrade.
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Dennis Weidner
October 13, 2026 4:45 PM
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NFT prices in October 2026: Bored Apes 97 percent below record, CryptoPunks hold up best
A Bored Ape costs less than it has in years, Pudgy Penguins lost almost three quarters in a year, and Blur is closing. The prices of the eight best-known NFT collections compared, the reasons for the decline, and what matters when buying at a low price.
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Dennis Weidner
October 13, 2026 4:37 PM
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Blur closes on November 12: what matters now for NFT holders
The once largest NFT marketplace on Ethereum switches off its website on November 12, 2026, and the Blend lending product will then arrange no new loans. Outstanding loans, open bids and old approvals all need a decision before that.
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Dennis Weidner
October 13, 2026 4:27 PM
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40 percent price gain on flat capital: Immutable now markets AI tools for 800 games
Around $11.2 million has been sitting unchanged on Immutable's blockchain since January, while the IMX price gained 40.5 percent in thirty days. What the chain delivers today, why players pay no network fees, and where you can get IMX against the euro in Germany.
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Silke Schütters
October 13, 2026 4:15 PM
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Bitcoin price at $83,200: outperforms the market as Solana sheds 11.9 percent
Bitcoin is trading at around $83,200 at midday on Tuesday, making it the only one of the large coins with a gain over 24 hours. Over the week BTC is down 2.8 percent while Solana loses 11.9 percent, and that very gap is tempting investors into a swap that can turn expensive in Germany.
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Silke Schütters
October 13, 2026 1:16 PM
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XRP price at $1.36 as Upbit and Bithumb take in 90 million XRP: what to watch now
XRP trades at $1.36 on Tuesday morning, 3.4 percent below the previous day. Behind the quiet number custody is shifting: Korean exchanges hold considerably more XRP, and a major bank is taking Ripple's stablecoin into bank custody for the first time.
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Silke Schütters
October 13, 2026 10:47 AM
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Solana price at $108.21 as a $201 million buyback hangs on the $100 level: what to check now
SkyAI is selling Solana to buy back its own shares for up to $201 million, and ties the offer to a SOL price above $100. What the condition means for levels, order choice and tax.
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Dennis Weidner
October 13, 2026 10:37 AM
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20 million MET and one deadline: Meteora closes the claim window on October 21
Meteora closes the claim window for LP Stimulus Season 2 on October 21. Anyone below 100,000 points or 10 MET gets nothing, and the project does not say what happens to the tokens left unclaimed.
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Alexander Schmidt
October 13, 2026 10:26 AM
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Hyperliquid falls 5.9 percent while Bitcoin loses 0.8: $1.66 billion of leverage sits on HYPE
HYPE drops to $82.61 while Bitcoin gives up only 0.8 percent. An own survey of the exchange shows why: $1.66 billion of open leveraged positions stand against $611 million of daily turnover.
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Silke Schütters
October 13, 2026 10:16 AM
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337 million dollars of leverage gone in five days: where does Ether stand now?
Ether trades at $2,533.59 on Tuesday morning after the $2,495 level gave way. In the derivatives market, $337 million of open interest has disappeared in five days.
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Dennis Weidner
October 13, 2026 7:19 AM
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Financial Stability Board on 300 billion dollars in stablecoins: “untested in severe stress and insolvency”
The Financial Stability Board handed the G20 a status report on stablecoins on 12 October: a market worth 300 billion dollars, 99 percent of it pegged to the US dollar, and a supervisory structure that remains untested in severe stress and insolvency. Here is what the gaps it describes mean for holders in Europe, where MiCA already closes them and which ones stay open.
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Alexander Schmidt
October 13, 2026 1:50 AM
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Chainlink's Link:NYC on 29 October: What the Date Means for Staking and Custody
Chainlink has invited banks and asset managers to New York for 29 October, a day after the Fed's rate decision. LINK trades at $13.07, and anyone who wants to be able to dispose of staked LINK on the day starts the exit today, because of the 28-day period.
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Alexander Schmidt
October 13, 2026 1:39 AM
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Cardano Breaks Its 2021 Transaction Record: 1.78 Million in Five Days, Vote Lapsed
Cardano processed 1,780,896 transactions between 6 and 11 October, more than in any epoch before it. The vote on the 75 ADA minimum fee has meanwhile lapsed, and the ADA price is giving up around 5.3 percent.
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Dennis Weidner
October 13, 2026 1:29 AM
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Galxe's Gravity Alpha Ends on 1 November: How to Check Your G Tokens
Galxe is switching off its first network, Gravity Alpha Mainnet, on 1 November 2026; whatever sits on it after that is no longer transferable, the provider says. Which token leaves by which bridge, why staked G has to come out of staking first, and why 25 October is the real deadline on the standard route.
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Dennis Weidner
October 13, 2026 1:16 AM
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Ledger Confirms Implant in a Hardware Wallet as Reports Reach Europe: What Is Behind It
Ledger confirms an unauthorised additional circuit board in a tampered device and traces the confirmed cases to a reseller in South-East Asia. One report from European retail is still open, which makes the purchase route of your own device the criterion.
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Dennis Weidner
October 12, 2026 10:40 PM
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Shiba Inu and the Fake Airdrop of October 12: “no such airdrop. this is a drainer”
An account on X advertised a supposed SHIB airdrop on October 12. An adviser to the project calls the page a wallet drainer. What is behind it and how to check and revoke your token approvals.
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Dennis Weidner
October 12, 2026 10:32 PM
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Hedera (HBAR): HashPack Switches On Apple and Tesla Tokens, What Matters Now
HashPack switched on trading in tokenised Apple, Nvidia, Tesla and SPY assets on October 8, paid for with HBAR or USDC. HBAR stands at $0.0906, 12 percent below the previous week, while the announcement leaves issuer, fees and country list open.
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Dennis Weidner
October 12, 2026 10:21 PM
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Uniswap Moves Unichain to OP Enterprise on October 13: What It Means for Your Coins on the Chain
Unichain is changing its technical foundation: the testnet switches on October 13 and the mainnet on October 29. Balances and contracts stay, but operation of the chain passes to Optimism.
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Silke Schütters
October 12, 2026 7:53 PM
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Bitcoin Forecast: Last Inflation Print Before the Fed, and $82,500 Is the Level That Decides
Bitcoin trades at $82,663 on Monday evening, below its 20-day line but above its 50-day line. Wednesday brings the last US inflation print before the Fed decision of October 28, and it sets the range for the next two weeks.
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Alexander Schmidt
October 12, 2026 7:43 PM
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Canton Coin Arrives in Ripple Custody: What Investors Need to Know
Ripple Custody has held Canton Coin and CIP-56 tokens since version 1.43. What the institutional custody solution means for you as a retail investor, and where you can trade CC in Europe at all.
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