Charles Schwab survey finds 60% of US crypto investors plan increased holdings in 2026 In Brief 🚀 Six in ten US crypto investors aim to increase their holdings in the next year. 📈 Millennials show crypto ownership rates more than four times higher than Boomers. 💡 Charles Schwab clients hold over 20% of all crypto exchange-traded products in the industry. #BTC Price Analysis# $BTC #Macro Insights# $ETH
Ripple expands South Korea footprint through Meritz Securities partnership. Meritz Securities has signed a strategic partnership with Ripple to explore bringing institutional digital asset custody and tokenization infrastructure into South Korea’s capital markets. $BTC $ETH #BTC Price Analysis# #Macro Insights#
$ETH developers have pushed out a last-minute software update to ensure that Tuesday's experimental trial run of the upcoming "Glamsterdam" upgrade can properly test a massive network capacity increase. The urgent update was released late Monday by Prysm, a popular software program used to run the network. This new version (7.2.1), released late Monday, automatically scales the network's maximum computing power per block or transaction processing capacity up to a 200-million gas limit, up from the earlier version that capped it at 60-million gas. Had it stayed that way, it would have diluted the test run specifically designed to see how the network copes with larger block sizes. In other words, blocks proposed at the old limit would have diluted the test, which is meant to show how the network copes with the larger size. #BTC Price Analysis# #Macro Insights# $BTC
$ETH Glamsterdam test gets last-minute fix before major capacity jump One of Ethereum’s main validator clients updated its software hours before a Sepolia test that will raise the amount of work each block can hold to 200 million gas. #BTC Price Analysis# #Macro Insights# $BTC
Metaplanet sold 10,000 $BTC and later bought 11,000 BTC during Q3 to “demonstrate liquidity,” lifting its holdings to 44,000 BTC. The company said it is pursuing a credit rating and plans to put 10% to 15% of its assets into strategic investments, including income-generating securities. The proceeds generated from the 10,000 BTC sale were more than the outstanding principal of its bonds, borrowings, and other interest-bearing liabilities, the firm said on Monday. However, Metaplanet kept those obligations outstanding and later bought back the 11,000 BTC. The company said the exercise was conducted to "demonstrate liquidity," including its ability and willingness to sell bitcoin BTC-0.47% for cash when necessary, amid plans to pursue a credit rating and expand its financing options to include bonds and preferred shares. #BTC Price Analysis# #Macro Insights# $ETH