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Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs Lose $1.2B in Weekly Outflows
Spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $681 million in outflows from October 5–9, 2026, ending three consecutive weeks of net inflows. Ethereum ETFs lost $542 million during the week, with BlackRock’s ETHA accounting for $477 million in withdrawals. Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF flows fluctuated alongside prices through 2024–2026, but the data does not establish direct causation. Spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs recorded a combined $1.223 billion in net outflows from October 5 to October 9, 2026, according to SoSoValue. Bitcoin funds lost $681 million, ending three consecutive weeks of net inflows, while Ethereum funds shed $542 million. BlackRock’s ETHA accounted for $477 million in Ethereum ETF outflows. https://twitter.com/WuBlockchain/status/2109491469237293226?s=20 Bitcoin ETFs End Three-Week Inflow Streak Bitcoin’s latest weekly withdrawals reversed three weeks of consecutive net inflows. The broader chart, covering January 2024 through October 2026, shows repeated shifts between daily inflows and outflows. Source: Coinglass In early 2024, Bitcoin climbed from approximately 40,000–45,000 toward $70,000, alongside several inflow spikes exceeding $1 billion. However, midyear withdrawals coincided with prices retreating toward 50,000–60,000. Buying returned late in 2024, with one inflow spike approaching $1.35 billion as Bitcoin moved toward $100,000. During 2025, daily flows remained uneven, with some withdrawals approaching $1 billion. BlackRock’s ETHA Leads Ethereum ETF Outflows Ethereum spot ETFs recorded $542 million in weekly net outflows, with BlackRock’s ETHA accounting for $477 million. The Ethereum chart, updated October 9, also shows a daily ETHA outflow of approximately 22,440 ETH. Source: Coinglass Other listed funds include ETHE, ETH, ETHB, ETHW, FETH, ETHV, EZET, TETH and QETH. However, their individual flows are not clearly visible at the chart’s displayed scale. The cumulative-flow chart shows inflow spikes reaching approximately 200,000–230,000 ETH around mid-2025. Meanwhile, some outflow periods approached 100,000–130,000 ETH, reflecting alternating fund activity. Bitcoin and Ethereum Prices Track Uneven Flows Bitcoin’s chart shows prices rising toward 100,000–110,000 during parts of 2025 before falling toward $80,000 and lower. In 2026, BTC approached 60,000–70,000 before recovering toward 90,000–100,000. Ethereum climbed toward 4,600–4,800 in August and September 2025 before declining toward 1,600–1,800 around July 2026. By the chart’s end, ETH had recovered to approximately 2,000–2,100. Both charts show alternating inflows and outflows alongside price fluctuations. However, the figures alone do not establish that ETF withdrawals caused either cryptocurrency’s price movements.
A7 to unveil a service that will re-invent the international payments market
Moscow, Russia, October 12th, 2026, Chainwire On 13 October, the Russian international settlement system A7, created by Bank PSB, is set to present A7 International, a service enabling payments for a foreign counterparty's invoice in USDT, with the funds arriving via a standard SWIFT bank transfer in the required currency. The service will cater primarily to foreign trade operators, but individuals are also eligible customers. The fee remains fixed at 0.3 percent. Petr Fradkov, Chairman of PJSC Bank PSB, and Ilan Shor, CEO of A7, will provide a glimpse into its new offering on 13 October at 13:13. To join the live broadcast and learn about the new project, follow the links: https://a7.biz/live About A7: A7 is a global financial technology company specializing in international payments and settlement solutions for international trade. It was established in 2024 with the involvement of PSB Bank. A7 is developing an independent global payment infrastructure across more than 100 countries, combining global financial expertise, advanced technology and regulatory compliance. The company’s products include international payments, digital financial assets and promissory notes. A7 Group works with 15,000 clients, with around 2,000 transactions processed through the system every day. In 2025, approximately 19% of Russian companies’ cross-border trade settlements were processed through A7. In October 2025, A7 received an AA(RU) credit rating with a Stable outlook from ACRA. ContactCMO Alex Fedorov A7 info@a7.biz
Jeonbuk Bank Launches South Korea’s First Bitcoin Loans
Jeonbuk Bank launched Bitcoin-backed loans on October 12, 2026, allowing corporate clients to borrow Korean won against BTC collateral. Approved custodians will safeguard pledged Bitcoin, while the bank uses prices from multiple global exchanges to value collateral. Defaulted Bitcoin collateral requires court approval for public auction, under South Korea’s revised Civil Execution Rules. South Korea’s Jeonbuk Bank launched a Bitcoin-backed loan program on October 12, 2026, allowing businesses to borrow Korean won using BTC as collateral. According to Edaily, the service initially targets corporate clients, with expansion depending on demand and regulatory developments. The bank will rely on approved external custodians to hold Bitcoin pledged against the loans. Jeonbuk Bank Restricts Bitcoin Loans to Businesses The program marks a step toward CEO Park Choon-won’s vision of developing a “crypto bank.” Initially, only registered corporate customers can apply, and Bitcoin remains the only eligible collateral. Borrowers can use the funds for payroll, supplier payments, and other operating expenses. However, individual customers cannot access the service, and borrowers cannot use the money for cryptocurrency speculation. Jeonbuk Bank selected Bitcoin because it has the largest market capitalization and trading volume among cryptocurrencies. The bank also tested its performance as collateral during sharp price declines. Jeong Sang-hoon, the bank’s vice president of the Digital Division, said the lender would strengthen its digital asset financial capabilities as laws and regulations change. External Custodians Will Hold the Bitcoin Jeonbuk Bank will not directly hold or manage the Bitcoin pledged by borrowers. Instead, approved custody providers will safeguard the assets under South Korean security and regulatory requirements. These providers must obtain Information Security Management System (ISMS) certification and comply with the Virtual Asset User Protection Act. Meanwhile, the bank will calculate collateral values using weighted average prices from multiple global exchanges to reduce the influence of sharp price swings on individual platforms. Court Approval Required to Sell Defaulted Collateral The program also establishes procedures for recovering unpaid loans. If a business defaults, Jeonbuk Bank cannot immediately seize and sell the pledged Bitcoin. Under South Korea’s revised Civil Execution Rules, which took effect October 1, 2026, the bank must obtain a court order before selling collateral through a public auction. Proceeds can then go toward recovering the outstanding debt. Jeonbuk Bank, a subsidiary of JB Financial Group, plans to assess demand and regulatory developments before expanding the service. JPMorgan Chase and Swiss bank Sygnum have also introduced Bitcoin-backed lending services. Clarify the launch and first claimTighten the opening paragraph
Analyst Names Three RWA Altcoins With Breakout Targets
ONDO retested its $0.46 cup-and-handle neckline, with Ali Charts projecting a potential $0.90 target if support holds. Algorand needs a daily close above $0.14 resistance to confirm a breakout toward $0.19, while INJ must defend $7 to target $17. Altcoin market capitalization excluding the top 10 cryptocurrencies rose to $242.26 billion, with RSI at 62.64 signaling improving momentum. Analyst Ali Charts has identified ONDO, Algorand (ALGO), and Injective (INJ) as three real-world asset (RWA) altcoins to watch this week. His analysis highlights breakout levels and price targets for each token, including ONDO’s $0.46 neckline retest, ALGO’s $0.14 resistance, and INJ’s $7 support test. Meanwhile, broader altcoin market capitalization has recovered to $242.26 billion. ONDO and INJ Retest Breakout Patterns According to Ali Charts, ONDO appears to have broken out of a cup-and-handle pattern that began forming in January. The token has since retested its neckline near $0.46, which held as support. https://twitter.com/alicharts/status/2109366724185489575?s=20 If that level continues to hold, the pattern projects a target of $0.90, nearly double the neckline price. Injective has also broken out of a cup-and-handle pattern and retested its neckline near $7. Ali Charts said buyers need to defend that level for INJ’s projected $17 target to come into play. That target sits roughly 140% above the neckline, according to his analysis. Algorand Needs to Clear $0.14 Resistance Unlike ONDO and INJ, Algorand still needs to break above resistance. Ali Charts said ALGO continues to consolidate inside a channel capped near $0.14. A daily close above that ceiling could confirm a breakout toward $0.19. The analyst highlighted two retests and one resistance breakout as the main price levels to watch this week. Altcoin Market Cap Recovers Above $242 Billion The four-hour market-cap chart excluding the top 10 cryptocurrencies shows a recovery from approximately 224 billion–226 billion on October 8–9. On October 12, the market cap reached $242.26 billion, gaining $1.56 billion, or 0.65%, on the latest candle. Source: TradingView Trading volume stood at $12.28 billion, while the Relative Strength Index reached 62.64 against its moving average of 51.42. The MACD line stood at $813.51 million, above the signal line at negative $527.7 million, with a positive histogram of $1.34 billion. Resistance sits around 245 billion–250 billion, followed by $255 billion. Support lies near 235 billion–238 billion, with another zone around 224 billion–226 billion.
DATA Network joins Sui and Walrus to scale the supply chain for AI training data
Palo Alto, United States, October 12th, 2026, Chainwire Trace, the onchain registry for rights-cleared AI training data with more than 250 million verifiable receipts, brings its training data to Sui and Walrus to power the next generation of AI models. Sui Foundation and The DATA Foundation today announced that the DATA Network and its Trace registry are joining the Sui stack, bringing a live supply of rights-cleared AI training data onto the infrastructure Sui has built for AI workloads. Walrus, the data platform with integrity proofs anchored on Sui, becomes the default storage layer for applications operated by DATA Foundation. Separately, the DATA Network will be upgraded to run as a protocol natively on Sui. The upgrade gives AI labs a single place to source real-world training data they are allowed to use, with its provenance recorded by Trace and the original file stored and access-controlled on Walrus. The data AI needs next The next generation of AI models is constrained by access to real-world data. The open internet has been scraped, and the data that comes next must be sourced from people, with consent and with provenance that regulators and legal teams will accept. The EU AI Act and ongoing litigation over training data have made provenance a procurement requirement for labs. The data those models need sits with people rather than on the open web: a nurse describing a patient’s night in her own words, a dashcam recording of a rainy commute in Jakarta, a factory technician’s hands as they diagnose a fault, or a customer call conducted in Bengali. It is personal and often regulated, and it belongs to the people who generated it. Trace, launched by DATA Foundation in June as an onchain registry for AI training data, was built for exactly this kind of data. It records the origin of each contribution and the rights attached to it, and settles payment to the person who contributed it. It has registered more than 250 million contributions since launch and now processes over 3M receipts per day on average. Applications writing to Trace include Kled, the largest opt-in human data marketplace with over 1.5 billion records being onboarded, along with Numo and Oto, applications that already license data to frontier AI labs and robotics companies. Why Sui and Walrus Sui represents every asset as a programmable object, allowing datasets and their licenses to be managed onchain like tokens. Independent transactions execute in parallel and settle in under a second, making the network capable of handling millions of daily registrations. Walrus extends this capability to large files: it stores massive AI datasets efficiently and ensures data is only readable by licensed buyers. No other network offers storage, access control, and ownership tracking built natively into a single ecosystem, together with verifiable compute. Trace now adds a flagship supply of rights-cleared data, with existing demand from the AI labs that license it today. The result of the integration will be stronger provenance guarantees and tamper evidence. Today a Trace record proves that a file was registered and when, and with Walrus, Trace will be able to hold an encrypted, immutable copy of the contributed file itself as a reference guarantee. The hash of the record can be regenerated from the data itself rather than from metadata an application supplied, and any later processing of the file can be checked against the original. The upgrade is backed by a long-term strategic investment. Sui Foundation is investing $30 million in the DATA Network, establishing the largest institutional stake in the network, alongside the continuing holdings of PIP Labs and the DATA Foundation. Furthering the alignment, SY Lee, Chairman of Poseidon and CEO of PIP Labs, joins Sui Foundation as Strategic Advisor. The protocol upgrade DATA Network will be upgraded to run as a protocol natively on Sui, and its independent chain will be retired. $DATA continues as the token of the DATA protocol on Sui, carried over one-to-one, with holder economics and governance rights at least equivalent to today. Locked and vesting positions carry over unchanged. In parallel, Walrus becomes the default storage layer for DATA Foundation applications. Adeniyi Abiodun, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Mysten Labs, the original contributor to Sui and Walrus, said: “The AI industry has reached the point where the open internet has been read, and the next frontier is defined by access to datasets with the consent and provenance that regulators require. Sui and Walrus were built to be the home where AI data is stored, licensed, and paid for, capable of operating at the scale these systems demand. The migration of DATA Network and Trace to our stack now brings massive volumes of high-quality, rights-cleared data that is already serving the world’s frontier AI labs.” SY Lee, Chairman of Poseidon and CEO of PIP Labs, said: “The next generation of AI will be trained on data that lives with people rather than on the open web, and that data needs consent and provenance built in, along with a way to pay the people it comes from, and Trace was built to be that layer. It now becomes part of the Sui stack alongside Walrus, backed by one of the strongest engineering organizations in the industry and with Sui Foundation as the network’s largest strategic holder. This is the right home for the network we built, and I am looking forward to helping Sui make it the data layer for AI.” Andrea Muttoni, CEO of DATA Foundation, said: “Training data is critical for continuously expanding the frontier, and making sure it is traceable, auditable and cleared to use is just as important for AI safety as it is a precursor for data quality. With Trace, we have been tracking hundreds of millions of data assets. Joining forces with Sui now allows us to build out more of the stack, offering more than just an audit trail, like encrypted reference file storage and potentially fully verifiable TEEs for evals and fine tunings in the future.” The existing DATA Network will continue to operate until the upgrade is complete, and a detailed timeline and holder transition plan will be published prior to the upgrade. About DATA Foundation DATA Foundation supports the DATA Network, the protocol for tracking provenance of the real-world data AI models need. Through Trace, each contribution is registered with its provenance receipt and a full audit trail. Applications building on the network include Kled, Numo, Oto, and others. Formerly Story Foundation, the organization refocused on AI training data in June 2026. The DATA Network is being upgraded to run as a protocol on Sui. About Sui Sui, where money moves as freely as messages, is a next-generation Layer 1 blockchain built for onchain finance and agentic infrastructure. Founded by the core team behind Meta’s stablecoin initiative and powered by an object-centric model, Sui makes assets, permissions, and user data programmable and verifiable. Sui’s primitives offer everything necessary to create high-performance finance and AI-native applications. Learn more at sui.io. About Walrus Walrus is the data platform built for the demands of AI. It lets builders, enterprises, and AI agents move data across apps and models, protect it with built-in access rules, and make it verifiable by anyone. As AI takes actions with consequence, the data it runs on has to be provable. Created by the cryptographers and distributed systems engineers behind Sui and Meta’s first stablecoin initiative. walrus.xyz Media contacts DATA Foundation: datafoundation@150bond.com Sui Foundation: comms@sui.io ContactHead of Communications HV DATA Foundation henri.vues@piplabs.xyz
Major technology firms are linking AI systems with Hedera-based verification, creating a broader enterprise framework for trusted computation. IBM, Dell, Accenture and ServiceNow are all providing different enterprise capabilities to complement AI integrity with Hedera infrastructure. The proposed architecture connects protected computing, cryptographic evidence, consensus records, and compliance processes across enterprise AI environments. As leading enterprise tech companies build AI trust systems around Hedera, it's becoming an increasingly popular choice. The model is linked to verification, governance, compliance and protected computing. Enterprise Giants Build Around AI Trust Tokenicer argues that Hedera’s governing council reflects a broader enterprise AI trend. The post points to IBM, Dell, Accenture, and ServiceNow. These companies serve major corporations, institutions, and government organizations across multiple sectors. Source: X The supplied graphic places Hedera Consensus Service at the architecture’s center. HCS provides timestamping and verification for computing events. Hedera Token Service adds another layer for recording digital assets and related information. IBM appears alongside AITrust and Watson within the proposed framework. The graphic references self-sovereign identities for AI agents. It also describes verifiable Know-Your-Agent capabilities and cryptographic notarization. Dell is presented through its AI Factory ecosystem and enterprise infrastructure. This is a graphic reference for self-sovereign identities of AI agents. That arrangement places protected AI operations closer to independently recorded verification. Verification Connects Computing With Consensus The governance and professional-services side of the framework is represented by Accenture. It includes references to AI governance and applications in the public sector. The graphic also associates its activities with NVIDIA Blackwell deployments. ServiceNow adds enterprise workflow capabilities to the proposed architecture. Its section references native EQTY connectivity and real-time compliance. Hedera-anchored proofs are presented alongside automated AI recommendations and workflow processes. The foundation layer introduces Intel TDX and NVIDIA into the structure. It describes hardware-rooted trust, confidential AI operations, and tamper-resistant evidence. These components provide the computing foundation before verification reaches consensus. The verification formula then creates a defined sequence for AI activity. AI operations generate evidence through hardware-rooted cryptographic notarization. That evidence reaches consensus before becoming a tamper-resistant compliance record. Enterprise Governance Expands the Framework The graphic describes a council involving up to 39 member organizations. Members can participate in network governance while remaining operationally independent. The structure also connects those organizations with network infrastructure and services. Tokenicer’s post places emphasis on the scale of these council participants. IBM is described as having held a leading US patent position for decades. Dell, Accenture, and ServiceNow are similarly presented through broad enterprise reach. At the time of writing, HBAR trades around $0.0927, according to CoinMarketCap data. Its October 7 reference rate stood near $0.0929. The token had closed near $0.0998 on October 6, showing recent market weakness. The second graphic reinforces Hedera’s position as connective infrastructure. IBM, Accenture, Dell, and ServiceNow surround the network’s central Hedera symbol. The presentation therefore focuses on enterprise integration rather than token speculation. The supplied material ultimately describes an AI trust architecture built around verification. Protected computation produces evidence before the Hedera consensus records those events. The framework then connects those records with compliance, governance, and enterprise workflows.