As of Friday, 22 companies had filed objections as part of the joint venture’s proposed tokenized stock platform under the SEC’s innovation exemption.

The US tax agency is targeting faster resolutions and more flexible payment options for taxpayers voluntarily disclosing past tax violations under a planned program overhaul.

The SEC's approval of 3x crypto ETFs could increase market volatility and attract speculative trading, impacting broader financial stability.

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TL;DR: Archax has adopted Chainlink Data Streams to supply pricing information for GOVY, its tokenised US Treasury product, as it develops collateral use cases.

Putting Treasury bills on a blockchain is only the beginning. If an institution wants to borrow against them or use them as margin in an automated market, the software also needs reliable, timely information about their value.

That is the gap Archax is addressing with Chainlink. The regulated digital asset platform said it has adopted Chainlink Data Streams for GOVY, its continuously rolling tokenised US Treasury product. The aim is to supply pricing data to support lending, treasury management and other on-chain collateral applications.

GOVY is designed to provide exposure to short-dated US government bills, with the underlying securities held in regulated custody. Archax describes features including transfers between approved wallets and subscriptions or redemptions using supported stablecoins.

Those details matter because a tokenised security still needs rules around custody, eligibility and price discovery. A faster oracle feed cannot remove credit, liquidity or operational risk, and a proposed DeFi integration still has to be approved by individual markets. What it can do is make the underlying asset’s price usable by programmable financial systems. That is a practical step towards institutions treating tokenised Treasuries as working collateral, not simply a digital certificate.

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President Donald Trump said the US could strike Iran as soon as Sunday, or reach a deal instead. This comes as Bitcoin (BTC) trades at $80,546 after briefly dipping below $80,000 on Saturday.

So what happens to Bitcoin if a strike does come, or if a deal lands instead? Past instances may offer a clue.

What Past Iran Headlines Show

On October 8, Trump pledged to hold off on strikes until the November 3 midterms. Bitcoin dipped to $80,393 that day but closed at $81,754, according to TradingView data for Binance.

On October 22, a report on post-midterm US and Israeli strike plans emerged. Bitcoin fell from an October 21 high of $84,898 to $80,939, closing the day at $81,416.

US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) lost $635.49 million that day, a day after drawing $528.40 million.

As talk of a weekend strike built, Bitcoin fell to $79,220 on Saturday. It recovered to close the day at $80,888. Escalation headlines cut Bitcoin by 2% to 5% intraday, while the pledge brought no lasting rally.

Leveraged Longs Took the Hit Near $80,000

CoinGlass data shows $543.68 million in liquidations over 24 hours, with long positions accounting for $461.19 million.

The $80,000 level also matters for institutional holders. Glassnode places the cost basis of ETF and treasury-company investors between $80,000 and $81,500.

According to the firm, a daily close below $80,000 would leave the average holder at a loss. It would also bring the True Market Mean near $77,600 into view.

A weekend strike could test that line quickly. 

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What a Strike Could Mean When Markets Reopen

Because Bitcoin trades through the weekend, it would likely absorb the first reaction to any strike. 

Past strikes offer a mixed guide. When the war began on February 28, Bitcoin fell to $63,030 but closed the day at $66,973. After the early September strikes, it dipped to $76,264, then jumped 5.08% on September 3.

Gold could also feel pressure when traditional markets reopen. Glassnode data shows Bitcoin’s correlation with gold set an eight-year record in September and remains near it. 

Its dollar correlation is among its most negative, so a rush into the dollar could weigh on both. 

Oil adds inflation risk, with Brent at $117.30 on Friday. A strike could push it higher before the Fed decides on October 28. 

A deal could cool those worries, though the October 8 pledge showed relief can be modest. Thus, Bitcoin’s response to these headlines is the signal to watch this weekend.

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The AI boom is creating huge demand for training data and the expensive computers that power it. Grayscale has identified three cryptocurrencies targeting these growing needs. Their prices, however, tell very different stories.

In an October 23 research note, Grayscale Head of Research Zach Pandl highlighted DATA Network (DATA), USD.AI (CHIP), and Pearl (PEARL).

Each addresses a different part of AI infrastructure, from supplying training data to financing computer chips and earning revenue from computing power.

1. DATA Network (DATA): Selling the Data AI Needs

AI models learn from images, videos, and voice recordings. DATA aims to collect this material with permission, license it to AI developers, and reward contributors.

On October 12, the Sui Foundation announced a $30 million investment in the network. DATA also plans to migrate to Sui, transferring existing tokens one-for-one.

Yet investors have seen little relief. DATA has fallen 42.07% over 90 days to $0.15243, including a 34.65% decline over the past month.

2. USD.AI (CHIP): Financing Expensive AI Chips

AI requires powerful graphics processors, or GPUs. USD.AI helps computing companies borrow money against this hardware and its future income, using blockchain-based lending pools.

In August, Bullish announced a $100 million financing facility supporting USD.AI’s GPU loans.

CHIP has gained 47.98% over 90 days to $0.04386, although it remains roughly 69% below its April peak.

3. Pearl (PEARL): Making GPUs Earn Twice

Pearl proposes using the same computing capacity for AI workloads and blockchain mining. Providers could earn AI revenue while collecting tokens for securing the network.

PEARL is the standout performer, surging 528.24% in 90 days to $2.00. However, it has retreated about 19% from its October 21 record of $2.46.

Supply also poses a risk. Around 1.2 million new tokens are estimated to enter circulation daily, while its $4.2 billion fully diluted valuation far exceeds its $713 million market cap.

Grayscale sees potential in all three projects, although their success remains uncertain.

“Their long-term relevance will depend on adoption and competitive economics. We are keeping an eye on them,” Pandl said.

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Tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) are gaining traction, with tokenized stocks emerging as the main driver of holder growth. Data from CryptoRank shows that the number of tokenized asset holders rose from about 1.4 million in June to 6.4 million in October 2026, a 4.6x increase in four months. Tokenized equities saw the sharpest expansion, far outpacing tokenized funds and commodities. The figure also shows that a large share of holders is clustered among a handful of financial platforms and blockchain networks. This underscores the need for broader distribution and accessibility in the growing tokenized asset market.

How Are Tokenized Stocks Driving RWA Adoption?

As per the figures, tokenized stock holders increased from 502,000 in June to around 5.3 million in October. It represents an increase of more than 10 times. Their share of all tracked RWA holders rose from 36.8% to 82.9% over the same period. Other tokenized asset categories recorded more modest growth. The tokenized bond holders were at 559,000 in June and 573,000 in October. Tokenized commodity holders increased from 302,000 to 523,000.

The difference in growth rates indicates that tokenized equities have driven most of the recent increase in RWA holder counts. Rather than expanding at a similar speed across asset classes, adoption has become increasingly clustered in tokenized stocks. However, the holder counts are associated with addresses, not necessarily unique individuals or the amount of capital invested.

One person may control several addresses, while a single address may hold assets on behalf of multiple users. Consequently, growth in holder numbers does not automatically translate into an equivalent increase in the number of stakeholders or the total value of tokenized assets.

Tokenized Treasury products, private credit and other institutional offerings can also represent massive amounts of capital without having as many holders as tokenized equities. The growth in tokenized stock addresses therefore reflects one dimension of RWA adoption, rather than establishing that equities dominate the sector by total value.

Which Platforms and Blockchains Lead the Tokenized Asset Market?

Robinhood leads with 24% of the tracked holders, followed by Binance bStocks at 23%. Both platforms have approximately 1.5 million holder addresses, while xStocks ranks third with around 1 million. Together, the three account for 63.4% of the tracked market,

Binance bStocks recorded a particularly rapid pace, increasing from around 10,300 holders in June to 1.5 million in October. This expansion emphasizes the potential role of established distribution channels in bringing tokenized assets to a broader audience. Blockchain-level figures show a similarly concentrated distribution. 

BNB Chain leads with approximately 2.1 million holders, representing 32.6% of the total. Solana follows with 1.6 million, while Robinhood Chain accounts for approximately 1.5 million. Together, these three networks represent around 82% of RWA holders.

BNB Chain also recorded substantial growth, rising from approximately 177,000 holders in June to 2.1 million in October. This is an increase of nearly 12 times. The figures suggest that networks supporting broad retail access have become important channels for tokenized asset adoption.

The concentration among leading platforms and blockchains emphasizes the role distribution plays in the market’s development. While the underlying assets and infrastructure differ, a major proportion of tracked holders is associated with a relatively small group of providers and networks.

The next question is whether this growth in tokenized stock ownership will extend to other asset classes. The October figures show a sharp increase in holder numbers, but broader adoption across tokenized funds, commodities and institutional products would provide a more complete picture of the sector’s growth.

ADA, the native cryptocurrency of the Cardano ecosystem, saw a 2% uptick during Friday’s Asian market hours, following a 6% decline the previous day. While the sell-off aligns with a broader market pullback, the Cardano price faced additional bearish momentum amid increasing selling pressure from large-wallet investors and a lack of conviction from retail buyers. ADA’s technical outlook also signals a risk of further correction as price breaks below a major support.

Cardano On-Chain Metrics Signal Bearish Shift as Whale Holdings Shrink

Cardano price continues to experience increasing downside momentum, with large wallet investors trimming their holdings and adding more selling pressure to the market. Santiment’s metrics show that mid-tier whales with holdings ranging from 10 million to 100 million tokens reduced their dominance from 38.27% on October 10 to 37.93% on Friday. Meanwhile, larger addresses holding above 100 million ADA shifted slightly to command 16.04% of the circulating supply, compared to 15.92% previously.

Concurrently, market profitability has experienced a sharp contraction. The proportion of circulating ADA supply currently sitting in profit plunged from 30.78% to 17.8%, signaling a sudden wave of profit-taking among investors.

Collectively, the whale selling pressure and shifting market sentiment threaten to cap near-term recovery attempts and maintain persistent downward pressure on price action.

Cardano price has experienced intense downward pressure over the past three weeks, plunging 20% from a local high of $0.2704 down to $0.2164, which dragged its total market capitalization down to $7.95 billion. The downward momentum gained significant momentum on Thursday, dropping nearly 6% from $0.2253 to $0.2123. This aggressive price reversal led to a series of long liquidations worth almost $1.8 million in ADA perpetual contracts.

ADA Open Interest Shrinks Significantly

Reflecting a mass exodus of capital and declining market participation, Cardano’s Open Interest (OI)—which measures the total value of active futures and options contracts—collapsed from $658 million to $459.5 million over the same timeframe. This represents a huge pullback of around 30.17%.

The price decline coupled with the Open Interest drop indicates that the market downturn is being led by long liquidation and active unwinding of positions, rather than heavy new short selling. As confidence in a near-term relief rally fades, traders are walking away, letting go of trades and reducing their leveraged exposure.

Adding to the bearish outlook, Cardano’s OI-Weighted Funding Rate has dropped into negative territory, hitting -0.0095%.

The negative funding rate indicates that short traders are paying long traders a fee to keep their bearish positions. This move into negative territory highlights the prevailing bearish sentiment, reflecting a strong push from short sellers who are anticipating additional declines for the asset.

Cardano Price Loses Major Support From Multi-Month Recovery Channel

Since June 2026, the Cardano price has witnessed a steady recovery within the two ascending trendlines of a channel pattern. The chart setup offers two parallel-walking trendlines that act as dynamic support and resistance for market participants.

During the Thursday selloff, the ADA price gave a decisive breakdown below the pattern’s support trendline, signaling a change in market momentum. Today’s price uptick to $0.2163 acts as a short retest of the breached trendline and validates suitability for further correction.

If Cardano price can continue to hold below the $0.22 resistance and the 100-day exponential moving average (EMA). the sellers could drag the asset to the next significant support near $0.19.

On the contrary, if the ADA coin reenters the channel boundary with a bullish thrust above the 100-day EMA, the bearish thesis would get invalidated.

TL;DR: US household inflation expectations rose in October while consumer sentiment barely changed. The readings add context ahead of the Federal Reserve’s October 27–28 meeting, without establishing a rate decision or a Bitcoin price direction.

American households expect prices to rise faster over both the next year and the longer run, according to the University of Michigan’s final October survey. For Bitcoin traders heading into another Federal Reserve decision, the release adds an inflation concern to an already important policy week.

The university’s October 23 results put year-ahead inflation expectations at 4.7%, up from 4.6% in September. Long-run expectations increased from 3.4% to 3.5%. Both measures rose for a second consecutive month and reached their highest readings since May.

Consumer sentiment was almost unchanged at 48.0, compared with 48.1 in September. Beneath that steady headline, the current-conditions index fell to 46.7 while the expectations index improved to 48.8. The university linked weaker conditions for buying durable goods to affordability concerns and higher interest rates.

A policy meeting with competing pressures

The Fed’s published calendar places its next meeting on October 27–28. Its most recent decision, on September 16, raised the federal funds target by a quarter of a percentage point to 3.75%–4.00%. That statement described inflation as elevated and reaffirmed the central bank’s 2% objective.

Michigan’s figures measure what households expect. They are separate from actual consumer-price inflation and from the Fed’s own projections. Comparing the survey’s percentages directly with the policy target would overlook differences in the measure and the time horizon.

The distinction does not make expectations irrelevant. In an earlier Fed explanation of the subject, then-Governor Adriana Kugler described longer-term expectations as a useful indication of monetary-policy credibility because they tend to respond less to short-lived price shocks.

The implication for crypto depends on the response

One plausible reading is that rising expectations make it harder for policymakers to sound comfortable about inflation. The weaker assessment of current conditions creates a competing concern: households are already feeling the effects of expensive credit and reduced purchasing power. Neither signal determines the committee’s decision by itself.

For Bitcoin and Ethereum, the transmission runs through financing conditions, the return available on cash and investors’ willingness to hold volatile assets. Higher expected inflation can strengthen the appeal of scarce assets in principle, while tighter monetary policy can work against speculative demand. Treating the survey as an automatic bullish or bearish signal misses that tension.

Dollar stablecoins illustrate another distinction: maintaining a dollar peg does not protect a holder from changes in that dollar’s purchasing power.

The immediate checkpoint is Wednesday’s policy announcement. Traders will have to judge the decision alongside the Fed’s explanation of inflation and growth, rather than infer an entire rate path from one household survey.

Written by the News Desk and edited by Samuel Rae.

TL;DR: Farside’s preliminary figures show US Bitcoin funds retaining a $301.2 million weekly inflow despite two days of withdrawals. Ether funds were down $220.7 million for the week; Friday’s tables still contained missing entries.

US spot Bitcoin funds gave back much of their early-week buying by Friday, leaving a smaller positive balance in the latest available data. The reversal makes the week’s total more informative than either the strong opening sessions or the withdrawals that followed.

Farside Investors’ table, checked on October 24, showed net outflows of $137.9 million for Friday after $635.6 million on Thursday. Together, those two sessions removed $773.5 million. Monday through Wednesday had attracted $1.0747 billion, leaving a provisional five-session inflow of $301.2 million.

Ether’s Friday inflow leaves the week underwater

Friday’s Bitcoin withdrawals were concentrated in BlackRock’s IBIT and Fidelity’s FBTC, at $110.3 million and $31.8 million respectively. Morgan Stanley’s MSBT recorded a $4.2 million inflow.

The Ether fund table showed a different balance. Friday’s reported inflow of $4.4 million followed a $110.6 million withdrawal on Thursday. Adding the five daily totals gives a provisional weekly outflow of $220.7 million. The small final-session gain therefore did little to offset the earlier redemptions.

Both calculations need a qualification: Farside still displayed a dash for VanEck’s Friday entry in each table when checked. The published totals should be treated as incomplete snapshots. A dash has not been converted into a confirmed zero in the underlying data, and subsequent updates could change the weekly figures.

Flows describe fund demand, with limits

The comparison suggests demand through these listed vehicles was more resilient for Bitcoin than Ethereum over this particular week. It does not establish who was buying, how long they intend to hold, or what happened across every other route into the crypto market.

The SEC’s general explanation of ETF mechanics distinguishes trading existing shares from creating or redeeming fund shares. Investors can trade with one another during a session without every transaction producing a corresponding change in the fund’s assets. Turnover and net flows answer different questions.

That distinction also matters when interpreting blockchain transfers. A transfer involving a custodian is not, on its own, a complete account of investors’ subscriptions and redemptions. Fund-flow data, share counts and custody movements need to be read in their own context.

For the next trading week, the useful question is whether fresh subscriptions can rebuild the demand lost in the last two sessions. A positive weekly balance leaves that possibility open, but the late reversal gives little support to treating institutional demand as a steady, one-directional buyer.

Written by the News Desk and edited by Samuel Rae.