Crypto Pulse

I. Macro & Market Sentiment· Market Data: BTC $79,621 (-1.47%) | ETH $2,311 (-2.14%) | SOL $100.92 (-1.41%)· Market Sentiment: Funding Rate +0.0036% | Fear & Greed Index 50 (Neutral)· Data Outlook: The Federal Reserve’s rate decision, GDP, and PCE data are all due Thursday, with a repricing of rate expectations potentially amplifying cross-market volatility. Read moreII. Trading Signals / Hot Topics· [Today's Focus] Hyperliquid | 11 tokenized stock spot markets open, creating a new on-chain

OverviewThailand's new crypto ETF framework took effect on October 16, 2026, creating a formal route for locally established exchange-traded funds that track cryptocurrency prices. The rules were issued by Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission on October 8 after public consultations earlier in the year. During the initial stage, a Thailand crypto ETF may invest only in Bitcoin or Ethereum, although the SEC has left room to expand the eligible-asset list later.The framework is more restri

OverviewCircle has cumulatively minted $110.51 billion of USDC on Solana since the beginning of 2026, according to onchain monitoring cited on October 22. In the latest 24-hour period alone, six transactions of $250 million each added another $1.5 billion of gross USDC issuance on the network. The scale makes Solana USDC minting an important indicator of how heavily stablecoin infrastructure is being used on the chain, particularly as Solana expands across trading, payments, tokenized assets and

I. Today's Market: Money Left Technology for Bonds and the Dow Barely MovedUnit: %, single-day change on October 22; the set spans positive and negative, so a zero line is drawn and all three share one scale. The Nasdaq reads −2.60%, the S&P 500 −1.22% and the Dow +0.02%. The spread between the three came from what each one holds. The Nasdaq fell 2.60% and the S&P 500 1.22%, while the Dow, which carries the least technology, added 0.02% and barely moved. On the same day the 10-year Treasury

The AI supply chain filled all six layers again on October 22, with seven items all marked completed yet only one carrying a price. Nebius (Ticker: NBIS) drew a $3.5B senior secured facility arranged by Citi that matures in 364 days, money it will spend on data halls that depreciate over ten years. Among the other six, neither Rambus's stake in ChipAgents nor Rivian's purchase of Third Dimension AI came with a price, and Micron's Taoyuan plant saw Taiwan's first chip industry strike. AI Supply C

Overview The prefix on a Bitcoin address tells you which generation of the technology it belongs to and how much extra or less you will pay in fees for using it. Four common formats coexist on mainnet today: legacy addresses starting with 1, nested SegWit addresses starting with 3, native SegWit addresses starting with bc1q, and Taproot addresses starting with bc1p. Only three differences matter between them: how much block space the same transfer occupies, which wallets and platforms can send t

Overview Hashrate and mining difficulty are the two most direct indicators of Bitcoin network condition, yet they are frequently misread as separate things. They are in fact two expressions of the same thing: difficulty is set by past block speed, and block speed is set by hashrate. As of October 23, 2026, per CoinWarz data, mining difficulty stands at 140.58T at block height 972,740, having risen 5.92% from 132.72T on October 16. On hashrate, per pickaxe's October 15 figure the network ran near

Overview The CME gap is one of the most widely repeated technical claims in bitcoin trading, and its central assertion is that a gap eventually gets filled, making it usable as a price target. That claim can now be tested properly, for two reasons. The first is that CME Group moved its crypto futures and options to around-the-clock trading on May 29, 2026, so weekend gaps no longer form and the phenomenon constitutes a closed, complete dataset. The second is that a statistical study covering 427

Overview The US Department of Labor published weekly unemployment insurance claims at 8:30 a.m. Eastern on October 22. Per the official release, seasonally adjusted initial claims for the week ending October 17 came in at 194,000, a decrease of 6,000 from the revised prior week, while seasonally adjusted continuing claims for the week ending October 10 reached 1,728,000, an increase of 25,000. The 194,000 figure is strong on its own terms. Per press reports it is the lowest in three months, belo

Overview Chainlink announced a strategic partnership with LG CNS at 04:00 Singapore time on October 23. Per the release, the two will strengthen the infrastructure behind South Korea's digital asset market, which the release describes as a $68 billion market, across three areas: providing oracle infrastructure for LG CNS's Digital Asset Platform Solution, jointly helping define next-generation technical standards for Korea's digital asset economy, and building solutions for Korean institutions t