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Top Crypto Stories This Week: From ETH ETF Approvals to Questionable Asian Appetite
Watershed moments galore in crypto this week as Ethereum ETFs finally get approval from the SEC and FIT21 passes through the House of Representatives
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82 Crypto Projects Died this Year, But the Market Barely Noticed
Crypto’s shutdown wave exposes a funding model that mistook capital for demand. With 82 projects dead in 2026, even well-funded ventures are failing to turn deposits, token incentives and investor backing into sustainable revenue. The market is no longer paying for potential.
Bitcoin’s Nasdaq Re-Coupling Is a Trap Until the Dollar Breaks
Bitcoin’s brief decoupling from tech stocks has failed, leaving it exposed to Nasdaq volatility, concentrated ETF flows and a macro calendar packed with potential catalysts. With midterms and Fed policy looming, the digital gold thesis is looking increasingly like a bet on AI earnings and liquidity.
Bitcoin Clings On as a Silent Fed, $100 Oil and an AI Wobble Take the Wheel
With Fed officials in blackout until the October 27–28 meeting, Treasury yields, oil and AI earnings will set the direction for a Bitcoin market pinned between $80,000 and $85,000.
Thoughts on the Ledger Supply-Chain Attack
Ledger’s supply-chain attack exposes the uncomfortable trade-offs behind hardware wallets: the devices promising security can create new vulnerabilities through complexity, opaque manufacturing and misplaced trust.
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82 Crypto Projects Died this Year, But the Market Barely Noticed
Crypto’s shutdown wave exposes a funding model that mistook capital for demand. With 82 projects dead in 2026, even well-funded ventures are failing to turn deposits, token incentives and investor backing into sustainable revenue. The market is no longer paying for potential.
Bybit Secures Full VARA Licence for Spot Trading in Dubai
The approval ends a three-year wait at the exchange's own headquarters, but it covers only spot trading, leaving Bybit's core derivatives business outside the licence while rival Binance's Dubai licence already includes it.
Licensed to Shill: Tokenised Stocks, Stonks and the Case for Self-Custody |
Both guests read the stock-paired meme craze as a sign the sector has momentum, though their more durable case rests on what holders can do with a share once it sits in a wallet.
Bitget Agrees to Buy GMO's Loss-Making Thai Exchange as Japanese Group Exits Thailand
The undisclosed-price deal gives Bitget a Thai licence through a vehicle incorporated two days before GMO approved the sale, and lands less than a month after the exchange lost about $387.5 million in a hot wallet breach.