Bitcoin surged to $118,500, fueled by $204 million in liquidations (mostly shorts). Market cap climbed to $2.33 trillion with daily active addresses reaching 869,000.
Ethereum rallied 5.5% to $4,337, with $57.4 billion futures OI and bullish options positioning.
Spot ETF inflows supported majors: BTC +$270 million, ETH +$55 million on October 1.
The U.S. shutdown commenced while ADP private payrolls fell by 32,000, marking the worst decline since March 2023.
Altcoin sentiment is strengthening as Google search interest for “altcoins” spikes.
The shift follows a 2025 edition that drew more than 11,000 attendees from 90 countries, and adds closed-door tokenization roundtables to a festival previously built around a single unified stage.
The exchange is enforcing Brussels' sanctions list to the letter, down to the exact spelling of each entity's name — the same pattern it followed with Iran-linked platforms two weeks earlier
After weeks of selling BTC to fund preferred dividends, Strategy raised $334 million through MSTR share sales and made no bitcoin purchases or sales at all — a pause inside a $5 billion monetization program the company approved just weeks earlier
Anchorpoint's HKDAP entered phase-one Beta Access on August 12 with HashKey and OSL as distributors — a controlled first step for the token Blockhead called a parallel, tightly controlled track rather than an open market
