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Latest in Ethereum & Altcoins
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Celestia's TIA jumps 32% in 24 hours as altcoins rally with Bitcoin flat near $82,000
Celestia's TIA token rose 32% in 24 hours on October 16, Crypto Briefing reported, leading a rally of at least 15 altcoins while Bitcoin traded mostly flat around $82,000.
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Ripple Prime opens 24/7 swaps tied to Trade.xyz perpetuals on Hyperliquid
Ripple said on Oct. 15 that institutions can trade around-the-clock swaps on more than 100 traditional markets, with Ripple Prime as counterparty and the swaps referencing Trade.xyz perpetuals listed on Hyperliquid.
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Solana Accelerate Shanghai postponed after registrations exceed local cap, Liu says
Solana Foundation President Lily Liu said the Solana Accelerate event in Shanghai was postponed after registrations quadrupled overnight and exceeded the attendance limit registered with local authorities.
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OpenAI model spent from stranger's Sepolia testnet wallet via public seed phrases
OpenAI disclosed that a GPT-5.6 Sol family research model with no testnet funds found another party's Sepolia wallet through public recovery phrases and used it to pay contract fees, CoinDesk reported.
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Bitcoin holds near $81,200 as altcoins fall and South Korea's Kospi plunges 8%
Bitcoin traded at $81,200 on Oct. 15, down about 0.5% since midnight UTC, while the CoinDesk 80 fell 2.2% and South Korea's Kospi plunged 8%, triggering circuit breakers, CoinDesk reported.
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Most tokenized stock trading on BNB Chain, Solana happens outside US market hours
More than 70% of tokenized stock volume on BNB Chain and 63% on Solana traded outside regular US hours, per Blockworks data, as tokenized equities neared $3.3 billion in value, according to RWA.xyz.
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Lido update says 40% of staked ETH now runs on Ethereum's 0x02 validators
A Lido-linked update reported by Crypto Briefing says 40% of staked ETH now sits on 0x02 validators, after about 1.8 million ETH migrated from older 0x01 validators under Ethereum's Pectra rules.
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NFT marketplace Blur to shut down blur.io website, halt new Blend loans November 12
Ethereum NFT marketplace Blur said it will deprecate its blur.io website on November 12, 2026, and its Blend lending platform will stop matching new loans that day, while the protocol stays live on-chain.
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NFT marketplace Blur to close website Nov. 12 after volume falls more than 99%
Blur, once the largest Ethereum NFT marketplace, will close its website on Nov. 12 after monthly volume fell from about $1.43 billion in March 2023 to under $7 million, ten days after sister project Blast said it would shut down.
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Fortune predicts AI agents will reshape crypto markets by 2028, Crypto Briefing says
Crypto Briefing, citing a Fortune report, said AI agents were expected to fundamentally reshape crypto market activity by 2028 and outpace human participants, with platforms like Hyperliquid drawing attention.
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Ripple-backed Evernorth debuts on Nasdaq as XRPN holding 473 million XRP
Evernorth began trading on the Nasdaq as XRPN after its SPAC merger closed. About 80.3% of Armada's public shareholders redeemed, and its XRP is valued at about $677 million at the filing's $1.43 price.
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Evernorth (XRPN) shares rise as much as 5% in Nasdaq debut, names new CIO
Shares of XRP treasury company Evernorth Holdings (XRPN) rose as much as 5% in their Monday Nasdaq debut, per Yahoo Finance data cited by Cointelegraph, as the firm named an ex-Coinbase Asset Management executive CIO.
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Bitmine adds 12,532 ETH, says it holds 4.9% of supply as Tom Lee nears target
Bitmine Immersion Technologies said it bought 12,532 ETH last week, bringing its holdings to 6,028,946 ETH (4.9% of supply) as Chairman Tom Lee said the firm is nearly done stacking.
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Anonymous wallet sells 410 BTC on Hyperliquid, buys 14,341 ETH, Lookonchain says
An anonymous investor sold 410.14 BTC on Hyperliquid and bought 14,341 ETH through decentralized exchanges, according to Lookonchain data, as CoinGlass put 24-hour ETH futures volume at $23.15 billion.
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XRP, Zcash and Hyperliquid hover near support after early-October drop
A U.Today price analysis dated October 12 put XRP near $1.395 with a trend still leaning down, while Zcash and Hyperliquid held above recent lows and Shiba Inu tested support.
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Solana took 65% of tokenized equities volume in one day, Crypto Briefing says
Crypto Briefing reported Solana handled 65% of tokenized equities volume on one day in the week of its report. That came after a late-September stretch when Solana's share was about 35% and Robinhood Chain led with roughly 39%.
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Bitcoin ETFs down $386.3M in October as Ethereum funds log nine-day outflow streak
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs are down a net $386.3 million through seven October trading days, while Ethereum funds extended their outflow streak to nine days, according to Decrypt's ETF tracker.
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Hyperliquid chip-index perp tests who sets stock prices after Wall Street closes
A CryptoSlate analysis looks at a Paragon perpetual futures contract on Hyperliquid tied to a US semiconductor index, and the pricing risk of trading stocks while their primary exchanges are closed.
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BitMine completes $350 million buyback of 21 million shares, Tom Lee says
BitMine repurchased 21 million shares for roughly $350 million between mid-July and August 17, 2026, according to Executive Chairman Tom Lee, who called it the largest buyback ever by a crypto stock.
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Bitcoin slides to October low near $80,000 as Evernorth readies XRPN Nasdaq debut
Bitcoin hit an October low of $80,420 on Oct. 9 before recovering toward $83,000, while Ripple-backed Evernorth completed its Armada merger and the XRP Ledger activated a new permissions feature.
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Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana beat stocks, commodities over 3 months: Coin Bureau
Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana outperformed traditional equities and commodities over three months, per Coin Bureau data reported by Crypto Briefing, while prediction markets priced ETH at $3,000 by end-2026 at 42%.
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Aerodrome's AERO gains 48% in 30 days ahead of Oct. 21 Velodrome merger
Aerodrome's AERO token rose about 48% over 30 days, ahead of Bitcoin and Ether per The Defiant, as the Base DEX nears an October 21 merger with Velodrome into a new multichain protocol called Aero.
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Robinhood Chain fees fall 97% from peak as memecoin trading cools
Robinhood Chain's daily fees fell 97% from an early-September peak of about $8 million, CoinDesk reported via Crypto Briefing, while DEX volume and roughly $1 billion in TVL held up better.
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Ethereum wallet holding 12,746 ETH moves after 10.2 years dormant, Whale Alert says
An Ethereum address holding 12,746 ETH moved for the first time in roughly 10.2 years, according to Whale Alert data reported by Crypto Briefing, though where the coins went hasn't been publicly reported.