DCW DAILY BRIEF-Global Digital Assets, ScienceTech & Web3 Market Intelligence

DCW DAILY BRIEF

Global Digital Assets, ScienceTech and Web3 Market Intelligence

Date: Friday 9th October 2026 | Edition 551

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📊 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Iran War Day 224 opens Friday 9th October 2026 with President Trump pledging on Truth Social that the United States "will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the Midterm Elections" on 3rd November, citing "productive" discussions with Tehran while insisting that the blockade of Iranian ports stays in full force and effect, a statement that followed a report in The Atlantic that the White House had asked the Pentagon for strike options before the vote and that helped take Brent crude back to about $103 a barrel from an intraday high near $106. Wall Street split on Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.10 percent at 51,231.64 but the S&P 500 down 0.47 percent at 7,765.36 and the Nasdaq Composite down 1.25 percent at 27,193.34, after a Financial Times report that OpenAI's annualised revenue is about $50 billion rather than the roughly $70 billion reported last month sent the Philadelphia semiconductor index down 3.39 percent, while the FTSE 100 fell 0.16 percent, the STOXX 600 fell 0.75 percent and the Hang Seng fell 1.4 percent. The ten year Treasury yield touched 5.35 percent this week before easing to about 5.23 percent on Friday, a 30 year bond auction cleared at 5.618 percent, the highest since August 2000, and Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller and St. Louis Fed President Alberto Musalem both signalled that further rate rises will be needed.

Bitcoin is trading around $82,300 to $82,600 on Friday, down roughly 0.2 to 0.5 percent over 24 hours, after a session that ranged from about $80,400 to $83,200 and included a fall below $81,000 to its lowest level in about three weeks, as roughly $1.2 billion of crypto positions were liquidated over 24 hours, more than $1 billion of them longs, and US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded outflows of $487.1 million on Wednesday, their heaviest daily loss since 25th June. Ether fell as much as 6 percent to about $2,409 before recovering to near $2,495, with Ether liquidations of about $356 million exceeding Bitcoin's $298 million, XRP trades near $1.40, Solana near $110.6 and Dogecoin near $0.085, and total crypto market capitalisation stands at approximately $2.88 trillion with the Fear and Greed Index at 59, down from 64.

Eight dominant narratives define Friday 9th October: (1) President Trump Rules Out an Attack on Iran Before the Midterms as Brent Retreats Towards $103 and Treasury Sanctions 17 More Shadow Fleet Tankers; (2) An OpenAI Revenue Shock Sends the Nasdaq Down 1.3 Percent and Chip Stocks Down 3.4 Percent; (3) Fed Officials Signal More Rate Rises as a 30 Year Treasury Auction Clears at the Highest Yield Since 2000; (4) Bitcoin Breaks Below $81,000 as $1.2 Billion of Positions Are Liquidated and Spot ETFs Post Their Heaviest Outflow Since June; (5) Tesco Raises the Floor of Its Profit Guidance and Lifts Its Buyback to £950 Million as PepsiCo Cuts Its Earnings Outlook; (6) ESMA Gives EU Crypto Platforms Three Months to Drop Non MiCA Stablecoins as Securitize Launches Tokenised Stocks on Solana; (7) The UK Sanctions Russia Linked Crypto Platforms as Greece Plans a 10 Percent Crypto Gains Tax; (8) India's Sensex Falls to a 32 Month Low and Shanghai Slides as Asia Trades Mixed on the AI Revenue Scare.

🔥 HOT OFF THE PRESS

Trump Rules Out an Attack on Iran Before the Midterms and Brent Falls Back Towards $103 After Touching $106, While an OpenAI Revenue Shock Sends the Nasdaq Down 1.3 Percent and Chip Stocks Down 3.4 Percent

President Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday that "We will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the Midterm Elections to be held in the United States on November 3rd", describing the discussions with Iran as "productive" and saying that the US blockade of Iranian ports would remain "in full force and effect". The pledge followed a report in The Atlantic that the White House had asked the Pentagon for strike options before the vote, to which the White House replied that the president "has all options available at any time", and came after Axios reported earlier in the week that US Central Command had been told to finish preparing to resume major combat operations. Brent crude, which had touched about $105.92, fell back to about $103, although later reports said that the United States had drafted plans for a three day campaign. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that talks continue through intermediaries and that Tehran is reviewing Washington's response to its "seven day plan", adding "I think we will respond within a few days", while a senior Iranian official said that Iran's right to enrich uranium is a red line and that the United States must first lift the blockade of Iranian ports, and Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Iranian counterpart that Russia would "do everything" to help end the war. The US Treasury sanctioned individuals, front companies and 17 tankers under "Operation Economic Outcast", with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent saying that the action "effectively neutralises the vast majority of Iran's remaining shadow fleet network", and a Treasury official said that Iran has about 20 million barrels of crude on vessels outside the blockade and has recorded no oil exports since late August. In the Gulf, the UK Maritime Trade Operations centre reported that a crude tanker was struck by an unknown projectile, with no casualties, and in Saudi Arabia the Houthis claimed a ballistic missile strike on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport, their third such claim this week, as the Saudi led coalition said that it had intercepted two missiles aimed at the capital, debris from an interception damaged a kindergarten and a medical complex, and the US Embassy in Riyadh issued a security alert on airport travel.

The Financial Times reported that OpenAI told investors its annualised revenue was approaching $50 billion at the end of September, about $20 billion below the figure of roughly $70 billion that had been widely reported late last month, a gap attributed mainly to accounting differences, because Anthropic counts sales made through cloud partners such as Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud whereas OpenAI does not. OpenAI said that its revenues grew more than 70 percent over the period, with one report citing growth of 77 percent in its overall run rate and 107 percent in its enterprise run rate, and the company, which confidentially filed for an initial public offering in June, raised $122 billion in March. The Nasdaq Composite fell 1.25 percent on Thursday to 27,193.34, two days after a record high, and the Philadelphia semiconductor index fell 3.39 percent, its worst session since 14th September, with Nvidia down 2.94 percent to $230.48, Oracle down 5.5 percent, Broadcom down 4.4 percent and Micron down 4.79 percent, while information technology was the weakest S&P 500 sector, down 1.78 percent, and energy and consumer staples rose 2.92 percent and 2.12 percent. In Tokyo, SoftBank Group, which completed a further $10 billion investment in OpenAI on 1st October to take its total to $64.6 billion and its stake to about 13 percent, fell as much as 7.3 percent. Daniel Newman of The Futurum Group called the reaction "overblown", saying that the episode was "people not knowing the difference between gross and net revenue" and that he expects OpenAI to reach a run rate of $70 billion to $90 billion by the end of the year, while Panmure Liberum's Joachim Klement warned that the AI trade could end in 2027 or 2028, and chip stocks edged up in overnight trading.

📖 QUICK READ

Friday 9th October 2026, Iran War Day 224, opens with President Trump ruling out an attack on Iran before the 3rd November midterms, Brent back near $103 a barrel after touching $106 and the ten year Treasury yield at about 5.23 percent, below the 24 year high of 5.35 percent touched this week, while an OpenAI revenue shock has sent the Nasdaq down 1.25 percent and chip stocks sharply lower. Gold is trading near $4,188 an ounce, and traders price roughly an 82 percent probability that the Fed holds rates in October and about 81 percent for a rise by December, ahead of preliminary University of Michigan consumer sentiment at 15:00 BST today.

Bitcoin is trading around $82,300 to $82,600, with Ethereum near $2,495, XRP around $1.40, Solana near $110.6, Cardano around $0.234 and Dogecoin near $0.085; total crypto market capitalisation stands at approximately $2.88 trillion and the Fear and Greed Index at 59. Elsewhere, ESMA has given EU crypto platforms three months to drop non MiCA stablecoins, the UK has sanctioned Russia linked crypto platforms, Tesco has lifted its buyback to £950 million, Manus has raised more than $500 million and Securitize has launched tokenised stocks on Solana.

💬 QUOTE OF THE DAY

“We will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the Midterm Elections to be held in the United States on November 3rd.”

~ President Donald Trump, in a Truth Social post on Thursday 8th October, ruling out a US attack on Iran before the midterm elections

📰 TODAY'S HEADLINES

💹 MARKETS

Wall Street Splits as the Dow Edges Higher and the Nasdaq Falls 1.3 Percent, European Stocks Slide With the STOXX 600 Down 0.75 Percent and Hong Kong Closes at a Three Month Low

US equities ended mixed on Thursday as technology shares fell, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 51.77 points, or 0.10 percent, at 51,231.64, the S&P 500 down 36.41 points, or 0.47 percent, at 7,765.36, its second consecutive loss since Tuesday's record, and the Nasdaq Composite down 345.35 points, or 1.25 percent, at 27,193.34, while the Russell 2000 was little changed at 2,794.13. Energy rose 2.92 percent and consumer staples 2.12 percent as oil climbed and investors rotated, led by Occidental up 3.56 percent, ConocoPhillips up 3.35 percent and Chevron up 3.12 percent, and by Lowe's up 4.03 percent, Home Depot up 3.39 percent and Walmart up 2.22 percent, whereas the AI trade came under pressure, with Applied Optoelectronics down 13.58 percent, Coherent down 9.63 percent, Intel down more than 5 percent, AMD down 3.90 percent and Amazon down 2.25 percent. Palantir rose about 2.4 percent after Goldman Sachs upgraded it to Buy with a $230 price target, and Haemonetics rose by more than 12 percent on an expanded supply agreement with CSL. FactSet estimates that S&P 500 third quarter earnings grew 29.5 percent, which would be a third consecutive quarter above 25 percent, and U.S. Bank Wealth Management's Terry Sandven said that the market is "in a consolidation phase" while investors await the earnings season that begins next week.

In London, the FTSE 100 fell 16.90 points, or 0.16 percent, to 10,441.60 on Thursday after touching about 10,400, its lowest since 19th June, as HSBC, Lloyds, NatWest and Barclays fell about 2 percent on higher funding costs and GSK and AstraZeneca declined, while energy shares gained, with BP up 4.1 percent and Shell up 3.7 percent, and Imperial Brands rose 5.1 percent after reaffirming its guidance and announcing a £1.5 billion buyback; Standard Life fell 3.7 percent after Aberdeen Group said that it would cut its stake from 10.3 percent to 5.2 percent. European equities fell more sharply, with the STOXX 600 down 0.75 percent, the DAX down 1.18 percent, the CAC 40 down 0.51 percent and the Swiss SMI down 1.24 percent, as Volkswagen, Porsche Automobil Holding and Continental fell 3 to 4.5 percent, Mercedes-Benz fell sharply and LVMH and Kering declined, with French fiscal concerns still weighing. In Asia, the Hang Seng closed down 1.4 percent at 23,786 on Thursday, a three month low, led by HSBC and BOC Hong Kong, each down almost 5 percent, and the Hang Seng Tech Index fell 2.9 percent, while the Shanghai Composite fell 0.81 percent to 3,811 on its first session after Golden Week, the Shenzhen Component fell 2.1 percent and the Nikkei 225 fell 1.42 percent to 69,042. In Friday trade, the Nikkei is down about 1 percent near 68,300 for a third straight loss, with SoftBank, Advantest and Kioxia lower, the Shanghai Composite is down about 1.2 percent at 3,766, with the Shenzhen Component at a one year low, and the Hang Seng has rebounded about 1.0 percent to 24,031.

📈 MARKET OVERVIEW TOTAL CRYPTO MARKET CAP: APPROXIMATELY $2.9 TRILLION | Friday 9th October 2026

Total crypto market capitalisation stands at approximately $2.88 trillion on Friday according to CoinGecko, down about 0.9 percent from roughly $2.91 trillion a day earlier, on 24 hour trading volume of about $123 billion, with Bitcoin's dominance at around 57.5 percent and Ether's at about 10.6 percent, after a Thursday sell off in which the largest tokens fell by more than Bitcoin, with Solana down as much as 7 to 9 percent, Dogecoin 7 to 8 percent, Ether and XRP about 6 percent, Zcash 14 percent and Bitcoin about 3 percent, before a partial rebound after the president's statement on Iran. CoinDesk noted that selling appeared to stall near $80,300 after the post and that about $25 million of positions were liquidated in the following four hours, around 78 percent of them shorts, which points to a modest short squeeze. The market now looks to preliminary University of Michigan consumer sentiment at 15:00 BST today, the closing of Evernorth's merger and Saturday's first anniversary of the 10th October 2025 flash crash, when about $19 billion of positions were liquidated in a day, around 16 times Thursday's total.

₿ BITCOIN (BTC) approx $82,300-$82,600

Bitcoin is trading between roughly $82,300 and $82,600 on Friday, down around 0.2 to 0.5 percent over 24 hours, after a range of $80,427 to $83,215 that included a fall to near $80,400 late on Thursday and a break below $81,000, its lowest level in about three weeks, according to CoinGecko and Yahoo Finance. The token carries a market capitalisation of approximately $1.65 trillion on daily volume of around $40.8 billion, and remains about 34.8 percent below its all time high of $126,080 and about 8 percent lower year to date.

Public company treasuries hold about 1.92 million Bitcoin, according to CoinGecko, led by Strategy with 847,999 Bitcoin, although TD Cowen said that Strategy's shareholders face a dilution drag despite brighter Bitcoin forecasts. On chain data from CryptoQuant showed short term holders sending more than 50,000 Bitcoin to exchanges at the peak of the 24 hour window, of which more than 29,500, or about 59 percent, were sent at a loss, the largest losses for that cohort in nearly four months, while Glassnode noted that the share of large cap altcoins with unusually high open interest relative to market capitalisation is the highest since before the October 2025 crash. Crypto linked equities fell sharply, with Riot Platforms down more than 9 percent, Hut 8 down 8 percent, Cipher Mining down 7.9 percent, CleanSpark down 7.1 percent and IREN down 6.3 percent to a one month low, while Strategy, Coinbase and Block fell more than 2 percent.

Institutional flows turned negative. US spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $487.1 million on Wednesday, their heaviest daily outflow since 25th June, after taking in $118.9 million on Tuesday, with BlackRock's IBIT losing $207.7 million, Fidelity's FBTC $105.2 million, ARK 21Shares' ARKB $101.7 million, Grayscale's GBTC $39.3 million and Bitwise's BITB $27.6 million, according to SoSoValue, and net assets fell to $107.4 billion. October flows have turned negative, and Glassnode said that estimated new money from ETFs, stablecoins and corporate treasuries has been shrinking, with existing holders rather than new buyers having carried the recent rally. JPMorgan estimates that about $50 billion has flowed into crypto this year and sees momentum improving into the fourth quarter, and analysts cited by The Block forecast a fourth quarter trading range of $80,000 to $90,000. Thursday's flow data had not been published at the time of writing.

Leverage was flushed again. CoinGlass recorded roughly $1.2 billion of liquidations across about 167,000 traders in the 24 hours to Friday, of which more than $1 billion were longs, with Ether accounting for about $356 million, Bitcoin $298 million, Solana $71 million and XRP $34 million, and about $489 million was liquidated within a single hour on Thursday afternoon. The sell off coincided with Arkham data showing that the US government moved about 12,267 Bitcoin, worth roughly $1.01 billion, from a wallet holding coins seized in the Bitfinex hack to new unlabelled addresses with no deposit to an exchange, which Benzinga read as a reshuffle rather than a sale, a day after about 3,200 Bitcoin and $119 million of USDT went to Coinbase Prime deposit addresses; no sale has been confirmed. Kalshi traders forecast that Bitcoin could fall to $78,000 this month.

Immediate support lies at $81,000, then $80,316 to $80,400, the Thursday low, followed by the 50 day exponential average near $79,600 and on chain support near $77,200, with the largest liquidation cluster below near $75,000, while resistance sits at $82,000 to $82,500, where Rekt Capital said Bitcoin is "failing its retest", then $83,263, the 20 day exponential average, $85,500 and the $86,500 to $86,750 sell order cluster. Ted Pillows warned that losing $81,500 to $82,000 could send Bitcoin to $75,000, whereas Michael van de Poppe described the pullback as an organic correction and a potential buying zone, and a weekly close below $82,500 would turn that level into resistance.

⧮ ETHEREUM (ETH) approx $2,490-$2,500

Ethereum is trading around $2,490 to $2,500 on Friday, down around 3 percent over 24 hours after a range of $2,409.36 to $2,574.82, having fallen as much as 6 percent on Thursday and lost the $2,500 level, with a market capitalisation of approximately $304.9 billion on daily volume of about $18.4 billion. The token is about 49.6 percent below its all time high of around $4,946.

Flows remain negative. US spot Ether ETFs recorded a seventh consecutive session of outflows on Wednesday, losing $160.8 million, of which BlackRock's ETHA accounted for $116.1 million and Grayscale's ETHE for $25.8 million, according to SoSoValue, which takes the total for the streak to roughly $569 million on the figures reported this week, while net assets fell by about $1 billion to $16.4 billion, equal to 5.22 percent of Ether's market capitalisation. Thursday's data is awaited.

Ether bore the brunt of the liquidations. CoinDesk calculated that Ether positions were wiped out at about six times Bitcoin's rate, with roughly $356 million liquidated against Bitcoin's $298 million even though Ether's market value is less than a fifth of Bitcoin's, equivalent to about $1.2 million per $1 billion of market value against about $180,000 for Bitcoin, and the largest single liquidation was a nearly $20 million ETH-USD position on Hyperliquid. Bitmine Immersion Technologies, which said on Wednesday that it will stop buying at 5 percent of supply, saw its shares fall more than 5 percent to their lowest since mid September, while developers raised the block limit on an Ethereum test network to more than three times current capacity, according to Decrypt, with CoinDesk reporting that Glamsterdam test runs reached close to 200 million gas per block.

Immediate support lies at $2,409, the 24 hour low, followed by $2,322, while resistance sits at $2,500, then the $2,550 level that gave way on Thursday, the $2,625 to $2,650 zone and $2,750 to $2,800. BitDelta's Purvang Mashru said that a sustained reclaim of $82,000 by Bitcoin, with Ether back above $2,500 and smaller altcoin losses, would stabilise the setup, whereas a daily close below $2,409 would expose $2,322 and weaken the recovery that has run since mid September.

🔷 XRP (XRP) approx $1.39-$1.40

XRP is trading around $1.39 to $1.40 on Friday, down around 0.7 percent over 24 hours after a range of $1.32 to $1.42, having fallen as much as 6 percent on Thursday to test the 100 day exponential average near $1.33, with a market capitalisation of about $88.3 billion, ranking fifth, on daily volume of $3.15 billion. The token is about 61.6 percent below its all time high of $3.65, and its relative strength index of 38 on Thursday was close to oversold territory, according to Benzinga.

ETF demand was flat. US spot XRP ETFs recorded no net flows on Wednesday, according to SoSoValue, after a net inflow of $3.1 million on Tuesday, while CoinDesk reported that the XRP Ledger held an average of $3.72 billion of tokenised assets in the second quarter, plus $539 million of RLUSD, or about $4.26 billion in total, according to a report from Evernorth.

The XRP Ledger activated the PermissionDelegationV1_1 amendment on Thursday, according to the XRPL Dashboard, allowing an account owner to authorise other accounts to perform specific tasks without sharing its primary keys, with each helper able to receive up to 10 permissions. A stablecoin issuer could, for example, let a compliance account approve new customers while its main keys stay offline, and banks could enforce a separation between payment and compliance duties on the ledger, although the permissions limit the types of action and not spending. Official guidance advises users not to delegate the PaymentBurn permission until a separate fix is activated, because in certain conditions a helper could create new tokens, and the fix had 27 of 35 validator votes on Friday against the 29 needed to start its two week countdown. A report filed on Thursday also found that some servers can drop a validator from their count after it rotates a security key, which could make a proposal look closer to passing than it is. Evernorth's merger with Armada Acquisition Corp. II is due to close today, with XRPN due to begin trading on Nasdaq on Monday 12th October, after the company attributed the earlier delay to an administrative issue that it said would not affect the closing.

Immediate support lies at $1.33, where the 100 day exponential average sits, and $1.32, the Thursday low, followed by $1.30, while resistance sits at $1.40, the 50 day exponential average, then the $1.50 to $1.52 zone, $1.55 and the September high near $1.67. A decisive loss of $1.32 would extend the decline towards $1.30 and lower, whereas a recovery above $1.50 would be needed to restore the constructive structure.

◎ SOLANA (SOL) approx $110-$111

Solana is trading around $110.60 on Friday, down 4.2 percent over 24 hours after a range of $105.85 to $115.72, having fallen as much as 7 to 9 percent on Thursday, with a market capitalisation of about $65.1 billion on daily volume of $5.04 billion, and remains about 62.3 percent below its all time high of $293.31. About $71 million of Solana positions were liquidated over the past day, according to CoinDesk, and US spot Solana ETFs recorded a third consecutive day of outflows on Wednesday, with Bitwise's BSOL losing $4.8 million and net assets at $1.85 billion.

Securitize launched Securitize Stocks on Solana on Thursday, offering tokens backed one for one by shares of 12 US listed companies, including Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Alphabet, Tesla, Meta, Amazon, Netflix, Circle, SpaceX, Strategy and Palantir, which trade on Securitize's registered broker dealer platform and settle in USDC, with Jump Trading as market maker. The tokens are structured as security entitlements under Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code, so holders are not registered shareholders of the issuer unless they convert, a conversion available only where issuers adopt issuer sponsored tokenisation, and none of the 12 companies has endorsed the product. Securitize says that the tokens preserve economic benefits including dividends, and voting rights where the share class carries them, and that the underlying shares will not be lent out. Trading initially runs during extended US market hours with a plan to move towards round the clock trading, and trading on the NYSE and a further venue is pending regulatory approval. Securitize chief executive Carlos Domingo called the tokens "a bridge to a future where issuers themselves can participate directly in tokenization", while competing Solana products such as xStocks, Backpack's SpaceX and Strategy tokens and Ondo's Apple and Nvidia tokens already exist, according to Solana Compass.

Solana's final reduction in slot times, SIMD-0525, is scheduled to take effect at the epoch 1053 boundary at around 15:00 UTC today, cutting slot times from 250 milliseconds to 200 milliseconds, or five slots a second, having already been tested on testnet and devnet, although the mainnet rollout depends on network conditions, in particular how often validators miss their assigned slots. The compute limit per block falls to 30 million compute units from 37.5 million, so theoretical throughput stays roughly the same, and the uninterrupted leader window shortens to 800 milliseconds from 1.6 seconds, while validators that vote on every slot will vote about twice as often as under the original configuration, raising voting costs and strain on network connections. Solana Compass data show that the 250 millisecond configuration has averaged about 266 to 269 milliseconds per slot in recent epochs, slightly slower than its target.

Immediate support lies at $105.85, the 24 hour low, followed by the $100 psychological level, while resistance sits at $110.44, which gave way on Thursday, then $115.72, the 24 hour high, $118.96 and the $121.91 level. A recovery above $115 would be needed to restore the constructive structure, whereas a close below $105 would open the way to a retest of $100.

₳ CARDANO (ADA) approx $0.234-$0.235

Cardano is trading around $0.2343 on Friday, down around 7 to 8 percent over 24 hours after a range of $0.2242 to $0.2555, having broken below the $0.25 level, with a market capitalisation of about $8.8 billion on daily volume of $755 million, and remains about 92.4 percent below its all time high of $3.09.

The Cardano Foundation spun its digital identity project Veridian out as an independent Swiss company and tokenised its shares on CIP-0113, the programmable token standard that it introduced on Tuesday, which lets issuers attach rules to a token, such as who can receive it and, where required, whether it can be frozen, seized or transferred, with features aimed at regulated products such as stablecoins, funds and tokenised securities. Veridian, led by Thomas A. Mayfield and chaired by foundation chief executive Frederik Gregaard, has 1 million shares, most of which have been tokenised, although they are not offered to the public, and it plans to seek strategic investors in 2027. It builds credentials that let people, businesses, governments and AI agents verify identity and authority without a central database, using the KERI and ACDC standards, and its mobile wallet is live on iOS and Android. Gregaard told CoinDesk that "people have talked about tokenized equity for years, and now there's an operating company on Cardano doing it".

Immediate support lies at $0.2242, the 24 hour low, followed by $0.22 and the $0.19 area from which the recent rally began, while resistance sits at $0.25, which gave way on Thursday, then $0.2555, the 24 hour high, $0.2672 and the $0.27 to $0.28 zone. The break below $0.25 supports the view that the move to above $0.27 was driven largely by short covering and leverage, and a daily close back above $0.25 would be needed to stabilise the price.

💕 DOGECOIN (DOGE) approx $0.084-$0.085

Dogecoin is trading around $0.0840 to $0.0854 on Friday, down about 4 to 6 percent over 24 hours after a range of $0.0812 to $0.0896, having fallen as much as 7 to 8 percent on Thursday and broken below the $0.083 to $0.089 support zone, on daily volume of about $1.2 billion and a market capitalisation of about $13.1 billion, ranking twelfth, and remains about 88.5 percent below its May 2021 record of $0.7316.

Bitwise is liquidating its Dogecoin ETF, BWOW, which began trading on 26th November 2025 and held about $722,000 of net assets as of 8th September, with its final trading day on 14th October and a cash distribution on 22nd October based on net asset value as of 21st October. Bitwise's chief executive described the fund's failure as "tragic", according to The Block, arguing that it shows a gap between buyers of exchange traded funds and users of crypto apps, and CoinDesk reported in September that Dogecoin ETFs struggled for buyers while XRP and Solana funds drew about $3 billion.

Immediate support sits at $0.0812, the 24 hour low, followed by the yearly low at $0.0690, while resistance lies at $0.0870 to $0.0896, where the 50 day and 200 day averages near $0.0870 to $0.0878 and the 24 hour high converge, then $0.098, a supply zone where about 28 billion DOGE were last acquired, and $0.1185. A daily close back above $0.089 would be needed to reopen the breakout narrative, whereas a break below $0.08 would expose the yearly low.

😱 Crypto Fear and Greed Index: Sentiment Cools to 59 in Greed

The Crypto Fear and Greed Index stands at 59 on Friday, down from 64 on Thursday, 71 on Wednesday and 73 on Tuesday, keeping sentiment in Greed territory but at the lowest reading of the past five days, although gauges differ in methodology, with CoinMarketCap's own index showing 56 and CoinGecko's showing 38 in Fear. The five point fall, coinciding with the break below $81,000 and the heaviest ETF outflow since June, suggests that sentiment is responding quickly to leverage unwinds and to the hawkish tone of Fed officials, although the partial rebound after the president's statement on Iran shows how quickly it can turn.

🏛 Traditional Markets Context

Government bond yields eased slightly on Friday after touching multi decade highs this week, with the ten year Treasury yield at about 5.23 percent after reaching 5.35 percent, its highest since 2002, and the 30 year yield around 5.6 percent. A $22 billion reopening of the 30 year bond cleared on Thursday at 5.618 percent, the highest yield at a 30 year auction since August 2000, with a bid to cover ratio of 2.54 against an average of 2.41, indirect bidders taking 72.3 percent and primary dealers only 6.8 percent, a result that TFTC graded as average demand. In the United Kingdom, the ten year gilt yield reached 5.51 percent on Thursday, its highest since July 2007, before easing to about 5.41 percent, and the 30 year gilt yield stands at 6.00 percent. Pimco's chief investment officer Dan Ivascyn told the Financial Times that the ten year Treasury yield could rise to 6 percent, for the first time since 2000, citing oil driven inflation and public debt, and that a move to 5.5 percent or higher would probably cause "some decent weakness in risk markets, both credit and equity", pointing to stop outs by levered investors as a possible trigger. Fed Governor Waller said in Istanbul on Thursday that rate rises "do not need to come at consecutive meetings, but they should be in place in an acceptable period of time", and St. Louis Fed President Musalem said that "rates ought to be going up in the next 6 to 9 months" and that "more monetary policy firming will be required", leaving markets pricing about an 82 percent probability that the Fed holds rates in October and about 81 percent for a rise by December. The dollar index remained near an 18 month high, and the US September CPI report on 14th October and the 27th to 28th October Fed meeting are the next tests for rate expectations.

🏢 INSTITUTIONAL & CORPORATE

Tesco Raises the Floor of Its Profit Guidance and Lifts Its Buyback to £950 Million, While PepsiCo Cuts Its Earnings Outlook Despite Faster Organic Growth and Wolfspeed Wins a Conditional $1.5 Billion Pentagon Loan Commitment

Tesco reported first half sales of £33,776 million, up 1.6 percent, and adjusted operating profit of £1,783 million, up 6.3 percent, with adjusted earnings per share up 12.2 percent to 17.3 pence, and its shares rose 5.2 percent. UK like for like sales rose 1.5 percent, free cash flow rose 21 percent to £1,570 million including a timing benefit of about £250 million, and the interim dividend rises 5.2 percent to 5.05 pence. The grocer narrowed its full year adjusted operating profit guidance to £3.15 billion to £3.30 billion from £3.0 billion to £3.3 billion, lifting the bottom of the range, and raised its share buyback to £950 million from £750 million, while Booker sales fell 2.5 percent, with like for like sales down 2.6 percent, and Booker operating profit was £163 million.

PepsiCo reported third quarter net revenue of $25.27 billion, up 5.6 percent, with organic revenue up 3.1 percent and core earnings per share of $2.34, up 2 percent and ahead of the $2.29 consensus, while volumes rose 1 percent in convenient foods and 3 percent in beverages. The company nevertheless cut its earnings outlook, now expecting core constant currency earnings per share growth of 1 to 2 percent, down from the low end of a 4 to 6 percent range, and core earnings per share growth of 2.5 to 3.5 percent, down from the low end of 5 to 7 percent, while organic revenue growth is now expected at about 3 percent, narrowed from 2 to 4 percent, and net revenue growth at about 6 percent. Chief executive Ramon Laguarta pointed to "strong net revenue growth, an acceleration in organic revenue growth" in the quarter, and the shares rose 3.73 percent.

Wolfspeed received a conditional commitment from the US Department of War's Office of Strategic Capital for a senior secured delayed draw term loan of up to $1.5 billion with a 30 year tenor, with the government also receiving warrants for up to 7.5 percent of the company's fully diluted equity. The financing is intended to support silicon carbide and gallium nitride production, including radiation hardened devices, at sites in North Carolina, New York and Arkansas, although the commitment is subject to conditions and the company says that there is no assurance that the loan will close. Chief executive Robert Feurle commented on the commitment, and Wolfspeed shares were up about 15 percent in premarket trading.

⚖️ REGULATORY & POLICY

The UK Sanctions Russia Linked Crypto Platforms in a 38 Measure Package, While Greece Plans a 10 Percent Capital Gains Tax on Crypto and Senator Blumenthal Probes Cantor Fitzgerald's Ties to Tether

The United Kingdom sanctioned several crypto platforms as part of a 38 measure Russia package, according to Crypto Economy, designating Xeltox Enterprises, which is linked to the Cryptomus and Heleket services, TokenSpot, Processing KG and its director Ulan Bukabaev, and Tsunami Payments, and describing the A7 network as a Kremlin backed structure. A7 moved more than $90 billion in 2025, and the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network says that intermediaries cleared over $17 billion between January 2025 and June 2026, with the US having designated A7 a transnational criminal organisation on 1st October and the comment period on its related action closing in early November. The same UK package hit Zarubezhneft, INK Capital and 12 vessels, and follows the EU's 21st package, which targeted 14 platforms including HTX, BitPapa and Rapira, while the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation notes that crypto assets are economic resources subject to asset freezes.

Greece has put a draft 10 percent capital gains tax on crypto assets out for consultation, with an annual exemption of €500, and plans to send the bill to parliament in November, according to CoinDesk, citing Reuters. Most Greek investors are understood to use offshore platforms, which could make enforcement a challenge, and the government has not published revenue projections for the measure.

Senator Richard Blumenthal has written to Cantor Fitzgerald chairman Brandon Lutnick seeking information on the firm's oversight of Tether, its correspondence with Howard Lutnick, and its 5 percent stake in the stablecoin issuer acquired in 2024, according to Cryptopolitan. The letter cites an investment estimated at between $600 million and $10 billion, reports that Howard Lutnick made more than $250 million including a $192 million distribution, and analysis that 84 percent of 846 sanctioned Iran linked wallets used USDT. Tether chief executive Paolo Ardoino has responded that the company has frozen $4.9 billion of assets, including $550 million of Iran linked USDT, and no response from Cantor has been reported.

📦 COMMODITIES

🪙 Gold: Trading approx $4,150-$4,190/oz

Gold is trading around $4,188 an ounce on Friday, up 1.3 percent and heading towards $4,200 for a second session, after Thursday's low near $4,120, close to the two month low, as the dollar held near an 18 month high. The metal is about 3 percent lower over the month and 4.4 percent higher over the year, and remains about 25 percent below the record of $5,608.35 reached in January, while markets price about an 82 percent probability that the Fed holds in October and about 81 percent for a rise by December. Trading Economics forecasts $4,237 by the end of the fourth quarter and $4,547 within 12 months.

🛢️ Brent Crude: approx $103-$106/bbl (WTI approx $90-$91/bbl)

Brent crude is trading around $103 a barrel on Friday, down 1.1 percent, after rising as much as 5.7 percent to about $106 on Thursday and settling above $104, while WTI settled at $91.18 and traded near $90.70 on Friday. Nine vessels have reportedly been targeted in the past week and the US blockade of Iranian ports remains in place, while Hurricane Isaias has shut in about 1.3 million barrels a day of Gulf of Mexico output, up from 510,000 on Thursday, with landfall expected on Friday night into early Saturday. Brent is about 4.2 percent lower over the month and 64 percent higher over the year, and Trading Economics forecasts $106.60 by the end of the quarter.

🟠 Copper: approx $6.60/lb

Copper futures rose 1.2 percent to $6.598 a pound on Friday, 2.0 percent higher over the month and 37.5 percent higher over the year, and about 3.7 percent below the record of $6.85. Supply risk remains in focus, with a possible strike at Chile's Centinela mine and Chilean output in August at its lowest since February 2011, while the US tariff decision remains undecided and Chinese demand is subdued. Trading Economics forecasts $6.64 by the end of the quarter and $7.13 within 12 months.

⚪ Silver: approx $60/oz

Silver is trading at about $60.30 an ounce on Friday, up 1.9 percent, after touching a two month low near $59 on Thursday. The metal is about 5.1 percent lower over the month and 19.9 percent higher over the year, and roughly 50 percent below the record of $121.64, with Trading Economics forecasting $63.60 by the end of the quarter and $74.56 within 12 months.

🪙 Platinum: Trading approx $1,640-$1,685/oz

Platinum rose 2.5 percent to $1,683.60 an ounce on Friday from about $1,642, recovering from a nine week low earlier in the week. The metal is about 6.5 percent lower over the month and 5.3 percent higher over the year, and roughly 42 percent below the record of $2,923.70, with Trading Economics forecasting $1,777.50 by the end of the quarter and $2,035.75 within 12 months.

📝 MARKET NARRATIVE & ANALYSIS

Friday 9th October 2026 arrives with the Iran pause and the bond market setting the tone, as President Trump's pledge not to attack Iran before the 3rd November midterms pulled Brent back from $106 to about $103, while a Financial Times report that OpenAI's annualised revenue is nearer $50 billion than $70 billion hit the semiconductor sector and a 30 year Treasury auction at 5.618 percent, the highest since August 2000, kept yields close to multi decade highs. Crypto has again traded as a rates and risk sensitive asset, with Bitcoin falling below $81,000 to a three week low, about $1.2 billion of liquidations in 24 hours, spot Bitcoin ETF outflows of $487.1 million on Wednesday and a Fear and Greed reading that has eased to 59, with the first anniversary of the 10th October 2025 flash crash arriving on Saturday. Beneath the price action, the tokenisation build out continues, with Consensys and ClearToken working on 24 hour delivery versus payment settlement, Standard Chartered preparing digital asset custody in Singapore and ESMA telling European providers to stop servicing non MiCA compliant stablecoins by 8th January 2027, while the regulatory perimeter tightens through the UK's 38 measure sanctions package on Russia linked platforms, Greece's proposed 10 percent crypto tax and Senator Blumenthal's questions to Cantor Fitzgerald about Tether. Corporate results were resilient, with Tesco raising its profit floor and buyback and PepsiCo growing organically, although its earnings outlook was cut. The key questions for the weeks ahead are whether the Iran pause survives the midterms, whether AI revenue and financing doubts spread beyond chips, whether the 14th October CPI report and the 27th to 28th October Fed meeting keep a rate rise on the table, and whether Bitcoin can hold $80,000 as support. Near term, Canadian jobs at 13:30 BST, University of Michigan sentiment at 15:00 BST, ECB speakers Cipollone and Schnabel, Fed Governor Collins at 21:00 BST, the closing of Evernorth's merger and the landfall of Hurricane Isaias are the main events.

💸 STABLECOINS, TOKENISATION & REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS

The European Securities and Markets Authority published an opinion on Thursday stating that crypto asset service providers "should cease providing services related to non-MiCA-compliant stablecoins to clients in the European Union", with an outer deadline of 8th January 2027 and limited wind down services permitted, according to CoinDesk. The opinion names no token, although CoinDesk cites Tether's USDT as the largest affected, and it follows the full application of MiCA's platform rules on 1st July 2026.

Consensys and ClearToken announced a partnership to explore 24 hour delivery versus payment settlement of tokenised securities in the United Kingdom. ClearToken's central securities depository passed Gate 2 of the Bank of England's Digital Securities Sandbox, its depository has been authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority since 4th December 2025 and it has applied for central counterparty status, while the sandbox caps volumes at £600 million of gilts, £900 million of sterling corporate bonds and £1.8 billion of non sterling corporate bonds. No banks or launch date were named.

Standard Chartered is targeting the launch of digital asset custody in Singapore by the end of 2026, extending a footprint that already covers the United Arab Emirates, Luxembourg and Hong Kong. Ying Ying Tan and Patrick Lee commented on the plans, which follow the bank's earlier backing of Zodia Custody.

🤖 TECHNOLOGY, AI & INNOVATION

Manus Raises More Than $500 Million After Meta Exit, While Tencent Weighs a $5 Billion Bond Sale for AI, Micron's Taiwan Union Votes to Authorise a Strike and Crypto Holders Are Urged to Prepare for AI Attacks on Wallet Cryptography

Manus, the AI agent start up, has raised more than $500 million following its exit from Meta, in a round led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital. The valuation was not disclosed, although about $4 billion was reported in September, and the company's products include the Cue app.

Tencent is weighing a bond sale of up to $5 billion, in US dollars and offshore yuan, to fund AI investment, according to Bloomberg, and its shares fell 1.57 percent to HK$414. The company sold $4.7 billion of bonds in June, and Goldman Sachs estimates that AI related debt issuance has passed $575 billion.

Members of the Micron Taoyuan union in Taiwan voted to authorise a strike, with 99 percent of the 1,994 members voting in favour, and the union's central demand is a permanent profit sharing mechanism. Unions cover more than 80 percent of Micron's roughly 15,000 Taiwanese employees, a rally in Taipei is planned for 19th October with a day off granted for participants, and the shares fell 4.79 percent.

Crypto industry figures are urging holders to prepare for AI driven attacks on wallet cryptography, with Ethereum researcher Justin Drake calling for a "bunker mode" and Glassnode estimating that more than 6 million Bitcoin sit behind exposed public keys. Lindell dismissed the alarm as "FUD", while Qureshi called the warning a "very sober call", and Vitalik Buterin pointed to lattice based cryptography as the likely defence.

Google unveiled a unified Gemini agent that has its own Workspace account and email address, supports the Model Context Protocol and allows third party models including Claude. Early testers include On, Shopify and PayPal, and Google Cloud chief executive Thomas Kurian and Alphabet chief executive Sundar Pichai both commented on the launch.

🌍 GLOBAL MONETARY POLICY & MACROECONOMICS

In the United States, initial jobless claims came in at 197,000 against a 200,000 consensus, with the four week average at 198,000 and continuing claims at 1.716 million, a steady picture alongside September payrolls growth of only 29,000. Fed Governor Waller said that further rises will be needed, and as of 7th October markets saw nearly an 80 percent probability of two rises by March 2027, while St. Louis Fed President Musalem pointed to "persistent demand pressures and supply shocks" and an "unsustainable fiscal path for years". Today, preliminary University of Michigan sentiment is due at 15:00 BST with consensus at 47.6 against 48.1 and inflation expectations at 4.7 percent against 4.6 percent, Fed Governor Collins speaks at 21:00 BST, and Canadian jobs data is released at 13:30 BST.

In Europe, Germany's trade surplus narrowed to €19.47 billion in August from €21.58 billion, with exports down 0.5 percent to €137.55 billion and imports up 0.9 percent to €118.10 billion, while in the United Kingdom the RICS house price balance fell to minus 32 percent from minus 28 percent and KPMG and REC data showed permanent placements rising for a second month, the strongest in four years, although pay growth slowed. French fiscal concerns continue to weigh on bond markets, ECB board member Cipollone speaks at 11:15 BST and Schnabel at 14:30 BST, Italian industrial production is due at 09:00 BST with consensus at 0.0 percent against 0.7 percent, and euro area finance ministers meet at ECOFIN.

In Asia, Japanese household spending fell 3.1 percent year on year, the ninth consecutive fall, against a forecast decline of 3.6 percent, though it rose 0.1 percent month on month against 0.5 percent expected, and real wages rose for an eighth month. The Nikkei fell 1.42 percent to 69,042 on Thursday, the Shanghai Composite fell 0.81 percent to 3,811 and was down about 1.2 percent to 3,766 in Friday trade, with Shenzhen at a one year low, while the Hang Seng closed at 23,786 and rose about 1.0 percent to 24,031 in Friday trade. Hong Kong's PMI was 49.2, EU and China trade talks continue, and China releases CPI and PPI on 14th October. In India, the Reserve Bank raised the repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.50 percent on 7th October, and the Sensex fell 1.44 percent to 71,593.24 and the Nifty 1.64 percent to 22,231.80, a 32 month low, with the rupee near 96.8 and TCS results ahead.

🔴 ELEVATED RISKS: Technology, Geopolitical & Macro

•        Iran Pause Is Tied to the Election Calendar: President Trump's pledge not to attack Iran before 3rd November leaves the blockade in place, nine vessels reportedly targeted in a week and strike options reportedly requested, so the risk of renewed combat and an oil spike returns after the midterms.

•        AI Revenue and Financing Strain Is Showing: The Financial Times report that OpenAI's annualised revenue is about $50 billion rather than $70 billion, a 3.39 percent fall in the semiconductor index, Tencent's planned $5 billion bond and Goldman's estimate of more than $575 billion of AI debt issuance point to rising pressure on funding.

•        Record Yields and a Hawkish Fed Threaten Risk Assets: A 30 year Treasury auction at 5.618 percent, a 30 year gilt yield of 6 percent and Waller and Musalem signalling more rises leave equities and crypto exposed if the ten year yield approaches 5.5 percent.

•        Crypto Leverage and Outflows Persist Into the Anniversary: About $1.2 billion of liquidations, $487.1 million of spot Bitcoin ETF outflows and a three week low below $81,000 come a day before the first anniversary of the October 2025 flash crash.

🟢 POSITIVE DEVELOPMENTS: Institutional & Regulatory

•        Diplomacy and Lower Oil Offer Relief: A pause in US strike plans took Brent back from $106 to about $103 and supported gold, easing near term inflation pressure if it holds.

•        Tokenisation Infrastructure Keeps Advancing: Consensys and ClearToken's 24 hour settlement work, ClearToken's Bank of England sandbox progress and Standard Chartered's Singapore custody plan show regulated rails being built.

•        Corporate Resilience Remains Visible: Tesco's higher profit floor and £950 million buyback, PepsiCo's faster organic growth, Wolfspeed's conditional $1.5 billion loan, Manus's $500 million raise and 29.5 percent S&P 500 third quarter earnings growth underline underlying strength.

•        Rules Are Becoming Clearer and Labour Data Is Steady: ESMA's stablecoin opinion and Greece's draft tax give firms firmer frameworks, while jobless claims of 197,000 suggest the labour market is absorbing higher rates.

📋 Other Stories

The NFL Files a Supreme Court Brief in the New Jersey and Kalshi Sports Event Contracts Case

The National Football League has filed an amicus brief with the US Supreme Court in the case between New Jersey and Kalshi over whether states can regulate sports event contracts. Kalshi's response to New Jersey's certiorari petition, filed on 2nd September, is due on 9th November, and the National Council of Legislators from Gaming States has warned that a Kalshi victory would leave states "powerless" to regulate the contracts.

TSMC Third Quarter Revenue Rises 51 Percent to NT$1.49 Trillion

TSMC reported third quarter revenue of NT$1.49 trillion, up 51 percent, with September revenue of NT$511.8 billion, or about $16.06 billion, up 54.6 percent year on year, although its US listed shares fell about 3 percent on Thursday.

Jeff Bezos Says Blue Origin Will Probably Go Public Someday, but Not Soon

Jeff Bezos said that Blue Origin will probably list "someday", although he expects an initial public offering to be years away. The space company has raised $10 billion at a reported valuation of $130 billion to $140 billion.

A Bitcoin Wallet From 2010 Moves 100 BTC After 16 Years

A wallet holding 100 BTC mined in 2010 moved its coins for the first time in 16 years, with the holding worth about $8.3 million to $8.5 million at current prices.

Amazon Confirms Fewer Than 1,000 Job Cuts as It Launches New Alexa Tablets

Amazon confirmed fewer than 1,000 job cuts, mostly in retail, and launched new Alexa tablets priced from $230 to $550.

📅 Looking Ahead: October-November 2026

•        9th October: Evernorth's merger with Armada Acquisition Corp. II is due to close on or about this date; Solana's 200 millisecond epoch 1053 change is expected around 15:00 UTC; the XRP Ledger's Batch amendment may be activated, no earlier than this date; Canadian jobs data is released at 13:30 BST; preliminary University of Michigan consumer sentiment is published at 15:00 BST; ECB members Cipollone and Schnabel speak; Fed Governor Collins speaks at 21:00 BST; Hurricane Isaias is expected to make landfall on the US Gulf Coast on Friday night into early Saturday.

•        10th October: The first anniversary of the 2025 crypto flash crash.

•        12th October: Evernorth is due to begin trading on Nasdaq under the ticker XRPN on or about this date; US bond markets are closed for Columbus Day.

•        Week of 12th October: The IMF and World Bank meetings take place in Bangkok, where new IMF forecasts are due.

•        14th October: Public comment deadline on Kalshi's proposed perpetual security futures; the US September CPI report is released; China releases CPI and PPI; final trading is expected for Bitwise's Dogecoin ETF.

•        19th October: CME Group launches Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures, subject to regulatory review; the public comment period closes on Treasury's GENIUS Act stablecoin issuance, offer and sale rulemaking; Micron's Taiwan union holds its Taipei rally.

•        20th October: Public comment deadline on the SEC's proposed Regulation Crypto Assets.

•        21st October: Shell is due to publish its company compiled analyst consensus ahead of third quarter results.

•        22nd October: Bitwise's Dogecoin ETF is due to make its cash distribution, based on net asset value as of 21st October.

•        23rd October: Target effective date for the REX-Osprey staked SEI ETF.

•        25th October: Brazil holds the presidential runoff between Flávio Bolsonaro and President Lula.

•        Last week of October: Samsung begins USDC transfers on Solana through Samsung Wallet and Samsung Pay for eligible US Galaxy users; Samsung Electronics is due to publish full third quarter divisional results.

•        27th-28th October: The Federal Reserve holds its FOMC meeting, with markets pricing roughly an 18 percent probability of a 25 basis point rate rise and about 81 percent for an increase by December, following signals from Governor Waller and St. Louis Fed President Musalem that further rises will be needed.

•        29th October: The European Central Bank announces its next policy decision; Shell reports third quarter results.

•        30th October: Public comment deadline on the Illinois Department of Revenue's draft rules for its 0.2 percent digital asset transaction tax; mainnet testing of Polymarket's Protocol V2 concludes; the UK Budget is also expected at the end of the month.

•        3rd November: US midterm elections.

•        November: Greece plans to send its draft 10 percent crypto capital gains tax bill to parliament.

•        9th November: Target date in Anza's Agave v4.4 schedule for the resumption of Solana mainnet feature activations; Anthropic could begin marketing its IPO as early as this date, with a listing targeted for mid November; Kalshi's response to the Supreme Court petition in its New Jersey sports contracts case is due.

•        11th November: Expected SEC deadline on Nasdaq ISE's proposed generic listing standards for options on crypto ETFs, should the review be extended.

•        12th November: Holder rankings are locked for the $TRUMP memecoin dinner.

•        22nd November: The $TRUMP memecoin dinner for the top 185 holders is scheduled in Washington, DC.

•        29th November: Spain holds an early general election.

•        1st December: Sberbank plans to launch its first crypto products in Russia, initially supporting Bitcoin, Ether and USDT.

•        15th December: Abstract, the Pudgy Penguins backed Ethereum layer 2 network, is due to shut down.

•        End of 2026: Standard Chartered targets the launch of digital asset custody in Singapore.

•        1st January 2027: Brazil's precautionary holding procedures for certain outbound crypto transfers under Resolution BCB 584 take effect.

•        8th January 2027: ESMA's outer deadline for crypto asset service providers to cease services related to non-MiCA-compliant stablecoins in the European Union.

•        4th February 2027: South Korea's tokenised securities framework takes effect.

•        28th February 2027: The FCA gateway, which opened on 30th September 2026, closes at 23:59, the deadline for UK cryptoasset firms to file applications to benefit from the saving provision.

•        1st July 2027: Illinois's 0.2 percent digital asset transaction tax is now due to take effect, following the six month delay agreed last week, subject to court approval and the continuing litigation.

•        25th October 2027: The UK's new cryptoasset regulatory regime takes full effect.

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