🚨 Big: Meanwhile, the Bitcoin life insurer backed by Sam Altman, has raised another $37.5 million in a round led by Bain Capital Crypto. Its total funding has now topped $180 million as wealthy families seek ways to pass their BTC on to the next generation.

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⚡ JUST IN: Relay is winding down its Vaults and has stopped accepting new deposits. Users have until Dec. 31 to withdraw their funds through the withdrawal page.

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📊 MARKET: Solana now has over 14 million stablecoin holders.

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🇺🇸 Interesting: There are far more dollars in circulation—but each one is worth less.

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📊 MARKET: $ETH ETFs posted their largest weekly net outflows since late January.

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🇺🇸 UPDATE: The US government’s crypto holdings are down $16 billion from their peak a year ago.

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🇺🇸 JUST IN: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent took aim at Senator Elizabeth Warren, saying she has “almost no understanding of financial markets.” He joked he’d add Fixed Income for Dummies to her foreign-exchange tutorial—if she passes it.

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🚨 Nearly 700,000 BTC has left exchanges over the past year.

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🔥 INTERESTING: Strive’s CEO says, “Think ₿igger.” Is he taking a cue from Saylor’s playbook?

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🇦🇷 LATEST: Argentina’s central bank says banks could be allowed to offer crypto in a second Milei term—four years after being barred from doing so.

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🔥 Major milestone: BitMine is just about 200,000 ETH away from holding 5% of Ethereum’s total supply. It currently holds 5.85 million ETH, worth $14.27 billion.

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⚡ BIG: CoinGecko now tracks more than 22,000 coins. Glassnode data shows that by late September, less than 25% of the median altcoin’s supply was in profit.

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🇺🇸 INSIGHT: With affordability at its lowest level since the years following the financial crisis, more U.S. households are falling behind on debt payments, CNBC reports.

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⚡ Update: The Crypto Fear & Greed Index has risen to 58, returning to neutral territory.

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🔥 Major losses: Hackers stole $2.68 billion in crypto through September. October has already seen over $98 million more disappear, including an estimated $86 million drained from compromised Ledger devices and a $12.5 million exploit targeting 79th Vault.

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🚨 NEW: The XRP Ledger Foundation says a recently patched bug did not create any new XRP. The supply remains capped at 100 billion, and the issue was fixed in version 3.4.1.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 NOW: Iran says Washington’s response to its seven conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz does not go far enough, according to Reuters.

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🔥 JUST IN: DATA Network and its Trace registry are coming to Sui, with Walrus as the default storage layer—giving AI labs a single destination for rights-cleared training data.

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⚡️ Jim Cramer expects oil prices to remain around $100 a barrel for the duration of the war.

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🇷🇺 **Update:** Russia’s central bank has added Sberbank to its list of organizations authorized to exchange cryptocurrencies.

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🚨 This week’s key events | October 12–18, 2026
All times Eastern (ET).

U.S. Q3 earnings season gets underway, with major banks reporting this week.

Monday, October 12
🌎 IMF–World Bank Annual Meetings open in Bangkok and run through October 18.
🇪🇺 The EU adopts new sanctions targeting Russia’s military-industrial complex.

Tuesday, October 13
🏦 Major U.S. banks begin reporting earnings.

Wednesday, October 14
🔥 8:30 a.m. — U.S. September CPI inflation.
🇺🇸 2:00 p.m. — Federal Reserve Beige Book.

Thursday, October 15
🔥 8:30 a.m. — U.S. September PPI inflation.
🇺🇸 8:30 a.m. — Initial jobless claims.
🇺🇸 4:30 p.m. — Fed balance sheet update.
🎙️ 11:30 p.m. — Fed Chair Kevin Warsh joins IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva for a fireside chat.

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