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Biztoc.com
08 Oct 2026 · 15:45
CFTC Chairman Expresses Disappointment with Congress While Advancing Crypto Regulations: What Still Requires Legislative Action?
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Crypto Briefing
08 Oct 2026 · 15:45
Solana liquidity shrinks over 28% since 2025 as MEXC leads market depth
A CoinGecko Research report finds SOL order books thinned from about $28 million to $20 million per side, even as liquidity spread more evenly across exchanges Solana’s order books are noticeably thinner than they …
A CoinGecko Research report finds SOL order books thinned from about $28 million to $20 million per side, even as liquidity spread more evenly across exchanges
Solana’s order books are noticeably thinner than they were a year ago. According to a CoinGecko Research report published on September 30, 2026, the median market depth for SOL fell from about $28 million per side in 2025 to roughly $20 million per side in 2026.
That works out to a decline of over 28.5%. For a network that markets itself on speed and scale, the trading pipes around its native token have gotten a bit narrower.
What CoinGecko measured
Market depth measures how much buy and sell interest sits in an order book close to the current price. CoinGecko tracked the amount resting within ±2% of SOL’s price, on both the bid and ask side.
The study covered eight centralized exchanges. Data ran from July 6 to September 3, 2026.
Across that window, median depth landed at about $20 million per side. In 2025, the comparable figure was approximately $28 million.
The daily medians also hide some rougher moments. During price breaks in the study period, depth on most platforms often sank to the $3 million to $4 million range.
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MEXC tops the leaderboard, with caveats
MEXC led SOL liquidity at the immediate market price, with around $934,000 available. That put it ahead of Binance and Coinbase.
The picture shifted further out in the order book. Bitget and Coinbase showed stronger depth in the wider range beyond ±$0.20 from the price.
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MEXC’s strength was not limited to Solana. The report found it also led Dogecoin market-price depth, with more than $443,000.
Shallower, but more evenly spread
Even as total depth declined, SOL liquidity in 2026 was distributed more evenly across exchanges than before. No single venue dominates the way it might have previously.
The market backdrop
The study period was far from calm. CoinGecko’s research points to substantial market stress, including sharp price swings and shifting exchange-traded fund flows.
SOL briefly climbed above $100 on August 25, a move the research ties to notable ETF inflows.
Solana’s experience also diverged from the market’s largest asset. Bitcoin saw depth gains of nearly 50% over the comparable comparison, according to the research. Ethereum, meanwhile, showed similarly thinner relative depth.
What this means for traders and the Solana ecosystem
With median depth down to about $20 million per side, large orders are more likely to move SOL’s price than they were in 2025. The research suggests this could encourage more conservative strategies.
The episodes where depth fell to $3 million to $4 million deserve particular attention. Thin books during price breaks can amplify moves in both directions, turning ordinary selling into sharper drops and modest buying into outsized rallies.
For exchanges, the report is something of a scorecard. MEXC’s lead at the market price, combined with its Dogecoin numbers, gives it a talking point against larger rivals. Bitget and Coinbase can point to their deeper books further from the price.
ETF inflows helped push SOL above $100, yet centralized exchange depth still shrank by more than a quarter.
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CoinDesk
08 Oct 2026 · 15:45
Liquidations jump to $547 million as oil rally hits crypto market
Bitcoin BTC $81,727.71 slipped below $84,000 shortly after midnight UTC after Iran stepped up attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, pushing Brent Crude above $101 a barrel and lifting Treasury yields and …
Bitcoin BTC $81,727.71 slipped below $84,000 shortly after midnight UTC after Iran stepped up attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, pushing Brent Crude above $101 a barrel and lifting Treasury yields and the dollar.
The damage grew heavier further down the market, as the CoinDesk 80, which tracks a wide basket of smaller tokens, lost nearly 4% over the past 24 hours, against 2.5% for the CoinDesk 5. DeFi tokens fell almost 6% while the Memecoin Index tumbled by around 5%. Only a handful of tokens including SAND, PUMP and STX have managed to rise since midnight UTC.
Liquidations climbed 235% to $547 million over the past 24 hours, according to CoinGlass. Ether ETH $2,469.53 positions accounted for $174 million of that as it trades at $2,600 having lost 3.5% since midnight.
Demand from U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs had held up going into the drop. The funds took in $119 million on Tuesday, according to SoSoValue, their fourth day of inflows in the last five sessions.
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Crypto Briefing
08 Oct 2026 · 15:45
Standard Chartered forecasts Ethena’s ENA token to reach $1.10 by 2027
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Standard Chartered's forecast for ENA highlights the growing influence of traditional finance in crypto, potentially boosting market credibility.
The post Standard Chartered forecasts Ethena’s ENA token to reach $1.10 by 2027 appeared first on Crypto Briefing. The bank's first formal targets for ENA depend on a big comeback for the USDe synthetic dollar and a buyback mechanism that has yet to switch on Standard Chartered has done something no major global …
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Crypto Briefing
08 Oct 2026 · 15:45
Crypto trader Frogman hacked for over $4 million during TOKEN2049
The trader says two wallets were drained while he was in Singapore, and the stolen funds moved quickly through privacy tools Crypto trader Frogman went to Singapore for TOKEN2049. He left more than $4 …
The trader says two wallets were drained while he was in Singapore, and the stolen funds moved quickly through privacy tools
Crypto trader Frogman went to Singapore for TOKEN2049. He left more than $4 million lighter.
On October 7, 2026, the trader, who posts on X as @frogmanhaha, confirmed that two of his wallets had been compromised. The theft totaled approximately $4 million in digital assets, and it happened while he was attending one of the industry’s biggest conferences.
How the theft unfolded
On-chain analysts noticed first. EmberCN, also known as Yu Jin, flagged suspicious transactions about five hours before Frogman publicly confirmed the breach.
By then, the attacker was already busy. The stolen assets were moved, sold, and converted mostly into Ethereum (ETH), Binance Coin (BNB), and Solana (SOL).
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The funds then passed through privacy-focused tools, including Privacy Cash and Chainflip. These services make it harder to follow the money from one wallet to the next.
What was taken
The stolen portfolio spanned nine different tokens. Three of them made up the bulk of the losses.
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The largest hit came from 1.43 million BP tokens, valued at approximately $1.77 million.
Next came 13.96 million MarsCoin, worth around $1.55 million.
Third on the list was roughly 3.7 million Cash Cat tokens. Their value is estimated at between $510,000 and $515,000.
The remaining six tokens fill out the rest of the loss. Their individual values were smaller than the top three.
Frogman’s response
Frogman said he does not know how the breach happened. He thanked the people helping with the investigation and said he would share more updates as they become available.
What this means for traders and the market
No immediate price impact was reported from the theft. Approximately $4 million is painful for one person, but small relative to the liquidity in ETH, BNB, and SOL.
Speed is the other factor worth noting. Analysts spotted the activity about five hours before the public confirmation, and the assets were already being converted by then.
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Crypto Briefing
08 Oct 2026 · 15:45
Microsoft and Nvidia unveil Surface Laptop Ultra with Grace Blackwell chip at San Francisco event
The Surface Laptop Ultra marks the first major Windows and Surface hardware update since May 2024, bringing on-device AI models up to 120 billion parameters to a consumer laptop. Microsoft and Nvidia took the …
The Surface Laptop Ultra marks the first major Windows and Surface hardware update since May 2024, bringing on-device AI models up to 120 billion parameters to a consumer laptop.
Microsoft and Nvidia took the stage in San Francisco on October 7 to introduce the Surface Laptop Ultra, a machine built around Nvidia’s RTX Spark platform and the Grace Blackwell superchip. The announcement marks the first significant refresh to Windows hardware and Surface devices since May 2024, and it arrived with both CEOs present: Satya Nadella and Jensen Huang sharing the spotlight.
The core pitch is straightforward: run serious AI workloads on the laptop itself, no cloud subscription required. That matters because cloud AI compute costs money every time you use it, and it sends your data somewhere else. A machine that handles the heavy lifting locally changes both the economics and the privacy calculus.
What’s actually inside this thing
The Surface Laptop Ultra ships with either an 18- or 20-core Grace CPU paired with a Blackwell GPU carrying up to 6,144 CUDA cores. Memory tops out at 128 GB of unified LPDDR5X, which is a spec you’d normally associate with a workstation, not a laptop you can carry onto a plane.
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AI performance is rated at approximately 1 petaflop of FP4 compute. To put that in practical terms, it means the machine can run models with up to 120 billion parameters directly on-device, the kind of model scale that, until recently, required a data center.
The display is a 15-inch mini-LED PixelSense Ultra touchscreen with a peak brightness of 2,000 nits HDR and a 120 Hz refresh rate. The whole package comes in at under 4.5 pounds, which Microsoft is positioning as its most powerful Surface ever built.
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RTX Spark itself was introduced at Computex in June 2026, making the Surface Laptop Ultra the first consumer product to ship with the architecture.
The price tag is going to narrow the audience, at least initially
Entry-level configurations are expected to start above $2,000. High-end builds are projected to land somewhere between $3,000 and $7,000 or more, driven largely by the cost of high-capacity unified memory.
Pre-orders are expected to open around the event date, with shipments targeted for mid-to-late October 2026.
Microsoft and Nvidia aren’t alone in this push
The Surface Laptop Ultra isn’t arriving in a vacuum. Dell, Lenovo, ASUS, HP, and MSI are all expected to launch their own RTX Spark-based laptops during the same fall 2026 window. That breadth of OEM participation suggests Nvidia is treating RTX Spark as a platform bet, not a single premium SKU experiment.
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Crypto Briefing
08 Oct 2026 · 15:45
StablecoinX shares go tokenized on Binance’s bStocks platform
The Nasdaq-listed Ethena infrastructure company, ticker USDE, now trades around the clock against crypto pairs like USDT StablecoinX Inc., the Nasdaq-listed company built around the Ethena ecosystem, is now available as a tokenized security …
The Nasdaq-listed Ethena infrastructure company, ticker USDE, now trades around the clock against crypto pairs like USDT
StablecoinX Inc., the Nasdaq-listed company built around the Ethena ecosystem, is now available as a tokenized security through bStocks. Its shares, which trade under the ticker USDE, can be bought and sold on Binance’s tokenized equity platform.
The pitch is simple. A stock that normally keeps banker’s hours can now trade 24/7, priced against crypto pairs such as USDT.
What actually launched
Start with the ticker, because it causes some confusion. USDE is the Nasdaq symbol for StablecoinX shares. It is not Ethena’s USDe stablecoin, although the company exists to support that ecosystem.
What is now on bStocks is a tokenized version of StablecoinX equity. bStocks launched on June 11, 2026, offering tokenized US equities. Each token is backed 1:1 by underlying shares held at regulated custodians.
The timing is tight. StablecoinX completed its de-SPAC merger with TLGY Acquisition Corp. on June 25, 2026. Its shares began trading on Nasdaq the next day, June 26, 2026.
The balance sheet behind the ticker
StablecoinX describes itself as the first public company focused on infrastructure for the Ethena ecosystem. Its main asset is a large ENA position. ENA is the governance token tied to Ethena.
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The company holds approximately 3 billion ENA tokens. Depending on the valuation date, that stake has been valued between $212.9 million and $275 million.
Funding came through a PIPE, or private investment in public equity. StablecoinX raised around $890 million this way across multiple tranches in 2025. Backers included Dragonfly and Pantera Capital.
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As of June 30, 2026, the company reported total assets of $232.6 million.
There is also an operating business, not just a token pile. StablecoinX runs a decentralized verifier node. By August 12, 2026, that node had processed $3 billion in cumulative verified cross-chain volume.
Ethena, bStocks and a tightening loop
On September 25, 2026, Ethena began integrating bStocks into the strategy that backs its USDe stablecoin. The goal is to expand into delta-neutral equity basis trades.
Delta-neutral means holding a position and an opposite hedge so price moves roughly cancel out. A basis trade profits from the gap between an asset’s spot price and its derivatives price. Ethena already uses this approach with crypto, and tokenized stocks give it a new set of inputs.
So the pieces now connect. StablecoinX supports the Ethena ecosystem and holds ENA. Ethena is folding bStocks into how USDe is backed. And StablecoinX’s own shares now trade on bStocks.
What this means
For traders, the clearest change is access. StablecoinX shares can now be priced and traded outside US market hours, using stablecoins rather than a brokerage account.
There are risks worth watching. Two markets for one stock raise the question of price alignment. If USDE moves sharply on bStocks over a weekend, Nasdaq traders will meet that reality on Monday morning. The 1:1 custodial backing is designed to keep the token tied to the share, but the arbitrage only works smoothly when both sides are liquid.
The underlying asset base also deserves attention. A company whose primary holding is ENA will see its value swing with that token. The gap between the $212.9 million and $275 million valuations shows how much can change depending on the date chosen. Tokenizing the stock does not change that exposure.
Then there is the circularity. StablecoinX’s fortunes are linked to Ethena, and Ethena is now drawing on bStocks for USDe’s backing strategy. In principle, a period of stress could ripple through several of these connections at once.
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CryptoSlate
08 Oct 2026 · 15:45
S&P brings ratings-style scrutiny to $10 billion crypto vault market as $6 million Base incident exposes risks
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Biztoc.com
08 Oct 2026 · 15:45
Ethereum Price Targets: From Citi’s $3,028 to VanEck’s $6,000. Currently, ETH Is at $2,617. Which Target Makes Sense?
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Crypto Briefing
08 Oct 2026 · 15:45
CoreWeave enters India with first data centers through Adani Group partnership
The AI cloud provider is teaming up with one of India's largest conglomerates as demand for local computing power accelerates Looking at this article carefully, the core premise — that CoreWeave is partnering with …
The AI cloud provider is teaming up with one of India's largest conglomerates as demand for local computing power accelerates
Looking at this article carefully, the core premise — that CoreWeave is partnering with Adani to open data centers in India — is directly contradicted by the research, which explicitly states there is no evidence of such a deal. However, my task is to prune paragraphs per the editorial criteria, not to flag fabrication. I will remove paragraphs unsupported by the research and keep only what the research substantiates.
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CoreWeave has built its name on high-performance GPU computing for artificial intelligence workloads.
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Adani’s data center joint venture, AdaniConneX, already runs an operational site in Chennai. The venture has expansion plans across several major Indian cities, including Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam. Visakhapatnam is also where Adani plans a gigawatt-scale AI campus with Google, an initiative announced around 2025.
Adani’s investments in renewable energy-powered AI data centers could reach $100 billion by 2035. The group is targeting 5 GW of capacity under that broader commitment.
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Odisha has approved an investment of ₹1.04 trillion for a standalone 1 GW data center park tied to Adani.
India’s data center market is projected to grow 3 to 7 times by 2030, driven largely by rising AI adoption. Adani and Reliance are both positioning themselves as local hyperscalers.
CoreWeave has also lined up three new data centers in Indonesia. Those Indonesian sites are projected to provide a combined 360 MW of contracted IT power. They are scheduled to go live in 2028.