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Bitcoin traded near $82,000 on Thursday, with analysts at QCP expecting a fourth-quarter range of $80,000 to $90,000. Bitcoin traded near $82,000 on Thursday, with analysts at QCP expecting a fourth-quarter range of $80,000 …

Bitcoin traded near $82,000 on Thursday, with analysts at QCP expecting a fourth-quarter range of $80,000 to $90,000. Bitcoin traded near $82,000 on Thursday, with analysts at QCP expecting a fourth-quarter range of $80,000 to $90,000. This story appeared on theblock.co, 2026-10-08 14:52:27.

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You’re reading Crypto for Advisors , CoinDesk’s weekly newsletter that unpacks digital assets for financial advisors. Subscribe here to get it every Thursday. Happy Thursday, advisors! In today’s newsletter, Joshua de Vos and Jacob …

You’re reading Crypto for Advisors , CoinDesk’s weekly newsletter that unpacks digital assets for financial advisors. Subscribe here to get it every Thursday. Happy Thursday, advisors! In today’s newsletter, Joshua de Vos and Jacob Joseph of CoinDesk Research break down how digital assets turned around in Q3, outperforming stocks and gold. Then, in “Ask an Expert,” Kevin Tam explains crypto perpetuals. Have three minutes? Mesh is conducting a 2026 State of Digital Money Survey to understand how financial institutions, digital-asset businesses and infrastructure providers experience regulatory fragmentation across markets. Responses are anonymous and results will be shared in this newsletter. (edited) Happy reading. - Sarah Morton Digital assets ended a three-quarter losing streak in Q3 Digital assets rebounded sharply in the third quarter of 2026, ending three consecutive quarters of losses and delivering their strongest performance of the year. As presented in CoinDesk’s latest Quarterly Review and Outlook, the recovery was shaped by easing geopolitical pressure, a more constructive liquidity backdrop and the return of institutional flows. Q3 in review The CoinDesk 20 (CD20) rose 52.7% to 2,447, while bitcoin gained 42.7% to $83,554. After a second quarter in which crypto sat out the broader risk-asset rally, the roles reversed. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq rose just 2.03% and 0.85%, and gold added 3.84%; digital assets were the clear outperformer by a wide margin.

Securitize logo by Securitize, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0. Eligible US and EU investors can now hold share-backed tokens of 12 major equities, with USDC settlement and dividends included Securitize has started selling …

Securitize logo by Securitize, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0. Eligible US and EU investors can now hold share-backed tokens of 12 major equities, with USDC settlement and dividends included Securitize has started selling blockchain versions of America’s most-watched stocks. Its new platform, Securitize Stocks, went live on October 8, 2026, offering tokens backed 1:1 by shares of companies like Apple, Nvidia, and Tesla. The pitch is simple. You hold a token on Solana, and a real share sits behind it at a regulated brokerage. What Securitize is actually offering The product is built around something called Convertible Entitlement Tokens, or CETs. Each CET is backed by an actual share held at Securitize’s regulated brokerage. That structure matters because it gives holders the economic benefits of owning the stock. According to Securitize, that includes dividends, voting rights where applicable, and other corporate actions. Advertisement The launch lineup covers 12 equities. The tickers are AAPL, MSFT, NVDA, GOOG, TSLA, META, AMZN, NFLX, CRCL, SPCX, STR, and PLTR. How trading and settlement work Trading kicks off on Securitize’s existing Solana-based PropAMM. Trades settle in USDC, the dollar-pegged stablecoin, rather than through the traditional settlement pipes Wall Street uses. AI, tech, and the markets they move—in one daily briefing. Daily. Free. Join 34,000+ readers across crypto, finance, and policy. Email address Subscribe free We respect your privacy. Unsubscribe anytime. Hours are extended at launch, not round-the-clock. Securitize has framed this as a step toward a potential 24/7 trading environment down the line. The supporting cast is notable. Jump Trading is providing liquidity, while RQD handles clearing, custody, and settlement. Access is gated. Only eligible investors in the US and EU can onboard, and they have to clear KYC and AML checks through Securitize’s broker-dealer platform first. Securitize is also eyeing the NYSE’s planned 24/7 digital trading platform as a future home for these tokens. Securitize has been busy The stock launch follows a big summer for the company. Securitize listed on the NYSE in July 2026 under the ticker SECZ. At the same time, it tokenized $295 million of its own SECZ common stock on Solana and Avalanche. That made it one of the largest issuer-sponsored tokenized stocks at the time.

The broker also lifted its year-end call to $109,000 while holding its Strategy target at $260, a sign that treasury companies remain central to its thesis TD Cowen has raised its long-range Bitcoin forecast, …

The broker also lifted its year-end call to $109,000 while holding its Strategy target at $260, a sign that treasury companies remain central to its thesis TD Cowen has raised its long-range Bitcoin forecast, setting a 2029 price target of $280,000. The numbers behind the call On October 8, 2026, TD Cowen revised its year-end 2026 Bitcoin projection to approximately $109,000. That reverses a downgrade the firm made in September, when it cut its 2026 target to $97,500 after the price slipped. The catalyst, per the firm, was Bitcoin’s third quarter. It closed Q3 2026 around $76,000, beating some of the assumptions TD Cowen had built into its earlier models. Analyst Lance Vitanza’s longer-term math rests on steady annual gains. He estimates Bitcoin could appreciate by 20% to 30% annually, and the $280,000 target for 2029 follows from that range. Advertisement The firm also kept its price target on Strategy (MSTR) at $260. That held steady even as the Bitcoin outlook improved. Why the treasury company angle matters TD Cowen pointed to capital markets structures tied to Bitcoin treasury companies as a growing trend, noting that institutional attitudes have shifted toward exposure strategies rather than simply buying and holding coins. The news moving money, markets, and the world—before your day starts. Daily. Free. Join 34,000+ readers across crypto, finance, and policy. Email address Subscribe free We respect your privacy. Unsubscribe anytime. TD Cowen quantified that view. The firm expects potential 50% outperformance for well-managed Bitcoin treasury companies compared with spot Bitcoin holdings. The dilution problem at Strategy TD Cowen expects that Strategy’s stock issuance could weigh on per-share gains, offsetting some of the benefit from a rising Bitcoin price. When a treasury company sells new shares to fund more Bitcoin purchases, total holdings rise, but existing shareholders own a smaller piece of the larger pile. Leaving the $260 target untouched suggests TD Cowen sees those forces roughly cancelling out for now. A forecast that already changed once this fall In September, price weakness pushed the firm to lower its 2026 year-end target to $97,500. By early October, a stronger-than-modeled third quarter was enough to lift it to around $109,000. The gap between the Q3 close around $76,000 and a year-end target near $109,000 is substantial. Bitcoin would need a strong final quarter to get there. What this means for investors For investors weighing Strategy against spot Bitcoin, TD Cowen sees real potential in treasury companies, yet also flags dilution as a drag on Strategy specifically. The thesis that managed treasury vehicles can beat direct ownership depends on disciplined capital raising. Key markers to track include Bitcoin’s fourth-quarter performance against the roughly $109,000 year-end call, the pace of Strategy’s share issuance, and whether TD Cowen revises its targets again when the year closes.

The Ethos Network token begins its Coinbase debut with order book building before full trading opens Coinbase has placed the WHUF-USD trading pair into limit-only mode on both Coinbase Exchange and Coinbase Advanced. The …

The Ethos Network token begins its Coinbase debut with order book building before full trading opens Coinbase has placed the WHUF-USD trading pair into limit-only mode on both Coinbase Exchange and Coinbase Advanced. The change took effect on October 8, 2026. For now, traders can place and cancel limit orders for WHUF. Market orders are off the table, which is Coinbase’s way of letting the room fill up before the doors swing fully open. What limit-only mode actually means Technically, a limit order lets a trader name the exact price they will buy or sell at. A market order, by contrast, fills immediately at the best price available, whatever that happens to be. When a token is brand new on an exchange, that distinction matters a lot. A thin order book with only a handful of bids and asks can turn a single large market order into a price spike or a crater. By restricting the pair to limit orders, Coinbase aims to build up depth in the order book first. More resting orders on both sides means more liquidity, and more liquidity generally means a smoother path to finding a fair price. Advertisement This is a routine step in Coinbase’s playbook for new or lower-liquidity tokens. The exchange recently ran a similar process for other pairs, including WAL-USD and BLUECHIP-USD. The road to WHUF’s listing WHUF, short for Whuffie, is the native token of the Ethos Network, a decentralized platform. The token is designed to support reputation and credibility within that network. The news moving money, markets, and the world—before your day starts. Daily. Free. Join 34,000+ readers across crypto, finance, and policy. Email address Subscribe free We respect your privacy. Unsubscribe anytime. Coinbase first added WHUF to its listing roadmap on October 6, 2026. At the time, the exchange indicated it expected trading support to begin at 15:00 UTC. There was a catch on deposits. Coinbase said WHUF deposits depended on the issuer granting permission to unlock transfers, a condition that ties the exchange’s timeline partly to decisions made on the project side. A well-funded debut WHUF arrives on Coinbase with some fundraising momentum behind it. The token’s public sale closed on September 8, 2026, raising $8.4 million from 1,560 buyers. That sale has been described as one of the largest public sales of 2026. The token has a fixed supply of 10 million. Of that total, 20% went to public sale participants, which works out to 2 million tokens. Those buyers did not get instant liquidity. Their allocations came with a 30-day lock starting from the token generation event, or TGE, the moment the token is formally created and distributed. What this means for traders and the Ethos Network The 30-day lock on public sale allocations is another detail worth tracking. Locked tokens cannot hit the market, so the early trading window will reflect only the supply that is actually free to move. When that lock expires, a new batch of holders gains the ability to sell, and the order book will have to absorb whatever they decide to do. The next milestone to watch is Coinbase lifting the limit-only restriction. Until then, every bid and ask on WHUF-USD is effectively a vote on what the market thinks a unit of decentralized reputation is worth.

US spot Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds saw their steepest withdrawals in months as the cryptocurrency market continued to decline. Data from SoSoValue shows that the 12 listed US Bitcoin ETFs lost $484.9 million …

US spot Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds saw their steepest withdrawals in months as the cryptocurrency market continued to decline. Data from SoSoValue shows that the 12 listed US Bitcoin ETFs lost $484.9 million on Oct. 7, their largest single-day… US spot Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds saw their steepest withdrawals in months as the cryptocurrency market continued to decline. Data from SoSoValue shows that the 12 listed US Bitcoin…

The Cosmos DEX is handing control to contributors, zeroing out ASTRO emissions and planning to burn roughly 362 million tokens Astroport has stopped letting its tokenholders run the show. On October 8, 2026, the …

The Cosmos DEX is handing control to contributors, zeroing out ASTRO emissions and planning to burn roughly 362 million tokens Astroport has stopped letting its tokenholders run the show. On October 8, 2026, the Cosmos-based decentralized exchange fully disabled tokenholder governance on both Neutron and Terra. The trigger was a governance attack on September 22, 2026. A vote acquired for approximately $20,000 handed someone administrative control over Astroport contracts. For a protocol securing millions in liquidity, that is a very cheap set of keys. What changed, and what didn’t Going forward, Astroport contributors will operate the protocol through DAO DAO organizations. Token-weighted voting is out. Every decision will instead have to move through a public proposal process. A multisig wallet will also sit in the background as an emergency owner. Its job is to make sure the protocol can be recovered if something goes wrong again. ASTRO emissions are going to zero, ending the stream of new tokens the protocol had been distributing. Astroport also plans to burn approximately 362 million ASTRO tokens sitting in its Neutron treasury. Minting capabilities will be restricted to burns. Advertisement For everyday users, the front end keeps working. Pools, swaps and liquidity positions all remain functional, and the team has framed security as its top priority through the transition. vxASTRO holders are not stuck either. They can continue unlocking through the normal process. The news moving money, markets, and the world—before your day starts. Daily. Free. Join 34,000+ readers across crypto, finance, and policy. Email address Subscribe free We respect your privacy. Unsubscribe anytime. How a $20,000 vote cracked the system The September attack exposed a structural weakness in Astroport’s ASTRO and vxASTRO governance design. The attacker acquired voting power by purchasing NTRN tokens, the native asset of Neutron. That vote enabled the transfer of administrative control over eight Astroport contracts. Liquidity pools estimated at $4.9 million were exposed to potential drainage as a result. Astroport responded by halting blocks and restarting them shortly afterward. Roughly $20,000 in governance influence was enough to put control of contracts guarding about $4.9 million at risk. A pivot from emissions to fees Instead of paying users with freshly minted tokens, the protocol is leaning on fee-based mechanics tied to burns and yield. The centerpiece is a planned yASTRO staking contract on Terra, designed to share protocol fees with stakers and boost user engagement. What this means for ASTRO holders and DeFi governance For ASTRO holders, the trade-off is clear. They lose a direct say in protocol decisions. In exchange, they get a token with no ongoing emissions, a large treasury burn, and a planned path to fee revenue through yASTRO. The research findings note that the burn could be perceived positively by holders focused on scarcity, while the sweeping nature of the overhaul could bring heightened volatility as markets digest it. Moving from tokenholder votes to contributor-led DAO DAO organizations, backed by an emergency multisig, concentrates decision-making in fewer hands. The public proposal requirement is meant to keep that process visible. The yASTRO contract is still planned rather than live, so the fee-sharing pitch remains a promise until it ships on Terra. Users and holders will want to see how the burn of approximately 362 million ASTRO is carried out and documented on-chain.

USDT balances support products across Decrypt and Myriad, with private key export planned. Decrypt announced October 8 that its Money Accounts are live on Solana, providing a shared USDT balance for its financial products …

USDT balances support products across Decrypt and Myriad, with private key export planned. Decrypt announced October 8 that its Money Accounts are live on Solana, providing a shared USDT balance for its financial products and Myriad. The company says the accounts support Earn, Swaps, Predictions and Perps without separate product deposits. Network gas and account rent are sponsored through fee-payer co-signing. Advertisement Decrypt describes the platform as self-custodial, saying it does not hold users’ private keys or transact on their behalf. Private key export is planned but was not yet available at announcement. Existing Myriad Wallet users can use the accounts without migration. Although Myriad prediction markets settle on BNB Chain, the platform handles cross-chain activity from the Solana balance, according to Decrypt. The news moving money, markets, and the world—before your day starts. Daily. Free. Join 34,000+ readers across crypto, finance, and policy. Email address Subscribe free We respect your privacy. Unsubscribe anytime. The accounts underpin The Information Exchange, a planned market combining reporting, data, prices and trading instruments. Decrypt says additional features and protocol partners will be announced in stages ahead of Solana Breakpoint, alongside the upcoming MYR token.

The average short-term correlation between altcoins and Bitcoin has dipped below zero for the first time since July 2025 Altcoins have stopped taking their cues from Bitcoin, at least for now. Their 14-day average …

The average short-term correlation between altcoins and Bitcoin has dipped below zero for the first time since July 2025 Altcoins have stopped taking their cues from Bitcoin, at least for now. Their 14-day average correlation with Bitcoin has turned negative for the first time since July 2025. What a negative correlation actually means Correlation is a scorecard for how closely two assets move together. It runs from +1, where they move in perfect lockstep, to -1, where they move in exactly opposite directions. A reading near zero means the relationship is basically random. A reading below zero means that, on average, altcoins have recently tended to move against Bitcoin rather than with it. The 14-day window matters too. It is a short lookback, so it captures recent behavior quickly but can also swing sharply on a handful of trading sessions. Analytics platforms such as CryptoQuant and Sharpe Terminal track these correlation metrics. Traders lean on them to judge whether the market is moving as one block or splitting into separate stories. Advertisement How the market got here In early May 2026, the 14-day average correlation between altcoins and Bitcoin fell to around 0.26-0.27, its lowest level since July 2025 at the time. That reading was still positive, but weak. It pointed to a fragmented market where select altcoins were beating their peers, rather than a broad-based altcoin rally lifting everything at once. The news moving money, markets, and the world—before your day starts. Daily. Free. Join 34,000+ readers across crypto, finance, and policy. Email address Subscribe free We respect your privacy. Unsubscribe anytime. Much of that selective strength showed up in specific sectors, particularly tokens tied to AI technologies. Capital appeared to be rotating into themes instead of spreading evenly across the board. The July 2025 parallel The last episode offers useful context. In July 2025, Bitcoin’s dominance fell by nearly 6% in a single week, dropping to below 61% as altcoins posted significant gains. Bitcoin dominance measures Bitcoin’s share of total crypto market value. When it falls quickly, money is usually flowing toward other tokens faster than it is flowing toward Bitcoin. Short-term divergence versus long-term ties Longer-window data tells a more connected story. As of October 2026, the 90-day correlation between Ether and Bitcoin stood at approximately 0.88, while Solana’s correlation with Bitcoin was around 0.83. That same period, however, saw many altcoins lag behind Bitcoin’s performance during recent weeks. Moving in the same direction is not the same as keeping pace. What this means for traders and investors For traders, low or negative correlation can open the door to more targeted strategies. Sector-focused positioning, such as in AI-related tokens that drove earlier outperformance, becomes more relevant when the market stops moving as a single unit. Periods of low correlation have also tended to come before stretches of higher volatility and shifts in market dominance. That makes the Bitcoin dominance figure worth watching alongside the correlation data. If dominance starts falling quickly, as it did in July 2025, the divergence could be the early stage of a rotation into altcoins. If dominance holds or climbs while altcoins slide, the negative correlation may simply reflect altcoins bleeding while Bitcoin holds firm. Another signal to track is whether the short-term break bleeds into longer windows. If 90-day correlations for Ether and Solana start dropping from the high readings seen in October 2026, that would suggest a deeper structural shift rather than a two-week blip.