Crypto for Saturday, October 17, 2026

• Solana’s RWA Market Explodes 600% in a Year as Ethereum Struggles to Keep Up
• TRON moved $2.2 trillion in stablecoins while TRX supply grew for 108 straight days
• HEX Founder Richard Heart Arrested in Türkiye: $7.15M Cash, Guns, Cold Wallets, and Luxury Goods Seized
• Who opened your crypto wallet before it reached your hands?
• Crypto Super PAC Fairshake Pours Millions More Into Defeating Sherrod Brown
• Ethereum sets October 26 for Hoodi’s 200 million gas test
• Goldman, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley see tokenization as a growth play, not a threat
• The S&P 500 Is Near Record Highs: But Most Stocks Are Already in a Bear Market
• Bitcoin Price Analysis: Will BTC Lose the $80K Support Next Week?
• Crypto Firms Launch Quantum Alliance as 6 Million Bitcoin Sit Exposed
• Chinese Startup StepFun Launches a Phone Built Around an AI Agent, Not Apps
• Stablecoin cards are booming, but who makes money when you swipe?
• Citrini sees a tokenization boom. The harder question is who profits
• Polygon sees Coinme acquisition as entry to payments sector dominated by Visa, Stripe
• Wall Street Stays Bullish on Strategy Despite MSCI Threat, CryptoQuant CEO Says
• Binance Pool shuts on November 10, with record access ending two weeks later
• TokenMaxxing: How to Get the Most Out of Your AI Models
• Solana shows resilience, but some areas need continued observation, Fidelity says
• Eclair patches a browser attack that could send commands to your Lightning node
• Banks could slow stablecoin growth by paying savers more, BIS paper finds
• 2 Banking Giants Make Major Crypto Moves as Schwab and Deutsche Bank Expand Into Digital Assets
• The hidden trade behind Strive’s 16.7% Bitcoin income offer
• Circle’s Allaire says stablecoin issuer looking to enter 40 developing markets: Report
• Bitcoin’s Road to $125K Could Include a Brutal Drop to $68K: Analyst
• Lagarde says euro-area economy is resilient, digital euro imminent
• These Alts Bleed the Most as Bitcoin (BTC) Settles Below $82K: Weekend Watch
• Bitget to discontinue services for some users in one-off exercise  
• Bitcoin’s inflation hedge has a hidden cost, and leverage makes it worse
• ‘Wow, it’s a real discovery’: Claude cracks a 25-year NSA number mystery
• Bitcoin Under Pressure as Trump Reportedly Prepares to Strike Iran Within 24 Hours
• Pi Network Announces First-Ever Ecosystem Summit: Here’s What Pioneers Need to Know
• Cardano shifts $26M to USDCx as bridge controls freeze payouts
• XRP’s Chaos Near $1.33 Could Be the Start of a Much Bigger Move
• Satoshi-era bitcoin faces a bigger quantum threat after Google’s new Willow breakthrough
• Visa and Mastercard adopt USDC payouts across 200 countries