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Crypto majors are green and rebounding. BTC is up 1% at $110,800, ETH is up 2% at $3,940, BNB is up 2% at $1,120, and SOL is up 1% at $191. MYX (+14%), VIRTUAL (+13%), ZEC (+11%), and WLFI (+11%) led the top movers. Stocks and crypto flipped green yesterday ahead of the October 30th meeting between Trump and Xi in South Korea. JPMorgan announced plans to allow institutional clients to use Bitcoin and ETH as collateral for loans. Trump pardoned Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao. An alleged “Trump insider” whale closed a $200 million Bitcoin short and booked fresh profits, bringing its lifetime total to over $100 million on Hyperliquid. Revolut won a MiCA license in Cyprus and hinted that a stablecoin could be next. Ledger introduced its new Nano Gen 5 wallet, featuring a redesign from Apple designer Susan Kare. Trezor launched the “quantum-ready” Safe 7 hardware wallet.

Fidelity now offers Solana to its U.S. brokerage accounts – Solana price predictions eye a breakout move with deeper TradFi exposure. The post Solana Price Prediction: Fidelity Opens SOL Access to $5.8 Trillion Client Base – Will Institutions Drive the Next Leg Up? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Altcoin season has stayed constrained as the index holds near 24, keeping breadth thin. WLFI has risen on a policy headline linked to CZ, with volume up; Morpho has gained on consistent lending use; SPX6900 has firmed as meme activity has returned. Follow-through has depended on broader participation. The post WLFI Jumps on CZ Pardon; Morpho and SPX6900 Climb While Altcoin Season Index Stalls at 24 appeared first on Cryptonews.

On the bad side, SUI crypto took a hit this week, dropping from 2.67 to under 2.28 during the latest market crash.On the good side, its total value locked (TVL) recently hit an all-time high of 2.63 billion at the start of the month, putting it in 10th place among layer-1 networks, right behind Hyperliquid.Still, […] The post Sui Price Prediction: SUI Price Crashes 15% in A Week, Is There A Chance for Reversal in October 2025? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Bitcoin nears a key breakout level at $110.8K, forming an ascending triangle as analysts track cycles, valuations, and macro drivers.

After two years of waiting for an “altcoin season” that never came, retail crypto traders have missed out on roughly $800 billion in potential gains by betting against Bitcoin’s dominance. A new report from 10x Research shows that altcoins have lagged Bitcoin by that amount this cycle, marking one of the largest relative underperformances since […] The post How retail altcoin traders lost $800 billion betting against Bitcoin appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Matthew Modabber, Polymarket's CMO, confirmed the platform will launch a token and airdrop—but only after reentering the U.S. market.

The gaming firms behind FIFA and PUBG are betting on AI to transform their workflows, saying it’ll enable more creativity from humans.

Gemini’s trading growth is slowing despite strong card sign-ups and app downloads, said Citigroup, while Bullish momentum is accelerating.

Bitcoin flipped volatile as CPI data came in lower than expected, but failed to follow stocks as they hit fresh all-time highs on Fed rate-cut optimism. Key points: Bitcoin price action whipsaws around a cooler-than-expected CPI print. Optimism on risk assets increases, with the Federal Reserve seen continuing interest-rate cuts through 2026. Read more

A cooler inflation print reignited crypto risk appetite, lifting bitcoin above $110,000 while altcoins continued to underperform.

Crypto is growing significantly in user base and market cap—find out what key trends have emerged over the past year, according to a16z.

Quantum tech panic rises—Bitcoin price prediction hints at a looming bear market if encryption cracks sooner than expected. The post Bitcoin Price Prediction: Analyst Warns the Quantum Dilemma Could Lead To Serious Bitcoin Bear Markets – Is BTC Going Down? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Ethereum bulls pushed the price above $4,000 as traders monitored a smart trader’s activity and projected higher ETH prices. Key takeaways: Ether’s price tests $4,000 as a highly successful trader expects further gains in the ETH price. Traders say ETH is poised for an upside move, citing strong technicals and a declining balance on exchanges. Read more

Hedera (HBAR) was also a top performer, rising 3.5% from Thursday.

Traditional diversification enforces market mediocrity. Agentic AI tools offer retail investors institutional-grade analysis. Opinion by: Saad Naja, CEO of PiP World For decades, retail investors have been sold a lie: diversify, track the benchmark, play it safe. That lie has only one outcome: permanent mediocrity. Diversification has been Wall Street’s leash on the masses — a clever trick to keep households tethered to “average.” It protects you from ruin, yes, but it also ensures you’ll never be free. The ultra-wealthy have never played by those rules. They concentrate capital in paradigm shifts across AI, crypto and biotech with asymmetric upside. Read more

Analysts from the banking giant upgraded Coinbase to overweight from neutral and raised its price target on the stock to $404 from $342.

A major update to Counter-Strike 2’s item mechanics wiped nearly $2 billion from its $5.8 billion skin market, igniting debate over central control in gaming. The multibillion-dollar market for cosmetic items in the popular esports first-person shooter game Counter-Strike 2 crashed following an update to its mechanics. According to an Oct. 8 report by Esports News, the Counter-Strike 2 skin market at the time reached a new high of nearly $5.78 billion. A separate Thursday report by Eurogamer said that almost $2 billion of this market was liquidated following a recent game update. The game’s producer, Valve, has changed the trade-up system so that players can now convert five low-rarity (covert level) skins into a knife or a pair of gloves, which were previously exceedingly rare. That instantly increased the supply of knives and gloves, driving down their prices, while the value of the skins spiked amid newfound demand. Read more

Trading volume for BNB increased nearly 35% above its seven-day average, with market analysts suggesting the price movement reflects long-term accumulation.

Switzerland’s BTC-only investment app, Relai, obtained a MiCA license in France, aiming to bring Bitcoin to as many people as possible. Swiss Bitcoin-only investment app Relai is the latest crypto asset service provider (CASP) to receive approval under the European Union’s crypto regulatory framework. France’s financial markets regulator, Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), issued a Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) license to Relai on Thursday, according to official records. “We’re incredibly proud to be one of the first Bitcoin companies to get the MiCA license and are eager to expand to France first and Europe in a second step,” Relai co-founder and CEO Julian Liniger said in a statement shared with Cointelegraph on Friday. Read more