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BTW has fallen by 4.37% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, BTW is trading at $1.72.

On-chain analyst Darkfost said Bitcoin long-term holder profitability is recovering, a pattern that has appeared near the end of past bear market cycles. Darkfost said Bitcoin’s LTH SOPR, or the spent output profit ratio for long-term holders, has moved back above its annual average of 1.10 and is holding that level. That suggests long-term holders realized an average profit of about 10% over the past year. As of today, the weekly average stood at 1.25 and the monthly average at 1.16, with both above the annual average. Darkfost said this signals market conditions have improved enough to put long-term holders back in profit, and described the recovery in long-term holder profitability as an interesting signal when compared with patterns that marked the end of previous bear markets.

Eclair, a Bitcoin Lightning Network node software client, has merged fixes into its master branch for two critical flaws that could drain node funds through excessive mining fees during channel openings and splicing, a technique that adjusts Bitcoin capacity without closing a channel. The patch set, PR #3388 and #3390, blocks a loophole that could let a malicious counterparty abuse RBF to force the other node to pay high mining fees and strengthens validation logic against false transactions. The latest official release remains v0.14.3 from September, so Eclair node operators are advised to verify whether the October patch code has been incorporated into their own builds.

Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee said a roughly $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion generational wealth transfer between 2026 and 2028 could help drive the next crypto bull market, as younger heirs tend to have a higher appetite for risk assets. Lee, a Wall Street veteran who co-founded financial research and asset management firm Fundstrat in 2014 and serves as its chief investment officer, cited estimates from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and Fundstrat in saying about $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion in wealth is expected to change hands from 2026 to 2028. Lee said younger generations receiving inheritances show stronger risk appetite for virtual assets and stocks, and the ongoing wealth transfer is expected to support the coming crypto bull market. Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev previously made a similar point in an interview with CNBC, saying more than $100 trillion in wealth will shift from older generations to younger ones over the coming decades, and a larger share of inherited funds than in prior generations could flow into virtual assets, creating additional demand.

Strategy’s perpetual preferred stock STRC rose above $99.80 for the first time in 150 days and touched $99.84 intraday, moving close to its symbolic $100 par value.

According to Santiment, Bitcoin posted a net inflow of 11,593 BTC to major centralized exchanges over the past three days, lifting total exchange holdings to around 3.67 million BTC. Longer-term on-chain indicators, however, still showed net outflows dominating. As of Oct. 12, the 30-day net outflow from exchanges stood at 28,599 BTC. Exchange outflows are generally interpreted as investors accumulating holdings.

Major payments and crypto companies including Stripe, Mastercard, and Circle have spent more than $3 billion on stablecoin infrastructure acquisitions over the past two years. Representative deals include Stripe’s acquisition of Bridge for more than $1 billion, Mastercard’s acquisition of BVNK for as much as $1.8 billion, and Circle’s acquisition of Tazapay for $400 million. Clearer regulatory frameworks and surging demand for real-time cross-border settlement drove the large deals. In 2025, adjusted stablecoin transaction volume jumped 91% from a year earlier to $10.9 trillion, closing in on Visa’s $14.2 trillion, while real-world payment volume more than doubled to $390 billion, accelerating the convergence of traditional finance and on-chain payments infrastructure.

Harneys, a global law firm, and tokenization platform DropRWA plan to issue a tokenized catastrophe bond in early 2027 with legal ownership recorded on-chain, CoinDesk reported. According to Swiss Re, insured losses covered just $107 billion of $220 billion in global natural disaster losses last year. While traditional catastrophe bonds have typically catered to large institutions with minimum investments of $250,000, the tokenized structure is intended to broaden fractional access to the asset and expand access to capital. It is also expected to serve as a dedicated funding channel for high-risk disasters such as floods and typhoons in Southeast Asia, where limited loss data has often kept traditional reinsurers away.

Organizers of the “Don’t Get Played” security workshop held during TOKEN2049 in Singapore are facing allegations that attendees were pressured to install a remote-control app on their devices. The event, hosted by Apex Accelerator and Stone Venture, was offered free of charge on wallet security checks and scam prevention, and drew participants with a one-year free pass for security software covering up to $1 million in rewards. However, complaints spread on X, formerly Twitter, from alleged victims who said they were forced on-site to install an app capable of remotely controlling their devices, and the matter has reportedly been taken to police.

Bitcoin is retesting support after breaking above the top of its recent range, and buying interest is urgently needed to defend the $80,000 level, well-known trader Killa said. Killa said if strong buying does not emerge at the $80,000 support level, the latest rebound could act as a trap that draws in investors before a further correction toward $76,000-$78,000, making this a key inflection point for Bitcoin’s next move. Killa added there is no need for Bitcoin to sweep the previous low again to secure liquidity, noting the market has already seen around $2 billion in forced liquidations.

Nasdaq-listed TROOPS will acquire and merge with Efforce, a blockchain-based energy efficiency platform founded in 2020 by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, through a stock-for-stock transaction with a minimum deal value of $40 million. TROOPS, which has been exploring an expansion into digital asset infrastructure and cryptocurrency trading, plans to integrate Efforce’s blockchain and green sustainability technology into its own financial and technology infrastructure through the merger. Wozniak will remain a major Efforce shareholder after the deal.

Quantofi, a cryptocurrency analytics platform from Irish fintech firm Quantmatics, has officially launched a global AI-based virtual asset trading analytics platform in partnership with Crypto.com. The platform uses its proprietary 'Q Score' engine to analyze momentum across 215 virtual assets on time frames ranging from one hour to monthly candles, while providing quantified risk indicators such as target prices and stop-loss levels.

Major crypto-themed stocks listed in the U.S. turned higher during trading. Strategy (MSTR) rose 2.04%, while Coinbase (COIN) gained 2.08%. American Bitcoin (ABTC) jumped 6.73%. Other related stocks also traded higher, including Circle (CRCL), up 0.91%, BIT Mining (BMNR), up 1.01%, and Robinhood (HOOD), up 0.34%.

An anonymous whale address sold BTC and bought 16,704.47 ETH worth about $42.46 million over the past 22 hours, according to on-chain analyst ai_9684xtpa. The average ETH purchase price was $2,541.89.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recommended PopVax, a vaccine development project focused on open-source and open-science approaches, in a post on X. He said he encourages people to look into PopVax, including not only those who support vaccines but also those who are critical of them and believe development can produce positive outcomes if it is carried out in an open, public-interest manner.

BTC could face a deeper pullback to $77,400 if it falls below $81,300 and ETF outflows continue, according to a Bitfinex Alpha report. Bitfinex said the recent BTC correction resembles declines seen during past recovery phases, while there has been no sign of large-scale selling by investors who bought within the previous trading range. Spot buying demand, however, remains weak. Bitfinex added that the average purchase price for investors in spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds is estimated at about $84,340, and with BTC now trading below that level, some investors who reach break-even during a rebound could emerge as sellers.

Bank of England Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden said there is no need to rush the introduction of a digital pound, a central bank digital currency for the general public, Bloomberg reported. Speaking at an event linked to the International Monetary Fund’s annual meeting in Bangkok, Breeden said innovation in digital payments is advancing rapidly and explained that whether to introduce a digital pound depends on whether the benefits of tokenization and financial innovation can be achieved through other means.

The three major U.S. stock indices opened mixed today. - S&P 500: +0.07% - Nasdaq: -0.15% - Dow Jones: +0.03%

Crypto analyst KillaXBT said Bitcoin’s short-term holder, or STH, supply has entered an overheated zone similar to past market cycles, suggesting the market may have already formed a bottom. KillaXBT said that in previous cycles, BTC moved out of its macro low before short-term holder supply expanded to overheated levels. The similar pattern now appearing is another signal supporting a market bottom, KillaXBT said. In 2023, after the metric reached an overheated zone, BTC maintained its higher-timeframe, or HTF, uptrend and posted further gains, according to the analyst. With a similar pattern now being observed, KillaXBT said there is no need to be overly swayed by the fear and greed index, adding that irrational market behavior can persist far longer than expected.

Bank of America raised its price target for Coinbase to $203 from $174 ahead of the company’s third-quarter earnings release, Crowdfund Insider reported today. Bank of America analyst Craig Siegenthaler maintained a buy rating on Coinbase.

Bitmine said it bought an additional 12,532 ETH last week, bringing its total holdings to 6.03 million ETH. Of that amount, 5,067,309 ETH is currently staked. The company said its ETH holdings account for 4.9% of total supply, meaning it has reached 99% of its goal to secure 5% of the total supply.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has fallen below $83,000. BTC is trading at $82,980 on the Binance USDT market.

Solana treasury firm DeFi Development announced it bought an additional 22,070 SOL, worth about $2.45 million, over the past week. The company’s total SOL holdings rose to 2,586,282, and the balance is up about 12% since its second-quarter earnings release in August.

On-chain analyst Darkfost said on X that Binance’s share of Ethereum futures open interest has reached about 49%, the highest level since 2023. Since late September, ETH has fallen about 10% from $2,775 to $2,500, and Binance’s dollar-denominated open interest has declined by $600 million. However, open interest measured in ETH has recovered to about 2.46 million ETH, back to late-September levels. Darkfost said futures market participation has held up despite the price correction and large-scale long liquidations.

An address tied to SkyAI, formerly Sharp Technology, transferred 211,623 SOL worth $23.49 million to Coinbase Prime about 30 minutes ago, EmberCN reported. Including this latest exchange transfer, EmberCN said SkyAI is estimated to have sold about 1.25 million SOL worth $138 million over the past five days. SkyAI had said in a disclosure announced yesterday that it recently sold about 1 million SOL.