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Bitcoin could reach $93,000 if yields ease and inflation cools: Analyst

Bitcoin has gained support from a fall in October Federal Reserve rate-hike odds to roughly 23% from 64%, but a move toward $93,000 still depends on lower Treasury yields and stronger buying, according to Bitget Wallets research lead.　　Summary$90,000–$93,000 remains Zhangs conditional upside range if yields ease and inflation data supports weaker employment.October rate-hike odds fell to roughly 23%, according to the analysts Oct. 5 assessment.U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted about $2.65 billion in September, Zhang said.A daily or weekly close above $87,400 would help confirm a breakout, in her view.　　Lacie Zhang, Research Lead at Bitget Wallet, told crypto.news that Bitcoin needs sustained purchases to turn the relief from weaker U.S. employment data into a lasting advance. Despite supportive ETF flows, she said repeated failures to hold above $87,000 suggest sellers are still absorbing incoming demand.　　Bitcoin needs buying support to reach $93,000　　In Zhang‘s assessment, easing Treasury yields and inflation readings that support September’s weak employment report could allow Bitcoin to extend toward $90,000–$93,000. Her forecast depends on both financial conditions and market demand, with neither lower rate expectations nor ETF subscriptions sufficient by themselves to confirm the move.　　The analyst identified roughly $87,400 as the price that buyers need to reclaim on

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AI Predicts ADA as an 11% Surge Catches Traders Off Guard

Cardano jumped 11% on Monday. Nobody can point to why. No partnership announcement, no upgrade, and no listing. ADA simply outperformed every major altcoin while Bitcoin got rejected at $87,000 for the second time in days. AI Predicts ADA holds this move better than a typical news pump because a rally without a catalyst is usually built on positioning rather than headlines.　　ADA trades at $0.2724, up 11.1% over 24 hours. The 24-hour range runs from $0.2442 to $0.2749, with $1.11 billion in volume and a market cap of $10.23 billion. The context supports the rotation reading. Bitcoin hit $87,000 on Monday morning, then sellers pushed it back below $85,500. Bitcoin dominance sits at 59%, and the total market cap is $2.93 trillion.　　News-driven moves have a predictable shape. Price spikes, early holders sell into the headline, and the gain fades within days. The catalyst is also the exit signal. A move with no identifiable trigger behaves differently. Buyers are acting on the chart, on rotation out of Bitcoin, or on positioning. None of those produces an obvious moment to sell.　　ADA was not alone. FET gained 15%, VIRTUAL 12%, ENA 7.5%, and NEAR 5%. Capital moved down the risk curve while Bitcoin

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Aptos proposes encrypted mempool to shield trades from frontrunning

Aptos Labs has proposed an encrypted mempool that would hide pending trade instructions until transaction ordering is complete, with its research team reporting 27 milliseconds of added proposal-to-execution latency in tests.　　SummaryAptos Labs says the proposed feature would protect pending orders while completed transactions remain public.Governance approval is a condition of the companys claim to become the first L1 offering native protection.Researchers reported 27 milliseconds of added latency, or 14%, compared with their baseline system.Aptos has also committed more than $50 million to products, research, trading infrastructure and AI partners.　　Aptos Labs outlined the proposal in an Oct. 30, 2025 blog post, describing an optional way to submit encrypted transactions without exposing their contents while validators decide their order.　　In its May 12, 2026 coverage, crypto.news reported the same encrypted mempool proposal as dependent on governance approval, with transaction details revealed before execution and the normal public record retained after confirmation.　　Aptos encrypted mempool would protect orders before execution　　According to the companys explanation, pending transactions on most blockchains expose information that validators and other participants can use to copy trades, change their order or trade ahead of users.　　In the May report, Aptos described protocol-level protection as a way to reduce orderflow leakage, censorship and

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Kraken parent adds 24/7 dollar settlement with Singapore Gulf Bank

Kraken parent company Payward has partnered with Singapore Gulf Bank (SGB) to enable 24/7 US dollar settlement for select institutional clients in Asia and the Gulf region.　　Payward has integrated SGB Net, the Bahrain-regulated banks real-time clearing network, allowing those clients to settle transactions instantly. The companies plan to expand the service to more clients and currencies, according to a Monday press release.　　The bank will also access digital asset liquidity through Payward‘s prime brokerage service, Kraken Prime, and use Payward’s markets to price customer trades in the coming months.　　Banks and financial firms are developing similar services to speed up settlement and extend it beyond business hours. A consortium including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Barclays plans to launch a tokenized deposit network operated by The Clearing House in the first half of 2027, enabling 24/7 settlement. In Japan, Circle and Nomura reportedly partnered to offer companies instant foreign exchange settlement from 2027.　　On Sept. 21, the Bank of Korea unveiled a pilot project to let foreign investors settle won transactions outside regular banking hours.

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FinCEN withdraws proposed crypto mixing rule over ‘legitimate activity’ concerns

The US Treasurys Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) withdrew two proposed rules affecting its enforcement of crypto companies, including one on “convertible virtual currency mixing.”　　According to a Monday notice, the agency will withdraw a December 2020 proposal that would have imposed “recordkeeping, verification, and reporting requirements” related to crypto transactions and unhosted wallets, as well as one affecting enforcement of crypto mixing services. FinCEN said that the mixer rule, initially proposed in October 2023, “could have a chilling effect on legitimate activity and place a large reporting burden on covered financial institutions.”　　“FinCEN has considered the comments submitted in response to these proposals and is withdrawing them as part of the Trump Administrations deregulatory agenda and ongoing efforts to ensure digital asset regulations are fit-for-purpose,” the Monday notice said.　　The US agency‘s regulatory action is the latest in a series of moves by departments tasked with overseeing crypto assets, citing the Trump administration’s crypto agenda. Earlier today, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Michael Selig announced that the agency was using its “existing statutory authorities” to propose two rules on how crypto companies could operate under its purview without additional authority from Congress.　　Many advocacy groups for the crypto and blockchain industry lauded FinCEN

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ZachXBT infiltrates $1B crypto syndicate to expose Lazarus Group

Blockchain investigator ZachXBT said he infiltrated a Chinese laundering syndicate by posing as a cryptocurrency client and funding repeated stablecoin trades.　　Related Asset Tether USDT · Stablecoin　　In an Oct. 5 disclosure, he alleges the network laundered more than $1 billion across exploits for Lazarus Group.　　He said he fronted 349,700 USDC to build a relationship with a contact using the alias Jimmy Green. According to his account, the repeated exchanges led to private conversations about moving funds stolen from Bybit in 2025.　　Related Person ZachXBT On-chain Sleuth · Crypto Space　　He reported tracing a cluster involving more than $12 million in Bybit funds and a later 442,000 USDT freeze by Tether.　　Related Asset USDC USDC · Stablecoin　　Becoming a client　　ZachXBT said the investigation began after the February 2025 Bybit exploit, when he noticed at least 15 accounts asking for help with orders he linked to stolen funds in public Telegram and Discord groups.　　Related Company Bybit Cryptocurrency derivatives exchange　　He contacted several of those accounts. One was Jimmy Green, the Telegram alias of the person with whom he subsequently exchanged funds.　　On March 6, 2025, ZachXBT said he funded a new Ethereum address with 349,700 USDC in preparation for transactions with the contact. The arrangement involved sending his USDC

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Advocacy group pushes back on banks lawsuit against OCC over charters

The Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI) has backed the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency‘s (OCC’s) move to approve several charters for crypto companies, saying a lawsuit filed by the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) was an attempt to stifle innovation.　　On Monday, CCI CEO Ji Hun Kim said that the ICBA lawsuit was a “clear attempt to resist national trust charters, payments innovation, and competition in financial services.” The crypto advocacy organization supported the OCCs approvals and conditional approvals of crypto companies for national trust charters, despite accusations from some lawmakers that exchanges “want to evade the fundamental safeguards and obligations that come with being a bank.”　　The ICBA legal action, filed on Friday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, alleged that the OCC approved US bank charters for entities, including crypto companies, without sufficient safeguards or compliance with requirements normally used for banks.　　“Congress did not create the national trust charter as a side door into the banking system for crypto firms seeking the credibility of a federal bank charter without the Community Reinvestment Act obligations, consolidated supervision, capital and liquidity standards, and FDIC insurance that apply to insured depository institutions,” said ICBA president and

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US credit spreads eased on October 2 after widening beyond the weakest borrowers

US corporate credit spreads widened beyond the weakest borrowers from September 25 to October 1, creating a broader test of whether tighter financing and reduced institutional risk-taking could pressure Bitcoin. The largest increase remained concentrated in CCC-and-lower debt, while investment-grade bonds showed a much smaller rise.　　Related Asset Bitcoin #1 BTC · $85,673.70 24-hour change: up 0.30% Loading price history… 24H Up 0.30% 7D Up 2.81% 30D Up 7.34%　　These option-adjusted spreads measure the premium over a Treasury curve. Their widening shows investors demanding more compensation to hold corporate debt. A borrowers total interest cost also depends on the Treasury component.　　The ICE BofA CCC credit spread climbed from 11.28% to 12.15%, an increase of 87 basis points. Over the same dates, the broad high-yield spread rose from 2.93% to 3.24%, or 31 basis points. The investment-grade corporate spread increased from 0.81% to 0.86%, or 5 basis points.　　All three comparisons use daily closing observations for September 25 and October 1, 2026. FREDs October 5 updates added October 2 readings of 12.02% for CCC-and-lower debt, 3.10% for broad high yield and 0.85% for investment-grade debt. All three eased from October 1 while remaining above their September 25 levels.　　The investment-grade move is the clearest evidence

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Can Hedera price break $0.12 in October as weekly signals turn bullish？

Hedera price has retreated about 23% from its late-September peak near $0.131, leaving HBAR close to $0.101 as traders assess whether support at $0.10 can hold through October.　　TradingViews Binance HBAR/USDT daily chart places Hedera at $0.10120, down 2.70% for the displayed session. The token traded between $0.10019 and $0.10489, keeping the latest decline close to the round-number support level.　　The late-September advance briefly carried HBAR toward $0.131 before a steep reversal returned it to the low-$0.10 range. Based on those chart levels, the retreat amounts to approximately 22.7%, while a return to the peak would require a gain of about 29.4% from $0.10120.　　The daily and weekly charts present different conditions. Daily price action shows weaker momentum after the spike, but the weekly chart retains a bullish Supertrend signal and a positive momentum reading. Octobers recovery case therefore depends on whether nearby support survives while HBAR works through resistance above its current price.　　Hedera price faces an early test at $0.1117　　On TradingViews daily chart, the Ichimoku conversion line stands at $0.11166, while the base line is $0.10146. HBAR sits just below the base line and roughly 9.4% below the conversion line, placing two separate hurdles above the latest price.　　Hedera price daily chart —

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Crypto Sleuth ZachXBT Fronted $350K to Pose as a Client of Lazarus' Chinese Launderers

In briefZachXBT says he fronted 349.7K USDC on March 6, 2025, and accepted a 5% loss on each order while posing as a client of a Chinese laundering syndicate.He says the operation exposed a $12M+ cluster of Bybit exploit funds, and that Tether later froze 442K USDT linked to it.He says he has helped action $75M+ in freezes tied to North Korean incidents since 2022, and funds his work through grants and donations.　　Most on-chain sleuths trace stolen crypto from the sidelines. The pseudonymous ZachXBT says he wired $349,700 of his own money to the people moving it.　　“Posing as a client, I gathered intel that helped action freezes for the Feb 2025 Bybit exploit and attribute illicit activity onchain.” he wrote on X. ZachXBT explained the group was a Chinese gang working for North Korea.　　Myriad: Where does Ethereum go next？ Click to make your prediction.　　That exploit he is referencing caused $1.5 billion in losses to the crypto exchange Bybit. The FBI attributed the incident to North Korean hackers it tracks as TraderTraitor. The alleged launderers, ZachXBT says, were not exactly hiding.　　For those who dont spend their days on “Crypto Twitter” tracking the everyday goings on of crypto hacks and exploits, ZachXBT

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