Murphy: BTC accumulates 921000 chips near $83000, at a critical point in the long short game

" OKX has announced the addition of Bitway (BTW) to multiple services, including futures contracts, officially launching on 2026-10-22 at 16:00 (UTC+8). Notes: - The BTWUSDT perpetual contract will officially launch on October 22, 2026, at 16:00 (UTC+8). - This contract supports leverage from 0.01x to 20x. - The funding fee settlement cycle is 4 hours. If the rate reaches the upper or lower limit, the settlement frequency will automatically adjust to once per hour.

Coldcard hardware wallet manufacturer Coinkite and its co founders Rodolfo Novak and Peter D. Gray are facing a class action lawsuit in Ontario, Canada. The lawsuit alleges that the standard firmware used by Coldcard hardware wallet since March 2021 has defects, as it does not use a true random number generator but relies on a predictable software pseudo-random number generator, which may result in mnemonic words being reproduced and users facing unauthorized access risks to their Bitcoin holdings. The lawsuit requests collective authentication and claims that Coinkite violated the Consumer Protection Law and the Sales of Goods Law, as well as allegations of negligence and breach of contract, and demands compensation.

After Papertrade announced the ban on token PAPER conversion, its daily revenue fell to $178000, falling out of the top 20 in terms of protocol revenue. Papertrade had a total revenue of 61.96 million US dollars in the 12 days since its launch, ranking among the top 3 in terms of revenue in the past 7 days. Since the announcement of the ban on token PAPER conversion on October 20th, user trading activity has decreased and the protocol TVL has dropped to $40 million. PaperTrade founder Jez stated that the transferability of tokens does not change users' choices for trading on PaperTrade.

Past steep rallies ran on about $235 million a day of net inflows into ETFs. The funds are yet to match that pace, according to data analyzed by CoinDesk.

The Ethereum community has released a decoupling consensus EIP draft, proposing to introduce a new consensus mechanism on the Ethereum beacon chain, decoupling available chain head voting from final proof of proof, laying the foundation for post quantum transition, improving fork selection security, and shortening final confirmation time.