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Your day-ahead look for Oct. 15, 2026 This is an excerpt from CoinDesk newsletter 'Daybook.' Sign up here, if you haven't already. Bitcoin BTC$80,972.85 has dropped more than 2% in the past 24 hours, with some of the other major coins such as XRP (XRP), ether ETH$2,365.30 and solana (SOL) sliding even further. The move looks less like a crypto-specific story and more like a broad-based exit from riskier investments.

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September inflation came in above forecasts and the selloff in AI stocks picked up speed, dragging bitcoin back toward last week’s low. September inflation came in above forecasts and the selloff in AI stocks picked up speed, dragging bitcoin back toward last week’s low. A hotter-than-expected U.S. inflation report briefly lifted bitcoin to nearly $84,000 on Wednesday, then sent it sliding to about $80,400 early Thursday. That’s just above last.

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Jeff Yan told Bloomberg that U.S. regulatory oversight should apply to the firms using the blockchain, not to the underlying network itself. Hyperliquid founder Jeff Yan wants U.S. regulators to oversee financial firms using his blockchain rather than the network itself. Companies operating trading markets on Hyperliquid should be responsible for meeting regulatory requirements, much like financial firms using internet infrastructure, Yan said Thursday in a Bloomberg interview. “The regulation.

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The country’s regulator, ASIC, has proposed tougher rules to protect users’ digital assets, crypto trading and to safeguard the country’s financial stability. Australia's financial regulator proposed new standards for cryptocurrency exchanges and digital asset custodians, setting out how companies must protect customer funds, execute trades and meet financial requirements under laws that take effect next year. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) said it opened a consultation on the.

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Police reportedly seized $4 million in cash and 64 luxury watches during a raid on the crypto founder's Istanbul residence. Richard Heart, the founder of crypto projects Hex, PulseChain and PulseX, was arrested in Istanbul on Wednesday in a joint operation by Turkish police and intelligence officers, according to local media reports. Heart, whose legal name is Richard James Schueler, was detained alongside his wife at a property in Istanbul's.

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BlackRock's CEO says "a moratorium of some sort" on data center buildouts would put the U.S. in a recession. Companies are pouring so much money into data centers that power artificial intelligence (AI) that any attempt to slow it could hurt the U.S. economy, not just the stock market. Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, made that clear Wednesday in a CNBC interview, while also warning.