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Bitcoin spent Friday boxed in after Thursday's tech-led slide and a large US spot-product redemption, as oil jumped on Houthi strikes in Saudi Arabia and tanker risk near Hormuz kept risk appetite cautious. Spot products had taken in a strong week of creations before that outflow, so listed demand is two-sided into the weekend. Tesla and SpaceX both kept their entire bitcoin treasuries through the third quarter, a corporate overlay that still sits beside the listed-product tape. Watch dedicated product creations after this week's equity fade and the October 27-28 FOMC.

Bitcoin is opening October -- historically its strongest quarter -- after a standout third-quarter rebound driven by returning spot-ETF demand as futures leverage was unwound. US spot Bitcoin funds have extended a nine-session inflow streak, flipping year-to-date flows back into the black even as Treasury yields stay elevated and cap risk appetite. A large cluster of coins bought into the recent rally still sits just overhead, so the next move hinges on whether ETF creations stay strong enough to absorb that supply. Watch the October 2 US payrolls report, the next weekly ETF flow print, and how yields behave into the Fed's October 27-28 meeting.

Ethereum core developers postponed the Glamsterdam upgrade on the Hoodi testnet, previously set for October 26, to study how EIP-8037 interacts with mainnet contracts, and no replacement date has been set. That removes the last public rehearsal for enshrined proposer-builder separation and the planned Hoodi gas-limit lift, so the mainnet schedule stays unfixed. Ether is otherwise tracking bitcoin's quiet weekend tape after Thursday's risk-off session. Watch client notes that name a new Hoodi epoch, whether ether products start creating again, and the FOMC.

US spot Ether ETFs just snapped a seven-session inflow streak, posting a modest net outflow on Tuesday while Bitcoin funds kept buying -- a split that currently favors BTC in institutional allocations. The pause is small against the prior week's intake, so it reads as a cooldown rather than a demand reversal, but it puts daily creations under the microscope. On the protocol side, Glamsterdam is locked in for the Sepolia testnet on October 6, where enshrined proposer-builder separation and block-level access lists get their public trial. Watch the next ETF flow prints and fork health on October 6 -- a clean Sepolia activation is the next gate before any mainnet date.

BNB was the relative standout among large-cap exchange tokens as bitcoin digested Thursday's equity fade, sitting on top of the OCC's final GENIUS Act stablecoin rule taking effect in January 2027. HSBC's RedCoin rollout on PayMe is a licensed-stablecoin overlay for any venue whose dollar-token book sits outside the new issuer perimeter. ESMA's opinion that EU-authorized platforms should wind down services in non-MiCA stablecoins remains the European overlay. Watch how licensed-venue names hold through the FOMC.

BNB Chain added about 985,000 new stablecoin-holding addresses in the week through September 28, more than half of the combined growth across the top ten chains, extending its lead over Tron in wallet count. USDT drove most of those new addresses, though fresh stablecoin supply is still landing more on Solana, Ethereum, and Hyperliquid, making this a user-adoption story more than a capital-inflow story. Fee waivers, promotions, and MetaMask-style wallet compatibility have been the acquisition levers behind the wallet surge. Watch BNB Chain's Seoul event on October 2, closing Korea Blockchain Week, for ecosystem follow-through.

Ripple Swell in New York still runs October 27-29, combining the institutional conference with the Apex developer program, with speakers from BlackRock, the IMF, Nasdaq, CME and major banks. Cross River Bank and Arf are mapping RLUSD into payments and funding rails on the XRP Ledger, and dedicated XRP products posted a modest creation after a prior outflow stretch. New wallet creation on the ledger also printed a heavy session this week. Watch Swell comments on RLUSD and tokenization, and how payments names hold through the FOMC.

Brazil's licensed depository CSD BR has begun mirroring live BTG Pactual fund-share records onto the XRP Ledger as an audit layer, while its own systems remain the official record for registration, custody, and settlement. The first phase uses the ledger's Multi-Purpose Token standard so authorized banks can check ownership in near real time, with later stages aimed at native issuance of Brazilian receivables. Separately, Ripple's scheduled monthly escrow unlock of one billion XRP lands today, a routine 2017-era calendar event that still draws attention because only a fraction typically stays in circulation. Watch whether this month's unlock is largely re-escrowed, the next US spot XRP ETF flow prints, and whether CSD BR expands from fund-share mirroring toward native issuance.