The euro got the data it wanted on Friday, October 30 — and still could not break out. Eurozone GDP grew 0.4% in the third quarter, double the 0.2% forecast in a Reuters poll, with annual growth of 1.3% beating the 1.1% expected. EUR/USD pushed to about 1.1215, then stalled, gave back the gains, and closed the month around $1.12 with a decline of more than 1% for October. A beat that...
A new Layer-1 blockchain built specifically for artificial intelligence agents went live on October 26, 2026 — and its first week says as much about the market for "AI chains" as it does about the technology. Ritual, an EVM-compatible Layer-1 from the Ritual Foundation, launched its mainnet alongside the generation of its native RITUAL token, which Coinbase listed. The token fell from a...
A memecoin is a cryptocurrency whose value comes mostly from community attention, jokes and social momentum rather than from a product or revenue. That is not a criticism — it is the definition, and it explains both why memecoins can rise so fast and why they carry a specific kind of danger that other crypto assets do not. The most notorious version of that danger is the rug pull: an exit...
October 2026 ended the way it traded for most of the month: violently, in both directions. United States spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded $643.2 million in net outflows on October 30, according to Farside Investors data, ending a four-day inflow streak and flipping October's monthly balance back into the red. The final October tally stands at a $515.9 million net outflow — a...