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Not all tokens responded the same way to the rate hold. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Dogecoin registered gains in the hours following the Federal Open Market Committee announcement, according to market data tracked on CoinGecko .
Bitcoin's price rebounded on October 28, 2026, as the US Federal Reserve held interest rates steady and Chair Kevin Warsh addressed markets at the post-decision press conference, explaining the central bank's rationale for pausing its rate-hike cycle.
The Federal Reserve's October 27-28 FOMC meeting lands at a pivotal moment for both traditional markets and Bitcoin traders: the last confirmed policy action was a unanimous September 16 rate hike to a 3. 75%-4.
Ripple secured a significant regulatory milestone when the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted its approval, yet XRP's market price showed almost no meaningful reaction, a disconnect that points directly to a structural feature of the token: an estimated 68.
GraniteShares, a specialist ETF issuer known for its single-stock and commodity leveraged products, filed proposals for 3X leveraged funds tied to Bitcoin, XRP, and Ethereum. The SEC ‘s decision to delay rather than rule on those proposals means none of the three funds can move forward to listing at this stage.
Market-implied odds of the Federal Reserve holding interest rates unchanged at its October FOMC meeting have climbed to 92%, according to Bitcoin Magazine, signaling that traders are pricing in a near-certain pause as the central bank's next scheduled policy decision approaches.
XRP exchange withdrawals have climbed to their highest level in two months, drawing attention from traders positioning ahead of an upcoming Federal Reserve monetary policy decision.
A reported breach of GMO Trading Cloud has placed as many as 26,739 servers at potential risk, according to circulating reports that have not yet been independently verified.
Bitcoin is testing the $80,000 price level as a reported $550 million in crypto liquidations sweeps leveraged positions across the market. The $80K zone has become the immediate line in the sand, and whether it holds or breaks will set the tone for BTC's near-term direction.
A billionaire investor has issued a stark warning about Bitcoin's long-term survival, claiming that a future hack of the network could send the asset's price to zero.
Fee bumping, most commonly executed through Replace-by-Fee (RBF), lets a sender broadcast a revised version of an unconfirmed transaction with a higher miner fee.
XRP ETF investors have collectively put in roughly $1. 8 billion, but the current value of those holdings stands at approximately $1.
Proceeds from the X100 exploit have reportedly been distributed across four separate Ethereum wallets, each receiving 400 ETH, according to reporting by The Defiant. The split totals 1,600 ETH across the four addresses, a pattern that on-chain observers flagged as a deliberate post-exploit fund movement.
Bitcoin keeps refusing to break lower, and crypto analyst @jvisserlabs thinks that tells you more about the market's current conviction than any single price move could.
Ethereum exchanges recorded a net withdrawal of 169,770 ETH in a single day, the largest one-day outflow in more than four months, according to on-chain analytics platform Santiment.
A hacker exploited a previously unknown bug in Initia's blockchain infrastructure on October 23, 2026, minting and bridging out roughly $2. 7 million in digital assets before the network's validators halted the chain entirely, freezing all transactions across its L1 and connected rollups.
Tether has blacklisted a set of USDT wallet addresses connected to outflows from CoinDCX, the Indian cryptocurrency exchange, according to reporting by The Defiant.
According to reporting by CryptoSlate , Coinbase is dropping GYEN years after the token's price crash sparked investor lawsuits against the exchange. The October 26 date represents the hard deadline after which customers will no longer be able to send or receive GYEN on the platform.
Bitcoin and Ethereum both face the same underlying cryptographic threat from future quantum computers, but the two networks are approaching post-quantum wallet security through fundamentally different mechanisms, reflecting their contrasting governance models and account architectures.
Bitcoin dropped 3. 7% to approach the $81,500 level, a price zone identified as the aggregate cost basis for spot Bitcoin ETF holders, according to reporting by The Defiant.