Crypto Pulse—Industry Perspectives

Key TakeawaysEthereum's Glamsterdam upgrade was set to go live on the Hoodi testnet on October 26, 2026, at 17:42:48 UTC, but developers postponed it on October 22.The delay came after security firm ChainSecurity warned that EIP-8037, a gas repricing change, could let attackers grief some existing smart contracts. It found 13 potentially affected contracts on mainnet.No new Hoodi date has been set, and the planned increase in Hoodi's gas limit to 200 million was also removed.Early December mainn

Key TakeawaysAbout $178.7 million in tokens are scheduled to unlock from October 26 to November 1, 2026, according to DefiLlama, including $72.9 million in one-time cliff unlocks. That is lighter than last week.Falcon Finance (FF) leads the cliff unlocks with about 211 million tokens worth roughly $20.7 million on October 29, equal to about 6.6% of its circulating supply.GateToken (GT) releases about $65.4 million worth of tokens on October 26, but that is only about 0.5% of its total supply.Col

Key TakeawaysThe Federal Reserve announces its rate decision on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. ET, with markets expecting it to hold rates at 3.75% to 4.00%.CME FedWatch showed a 90.6% chance of a hold and a 9.4% chance of a hike on October 24, down sharply from near coin-flip odds after the hot September CPI report.The bigger question is December: FedWatch prices about a 74% chance of at least one more hike, and all 100 economists in a Reuters poll expect one.Bitcoin trades near $80,

Hedera is preparing to upgrade its mainnet to version v0.78.2 on Wednesday, October 28, marking another technical update for the network as blockchain infrastructure continues to evolve. The scheduled maintenance is set to begin at 17:00 UTC and is expected to take approximately 40 minutes, during which users may experience temporary disruption to network services.The upgrade follows Hedera's recent move to v0.78.1 on October 16. While v0.78.2 is not being presented as a major network overhaul,

PrefaceFranklin Templeton, the global asset manager, has put another $150 million of its tokenized money market fund on the XRP Ledger (XRPL). The token is called sgBENJI.According to CoinDesk, the addition raised the fund's balance on the network from about 48 million shares to nearly 193 million, worth about $200 million.For XRP holders, the obvious question is whether this is good for the XRP price. The answer is more interesting than a simple yes or no. In this article, you will learn what s

PrefaceOn October 21, 2026, Solana changed the system that decides when a transaction is final. The Solana Alpenglow upgrade replaced TowerBFT, the voting method used since 2020, with a new design built by Anza. Its goal is 150ms finality, meaning a transaction becomes impossible to reverse in about a seventh of a second. TheSolana Foundation says it was activated in epoch 1064, at about 13:36 UTC.Much of the coverage skips the details that matter. The 150ms figure is a target. The old 12.8-seco

PrefaceOn October 21, 2026, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued its final GENIUS Act rule, the first federal rulebook that turns the U.S. stablecoin law into day-to-day requirements for payment stablecoin issuers. Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould called it a "clear, practical framework."Bitcoin Magazine reported that the OCC is the first federal regulator to complete its part of the framework. The rule and the Act both take effect on January 18, 2027.For

IntroductionOracle (NYSE: ORCL) closed at $126.16, up a modest $0.62 or 0.49% on the day, a small bright spot in what has been one of the ugliest stretches of any large tech stock in 2026. The number that stops people cold is the 1 year return: down 56.34%. Add in a 14.9% drop over the past month and a further 3.4% slide over the past 5 days, and this is a stock that has gone from AI darling to cautionary tale in a matter of months.This ORCL technical analysis walks through the price action, sup

IntroductionThe Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) has quietly staged one of the steadier comebacks in large-cap media this fall. After a rough stretch that took shares as low as $92.19 earlier in 2026, DIS stock closed at $112.52 on Friday, October 23, 2026, down a modest 0.54% on the day but up 8.74% over the past month and sitting near the top of its 52-week range.This DIS technical analysis covers the trend, key support and resistance levels, moving averages, momentum indicators, and the analys

1. IntroductionChevron (NYSE: CVX) closed at $233.21 on October 23, 2026, after a 2.88% gain, and is sitting on a 52% rise over the past year. The stock has been one of the strongest names in the energy sector in 2026, lifted by record U.S. production, a sharp jump in quarterly profit and rising oil prices tied to Middle East supply fears. Shares are also up 4.16% over the past five trading days and 14.44% over the past month, putting CVX at a fresh 52-week high heading into its third-quarter ea