Germany's savings banks started offering crypto trading on October 19, 2026, through DekaBank. Five banks went live first, with bitcoin and four other tokens on sale and each order costing 0.99 euros. The catch: DekaBank holds the keys, so customers cannot move coins to their own wallet.
BlackRock asked the SEC on October 19, 2026 to approve the iShares Bitcoin Managed Protection ETF, a fund that would limit losses to about the first 10% of a drop while capping gains. It holds no bitcoin directly and has no fee or launch date yet.
The UAE charges no personal income tax on crypto gains and has exempted most transfers from VAT. But business profits, fee-based services and your home country can still create a bill.
It was 59.59 per cent on 20 October 2026. The numerator is the cleanest market capitalisation in crypto. The denominator includes dollar tokens that never move and 22,000 assets that mostly cannot be sold at their quoted price.
A token on another chain backed one-for-one by bitcoin held elsewhere. Just over one per cent of all bitcoin is wrapped. The mechanics, the live supply figures, and what the WBTC custody fight showed about the risk.
An exchange, a payment app, a peer-to-peer trade or a kiosk. The steps are similar, the costs are not, and the taxable event fires when you sell rather than when the money reaches your bank.
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Germany's biggest banking group is putting bitcoin and four other tokens in front of tens of millions of ordinary customers.
Our read: The launch is real and confirmed on DekaBank's own product page, with five savings banks live on 19 October 2026 and more than 230 saying they want to join. The limits are just as real. Customers never hold their own keys, cannot withdraw to a personal wallet, and the coins carry no deposit insurance. The group is running no advertising and has given no day-one customer numbers.
BlackRock's new fund offers Bitcoin upside with built-in downside protection, limiting losses to about the first 10 percent of a drop.
Our read: The filing is real and the SEC document lays out the 90 percent protection level and the three-tranche structure. But it is only a draft: no fee, no listing exchange and no launch date, the fund holds no bitcoin directly, gains are capped, and BlackRock itself says the protection is not guaranteed and resets each month, so losses can run past 10 percent.
Falling bitcoin dominance signals an altcoin season, so the ratio can be traded as an indicator.
Our read: Dominance is a ratio of two market capitalisations and therefore lags the price moves that produced it. It can also move with no trading at all, when a token unlocks new supply or a stablecoin issuer mints new tokens, because stablecoins sit in the denominator and were 9.28 per cent of the total on 20 October 2026.
Wrapped bitcoin lets you put your bitcoin to work on other chains with no real downside, because it is backed one-for-one.
Our read: One-for-one backing is a promise by a custodian, not a property of the Bitcoin network. The peg holds through redemption arbitrage, which is the first thing suspended in a crisis. In 2024 the original wrapped bitcoin kept its backing intact and still lost much of its market because the custody arrangement changed.
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Germany's savings banks started offering crypto trading on October 19, 2026, through DekaBank. Five banks went live first, with bitcoin and four other tokens on sale and each order costing 0.99 euros. The catch: DekaBank holds the keys, so customers cannot move coins to their own wallet.
JPMorgan's Kinexys unit has issued its JPM Coin deposit token on Ethereum mainnet, giving approved institutional clients a second public blockchain for around-the-clock dollar transfers. The token stays locked to vetted firms and does not trade on open markets.
Charles Schwab has opened spot bitcoin and ether trading to all eligible clients, the brokerage said on its October 15 earnings call. The firm holds $13.33 trillion in client assets and plans to add three more coins by year-end, though trades cost 0.75% each.
A token on another chain backed one-for-one by bitcoin held elsewhere. Just over one per cent of all bitcoin is wrapped. The mechanics, the live supply figures, and what the WBTC custody fight showed about the risk.
Zero-knowledge computing project Cysic suspended its cross-chain bridge on October 17 after an attacker minted 10 million CYS tokens and cashed part of the supply out for about 306 ETH. The foundation says user wallets and its mainnet were untouched.
Solana will switch on its Alpenglow upgrade on October 21, replacing the TowerBFT voting system it has run since 2020 and targeting transaction finality of about 150 milliseconds, down from roughly 12.8 seconds. SOL holders need take no action.
BlackRock asked the SEC on October 19, 2026 to approve the iShares Bitcoin Managed Protection ETF, a fund that would limit losses to about the first 10% of a drop while capping gains. It holds no bitcoin directly and has no fee or launch date yet.
It was 59.59 per cent on 20 October 2026. The numerator is the cleanest market capitalisation in crypto. The denominator includes dollar tokens that never move and 22,000 assets that mostly cannot be sold at their quoted price.
Regulated futures, perpetual futures, inverse ETFs and borrowed coins are four different instruments with four different ways of losing money. The mechanics of each, the costs that run while you wait, and what the regulators say.