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- The latest development is Strategy's October 12 filing, which shows it bought 250 BTC for $21.5 million at an average of $86,194 for October 5 to 11 and lifted its holdings to 848,250 BTC 1. The main regulatory item remains the CFTC's October 5 advance notice of proposed rulemaking, which seeks comment on a federal framework for retail leveraged and margined crypto trading and a new crypto asset market category for designated contract markets 2.
- The pooled 24/7 venue price of $83,351.65 at 11:53 UTC on October 13 is up 1.88% from the previous close of $81,813.40, after a 7.27% gain on August 21 that took BTC toward $80,000 following the Treasury's decision to at least double long-end bond buybacks 3 and a 6.7% gain on September 21 in a broad risk-on rally that coverage tied to lower Treasury yields and roughly $999 million of spot ETF inflows. The Senate's September 15 cloture vote on the CLARITY Act failed 49-50, 11 votes short of 60, which pushes the market-structure bill further out 4.
- Across the 15 pooled venues, open interest is about $21.74 billion, 24-hour volume is about $40.63 billion and the 8-hour funding rate is 0.005557%. US spot bitcoin ETFs took in about $6.34 billion of net inflows in the third quarter of 2026, although they had a net outflow of roughly $149 million on September 30 5. Strategy's USD Reserve fell to $4.88 billion from $5.02 billion in late September, and the filing shows the reserve funding preferred buybacks alongside bitcoin purchases 1.
- Next, Coinbase's Q3 2026 earnings are estimated for October 29, 2026 but are not yet confirmed, Strategy reports its Q3 2026 results on October 29, 2026 at 20:00 UTC, and the September 2026 CPI release is due on October 14, 2026 at 12:30 UTC.
- Polymarket odds give a 28.5% chance that BTC reaches $100,000 by December 31, 2026, a 51.5% chance that it reaches $87,500 in October 2026 and a 6.5% chance that it dips to $50,000 by December 31, 2026.
Strategy (company press release) · Oct 12
CFTC · Oct 5
US Treasury · Aug 19
The Defiant · Sep 15
Cointelegraph · Sep 30
Every venue
| Venue | Price | vs pool | 24h vol | Open int. | Funding 8h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| binance perp BTCUSDT · just now | 83,157.40 | 0.00% | $13.81B | $7.80B | 0.0042% |
| okx perp BTC-USDT-SWAP · just now | 83,160.50 | +0.01% | $6.94B | $2.43B | 0.0054% |
| bybit perp BTCUSDT · just now | 83,150.20 | −0.01% | $5.82B | $4.67B | 0.0013% |
| hyperliquid perp BTC · just now | 83,165.50 | +0.01% | $3.24B | $3.19B | 0.0100% |
| bitget perp BTCUSDT · just now | 83,156.50 | 0.00% | $3.19B | $2.68B | 0.0047% |
| binance spot BTCUSDT · just now | 83,195.88 | +0.05% | $1.32B | — | — |
| bybit spot BTCUSDT · just now | 83,198.20 | +0.05% | $886.6M | — | — |
| lighter perp 1 · just now | 83,166.80 | +0.01% | $848.3M | $158.6M | 0.0096% |
| aster perp BTCUSDT · just now | 83,160.00 | 0.00% | $575.8M | $458.9M | 0.0044% |
| okx spot BTC-USDT · just now | 83,188.00 | +0.04% | $537.7M | — | — |
| coinbase spot BTC-USD · just now | 83,091.89 | −0.08% | $442.6M | — | — |
| kraken perp PF_XBTUSD · just now | 83,095.00 | −0.07% | $351.8M | $174.0M | 0.0079% |
| bitget spot BTCUSDT · just now | 83,194.81 | +0.05% | $261.6M | — | — |
| hyperliquid spot @142 · just now | 83,093.00 | −0.08% | $64.9M | — | — |
| dydx perp BTC-USD · just now | 83,109.05 | −0.06% | $5.9M | $17.0M | 0.0078% |
| coinbase perp BTC-PERP · stale | — | — | — | — | — |
Pooled price = volume-weighted median of venues within 2% of each other.
Open interest, 120 days
US$ millions, all venues
Funding, 120 days
Annualised %, OI-weighted. Positive: longs pay shorts.
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