The open interest of perpetual contracts in the cryptocurrency market has decreased to $67 billion, while RWA contracts have increased to $9 billion

[Marc Vanlerberghe Resigns as Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer of the Algorand Foundation] Marc Vanlerberghe has resigned as Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer of the Algorand Foundation and will run Algorand nodes and the Reti mining pool in the future. Previously, Chief Technology Officer Bruno Martins left around October 9, and former CEO Staci Warden stepped down in August, succeeded by William Herkelrath. The new CEO is reviewing foundation projects and partnerships, and the foundation has reduced its team by approximately 25%.

As of October 15, 2026, Bitcoin fell back to the support level of approximately $81000 three times on October 9, 12, and 15. Analyst Murphy stated that the three dips correspond to a decreasing scale of realized losses, indicating that the market is in a phase of clearing out swing chips. At present, the proportion of short-term holder losses is about 31%, which is lower than the historical cumulative average of 42.7%. The chips have not been fully cleared, and there will still be fluctuations and selling pressure in the future. If the price remains near the support zone and the release of losses weakens, passive selling will decrease.

Vitalik stated in an article on the X platform that the speed competition of zkEVMs has achieved a decisive victory, and the primary task should shift to security, including formally verifying the equivalence between arithmetic and Ethereum specifications, setting a hard upper limit on the ratio of prover cost to total block gas, and proving the security of the system itself.

The price of ETH may fall to $2300.86 and $2289.78, and the market faces the risk of liquidating the whale's long position of 79259 ETH ($187.21 million). （Lookonchain）

On October 15th, the Korean stock exchange initiated a circuit breaker mechanism for the Korean KOSPI index, with trading suspended for 20 minutes. This is the tenth time this year that the circuit breaker mechanism has been triggered in the Korean stock market. (Source: Jin Shi)