Short answer: On Saturday, October 17, 2026, about $51.6 million of leveraged chip-stock perpetual futures were force-closed in roughly ten minutes, between 21:22 and 21:32 UTC. US stock markets were shut. About $38 million of it was longs. No official share price existed to anchor the move. If you hold a stock perp over a…
Short answer: Coinbase said on October 7, 2026 that its Deribit integration is complete. Eligible US institutions can onboard through Coinbase Prime now. Eligible retail traders outside the US are promised options in the coming weeks. US retail is planned for later in 2026 with no firm date. A new matching engine and updated Advanced…
Short answer: OKX stops accepting WebSocket connections on port 8443 on October 31, 2026 for the public internet. Colo connections follow on November 16. The fix is to delete :8443 from your WebSocket URLs. The host and path stay the same. REST calls are not affected. A separate ELP-to-RPI rename also hits its deadline on…
Short answer: Monad’s one-year lock-up ends on November 24, 2026. Team tokens worth about 10.7% of the initial supply start to release. That is close to the 11.83 billion MON already circulating. Investor tokens then unlock in 1/48 monthly slices. Aggregators disagree on the exact cliff-day total, from about 16.6 to 17.1 billion MON. None…
Short answer: On October 16, 2026 the 10-year Treasury yielded 5.09%, according to Treasury’s daily par yield curve. The S&P 500’s forward earnings yield, one divided by the 20.59 forward price-to-earnings ratio on State Street’s SPY page for October 15, is 4.86%. That is 0.23 percentage points below the bond. Stocks still have growth the…
Short answer: On Hyperliquid, a position that falls below maintenance margin is first closed with market orders on the book, and any leftover collateral stays with you. If equity drops below 2/3 of maintenance margin first, the liquidator vault takes the position and the maintenance margin is not returned. In my $40,000 isolated example at…
Short answer: Hyperliquid computes funding as an 8-hour rate but pays one eighth of it every hour. The baseline is 0.01% per 8 hours, which is 0.00125% per hour. On a $10,000 position that is $0.125 an hour, $3 a day and $21 a week. The hourly cap is 4%, which on the same position…
Short answer: Kraken stops deposits and trading for 13 assets on October 23, 2026 at 14:00 UTC. Withdrawals stay open until January 29, 2027 at 15:00 UTC. Anything left is sold automatically between February 1 and 12, 2027, at whatever the thin market pays. So you get one last window to sell on Kraken and…
Short answer: Schwab Crypto is now open to all eligible Schwab clients, CEO Rick Wurster said at the firm’s Fall Business Update this week. The fee is 0.75% per buy and per sell with no spread. On a $5,000 Bitcoin purchase that is $37.50 going in and another $37.50 coming out. Coinbase charges a spread…
Short answer: Solana’s Alpenglow consensus upgrade activates on mainnet at epoch 1064, expected around 15:00 UTC on Wednesday, October 21, 2026. If you hold or stake SOL, you do nothing. Wallets, transactions and fees work exactly as before. Validators are the ones with a deadline. They must be on an Agave 4.3.0-based client and keep…