Evening Wrap · October 22, 2026
Bitcoin market dominance touched its highest level since May as investors de-risk from altcoins, while the Central Bank of Ireland penalized Coinbase over safeguarding breaches.
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Bitcoin Market Dominance Touches 60% as Altcoins Slide
$BTC market dominance climbed to 60% on Wednesday, reaching its highest level since May . Smaller tokens and spot ETF flows faltered as capital concentrated in Bitcoin ahead of the Federal Reserve interest-rate meeting .
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Central Bank of Ireland Fines Coinbase €3.25M
The Irish regulator fined Coinbase Ireland Limited €3,252,618 for safeguarding and outsourcing breaches between November 2020 and August 2025 .
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Starknet Community Backs Exploration of Independent Layer 1
A non-binding governance poll approved research into transitioning from Ethereum to an independent layer 1 with 93.52% of voting power .
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Aerodrome and Velodrome Merge to Launch Unified Aero Protocol
The decentralized exchanges consolidated under a single $AERO token architecture on Oct. 21 . The new protocol deployed across Base, $ETH, OP Mainnet, and other chains, granting Aerodrome 94.5% of the new supply and…
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Bitcoin Hashrate Climbs 45% to Reach 1,050 EH/s
Compute power rebounded from July lows of 726 EH/s to approximately 1,050 EH/s on Wednesday . Publicly traded miners saw their share prices drop about 12% amid inflation headwinds, even as operational compute…
The numbers
Bitcoin trades at $81,175, down 4.0% over 24 hours, while total market capitalization stands at $2.68 trillion and ETH gas remains at 0 gwei.
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