📈 Bitcoin surges back above $86k

Crypto rallies, NEAR gets drained, and Pump Fun leads crypto app revenue.

October 02, 2026

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BTC $86,502 (3.0%) | ETH $2,748 (1.6%) | SOL $122 (3.4%)

  • Bitcoin reclaims $86,000, tagging $86,912, as $110M in shorts get wiped in 10 minutes — US spot Bitcoin ETFs post $148.7 million in net outflows, ending a nine-day inflow streak

  • NEAR Intents freezes cross-chain swaps after a bug drains about $3.8M and says it will repay users — NEAR GM identifies the attacker and gives them 48 hours to return the funds

  • US Treasury yields hit a 24-year high as the 10-year touches 5.34%

  • Broadcom agrees to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion for AI infrastructure leases

  • Citigroup raises its 12-month Bitcoin price forecast to $113,000 from $82,000

  • SEC proposes a new custody framework for crypto assets held by investment advisers

  • Pump Fun leads onchain protocols with $2.6m of revenue

  • September crypto hack losses exceed $766 million, the worst month of 2026 so far — Bitget's $388M hack pushes Q3 crypto security losses to $1.26 billion

  • AI-native cybersecurity company Armadin raises a $255.5 million Series B led by a16z and Accel, valued over $2.5 billion

  • MetaMask security incident forces roughly 523,000 ETH to unstake

  • Bank of England warns AI valuations are vulnerable to a deeper selloff than July's

  • Amazon plans to sell $8 billion of Nvidia chips to investors

  • Volantis raises $88 million to build optical links connecting AI chips to memory

  • Brazil's CSD BR partners with Ripple to mirror securities records on the XRP Ledger

  • TokenWorks opens backing for BitMON by Des Lucréce