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Here is the weekly altcoin token unlock schedule we at Bitcoinsistemi.com have specially prepared for you.

(All times are given in UTC+3 Turkish time.)

Aptos (APT)

Market Value: $805.79 million

Amount of Tokens Unlocked: $4.21 million (0.52% of market value)

Date: October 12, 2026, 03:00

Pump.fun ($PUMP)

Market Value: $2.70 billion

Amount of Tokens Unlocked: $52.13 million (1.93% of market value)

Date: October 12, 2026, 09:00

Unitas Labs (UP)

Market Value: $26.53 million

Amount of Tokens Unlocked: $1.67 million (6.29% of market value)

Date: October 13, 2026, 03:00

Chainbase (C)

Market Value: $45.26 million

Amount of Tokens Unlocked: $2.43 million (5.33% of market value)

Date: October 14, 2026, 03:00

Starknet ($STRK)

Market Value: $876.53 million

Amount of Tokens Unlocked: $15.11 million (1.73% of market value)

Date: October 15, 2026, 3:00 PM

Arbitrum ($ARB)

Market Value: $1.35 billion

Amount of Tokens Unlocked: $18.64 million (1.38% of market value)

Date: October 16, 2026, 03:00

Alaya AI (AGT)

Market Value: $88.35 million

Amount of Tokens Unlocked: $2.84 million (3.22% of market value)

Date: October 16, 2026, 03:00

GoPlus (GPS)

Market Value: $59.79 million

Amount of Tokens Unlocked: $1.70 million (2.84% of market value)

Date: October 16, 2026, 03:00

Magma Finance (MAGMA)

Market Value: $42.31 million

Amount of Tokens Unlocked: $2.32 million (5.48% of market value)

Date: October 16, 2026, 03:00

Valve (VALVE)

Market Value: $32.88 million

Amount of Tokens Unlocked: $2.37 million (7.21% of market value)

Date: October 16, 2026, 03:00

STBL (STBL)

Market Value: $16.61 million

Amount of Tokens Unlocked: $7.69 million (46.23% of market value)

Date: October 16, 2026, 03:00

RollX (ROLL)

Market Value: $12.47 million

Amount of Tokens Unlocked: $1.65 million (13.27% of market value)

Date: October 16, 2026, 03:00

Pudgy Penguins (PENGU)

Market Value: $519.86 million

Amount of Tokens Unlocked: $5.83 million (1.12% of market value)

Date: October 17, 2026, 03:00

deBridge ($DBR)

Market Value: $34.92 million

Amount of Tokens Unlocked: $12.30 million (35.20% of market value)

Date: October 17, 2026, 03:00

ZEROBASE (ZBT)

Market Value: $26.44 million

Amount of Tokens Unlocked: $1.29 million (4.88% of market value)

Date: October 17, 2026, 03:00

Caldera (ERA)

Market Value: $11.62 million

Amount of Tokens Unlocked: $1.86 million (16.03% of market value)

Date: October 17, 2026, 03:00

ZKsync (ZK)

Market Value: $172.66 million

Amount of Tokens Unlocked: $2.74 million (1.59% of market value)

Date: October 17, 2026, 13:00

Lombard (BARD)

Market Value: $45.58 million

Amount of Tokens Unlocked: $2.44 million (5.36% of market value)

Date: October 18, 2026, 03:00

*This is not investment advice.

However, the total open interest in the Ethereum futures market remains high, at approximately 10.58 million $ETH. According to Wedson, the significant amount of leveraged positions still present in the market leaves Ethereum vulnerable to a new wave of forced liquidations.

According to Wedson, the fact that the total amount of open positions remains high despite position changes by large investors raises concerns that liquidations could trigger each other in the event of sharp price movements.

*This is not investment advice.

A follow-up on Oct. 9 gave Musk’s outlook a numerical reference while retaining significant uncertainty about success. He described a valuation above $1 quadrillion, equivalent to $1,000 trillion, as a possible outcome he previously considered unattainable. He characterized the probability as accelerating from a tiny base and separately clarified that seeing a path did not express extreme confidence. The SpaceX CEO wrote:

“>$1000T now appears to me to be in the set of possible outcomes, whereas before I had thought it was not.”

His latest comments extend an earlier conditional valuation claim made July 9 during an exchange about an AI computing agreement involving Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI assistant. That exchange also tied his valuation outlook to achieving SpaceX’s long-term goals.

Reusable Rockets and Solar-Powered AI Underpin Musk’s Vision

Musk’s economic argument centers on using solar energy beyond Earth to power much larger computing operations. In a June 8 discussion filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), he outlined solar-powered AI computing in orbit. The proposal puts computers aboard satellites to process AI workloads. He identified three requirements: launch capacity, solar power, and computing chips.

Lower launch costs would make that expansion more practical by allowing the company to transport substantially more equipment into orbit. Musk’s space-based AI ambitions rely on Starship, SpaceX’s rocket system, achieving reuse of both stages with short turnaround times. On Sept. 28, it completed its first orbital flight and deployed 26 satellites for Starlink, the company’s satellite communications business.

Lunar manufacturing represents a further stage of the plan, potentially reducing the need to launch equipment from Earth. Musk described producing solar panels and radiators on the moon, then using an electromagnetic launcher to accelerate AI satellites into space through electromagnetic force. Its lower gravity and lack of atmosphere underpin that proposed approach.

Saylor Gives Musk’s SpaceX Outlook a Bitcoin Twist

The valuation exchange drew a one-word response from Michael Saylor, executive chairman of the largest bitcoin treasury company Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR). His Oct. 8 reply read “₿ullish,” replacing the initial letter with the bitcoin symbol. The spelling connected his favorable reaction to the cryptocurrency while responding directly to Musk’s SpaceX outlook.

That reaction follows Saylor’s earlier comments linking SpaceX to corporate bitcoin ownership. On June 13, he congratulated Musk on the company’s public listing and counted SpaceX alongside Tesla among major technology businesses holding bitcoin. His “Mag8” grouping added SpaceX to the Magnificent Seven: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla.

The connection also extends to SpaceX’s balance sheet, which includes a substantial holding of the digital asset. Its quarterly filing disclosed 18,712 bitcoin as of June 30, unchanged from Dec. 31, 2025. Their acquisition cost, or cost basis, was $661 million. Their fair value, reflecting the market price on June 30, was approximately $1.098 billion.

El33 described a second leg in which the trader switches from shorts to longs on Papertrade, then unwinds the Hyperliquid position. “Seems like someone currently draining Papertrade LP by Oracle manipulation,” the observer wrote, linking the wallet ending in `840e`. The characterization remains an allegation, not an established loss estimate.

Marcin Kazmierczak, co-founder of oracle provider RedStone, shared the post and called it an “Interesting Oracle manipulation strategy on Papertrade during weekends.” His post did not provide a separate transaction analysis.

Winning Trades Draw on a Separate Pool

Papertrade’s public protocol summary reported a positive pool balance and zero queued profits. PaperDash likewise displayed a $3.14 million LP balance and an empty payout queue. Those readings do not show that winning traders were waiting for payments at that snapshot.

The house reserve is distinct from customer deposits. As The Defiant previously reported, the $137.1 million in combined launch-day TVL included both trader balances and house liquidity; it was not all available to pay winners.

Papertrade administrator @izebel_eth explained that only user losses enter the pool, not their collateral. When a winning trade closes while a queue exists, the original collateral becomes available again, but “only the profits are queued.”

The team’s published launch controls give administrators the ability to pause new positions, freeze markets, change fee and impact parameters, and adjust opening headroom. Under those rules, existing positions in a frozen market can still close against the paused bid-offer midpoint.

The published token allocation assigns 300 million $FIL to Protocol Labs, including its team and contributors, and 100 million to the Filecoin Foundation. Their combined six-year allocation releases about 66.7 million $FIL annually. Lotus’s supply-accounting code includes another 9.8 million $FIL in the same six-year bucket, bringing the scheduled annual release to about 68.3 million.

The code measures that schedule as six 365-day years starting at the network’s liftoff epoch. That puts completion on **Oct. 14, 2026**, based on the mainnet parameters and recorded liftoff block.

Filfox reported about 56,449 $FIL produced over 24 hours in its snapshot at block 6,445,866. Annualized over 365 days, that is 20.6 million $FIL. Against the explorer’s reported circulating supply of 919.9 million $FIL, gross annualized additions would fall from about **9.7% to 2.2%**. The Protocol Labs and Foundation streams alone account for roughly three-quarters of the pre-completion total.

Provider Rewards Continue

These figures measure vesting releases plus newly mined rewards, not net circulating-supply growth or exchange selling. Filecoin’s supply accounting also reflects reserve disbursements, burns and locked collateral. Already vested balances remain available after the schedule ends.

Block rewards have their own mechanics. Filecoin’s documentation describes a time-based minting component and another tied to network performance, so the remaining issuance rate is not fixed. Under the documented reward-vesting rules, 25% of earned block rewards are immediately accessible, while 75% vest over 180 days.

The forecast builds on his earlier argument that government efforts to manage borrowing costs can support digital assets. In an Aug. 24 essay, Hayes contended that expanding dollar liquidity could flow into bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. His framework emphasizes financial conditions as a driver of investment demand.

Money Printing Could Fuel Crypto’s Next Rally

Greater availability of money and credit underpins Hayes’ expectation that policy responses to financial pressure could lift prices. Global liquidity describes those conditions across the financial system. In his scenario, capital released through government intervention could reach speculative investments, including cryptocurrencies.

In the Aug. 24 essay, Hayes connected that reasoning with the U.S. Treasury’s expanded bond repurchases, arguing that Treasury buybacks supported a new bitcoin bull market. These debt-management operations purchase outstanding government securities. He viewed their effects on yields as favorable to risk assets while distinguishing them from Federal Reserve asset purchases.

His AI-bust scenario anticipates a larger intervention if heavily financed infrastructure encounters financial stress. In an interview published Oct. 2, Hayes projected that an AI bust could trigger multitrillion-dollar support, potentially benefiting crypto through money creation. He placed the prospective reckoning around 2027 or 2028 as target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>disputed an imminent AI breakthrough, arguing there was no evidence of a break in established cryptographic assumptions. His objection addresses the technical premise behind the anxiety Hayes incorporated into his bullish analogy.

Separately, AI-assisted security work has demonstrated how automated analysis can uncover weaknesses in existing crypto software. A researcher examining Zcash identified a flaw in its shielded transaction system, illustrating the role of AI-assisted vulnerability discovery in reviewing older code. That involved a software defect rather than defeating the mathematical protections underlying digital signatures. Developers patched the vulnerability within days of its discovery.

For Phong Le, Strategy CEO, however, the trend was positive and cemented their Bitcoin bet.

The trend towards corporate, institution, bank, and nation-state adoption of Bitcoin is encouraging and makes us even more bullish on Bitcoin.

Strategy and Strive both hauled in 197K $BTC. Other conventional businesses also bought over 20K $BTC in 2026. In fact, even Robinhood joined the trend with a $25 million Bitcoin purchase this week.

Other Bitcoin treasury firms acquired 8K $BTC, but after adjusting for total business holdings, the stash fell to 193K $BTC because miners offloaded 33K $BTC as some pursue an AI pivot.

Why Strategy is betting on Bitcoin’s broader adoption

Strategy’s initial Bitcoin bet was to offer amplified exposure to clients via its stock MSTR. The stock would offer several multiples of gains and losses relative to Bitcoin swings.

However, with preferred stocks, the firm doubled down on the ‘digital credit’ model backed by its Bitcoin holdings.

Recently, the firm has been closely tracking a composite Bitcoin adoption index across nations, firms, and associated products tied to the asset. Worth noting that the firm initially floated the idea of becoming the first Bitcoin bank to offer more digital credit products beyond Stretch [STRC].

Currently, the 12% yield paid to STRC and other preferred stocks is generated by diluting MSTR shareholders. In fact, some have criticized the model as a ‘Ponzi scheme’ because the yield is not coming directly from its vast $BTC holdings.

It remains to be seen how Strategy will scale its digital credit pipeline.

That said, despite Bitcoin treasury firms leading the demand front by $15 billion in 2026, this was still low relative to 2025.

However, assuming this is an early bull market like in 2023, the current pace of inflows from Bitcoin treasuries was relatively higher and strong.

Strategy has a cost basis of about $75K, while the U.S. Spot Bitcoin ETF has an average cost basis of $82K. As such, these levels could act as crucial support if the ongoing Bitcoin pullback deepens.

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Final Summary

• Strategy bought 175K $BTC of the 193K $BTC (91%) acquired by businesses in 2026
• Strategy’s CEO said the institutional and state adoption trend has made them even more bullish on Bitcoin

“Applying that historical average to the recent high gives a price level of approximately $74,500, which could serve as a reference point in the event of further downside.”

The calculation applies a reported 14.39% historical benchmark, an earlier average used for comparison, to the Oct. 5 high.

Earlier Advances Show How Corrections Differ

Average setbacks were 18.41% in 2010-2011, 21.71% in 2011-2013, 10.93% in 2015-2017, 19.39% in 2018-2021, and 7.58% in 2022-2025. The analysis puts the overall average across the five cycles at 14.39%.

The latest cycle’s milder setbacks accompany other observations of moderating fluctuations over time. Fidelity Digital Assets, Fidelity’s digital asset business, documented moderating volatility in May 2024. The term describes the size of movements in either direction. MAC_D’s analysis also noted that individual events produced significantly deeper corrections.

The broader recovery had received support from Cryptoquant’s Bull Score, which rose from 30 to 80 in August. That gauge combines 10 indicators of demand, holder profitability, network activity, and liquidity, the availability of capital to support trading.

Buying Levels Accompany Signs of Recovery

September’s recovery also generated a signal based on acquisition costs, estimates of what investors paid for their coins. Cryptoquant contributor Darkfost identified a fifth historical bull market signal on Sept. 24. Newer holders’ cost crossed above that of longer-term holders whose coins had moved within seven years. He acknowledged a margin for error.

Cryptoquant founder and CEO Ki Young Ju suggested on Sept. 22 that growing institutional ownership, meaning holdings by organizations such as investment funds, could produce smaller cycle gains and shallower losses.

The asset’s investment risks include substantial fluctuations even during periods of rising adoption. The analyst proposed purchases over time around $80,000 and larger commitments between $74,000 and $75,000. The lower buying range corresponds to approximately 13.82% to 14.97% below the Oct. 5 high.

Andrew Cuomo advocates for the tokenization of American securities, suggesting that this could modernize market infrastructure and enhance the US’s position in global finance. His remarks, shared via a tweet from OKX, emphasize the need for trusted access to these markets, signaling a potential shift in how securities are managed. The implications could be significant, encouraging broader adoption of tokenization in financial markets.

The Key Development

The conversation around tokenization is gaining momentum, particularly as Andrew Cuomo, the co-chair of OKXICE and former New York Governor, highlights its potential benefits. His comments point to the idea that tokenizing American securities could streamline processes and improve access to capital markets. As the broader crypto market shows mixed signals, this advocacy for tokenization may resonate with traders and investors looking for innovative solutions to enhance liquidity and efficiency in the financial sector. The significance of these developments cannot be understated, as they may redefine how securities are issued and traded in the future.