This week's review covers October 5–11, 2026. The market half of the week was a slow-motion drawdown: Fed minutes published Wednesday told traders another hike was still on the table, bitcoin fell from Monday's $86,655 high to $80,400 by Thursday, and spot ETFs shed $729M across two sessions — yet the stablecoin float barely moved, because the money that left risk assets did not leave dollar tokens. The infrastructure half was the more consequential half: Polygon opened its regulated payment stack to TRON, Circle put USDC and EURC inside SAP's payment workflows, Samsung put USDC transfers inside Samsung Wallet, and Stripe said its stablecoin card would reach 100-plus countries this year. The counterweight arrived on Saturday, when Tether froze four THORChain vaults on TRON for three hours without explanation.
Overview
Four threads defined the week. First, policy: the September FOMC minutes, published October 7, showed most participants judging a further increase in the target range appropriate before year-end — a read that landed while price was already falling, and one that pushed the equity-style de-risking that had started on October 6 into a four-day slide. Second, the market's mechanics: bitcoin lost 4–5% from Monday's high, altcoins lost two to three times as much, and the ETF complex — the marginal buyer of the past two quarters — turned seller, with the largest single-day spot-bitcoin outflow since June 25 on October 7. Third, the stablecoin float: the Big-3 finished the seven days to October 7 essentially flat at $263.294B, but inside that flat line USDT added $482.5M on all three of its native chains while USDC shed $368.0M — almost entirely on Ethereum. Fourth, and most relevant to this publication's subject, the distribution layer moved: Polygon wired TRON into a stack built for regulated US bank rails, Circle put stablecoins inside SAP's enterprise payment workflows, Samsung put them inside a phone wallet on 82 million US devices, and Stripe extended its card to 100-plus countries.
The 14 Stories
#01Oct 7REGULATORYHIGH IMPACT
Fed minutes point to another hike before year-end, landing on a market already selling
Summary. The minutes of the September 15–16 FOMC meeting, published October 7, state that most participants judged a further increase in the target range appropriate before the end of the year. The federal funds target range has stood at 3.75–4.00% since the September 16 hike, and the next meeting is October 28. The read is the first policy input since the October 2 payrolls miss, and it arrived into a tape that had already turned: bitcoin's slide began on October 6 and accelerated through October 8, while the US 10-year yield held at 5.22% and gold closed the week at $4,216.30 with silver up 2.73% to $61.05 — a safe-haven bid running alongside, not against, the equity-style selling in crypto.
Commentary. The minutes did not create the drawdown; they removed the argument against it. For payment readers the transmission is indirect but real — a higher-for-longer policy path raises the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding collateral and compresses the leverage that has been the marginal buyer of high-beta tokens, which is exactly the shape of this week's move.
Bitcoin slides from $86,655 to $80,400 — and leverage takes two days to follow
Summary. Bitcoin printed its weekly high of $86,655 early on Monday October 5, pushed back above $86,500 on October 6, then fell below $83,000 during October 7 and touched $80,400 in the early hours of October 8 — a 7.2% drop from the high. It stood near $81,797 on October 9 and around $82,900 over the weekend, roughly 2.1–2.5% below the prior Sunday's close and 34% under the October 2025 all-time high of $126,080. The week's mechanics are the story: open interest sat near 626,000 BTC on September 30, the lowest in a year, then jumped to about 653,000 BTC (~$56.2B) by October 2 with the annualised funding rate rising from 3% to 10%. On October 7, as price fell, open interest kept climbing ($54.2B to $55.3B within six hours) and roughly $550M of long positions were liquidated without clearing the build-up; open interest only fell on October 9, down 3.79% in a day, with funding easing to about 2.9%.
Commentary. Price moved first and leverage followed two days later — the opposite of a clean flush, and the reason the bounce was slow. Read together with the ETF line below, the week is a de-leveraging that has begun but not finished, which matters for collateral desks: the bid that funded the float's expansion in Q3 is the bid that is currently being reduced.
Spot bitcoin ETFs lose $729M in two sessions — the largest one-day outflow since June
Summary. US spot bitcoin ETFs shed $484.9M net on October 7 — the largest single-day outflow since $691.7M left on June 25 — and a further $244.1M on October 8, taking the two-day total to about $729M. BlackRock's iShares fund gave up $207.7M on October 7 and Fidelity $105.1M; on October 8 Fidelity's Wise Origin fund alone accounted for $197.1M. The outflow then nearly stopped, at $3.6M on October 9. The two days erased the $321.6M those funds had taken in across October 1–4, and left the week at roughly −$680M on Farside's Monday-to-Friday basis. Ethereum funds were worse on a relative basis: outflows ran for nine consecutive sessions from September 29, and the seven-day Ethereum ETF outflow reached about $542.2M.
Commentary. Two days of selling wiped out four days of buying, which is the definition of a marginal buyer that has stopped being marginal. The honest framing for float watchers: this is a demand-side headwind for high-beta collateral, not for dollar tokens — the stablecoin table below shows where the money actually went.
Altcoins lose three times what bitcoin lost, with Thursday the low for all of them
Summary. Across the week from October 4 to October 11, ether fell 6.8% from $2,687 to $2,504, Solana fell 8.1% from $119.60 to $109.91 and XRP fell 5.8% from $1.49 to $1.40 — against bitcoin's 2.1% decline on the same CoinGecko hourly basis. All three printed their weekly lows on Thursday evening, October 8: ether $2,414, Solana $106.41, XRP $1.33. Bitcoin's share of total market capitalisation stood at 59.1%, and the market as a whole was worth about $2.81T at the weekend. A four-asset equal-weight basket lost 5.7% for the week; a 60/20/10/10 bitcoin-weighted basket lost 4.0%, so the bitcoin weighting cushioned rather than avoided the move.
Commentary. The dispersion is the signal: when investors cut risk, they sell the smallest holdings first, and the altcoin beta to this drawdown ran three times bitcoin's. It also means the float's composition question matters more than its total — USDC lives disproportionately on Ethereum and Solana, the two chains whose assets sold hardest.
Stablecoin float ends flat at $263.294B — but USDT adds $482.5M on all three native chains while USDC sheds $368.0M
Summary. The Big-3 stablecoin float closed the seven days to October 7 at $263.294B, up just $102.8M or 0.04% week-over-week — a flat headline over a large internal rotation. USDT added $482.5M to $184.296B, USDC lost $368.0M to $74.210B and DAI slipped $11.7M to $4.788B, so the two largest assets moved $850.5M against each other while the total held still. USDT's gain landed almost entirely on Ethereum +$299.8M, Solana +$189.0M and TRON +$169.8M — which together carried $176.1M more than the asset's global increase because Avalanche, Plasma and Arbitrum gave back $174.5M between them. USDC's decline was an Ethereum story: that chain fell $393.3M while Solana added $29.1M, Base $31.7M and Polygon $31.0M. Over 30 days the Big-3 is $415.4M larger, with USDT up $942.3M and USDC down $498.8M.
Commentary. A flat total with $850M of internal movement is the cleanest evidence yet that the float is no longer expanding — it is being reallocated. The practical read for corridors: USDT supply grew on every native chain including TRON, and the week's pain in USDC was concentrated where the week's asset pain was concentrated, on Ethereum.
Polygon opens its regulated payment stack to TRON, wiring USDT into US bank rails
Summary. Polygon Labs announced on October 7 that Polygon Open Money Stack now supports the TRON network, letting fintechs, remittance providers and payment platforms move USDT on TRON to and from US bank accounts and route it across EVM networks through a single integration. Three components extend to TRON: Polygon Ramps, which connects to fiat on- and off-ramps backed by money-transmitter licences covering 48 US states; programmable accounts, which let businesses create and manage TRON wallets through the same integration used on other chains; and cross-chain movement, which routes USDT between TRON and supported EVM networks such as Polygon Chain. Polygon said it has processed more than $3T in payments volume as of September 21, and the release cites TRON's more than $94B of circulating USDT and more than $30T of cumulative transfer volume. The stack was assembled from Polygon's pending acquisition of Coinme and its completed acquisition of Sequence. Both Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron and TRON founder Justin Sun are quoted; this is described as the first phase of TRON support.
Commentary. This is the week's most consequential item for this site's subject, and the direction of the deal is the point: an outside payments company added TRON because its customers already use it, rather than TRON building outward. The deep dive below takes the announcement apart — what the stack bundles, what it does not remove, and what to measure. The compliance read-through is the part to hold onto: money-transmitter licences do not travel with the integration, so each provider still answers to the rules of every market it serves.
Circle puts USDC and EURC inside SAP Pay, with stablecoin settlement folded into enterprise workflows
Summary. Circle and Tereina announced on October 7 that they will embed USDC and EURC into SAP Cloud ERP through SAP Pay, letting eligible customers in the United States and the United Kingdom send and receive stablecoin payments inside software they already run. USDC serves dollar-denominated transactions and EURC euro-denominated ones; Tereina says the integration can reduce payment costs by up to 25% and positions stablecoins alongside bank transfers, real-time payments and cards. The partnership uses Circle's Arc network to connect stablecoin settlement to SAP's enterprise software, which Circle says accounts for 84% of global commerce. Planned next steps include joint proof-of-value programmes with customers, training for treasury and payments specialists, and work on AI-agent-initiated payments. No participating customer names, expected volumes or full commercial deployment date were disclosed.
Commentary. Consumer apps reach people; ERP reaches the money itself. Routing stablecoins through SAP Pay puts them next to the accounts-payable and treasury workflows where cross-border payments are actually painful, which is a different — and stickier — distribution channel than a card or a wallet. The unquantified part is the whole part: no volumes, no named customers, no deployment date.
Samsung Wallet adds USDC transfers on 82 million US Galaxy devices, custodied by Coinbase Prime
Summary. Samsung Electronics America announced on October 7 that stablecoin wallet functionality will launch in Samsung Wallet in the last week of October for eligible US Galaxy users, with USDC as the first supported stablecoin; Coinbase's account of the integration and most coverage followed on October 8. At launch the feature reaches 82 million compatible US Galaxy devices — a device count, not an account count, and eligibility additionally requires US residency, age 18 or over, a Samsung Account, Android 13 or later, identity verification and biometric authentication. Users will be able to send USDC to compatible external wallets with no Samsung transfer fee, and to bank accounts in more than 60 countries where recipients receive local currency; bank payouts carry fees that vary by destination and amount. Bastion, a licensed stablecoin custodian regulated by US authorities, powers the cross-border framework and has partnered with Coinbase as sub-custodian, safeguarding balances through Coinbase Prime Vault. Solana and Sui are named as technical infrastructure partners. Samsung said future capabilities may include online and in-store stablecoin payments.
Commentary. Distribution is the story, and the disclosure discipline is the lesson: 82 million is devices, the wallet is a place to offer the feature, and installed distribution is not adoption — Samsung disclosed no enrolment count, launch balance or volume target. The custody chain (Bastion plus Coinbase Prime Vault, both regulated) is the answer to the obvious question of who holds the keys, and it is the same answer large wallets have converged on.
Stripe takes its stablecoin card toward 100-plus countries as it reports $1.2B of monthly card volume
Summary. Stripe said on October 5 that it intends to bring its stablecoin-funded card to more than 100 countries by the end of the year, letting users spend wallet balances directly at merchants on Visa's network of roughly 175 million acceptance points. Stripe's head of stablecoins, Henri Stern, framed the card as spending infrastructure rather than issuance — Stripe does not issue a stablecoin; it routes balances that already exist to places that accept cards. The company said the card processed about $1.2B over the previous month, roughly three times the level of a year earlier. The expansion follows a broader week of distribution moves that included Circle's SAP Pay integration and Samsung's wallet launch.
Commentary. Three rails, one direction: Circle went into enterprise software, Samsung into the phone, Stripe into the card network. None of them issues the dollar token; all of them are competing for the point where a stablecoin balance becomes a payment, which is where the margin will sit if stablecoin payments scale.
Tether signs an exploratory Kazakhstan memorandum covering a tenge stablecoin and tokenization
Summary. Tether signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding on October 7 with Kazakhstan's National Bank and the Alatau City Authority to study a tenge-pegged stablecoin, including issuance models, reserve structures and tokenization, alongside workshops on stablecoin issuance, reserve management, distributed-ledger technology and real-world-asset tokenization and an Alatau pilot using Tether's Hadron platform. No issuer, blockchain, launch date or reserve asset is confirmed. The memorandum follows an earlier agreement between the National Bank and Binance, and supports Alatau's ambition to operate as a special legal hub for crypto. Kazakhstan has allocated up to $350M for crypto-linked investments, reported a national crypto reserve of about $700M, has already piloted a tenge-backed stablecoin in its regulatory sandbox, and continues separate work on a central-bank digital tenge.
Commentary. A non-binding study memorandum is not a launch, and the news value is the lineup of caveats: no issuer, no chain, no date, no reserves. What it does show is the pattern of the year — national central banks exploring issuer-partnered local-currency stablecoins while their own CBDC work continues in parallel. For corridor operators in Central Asia, the thing to watch is whether the sandbox pilot becomes an authorised product.
ESMA gives EU platforms until January 8, 2027 to unwind non-MiCA stablecoin exposure
Summary. The European Securities and Markets Authority published an opinion on October 8 telling national regulators to require MiCA-authorised crypto-asset service providers to resolve remaining client exposure to non-compliant stablecoins, with an outer limit of about January 8, 2027 — three months from publication. The opinion covers asset-referenced tokens and e-money tokens and reaches well beyond trading: exchange services, order execution, transfers, custody, advice and portfolio management are all in scope, and risk warnings or client acknowledgements are explicitly not sufficient. Firms may keep narrow, time-limited services so holders can sell, convert, withdraw, transfer or safekeep existing balances, but cannot enable new purchases, promotion, trading or continued market availability. The opinion names no tokens, so it is not a new enforcement order against any specific asset; USDT remains the largest stablecoin without a MiCA authorisation, while USDC and EURC are issued from Circle's French electronic-money licence.
Commentary. Read precisely, this is a deadline for platforms rather than for holders, and it is the first EU instrument that treats custody and transfers — not just listing — as the compliance frontier. The discipline the item demands is the same one this publication applies to sources: do not turn a token-agnostic opinion into a named-token headline. What changes for EU corridor desks is that 'we delisted it but still allow deposits and withdrawals' is no longer an obviously sufficient posture.
The GENIUS Act comment window holds firm at October 19 as filings accelerate
Summary. Treasury's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking implementing Section 3 of the GENIUS Act — who may issue, offer, sell or otherwise make available payment stablecoins in the United States — carries a comment deadline of October 19, 2026, and the live docket shows no extension: it contains four documents, the last of which was modified on the morning of October 10 with the comment end unchanged. As of October 10 the docket held 65 public submissions, 36 of them filed in the previous 15 days and 9 in the last week. The proposed rule would give the Act extraterritorial reach where a stablecoin is offered or sold to a person in the United States, and pushes restrictions on digital asset service providers to July 18, 2028; the Act's own effective date is expected to be January 18, 2027. The Comptroller of the Currency has indicated a November target for the OCC's final rule, which remains a stated target rather than a settled date.
Commentary. The interesting detail is the phantom deadline: a footnote describing the 2025 advance notice's 15-day extension has been read by retrieval systems as a November 4 date for this rulemaking, and filers relying on it will find the window closed. For the industry, October 19 is the last chance to shape the section that defines who may issue in the US — the input to every issuer business model built for 2027.
Tether freezes four THORChain vaults on TRON for three hours, then reverses without explanation
Summary. Tether blacklisted four THORChain vault addresses on the TRON network on October 10, freezing roughly $1.4–1.45M of USDT and interrupting cross-chain swaps routed through them, then removed the restriction about three hours later with the balances intact. THORChain technical co-founder Chad Barraford said the protocol received no advance notice and initially could not tell whether the action was an error; he later confirmed the addresses were unfrozen and service resumed. Nineteen other addresses blacklisted in the same batch remained restricted. Tether has not explained the freeze or linked it to any specific incident. The episode sits alongside a widening set of issuer-control disputes: cross-border payments company Conduit Technology sued Tether on October 5 over about $2.76M of USDT it says has been frozen since September 2025, and 15 TRON wallets holding roughly $3.31M were blacklisted in a concentrated series in September.
Commentary. The technical point is simple and worth restating: THORChain can decentralise vault custody across validators, but it cannot remove Tether's ability to block transfers at the token contract, so controlling the keys is not the same as being able to move the money. The commercial point is the one operators should carry — Tether says it works with more than 340 law-enforcement agencies across 65 countries, so the useful assumption is not 'freezes are rare' but 'freezes happen without notice and can take time to reverse'.
TRON passes 407 million accounts and 15.7 billion transactions as GasFree closes September at $14.87B
Summary. TRONSCAN reported on October 5 that total accounts passed 407 million and total transactions exceeded 15.7 billion, with the network averaging 4.41 million daily active accounts over the prior 30 days. The same week, Allbridge Core passed 80,000 transfers and $1.65B of volume on its TRON route, JST began trading on Uphold, and Zebec enabled card top-ups funded by USDT on TRON. On the fee side, JustLend DAO reported that GasFree closed September with more than $14.87B of transfer volume and 479,000-plus users, with SUN.io putting the same volume against more than 862,000 transactions — a monthly figure that also resolves the period-label ambiguity this series flagged in earlier weeks, when the same service's weekly run-rate was reported near $3.5B. JustLend DAO itself showed $7.40B of TVL, $4.11B of supply and $208.67M borrowed on October 6. Tron Inc. added 147,910 TRX at an average of $0.3380 on October 5 to pass 717.4M TRX, then 147,789 TRX at $0.3383 on October 7 to pass 717.6M.
Commentary. The measurement resolution matters more than the milestone: a monthly $14.87B against a weekly print near $3.5B is internally consistent arithmetic, which is what the earlier 'seven-day versus September' label conflict needed. The 407 million accounts and 15.7 billion transactions are cumulative and belong in the background column, not the growth column — the payment-relevant numbers remain volume and small-ticket share.
The week's surface was a drawdown and its substance was distribution. Price did what a higher-for-longer policy read does to a leveraged tape: bitcoin lost 4–5% from Monday's high, altcoins lost two to three times that, the ETF complex turned from buyer to seller with the largest one-day outflow since June, and leverage took two days to unwind. The stablecoin float barely noticed — the Big-3 closed flat at $263.294B — but it reallocated hard underneath, with USDT gaining $482.5M on all three native chains including $169.8M on TRON while USDC lost $368.0M on Ethereum. The infrastructure week was the one worth keeping: Polygon opened a stack built around 48-state money-transmitter licences to the chain with the deepest USDT pool, Circle put USDC and EURC inside SAP's payment workflows, Samsung put USDC transfers inside the phone on 82 million US devices, and Stripe said its card would reach 100-plus countries. None of those four issues a dollar token; all four are fighting for the point where a balance becomes a payment. The counterweight arrived on Saturday, when Tether froze four THORChain vaults on TRON for three hours and reversed without saying why — a reminder that the issuer, not the chain, still holds the final switch. Next week's calendar is the answer sheet: the October 19 GENIUS Act comment deadline, ESMA's wind-down clock, and Samsung's late-October launch.
Next Week's Watchlist
Whether TRON's USDT balance extends this week's +$169.8M into a second gain, and whether the chain's Q3 staking figure finally lands.
Whether the new low end of the energy market persists: 17–19 SUN one-hour quotes against a P2P book asking 25 SUN and above — a floor break or a single provider's promotion.
The GENIUS Act comment window closing October 19, and whether the filing count keeps accelerating from 65.
Which EU venues move faster than ESMA's January 8, 2027 outer limit, and whether custody and transfers get cut off ahead of trading.
Samsung Wallet's USDC launch in the last week of October, and whether any of Circle's SAP Pay proof-of-value programmes name customers or volumes.
An updated TRXS net-asset figure: the last published read is about $50.2M on October 2, with shares outstanding flat at 2.03 million since mid-September.
This article is based on public data and official disclosures. Figures were last reviewed on October 12, 2026. Values change with network conditions; always verify against the primary source before making decisions.
FOMC minutes of the September 15–16, 2026 meeting, published October 7, 2026 (federalreserve.gov; majority view favouring a further increase before year-end), as reported by CryptoTicker's week-41 review and Daily Market Report's October 11, 2026 rates panel (fed funds 3.75–4.00%, US 10-year 5.22%, gold $4,216.30).
BTCtiming weekly review for October 5–11, 2026 (btctiming.com; weekly high $86,655, low $80,400, open interest 626,000 BTC on September 30 rising to ~653,000 BTC by October 2, funding 3%→10% then ~2.9%, $550M long liquidations, ETF daily flows per Farside Investors and SoSoValue, $126,080 all-time high).
CryptoTicker weekly review to October 11, 2026 (CoinGecko hourly basis: BTC −2.1%, ETH −6.8%, XRP −5.8%, SOL −8.1%, Thursday lows, bitcoin dominance 59.1%, market ~$2.81T); Daily Market Report, October 11, 2026 (seven-day bitcoin ETF outflows $678.9M, Ethereum $542.2M; crypto Fear and Greed 61).
DeFiLlama stablecoin data via NeoDrop, seven days ending October 7, 2026 at 08:00 (UTC−05:00) (Big-3 $263.294B +$102.8M; USDT +$482.5M, USDC −$368.0M, DAI −$11.7M; USDT chain moves Ethereum +$299.8M, Solana +$189.0M, TRON +$169.8M, Avalanche/Plasma/Arbitrum −$174.5M; USDC chain moves Ethereum −$393.3M, Solana +$29.1M, Base +$31.7M, Polygon +$31.0M; 30-day figures; Circle per-chain API $74.109B at 13:05 UTC October 7; CoinMetrics cross-series).
Polygon Labs announcement of October 7, 2026, 'Polygon Open Money Stack Expands to TRON, Extending Network Access to Regulated U.S. Payment Rails' (The Block sponsored release; trondao.org/announcements), with analysis from CoinPaprika, Crypto Briefing, The Cryptonomist and TheCryptoDesk of October 7–8, 2026 (48-state money-transmitter coverage, $3T Polygon payment volume as of September 21, pending Coinme and completed Sequence acquisitions, Marc Boiron and Justin Sun quotations).
Circle and Tereina announcement of October 7, 2026 (USDC and EURC in SAP Cloud ERP via SAP Pay; up to 25% lower payment costs claimed; Arc settlement layer; SAP ecosystem share of global commerce), as carried by DigitalWaehrung's digital-currency digest of October 8, 2026 and CryptosEyes' daily briefing of October 8, 2026.
Samsung Electronics America press release of October 7, 2026 (api.samsungmobilepress.com; 82 million compatible US Galaxy devices, more than 60 countries for bank payouts, Bastion as licensed custodian with Coinbase Prime Vault as sub-custodian, Solana and Sui as infrastructure partners, eligibility requirements), with Coinbase-side coverage of October 8, 2026.
Stripe's October 5, 2026 statement to CoinDesk, as reported by Stablecoin News and by BlockWeeks' October 6, 2026 industry round-up (100-plus countries by year-end, ~$1.2B monthly card volume, roughly 3x year-on-year, Visa acceptance footprint, Henri Stern).
Tether announcement of October 7, 2026 on the Kazakhstan memorandum (National Bank of Kazakhstan and Alatau City Authority; non-binding; tenge stablecoin study, Hadron pilot, no confirmed issuer, chain, date or reserves; $350M crypto-linked investment allocation and ~$700M national crypto reserve as context), as carried by DigitalWaehrung's digest of October 8, 2026.
ESMA opinion of October 8, 2026 on non-compliant stablecoin exposure (esma.europa.eu; three-month window to about January 8, 2027; services in scope including custody, transfers, advice and portfolio management; permitted wind-down services; no tokens named), as reported by CryptoSlate on October 9, 2026 via CoinMarketCal and by Unchained of October 8–9, 2026.
Federal Register document 2026-16796 (91 FR 53368), Treasury NPRM implementing GENIUS Act Section 3, comment due October 19, 2026 (docket TREAS-DO-2026-0496, page views as of October 10, 2026); Forkast analysis of October 10, 2026 (65 public submissions, no extension, January 18, 2027 effective date expectation, July 18, 2028 digital-asset-service-provider provisions); KPMG regulatory alert on the same NPRM.
Coverage of the THORChain TRON vault freeze of October 10, 2026: FinanceFeeds (four vaults, ~$1.45M, three-hour reversal, Chad Barraford on the absence of advance notice, 19 other addresses still listed, Conduit Technology lawsuit of October 5 over $2.76M, September's 15 TRON wallets totalling ~$3.31M); CryptoSlate via CoinArticle; APAC FINSTAB event record of October 10, 2026; WuBlockchain flash of the same date.
TRONSCAN and TRON DAO posts of October 5, 2026 (407M accounts, 15.7B transactions, 4.41M daily active accounts, Allbridge 80,000 transfers and $1.65B), JustLend DAO and SUN.io posts of October 6, 2026 (GasFree September volume $14.87B, 479,000 users, 862,000 transactions; JST on Uphold; Zebec card top-ups), and Tron Inc. announcements of October 5 and October 7, 2026 (147,910 TRX at $0.3380 and 147,789 TRX at $0.3383), as recorded in TronRelic's digests of October 6 and October 7, 2026.
TRX daily open/high/low/close series, October 4–11, 2026 (Gate.io TRX_USDT daily candles, a complete seven-session series, cross-checked against OKX TRX-USDT daily candles and CoinMarketCap's historical table).
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