German savings banks

Oct 19, 2026

German savings banks roll out crypto trading service with a €0.99 fee per order

German savings banks launched a crypto asset trading service on Monday, allowing the first participating institutional clients to buy and sell Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, Solana and Polygon directly through the existing official app. The service is supported by Dekabank, while crypto custody is handled jointly by Dekabank and the Stuttgart Stock Exchange. Each order carries a €0.99 fee, and users do not need to link a traditional securities account. Individual savings banks will decide their own launch timing. The rollout is expected to bring in 30 to 40 savings banks per month, with a target of covering most interested institutions in the first half of 2027. Joachim Schmalzl, a member of the DSGV management team, said the product is aimed at clients who want to trade and hold crypto assets on their own. He added that savings banks will not provide investment advice and do not plan broad active marketing in the initial phase. The group also warned that cryptocurrencies are highly speculative assets and that clients could face total losses.

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Market Analysis

Oct 19, 2026

Alana Levin says Q4 2026 crypto liquidity is likely to favor Bitcoin and revenue-generating protocols

Variant partner Alana Levin argues that the market’s main question has shifted after what she sees as a likely bottom in July 2026. In her view, investors are no longer focused on when crypto would bottom, but on where the next leg of the bull market could draw strength and which assets are best positioned to absorb fresh capital. She groups the likely winners into two buckets: assets that function as money or stores of value, with Bitcoin as the clearest anchor, and protocols that generate real revenue and cash flow. Levin says the second group will face tougher scrutiny from public-market style investors, especially around revenue quality, durability after the bull cycle cools, and margin structure. She also expects valuation premiums to diverge, with stronger support for projects tied to real-world assets, stablecoin growth, institutional distribution, and teams that survived the last bear market. By contrast, she describes a third category — on-chain projects that mirror traditional business models, especially AI-related token narratives — as largely narrative trades rather than long-term value holdings. Her main warning is that token holders often do not capture the economics created at the company level. Levin also argues that some fundamentally stronger crypto assets may now see drawdowns closer to the 10% to 30% range typical of mature financial markets, rather than the 90% collapses seen in earlier cycles.

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HYPE

Oct 19, 2026

Ki Young Ju says HYPE is the most bullish crypto asset by analyst sentiment

CryptoQuant founder and CEO Ki Young Ju said on Oct. 19 that Hyperliquid’s token HYPE currently ranks as the most bullish crypto asset when measured by analyst sentiment. According to his post, HYPE shows a bullish deviation of about 2.3 standard deviations, the highest among the major assets listed. He said the main bullish case centers on fee-driven buybacks supporting the token’s price action, while no dominant bearish consensus has emerged around it. Based on the same analyst sentiment framework, the tokens following HYPE on the bullish side are BNB, SOL, Bitcoin, ADA, XRP, Ether and UNI. Ki also outlined some of the reasoning attached to those views. For BNB, the bullish case points to broader adoption in real-world payments and tokenized assets. On the bearish side, Bitcoin and Ether were associated with inflation and correction signals, and ETF outflows together with inflows to trading platforms, respectively.

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Charles Schwab

Oct 18, 2026

Charles Schwab rolls out external wallet transfers for eligible Bitcoin and Ether clients

Charles Schwab is gradually enabling external wallet transfers for eligible clients holding Bitcoin and Ether, expanding its crypto service beyond exposure inside investment accounts. The brokerage said qualified users can move the two assets into and out of external wallets as the feature is introduced in phases. Schwab also made clear that Bitcoin and Ether held through its service do not receive Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or FDIC, protection, and that the crypto assets are not insured traditional bank deposits. The company added that the rollout will proceed step by step and said it has discussed broadening supported assets beyond BTC and ETH. The update points to a wider crypto offering at Schwab, while keeping the firm’s disclosure on insurance treatment explicit for clients using the service.

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Deutsche Bank

Oct 16, 2026

Deutsche Bank plans BTC and ETH custody launch within weeks

Deutsche Bank plans to roll out custody services for Bitcoin and Ether in the coming weeks, according to Cointelegraph, which cited Reuters. The report also said the bank has set 2027 as its target for expanding its business in Asia. The update points to a near-term timeline for the custody offering and outlines a longer-dated regional growth goal tied to the bank’s Asia business. No other details were disclosed in the source item.

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liquidations

Oct 16, 2026

$157 Million Liquidated Across Crypto Market in Four Hours, With BTC at $45.9 Million

Coinglass data showed that total crypto liquidations reached $157 million over the past four hours. Bitcoin accounted for $45.9 million of that amount, while Ether recorded $28.05 million in liquidations. On the positioning side, long liquidations came to $141 million, far exceeding short liquidations, which stood at $16.88 million. The figures point to a liquidation wave concentrated mainly in long positions during the four-hour window.

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Bitcoin

Oct 16, 2026

Bitcoin slips below $81,000 while Ether falls under $2,400

Bitcoin dropped below the $81,000 mark on Oct. 17, according to market data from HTX, with BTC last quoted at $80,936. Ether also fell below $2,400, with ETH trading at $2,397. The move was reported by BlockBeats as a brief market update. No additional market context or trading details were provided in the source. The prices cited reflect the latest quoted levels in the HTX market data referenced in the report.

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XRP

Oct 16, 2026

XRP Still Trails Its 2018 Peak as Supply Growth, Soft Fund Flows Weigh on Demand

XRP is still trading around $1.33, roughly 62.5% below its January 2018 high of $3.55, even as bitcoin, ether and several other major cryptocurrencies remain above their prior cycle peaks. CoinDesk’s report points to a mix of structural and market-driven reasons for the gap: XRP’s circulating supply has expanded 63% since 2017, spot and perpetual trading volumes have fallen, active addresses are lower, and investor inflows into XRP-linked funds remain modest compared with bitcoin and ether products. Analysts quoted in the report also said Ripple’s focus on cross-border payments, RLUSD and trade finance has left XRP with less exposure to capital-heavy narratives such as DeFi, AI and memecoins. The token also spent years under a cloud of regulatory uncertainty tied to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s case against Ripple, which began in 2020 and ended in August 2025 after both sides dropped their appeals. While XRP is not the only large-cap token still below early 2018 levels, analysts said its relative weakness versus bitcoin, combined with supply distribution trends and fund-holding changes, remains a key signal to watch.

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