Crypto Investing and Decentralized Finance, Coinstack

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Crypto Investing and Decentralized Finance

Coinstack is published weekly by Ryan Allis. He was previously CEO and Co-founder of iContact and led the company from 300 employees, 70,000 customers, and $50M in annual sales and an exit for $169M. Ryan was an angel investor in SpaceX, LendingClub, Change.org, Kuli Kuli, and Catalant. Today, Ryan advises companies and governments on blockchain-related projects and is the Chairman of Hive.org, a global community of 3,500 purpose-driven leaders from 130 countries making a positive impact in the world. Ryan holds an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was Co-President of the Harvard Social Enterprise Club and a fellow of the Harvard Graduate School Leadership Institute.

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<ul><li>Congress averted the October 1 shutdown with a bipartisan stopgap bill. Jobs data came in weak. Citigroup lifted its 12-month Bitcoin target by 37.8%.</li><li>Uptober has begun, and BTC absorbed all three catalysts, closing the week near $86,490 (CoinGecko, Close, Oct 4).</li><li>ETH broke out of its multi-week $2,600 range on Thursday before settling back. The institutional story kept building while macro visibility deteriorated.</li></ul>

Congress averted the October 1 shutdown with a bipartisan stopgap bill. Jobs data came in weak. Citigroup lifted its 12-month Bitcoin target by 37.8%.Uptober has begun, and BTC absorbed all three catalysts, closing the week near $86,490 (CoinGecko, Close, Oct 4).ETH broke out of its multi-week $2,600 range on Thursday before settling back. The institutional story kept building while macro visibility deteriorated.

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Bitcoin closed near $84,449 (CoinGecko, Sept 27 close), hitting an eight-month high above $86,500 on Monday.
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BTC ETFs turned positive for 2026 after $2.8B in inflows (Sep 18 - Sep 25) erased a $5.8B YTD deficit. Net inflows are now +800M for the year.
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BitMEX permanently shut down on Sept 23 after twelve years. The exchange that invented crypto perpetual futures closed its books.
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Bitcoin closed near $84,449 (CoinGecko, Sept 27 close), hitting an eight-month high above $86,500 on Monday.


BTC ETFs turned positive for 2026 after $2.8B in inflows (Sep 18 - Sep 25) erased a $5.8B YTD deficit. Net inflows are now +800M for the year.


BitMEX permanently shut down on Sept 23 after twelve years. The exchange that invented crypto perpetual futures closed its books.



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<li>The Decentralization Spectrum: Design Tradeoffs In Digital Assets is a joint report by ARK Invest and Glassnode that maps Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana across four design features and six measurable dimensions of decentralization.</li>
<li>Decentralization and centralization are architectures at two ends of digital asset network design.</li>
<li>While “decentralized” and “centralized” networks seem to be binary alternatives, the reality is more nuanced. Blockchain design choices fall along a spectrum.</li>
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The Decentralization Spectrum: Design Tradeoffs In Digital Assets is a joint report by ARK Invest and Glassnode that maps Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana across four design features and six measurable dimensions of decentralization.
Decentralization and centralization are architectures at two ends of digital asset network design.
While “decentralized” and “centralized” networks seem to be binary alternatives, the reality is more nuanced. Blockchain design choices fall along a spectrum.


Ark Invest x Glassnode: The Decentralization Spectrum

<ul><li>Bitcoin reversed from $80,258 midweek (Aug 27), closing the week near $77K to $78K, per Coinglass, after Warsh’s hawkish Jackson Hole speech elevated September rate-hike odds.</li><li>Spot BTC ETFs snapped a nine-day $3.04B streak (Aug 17-27) with a $201.81M outflow on Aug 28; ETH inflow streak extended to ten days, bringing in roughly $1.52B.</li><li>SEC sent modernized crypto custody rules to the White House OMB, advancing clarity outside the stalled CLARITY Act.</li></ul>

Bitcoin reversed from $80,258 midweek (Aug 27), closing the week near $77K to $78K, per Coinglass, after Warsh’s hawkish Jackson Hole speech elevated September rate-hike odds.Spot BTC ETFs snapped a nine-day $3.04B streak (Aug 17-27) with a $201.81M outflow on Aug 28; ETH inflow streak extended to ten days, bringing in roughly $1.52B.SEC sent modernized crypto custody rules to the White House OMB, advancing clarity outside the stalled CLARITY Act.

<ul><li>Bitcoin closed at $77,712 on Sunday, up 20.57% w/w, its best week since October 2025.</li><li>Spot BTC ETFs drew $1.92B (week ending Aug 21), the largest weekly inflow of 2026.</li><li>Trump hosted crypto CEOs at the White House Aug 19, urging CLARITY passage.</li></ul>

Bitcoin closed at $77,712 on Sunday, up 20.57% w/w, its best week since October 2025.Spot BTC ETFs drew $1.92B (week ending Aug 21), the largest weekly inflow of 2026.Trump hosted crypto CEOs at the White House Aug 19, urging CLARITY passage.

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Ethereum is an open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality. It provides a decentralized Turing-complete virtual machine, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), which can execute scripts using an international network of public nodes. Ethereum also provides a cryptocurrency token called "ether", which can be transferred between accounts and used to compensate participant nodes for computations performed. "Gas", an internal transaction pricing mechanism, is used to mitigate spam and allocate resources on the network.

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Citi’s $113K Bitcoin Call

Congress averted the October 1 shutdown with a bipartisan stopgap bill. Jobs data came in weak. Citigroup lifted its 12-month Bitcoin target by 37.8%.

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BTC ETFs Flip Positive for 2026

BTC ETFs turned positive for 2026 after $2.8B in inflows (Sep 18 - Sep 25) erased a $5.8B YTD deficit. Net inflows are now +800M for the year.

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Ark Invest x Glassnode: The Decentralization Spectrum

The Decentralization Spectrum: Design Tradeoffs In Digital Assets is a joint report by ARK Invest and Glassnode that maps Bitcoin, Ethereum, and...

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Jackson Hole Sinks Bitcoin

Bitcoin reversed from $80,258 midweek (Aug 27), closing the week near $77K to $78K, per Coinglass, after Warsh’s hawkish Jackson Hole speech...

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$1.92B Floods Into Bitcoin ETFs

Bitcoin closed at $77,712 on Sunday, up 20.57% w/w, its best week since October 2025. Spot BTC ETFs drew $1.92B (week ending Aug 21), the largest...

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