October 10, 2026 · Crypto & Web3 Daily Digest
A roundup of crypto, regulation, and Web3 developments for October 10, 2026, with summaries, links, and commentary.
I. Regulation and Policy
1. France's Finance Committee Backs a Stablecoin-Swap Tax and a Crypto Exit Tax, Then Rejects the Budget's Revenue Section (Regulation)
Summary:
Decrypt reported on October 10 that the French National Assembly's Finance Committee adopted crypto tax amendments this week. From January 1, 2027, swapping crypto into MiCA electronic-money tokens, the category covering most stablecoins tied to a single currency, would count as a taxable sale, with the gain measured against the original cost. A second amendment would extend the exit tax to crypto when a household's combined holdings, including assets kept with custodians, exceed €800,000 and the taxpayer was a French tax resident for at least six of the previous 10 years, for moves from January 1, 2027. The threshold matches the one already used for shares. Nicolas Sansu of the left-wing GDR group and 16 co-signers filed the stablecoin text. France currently taxes crypto when it is sold for regular money or spent, so a bitcoin-to-stablecoin swap is not taxed. The amendment names no separate rate and defers to the flat tax, which stands at 31.4% from January 1 after the 2026 social-security financing law raised the social-charge portion from 17.2% to 18.6%. Crypto-to-crypto swaps with no cash component would not count as sales for the exit tax, but a taxpayer would have to declare all crypto on the moving date, including assets abroad and in self-custody. A further amendment from Daniel Labaronne, also adopted in committee, would let investors carry crypto losses forward for 10 years. On Friday the committee rejected the budget's entire revenue section by 31 votes to 3, so the full Assembly starts from the government's original text. The amendments do not carry over and would have to be tabled again for the floor debate that opens October 13, with a vote set for October 20. Neither measure is law.
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Commentary:
The amendments sit in the committee record, and the October 13 floor debate decides whether they become a 2027 tax liability.
II. Market and Major Assets
2. Bitcoin Trades near $82,780 on Saturday and Has Not Reclaimed $83,000 (Market)
Summary:
Cailian Press wrote on October 10 that the crypto market's total value rose 2.1% on Friday to $2.89 trillion, recovering only part of the loss. A week earlier the total was still above $3 trillion, and bitcoin had briefly traded above $87,000. The fear-and-greed index fell to 56, a neutral reading, from 71 on October 2. The paper said U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs lost $484.9 million on Wednesday, the largest single day since June 25, and another $244 million on Thursday. At the time of its Saturday filing, bitcoin was about $82,780. Thursday's low was $80,427, the lowest since early September. Luke Deans, a senior researcher at Bitwise Europe, said the area around $83,000 is both near the average cost of ETF investors and a prior technical threshold. The prediction market Myriad put the chance that bitcoin trades at $80,000 or below at some point in October at 67%, the chance of $77,500 at 40%, and the chance of $75,000 at 24%. Another prediction market put the chance of touching or clearing $87,500 before month-end at 49%. Ananda Banerjee of Charlie Quant Lab placed the strongest support at $77,000. Deans put the true market mean for active investors near $77,000, the short-term-holder cost basis near $74,000, and the 200-day moving average near $72,000. Jake Kennis of Nansen said October's median return since 2013 is about 14%, with gains in 10 of the past 13 Octobers, and that liquidity and positioning matter more than the calendar.
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Commentary:
Weekend trade is sitting near the ETF cost level analysts flagged, and the seasonal pattern has not become a bid that reclaims $83,000.
3. One Year after the Flash Crash, Bitcoin and Ether Books Are Deeper Than on Crash Day While Altcoin Dollar Depth Keeps Thinning (Market)
Summary:
CoinDesk on October 10 compared order books on major centralized exchanges. On October 10, 2025, bitcoin fell from about $122,600 that morning to below $105,000 within hours, and more than $19 billion in leveraged positions were liquidated after President Donald Trump announced 100% tariffs on Chinese imports. On October 7, 2026, about $11.7 million of bitcoin bids and offers sat within 1% of the price, roughly 75% more than on crash day, up from about $9 million at the start of this year and about $6.9 million at the start of 2025. Bitcoin is about one-third cheaper than before the crash, so the deeper dollar book reflects more market-maker capital rather than a cheaper coin. Depth about 5% from the price, near $24 million, is roughly where it was in January 2025. Ether's depth within 0.5% of the price has more than doubled since crash day, to about $4.2 million, and depth within 1% is up by about three-quarters, to about $5.3 million. During this week's selloff, bitcoin's 1% depth fell about 12% from October 7 to October 8. Dollar depth in CoinDesk's altcoin basket has been lower on every comparison date since January 1, 2025. At 5% from the price it is down about a third from the start of 2025, to around $2 million, and at 1% it is down about a sixth. Weekly spot volume on centralized exchanges averaged about $279 billion over the four weeks to September 27, nearly two-thirds below the $801 billion traded in the crash week. Volume bottomed near $135 billion in August and has roughly doubled since. Joshua de Vos, research lead at CoinDesk, said market makers have returned to the majors while altcoin liquidity is still falling, and that he expects the split to last into next year.
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Commentary:
Capital that can absorb large orders is back in bitcoin and ether, so the next crowded unwind is more likely to hit the thinner altcoin books first.
4. Bitcoin Has Already Logged 10 Three-Sigma Days in 2026, More Than in All of 2018 (Market)
Summary:
A CoinDesk count published October 10 found 10 days in 2026 when bitcoin moved at least three times its prior 30-day realized volatility, more than the eight such days in all of 2018, when bitcoin fell 73%. Annualized volatility is about 46% this year, against about 84% in 2018, and the three-sigma moves have averaged about 7%, down from about 10% eight years ago. Since 2024, bitcoin's annualized volatility has been about 47%, similar to Nvidia, but bitcoin has logged 26 three-sigma days in that span, against eight for Nvidia, 16 for the S&P 500, and 12 for gold. Nicolas Quatravaux, head of EMEA at Paradigm, said the average day is calmer while shocks from macro news, leverage, and positioning remain. Deribit chief executive Luuk Strijers said standard value-at-risk does not capture the full tail, which is why the industry has been moving toward expected shortfall. Alexander Blume, chief executive of Two Prime, said call overwriting is a crowded trade and that short covering amplifies rallies. On September 21, bitcoin's latest three-sigma jump, Paradigm facilitated a record $6.7 billion in options trades. Quatravaux said he had not heard of a desk taking a bad hit that day, and that these days are not going away.
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Commentary:
Lower recent volatility invites models to hold more bitcoin, while this year's moves relative to that volatility are already more frequent than in the 2018 bear market.
III. Institutions and ETFs
5. Spot Ether ETFs Extend Outflows to Nine Sessions as Solana Funds End a 14-Week Inflow Run (Institutions)
Summary:
The Block reported on October 10, citing SoSoValue, that U.S. spot ether ETFs lost $542.1 million last week, their worst week since January, and have now posted outflows for nine straight trading days. That run, which began on September 29, totals $697.2 million. BlackRock's ETHA lost $477.0 million over the week, about 88% of the category. Tuesday's $201.9 million of redemptions were entirely from ETHA, on the day its 1-for-3 reverse share split took effect. Ether ETF net assets fell 10% over the week to $15.71 billion. Cumulative net inflows are $13.26 billion, and 2026 inflows are still positive at $931.8 million. Spot Solana ETFs lost $24.8 million, the largest weekly outflow since the products launched in late October 2025, about three times the prior record of $8.9 million in the week ending February 6, and the loss ended 14 straight weeks of inflows. All five sessions were negative. Bitwise's BSOL lost $20.9 million, about 84% of the category. Solana ETF net assets fell to $1.73 billion from $1.90 billion a week earlier, after a record $1.96 billion on September 25. Spot bitcoin ETFs lost $681.1 million, ending three straight weeks of inflows and marking the worst week since the $1.79 billion outflow in the week ending June 26. Wednesday accounted for $487.1 million, and Friday returned to a $21.1 million inflow. The three categories together lost about $1.25 billion. Bitcoin ETFs hold $105.84 billion and have $57.11 billion of cumulative net inflows, with 2026 net inflows down to $494.1 million. On Saturday morning ether traded near $2,506, Solana near $110.50, and bitcoin near $82,900.
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Commentary:
Friday's $21.1 million bitcoin ETF inflow covered only a slice of Wednesday's exit, and ether's nine-day streak and the end of Solana's 14-week run landed in the same week.
IV. On-Chain Activity and Protocols
6. Robinhood Chain's Daily Transactions Are Down 42% from Mid-September, While App Deposits Stay above $1 Billion (On-Chain)
Summary:
CoinDesk calculated on October 10 that Robinhood Chain averaged 6.2 million transactions a day from October 2 through October 8, down 42% from 10.8 million during September 10–16 and down 20% from the preceding week. Daily active addresses averaged about 322,000, down 31% from mid-September. Spot venues handled $7.45 billion in that week, down 21% from $9.46 billion the week before, with Uniswap accounting for about 77%. Deposits in lending and trading apps rose about 2% to $1.04 billion, and stablecoin supply was about $1.10 billion. DefiLlama's rolling seven-day perpetual-futures volume on Friday was about $7.35 billion, up 26%. Users paid about $65,000 a day in network fees, down 39% from the week before and far below the $8 million collected on the busiest day in early September. The chain launched in July. CoinDesk cited a Bernstein note from last month saying Robinhood keeps roughly nine-tenths of network fees. A fee subsidy that had been due to end on September 29 now runs through December 31: Robinhood pays the network fee on wallet swaps larger than 50 cents.
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Commentary:
Deposits are still on the chain while turnover and fees have fallen, and the December 31 end of the subsidy is the test of whether those balances keep trading once users pay.
7. Justin Sun Says Tron's Post-Quantum Cryptography Is Live on Testnet and Can Move to Mainnet at Any Time (Protocol)
Summary:
Cointelegraph reported on October 10 that Tron founder Justin Sun said on X on Saturday that the company's post-quantum cryptography is now live on testnet. He wrote that Tron is closely tracking progress in quantum computing and artificial intelligence and is ready to bring quantum resistance to mainnet at any time. He also said Tron is set to be one of the few major blockchains that is quantum-resistant before Q-Day, the point at which quantum computing could break current security standards. The report gives no mainnet date and does not say that a governance vote has been scheduled. Cointelegraph noted separately that developers are concerned sufficiently powerful quantum computers could eventually break the elliptic-curve cryptography used by Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other networks.
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Commentary:
The statement says the testnet build is ready, not that mainnet signatures have switched.
V. Security and Enforcement
8. A Jury Convicts a Maryland Man of Computer Fraud and Money Laundering over the Uranium Finance Hacks (Enforcement)
Summary:
WTOP reported on October 10 that Jonathan Spalletta, 36, of Rockville, Maryland, was found guilty this week of computer fraud and money laundering after a six-day trial in New York. Prosecutors said he hacked the decentralized exchange Uranium Finance twice in April 2021. The first exploit withdrew $1.4 million. The second used an error to pull $53.3 million from liquidity pools, and the exchange shut down for lack of funds. Evidence included a message in which he said he "did a crypto heist" and that "Crypto is all fake internet money anyway." Court documents said law enforcement seized about $31 million in cryptocurrency taken from Uranium in February 2025. Computer fraud carries a maximum of 10 years in prison, and money laundering a maximum of 20. Decrypt wrote on October 8 that federal prosecutors announced the verdict on Wednesday and that U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff presided. Decrypt dated the first hack to April 8, 2021, and the second to April 28, and said the funds moved through a series of transactions including Tornado Cash. The sentence is for the judge to set.
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- WTOP — Rockville man found guilty of hacking a crypto exchange and stealing more than $50 million
- Decrypt — Uranium Finance hacker who bought Pokémon and Magic cards convicted over a theft of more than $50 million
Commentary:
A jury has treated the 2021 contract exploits as computer fraud and money laundering, with statutory maximums of 10 and 20 years and the sentence still up to the judge.
Today's Summary
- The French National Assembly's Finance Committee adopted amendments that would tax swaps into MiCA electronic-money tokens and extend the exit tax to crypto holdings above €800,000. On October 9 it rejected the budget's revenue section by 31 votes to 3. The amendments must be retabled for the October 13 floor debate and an October 20 vote, and neither is law.
- Cailian Press put bitcoin near $82,780 on Saturday after a Thursday low of $80,427, with the fear-and-greed index at 56. CoinDesk said that, one year after the flash crash, about $11.7 million sat within 1% of bitcoin's price on October 7, roughly 75% more than on crash day, while altcoin dollar depth remains below the start of 2025. Bitcoin has already logged 10 three-sigma days in 2026, with annualized volatility near 46%.
- The Block, citing SoSoValue, said spot bitcoin ETFs lost $681.1 million last week, spot ether ETFs lost $542.1 million and are on a nine-session outflow streak, and spot Solana ETFs lost $24.8 million, ending 14 straight weeks of inflows. The three categories lost about $1.25 billion. Friday's bitcoin ETF flow was a $21.1 million inflow.
- Robinhood Chain averaged 6.2 million daily transactions from October 2 through October 8, down 42% from mid-September, while app deposits were still about $1.04 billion. Justin Sun said Tron's post-quantum cryptography is live on testnet and can move to mainnet at any time. A jury convicted Jonathan Spalletta of computer fraud and money laundering over the 2021 Uranium Finance hacks.
Daily Framing:
Saturday in this crypto cycle was a flash-crash-anniversary day of split liquidity: bitcoin held near $83,000, spot bitcoin, ether, and Solana ETFs lost about $1.25 billion last week, and the order-book depth that vanished a year ago has returned to the majors and not to altcoins.
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