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Morning brief: bitcoin, ether and solana lower overnight, and the Fed's minutes at 2 p.m. ET

Bitcoin is down 2.4% on Coinbase since the U.S. close, ether 4.1% and solana 3.0%, and the Fed publishes its September minutes this afternoon.

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Song of the morning

"Under Pressure," Queen and David Bowie. Official video [14]

Overnight

Changes are from the last one-minute Coinbase Exchange close at or before 4:00 p.m. ET (the U.S. close) on Oct. 6 to the latest Coinbase trade this morning.

Of the coins Le Coin screened, five fell more than 8% on Coinbase over the same window [2]:

Coin Last Coinbase trade (ET) Since U.S. close
ETHFI $0.708 at 8:11 a.m. ET −9.81%
APT $0.7588 at 8:17 a.m. ET −9.57%
FIL $1.053 at 8:17 a.m. ET −9.04%
ARB $0.18636 at 8:16 a.m. ET −8.62%
DOT $1.1115 at 8:16 a.m. ET −8.31%

Macro

Scheduled for today and overnight, all ET:

Later dates are under On the calendar.

What printed

01 · The SEC's order on 3x bitcoin and ether funds is in today's Federal Register. The Oct. 2 order approves Cboe BZX's rule change to list six VS Trust funds, among them a 3x Bitcoin ETF and a 3x Ether ETF. Each seeks three times the daily performance of a portfolio of first- and second-month futures on its commodity, before fees and expenses. [5][6]

02 · Russia's central bank put its first crypto firms on its registers. The Bank of Russia said on Oct. 6 that it had added 5 organizations to its register of digital depositories and 4 to its register of organizations that exchange digital currencies, under the transitional provisions of the law "On Digital Currencies and Digital Rights," in force since Sept. 1, 2026. They must bring their operations fully in line with that law by Sept. 1, 2027. [7]

03 · Glamsterdam is running on Sepolia. The Ethereum Foundation set the upgrade for Sepolia epoch 353,024 on Oct. 6 at 9:53:36 a.m. ET, and says Hoodi and mainnet dates have not been decided. Two Sepolia beacon nodes, one running Lighthouse and one running Lodestar, list that fork epoch, and at 8:27 a.m. ET both reported a finalized checkpoint at epoch 353,233, past the fork epoch. [8][9]

04 · Arbitrum's DAO is asked to put 100 million ARB behind Paxos's USDG. A proposal posted Oct. 6 by Entropy Advisors, written with Offchain Labs, the Arbitrum Foundation and OpCo, would add 100 million ARB to the DRIP incentive budget and let the DAO's treasury committee convert certain fee income into USDG. Its targeted schedule is an offchain vote Oct. 15-22 and an onchain vote Oct. 29 to Nov. 12. [10]

Chart of the day

Line chart of Filecoin's daily closing price on Coinbase from April 10 to October 6, 2026, with its 50-day and 200-day averages. The vertical axis starts at $0.60. Price ranges between about $0.63 and $1.29. At the Oct. 6 close, price, at $1.15, is above both averages, and the 50-day average, at $0.87, is above the 200-day, at $0.85.
Fig. 1FIL-USD daily closes on Coinbase with 50-day and 200-day simple averages, Apr. 10 to Oct. 6, 2026 (UTC days).

Source: Coinbase Exchange FIL-USD daily candles (UTC days), accessed Oct. 7, 2026, 8:17 a.m. ET. Moving averages are Le Coin calculations. [11]

Filecoin is a storage network built on a blockchain: storage providers earn FIL by regularly producing cryptographic proofs that they are storing what they pledged. [12] On Coinbase daily closes (UTC days), the Oct. 6 close of $1.1536 was 35.4% above the 200-day average of $0.8520 and 42.8% above the Sept. 6 close, and the 50-day average stood at $0.8746. [11] FIL is also one of the five coins above that fell more than 8% since the U.S. close on Oct. 6. [2]

On the calendar

All times ET. Today's and overnight items are under Macro.

When What
Oct. 8 · 1:00 p.m. ET $22 billion 30-year bond reopening. [4]
Oct. 15-22 ArbitrumDAO offchain vote on the USDG proposal (targeted). [10]
Oct. 28 · 2:00 p.m. ET FOMC decision, press conference at 2:30 p.m. ET [3]
Oct. 29 · 8:30 a.m. ET BEA: third-quarter GDP (advance) and September personal income and outlays. [13]
Oct. 29 to Nov. 12 ArbitrumDAO onchain vote on the USDG proposal (targeted). [10]

From the Library

Ethereum (v0.2). What Glamsterdam's two headline changes do, in plain words, and where mainnet's date stands.

Sources (14)

  1. Coinbase Exchange, BTC-USD, ETH-USD and SOL-USD tickers and one-minute candles. Accessed Oct. 7, 2026, 8:16 a.m. ET.
  2. Coinbase Exchange, ETHFI-USD, APT-USD, FIL-USD, ARB-USD and DOT-USD tickers and one-minute candles. Accessed Oct. 7, 2026, 8:17 a.m. ET.
  3. Federal Reserve Board, calendar. Accessed Oct. 7, 2026, 8:19 a.m. ET.
  4. TreasuryDirect, upcoming auctions. Accessed Oct. 7, 2026, 8:19 a.m. ET.
  5. SEC, Release No. 34-106577, File No. SR-CboeBZX-2026-065, Oct. 2, 2026. Accessed Oct. 7, 2026, 8:18 a.m. ET.
  6. Federal Register Doc. 2026-20507, 91 FR 64207, Oct. 7, 2026. Accessed Oct. 7, 2026, 8:20 a.m. ET.
  7. Bank of Russia, press release, Oct. 6, 2026 (in Russian). Accessed Oct. 7, 2026, 8:18 a.m. ET.
  8. Ethereum Foundation, "Glamsterdam Testnet Announcement." Accessed Oct. 7, 2026, 8:18 a.m. ET.
  9. Sepolia beacon node APIs, GET /eth/v1/config/fork_schedule and /eth/v1/beacon/states/head/finality_checkpoints, on ethereum-sepolia-beacon-api.publicnode.com (Lighthouse v8.3.0-rc.0) and lodestar-sepolia.chainsafe.io (Lodestar v1.49.0), head slot 11,303,539. Accessed Oct. 7, 2026, 8:27 a.m. ET.
  10. ArbitrumDAO forum, "Adopting USDG as a Core Strategic Initiative for the ArbitrumDAO," Oct. 6, 2026. Accessed Oct. 7, 2026, 8:18 a.m. ET.
  11. Coinbase Exchange, FIL-USD daily candles. Accessed Oct. 7, 2026, 8:17 a.m. ET.
  12. Filecoin Spec, introduction. Accessed Oct. 7, 2026, 8:22 a.m. ET.
  13. Bureau of Economic Analysis, release schedule. Accessed Oct. 7, 2026, 8:19 a.m. ET.
  14. Queen Official on YouTube, "Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure (Official Video)." Accessed Oct. 7, 2026, 8:21 a.m. ET.
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