Crypto This Week: 45 Events in Focus as the Fed Takes Center Stage Again
<p class="text-left mb-4 "><a href="https://jrkripto.com/tr/coin/btc" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="text-primary underline">Bitcoin </a>started the week of October 26–November 1 at around $80,100. Ether was trading near $2,320 at the time of writing.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">
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</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">The Fed’s interest-rate decision and US inflation data are at the center of the market’s attention. Balancer’s transition to withdrawal mode, corporate earnings and network upgrades will also shape the week.</p><h2 class="text-left text-foreground text-3xl font-bold mb-3 mt-1">Fed decision will arrive before the PCE report</h2><p class="text-left mb-4 ">The Federal Reserve will hold its penultimate meeting of the year on October 27–28. Its official calendar shows the decision arriving on Wednesday, October 28, at 9:00 p.m. Türkiye time.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s press conference will begin at 9:30 p.m. Of the 100 economists surveyed by Reuters, 94 expect the target rate to remain at 3.75%–4%.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">The Fed raised rates by 25 basis points at its September meeting. Investors will now focus on any signals about the December meeting.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">The PCE report will arrive one day after the decision. According to the BEA calendar, the data will be released on Thursday, October 29, at 3:30 p.m. Türkiye time.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Annual PCE inflation stood at 3.4% in August. The FactSet median forecast expects the September rate to climb to 3.7%.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">The forecast for core PCE inflation stands at 3.1%. A higher result could strengthen expectations for another rate increase in December.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">The first estimate of US third-quarter economic growth will be published at the same time. Personal income, spending and weekly jobless claims will also be released.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">The third-quarter Employment Cost Index will arrive on Friday, October 30, at 3:30 p.m. The report will show the latest level of wage-driven inflation pressure.</p><h2 class="text-left text-foreground text-3xl font-bold mb-3 mt-1">Four other major central banks will announce decisions</h2><p class="text-left mb-4 ">The Reserve Bank of New Zealand will publish its interest-rate decision on October 28 at 4:00 a.m. Türkiye time. Its current policy rate stands at 2.75%.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Markets assign a probability of around 75% to an increase to 3%. The Bank of Canada will announce its decision later that day at 4:45 p.m.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Governor Tiff Macklem’s press conference will begin at 5:30 p.m. Of the 34 economists surveyed by Reuters, 19 expect a 25-basis-point increase, which would lift the policy rate to 2.50%.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">The European Central Bank will announce its decision on Thursday, October 29, at 4:15 p.m. Christine Lagarde’s press conference will begin at 4:45 p.m.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Most economists expect the deposit rate to remain at 2.50%. Expectations for a 25-basis-point increase in December are gaining prominence.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">The Bank of Japan will meet on October 29–30. Its decision is expected on the morning of October 30, followed by a press conference at 9:30 a.m. Türkiye time.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Reuters surveys point to the rate remaining at 1.25%. Markets are pricing in the possibility of an increase to 1.50% in December.</p><h2 class="text-left text-foreground text-3xl font-bold mb-3 mt-1">Oil prices keep inflation risks alive</h2><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Brent crude traded near $110 on the first day of the week. The price reached $116.72 on Friday, its highest level since June 2022.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">The war with Iran and disruptions to energy shipments continue to keep the risk premium elevated. Another rise in oil prices could influence the Fed, ECB and BOJ decisions.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">The UK government will present its Autumn Budget on October 28. Tax and borrowing decisions could move sterling and global bond yields.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Now, let's move on to crypto developments. The crypto market also faces a busy week of protocol, exchange and token-related developments:</p><h2 class="text-left text-foreground text-3xl font-bold mb-3 mt-1">Balancer will enter withdrawal mode</h2><p class="text-left mb-4 ">The Balancer community approved an orderly wind-down of the protocol in September. BIP-928 calls for eligible pools to enter withdrawal mode on October 30.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">The bug bounty program will end on the same date. The final pause of the V3 Vault is scheduled for November 30.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">The community is also voting on BIP-934, BIP-935 and BIP-936. The results are expected to become final on October 27.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">BIP-934 proposes burning the DAO’s holdings of 10 million BEETS. The tokens have a nominal value of approximately $39,000.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">BIP-936 defines the technical onchain steps required for the shutdown. The plan will close pool factories and reduce protocol fees to zero.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Authorized parties will be able to pause eligible pools on October 30. Withdrawal functions will remain available to users.</p><h2 class="text-left text-foreground text-3xl font-bold mb-3 mt-1">BNB Chain, Hedera and Unichain will undergo upgrades</h2><p class="text-left mb-4 ">BNB Chain will activate its Jenner upgrade on the testnet on October 28. The mainnet date will be announced later.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Jenner will reserve 5% of block capacity for eligible payments. The upgrade will also introduce millisecond timestamps and CAS20 support.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Hedera will upgrade to version 0.78.2 at 8:00 p.m. Türkiye time on the same day. Its status page warns of a service interruption lasting approximately 40 minutes.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">The Unichain mainnet will migrate to OP Enterprise infrastructure on October 29. Chain ID, balances, applications and contracts will remain unchanged.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Optimism will take over sequencer, RPC and incident-management operations under the new structure. The migration will prepare Unichain for native interoperability across OP Stack chains.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Lisk Chain will cease operations on October 31. The project has asked users to withdraw all assets by that date.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Bridge transactions can take seven days, creating a risk of delays. The warning covers LSK, ETH, stablecoins and DeFi positions.</p><h2 class="text-left text-foreground text-3xl font-bold mb-3 mt-1">Binance, Bybit and Bitget will delist trading pairs</h2><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Binance will end spot trading for EPIC and QUICK on October 28 at 6:00 a.m. Türkiye time. Open orders and trading bots will close at the same time.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">The exchange will stop crediting deposits made after October 29 at 6:00 a.m. Withdrawals will remain available until December 28 at 6:00 a.m.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Bybit will close HFT deposits on October 27 at 11:00 a.m. HFT/USDT spot trading will end on October 28 at 11:00 a.m.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Bitget will remove the ZENT, MOODENG and HEI pairs on October 30 at 1:00 p.m. The exchange will keep withdrawals open until January 30, 2027.</p><h2 class="text-left text-foreground text-3xl font-bold mb-3 mt-1">CFTC will discuss AI-driven trading</h2><p class="text-left mb-4 ">The CFTC will begin its Frontier Forum meeting on October 28 at 8:00 p.m. Türkiye time. The program will focus on superintelligence and autonomous trading systems.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">The second session will cover AI agents that conduct financial transactions. Participants will discuss how existing CFTC rules apply to these activities.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">The meeting does not mark the introduction of a new regulation. It could still provide a policy signal for autonomous financial applications linked to crypto.</p><h2 class="text-left text-foreground text-3xl font-bold mb-3 mt-1">M, FF and EIGEN unlocks stand out</h2><p class="text-left mb-4 ">MemeCore will conduct the week’s largest token unlock. The project will release 56.11 million M tokens on November 1.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Based on the token’s price on the morning of October 26, the unlock is worth approximately $56 million. The amount represents around 2.8% of the circulating supply.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Falcon Finance will unlock 75 million FF on October 29 at 2:52 p.m. The tokens are currently worth approximately $7.42 million.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Some calendars show a second distribution of 128.06 million FF on the same day. Investors should therefore monitor the project’s final distribution figures.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">EigenCloud will release 36.82 million EIGEN on October 31 at 4:15 p.m. The tokens are worth approximately $7.29 million at the current price.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">The distribution covers investors and early contributors. The amount equals approximately 3.77% of the circulating supply.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">ZORA will unlock 166.67 million tokens on October 30 at 5:46 a.m. The distribution, worth approximately $1.03 million, will go to the team, investors and treasury.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Another 271.06 million GUN will unlock on the same day at 2:52 p.m. The approximately $550,000 distribution equals close to 7% of the circulating supply.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Tracking sources publish different figures for SUI. DefiLlama shows 2.07 million SUI unlocking on October 31 at 5:31 a.m.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Another calendar calculates a total of 6.07 million SUI across two separate distributions. Approximately $1.9 million therefore represents a conservative lower estimate.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">ZetaChain will unlock 44.26 million ZETA on November 1 at 12:58 p.m. The tokens are currently worth approximately $1.73 million.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">All dollar values were calculated using spot prices on the morning of October 26 and are approximate.</p><h2 class="text-left text-foreground text-3xl font-bold mb-3 mt-1">Four crypto companies will report earnings</h2><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Galaxy Digital will publish its third-quarter results before the market opens on October 27. Its conference call will begin at 3:30 p.m. Türkiye time.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Robinhood will report its results after US markets close on the same day. The management webcast will begin at midnight Türkiye time on October 28.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Coinbase will publish its third-quarter results after the market closes on October 29. Its question-and-answer session will begin at midnight on October 30.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Strategy will also report after the closing bell on October 29. Investors will follow the valuation of its Bitcoin holdings, tax effects and capital raises.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">The company’s webcast will begin at midnight Türkiye time on October 30.</p><h2 class="text-left text-foreground text-3xl font-bold mb-3 mt-1">Events will begin in Buenos Aires and Mumbai</h2><p class="text-left mb-4 ">LABITCONF will take place in Buenos Aires on October 30–31. The program will focus on Bitcoin, blockchain, artificial intelligence and Latin American markets.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">India Blockchain Week will begin in Mumbai on November 1. The two-day conference will cover DeFi, infrastructure, tokenization and institutional adoption.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">The DeFi Security Summit will also take place in Mumbai on November 1–2. Security researchers, auditors and protocol developers will attend the event.</p><h2 class="text-left text-foreground text-3xl font-bold mb-3 mt-1">This week’s 45-event crypto calendar</h2><ol class="list-decimal list-inside my-4"><li>October 26, 10:11 a.m. Türkiye time: Approximately $1.11 million in WAL unlocks.</li><li>October 26, 12:58 p.m.: Approximately $1.50 million in ALT unlocks.</li><li>October 27, 3:30 p.m.: Galaxy Digital’s third-quarter earnings.</li><li>October 27, 3:30 p.m.: US durable goods orders.</li><li>October 27, 5:00 p.m.: US consumer confidence.</li><li>October 27, 5:00 p.m.: US new home sales.</li><li>October 27: Results of Balancer proposals BIP-934, BIP-935 and BIP-936.</li><li>October 28, midnight: Robinhood’s third-quarter earnings webcast.</li><li>October 28, 3:00 a.m.: Approximately $518,000 in IOTA unlocks.</li><li>October 28, 4:00 a.m.: Reserve Bank of New Zealand interest-rate decision.</li><li>October 28, 11:00 a.m.: Bybit ends HFT trading.</li><li>October 28, 6:00 a.m.: Binance ends EPIC and QUICK trading.</li><li>October 28: BNB Chain’s Jenner testnet upgrade.</li><li>October 28, 3:30 p.m.: US goods trade and wholesale inventory data.</li><li>October 28, 4:45 p.m.: Bank of Canada interest-rate decision.</li><li>October 28, 8:00 p.m.: CFTC Frontier Forum meeting.</li><li>October 28, 8:00 p.m.: Hedera v0.78.2 mainnet upgrade.</li><li>October 28, 9:00 p.m.: Fed interest-rate decision.</li><li>October 28, 9:30 p.m.: Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s press conference.</li><li>October 28: UK Autumn Budget.</li><li>October 29, 2:52 p.m.: At least 75 million FF unlocks.</li><li>October 29, 3:30 p.m.: First estimate of US third-quarter GDP growth.</li><li>October 29, 3:30 p.m.: US September PCE inflation.</li><li>October 29, 3:30 p.m.: US weekly jobless claims.</li><li>October 29, 4:15 p.m.: ECB interest-rate decision.</li><li>October 29: Unichain’s migration to OP Enterprise infrastructure.</li><li>October 30, midnight: Coinbase’s third-quarter earnings webcast.</li><li>October 30, midnight: Strategy’s third-quarter earnings webcast.</li><li>October 30, 4:23 a.m.: Approximately $1.58 million in ASTER unlocks.</li><li>October 30, 5:46 a.m.: Approximately $1.03 million in ZORA unlocks.</li><li>Morning of October 30: Bank of Japan interest-rate decision.</li><li>October 30, 1:00 p.m.: Bitget removes three spot trading pairs.</li><li>October 30, 2:52 p.m.: Approximately $550,000 in GUN unlocks.</li><li>October 30, 3:30 p.m.: US Employment Cost Index.</li><li>October 30, 4:45 p.m.: Chicago PMI.</li><li>October 30: Balancer pools enter withdrawal mode.</li><li>October 30–31: LABITCONF Buenos Aires.</li><li>October 31, 4:00 a.m.: Puffer Gauge vote concludes.</li><li>Morning of October 31: SUI token unlock.</li><li>October 31, 4:15 p.m.: Approximately $7.29 million in EIGEN unlocks.</li><li>October 31: Final day to withdraw assets from Lisk Chain.</li><li>November 1: Approximately $56 million in M unlocks.</li><li>November 1, 12:58 p.m.: Approximately $1.73 million in ZETA unlocks.</li><li>November 1: India Blockchain Week begins.</li><li>November 1: DeFi Security Summit begins.</li></ol>
