Coinbase Completes US Derivatives Stack as Bitget Hackers Turn to Privacy Coins

Chain Reaction by Capital Copilot · Oct 1, 2026 · 3m · transcript

October 1st, 2026. Bitcoin holds at eighty-three thousand nine hundred twenty-four dollars as Coinbase secures CFTC clearinghouse approval, completing its vertically integrated US derivatives infrastructure. Bitget hackers shift to Zcash privacy pools after laundering attempts face resistance, while Citigroup raises Bitcoin price targets to one hundred thirteen thousand dollars on resumed ETF inflows. Ripple expands Brazilian tokenization push with Petrobras blockchain pilots, MetaMask exits seventeen thousand validators following security incident, and EU regulators investigate Binance over…