U.S. Government Shutdown, UK ETNs, Hedera Upgrade: Crypto Week Ahead

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Crypto markets whitethorn beryllium distracted by the U.S. authorities shutdown successful the coming week. With cardinal information from the world's largest system not being published, traders whitethorn find trouble successful identifying big-picture catalysts for their positions.

While the shutdown means caller exchange-traded funds won't beryllium approved successful the U.S., crossed the Atlantic U.K. retail investors volition summation entree to crypto exchange-traded notes (ETNs) for the archetypal clip successful 4 years. The Financial Conduct Authority rescinded a ban successful August, saying the marketplace had evolved and specified products had go amended understood.

Within the crypto industry, Hedera is upgrading its mainet to present batch transactions and Jito DAO is voting connected whether to double the fig of validators connected the Solana infrastructure project's StakeNet level successful an effort to "move the Jito Stake Pool into a much productive economical equilibrium."

What to Watch

Crypto
- Oct. 6: Cronos (CRO) is discontinuing CronoScan successful favour of Cronos Explorer.
- Oct. 6, 4 a.m.: The Floki (FLOKI) squad is hosting its monthly AMA connected Telegram.
- Oct. 8: U.K. retail investors regain regulated entree to crypto exchange-traded notes (ETNs) arsenic the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)'s four-year ban connected these products ends.
- Oct. 8, 1 p.m.: Hedera (HBAR) mainnet upgrade to mentation 0.66.
- Oct. 9, 12 p.m.: Cronos (CRO) squad is hosting an AMA connected X.
Macro
- Oct. 7, 10:05 a.m.: Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle W. Bowman delivers welcoming remarks astatine the 2025 Community Banking Research Conference, St. Louis, Mo. Watch live.
- Oct. 7, 10:30 a.m.: Conversation with Fed Governor Stephen I. Miran astatine the Managed Funds Association (MFA) Policy Outlook 2025 successful New York. Watch live.
- Oct. 8, 9:30 a.m.: Fed Governor Michael S. Barr code astatine the 2025 Community Banking Research Conference successful St. Louis. Watch live.
- Oct. 8, 2 p.m.: Minutes from the Fed’s Sept. 16-17 FOMC meeting.
- Oct. 9, 8 a.m.: Brazil Sept. header ostentation complaint YoY (Prev. 5.13%), MoM (Prev. -0.11%).
- Oct. 9, 8 a.m.: Mexico Sept. ostentation rate. Headline YoY (Prev. 3.57%), MoM (Prev. 0.6%). Core YoY (Prev. 4.23%), MoM (Prev. 0.22%).
- Oct. 9, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. Jobless Claims. Initial ((for week ended Oct. 4) Est. 223K, Continuing (for week ended Sept. 27) Est. 1930K. (Report apt to beryllium delayed owed to existent national authorities shutdown)
- Oct. 9, 8:30 a.m.: Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell delivers invited remarks astatine the Community Bank Conference, Washington, D.C. Watch live.
- Oct. 10, 8 a.m.: Brazil Aug. PPI YoY (Prev. 1.36%), MoM (Prev. -0.3%).
- Oct. 10, 8:30 a.m.: Canada Sept. Unemployment Rate (Prev. 7.1%).
- Oct. 10, 10 a.m.: Michigan Consumer Sentiment Oct. (Preliminary) (Prev. 55.1).
Earnings (Estimates based connected FactSet data)
- Nothing scheduled.

Token Events

Governance votes & calls
- Compound DAO is holding a non-binding "temperature check" ballot connected a connection to deprecate Compound V2. Voting ends Oct. 6.
- Gnosis DAO is voting connected GIP-138 to money NodeSentinel, a validator monitoring instrumentality utilized by 94 operators for 60k+ validators. Voting ends Oct. 7.
- ZKSync DAO is voting connected a proposal to allocate 25 cardinal ZK tokens (~$1.25M) for the "Prividium Roadshow" done the extremity of 2026. Voting ends Oct. 8.
- GMX is holding elections for Season 3 of its Listing Committee, which volition prime 3 members to oversee and o.k. caller plus listings connected GMX protocols.Voting ends Oct. 8.
- Jito DAO is voting connected a connection to grow the validator set from 200 to 400 and update StakeNet’s ranking and eligibility criteria to code antagonistic involvement excavation dynamics.
- Decentraland DAO is voting to regenerate the DAO Committee with a 3-of-5 multisig of ecosystem representatives, shifting execution-only duties portion the assembly retains oversight. Voting ends Oct. 10.
- Oct. 9: Cronos (CRO) to big an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session.
Unlocks
- Oct. 10: Linea (LINEA) to unlock 6.57% of its circulating proviso worthy $27.9 million.
- Oct. 11: Aptos (APT) to unlock 2.15% of its circulating proviso worthy $57.91 million.
- Oct. 12: Aethir (ATH) to unlock 16.08% of its circulating proviso worthy $64.95 million.
Token Launches
- Oct. 8: Sky (SKY) to beryllium listed connected BitFlyer.