Bitcoin Support Holds at $82.5K, Altcoins Rally on Thin Liquidity Ahead of CPI

Welcome to Stock Market Today — your market briefing with actionable insights on stocks, bonds, crypto, and the events moving markets. Let's get into it. Bitcoin holding eighty-two thousand six hundred ninety-eight dollars—right on critical support at eighty-two thousand five hundred that's kept the macro range intact since early October. Ethereum at two thousand five hundred twenty-nine. Week ahead hinges on Wednesday's C P I print: consensus three point seven percent year-over-year headline, up from three point four. Core expected two point five percent. Fed funds futures price nineteen percent odds of an October hike, seventy-one percent for December if inflation reaccelerates. Altcoins rallied three percent versus one point two for majors on thin order books. Futures volume surged eighty-one percent to one hundred twenty-six billion, but open interest climbed only two point four four percent. Long-side taker volume jumped to fifty-two percent—first shift from seller dominance in two weeks. Spot Bitcoin E T Fs bled six hundred eighty-one million last week—largest outflow since June. Ether funds nine straight days of outflows since September twenty-eighth. Implied vol indexes struggling below forty for both assets. X R P Ledger Foundation patched an eleven-year-old integer overflow bug September twenty-fifth capable of minting eighteen trillion X R P—one hundred eighty-four times total supply. Veria Labs disclosed it, received two hundred fifty thousand dollar bounty. Patch bypassed standard two-week validator vote, raising decentralization questions but preventing catastrophic supply inflation. Standard Chartered's Dubai branch now custodies Ripple's R L U S D stablecoin for institutional clients. Bank partnering with L M A X to let clients use custodied R L U S D as trading collateral without transferring assets. Financial Stability Board flagged stablecoin risks ahead of Wednesday's G-twenty finance ministers meeting. Market hit three hundred six billion. F S B warns multi-issuer structures could trap reserves in one jurisdiction while redemption pressure hits another. Wednesday's C P I is the catalyst. Eighty-two thousand five hundred support holds or we retest the sixty to eighty thousand range. That wraps your market intel — trade smart out there. For deeper insights and real-time analysis, visit capitalcopilot dot i o.