U.S. Inflation and Corporate Earnings: The Upcoming Crypto Week

Nov 9, 2026, 4:33 a.m. EST

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This week’s trajectory will be heavily dictated by U.S. inflation metrics, as the consumer price index for October arrives on Tuesday following a gasoline-propelled 0.6% monthly expansion that pushed annual inflation to 3.7%, its peak since May.

Based on FactSet estimates, analysts project a more modest 0.2% increase for October. Producer prices are scheduled for Friday after climbing 6.3% year-over-year in September, marking the most significant annual jump in over three years.

Elevated figures would reinforce arguments for higher borrowing costs, which diminish the appeal of speculative instruments such as cryptocurrencies. Furthermore, a number of blockchain businesses are releasing their financial results this week, offering deeper perspective on the sector.

What to Watch

(All times ET)

• Crypto
  • Nov. 9: Kinetiq to launch the mainnet of Elysium, a multi-purpose layer-2 network built for the Hyperliquid network.
  • Nov. 12: The European Banking Authority takes over supervision concerning USDC proprietary funds, reserve assets, liquidity levels, alongside recovery and redemption frameworks.
  • Nov. 12, noon: Open Standard to stage an OUSD payments demonstration via livestream originating from San Francisco.
• Macro
  • Nov. 10, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. Consumer Price Index MoM for October est. 0.2% (Prev. 0.6%); YoY (Prev. 3.7%); Core MoM (Prev. 0.3%); Core YoY (Prev. 2.6%).
  • Nov. 10, 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.: Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman discusses the economic outlook.
  • Nov. 11: Veterans Day. U.S. bond trading is suspended per SIFMA advice; equity exchanges remain active.
  • Nov. 12, 2 a.m.: U.K. GDP QoQ for Q3, initial projection (Prev. 0.5%); GDP MoM for September (Prev. 0.1%).
  • Nov. 12, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. Initial Jobless Claims covering the week ending Nov. 7 (Prev. 189K).
  • Nov. 13, 5 a.m.: Eurozone GDP QoQ for Q3, preliminary estimate (Prelim. 0.4%); GDP YoY (Prelim. 1.3%); employment preliminary metrics.
  • Nov. 13, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. Producer Price Index MoM for October (Prev. 1.3%); YoY (Prev. 6.3%).
  • Nov. 15, 6:50 p.m.: Japan annualized GDP QoQ for Q3, preliminary estimate 0.3% (Prev. 1.4%).
• Earnings
  • Nov. 9: MARA Holdings MARA, post-market, -$0.09
  • Nov. 9: Exodus Movement (EXOD), post-market, -$0.21
  • Nov. 9: Sharplink (SBET), pre-market, -$0.01
  • Nov. 9: Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT), post-market
  • Nov. 9: Bitgo Holdings BTGO, post-market, -$0.04
  • Nov. 9: HIVE Digital Technologies HIVE, post-market, -$0.11
  • Nov. 10: CoreWeave (CRWV), post-market, -$1.53
  • Nov. 10: Bitdeer Technologies (BTDR), pre-market, -$0.33
  • Nov. 10: eToro Group (ETOR), pre-market, $0.28
  • Nov. 11: DeFi Development (DFDV), pre-market, -$0.17
  • Nov. 12: Figure Technology Solutions (FIGR), pre-market, $0.31
  • Nov. 12: Gemini Space Station (GEMI), post-market, -$0.68

Token Events

• Governance Votes and Calls
  • Aave DAO is conducting an off-chain vote concerning the addition of native BTC as collateral inside Aave V4 via Babylon trustless bitcoin vaults. Voting concludes Nov. 9.
  • Optimism is staging a secondary ratification ballot for Security Council assignments after the initial attempt failed to achieve quorum. The chosen council leader would appoint candidates who take office unless holders possessing 20% of voting-eligible OP supply issue a veto. Voting wraps up Nov. 11.
  • CoW DAO is balloting on a $10.45 million operational budget for 2027 alongside elevating its legal structure allocation to $500,000, while transferring administration of current COW repurchases to the Foundation. Both polls finish Nov. 11.
  • SSV Network is voting on whether to prolong SSV Labs’ management of the network through June 2027, backed by 1.5 million USDC for 2026 and 2.7 million SSV for the initial half of 2027, featuring an alternative to accept 900,000 USDC instead of 1.7 million of those SSV tokens. Balloting ends Nov. 11.
  • Arbitrum DAO is casting votes to transfer 1,800 ETH out of its treasury—roughly 1,714 ETH directed to treasury strategies and 86 ETH sent to the Arbitrum Developer Guild—and to modify transaction-fee metrics on Arbitrum One and Nova to accommodate Ethereum’s Glamsterdam upgrade. Both votes finish Nov. 12.
  • Arbitrum DAO is additionally voting regarding the integration of USDG through a motion that incorporates contributing 100 million ARB into its DRIP incentive scheme. Voting finishes Nov. 13.
  • Cardano’s Strategic Copper Reserve proposition, which petitions for 22 million ADA from the treasury to purchase COMEX Grade 1 copper and tokenize it as CuTT, expires on Nov. 15 if unapproved.
• Unlocks
  • Nov. 10: Solayer (LAYER) to release 12.87% of its circulating supply valued at $1.45 million.
  • Nov. 11: Pump.fun PUMP to release 1.50% of its circulating supply valued at $27.13 million.
• Token launches
  • Nov. 10, noon: Slop Cash SLOP token auction on Umia concludes.

Conferences

• Nov. 9–12: Web Summit (Lisbon)
• Nov. 10–11: Digital Asset Summit London (London)
• Nov. 12: Full Stack London (London)
• Nov. 13: Digital Assets Forum New York (New York)
• Nov. 13: ICAEW Digital Assets Conference (London)
• Nov. 13–17: Singapore Blockchain Week (Singapore)
• Nov. 15–17: Solana Breakpoint (London)