# Bitcoin Trades Above $82,000 as Nasdaq 100 Futures Rise By Enna Lee Canonical URL: https://www.tokenpost.com/news/investing/34698 Published: 2026-10-19T10:40:42.000Z Updated: 2026-10-19T10:40:42.000Z Section: Investing > Arbitrum gained about 8%, while an index of 80 liquid crypto assets outside the top-20 benchmark and a DeFi index each rose about 1.6%. Bitcoin (BTC) traded near $82,800 early Monday, up about 1.5% in 24 hours, as U.S. stock futures recovered from the prior week’s selloff and crypto indexes advanced. BTC was above $82,000 in the Monday snapshot, following a [weekend pullback below $82,000](). Ether (ETH) traded near $2,430. An index tracking 80 liquid crypto assets outside the top-20 benchmark and a DeFi index each rose about 1.6% over 24 hours. Arbitrum (ARB) climbed about 8% to $0.20, while Uniswap (UNI) gained about 2% to $7.39. Nasdaq 100 futures rose 1.3% in an earlier Monday snapshot. The Nasdaq Composite fell 4.5% during the week ended Oct. 16. China’s third-quarter gross domestic product grew 4.5% from a year earlier, up from 4.3% in the second quarter. The figures were released at 10 p.m. ET Oct. 18 (02:00 UTC Oct. 19). Separately, Arbitrum announced a stablecoin growth program on Oct. 15 with a 2 million ARB reward pool. Each of the first 10 qualifying teams to reach a 30-day average of $10 million in Global Dollar (USDG) total value locked (TVL) can receive 200,000 ARB. ## Links in this article - [weekend pullback below $82,000](https://www.tokenpost.com/news/investing/34289)