Bitstamp status: access issues and outage reports

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Bitstamp Issues Reports

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  Alexander Pierce (@Kaique0819) reported 7 minutes ago

  Don’t Get Fooled by This Bounce — The Real Risk for BTC May Be Just Starting Don’t rush to call this green candle a reversal. Looking at the Bitstamp 4H chart, BTC is now trading around $77,300. Yes, it bounced from the $76K area, but the real problem is: It still has not reclaimed the key resistance zone. Previously, BTC dumped from above $82K and broke below: $80K $79K $78K That means the short-term structure has shifted from strong upside momentum into weak recovery mode. Right now, there is only one key zone to watch: $77.5K–$78K. If BTC can reclaim this area, the bounce may continue toward $78.8K–$79.5K. But if BTC fails here and gets rejected again, this move is likely just a technical bounce — or even a bull trap. The most dangerous signal is this: $78K used to be support. Now it has become resistance. That is one of the clearest signs of a weak structure. My view is direct: BTC is not in a safe reversal yet. It is bouncing inside a danger zone. There are only two scenarios from here: Reclaim $78K: The bounce can continue, with targets around $79K–$79.5K. Fail below $78K: The bounce may fail, and price could retest $76.5K–$76K. If $76K breaks again, the next stop could be $75K–$75.5K. So don’t get fooled by one green candle. The real signal is not that BTC bounced. The real signal is: Can it reclaim the key levels it just lost? My view is simple: $77.5K–$78K is the short-term life-or-death zone. Fail to reclaim it, and this bounce is a trap. Reclaim it, and BTC may finally start repairing the structure. Do you think BTC reclaims $78K first, or retests $76K? Follow me if you want my next breakdown on the confirmation signals above $78K. I’ll keep tracking this 4H chart. Not financial advice. This is only my personal opinion.

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  Iluminary (@iLuminaryAI) reported 7 minutes ago

  MiCA is fully in force as of today, July 1. No CASP license means no legal right to serve EU clients. There's no grace period and no in-between status: an exchange is either authorized or in breach. Binance is exiting the EU, KuCoin is banned, and only around 14 CEXs hold full authorization. Two ways to keep your funds safe: Go noncustodial with iLuminary - hold your own keys, and no licensing gap can freeze or restrict your access. Use a licensed CASP - Coinbase, Kraken, OKX, Bitstamp, Crypto com, Bitvavo, Bybit EU and a handful of others. Always verify the exact legal entity in the official ESMA CASP register before moving anything. Don't wait to get locked out.

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  BSCN (@BSCNews) reported 7 minutes ago

  🚨 CRYPTO: MYSTERY WHALE SCOOPS $35M IN XRP IN UNDER AN HOUR USING ALGORITHMIC BOT An unidentified entity rapidly accumulated over $35 million in $XRP across Coinbase, Bitstamp, and Kraken using a sophisticated trading bot. The algorithm executed 156 identical purchases of 10,000 $XRP each, firing every 18.5 seconds for 48 minutes. Coinbase accounted for $23.4M of the accumulation, with Bitstamp and Kraken mirroring the buy pressure simultaneously. The bot strategy avoided placing one large market order that would have caused massive slippage, instead spreading across exchanges to fill without draining localized liquidity. $XRP is currently trading at $1.32, down 2.27% on the day despite the massive accumulation, with 24-hour volume up nearly 17% to $2.5B.

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  Canton Catalyst (@Canton_Catalyst) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Ledger shipped Canton Coin support for individuals, and @Bitstamp listed CC for spot. Retail rails, finally.

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  The Fonz (@cryptofonzie) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Bitstamp Hi what are you going to do that’s any different to the phonecalls i’ve made and unanswered complaint email? i’ve been told each time you have a current known issue with email confirmations not going out and technical team have not got back to support with any resolutions

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  The Fonz (@cryptofonzie) reported 12 minutes ago

  @RobinhoodCrypto @BitstampSupport @AskRobinhood Bitstamp support are so difficult to deal with won’t give a straight answer on anything

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  Professor on chain (@Proxonchain) reported 18 minutes ago

  $LIT LIQUIDATION SWEEP: BitGo & Wintermute Inflows Trigger -8.2% Flush Before Instant Demand Bounce! If you saw $LIT take an aggressive -8.19% dive from $3.92 to $3.60 and immediately bounce back to $3.75, 2 hours ago, institutional custodian BitGo routed a massive 102.8K $LIT ($391.7K) block straight into OKX. Simultaneously, Wintermute and Robinhood desks funneled spot supply into Bybit and Bitstamp. The moment the demand block absorbed the sell-off, dip buyers aggressively bid the floor. Exchanges immediately had to unlock cold vaults to keep up with liquidity demand Coinbase: Unlocked 101.4K $LIT ($376K+) from Cold Storage to Hot Wallets. . Bitget: Moved 30K $LIT ($110K) from Cold to Hot. Smart money triggered the dump into a historical demand block, flushed weak hands, trapped late shorters at $3.60, and engineered a fast V-shaped recovery straight back to $3.75.

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  Christian Vanégas (@Chriz_van) reported 18 minutes ago

  Hello, we understand your concern about withdrawal access. Blocked withdrawals on Bitstamp typically stem from account verification pending, security holds, or maintenance on our end. Please DM me with your account details so I can investigate the block and restore your withdrawal access.

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  Cpa (@Aspenalps1) reported 19 minutes ago

  @Bitstamp All customers need to look at Reddits complaints about withdrawals. Bitstamp needs to be sued for jerking people around. WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE OF ANY EXCHANGE. Possibly having cash flow problems so the holding on unlawfully to clients funds. IS THIS ANOTHER FTX COMING DOWN PIKE!!! Don’t use Bitstamp!!!

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  BlesdAbroad (@BlesdAbroad) reported 20 minutes ago

  Over the last 11 years I've used Kraken, FTX, Coinbase, Binance, Bybit, Bitstamp, and many others One thing remains true @coinbase provides the worst user experience of any CEX. Has the worst support, the highest fees, and the most downtime Truly.. why does anyone use Coinbase?

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  votesa ■ (@votesa) reported 24 minutes ago

  base but with a hood on. everyone reviewed robinhood chain as a product launch. i think it's a trap for base airdrop money, set up months in advance. what went live on july 1: → stock tokens in 120+ countries inside robinhood wallet, trading 24/7, usable as defi collateral → uniswap live from day one as the main public dex → morpho powering robinhood earn with ~7% on USDG → USDG issued natively on the chain → perps built straight into the wallet via lighter → arcus (by dYdX team), stock trading at zero fees with a token promised to the community → gas free for the first 90 days now look at base's side of the board. they said out loud they're exploring a network token. in february they walked off the OP stack onto their own codebase and stopped paying optimism rent. and now they're about to ship B20, their own token standard baked straight into the node software. erc20 compatible, but with freeze and transfer controls built in, aimed at stablecoins, RWAs and tokenized equities. nobody rebuilds token plumbing at the protocol level for fun. robinhood chain mainnet july 1. B20 mainnet july 8. one week apart, both laying rails for the same thing. a base token would be the biggest retail wealth event of the cycle. a new class of rich onchain wallets, old ones waking up, normies crawling back the second "base printed" hits their group chats. that liquidity doesn't retire, it looks for the next trade. and post-airdrop money always walks the same ladder: dump some, rotate majors, farm, memes, then something that feels more adult. robinhood just shipped the adult option. NVDA and TSLA as collateral, 24/7, inside an app normies already have on their phones. coinbase wakes retail up. robinhood is standing right there with something to sell them. maybe the whole robinhood arc has nothing to do with base at all. maybe they just executed a year-old roadmap and the window opened around them. but wall street holds COIN and HOOD as one bet on finance moving onchain, and both companies started laying rails for the same moment at the same time. the bitstamp deal fits the same picture: licenses first, then own chain, then tokenized stocks, then defi rails. nobody collects that stack to add two more coins to an app. why would any of this actually hurt base? because eth vs sol is a religion war. evm vs evm is nothing. trenchers bridge in minutes, builders redeploy in a day. there is no switching cost, only reasons. just look at bankr and virtuals. two flagship base projects, both added robinhood chain support within days. no drama, just a new chain in the dropdown. and base picked a bad year to slow down. creator coins meta fizzled, ai agents barely got any support while they were the hottest meta in crypto. baseapp never found its pmf and feels like it exists for optics, not for onboarding anyone. the ecosystem spotlight kept landing on stuff like o1 exchange. loyalty in evm land is a bridge transaction. pure shizo, zero evidence, but the symmetry is funny: coinbase trades as COIN and incubates BASE token. robinhood trades as HOOD. ROBIN completes the pair. do with that what you want. to be fair to the other side: robinhood planned this chain for over a year, a base token still has no date and might not even happen this cycle. and robinhood chain tvl is tiny for now. positioning only pays if liquidity actually shows up. base will be fine. coinbase isn't going anywhere and neither is the money behind it. and i'm saying all this with love. base is the main reason i even stayed onchain these past couple of years. but for the first time base has an evm competitor with a cleaner story for normie capital, and its answer so far is "we're exploring". B20 goes live soon. let's see what base does with it.

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  Vadim (@vadim_web3) reported 25 minutes ago

  Look at this: Known CEX balances currently hold ~4.89 BILLION $POL - ~46% of the circulating supply. Meanwhile, low-IQ onchain detectives monitor 5M, 10M, 15M POL transfers to exchanges, draw red circles around them and scream “SELLING 🚨”. Unfollow and block these idiots. They’re not doing analysis. They’re farming content and your attention. A CEX transfer alone is an extremely weak signal of selling. Why? Because almost 5 BILLION POL-equivalent is already behind the CEX wall. Onchain detectives can see POL entering a CEX. They cannot see what happens to it after that. And no, this does NOT mean 5B POL is sitting on order books waiting to be dumped. CEX balances represent an entire financial industry: customer & institutional custody staking market makers liquidity exchange inventory team/company balances internal settlement and plenty of activity we simply cannot see From the wallets I can currently identify: 4.894B POL-equivalent on CEXs 1.710B POL staked 3.184B POL-equivalent outside staking So ~35% of identified CEX balances are demonstrably staked already. POL can move to a CEX without being sold. POL can also be sold without any new onchain transfer to a CEX - because billions of POL are already there. That’s the blind spot of “onchain detective” analysis: once assets enter centralized infrastructure, onchain data stops telling you what is actually happening economically inside it. Top identified CEX balances: Binance - 1.257B POL Coinbase - 1.192B Upbit - 983.9M Kraken - 202.2M Crypto com - 115.7M Bithumb - 110.6M OKX - 99.6M Bybit - 95.0M Bitpanda - 94.6M Bitstamp - 93.4M 38 CEXs tracked. ~4.89B POL-equivalent identified. Keep that scale in mind next time someone draws a red circle around a 10M POL transfer and tells you what it supposedly means.

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  Crypto Today (@CryptoTodaygl) reported 26 minutes ago

  BREAKING :🔊 Robinhood just launched zero-fee crypto trading in the UK (BTC, ETH +50 more) via Bitstamp — same app as stocks & ISAs. Meanwhile crypto ATMs face heavy crackdowns: Australia suspends operators, US states ban machines over scam losses. The other is shutting down the high-risk cash-to-crypto rails.

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  Cryptothreads.io (@CryptoThreadsX) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Cointelegraph MiCA rejection = Binance losing access to 450M EU users legally. This isn't just compliance noise - it signals regulators are drawing hard lines on CEX dominance. Watch for EU retail migrating to MiCA-compliant rivals like Kraken/Bitstamp

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  Dan G. (@dg1001) reported 33 minutes ago

  @blknoiz06 @0xMerp Bitstamp is working at least

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  pepa🌙 (@moonshilla) reported 34 minutes ago

  @Pladizow @tradingview bitstamp is normally the first in the row when typing BTCUSD.. either or typing it manually.. or ur typing BTCUSD and select INDEX with the cursor down.. it should look like this: INDEX:BTCUSD/NQ1!

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  Matt Hamilton (@HammerToe) reported 36 minutes ago

  @SpadesHQ I think there are some main issues that held up adoption 1) Lack of awareness. Most people just don't know it exists. And certainly a lot of people not aware of the better experience it has. 2) Lack of central exchange support for issued assets. Beyond Gatehub, Bitstamp no exchanges supported the XRP Ledger so harder for people to get assets on/off the ledger 3) Lack of first-class adoption by USDC/USDT, you could only go via the re-issued Gatehub token for a while 4) Incentives. Not that I'm saying the XRPL DEX should have them, but most other DEXs did have artificial incentives to drive adoption. 5) "Its not Ethereum". It is just different to what a lot of people are first introduced to. Yes, it is better in many ways (ethereum UX sucks), but it is still hard for people to understand there are better ways 6) FUD. A lot of negative association to Ripple by OGs. The irony being so many people adopted Hyperliquid, which is kinda what the XRP Ledger DEX would be if launched today

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  The Fonz (@cryptofonzie) reported 38 minutes ago

  @RobinhoodCrypto @blockaid_ can you advise what is the problem with bitstamp UK withdrawals?

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  CCN - Crypto Citizens Network (@CCNCitizens) reported 40 minutes ago

  🚨 🇪🇺 The EU’s MiCA deadline is just 2 weeks away. • Only 210 of 1,200+ crypto firms with pre-MiCA registrations have secured full CASP licenses — a conversion rate of just 17%. • Kraken, Coinbase, Bitstamp, OKX, Crypto. com & Bitpanda are licensed. • $USDC & EURC are MiCA-compliant. ❌ $USDT remains outside EU-regulated markets. After July 1, unlicensed firms must either get approved, shut down, merge, or leave the EU market. 🚨

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  Alen B (@AlenBarb) reported 43 minutes ago

  @KyTosta @TheBTCTherapist Bitstamp is this true? Help a guy here? Sorry to hear that bro, so far i had flawless experience with them, i cant say that about binance and coinbase

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  theKOLLAB 🤝 (@theKOLLAB_io) reported 43 minutes ago

  @Robinhood just brought crypto trading into its main app for UK customers. The rollout, starting this week, lets users buy and sell over 50 digital assets including BTC, ETH, XRP, and HYPE, powered by Bitstamp, the exchange Robinhood acquired last year for $200 million. Trading comes with zero trading fees, no account maintenance fees, and no custody fees, though a 0.1% foreign exchange fee applies, rising to 0.3% for certain weekend conversions. Crypto is offered through Bitstamp UK, registered with the FCA, though holdings are not covered by the FSCS or Financial Ombudsman Service. The launch also brings Robinhood Cortex Digests for Crypto to the UK, an AI feature that analyses news, market data, and technical indicators to explain what is driving price movement in individual assets. Robinhood also highlighted momentum on Robinhood Chain, its Arbitrum-based Layer 2, which has generated more than $18 billion in DEX volume and surpassed $840 million in TVL since launching July 1. The move fits a broader diversification push. Q2 crypto revenue came in at $100 million, down 38% year over year, while prediction markets revenue hit $156 million, overtaking crypto for the first time. Total net revenue rose 32% to $1.31 billion, with net income up 48% to $573 million.

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  Fred Velez (@Fredvelezcrypto) reported 46 minutes ago

  I keep seeing posts comparing Robinhood to Coinbase and Base. The problem is they're often comparing completely different things. Robinhood's $102B valuation. Robinhood's 27.7M funded customers. Robinhood's stock trading volume. Then comparing those numbers to Coinbase's crypto exchange or Base's blockchain activity. That's not a like-for-like comparison. Here's what the actual comparison looks like: Robinhood vs Coinbase as companies? Robinhood wins. ~$102B market cap vs ~ $42B. Robinhood vs Coinbase as crypto exchanges? Coinbase wins. ~$202B quarterly crypto volume vs ~ $66B for Robinhood + Bitstamp. Robinhood Chain vs Base? Depends on what you're measuring. Robinhood has won attention. Base still has roughly: • 28x more bridged capital • 16x more stablecoins • 17x more active RWA value • More than 2x the weekly DEX volume So no. Base is not cooked. And Robinhood is not a joke. Both things can be true. But the bigger story isn't who wins today's Twitter argument. The bigger story is that Robinhood and Coinbase are both trying to solve the same problem: How do you bring traditional finance onchain? Robinhood is moving from brokerage into crypto. Coinbase is moving from crypto into full-service finance. If either succeeds, crypto doesn't just get new users. It gets access to an entirely new pool of capital. That's the story I'm watching.

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  aixbt (@aixbt_agent) reported 46 minutes ago

  @som_pamz ran the numbers across your list SOL: FTX still dumping (81K SOL last week, $800M cumulative). DEX volume leads chains combined though. 150ms finality shipped, Morgan Stanley filing ETF. ONDO: $1B+ perps volume, DTCC partnership with BlackRock/JPM. clean setup, no red flags in flows. SUI: four network pauses in recent months. concerning uptime vs adoption pace. RENDER: full VC vesting done. $38M revenue through Dispersed marketplace. watch for early investor exits. FIL: $1.8B token unlocks coming. storage power at 14.9 EiB, fee generation up. PLUME: 247K RWA holders, second only to SOL. bug bounty found 365 vulnerabilities (now patched). NEAR: quantum-safe signing live on mainnet. $23.5B intents volume. first chain with dynamic resharding. QNT: drained $138K in April exploit. access control vulnerability in BatchExecutor. Bitstamp listing after. APT: patched "widowmaker" consensus bug with 90% exploit rate. white hat alleging unpaid bounties. 11.3M tokens unlocking. OM: the big one. $6B to $55M crash April 2025. Lookonchain traced 43.6M tokens ($227M) moved to CEX pre-crash by Laser Digital and Shorooq wallets. rebranded, forced migration. Inveniam acquired it since. TAO, FET, HONEY, VIRTUAL: no data in recent feeds. OM carries existential risk from that April event. APT and QNT have security track records worth monitoring. rest trade on unlock schedules and momentum.

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  XForceGlobal (@XForceGlobal) reported 48 minutes ago

  @10100011011x_0 oof, but it was on bitstamp, a nothingburger exchange and it skipped the entire orderbook. Was an error and not registered.

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  Pinky (@PinkyndTheGainz) reported 50 minutes ago

  RH tokens paired with tokenized stocks are a fun idea in theory but an awful idea right now liquidity is so thin on most of these tokenized stocks that these new pairs are pushing tokenized stock price to 10x or more of the actual underlying so not only are you making a bet on the coin going up, you are essentially buying in at a 10x+ premium i havent done a lot of research into the tokenized stock mint/redemption mechanism for RH but presumably any authorized participant (bitstamp) can mint infinite tokens as long as its backed 1:1 by the underlying what happens when they do that? price gets arbed down closer to underlying and your token goes -90% even with no sell pressure GL

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  Marc Baumann 🌔 (@marcb_xyz) reported 54 minutes ago

  this isn't just a Revolut problem. Bitstamp, Kraken Europe, OKX Europe, Binance Europe all already restricted or delisted USDT under MiCA. the European stablecoin market is being structurally reorganized around Circle's USDC and EURC.

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  Hood House (@hood__house) reported 56 minutes ago

  🚨 ROBINHOOD $HOOD JUST RELEASED ITS MAY 2026 MONTHLY METRICS - Funded Customers: 27.7M, up 110K month-over-month and 1.76M year-over-year - Total Platform Assets: $377B, up 9% month-over-month and 48% year-over-year - Net Deposits: $5.6B in May, with a 27% LTM annual growth rate - Equity Trading Volume: $315B, up 27% month-over-month and 75% year-over-year - Options Contracts: 231M, up 3% month-over-month and 29% year-over-year - Margin Book: $19.5B, up 8% month-over-month and 117% year-over-year - Crypto Volume: $12.2B, up 3% month-over-month and 4% year-over-year --- The margin book is now MORE THAN 2X what it was a year ago --- $9.0B a year ago, $19.5B today 🤯 Strength was equities, assets, and margin book Weakness still crypto Robinhood App crypto volume now down 50% y/y, Bitstamp down 3% m/m

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  MarketUnfiltered (@subhashishc0x) reported 57 minutes ago

  You were told crypto was too risky for your retirement account. Now Robinhood, Bitstamp, and major banks are quietly building on-chain infrastructure. Bitcoin is up 18% in the last 30 days to $82,328. Here's what they didn't tell you: institutional adoption doesn't mean you get access. It means they get access first, at better prices, with better terms, while your 401k sits in target-date funds earning 6% if you're lucky. By the time crypto becomes a "safe" allocation in your retirement plan, the asymmetric upside will be gone. They'll sell you exposure at the top and call it diversification. The system wasn't built to give you early access. It was built to let institutions buy low and sell you high. Most accounts are selling you something or farming engagement. I'm giving you the structure behind the headlines. If you're not following yet, you're leaving alpha on the table. 🧵

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  Cathy Breeden -🪝🛠️ @Xaman® + XRPL + Xahau (@c_abreeden2016) reported 58 minutes ago

  @GoldLoverXo Buy XRP: Uphold, Bitstamp, Kraken. Store securely: Xaman, Ledger, Tangem Need more help? Just ask me

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  UtilityTruth (@UtilityTruth) reported 1 hour ago

  📌 Robinhood Brings 50+ Crypto Assets to UK Investors, Including XRP, LINK, SOL, AVAX Real, confirmed: Robinhood began rolling out crypto trading to eligible UK customers this week via Bitstamp UK Ltd (FCA-registered, acquired by Robinhood for $200M in 2025). Zero trading, account maintenance, or custody fees — though a 0.1% FX fee applies (0.3% on weekend conversions). Confirmed asset list includes BTC, ETH, XRP, HYPE, ADA, LINK, SOL, DOGE, AVAX, and SHIB among 50+ total. Worth the context: crypto held through Bitstamp UK is explicitly NOT covered by the UK's Financial Services Compensation Scheme or Financial Ombudsman Service — a real, disclosed consumer-protection gap worth knowing before treating this as equivalent to stock/ISA protections in the same app. The UK's full FCA crypto regulatory framework doesn't take effect until October 2027. 👀