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Good Evening Legends! 🔥
Before my GN, today's crypto highlights:
- Bitcoin slipped below $80,000 overnight after a five-week low of $79,100 and roughly $1.3 billion in liquidations. It trades at $80,487 before Wednesday's Fed decision.
- US spot bitcoin ETFs took in $110.3 million on Monday, all into BlackRock's IBIT, ending a $773 million two-day outflow. October remains about $202 million negative.
- Galaxy Research says the bear market ended in June and bitcoin is accumulating, while trader Ansem and investor Jason Calacanis warn of a drop toward $57,000.
- Strive bought 6,182 bitcoin for $511 million at an average of $82,732, lifting holdings to 43,000 BTC. Strategy bought none and repurchased $205 million of preferred stock.
- Ether trades near $2,345 after US ether ETFs lost about $89 million. BitMine added 10,452 ETH, reaching 6,051,933 tokens, just under its 5% supply goal.
- Ripple won final OCC approval for Ripple National Trust Bank, which will hold RLUSD reserves and provide custody. XRP barely reacted, trading at $1.32.
- At Swell, BNY added XRP and RLUSD to its digital asset custody platform, and Robinhood will use RLUSD on the XRP Ledger for institutional settlement.
- Keystone will destroy 18,835 hardware wallets after attackers stole the key behind its device-authenticity checks, exposing nearly 26,000 customer records.
- The OCC urged community banks to become stablecoin issuers before the GENIUS Act's January 18, 2027 deadline, while Canada opened a 60-day consultation on its draft rules.
- CoinDCX confirmed a $16 million USDT loss from wallets it had retired, three days after its CEO dismissed the suspicious activity as a false alarm.
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„The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (The Ladder of St. Augustine)
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The trade you skipped gets remembered at its best price. The one you took gets remembered at its worst.
Your memory keeps a far more dramatic record than your wallet does.
Good Evening Legends! 🔥
Before my GN, today's crypto highlights:
- Bitcoin hit a five-week low of $79,100 on Saturday and slipped under $80,000 again on Monday before recovering to $80,630, up 0.1% on the day.
- US spot Bitcoin ETFs ended last week with $304.73 million in net inflows, breaking a two-week outflow streak, but another $443 million left the funds on Monday.
- Galaxy Research said Bitcoin's bear market ended in June and the asset has entered an accumulation phase, noting spot ETFs added 87,000 BTC since the June low.
- Ether trades near $2,336 and is down about 13% in October, on track for its worst October in eight years, with another $220 million leaving spot ETH ETFs last week.
- Electrum warned of a flaw exploited in the wild that redirects fee bumps to an attacker, fixed in version 4.8.3, while Keystone and Foundation disclosed customer data breaches.
- Strive bought 6,182 BTC for $511.4 million at an average price of $82,732, its largest purchase yet, lifting holdings to 43,000 BTC worth about $3.45 billion.
- Strategy made no Bitcoin purchases last week and spent $205 million repurchasing STRC preferred stock instead. It still holds 848,517 BTC bought at an average of $75,446.
- Aviva Investors launched a tokenised share class of its £22 billion Sterling Liquidity Fund on the XRP Ledger with Ripple, starting with a £50 million investment.
- The UK will bring cryptoasset firms under Financial Conduct Authority oversight from 2027. Chancellor Rachel Reeves called it a crucial step for the UK as a financial centre.
- The Federal Reserve decides on Wednesday, with futures pricing a 90.6% chance of a hold, and about $11 billion in Bitcoin options expire on Friday.
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„When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”
— Jacob Riis
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Good Evening Legends! 🔥
Before my GN, today's crypto highlights:
- Bitcoin fell to a five-week low of $79,100 on Saturday before recovering, and now trades near $80,529, up 1.1% on the day.
- More than $815 million in crypto positions were liquidated over 24 hours, affecting 196,239 traders. Longs made up 84.3% of the total, or $688 million.
- US spot Bitcoin ETFs still closed the week with $301.2 million of net inflows, even after $773.5 million left the funds on Thursday and Friday.
- Ethereum trades near $2,342 after Ether ETFs lost $220.7 million on the week, while 169,770 ETH left exchanges, the largest daily outflow in over four months.
- Solana sits near $102 and is down about 15% in October, with $30.3 million of ETF outflows, despite the Alpenglow upgrade cutting finality to about 150 milliseconds.
- XRP rebounded to $1.30 after another rejection at $1.40. Analysts are split on the $1.26 support: Ali Martinez sees $0.98, while EGRAG CRYPTO sees a triple bottom.
- Electrum released version 4.8.3 after malicious servers used fake fee bumps to steal funds, and Keystone said a website breach exposed customer names and shipping addresses.
- Arthur Hayes said he took profits on Ethereum, Ethena, Uniswap and other tokens, citing macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainty. On-chain analysts track about $26 million in sales.
- The OCC finalized its GENIUS Act rules for payment stablecoin issuers, covering reserves, redemption and risk management. The law and the rule take effect January 18, 2027.
- The Federal Reserve meets October 27-28 and is widely expected to hold rates at 3.75%-4.00%, with the tone of its guidance seen as bitcoin's next catalyst.
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Sunday check-in: how many price alerts do you still have switched on for coins you stopped caring about? 👀
Mine keep going off for a 2021 decision I never got around to deleting.
Good Evening Legends! 🔥
Before my GN, today's crypto highlights:
- Bitcoin slid to around $80,100, down 1.9% in 24 hours, and closed a daily candle below its 50-day moving average for the first time since August.
- US spot bitcoin ETFs lost $635.6 million in one day, their biggest outflow of the month, with BlackRock's fund down over $254 million.
- Spot ether ETFs are heading for their worst month of 2026 with $1.2 billion of October outflows, as ETH trades near $2,340.
- About 169,770 ETH left centralized exchanges on net in a day, the largest withdrawal in more than four months.
- Arthur Hayes closed Maelstrom's entire directional book, selling roughly $22.28 million in tokens including 6,400 ETH, citing macro and geopolitical risks.
- Initia halted its layer-1 and rollups after an attacker exploited a MoveVM bug to mint and bridge out about $2.7 million.
- Swell paused swETH and rswETH deposits and withdrawals after a rate anomaly; researchers suspect admin key abuse, and Swell says all funds are safe.
- XRP lost the $1.30 support level and trades near $1.27, while Solana is close to breaking below $100.
- Objections to the OKX-ICE tokenized stock venue reached 22 companies, with Wells Fargo, Intuit and Arm joining Microsoft and Alphabet.
- The SEC named tokenization a high-risk focus in its 2027 examination priorities covering more than 34,000 registrants, with no standalone crypto category.
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