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Bitcoin dominance is at 60.1%. Ethereum sits at 10.3%. The altcoin season index reads 21 out of 100. This is as much of a "Bitcoin season" as we've seen all year — alts keep waiting their turn.
A single Ethereum ETF — BlackRock's ETHA — accounted for nearly half of ALL U.S. crypto ETF outflows this week: $299M of the $611M total. Right now, institutions aren't rotating into alts. They're leaving.
Fidelity's macro head is calling the start of a new Bitcoin cycle — with no clear narrative behind it. Funny how that works: the best rallies always feel narrativeless at first. The story gets written later.
A one-vote margin, only 100 lawmakers in the room, and France wants a 31.4% tax on crypto-to-stablecoin swaps from 2027. Real question: do investors move countries over this — or just move wallets?
VanEck has pulled its proposed Lido stETH ETF. The withdrawal request went in Oct 14 — a sponsor-initiated pull after a year sitting with the SEC, not a rejection. One fewer regulated path to liquid-staking exposure for now.
BitMine is 99% of the way to owning 5% of all Ether. The Tom Lee-led firm now holds 6.03M ETH — worth about $15.3B — and says it will halt its weekly buying program once it crosses the 5% line. It's already staked 84% of the stack.
Ethereum is getting squeezed from every side. Hotter-than-expected U.S. inflation data forced $106M in ETH long positions to liquidate within a single hour. ETH is hovering around $2,400, and daily spot ETF outflows aren't helping the picture.
U.S. spot crypto ETFs just closed their roughest week of October: about $611M in outflows Oct 12–16. Ether funds took the biggest hit at $320M, Bitcoin funds lost $228M. BlackRock's ETHA alone accounted for $299M of the Ether redemptions.
Quantum killing Bitcoin is the new "it's a bubble" — a scare that resurfaces every cycle. Hayes nailed the real point: the cryptography holds up fine, it's address reuse that's the actual risk. Good hygiene beats scary headlines.
Quick one for the long-timers: where were you when Bitcoin hit $126,080 last October? And for the newcomers — what finally pulled you in?
Saturday question: which asset are you watching most closely into year-end — Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, or XRP? One word answer, go.
Google searches for Bitcoin just hit a multi-year low — while BTC trades around $81,500. Is the crowd distracted, or has crypto just become too mainstream to search for?
Hong Kong now has two spot Solana ETFs. Pando's new listing (2831.HK) charges a 0.6% management fee, undercutting ChinaAMC's 0.99% — a small fee war in a market where global spot SOL ETFs hold about $1.9B.
Bitcoin is holding around $81,500 this Saturday morning after dipping below $80,000 midweek. Liquidations have cooled to $315M from nearly $1B, and the Fear and Greed Index just slipped from 63 to 55. Volatile week, quieter weekend.
October 16 was red across US spot crypto ETFs: Bitcoin -$82M, Ethereum -$70M, Solana -$13M, XRP -$2.5M. The odd one out? XRP funds still closed the week on a 13th straight week of net inflows.
Thailand switched on its crypto ETF framework this week. Bitcoin and Ether funds can now be built and traded on the Stock Exchange of Thailand — with one guardrail: securities firms can't offer margin loans for them.
Big one for mainstream access: Charles Schwab has now opened direct Bitcoin and Ether trading to all of its ~40 million eligible clients. Transfers of coins held elsewhere are rolling out too, with Solana, Avalanche and Chainlink set to join before year-end.
Circle’s USDC just became the first stablecoin classified as “significant” under the EU’s MiCA rules. Regulated stablecoins are officially a thing in Europe.
After back-to-back hot CPI and PPI prints, traders now see a 54% chance of a Fed hike this month. The Oct 27-28 meeting went from afterthought to main event.