Two whales swept up crypto on-chain together, buying over $29 million worth of $ETH.
Big money has directly withdrawn over $20 million worth of spot assets at this point, significantly lightening the market, while bulls are pushing prices up.
A Kanye-linked address sold 1,390 $ETH in batches six hours ago at an average price of $2,275.6, cashing out $3.163 million and taking a paper loss of $317,000.
A whale cut losses and exited, creating over $3 million in spot sell pressure. $ETH Short-term spot-side buying support is weakening.
Over the past 5 days, a whale sold off 694,310 $HYPE, worth $53.27 million. On the same day, 5 accounts opened a total of 597,912 long positions.
Big players dumped all their spot holdings at the top, and now a few large traders are using leverage to prop things up. Spot has been converted into long positions, and $HYPE the current market is very fragile.
After the official account was attacked, trader 0x8add used maximum leverage to short 22,047 units of $ETH and 620.7 $BTC, with notional values of $48.89 million and $47.89 million, respectively.
Betting nearly $100 million at extreme leverage, they directly secured $2.29 million in unrealized profits. When a major institution suffers a security incident and large investors pull out, they tend to first use the futures market to lower the exit costs of the two leading assets.
Chiliz CEO Alexandre Dreyfus says the cross-chain bridge fee wallet was stolen, resulting in a total loss of about 1 $ETH, worth approximately $2,000.
Users' wallets are safe. This amount is negligible compared with the project's day-to-day expenses. Liquidity won't shrink, and neither $ETH nor the platform tokens will be dumped.
CITIC Securities issued a research report predicting that after the Fed holds interest rates steady in October, it will raise them by another 25 basis points in December.
The tightening cycle has not yet reached its end, institutional borrowing costs remain high, and funds outside the market continue to flow into fixed income. In the short term, $BTC simply cannot attract the additional liquidity needed to rise.
The Fed made no move overnight, and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority also kept its base rate unchanged at 4.25%.
Neither side adjusted borrowing costs. Dollar liquidity is neither loosening nor tightening, and no new money is entering from the sidelines. $BTC is still trading within its previous range.
The Bank of Canada raised interest rates for the first time in more than three years, increasing its benchmark rate by 25 basis points to 2.50%.
Borrowing costs are still rising, and money is flowing into lower-risk assets. With no new money coming in over the counter, $BTC can only fluctuate lower in line with the cycle.
MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor pushed back against the AI threat narrative. He said using AI’s ability to hack crypto apps as an excuse not to buy and hold Bitcoin is like being too afraid to speak English because AI can hack messaging apps.
It makes no sense to conflate frontend vulnerabilities with the asset itself. The largest institutional Bitcoin holder isn’t panicking at all, and hasn’t moved its holdings. $BTC still has to keep going up from here.
Michael Saylor has pushed back against the AI threat narrative. He says AI could break into messaging apps, but nobody would stop speaking English because of that. Even if AI compromises crypto apps, it won’t undermine Bitcoin’s value.
Vulnerabilities at the app layer are app-layer problems; underlying assets are a separate matter. The underlying logic is sound, $BTC remains steady, and it still has room to climb.
Square has enabled over 1 million merchants across the US to accept Bitcoin payments, but a Spiral report says few people use it for everyday purchases.
Even with a million merchants on board, hardly anyone is spending it. Merchants simply aren’t seeing Bitcoin circulate as a means of payment; $BTC is still being traded as an investment asset and continues to move sideways.
Ai Yi spotted a whale selling off the last 2,252 ETH they held, amounting to roughly $12.41 million in sales over the past two weeks.
A whale has dumped tens of millions of dollars in spot assets over two weeks. Big money is flowing out, and spot markets will continue to be hammered by this selling pressure: $ETH .
BlackRock’s ETHA saw a net outflow of $93.30 million on October 27, contributing to total net outflows of $60.20 million across spot Ethereum ETFs.
Net redemptions of this scale through a key channel suggest that institutional capital is continuing to exit and cash out. $ETH may follow this selling momentum and break below its current trading range.
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