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After the first executable recovery schedule was implemented, $BNB's 24-hour increase on OKX reached 2.87%, but spot volume did not keep pace. The 00:18 (UTC) public snapshot showed the spot price at 709.22 USDT, with a daily range of 681.39—721.38 USDT.
The announcement stated that over $6.34 billion of company funds have been arranged, of which about $5 billion are affected similar assets, covering approximately 80%. The team aims to start phased withdrawal recovery within about 34 hours and plans to initiate a reserve proof snapshot within 12 hours, with results to be announced on November 2. These are targets constrained by security checks; technical review, final losses, and asset recovery are still incomplete.
In the most recent complete 1-hour K-line, spot rose 0.60%, with turnover down 37.81% compared to the previous period; perpetual contracts also rose 0.60%, but turnover increased by 57.49%. Current perpetual open interest is about 61.6 million USDT, with a funding rate of approximately -0.0124%. Derivatives trading is more active, but this does not yet prove that the risk has been eliminated.
I regard 721.38 USDT as the confirmation line, not a chasing price: only if withdrawals and reserve proofs are fulfilled on schedule, accompanied by spot volume closing above it, will the rebound shift from expected trading to verified trading. 681.39 USDT is the invalidation level; if the hourly close falls back below it, it indicates that uncertainty still dominates pricing.$ENA
128.6 million tokens.
Ethena just transferred 128.6 million ENA tokens to Binance. At the current price of 0.19, that's about 24.33 million USD. I double-checked this number in the breaking news; there's no exaggeration.
Interestingly, ENA has risen 13% in the last 24 hours, leading the entire market on its own. The combination of rising prices and large transfers to exchanges is something I've seen quite a few times; most of the time, it's not about recharging faith.
Even more interesting is the fee rate—it's still negative on OKX. The shorts haven't given up and are still paying; with positions under 20 million USD, the liquidity is thin, so a 13% rise doesn't actually cost much.
Therefore, I prefer to see this as more than just noise—a signal. The pumpers and the bears are both present; who will prevail? We'll have the answer the day these tokens truly hit the market.
#美国9月核心PCE升至3.1%，加息预期仍高 $BTC
This round, the crypto market has temporarily decoupled from the US stock market.
Last night, the Philadelphia Semiconductor index dropped 7.2%, the worst night since June, and the Nasdaq didn't fare much better. As for BTC, it climbed back from 76260 to above 77200, up 0.28% in 24 hours, basically unchanged. On a night when US stocks were bloodied, BTC didn't follow the crash, which in itself is worth noting.
The Binance hack incident is also wrapping up, about 80% of the funds have been replenished, and withdrawals are being restored in phases over 34 hours. Trump said he's watching the matter closely and is still unsure if North Korea is behind it. The panic didn't materialize; those who needed to run already did in the past two days.
On the market front, OKX fees remain at 0.01%, bulls are still paying to queue, and open interest at $26.9 billion hasn't shrunk. After the drop, no one fled, nor is anyone rushing to push prices up; it's just sideways.
My view is that there aren't few people who caught the dip at 76260. The macro pressure is real, but after hitting this level, the crypto market is starting to follow its own rhythm. As for how much ammo those who caught the dip still have, we'll have to see tonight's US stock market.
#美国9月核心PCE升至3.1%，加息预期仍高 Ailio | US Stock Market Review Diary | $SOXS
A simple summary of the logic behind the sharp decline in AI semiconductor stocks in the US market this week is that the capital expenditures of major giants are a bottomless pit. The cash flow of these giants has already dried up, yet they keep issuing debt and borrowing money, even ten-year bonds! Additionally, the IPO of Company A shows a slowdown in revenue.
On the other hand, borrowing rates remain high, making corporate financing difficult, so AI returns and investments cannot be replenished in time.
At this rate, sooner or later, by mid-2027 at the earliest or by the end of 2028 at the latest, all giants' capex spending will be put on pause. The orders already locked in as predicted in current research reports, especially those from cloud providers, will turn out to be mirages. The AI bubble will be forcefully burst.
$AMZN $SPCX #Anthropic信贷拟超百亿美元 #Amazon Q3 revenue slightly misses expectations, AWS growth hits fastest pace in nearly five years
Tech stocks collectively plunge: AI cash-burning logic changes, market shifts from chasing growth to calculating cash flow
Nasdaq falls 2.9% in a single day, S&P 500 down 1.8%, marking the worst single-day performance since June, with AI tech sector hit hardest. Intel plunges nearly 29%, the worst record since 1974; Google, Amazon, and SanDisk all drop sharply as the market re-prices massive investments in the AI arms race.
The five major tech giants' total AI capital expenditure exceeds $800 billion annually, all directed towards data centers and computing infrastructure. AWS growth at 39.3% hits a five-year high, with backlog orders over $570 billion; Google Cloud revenue doubles year-over-year, cloud business demand remains strong. But market focus has completely shifted: no longer chasing high growth, now closely watching cash flow—Amazon's free cash flow turned negative $42.4 billion over the past 12 months, burning cash far faster than revenue can recover.
Unlike the pullback at the end of July: this decline follows positive earnings, with storage and cloud vendors supported by long-term contracts, providing stronger fundamentals; however, the 10-year US Treasury yield nears 5%, and the probability of a rate hike in December exceeds 80%, indicating a clearly worse interest rate environment.
US stock risk appetite contraction combined with crypto security incidents simultaneously suppresses BTC and other risk assets, with short-term tech stock selling pressure not yet fully released.
$GOOGL $INTC $BTC $HYPE HYPE's buyback this time makes me laugh out loud.
The project team claimed to spend 67 million to support the price, but the market still crashed 22% during the same period.
The math is clear: for every 1 coin burned, 16 newly unlocked tokens rush straight to the secondary market.
This is a typical case of using real money to provide liquidity for early unlocked large holders, opening the exit channels wide for selling.
All the positions above are trapped, the support funds are barely enough to fill a gap, so what can drive the price up?
#HYPE
$HYPE
👇How can a hack in CeFi become a risk in DeFi?
According to Elliptic's estimates, assets worth about 3.23 billion USD remain in the hands of the attacker and are used as collateral on Aave.
When suspicious-origin assets enter the lending system, the problem is no longer just losing money: it can lead to market freezes and liquidation pressure on related protocols.
In DeFi, an asset can still pose a risk even if it has not been sold.
#DeFi #CryptoSecurity #Web3The move by the $ETH Binance hacker is truly a spine-chilling operation.
Tether froze 1.5 billion stolen USDT, Circle locked 800 million USDC, and the whole network cheered, thinking the crisis was contained.
But the hacker had already deposited the flagged USDT into Aave as collateral, borrowed ETH, and escaped. USDT can be frozen, but no one can stop the ETH borrowed against that collateral.
He never intended to repay the loan, nor does he need to.
The stablecoin issuers demonstrated the power to instantly freeze tens of billions, while the hacker showcased a DeFi exploit. Freezing did help recover some funds, but the value was likely already extracted.
This is the most chilling lesson from this incident.Early weekend morning, I wanted to sleep in, but as soon as I opened my eyes and saw the market, I instantly woke up! Yesterday's bloodbath probably shattered many brothers' bottom-fishing dreams, right? Weekend morning liquidity is the most treacherous. Just checked the backend data and quickly poured cold water on the brothers.
First, look at $BTC current price 77790, last night it directly spiked down to 76400. Looking closely at the 4-hour long-short ratio, it's still above 2.1. After such a drop, retail investors are still stubbornly holding or even adding positions at the bottom. With such heavy weight, the manipulators won't easily pump the price without completely washing out these high-leverage longs.
Next, $ETH current price 2245, even weaker than BTC, with a long-short ratio as high as 2.72. This is a typical case of buying more as it falls, stacking leverage higher and higher. The low point around 2170 will likely be tested repeatedly. Bottom-fishing now means catching the falling knife.
Finally, $HYPE current price 93.3, after a big pump a few days ago, now consolidating at a high level. Notice the long-short ratio, which has jumped from an extremely bearish 0.72 back to 1.55. This indicates retail investors see it as resistant to falling and are crazily chasing longs, while the main force is probably quietly distributing chips at the top. Don't catch the falling knife here.
Summary: This is a one-sided long liquidation market. As long as the longs don't die, the downtrend won't stop. Everyone, control your hands this weekend, watch more and trade less.
This weekend, are you sitting out empty-handed to avoid disaster, or stubbornly stuck inside? Do you think it will continue to dip today?
#美国9月核心PCE升至3.1%，加息预期仍高 #StrategyQ3净利润创单季新高，数字资产收益贡献显著
Strategy Q3 net profit hits a record high for a single quarter, with significant contributions from digital asset gains
Strategy Q3 net profit of $19.5 billion sets a record: entirely reliant on BTC unrealized gains, core business declines
#StrategyQ3净利润创单季新高，数字资产收益贡献显著
Strategy's Q3 report shows a net profit of $19.53 billion, a historic single-quarter high, but the profit structure is extremely concentrated: gains from changes in the fair value of digital assets reached $20.91 billion, almost supporting all the profit; core software business revenue was only $125.4 million, down 3% year-over-year, with no sign of growth in the main business.
As of October 25, the company held 848,517 BTC, a 26% increase in holdings this year, but the share capital expanded even faster, resulting in a decrease in BTC per share. Profits are entirely tied to Bitcoin price movements; when prices rise, unrealized gains are quickly realized, but if the market weakens, profits will contract correspondingly, raising doubts about sustainable growth.
Essentially, it remains a Bitcoin leverage amplifier; the impressive financial report mainly reflects accounting gains from the cryptocurrency price rally rather than an improvement in operational capability. The real focus going forward is whether the software business can stop declining and rebound, reduce dependence on Bitcoin prices, and how the company manages cash flow and debt pressure during market corrections.
$BTC $MSTR #英特尔Q4业绩指引低于预期，股价大跌 Intel plunges 28%, dragging down semiconductors: AI trading watershed, capital shifts from storytelling to fundamentals
The Nasdaq closed down 2.86% at 25,437 points, marking the largest single-day drop since June, with a cumulative decline of 5.3% in October; the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index plunged 7.2%, becoming the main driver of market sell-off.
Intel plummeted 28.58% in a single day, marking its worst performance in over forty years. The core issue was not the current earnings but the Q4 guidance: revenue is expected to be $15-16 billion, nearly $1.5 billion below market expectations; adjusted EPS was nearly halved. Management openly stated that weak PC demand will continue through 2027, with an Israeli factory incident further dragging down revenue by about $300 million, and the prior 150% rally has largely been realized.
Market style is shifting dramatically: capital has not fully exited but is moving from tech growth to defensive sectors. Consumer staples and healthcare are absorbing funds against the trend, the energy sector leads gains, with ExxonMobil and Chevron both hitting record highs; Apple’s market cap has surpassed Nvidia, reclaiming the top spot globally.
This is not the collapse of the AI narrative but a correction in valuation logic: the market is shifting from "believing in vision" to "demanding performance." The tech sell-off during earnings season is not yet fully released, so it is not advisable to rush to bottom-fish.Panic has not subsided, funds are diverging, and the true bottom still needs verification
[Market Facts] As of this morning, Bitcoin is around $77,200, with a 24-hour trading volume of about $45.37 billion; Ethereum is around $2,242, with a trading volume of about $20.4 billion. The Fear and Greed Index is 30, indicating the market is in the fear zone.
[Capital Flow] On October 29, the US BTC spot ETF had a net inflow of $17.2 million, while the ETH ETF had a net outflow of $105.5 million. Data disclosed on the 30th continues to be weak, but some funds have not yet updated, so this cannot be considered the final result.
[Core Judgment] The biggest current issue is not how much the price has dropped, but the lack of confidence in funds. BTC still has institutional support, while ETH continues to bleed, indicating risk appetite has not yet recovered. Active trading does not mean strong buying pressure; volume-driven declines require even more caution.
[Key Levels] BTC support at $76,000, resistance at $78,600; ETH support at $2,170, resistance at $2,260. These are short-term observation ranges.
[Operational View] Do not chase rebounds, avoid heavy bottom-fishing, reduce leverage, and wait for price stabilization and capital inflow to form resonance.
Final sentence: Panic can breed opportunity, but panic itself is not a reason to buy. The bottom is not guessed, but confirmed by funds, volume, and price together. #BTC$WLD In just two days, institutions have pushed over 35 million WLD into major exchanges.
With $17 million in spot assets, moving them into exchanges so urgently is definitely not for wealth management purposes.
This coin is already massively inflationary every day, purely making secondary market bag holders pay for airdrops worldwide.
The initial rebound gains have been completely crushed and disappeared; the order book above is full of dead weight.
The current bulls simply don't have the capacity to support it. Once this batch is dumped, the price will have to look for support below first.
#WLD
$WLD
👇XPL rose 12.55% today.
Still 95% below its all-time high.
Let's clarify the market first.
Current price 0.0816, 24-hour high 0.0819, low 0.0698.
Yesterday it even dropped to 0.0673, but recovered within a day.
Trading volume increased from $4.7 million to $18 million.
Its story is a stablecoin payment chain.
Mainly focuses on zero-fee USDT transfers, used for cross-border payments.
In mid-October, partnered with Stripe to launch a multi-currency payment card, which caused a 10.9% increase that day.
But the accounts must be balanced on both sides.
Market cap is 388 million, fully diluted is 814 million, a 2.1x difference.
Circulating supply is 4.76 billion tokens, total supply 10 billion.
More than half is still unreleased, and there is no hard cap.
All-time high was 1.68 on September 27 last year, now only 5% of that.
For the outlook, I only focus on one thing: whether the real on-chain payment volume can pick up.
There was a large unlock at the end of September, about 70% remained untouched, which is a good sign.
But the untouched tokens haven't disappeared, they're just waiting.
I didn't find any announcement-level catalyst for this rise.
The pattern looks more like breaking the 0.08 resistance, not driven by new news.
So the question is very specific: do you focus more on the Stripe partnership or the real on-chain usage?
$XPL Reflection on Intel's sharp decline: the core issue is not the surface narrative of "PC weakness again," but rather that the capital market's pricing method for the transformation story has changed.
The third quarter itself was not bad: revenue of $16.5 billion and EPS of $0.52 both exceeded expectations, with data center business surging 78%. What truly triggered the sell-off was the Q4 guidance: EPS plummeted from $0.52 to $0.25, a nearly 52% drop; gross margin compressed from 44.1% to 38%, with gross profit declining about 19% quarter-over-quarter, much faster than the roughly 6% revenue decline, fully exposing the negative operating leverage under fixed costs. Foundry business revenue of $6.7 billion seemingly grew 58%, but external customer revenue was only $411 million, with the vast majority being internal transactions, indicating the independent commercialization loop is far from complete.
A deeper lesson is the resonance of dual negative leverage. Management expects the PC base to decline 12% in 2026 and another 10% in 2027, while capital expenditures in 2027 are set to "rise sharply," with free cash flow explicitly stated as negative by the CFO. The traditional business is shrinking, transformation is still burning cash, and there is no buffer between the two. The market previously priced in "accelerated transformation realization," but the guidance forced this timeline to shift overall, causing the sell-off intensity to exceed even the $100 target price lowered by Bank of America, with the stock price directly crushed below $70.
Intel's direction may not be wrong, but it has paid the price for expectation management: it relied too long on the transformation narrative as a buffer, and once delivery delays occurred, the trust discount was released all at once in the form of a sharp plunge.🚨The BTC contract long-short account ratio lights up red again: longs 68%, shorts 32%, long-short ratio 2.13. Yet the price slid from 81,000 all the way down to 78,000. This is not strength; retail investors bottom-fishing have fallen into a trap.
📉Looking back to October 22, the long-short ratio once surged to 2.2, with BTC around 84,000, then it dropped all the way to 78,000. This batch of longs was basically left hanging up there. Even more painful, after last night's crash, the long-short ratio didn’t drop but surged again to 2.18—indicating more longs are added as the price falls, sentiment is completely one-sided.
⚠️When retail investors collectively turn bullish, it’s often not the bottom but the opponent’s most comfortable position. The thicker the long positions stacked, the greater the profit from pushing the price down. Now with 68% longs above 78,000, once broken, it may trigger a chain of liquidations, next stop 75,000.💥
🧊Don’t rush to bottom-fish with retail investors. Wait until this batch of longs is cleaned out before considering entering the market.This whale position update reports a total value of 45,725,400, with the portfolio direction being long on BTC and ETH, and short on SOL. There are two losing long positions and a profitable short position on SOL; notably, the funding fee expenditure for ETH is close to its unrealized loss. BTC uses 11X full margin, holding 25.49 BTC with a position value of 1,970,200, opening price 77,947.8. Unrealized P&L is -16,700, funding fee -383.79, margin 179,100, no liquidation price listed in the update. ETH uses 10X full margin, holding 5,831.49 ETH with a position value of 13,084,700, opening price 2,294.94. Unrealized P&L is -298,200, funding fee -263,900, margin 1,308,500, liquidation price listed at 1,373.4. SOL uses 5X full margin, holding -4,324.3 SOL with a position value of 416,500, opening price 97.192. Unrealized P&L +3,827.33, plus funding fee income +52.81; margin 83,300, liquidation price listed at 1,218.55. My view: Looking only at these three positions, ETH occupies a significantly larger position value, while the SOL short position is much smaller. Having both long and short directions does not necessarily mean the risk is fully hedged, as price changes across different coins may not be synchronized. The total value reported in the update does not align with the sum of these three positions, so these three cannot be considered the full account picture. I am more concerned about the holding cost of ETH. Funding fees and unrealized P&L need to be$BTC is now 77,309.
There is a wall above and below, the strongest one is below.
24-hour high is 78,804, low is 76,326.
7-day and 30-day highs are both 87,220, lows are 76,326.
MA20 is 81,098, MA50 is 81,955.
MA200 is at 73,178.
All errors are within 0.2%.
The key level to watch is 76,326.
It is simultaneously the 24-hour, 7-day, and 30-day low.
The chart gives this wall a full score of 5.0.
Triple resonance combined with a round number barrier, this is the only position on the chart with four reasons stacked together.
There are two layers above.
77,998 is the biggest pain point plus a round number barrier, 0.9% away from the current price.
79,927 is a bullish dense zone plus a near-month pain point, also overlapping two Fibonacci levels, also rated 5.0.
I can only relay the other price levels, cannot verify.
10x, 25x, 50x liquidation zones, order book walls, all come from that chart.
The macro side is not helping.
Options just expired yesterday, December rate hike pricing still at 94%, sentiment at 30 panic.
So the question is clear: can the triple bottom at 76,326 hold?
Data: moving averages and highs/lows recalculated on daily candles (10-31 00:11) $BTC The market is cooling down the AI hype. It's not that people suddenly don't believe the story, but they are starting to question when the money being burned will turn into real cash. On Friday (October 30), all three major indexes closed down. The S&P 500 fell 1.8% to 7580 points, marking the largest single-day drop since June; the Nasdaq dropped 2.9% to 25437 points, also the worst since June; the Dow fell 1.1% to 51770 points. The tech sector led the decline as funds shifted toward defensive positions. Intel plunged nearly 29% in a single day, the worst performance since 1974. Although the company’s data center business is strong, its Q4 guidance was far below expectations, and PC demand is under pressure due to soaring memory prices. Amazon also faced pressure; despite impressive cloud business growth, free cash flow turned sharply negative, and full-year capital expenditures still point to the $220 billion level. The market is more concerned about the burn rate than the growth story. Nvidia continued to be dragged down. On Thursday, Google's parent company Alphabet recorded its largest single-day drop since going public due to earnings and AI investments, and selling pressure continued on Friday. On the positive side, Eli Lilly rose against the trend, supported by demand for obesity drugs, providing the market with the certainty it wanted in both performance and guidance. The pharmaceutical sector thus became one of the few forces able to support the indexes. Treasury yields fell in tandem as funds sought safe havens. What is really being traded on the market is not whether AI will continue to exist, but how much of the future returns have already been priced in at current valuations. When free cash flow turns negative consecutively and guidance starts to fall short of expectations, the market’s patience is much shorter than the narrative. $BTC $Let me first do a risk calculation: low probability does not mean small loss if it hits. Seeing such numbers, I would rather remind myself not to mistake "very unlikely" for "impossible."
On Polymarket, the YES probability that $BTC will drop to $72,500 in October is currently 2%, down 20 percentage points in the past 24 hours, with trading volume around $154,856 during the same period. The market will settle around November 1, 2026. This is the collective judgment of bettors, not a certain outcome.
My judgment is that this is more like a sentiment signal indicating reduced downside worries, not a safety cushion. First, betting probability is not equivalent to spot buying pressure and cannot be directly used to infer price direction; second, this judgment is limited to October and cannot be used to indicate longer-term risk. I still choose to be cautious and treat it as a window to observe sentiment, not to relax risk budgeting based on it. Would you be more willing to take risks because of this 2%, or continue to play it safe?"Hey loyal fans, good morning!
Yesterday was another historic day.
Binance's 1030 incident saw a theft of 6.3 billion, the highest in history.
BTC, Nasdaq, and gold all plunged simultaneously.
Witnessing history also means this is a historic opportunity. Did you seize it?
I noticed a phenomenon.
The smaller altcoins ranked high in theft all formed the same pattern, a V-shaped reversal.
You could say this was a liquidity test, probing the phase bottom in advance, at least short-term. Whether it's long-term depends on BTC.
But looking at BTC liquidity, the extreme lower boundary this time is 73k, which is unlikely (30% probability), because 75k is the main force's cost zone. It's expected to hit around 75k (55%), but not for long. So these small altcoins' low points this time are the long-term bottoms.
If it hits 73k or breaks below 73k (tail risk, 15% probability), then it's not the bottom.
But considering BTC's range, I currently lean towards the first scenario: around 75k, BTC's downward sweep space is limited but there's a strong rebound demand.
Brothers, witness history but don't forget to make money. If you have questions, leave a comment, and I'll do my best to answer.#美国9月核心PCE升至3.1%，加息预期仍高
Core PCE at 3.1% meets expectations: rate hike expectations remain high, market logic has shifted from rate cuts to resisting rate hikes
US September core PCE year-on-year at 3.1%, overall PCE at 3.6%, data meets expectations, but inflation stickiness is stubborn, still quite a gap from the Fed's 2% target.
Market narrative has undergone a directional shift: the focus has completely turned from "when to cut rates" to "whether to hike rates in December." The Fed's October meeting 10:2 split vote exposed internal willingness to hike rates; after the data release, the probability of a December hike remains stable above 80%, tightening is far from over, and pressure on risk assets remains unresolved.
The market shows dullness and divergence: BTC oscillates with reduced volume around the 80,000 mark, no panic selling as before, but resistance to decline does not equal strength; clear selling pressure above $81,500, only a solid hold above this level counts as a bullish recovery. ETH's trend is clearly weaker, ETH/BTC ratio continues to weaken, in a tightening liquidity environment funds prioritize large-cap assets, risk appetite continues to decline.
Don't mistake "meeting expectations" as all bad news being priced in; "no worse" does not mean "starting to improve." Short term likely to maintain low-volume consolidation, focus next on non-farm payroll data and the 80,000 level; without weakening US Treasuries and the dollar, crypto is unlikely to have an independent rally.
$BTC $ETH #美国9月核心PCE$BTC hacker dump combined with macro negative news hit all at once, yet BTC didn't even break below 70,000.
The exchange still had to aggressively buy $1.4 billion worth of spot on the secondary market to fill the gap, and the chips obtained by the hacker are not dared to be moved at all.
Negative news can't push it down, which is actually bullish; the buying support on the chart is ridiculously strong, and the shorts are purely helping to prop up the spot price.
#BTC
$BTC
👇#Circle财报在即，稳定币增长能否兑现收益？
Circle's characteristics over the past two quarters: revenue often slightly misses expectations, but EPS/RLDC is easier to beat because cost and margin flexibility are better controlled than circulation volume. Q2 had revenue slightly below expectations but profits exceeded expectations.
The market pricing this time has already factored in some USDC growth expectations, so:
• Low probability: a big beat (both revenue and profit significantly beat), requiring USDC volume growth + simultaneous B-end revenue explosion;
• Medium probability: slight profit beat, revenue meets expectations (most likely scenario);
• Not low probability: interest rate drag, overall slightly below expectations. OP rose by 20%, yet the perpetual funding rate remains negative. At 8:09 on OKX, the spot price is about 0.12092, with a 24-hour trading volume of approximately $5.11 million. From 7 to 8 o'clock, the hourly trading volume reached about $384,200, nearly 1.9 times the previous 12-hour average; the perpetual funding rate settled at 8 o'clock was -0.0307%.
My judgment is that this rise is accompanied by increased spot volume, but there is still divergence on the contract side. A negative funding rate only indicates the direction of funding payments for this period and cannot be taken as proof that shorts are increasing their positions. When chasing a rally, if you only look at the 24-hour price increase, it's easy to miss this point.
I am more focused on whether the hourly trading volume received next can maintain above the recent average of about $202,400. If volume shrinks back to the baseline and the price also retraces, the current judgment of continued volume expansion must be withdrawn.
$OP Gold is expected to see a slight rebound before the end of the year, but it is difficult to enter a major bull market; the key depends on the Federal Reserve's interest rate policy. Silver is more elastic, with greater price volatility and significantly higher risk than gold. First, gold is supported by central bank purchases, so its downside is relatively limited; second, silver has both financial and industrial attributes, making its market more prone to large fluctuations; third, the most likely rebound window is in mid to late November; fourth, the Federal Reserve's policy meeting in December is an important turning point, and hawkish statements will directly interrupt the rebound; fifth, physical gold is suitable for phased allocation, not for heavy positions all at once; sixth, short-term trading must be light in position and have stop-loss measures, and one should not bet on a one-sided big rise. Please note, the above is only market analysis and does not constitute any investment advice. $XAUT $XAU $XAG Stolen... tsk tsk tsk
Rather than saying it was stolen, it's more like compliance management of users
A new excuse every year
Changing the excuse every time
Treating users like Japanese devils
From the information disclosed so far
The general idea is
The hot wallet was infected with malware
Once inside, the tokens were automatically transferred out and sold
👏 Applause 👏 Awesome
So the question arises
Who transferred them in?
Who knows about this hot wallet?
Who knew that after the hot wallet was infected with malware, a huge amount of tokens would be transferred in?
Whose tokens were these that were transferred in?
Really hard to guess
Probably this time they'll issue a few BNB as compensation
Replaying last year's script
And those big fools will praise Binance for keeping their word again
No brains at all?? Bitcoin BTC and Ethereum ETH: Reasons why if the next theft is larger in scale, stolen funds are hard to recover, and no security upgrade plan is visible, the coin prices will further plunge deeply
First, clarify a key point: the theft mentioned here still refers to centralized custody theft at exchanges, not a breach of the underlying BTC or ETH blockchain code. However, continuous and larger-scale thefts will keep shaking market consensus, layering pressure on prices.
1. The foundation of the store-of-value narrative continues to collapse, institutional allocation logic reverses
BTC’s ability to maintain a high market cap largely depends on its positioning as "digital gold" and a safe-haven asset.
1. The first large-scale theft is treated by the market as an isolated incident, assuming the platform can fix it and prevent recurrence;
2. If a larger-scale theft happens again, with a large amount of funds unrecoverable, and the industry cannot provide mature, implementable systemic protection solutions, the market will judge that centralized custody vulnerabilities are a structural fatal flaw, not something simple risk control upgrades can fix.
3. One core demand for institutions and ETF funds allocating BTC/ETH is asset security and long-term storage. When it is continuously proven that even top exchanges cannot safeguard assets, institutions will downgrade risk ratings, reduce allocations, and keep redeeming, causing originally stable buy orders to shrink continuously. Institutions will no longer treat it as an alternative reserve asset, leaving only speculative trading value, pushing the valuation midpoint down.
2. Panic selling forms a negative feedback loop, stolen funds bring long-term selling pressure
1. News of large-scale theft triggers immediate panic selling. Users worry their assets stored on exchanges might disappear anytime, prioritizing selling to exit; contract longs concentrate on stop-loss liquidations, cost-ignoring sell orders quickly consume order book liquidity, rapidly hammering new lows in the short term.
2. Hackers slowly unload stolen BTC and ETH through coin mixing and cross-chain splitting. They won’t dump all at once but will keep flowing out over a long period whenever the market rebounds slightly, suppressing every rebound’s height. Rebounds become windows for reducing positions, making trend reversals difficult.
3. After multiple similar incidents, traders develop a conditioned reflex: whenever security-related rumors emerge, they rush to sell first, shrinking the market’s tolerance for errors.
3. Dual risk resonance: custody risk + long-term quantum cryptography risk priced in
This is the most critical long-term logic:
Continuous custody thefts cause ordinary investors to bind two risks together:
- Keeping assets on exchanges: always vulnerable to hacker theft, with slim chances of recovery;
- Self-custody with cold wallets: facing the long-term threat of quantum computers breaking elliptic curve private keys.
BTC and ETH’s underlying signature algorithms have no simple upgrade path, with huge governance disagreements, making rapid post-quantum transformation difficult.
When the market simultaneously sees current custody cannot prevent hackers and the underlying cryptography has fatal long-term risks, both security lines are doubted. Funds will actively seek differentiated targets, diverting to native quantum-resistant projects, no longer unconditionally holding BTC and ETH.
4. Increasing regulatory pressure, liquidity continues to shrink
Every major theft incident strongly drives global regulatory tightening.
Regulators will introduce stricter custody audits, deposit/withdrawal restrictions, asset reporting, and trading control rules.
On one hand, exchange compliance costs soar, causing some small and medium exchanges to shut down or reduce business; on the other hand, deposit and withdrawal channels narrow, making fund flows harder, shrinking overall market liquidity. Worse liquidity means the same sell volume causes deeper price drops.
5. Irreversible loss of industry trust, exhaustion of new incoming funds
Crypto asset growth depends on new users entering.
Newcomers first interact with exchanges. Repeated large thefts, unrecoverable assets, and unsolvable protection will directly deter potential newcomers.
Without continuous new funds entering, the market is left with only existing supply-demand games. Existing funds keep fleeing for safety, no new funds to take over, the lifeblood supporting prices slowly dries up.
Early believers will also split: some insist on self-custody and reduce exposure; others exit entirely and stop participating.
6. Boundary distinction: deep drop ≠ zeroing out
Even if a larger-scale theft happens again and protection upgrades are blocked, BTC and ETH are unlikely to go to zero directly.
They have large node networks, huge existing ecosystems, and years of trading consensus. As long as people are willing to trade, prices won’t fall to zero.
However, the "digital gold" premium will largely disappear, downgrading from scarce safe-haven assets to high-risk speculative assets. The decline will far exceed normal corrections, lingering at low levels, making it hard to replicate past bull markets.
7. Summary
If another larger-scale, unrecoverable theft occurs and the industry cannot find reliable upgrade solutions, the core logic for the price drop is:
1. Store-of-value security consensus repeatedly damaged, institutional buying retreats;
2. Panic selling + continuous hacker fund unloading, rebounds under constant pressure;
3. Custody risk and long-term quantum cryptography risk resonate, funds divert to quantum-resistant tracks;
4. Regulatory tightening, market liquidity shrinks, new incremental funds cut off.
It’s not that the chain itself is broken, but the safety narrative supporting high valuations is gradually exhausted.The swapped TRX is being moved out at an accelerated pace
About 638 million $TRX on-chain have been split, and some have started to be shipped
Splitting does not mean it's all dumped
Don't mistake it for being completely cleared out
Keep an eye on whether the dumping will continue to accelerate$GOOGL's historic largest drop yesterday was due to the earnings report. The main business growth has peaked, AI profits didn't fill the gap, and cash flow was negative by $9 billion. Google will have to take loans to finance buying computing power cards in the future. Over the past two years, various AI replacements for search software have taken too much traffic from Google. Anyone who has been on YouTube knows that YouTube's ads have become insanely excessive. With these two factors combined, Google's advertising business growth has peaked and urgently needs a new breakthrough point.这组披露的巨鲸仓位中，BTC、SOL做空，ETH做多，三笔未实现盈亏和累计资金费收入均为正。多空同时赚钱值得看，但能否继续，取决于币种之间的相对走势和资金费变化。 BTC空单：30X全仓，持仓-150.45 BTC，仓位价值1162.71万；开仓价79195.2，浮盈+28.82万，资金费收入+27.46万。保证金38.76万，披露的爆仓价265200.84。 ETH多单：25X全仓，持仓7711.47 ETH，仓位价值1729.84万；开仓价2221.55，浮盈+16.69万，资金费收入+2908.99。保证金69.19万，披露中未列爆仓价。 SOL空单：20X全仓，持仓-4.58万 SOL，仓位价值441.16万；开仓价100.4609，浮盈+19.1万，资金费收入+9322.62。保证金22.06万，披露的爆仓价705.9。 我的看法。 BTC空单的累计资金费收入已接近其浮盈，ETH多单则主要靠价格变动贡献浮盈。这说明三笔仓位虽然都赚钱，收益来源却有明显差别，不能把资金费收入与未实现盈亏混成已经落袋的利润。 从列出的仓位价值看，ETH多头大于BTC和SOL空头合计，但金额接近也不Yesterday, when talking about SNDK, I drew 2 charts.
Since SanDisk's current trend is a downward trend, combined with the recent one-week low-level oscillation trend,
overall it is still a downtrend, so shorting at resistance levels aligns with the main principle of the downtrend.
How to short? The chart marks 1403 as the strong 4H-level resistance for SNDK.
At 10 AM yesterday when I posted, SNDK was at 1280. I explained the practical operation once.
Now I will repeat it.
1. The main trend is down, 2. At that time it was near the upper edge resistance of the low-level oscillation range, 3. The earnings reports of Intel and Amazon in the US stock market were a mess, causing emotional collective collapse. 4. The FOMC meeting and PCE data were released, and the market saw no successful breakout.
Based on these 4 points, my thought at 10 AM yesterday was to hold short positions, at least to take profit at the previous low.
Now SNDK has directly broken below 1194, with the lowest price reaching 1117.
Today is the weekend, and the market is building a new oscillation range, so bottom fishing is definitely not advisable; shorting on rallies remains the best strategy.
The first resistance level to watch is 1241. Keep following my posts; I will continue to update and share my latest thoughts.A piece of news worth marking on your calendar: The Trump administration has already notified Gulf allies to prepare for a possible new round of airstrikes against Iran on November 4, the day after the midterm elections.
When retail investors see this kind of news, their first reaction is often to bet on a direction and go all in. Experienced traders do the exact opposite: for a binary event with a specific date, the most important thing is not to guess the outcome but to manage your leverage carefully and avoid being wiped out overnight by a gap.
Whether there will be a strike or not, and how oil prices will move afterward, I don't know, and neither does the market. But I do know one thing: going in with high leverage on a bombshell date marked on the calendar is not bravery; it's leaving your fate to luck.Solana officially named the Hong Kong dollar stablecoin HKDAP last night: Anchorpoint, a joint venture of Standard Chartered Hong Kong, HKT, and Animoca, plans to cooperate with the Solana Foundation to mint and redeem natively on-chain, covering retail payments and tokenized assets. This is its first contract with a public chain foundation. Currently, about 103.1 million are in circulation, still stuck in the Ethereum institutional testing phase; the Hong Kong Monetary Authority issued only two issuer licenses in April. CoinGecko spot SOL is about $96.26 (snapshot around 08:01 Beijing time).
The key is not just another cooperation announcement, but that regulated Hong Kong dollar stablecoins are starting to choose which public chain to settle on. The opposing view would say: no launch date, no Solana contract address, retail still has to wait until around the end of the year, this is just a memorandum.
Focus first on one thing: whether the official Solana contract address is publicly disclosed and whether verifiable native minting transactions appear. If by the end of the year the retail window still cannot produce transferable records on the Solana side, then treat this as a cooperation intention pulse, not as the Hong Kong dollar stablecoin already running on Solana.
$SOL
#HKDAP #SolanaToday the market cap rankings quietly changed their order: Apple at 5.03 trillion surpassed Nvidia, reclaiming the global number one spot. Don't underestimate this ranking; the market is voting with real money. This round, it started rewarding "free cash flow" and punishing "empty promises."
Apple rose 27% over the past year, with restrained capital expenditures and strong cash reserves; Nvidia dropped 10% in the past month, carrying the valuation burden of the entire AI arms race. The trend has truly shifted.
The same logic applies to the crypto world: in the phase of deflating bubbles, whoever props up their narrative by burning money will be the first to be repriced. Recently, I cut my leverage to the floor and hold mostly cash—not because I'm bearish on anyone, but because I recognize that restraint itself is alpha. $BTCBitcoin’s next move may be decided less by ideology than by the mechanics of $11 billion in options expiring today. With roughly 70% of gamma clustered between $75,000 and $82,000, dealers are positioned to amplify moves near those strikes, turning an already tense pre-election session into a liquidity test. The market’s own scenario map is blunt: a Republican sweep points toward $90,800, while a Democratic victory implies about $76,400. Those are not forecasts so much as signposts for where posCurrent price is $77,219, down 0.8% in 24 hours, fluctuating between $76,360 and $78,522 in the past day. At the beginning of the month, it even touched a high of $86,000, but by the end of the month, it couldn't hold above $77,000; the so-called "October must rise" old saying is completely reversed this year. Even more painful is that the aftermath of the Binance hack has not yet dissipated. About $3 billion of stolen funds have been frozen, withdrawals are still suspended, and the official target to resume is about 40 hours; Coinbase's Bitcoin premium has already dropped below two standard deviations—previously, this signal appeared during the Silicon Valley Bank collapse and the flash crash in October last year. There is also some good news. Tether earned a net profit of $1.5 billion in Q3; this stablecoin printing machine is still running; Ethereum at $2,242, Solana at $96, BNB at $704, all have milder declines than Bitcoin, so the market has not completely surrendered. I think the ugly monthly chart this round is not rooted inside the crypto circle. AI trading collapse dragged down tech stocks, Nasdaq fell to its lowest since early August, gold prices also retreated, risk assets are all getting hammered together, and Bitcoin is just one of them. The invalidation condition is clear: if the monthly close recovers back to $80,000, my "worst October" statement will be void. If it doesn't recover, the $76,000 to $76,200 range is the next test; if broken, look toward $75,000. Which side do you choose: October close as a bottom-fishing window, or wait to see November's mood? $BTC $ETH $SOL #Bitcoin #Binance #AppleQ4iPhone18Outlook
Q4 ends in Sep - iPhone 18 sales are just a few days, beat will come from Services + buybacks.
Pro cut 15% is offset by Pro Max up, overall volume flat. -1.95% today is overreaction.
Long YES 68c, 202 shares. $AAPL $HYPE
The priority fee of Hyperliquid is a paid option to buy a queue position.
It sounds like scalping, but it is actually part of its matching mechanism: the more you pay, the earlier you get in line, and you also get information priority. Usually, no one cares until Wall Street people brought it up and questioned it face to face.
The one questioning is Don Wilson, founder of DRW, who posted six consecutive messages, focusing on ICE (the parent company of NYSE) and asking about Hyperliquid's infrastructure being used to launch perpetual contracts in the US: Does this priority fee comply with CFTC core principles? With on-chain positions and trades fully public and monitored in real time, is this an advantage or is it like revealing your hand to the opponent? Can offshore and onshore order book liquidity really be merged?
The background is that a few days ago, Druckenmiller said he invested in trade[XYZ], HYPE surged 13 points to 97, and today it rests near 90, with just over one point left in 24h.
My judgment: The old guys' doubts are doubts, but whether regulators approve is another matter. The rise in HYPE is driven by the expectation that "US-compliant perpetuals will use it," and doubts won't change ICE's real progress. But the detail of "paying to cut in line" is worth remembering; if regulators call it out someday, that will be it.
#美国9月核心PCE升至3.1%，加息预期仍高 Binance hackers sold UNI, ENA, PEPE, LINK, AAVE, ONDO, and WLD, profiting 70,480 ETH (approximately $158.25 million).
The hacker group allegedly conducting a $5.8 billion mining operation on Binance has sold all seven altcoins to acquire ETH.
• $UNI: Sold at $5.65 per share, amounting to $7.02 million ($39.63 million).
• $ENA: Sold at $0.16 per share, totaling $217.5 million ($33.93 million).
• $PEPE: Sold at $0.0000041 per share, with a transaction volume of $77.7 trillion ($31.66 million).
• LINK: Sold at $10.14 per share, amounting to $2.57 million ($26.05 million).
• AAVE: Sold 127,953 shares at $111.55 each ($14.27 million).
• ONDO: Sold at $0.30 per share, total value $21.85 million ($6.62 million).
• WLD: Sold at $0.35 per share, totaling $17.32 million ($6.09 million). $ZEC
Yesterday when writing about ZEC, I said if 1181 breaks again, the next decent support is at 1048.
As it turned out, 1180.44 was the bottom for this round, then it pulled back to 1289 in one day, now hovering at 1269, reclaiming half of the range from 1048 to 1398 (1223). I admit I was proven wrong, but we need to review clearly: this rebound is not driven by the same group that caused yesterday's -7.75% drop. Last night the whole market rebounded, BTC only rose about 2 points from 76260 to 77200, while ZEC gained 9 points, still the wildest among privacy coins.
Fee rates on OKX and Binance are now both positive at 0.01%, bulls have started paying again; open interest is still $136 million, not much shrunk compared to when the market was dumped yesterday — some longs that weren't cut yesterday have partially freed themselves today without exiting, and new money keeps coming in to pay the queue fees.
My view: 1181 has been validated this time, more reliable in the short term than 1048. But don't mistake this rebound for a reversal; the trapped chips in the 1290 to 1400 range are enough to chew on for a while.
(I wrote the post admitting I was wrong as a routine thing, just a habit.)
#美国9月核心PCE升至3.1%，加息预期仍高 #Intel Q4 earnings guidance below expectations, stock price plummets Intel's Q4 earnings guidance fell far short of market expectations, with its traditional x86 data center business shrinking and Gaudi AI chip expansion faltering. This triggered selling pressure on the Nasdaq and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index. For the crypto market, this is not a one-sided "negative" event. Instead, it presents a clear threefold differentiation mapping of "short-term macro pressure, TEE hardware underlying relief, and decentralized computing power structure benefits." Macro liquidity contagion: short-term suppression of mainstream coin risk appetite Intel's plunge dragged down Nasdaq tech stocks. This caused global risk assets to avoid deleveraging. BTC, ETH, and SOL are pressured in tandem with US stocks but usually decline less sharply than semiconductor stocks. $BTC $ETH 2. TEE confidential computing tokens (ROSE/PHA) face chip ecosystem considerations Oasis Network (Rose) and Phala (PHA) core security rely on Intel SGX/TDX enclaves. Intel's contraction forces confidential computing protocols to accelerate decoupling and incorporate AMD SEV and Arm CCA. 3. Decentralized computing power (TAO/RENDER/AKT/IO) forms a counter narrative. The collapse of traditional x86 CPU dominance not only hits DePIN but also confirms the inevitability of the computing paradigm shifting toward "heterogeneous GPU + decentralized computing power networks." This constitutes a mid-to-long-term sector tailwind. 4. BiThe most seductive mistake in a selloff is reading a wave of long liquidations as a clean slate. Forced selling clears leverage, but it does not transfer control. Unless buyers reclaim the levels that matter, sellers still set the terms, and this week's tape makes that distinction unusually clear. $BTC is trading near $77,600, with $80,000 having flipped from support into resistance. That inversion is the central fact of the current structure. On the downside, the immediate test is whether price#美国9月核心PCE升至3.1%，加息预期仍高
AI faith is being crushed, will the Federal Reserve pause rate hikes just because the stock market fell? Will the US and Iran restart negotiations?
Nasdaq closed down 2.86% at 25437, the worst single day since June, about 8% retracement from the recent high; Philadelphia Semiconductor Index down 7.2%, SOXL wiped out 24% in one day, Intel dropped 28.33%, the largest single-day decline in history, AMD and Qualcomm both down over 9%.
VIX jumped 16% to 20.03, panic broke 20 but did not spiral out of control; gold fell more than 3%, Bitcoin down 4.5%, only crude oil is rising — money is not seeking a safe haven, it is collectively deleveraging.
Will the Federal Reserve delay rate hikes? My answer: no.
CME's latest pricing shows a 79.7% probability of a 25 basis point hike in December, only 14.2% chance of holding steady. I acknowledge the "dilemma" in your article — core PCE at 3.1%, service inflation still spreading, GDP at 3.4% supported by AI investment, rate hikes would choke AI financing.
But the Fed's duty is to suppress inflation, not to prop up tech stocks. A stock market drop is not a bargaining chip to pause rate hikes, unless it causes problems in the credit market, and we haven't seen that signal yet.
Will the US and Iran restart negotiations before the midterm elections? There has been contact, but don't bet on a breakthrough.
Vance did send a letter to Iran's hardliner Rezaei on October 28 to test the framework, Qatar is mediating, but the parties have not agreed on terms, and Iran has not even formally responded to the draft. Meanwhile, the US military is preparing options to act after the elections.Binance was hacked for $6.3 billion, with $1.5 billion liquidated overnight, and $BTC bottomed out at only 76,642 — just $30 away from the 21-week moving average. Honestly, I was surprised to see this candlestick: despite the intense bearish pressure, it failed to break through the key moving average, indicating that there are buyers supporting the bottom. But I don't believe the bottom has been reached yet; volume hasn't picked up, and panic hasn't appeared. Over the past two weeks, I've reviewed the entire cycle, on-chain data, moving averages, and macro factors again. What concerns me most is a coincidence: three unrelated methods all point to the same range — 70,000 to 74,000. After doing cycle analysis for so long, this kind of resonance is rare. First, let's look at the structure. The significance of the 76,642 low is not that it fell deeply, but that it "didn't fall deep enough." A $6.3 billion security incident combined with $1.5 billion overnight liquidation is a double shock of sentiment and leverage, which under normal circumstances would be enough to break through the mid-term moving average. The fact that it stopped just $30 short indicates that there is real spot buying near the 21-week moving average, not just short covering. This is currently the only solid evidence for the bulls. But the evidence stops there. The sustainability of the rebound depends on volume: if the rise to around 80,000 is still on low volume, it looks more like a technical recovery after liquidation rather than a trend reversal. A true bottom usually comes with high volume long lower shadows or continuous panic selling, neither of which has appeared yet. Next, let's look at the time window. I focused on November 16 to 21, the week Anthropic went public. This kind of bigJust woke up and scanned the market, first throwing out a glaring data point: liquidations surged to 1.646 billion, up 282%⚡
Many panicked immediately: at this pace, will BTC directly crash below 70000?
Don’t rush, let’s calmly break down the market.
BTC fell below 77000, currently oscillating around 76887
ETH 2237｜SOL 94.94｜ZEC 1220
24h position differentiation is obvious: only BTC positions +0.49%, ETH down 4.52%, SOL down 10.09%, ZEC down 9.13%
To break out of a sustained crash, three prerequisites are indispensable:
① All coins collectively shrink positions significantly; currently BTC positions are still increasing, and hourly charts show slight replenishment, funds have not collectively fled
② Volume surge accompanies position stampede; current volume up 54.94%, total positions only down 2.59%, indicating turnover, not panic selling
③ Bull and bear forces are balanced; current network long-short ratio is 47.9:52.1, almost even, no unified dumping force
None of these three conditions are met, so the extreme crash scenario is temporarily invalid, and I won’t place orders based on this expectation.
My risk control approach remains unchanged: prioritize light positions, wait for effective breakouts before acting, and don’t treat short-term hourly rebounds as reversal signals.
Don’t get misled by glaring liquidation data; extreme scenarios ≠ high probability market moves, keep your positions steady 👀
$BTC $ETH $SOL $ZEC Binance hacker pulls off a textbook-level counterattack! Were Tether and Circle "legally freeloaded"? Brothers, the Binance multi-billion theft case has just had an extremely explosive follow-up! Previously, we all said Tether and Circle were awesome, instantly freezing billions of USDT and USDC in the hacker's hands. But who would have thought this hacker is not only a top tech expert but also a "financial genius" deeply versed in DeFi's underlying logic! He played a "sleight of hand" move, directly bypassing the two stablecoin giants and the DeFi protocol! Let's look at the hacker's move, which is practically an artful maneuver: Step one, deposit collateral. After stealing the huge sum, the hacker didn't just run off with the stablecoins but deposited these USDT and USDC into the decentralized lending protocol Aave. Step two, borrow native assets. Using these stablecoins as collateral, the hacker borrowed a large amount of ETH (Ethereum) and other purely on-chain native assets from Aave. Step three, vanish like a cicada shedding its shell. After borrowing ETH, the hacker immediately withdrew and transferred it, disappearing on-chain. At this moment, the most dramatic scene happened: Tether and Circle did freeze the USDT and USDC in the hacker's hands. But what was the result? The hacker held the borrowed, freely circulating $ETH and escaped scot-free. Meanwhile, the Aave protocol was left with a pile of frozen, non-transferable, and non-liquid stablecoin bad debt. Experts break down the terrifying logic behind this: First, centralized1.02 billion liquidated in 24 hours, 170,000 people liquidated, with long positions accounting for 850 million, or 83%.
But brothers, pay attention to one detail — in the last 1 hour and 4 hours, the liquidation structure has changed!
1-hour liquidation was 1.24 million, with short positions liquidated at 1.04 million and long positions only 200,000. 4-hour liquidation was 14.78 million, with shorts liquidated at 8.69 million and longs at 6.09 million.
What does this mean? The price started to rebound from the low of 76,472, and during the rebound, shorts were liquidated. Previously, in 24 hours, all liquidations were longs, now shorts are being liquidated.
What does this indicate? There may be a short-term rebound. Short liquidation will push the price further up.
But brothers, don’t get too happy too soon. 83% of the 24-hour liquidations are still longs, indicating the overall trend is still dominated by bears. After this rebound liquidates shorts, it will most likely continue to drop.
I believe the rebound to the 78,000-79,000 range will trigger a second wave of long liquidations. That will be the real sell-off.
For now, don’t chase longs or shorts. Wait for the rebound to the resistance level before shorting.
#美国9月核心PCE升至3.1%，加息预期仍高 $BTC $ETH $SOL Long positions were bloodied, and whales reversed to short ETH
BTC around 76,800, ETH around 2,230. BTC dipped to 76,700 in the early morning, triggering concentrated panic selling.
Leverage liquidation was thorough. 24h total liquidations across the network reached 1.347 billion, with long positions accounting for 86.68% (about 1.167 billion). BTC liquidations were 595 million, ETH liquidations were 356 million. This is clearly a concentrated sweep targeting leveraged long positions.
Capital flow divergence. BTC ETF net inflow was 135 million, ETH ETF net outflow was 21.11 million, showing a stark contrast in institutional support.
Whale movements: Brother Maji has fully closed his BTC long positions; more importantly, a certain whale closed over 100 million in long positions to lock in profits, then reversed to open 20,000 ETH short positions at 2,228 USD (about 44.6 million). Smart money is switching to a bearish logic.
Key levels:
BTC resistance above at 77,772, support below at the overnight low of 76,500.
ETH watershed above at 2,279, psychological defense line below at 2,200.
In short: leveraged longs have been thoroughly liquidated, narrowing the odds for chasing shorts; but whales have reversed to short and ETH continues to bleed, indicating structural weakness. Do not chase shorts or catch longs; wait for BTC to stabilize at 76,500 or ETH to reclaim 2,279 before lightly trying longs. Position control is paramount. The pricing for the Federal Reserve's December rate decision has changed, and it has changed quite thoroughly. The market now assigns a 72% probability to a 25 basis point rate hike, with only 28% chance of keeping rates unchanged. Looking ahead to January next year, the probability of no change drops to 19.3%, a cumulative 25 basis point hike is at 58.4%, and a 50 basis point hike is at 22.3%.
The key to these numbers is not which probability is highest, but the distribution pattern: the market is no longer debating "whether to raise rates," but rather "how much and how many times." Once this expectation forms, it tends to self-reinforce, with interest rate futures moving first, followed by the dollar index, and then the revaluation of risk assets.
For $BTC, the most direct suppression is the opportunity cost of liquidity. The higher the risk-free rate, the more expensive it is to hold non-yielding assets, which explains why Bitcoin tends to drop first when data leans hawkish. However, this round's leverage structure is healthier than last time; spot funds are long-term money, so declines are supported, resembling high-level oscillation rather than a trend reversal.
The timing is what to watch. If the December hike occurs as expected and January expectations do not rise further, that usually marks the end of the bearish phase and corresponds to a recovery cycle; conversely, if the dot plot raises the path for next year, that's when it's time to reduce exposure.
My approach is not to guess the direction now but to keep positions until the data is released. A volume-driven drop on the rate hike day is a position to accumulate in batches; if prices rally after the hike, it means expectations are fully priced in, and chasing then would be taking over the bag. $ETH has greater elasticity than BTC, so for rebounds, I prioritize it and set tighter stop losses.