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Four-year investors just unlocked and cut about 60%, but monthly burn is only about 170,000 against roughly 1.5 million issuance. I think this wave of $APT "supply improvement" is still early.
On October 12 Beijing time, the four-year vesting for Aptos early investors and core contributors officially ended, with monthly unlocks dropping from about 11.31 million to about 4.54 million, roughly a 60% cut.
But the official supply dashboard numbers are even more striking: about 174,000 APT burned in the last 30 days, while staking issuance remains around 1.5 million per month, net increase about 1.4 million, burn only covers a bit over 10% of issuance.
On the coin side, OKX current price is about 0.718, 24-hour high about 0.741, low about 0.695, price hasn’t surged with the "reduced unlock pressure."
I acknowledge the halving of unlocks is a real reduction in selling pressure, but don’t mistake the narrative for actual deflation—the main story is that burn doesn’t outpace issuance.
First, see if the 0.695–0.70 range can hold; only after reclaiming about 0.74 can we talk; if 4-hour closes below about 0.695, expect a drop toward about 0.66.
Do you believe the halving of unlocks will gradually raise the price, or do you think the main story is that burn doesn’t outpace issuance?
$APT
#Today'sMarketTalk [A statement targeting energy facilities does not mean oil supply has been cut off]
In the breaking news at 00:04, the Houthi forces claimed to have attacked multiple targets in Saudi Arabia, including energy facilities and oil pipelines. This news should be taken seriously, but it should not be directly translated as "crude oil supply has been cut off." (From Jin10)
What I have currently verified is the statement; there is no independent confirmation yet of equipment damage, production cuts, or export suspension. There are risk clues that need to be followed up; I do not agree with treating the worst-case scenario as a fact prematurely.
What BTC and ETH really need to guard against is the subsequent confirmation of supply damage, a rebound in energy prices and inflation concerns, and a contraction in risk appetite. This is a possible transmission, not "oil price rises mean crypto must fall," nor can this be used as a strong reason to explain this round of volatility.
Over the weekend, traditional markets lack synchronous quotes, so using Friday's oil prices to prove today's negative news can easily lead to misjudgment. I am more concerned about whether there are substantial updates from facility operators, shipping, and supply sides; if the news is not further confirmed, the same headline should not be repeatedly amplified.
$BTC $ETH
For informational analysis only, be aware of repeated news and volatility risks. $ETH liquidation data really misled a lot of people.
Looking at a 24-hour timeframe, the entire network liquidated nearly 200 million in short positions, while long positions only liquidated over 80 million. At first glance, it seemed like the shorts got wiped out and the longs won big.
But if you zoom into the last 1 hour: the network liquidated over 50 million, with longs accounting for a full 98%.
The market smoothly executed a "kill shorts first, then kill longs" move within a very short period, and the long-term cumulative data perfectly masked the current slaughter.
Unfortunately, I was part of the batch precisely liquidated in that one hour.
Data never lies, but which timeframe you look at determines whether you’re making money or just hallucinating.U.S. Stock Market Review: Dow Plunges 650 Points, Tech Stocks Diverge, Semiconductors Become a Safe Haven!
Good morning, brothers. After watching the crypto circle, let's look at the U.S. stock market across the ocean—it's a tale of two extremes! The Dow plunged over 650 points, but semiconductors are quietly rebounding. Don't be fooled by the indexes; the underlying logic is very clear.
Major Index $BTC: Dow plunges, capital flees.
The Dow dropped 1.23% to 52,215 points, the S&P fell 0.52%, and the Nasdaq declined 0.21%. The trigger was oil prices soaring past $117, reigniting inflation fears, causing capital to frantically exit traditional sectors.
Semiconductors $SNDK: Counter-trend rebound, storage chips diverge.
The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index rebounded 0.44%. Micron rose 2.46%, SK海力士Q3财报在即，HBM4能否提振盈利？ increased over 4%, AMD gained 1.74%. But SanDisk fell 1.82%, Western Digital dropped nearly 3%. This indicates capital is rotating within semiconductors rather than a full-scale advance.
AI Infrastructure $SPCX: Alarm sounds, don't rush to bottom-fish.
New cloud providers CoreWeave and Nebius plummeted over 30% this month, CDS spreads soared, and the market is starting to question AI investment returns. Meta's free cash flow turned negative, and capital expenditure guidance was raised to 135 billion. The AI narrative is undergoing a stress test; be cautious chasing highs.
Trading Strategy:
The U.S. stock market is not in a broad rally but a structural game. Semiconductors have capital support, but AI infrastructure risks are not fully released yet. #SK海力士Q3财报在即，HBM4能否提振盈利？ Liquidity pricing dominates the market: October may be calm, the real test comes at year-end
The Federal Reserve is highly likely to hold steady at its October policy meeting. The current benchmark interest rate remains at 3.75%–4.00%, with the market pricing in a 92.8% chance of no change in October, and short-term rate hike expectations are very low. This means the meeting itself is unlikely to cause turbulence, as the market has already priced in a "steady" outcome.
The real risk to watch is at year-end. The probability of rate hikes in December and January next year both exceed 74%, with institutional funds already factoring in the risk of liquidity tightening. If rate hikes materialize, market liquidity could contract again, suppressing rebound potential.
On the market front, BTC is oscillating narrowly between 80,700 and 80,900, ETH is stabilizing around 2,370, and SOL is consolidating near 102. The three major mainstream coins are simultaneously experiencing volume contraction and consolidation, reflecting strong wait-and-see sentiment. Differences among the coins are also clear: BTC shows stronger volatility resistance, while ETH and SOL are more sensitive to liquidity, with expected higher elasticity and volatility than BTC going forward.
In the short term, the impact of the October meeting is limited; in the medium term, year-end liquidity expectations are the key variable for directional choices.
$BTC $ETH $SOL
#10月FOMC临近，美联储暂停加息还有哪些变数？ The moment the chest was opened, I didn’t look at the heart first—I first stared at the recalibrated baseline on the monitor. On October 21, the OCC put the final rules of the GENIUS Act on the operating table, with an effective schedule set for January 18, 2027, covering the three major cycles of issuance, reserve, and redemption. Issuers are still prohibited from directly paying interest; this "structural ban" remains intact, but the "presumed opposition" to third-party rewards has been removed—just like the previously completely blocked bypass vessels, now there is an assessable anastomosis. The compliance space is not infinitely expanding but has shifted from a "default narrow" to an "individualized hemodynamic judgment."
The ABA jumped out to oppose, citing the risk of deposit outflow. In cardiac surgery, this is called a volume load test—you divert blood from the central vein to extracorporeal circulation, the heart’s preload drops, and blood pressure fluctuates. If third-party rewards can truly divert funds from bank deposits to stablecoin platforms, it’s like replacing the entire circulatory system’s drainage tube; whether distal perfusion is sufficient depends on the caliber of the anastomosis and the body's autoregulatory capacity. Treasury Secretary Bassett said he supports innovation and competition; translated into surgical language: he believes this new catheter can improve tissue oxygenation rather than cause a steal syndrome.
The linkage with the $xNFLX US stock token should not be seen as an independent lesion. It’s more like the distal perfusion indicator on the intraoperative transesophageal echocardiogram—every change in the caliber of stablecoin reward rules alters the blood flow distribution around tokenized stocks. If rewards are allowed to be released through third-party platforms, in the short term, new funds will be attracted into this bypass, but the compliance boundary is like the postoperative anticoagulation INR monitoring window: too narrow, thrombosis forms, funds stagnate; too wide, bleeding risk, deposits relocate. The real lesion is not in the rewards themselves but in the elasticity of the redemption channel and the reserve during contraction of reserve assets—price crashes are just alarms on the monitor; you have to find the root cause of the decreased stroke volume.
The most dangerous aspect of this new regulation is that it places "prohibition of interest payment" and "lifting of third-party rewards" on the same surgical informed consent form. Regulators think they are performing valve repair, but the market might turn it into a ventricular septal defect—deposit outflow is left-to-right shunt, stablecoin scale is right heart volume load, platform compliance capability is pulmonary vascular resistance. Whoever decompensates first will show low cardiac output first. The OCC has provided a postoperative observation window until 2027, but an observation window is not a safety window; any volume fluctuation in between could trigger atrial fibrillation—that is, funds repeatedly shuttling between banks and the chain, forming an ineffective cycle.
Right now, I only care about one thing: whether this removed "presumed opposition" precisely excised a piece of obstructive myocardium or accidentally cut the vagus nerve regulating the autonomic nervous system. The linkage with $xNFLX has amplified the visibility of this issue, but visibility does not equal curability. The incision is already sutured, extracorporeal circulation has not yet been withdrawn, and the line on the monitor—what we need to watch next is who will perform the intraoperative transesophageal echocardiogram on the compliance boundary of third-party rewards—is it the platform itself, or the OCC performing a second thoracotomy before 2027? #geniusstablecoinrewards ⚡Breakdown on Saturday, recovery on Sunday! The repair is just a ticket; Monday is the real test
The weekend market showed a classic shakeout pattern: the floor broke on Saturday, and the early session on Sunday fully recovered. It looks stable but is definitely not a reversal signal❗
$BTC dipped to 79,220 on Saturday, briefly fell below the 80,000 mark, and has now rebounded to 80,888, with a slight 0.37% drop over 24 hours. The current funding rate is almost zero at just 0.009%, with no concentrated squeeze between longs and shorts.
Short-term strategy is clear: if the hourly close holds steady between 80,800–81,000 on a pullback, consider going long; if the hourly chart breaks below 80,500, stand aside and watch for another test of the 79,220 low.
ETH is also bottoming and repairing, hitting a low of 2,282, currently at 2,359, down 1.18%, showing continued weakness. A short-term stabilization between 2,340–2,360 can be used to catch a rebound; breaking below 2,320 means looking further down to 2,282 support. SOL also broke below 100 but quickly recovered, rebounding from 98.62 to 102.39, following the overall market volatility.
Capital flow is clearly divergent: large ETF outflows on Thursday and Friday, but BTC weekly net inflow remains 309 million, while ETH weekly net outflow is 221 million.
Remember the core logic: a pullback recovery does not equal a reversal!
Weekend repairs are just temporary tickets; Monday’s US stock market open will be the first real test, compounded by the heavy FOMC decision early on the 29th. If the price that held over the weekend fails at Monday’s open, it’s all a bull trap. Stay cautious and observant for now!
#10月FOMC临近，美联储暂停加息还有哪些变数？ $DOGE continues to look bearish. In the past 24 hours, long positions liquidated $2.22 million, while short positions only liquidated $120,000. The ones squeezed out today were basically long leverage. The price dipped to 0.07472 before rebounding to 0.0777. The close doesn't look too bad, but during the rebound, shorts were hardly hurt. The pullback looks more like natural covering after long stop-losses were triggered, with no sign of new buying actively forcing shorts out. Open interest still stands at $210 million; the portion liquidated this time is not significant relative to the whole. Most longs remain open, so the next dip will likely hit their stop-losses again. Funding rates have swung back and forth with three periods of two negatives and one positive, just background info, not directional guidance. The chart shows progressively lower highs, bearish moving average alignment, volume expanding on declines and shrinking on rebounds, all pointing to the same bearish liquidation structure with shorts more aggressive. Intraday volatility is 5.8%. The lower boundary has been tested once; next time it will be thinner to support. Bullish reversal condition: price breaks above and holds the intraday high of 0.07905, with a clear increase in short liquidations, indicating shorts are being squeezed. At that point, this bearish view would be invalid.Just finished eating, guys, don’t rush to watch the market yet, the burp isn’t out smoothly, let’s give the altcoins a lesson first 😅 Over the weekend, Bitcoin is playing dead with sideways trading, while the small coins below start their "pig slaughter" show again.
$ZEC is currently around 1173, down 4.4%. Are the bears feeling great? But the 4-hour long-short ratio is only 1.30, and open interest keeps shrinking, indicating the bulls have been washed out almost completely, while the bears are crowded together. Chasing shorts now, be careful of a sudden squeeze and a rocket-like short squeeze reversal 🚀
$HYPE is around 77.2, the drop isn’t severe, but the data is painful: 4-hour long-short ratio is 2.57, retail bulls stubbornly holding on, the position is heavily leveraged. Until the leverage is fully cleaned out, it’s likely to drop further, don’t rush to catch the falling knife 🔪
$UNI is at 6.95, down 3.3%, not far from the previous low of 6.79. The 4-hour long-short ratio is 2.64, and open interest is sharply shrinking, indicating a batch of leveraged bulls have been liquidated, but many are still holding on stubbornly. If it breaks the previous low, it could trigger a chain stampede ⚠️
Summary: Retail bulls’ sentiment is not dead, so the bottom is hard to see. Bitcoin’s sideways trading is just a cover-up, altcoins have already been bleeding heavily. Stay out of positions, wait until the high leverage is completely cleaned out before making moves 🧘♂️ #10月FOMC临近，美联储暂停加息还有哪些变数？ #AI需求支撑存储市场，芯片股行情反复 #中东原油供应风险再起，油价持续走强 $ORDER ⏰ Unlocking is happening tomorrow, but the price has already been pushed up today!
This time it's a cliff unlocking, releasing 9.34 million tokens all at once.
They pump the price before unlocking so those who get the unlocked tokens can sell at a higher price.
This is the classic move used by manipulative whales: first pump to attract buyers, then slowly dump after unlocking.
The unlocking amount this time looks small, only 2.26% of the circulating market cap, but the amounts in the unlocking schedule keep increasing; this is just one batch.
If fewer people chase the price higher, it will be hard to absorb the continuous selling pressure from subsequent batches.
Unlocking is tomorrow; don't wait until the selling pressure crushes the price and regret it—start shorting now!📉 The crypto market is collectively falling, and the real issue is not BTC dropping below 80,000!
In this downturn, what I find most concerning is not the price itself, but that the market's capacity to absorb the decline is being tested.
On October 24, BTC briefly fell to $79,280. In the past 24 hours, about $815 million worth of positions in the crypto market were liquidated.
What’s even more notable is that the US spot BTC ETF saw a net outflow of approximately $773 million from the 22nd to the 23rd.
💰 What does this mean?
The demand from some of the funds that previously drove the rise is weakening, and the concentrated liquidation of leveraged long positions has further amplified the decline.
The external environment is also unfavorable. The US tech sector is weakening, oil prices are rising, and the market is beginning to reassess inflation and Federal Reserve policy risks.
⚠️ My judgment is that this is not a crash caused by a single negative factor, but a concentrated release of leverage risk after a decline in funding demand.
What’s more important than the 80,000 integer level going forward is whether ETF funds can resume inflows and whether there is real spot buying support during BTC’s rebound.
If funding does not improve, even a brief recovery above 80,000 cannot be easily taken as the end of the correction.
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#BTC #Bitcoin #ETH #Cryptocurrency #MarketAnalysis⚠️ Beware! The so-called "bottom confirmation" of BTC may just be an illusion
Recently, many people have been shouting that the $BTC bottom has been confirmed and are ready to start a new round of rally. But looking back at historical cycles, it’s clear that the true bottom has never been so easy to judge 📉
In previous bear market bottoms, several key signals usually needed to be gathered:
✅ Price approaches the 0.786 Fibonacci retracement level
✅ Weekly chart enters oversold territory with bullish divergence
✅ Price touches or even breaks below the 200-week moving average
✅ Large-scale long liquidations, market sentiment completely hitting rock bottom
Looking at the current situation, not all of these conditions have been met yet.
There is also a risk scenario that cannot be ignored: BTC first makes a rebound, surging to $92,000–$100,000, forming a secondary lower high, then turns down again to start a new round of decline.
If this pattern forms, the $39,000–$48,000 range will be a key observation zone.
⚠️ Key point: This is only a projected risk scenario, not a guaranteed outcome.
Don’t rush in driven by the "bottom confirmed" slogan. Cycle bottoms require multiple signals resonating together for confirmation. Be patient and avoid heavy bets on a reversal!
$BTC
⚠️ Market analysis is for communication only and does not constitute investment advice
#10月FOMC临近，美联储暂停加息还有哪些变数？ From the August vulnerability to the October node retreat: A full review of Core DAO's "soft death" method
Core is not undergoing a sudden hard crash but a slow contraction and gradual abdication in a soft exit path. On August 31, a reward contract vulnerability erupted, allowing validators to exploit the rule loophole for excessive issuance; some tokens fled early, becoming ghost sell pressure. In September, an emergency hard fork destroyed 150 million excess CORE, but the plan did not roll back historical transactions, so the existing escaped tokens were not cleared, only blocking subsequent vulnerabilities.
Entering October, the hallmark event was the continuous withdrawal of official validator nodes. Currently, only about 20 active independent validators remain, weakening away from the 31-node expansion target and approaching the critical consensus halt line of 15 nodes. The project team no longer assumes responsibility for node operation and network backing but retains control over treasury management, code upgrades, and hard fork leadership.
All commercial roadmap initiatives have failed: SatPay card licensing is continuously delayed, on-chain gas fees are minimal, and the originally planned Q3 revenue buyback lacks cash flow support. Large transfers from reserve addresses continue, exchanges are successively restricting CORE deposits and withdrawals, and liquidity keeps shrinking.
Staking BTC relies on Bitcoin's CLTV time lock, with the principal redemption channel independently stable. The so-called soft death means the chain can barely produce blocks and does not directly go to zero but no longer invests resources to push commercialization, relying on existing TVL and narrative to slowly absorb tokens.In the past 24 hours, the forced liquidation amount of long positions in the $SOL market reached 4.65 million USD, nearly three times the scale of short liquidations. This is not an ordinary pullback but a targeted purge of leveraged longs. The real warning signal lies in the liquidation structure: shorts were hardly squeezed. This means that during this round of decline, there was no "shorts forced to buy back" momentum in the market, so the rebound naturally lacks fuel. In other words, the price drop is driven by the liquidation of buyers rather than panic selling by sellers—these two types of declines are fundamentally different, with the former often indicating the downtrend is not yet over. A more critical comparison is: a position size of 8.8 million USD corresponds to a trading volume of 1.1 billion USD. This ratio is significant, indicating that the remaining long positions in the market are still sufficient to withstand another round of liquidation. In other words, what was liquidated today is only the first layer; there is still ammunition below to continue triggering further liquidations. From the funding rate perspective, the rates for three cycles are all slightly positive. This can only serve as background reference and does not constitute directional guidance—the market sentiment has not yet reached an extreme to give a reversal signal. The technical aspect echoes the above logic: highs continue to move lower, and moving averages show a bearish alignment. 101.63 is today's low, also close to the previous low area. Once this level is broken, it will trigger a series of long stop losses below, and new lows are very likely to arrive before any rebound. For longs to regain control, the price needs to break above 105.22—today's high. The significance of this level is not just the price itself; it represents the end of the long liquidation wave and the buying pressure.August vulnerability → September hard fork → October node retreat: The death trilogy of Core DAO, played out punctually every month
Three major events in three consecutive months connect the trajectory of Core's continuous weakening. In August, a reward contract vulnerability erupted, allowing a few validators to over-mint, with 69 million ghost tokens escaping, laying the hidden risk of long-term selling pressure; in September, an emergency hard fork destroyed 150 million excess tokens, but the plan did not roll back transactions, so the existing escaped tokens still circulated, only plugging the subsequent minting loophole; entering October, official nodes continued to go offline, with only about 20 active independent validators left, approaching the red line of 15 nodes stopping.
These three events escalate step by step: first, the underlying economic contract exploded, then a hard fork was passively used to remedy and soothe the market, and finally the project party chose to retreat nodes, shedding operational responsibility and passing consensus risk to a small circle of validators.
None of the roadmap's positive promises were fulfilled: SatPay kept being delayed, on-chain gas income was meager, and Q3 revenue buybacks lacked cash flow support; the treasury code permissions remain in the team's hands, and large transfers from reserve addresses repeatedly occurred.
Staking BTC relies on Bitcoin's CLTV timelock, with the principal redemption channel independently stable. One round of negative news each month, with no new positive developments to hedge, this "death trilogy" is the most realistic rhythm this year.💻 I treat this message as a code review: The input is that Lookonchain detected a certain whale holding a total of 93,184 ETH long positions, valued at about $214 million, with liquidation prices at $2,256.45 and $2,226.53 respectively.
My judgment: This is a leverage risk warning, not a directional signal for $ETH. The position is large and worth attention; but the logic of "big players dare to go long, so I also go long" misses several judgment conditions.
There are two potential bugs: the data does not provide the current price, so you can't just look at the liquidation price to assert imminent danger; nor does it provide the scale of each of the two position groups, so you can't treat the $214 million as potential selling pressure at the same price level. If the price drops and triggers liquidation, then forced closing might amplify short-term volatility—this is my speculation and should not be written as an inevitable scenario.
If I were to revise this observation logic, I would first supplement the price distance, position distribution, and market absorption conditions before assessing risk. For ordinary users, using whale positions as a reason to follow trades is more like a bug that needs fixing than just missing a piece of news.
Everyone, please help me review: when judging the liquidation impact of this position, which data would you prioritize to supplement? What other loopholes do you see in my logic?CORE holders must see: Latest update on 10.25, is your staked BTC redemption channel still stable?
Many stakers are most concerned: with only about 20 independent validators left and official nodes continuously withdrawing, will BTC be unrecoverable? The core point is to treat BTC principal and CORE rewards separately. Staked BTC is locked on the Bitcoin mainnet through CLTV time locks; BTC itself has no cross-chain custody. After the lockup period expires, redemption rights are guaranteed by Bitcoin script rules and are not directly affected by the survival of Core validator nodes. The underlying channel for principal redemption is stable.
Risks are concentrated on the rewards side: CORE block reward distribution depends on Core chain and relay relayer data synchronization. If validators continue to drop and fall below the 15-node suspension threshold, relay services will be interrupted. After expiration, BTC can still be retrieved, but corresponding CORE rewards may be delayed, experience reconciliation anomalies, or even fail to be distributed.
Other known negatives remain unchanged: SatPay continues to be delayed, Q3 revenue buybacks failed due to minimal on-chain Gas income; in August, a vulnerability left 69 million ghost tokens, and large transfers from reserve addresses continue to exert selling pressure.
Principal security relies on Bitcoin’s underlying rules, but rewards depend on Core ecosystem operation. Stakers should focus on two key indicators: lockup expiration time and validator count changes. Do not equate BTC principal security with the stability of CORE rewards. Just saw this, and my first reaction was: Even Microsoft and Google oppose it, is stock tokenization hitting a wall? According to CoinDesk, companies like Microsoft and Alphabet, Google's parent company, oppose their stocks being traded on the OKXICE platform, a collaboration between OKX and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). The number of publicly listed companies explicitly opposing this has risen to 22.
But after thinking about it, I feel this is a resistance to the advancement of the related platforms, but it doesn't mean the entire direction of tokenization is rejected. The industry judgment in the headline can be discussed, but since the material doesn't elaborate on why these companies oppose it, I dare not draw conclusions for them.
My understanding is that just because the trading form changes, it doesn't mean the underlying rights relationship of the stock is automatically resolved. If the issuing company's attitude affects product implementation, then which stocks the platform can offer may be uncertain. For ordinary users, "being able to trade" and "what rights are actually held" are two different things. I think the latter is more important than the label of being on-chain.
I've only been in the circle for a year and still haven't figured out: How much impact does the issuing company's opposition have legally and in actual operations? 🤔 I want to ask experienced people in securities tokenization: When evaluating such products, should one first check the issuer's authorization, or first look at the token's corresponding shareholding and redemption arrangements?22:00 One candle with 38,250 contracts, previous candle 1,738 contracts, 22 times difference. Price dropped from 1237.4 to 1205.3, closed at 1228.2, with a lower shadow of 22.9 points. Yesterday evening, waiting for a break below 1225.7 to target 1210 was realized, with the lowest even 4.7 points lower.
Nine hours later, the price returned: 1238.8, engulfing that bearish candle and standing above its open at 1237.4. The recovery only took 13,000 contracts, while the drop had one candle with 38,250 contracts, less than one-third. At 02:00, 6,099 contracts lifted the price to 1237.9, then it oscillated between 1231.7 and 1239.9 for six hours, with only 419 contracts left at 08:00.
The recovery was not due to buying volume returning, but a thin volume lift.
Current price 1238.8 / 24h -0.42% / MA20 1235.24.
Close above 1239.9 with volume (≥20,000), pullback to 1236~1238 to go long with stop loss at 1232, target 1246.7 with only 1.9 times reward-to-risk, not recommended.
Close below 1231.7 with volume (≥15,000), rebound to 1234~1236 to go short with stop loss at 1240, target 1217.9 with 3.5 times reward-to-risk, break level at 1205.3.
$SNDK
(Not investment advice, trade at your own risk)Exchanges Gradually Delisting, Deposit and Withdrawal Restrictions: What Should Core DAO Holders Do Now?
After the 8.31 reward vulnerability, multiple platforms have successively restricted CORE deposits and withdrawals, with some exchanges already initiating delisting processes, and liquidity channels continuously narrowing. The exchanges' concerns are straightforward: contract security risks, continuous loss of validators, and the project's commercialization prospects being indefinitely delayed, leading to a gradual reduction in support for risk control reasons.
Currently, holders face a dual dilemma: on-exchange trading depth is worsening, with increasing buy-sell slippage; on-chain withdrawal and deposit channels may be suspended again at any time, raising the risk of assets being trapped on platforms. Additionally, only 20 independent validators remain, approaching the critical shutdown threshold of 15; SatPay delays, revenue buyback failures, ghost tokens, and reserve transfers causing ongoing selling pressure.
From a practical standpoint, assets should be handled in two categories: prioritize assessing risks for CORE tokens on platforms that still have liquidity, and avoid blindly increasing positions; staking BTC and CORE rewards should be viewed separately—BTC principal relies on Bitcoin CLTV scripts, so redemption is not restricted by Core chain deposit and withdrawal limits, but CORE reward distribution depends on chain stability and relay services.
Exchange delisting is not a short-term negative but a signal of long-term liquidity contraction. Do not hope for a narrative reversal; prioritize controlling deposit and withdrawal channel risks, manage positions, and prepare for further liquidity exhaustion.Staking BTC on Core Notice: Is the redemption channel still stable after node withdrawal? Latest check on 10.25
Many staking users are most concerned: with only 20 validators left and official nodes continuously going offline, will this affect BTC redemption? At the underlying mechanism level, staked BTC is locked on the Bitcoin mainnet through CLTV timelocks. BTC itself has no cross-chain or custody; the unlocking rules are written in Bitcoin scripts. Redemption rights are not controlled by the existence of Core validator nodes. Once the lockup period ends, you can directly initiate a redemption transaction on the Bitcoin network.
Risk distinction is clear: the principal redemption channel itself is stable; what is affected by node withdrawal is the distribution of CORE rewards. If the Core chain halts or relayer services are interrupted, BTC can still be retrieved after maturity, but the corresponding CORE rewards may not be distributed properly, with delays or even loss.
Current risks: the number of validators is approaching the risk red line of 15, and consensus instability may cause relayer service interruptions; SatPay delays, buyback failures, and ghost token sell pressure still exist. The safety of staked BTC principal relies on Bitcoin’s underlying rules, but the reward side depends on the stable operation of the Core chain.$IRYS has a daily trading volume of 76 million, but the underlying pool only has 1.5 million, a typical case of deep water but shallow pool.
Early big holders have already been dumping heavily on-chain, clearly rushing to sell before liquidity dries up.
This small pool simply can't withstand a few large sell orders; whoever takes the bag becomes the meat cushion.
#IRYS
$IRYS
👇#SK海力士Q3财报在即，HBM4能否提振盈利？
Heavy preview! Countdown to SK Hynix Q3 earnings report, HBM4 becomes the market's life-or-death mystery box🤔🤔🤔
On October 28, SK Hynix's Q3 earnings report will be released, becoming the core barometer for the global semiconductor and tech market! Currently, over 75% of market funds are betting on earnings exceeding expectations, with strong confidence coming from the explosive demand for AI computing power and the strong anticipation of HBM4 mass production.
However, the biggest market risk is precisely the overly consistent optimistic expectations. Recently, the memory chip market has been volatile with rollercoaster trends, coupled with the Solidigm IPO suspension event, the market has become completely desensitized to pure sector stories and high-valuation cash-burning models, significantly lowering the sector's fault tolerance.
This earnings report has only two extreme scenarios: if HBM4 shipments and profit data exceed expectations, it will stabilize the overall sentiment of semiconductor and tech stocks; otherwise, as long as profit growth slows or mass production progress falls short of expectations, the crowded bullish funds will collectively sell off, triggering a valuation correction.
As a global storage leader, Hynix's performance directly affects the risk appetite of US tech stocks and also links to liquidity in the crypto market. Tech stocks stabilizing is necessary to hold the BTC 80,000 level; once earnings disappoint and trigger valuation cuts, Bitcoin will face increased pressure.
Market uncertainty is at its peak, refuse to bet on direction prematurely, and wait quietly for the earnings report to determine strength or weakness!
$SKHYNIX After CORE dropped 99%, the project team is still issuing "decentralization" announcements. Here's the translation: "I'm done but won't say it"
After a deep price pullback, the project team frequently releases decentralization-related announcements. The rhetoric sounds like the ecosystem is moving towards autonomy, stripping away team control. But beneath the surface, the real intention is to gradually withdraw, no longer taking responsibility for ecosystem development, network operation, or product implementation, without explicitly declaring abandonment of the project.
They withdraw from official validator nodes, no longer bearing server costs or the fallback pressure of network downtime; revenue goals like SatPay, stablecoins, institutional access, and buybacks are continuously delayed and missed, with no further resources invested in commercialization efforts. However, the core rights to the treasury's large stakes, code modifications, and hard fork proposals remain in the team's hands, keeping the liquidation channels open.
With fewer than 20 active validators, security redundancy is very low, and the 69 million ghost tokens from the 8.31 vulnerability remain a selling pressure. The project team chooses a dignified exit rhetoric, shifting the pressure of maintaining the chain's minimum block production to community validators.
Staking BTC relies on Bitcoin's CLTV timelock, with private keys self-held, so principal is unaffected by chain governance. The so-called decentralization announcement is a soft exit cover: no more burning money to get things done, no public declaration of abandonment, preserving a window to liquidate tokens.BTC is hovering around 81K; I tend to define this phase as a period of game theory rather than a window for chasing gains. Is 81K really the rebound starting point, or are the bears just temporarily holding back? Watching the market closely last night, the most direct impression was: the price barely moved, but positions were quietly changing hands. U.S. hedge funds are reducing their shorts, which deserves deeper thought—on the surface, it looks like short covering, which easily leads one to think a rebound is coming, but there is a wide gap between reducing shorts and turning bullish. Some positions are originally hedging tools; withdrawing them doesn’t mean bullishness, just a reluctance to continue betting on downside at this level. This is what I call structural differentiation: the excitement is on the sentiment side, while the support is on the capital side, and the two are not synchronized. Short covering can bring a brief upward spike, but if spot buying and stablecoin inflows don’t keep up, the rebound can easily become a fake move that props up the shorts. BTC repeatedly tests above 80.5K, indicating some are defending this level, but not decisively. Looking across markets makes it clearer. U.S. stock risk appetite hasn’t been bad recently, but capital hasn’t noticeably spilled over into crypto, indicating institutions still treat BTC more as a trading asset than a strategic allocation. ETH and altcoins have weaker follow-through, confirming this round looks more like a partial repair rather than a full shift. What really needs watching is whether the 80.5K support zone can be repeatedly confirmed, and whether volume contracts or expands on pullbacks. Bullish scenario: shorts continue to reduce, price stabilizes above 81.5K and tests 82K, sentiment recovers, driving short-term capital inflows. Potential risk: short reduction is just a hedge adjustment, a22:00, 3.27 million contracts; 23:00, another 5.7 million contracts; in two hours, 4002 was pushed down to 3980.0. Yesterday morning session focused on 3986.8, which was broken but only dropped 6.8 points before being bought back to 3990.5, with a lower shadow of 10.5 points—stop-loss sweep, not a real break.
Then eight 1H candles closed bullish climbing to 3999.4. But the total volume for eight hours was only 4.37 million contracts, less than half of the 8.97 million contracts during the two-hour sell-off. The highest was 3999.5; the 22:00 bearish candle opened at 4001.9 but never touched it, with MA20 at 3998.765 pressing below.
At 07:00, only 126,000 contracts remained; during the Asian pre-market gap, 3999 is a line drawn where no one traded.
Current price 3997.3 / 24h -0.11% / range 3980~4006.2.
Rebound between 3999.5~4001.9 fails, 1H closes bearish with volume (≥1.5 million), short stop-loss at 4004, target 3986 with odds 3.5, if broken look for 3980 with odds 5.
1H closes bullish with volume above 4001.9 (≥2 million), pullback to 3999~4000 for long stop-loss at 3996, target 4006.2 with odds 2.
If conditions are not met, do nothing.
$XAU
(Not investment advice, trade at your own risk)Spot $BTC ETF outflows for two consecutive days: 636 million outflow on 10-22, 138 million outflow again on 10-23, totaling 770 million over two days; but the whole week $BTC ETF still had a net inflow of about 310 million, while $ETH ETF had a net outflow of 220 million for the week. Institutions are not fleeing, they collectively paused after Thursday waiting for news.
1. Brent crude oil hit a nearly 7-month high, Middle East escalation concerns resurfaced, Trump said the US might take further action against Iran;
2. FOMC on 10-27/28 is next Tuesday and Wednesday, no one wants to heavily bet on direction before the decision;
3. BlackRock applied for a Bitcoin fund with downside protection: capped returns in exchange for a buffer, institutional strategies have become more conservative.
80,000 is a psychological barrier, not a hard bottom: the discipline of not chasing above 80,000 remains unchanged, buying in batches between 76,000-80,000 remains unchanged, the current price is just one step away from the buying zone, if it drops sharply into the zone, buy in batches again; before the FOMC decision, do not heavily position!🌙 On the eve of the FOMC: Walls can be observed, but don't treat them as faith
$BTC indeed has buy walls at 81,000–81,250, with near-term buy orders exceeding about ten million dollars. But it looks more like a trader's limited budget, not an iron bottom: on October 15 it was smashed down to 79,800, and after rebuilding, it became thinner. Glassnode calls it an "eroding safety net." Funding rates turned negative, leveraged longs were liquidated, and liquidation intensity dropped significantly, yet the price still can't rise, indicating spot sell orders are pressing from above. Around 84,333 above, there is also an ETF cost lock-in zone.
🐋 More honest on-chain
The old $ETH whale transferred another 1,000 coins to Kraken, about 2.4 million dollars. He had sold at 3,800 and 1,537 before, not a hodler type; now continuing to move around 2,400, his direction is firmer than his words.
🏦 XRP is another story
Franklin Templeton moved about 150 million dollars of tokenized money market funds onto XRPL, sgBENJI increased from 48 million to 193 million coins, nearly 200 million dollars in a single wallet; yet the price fell 13% in 30 days, lying flat between 1.25–1.35. Cold price, hot institutions.
#10月FOMC临近，美联储暂停加息还有哪些变数？ #AI需求支撑存储市场，芯片股行情反复 #中东原油供应风险再起，油价持续走强 Observation: AI demand stubbornly resists the sell-off, but the profitability challenge remains unresolved
Clients have already started discussing long-term supply demand for 2030 to 2031, indicating that the underlying hardware demand for AI is indeed solid, forcefully pulling Micron and SK Hynix back from steep declines and achieving a market rebound.
However, the market's current focus has shifted from "whether AI demand exists" to "after spending so much money, can profits actually be made?"
Capital expenditures, future supply expectations, and valuation changes still tightly constrain the sector's pricing power.
This shows that capital now only recognizes assets supported by real performance and solid demand.
Mapping this to the crypto space, those AI tokens relying purely on conceptual packaging without actual profitability will find their survival space increasingly narrow.
Against the backdrop of an overall market volume contraction, rebounds in individual sectors cannot mask the liquidity drain; it is better to watch more and act less, waiting for the macro shoe to drop.
#AI需求支撑存储市场，芯片股行情反复 From 34.5% Token Allocation to Node Withdrawal: The Wealth Transfer Chain of the Core DAO Project
In the early token distribution, the treasury and contributor shares totaled about 34.5%, marking the starting point of the entire chain. This batch of chips had an extremely low cost and is the core of market skepticism: whether the ecosystem can make money is secondary; as long as there is liquidity in the secondary market, there is a channel for monetization.
The narrative is responsible for raising expectations: BTCFi, SatPay payments, institutional banks entering, revenue buybacks, continuously attracting external funds to take over; risks are gradually transferred outward, with the symbolic move being the official validator nodes withdrawing in batches. Outwardly packaged as gradual decentralization, the essence is no longer bearing server operation and maintenance or network failure costs, shifting block production pressure to the remaining approximately 20 independent validators.
The August 31 vulnerability, 69 million ghost chips, and frequent transfers from reserve addresses further amplify selling pressure. Code modifications, hard fork proposals, and treasury scheduling rights still remain in the hands of the project team; risk is handed over to the community, but chip disposal rights are retained.
Staking BTC relies on Bitcoin's CLTV time lock, with private keys self-held, so the principal is unaffected. The logic of this wealth chain is clear: acquire large amounts of low-cost chips in advance, attract funds through grand narratives, then peel off operational risks through node withdrawal, gradually completing monetization in the market. Core DAO Latest Update: Fewer than 20 Independent Validators, Risk of Halt if Below 15
Monitoring shows that official validator nodes continue to go offline. Currently, there are fewer than 20 independent validators participating in block production, which runs counter to the original plan to expand to 31 validators to enhance decentralization, security, and redundancy. The Satoshi Plus consensus relies on a two-thirds majority of validators to reach consensus. If the number of active validators falls below 15, the network is at high risk of consensus failure and block production interruption.
The existing validator group is highly concentrated and aligned in stance, lacking multi-party checks and balances. The project team has withdrawn from node operations and no longer assumes responsibility for server failures or network stability, but still retains control over treasury funds, code upgrades, and hard fork leadership.
Historical risks remain unresolved: 69 million ghost tokens left from the August 31 vulnerability are still circulating, and pressure from reserve address token transfers continues; SatPay has yet to launch public testing, on-chain gas revenue is extremely low, and the previously promised Q3 revenue buyback has no cash flow support and has completely failed.
Reaffirming asset boundaries: Staked BTC relies on Bitcoin CLTV time locks, with private keys self-held, so the principal is not affected by this chain’s consensus risk.
Currently, the chain is barely maintaining the minimum block production, with a very thin safety margin. Whether it can continue to operate stably depends on how many validators are willing to keep investing in operational costs.There's a detail in today's market that's more valuable than the price changes themselves: $BTC only dropped just over one percent, while $ETH and $SOL both fell by more than two percent.
This is no coincidence. Altcoins compared to mainstream coins are essentially leveraged beta: they rise more enthusiastically when the market goes up, and fall more sharply when it goes down. Because they have smaller market caps and lack independent intrinsic value, they rely entirely on risk appetite to stay afloat. When the tide of risk appetite recedes, altcoins are always the first to be stranded.
Holding heavy positions in altcoins during a bear market is like secretly adding invisible leverage without officially opening a margin. To survive in this environment, you need to shift your position mindset from "betting on volatility" to "preserving capital."
What is the ratio of altcoins to mainstream coins in your current holdings?The truth about burning 150 million CORE: Why is the community still dumping after the hard fork?
Many people think that burning 150 million tokens is a big positive, expecting that reduced supply will directly push up the price. However, the reality is continued pressure. The root cause is that this hard fork only blocks future minting; it does not retroactively recall or roll back tokens already in circulation. In the 8.31 reward loophole, some of the excess minted CORE was already transferred to external wallets in advance, becoming ghost chips unaffected by the burn and can be sold anytime on the secondary market.
Burning solves the problem of "no more minting like this in the future," but it cannot solve the existing selling pressure from tokens that have already escaped. At the same time, the event itself undermines contract security trust, as the market realizes there is a serious bug in the reward mechanism, leading to decreased confidence in the underlying economic model.
This is compounded by a series of subsequent negative factors: SatPay keeps being delayed, on-chain gas revenue is extremely low, the roadmap's promised revenue buybacks lack cash flow support; official nodes continue to withdraw, leaving only 20 active validators, narrowing the consensus circle; reserve addresses frequently show large transfers.
The burn is a passive patch to a loophole, not an active deflationary benefit. Staking BTC relies on Bitcoin's CLTV time lock, with private keys self-held, so principal is unaffected. The market dumping is not on newly minted tokens, but on the existing tokens that were not burned and on the disappointed revenue expectations. To be honest, the most uncomfortable thing about ETH these days is on the contract side; the price itself is still okay. From the high on October 22 to the low late on the 24th, ETH dropped nearly 10%. Normally, with such a drop, a batch of longs should have been washed out. However, the ETH long-short account ratio on OKX rose from 1.53 in the early hours of the 22nd to 3.07 by the morning of the 23rd, doubling completely. It has now fallen back a bit, still around 2.75. My understanding is that while the price is falling, a large number of small accounts are coming in to bottom-fish and go long. Note that this ratio counts the number of accounts, which is different from position size; it can't tell which side the big money is on. But when people crowd to the same side, the market tends to move in the opposite direction. I'm currently cautious. The reference level to watch is 2,283, which is the low of the spike on the 24th; if it goes lower, the bulls will take another hit. What I'm not sure about is how long this batch of bottom-fishers can hold on; if they hold, that's the bottom; if not, they're just fuel. Anyway, bottom-fishing usually isn't very good when there are many people doing it. Summary: ETH dropped nearly 10%, but the long-short account ratio doubled, with chips crowding to the long side. The account ratio doesn't represent the amount of capital, but crowding itself is a risk. Whether 2,283 holds or not is the key point to watch next. #10月FOMC临近，美联储暂停加息还有哪些变数？ $ETH $BTC swept the 80.6K low — after consolidating there for a whole week, it finally cleared the liquidity at that level. A large amount of spot sell pressure accumulated between 80K-81K, and the sweep happened after the US market close on Friday, which was really bad timing. The weekend may continue to be volatile.
The price is still consolidating. Bearish momentum increased before the close, testing support here. What’s the outlook? The direction is unclear. Both bulls and bears have reasons, so I remain neutral. Currently, only the 85K short position is still open; long positions have been closed at breakeven.
The past few days have been uneventful, but the market usually builds momentum for the next move during such times. I stay alert even when the market is boring — I don’t stare at the charts constantly, just set alerts and get ready to act when the price makes a move.
Tactical approach: only go long, targeting buy-side liquidity at 82.1K and higher. Entry can be after confirmation signals appear within the 80K/81K range, or after the price sweeps below 79.8K and then reclaims that level. No shorting at lows — the odds aren’t favorable.
Even boring markets can create opportunities for plans. No edge, no trade. Wait for patterns to form, manage position size reasonably, and let the charts decide the next steps. $ETH $BTC $SOL Core DAO in 2026: Node Withdrawal, SatPay Delay, Buyback Narrative Falls Through, What’s Next?
At the current stage, all three main lines fall short of expectations: official validator nodes continue to withdraw, with only about 20 active validators left, resulting in very low consensus security redundancy; SatPay card, the core revenue driver, keeps missing licensing milestones and has no public beta; the revenue buyback originally planned for Q3 has completely fallen through due to extremely low on-chain gas income and lack of stable cash flow support.
Looking ahead, there are likely only three paths. The optimal path: SatPay obtains licensing and launches the product, driving transaction fees and institutional capital inflow, enabling the buyback flywheel to operate—but compliance difficulty is very high, making this a low-probability scenario; the neutral path, and most likely outcome: maintaining the status quo, with the project team no longer making large-scale commercial investments, only sustaining the base chain’s minimum block production, slowly digesting tokens through existing BTC staking TVL and roadmap narratives, turning into a low-maintenance zombie public chain; the worst path: continuous validator loss, dropping below the safety threshold of 15, network consensus becomes unstable, frequent failures in staking claims and reward pages.
The ghost tokens left from the 8.31 vulnerability and selling pressure from reserve address transfers persist. BTC staking relies on Bitcoin’s CLTV timelock, so principal is not affected by chain consensus risks. CORE’s future direction entirely depends on whether SatPay can deliver; beyond that, there is no other source of sustainable growth.Everyone is focused on the AI bubble, but few are looking up at the burning pot of European finances.
The UK Chancellor wants to add tens of billions of pounds in defense spending to the budget, and Moody's just downgraded France's rating outlook a few days ago. One is leveraging up to expand military spending, the other is signaling a yellow light on finances, both pointing to the same thing: developed countries are expanding fiscal spending and aggressively issuing government debt.
The greater the supply of government bonds, the harder it is for long-term interest rates to truly come down. And interest rates are the gravitational force over all high-valuation assets, with things like $BTC, which are priced based on liquidity, taking the hardest hit. Don't just focus on how much Nvidia fell today; the real slow knife is hidden in the bond market.
Do you think this round of interest rates has peaked, or is it just halftime?On Friday, the market spread pressure beyond chips. The Dow fell more sharply than the Nasdaq, indicating that the trading was no longer about Thursday's AI financing panic, but rather the cost accounting after oil prices climbed back above $100. The Dow closed at 52,215 points, down 1.23%; the S&P closed at 7,624 points, down 0.52%; the Nasdaq closed at 25,955 points, down 0.21%. The Russell 2000 also slightly fell by 0.29%. For the whole week, the Dow still rose 0.4%, marking three consecutive weeks of gains; the S&P fell 0.5% for the week, and the Nasdaq fell 0.7%. The direct driver was oil. Houthi forces attacked Saudi energy facilities, combined with escalating tensions in the Middle East, Brent crude settled at $116.72, up 3.1%, near a six-month high; WTI crude closed at $103.27, up 3.8%. The energy sector surged 2.5%, the only sector that could explain why the indexes were not worse off that day. Exxon rose 2.8%, Chevron rose 2.9%, both approaching or hitting 52-week highs. Technology barely held steady. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index slightly rebounded 0.4%, the S&P technology sector rose 0.35%, providing some relief after the Nasdaq's 2.6% plunge on Thursday. But communication services were hit from the other side: SpaceX reportedly is negotiating for at least 80,000 base stations, preparing to become the fourth wireless carrier in the U.S. AT&T and T-Mobile both fell more than 5%, while tower companies surged, with Crown Castle rising over 11% at one point. Carriers fear competition, tower companies await new tenants, and the market clearly distinguishes between them. Almost all other sectors were in the red. Consumer staples fell 1.8 Aftereffects of the August vulnerability remain unresolved, SatPay still delays, nodes are withdrawing: A comprehensive update on Core DAO's latest status
Although the 8.31 reward contract vulnerability was mostly resolved by an emergency hard fork in September that destroyed the majority of the excess minted tokens, the non-rollback transaction approach means some ghost tokens that escaped early are still circulating, so the selling pressure risk has not been eliminated, and community doubts about contract security persist.
SatPay, the core revenue driver in the 2026 roadmap, is constrained by global financial licensing issues and continues to be delayed, with no public beta version available to the general public so far. The originally planned fee flywheel and Q3 revenue buyback have lost their income sources, on-chain Gas revenue remains minimal long-term, and the buyback plan has yet to be implemented.
Meanwhile, official validator nodes continue to withdraw; currently, only about 20 active independent validators remain, shrinking away from the expansion target of 31, resulting in a small consensus circle and low security redundancy. The project team has offloaded node operation and fault coverage pressure but still controls treasury tokens, code upgrades, and hard fork authority. Large transfers and anomalies in reserve addresses have repeatedly occurred.
Staked BTC relies on Bitcoin's CLTV time lock, with private keys self-held, so principal is not affected by on-chain consensus risks. The underlying chain can still produce blocks and operate, but with three major core negative factors stacking up, the commercialization narrative remains far from realization.Core DAO 10.25 Latest Update: Official Nodes Continue to Withdraw, Only 20 Independent Validators Left, How Long Can the Chain Last?
As of monitoring on October 25, official nodes are still going offline continuously, with only about 20 active independent validators remaining, shrinking away from the original expansion target of 31. According to the Satoshi Plus consensus rules, the network requires two-thirds of validators to honestly participate to maintain consensus. Once the number falls below 15, the risk of block production stalling and network freezing will rapidly increase.
The existing validator circle is very small and highly homogeneous in stance, lacking neutral and balancing nodes. The project team is gradually stepping back from server operation and fault coverage responsibilities, but still retains control over treasury chips, code proposals, and hard fork leadership.
Old problems remain unresolved: SatPay continues to be delayed, on-chain Gas revenue is meager, Q3 revenue buybacks lack cash flow and cannot be implemented; the August 31 vulnerability left 69 million ghost tokens, with reserve address token fluctuations and ongoing selling pressure.
Clarifying asset boundaries again: Staked BTC relies on Bitcoin CLTV time lock isolation, with private keys self-held, so the principal is not affected by the consensus risk of this chain.
This chain is currently barely maintaining block production relying on existing validators, but security redundancy is extremely low. Whether it can continue to operate in the future entirely depends on how many validators are willing to continue bearing the operational costs. #AMD财报前瞻：HeliosAI系统商业化进展 Can AMD's earnings really exceed expectations? Sun Ge shows off his moves again! PEPE surged 30% in six days, should he be worried about his bearish view on BTC?
Sun Yuchen spent nearly 30 million buying $PEPE, which surged up to 30% in six days, hitting the rhythm perfectly again. So some people dug up his old bearish comments on $BTC and asked if they should panic. Actually, there's no need.
First, his bearish stance on BTC comes from a "quantum resistance" perspective, mainly to hype the newly launched quantum-resistant technology on the TRON chain, which is basically self-promotion for his own business. Second, he talks bearish but hasn't sold any BTC; what he sold was $ETH to buy US stocks like Nvidia and the Nasdaq. Third, if quantum computers really break BTC at low cost, the entire crypto market would collapse to zero, not just some "quantum-resistant coin" replacing BTC; the foundation of crypto is decentralization and on-chain transparency, not quantum resistance.
The technicals also show this: $BTC is weakly consolidating above 80,000, RSI at 42.7, with MA7 at 82,100, MA20 at 82,600, and MA30 at 83,200 all pressing overhead, daily volatility only 1.9%; $ETH is the weakest, RSI 34.9 near the monthly low of 2317, its rebound can't even reclaim MA7 at 2416; $PEPE stands above MA7/MA20/MA30 with volume breakout, RSI 53.4, 30-day position at 58%, the only one among the three with an intact structure.
Summary: Listen to Sun Ge's logic, not his emotions. BTC is weak, ETH weaker, PEPE's structure is strongest, but don't mistake promotion for direction. For market reference only, not investment advice.#10月FOMC临近，美联储暂停加息还有哪些变数？
$BTC $ETH $SOL
· BTC whale nominal long-short ratio is 28.19%, with 294 addresses in the long camp and 564 addresses in the short camp.
· Long positions hold 696.39M USDT, average entry price 87343.67, unrealized floating loss of 56.457 million USD, profit ratio 36.05%.
· Short positions hold 2.46B USDT, average entry price 76612.94, unrealized floating loss of 127.79 million USD, profit ratio 56.38%.
· Current price around 80793.70, falling between the average cost of whale longs and shorts; combined floating loss of about 184 million USD.
Interpretation
This is a typical "cost sandwich" chart: the upper side shows a relatively high entry cost for longs, the lower side is a relatively low safety cushion for shorts. The long profit ratio is only 36.05%, indicating many whale longs are still holding losses; although shorts have a larger floating loss amount, their profit ratio is still over half, showing relatively stronger resilience. The price stuck between the two cost groups means chasing longs faces resistance from trapped positions above, while chasing shorts must beware of a rebound pullback caused by expanding short floating losses. In the short term, it looks more like chip digestion within a range rather than an immediate choice of a one-sided trend.
Execution Discipline
Do not bet on direction in the middle of the range; wait for the price to effectively break out of one side's cost zone before making a judgment; scale positions in batches to avoid full exposure during tug-of-war phases; treat whale cost zones as risk references rather than trading signals themselves. The market looks calm on the surface, but there are many traps for bulls hidden in the order book🪝. More tormenting than a slow decline is the sudden surge right after a dip in a meme coin, specifically targeting those chasing the rally.
Don't touch $IRYS yet🚫. 0.09 looks like a bottom reversal, but it surged from 0.02 to above 0.14 within 24 hours, causing massive short liquidations—a classic short squeeze; with only 20% circulating supply, high control by major holders, the pace is fully dictated by the main force, and chasing late is easy to get cut.
Although $SOL is priced low, funds are withdrawing💸. The 102 support has been broken, and the spot ETF has seen net outflows for more than ten consecutive days; the Alpenglow upgrade is promising, but positive news is easily priced in, and even with a strong ecosystem, without incremental funds, price increases are difficult.
$ZEC's decline is even more deceptive🎭. The drop near 1180 is significant, but funding rates remain positive, shorts are pressing, bulls are holding on, making it more like a downward consolidation rather than a reversal—don't mistake the rebound for a turnaround.
With the FOMC approaching, inflation remains strong, and liquidity pressure persists⚠️. Meme coins are volatile, mainstream coins are bleeding, the safest move now is to step back. Keep your bullets ready and wait for a real bottom before making moves. #10月FOMC临近，美联储暂停加息还有哪些变数？ #AI需求支撑存储市场，芯片股行情反复 #中东原油供应风险再起，油价持续走强 First, looking at BNB, the current price is around $733, down about 1.2% in the last 24 hours. The 750 level has been tested repeatedly for several days but has never held firmly. The $120 million quarterly burn on October 19th superficially looks like a supply contraction benefit, but burning does not equal buying—it merely removes tokens from circulation and does not bring in new buying pressure. The daily RSI is around 45, with momentum not even touching the neutral line. The 680–695 range below is marked by analysts as a potential demand zone, but that is a "possibly someone will buy" area, not a guarantee that it will hold. The problem with BNB is: the positive news has already been priced in, but the price hasn't followed through, and this gap is wearing down bulls' patience. Next, looking at XRP, the current price is around $1.26, down over 4% intraday. It has broken below the key technical level of 1.28—the low point of the October 20th candlestick, which after being broken has turned from support into resistance. More importantly, XRP is now below all four daily moving averages: the 100-day at 1.33, the 20-day at 1.35, and both the 50-day and 200-day near 1.37. The RSI is around 37 and still declining. The 1.25 level below is the bottom of the range over the past ten weeks; if the daily candle closes below it, 1.20 will come into view. Although XRP's ETF saw a net inflow last week, the $4.25 million volume is small compared to beforeOil price at $112 locks in the Fed's last path to "dovish" stance
Look at a number most people overlook.
The Middle East situation remains tense, with oil prices breaking through $112. Brent crude stays above $100, and geopolitical risks continue to push inflation expectations higher.
Think about what this combination means.
Previously, the market was betting on "inflation cooling → Fed stops raising rates → risk assets rebound." But at $112 oil, inflation expectations simply can't be suppressed. Meanwhile, the 10-year US Treasury yield remains above 5%.
When risk-free government bonds give you over 5% interest, and oil prices keep rising, your reason to hold Bitcoin must be very strong.
An analysis on Gate Plaza put it bluntly: "When US Treasuries give you an annualized return of 5.3% to 5.7%, guaranteed by government credit, you need a very strong reason to put your money in BTC." The market now prices about a 64% chance of a 25 basis point rate hike in December at the October 28 FOMC meeting. $BTC $ETH $SOL #10月FOMC临近，美联储暂停加息还有哪些变数？ #AI需求支撑存储市场，芯片股行情反复 #中东原油供应风险再起，油价持续走强 #Robinhood交易业务增长能否延续？ The Q3 earnings report will most likely show a combination of "revenue meeting expectations, structural shift, and slight profit decline." Growth in the trading business has not stopped, but it is no longer a story of "relying on crypto for survival." Whether event contracts can continue to expand amid regulatory headwinds, and whether stock/option trading can smoothly enter Q4 after a strong momentum in September, will be more decisive for the sustainability of growth than the single-quarter revenue figures of Q3. The revenue breakdown of event contracts and the description of regulatory progress in the earnings report on the 28th are two details more worth watching than the overall revenue.After the early session leverage cleanup of $BTC, the market fell into a sideways deadlock with thin profit-making effects, while altcoins showed extreme divergence and speculative coins began to act erratically. IRYS sharply dropped yesterday but strongly rebounded from a low today; however, this is essentially a game controlled by high-stake funds without fundamental support; without early chips, chasing the rebound now easily becomes buying at the top.
Mainstream altcoins weakened simultaneously: $SOL broke key support, technical upgrade benefits were ignored by the market, incremental funds dried up and outflows accelerated; ZEC dropped nearly 5% in a single day, yesterday's resistance illusion was shattered, and high-volatility assets tend to accelerate declines in panic markets.
The core logic is a stock game with a bloodless market. Chasing erratic speculative coins or blindly bottom-fishing weak altcoins is like picking chestnuts from the fire. During the consolidation and washout phase, the biggest profit is not losing: control your hands, keep enough bullets, wait for the market to truly stabilize before moving, and reject emotional operations. #10月FOMC临近，美联储暂停加息还有哪些变数？ Brothers
The current market situation is extremely extreme, with BTC completely monopolizing the traffic. Since the end of 2022, BTC's market cap dominance has continuously soared and remained high. Every time the market pulls back, funds flock to Bitcoin for safe haven, firmly maintaining its market dominance.
In contrast, other tokens in the market are in a bleak situation. ETH's market share has been continuously squeezed and shrunk, leaving only about 10%. Various altcoins are even more neglected, liquidity is dried up, and they can only passively fall without benefiting from market gains.
The most critical hidden signal: the stablecoin market size has doubled significantly, and its share has caught up with Ethereum. This clearly shows that market funds have not left at all! Everyone is just temporarily watching, hoarding stablecoins and lying low within the market.
Currently, altcoins remain sluggish, not because of lack of money, but because funds are waiting for the right opportunity. The incremental ammunition of funds watching in the market has long been fully stocked, just waiting for BTC to finish its consolidation and confirm the overall trend.
Once BTC stabilizes the market, this massive backlog of funds will start a new round of rotation, and altcoins are very likely to see a catch-up rally!
#10月FOMC临近，美联储暂停加息还有哪些变数？ #AI需求支撑存储市场，芯片股行情反复 #中东原油供应风险再起，油价持续走强 $BTC $ETH $IRYS Bitcoin treasury companies have bought 136,000 coins, but this play is getting more expensive
According to Fidelity Digital Assets, since 2025, treasury companies like Strategy and Strive have financed by issuing perpetual preferred shares, purchasing 135,979 bitcoins, totaling about $12 billion.
Many get excited seeing the numbers, thinking institutions are scooping up coins. But the conclusion is premature.
Perpetual preferred shares have no maturity date and look like money that doesn't need to be repaid. However, they require regular dividends, which take priority over common stock dividends. These companies are exchanging fixed costs for floating assets.
When coin prices rise, this acts as an amplifier: stock prices rise, financing becomes easier, more coins are bought, and prices rise again. When prices plateau or fall, the dividend obligation remains, and cash flow pressure continues to accumulate.
What I really focus on is the issuance scale. $12 billion is no small amount, and as the pool continues to expand, two problems arise: preferred share yields must be high enough to attract buyers, increasing financing costs; if one cycle gets stuck, market confidence in the entire treasury model will experience a chain reaction.
So this is not just simple institutional entry, but a leverage structure that is accumulating. It is still in a positive cycle, but its fragility is rising simultaneously.
What to watch is not the coin price, but whether the next round of financing can be successfully issued and what the subscription rate will be.