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The U.S. midterm elections are officially underway. The market has already taken a cautious stance, with BTC dropping nearly 2%. But this is not just a political game; it is a critical juncture that will determine the fate of the crypto space.
📊 【Core Battle: Spending Money to Secure the Path vs. Policy Deadlock】
💰 Capital Effort: The crypto industry is going all out this time, pouring over $200 million in political donations just to push regulatory bills like CLARITY.
🏛️ Control of Congress: The Democrats are very likely to take the House, while the Senate remains uncertain. If a "split Congress" forms, fiscal expansion will be limited, and short-term risk asset expectations will be severely dampened.
📈 【Historical Pattern: Drop First, Then Rise】
Looking back at history, before the 2014, 2018, and 2022 elections, BTC fell by 48%, 37%, and 16% respectively. But in the 12 months following the elections, it rose on average by 53.7%! The pre-election sell-off is often emotional venting, and once the results are in, a recovery rally tends to follow.
🎯 【Trading Strategy: Don’t Be Rigid】
This time, with added interest rate expectations, history can only serve as a reference. Also:
🟠 BTC: Driven by the logic of "fiat distrust + liquidity," the mid-term outlook remains unchanged.
🔵 ETH: More influenced by regulation and ETF funds, extremely sensitive to election outcomes.
#美国中期选举在即，哪些结果值得关注？ The storage sector is not falling because of earnings
Seagate dropped 7.88% in one day, Western Digital 7.52%, SanDisk 6.59%, Micron 5.78%; the entire storage line is almost completely down. The most awkward is SanDisk, which beat earnings expectations but was still sold off.
The trigger was in Japan: Kioxia gave a guidance below expectations, and the market immediately started to doubt whether AI's demand for storage is weakening. Micron has retraced over 20% in a month, but its last earnings report was record-breaking, with revenue nearly quadrupling year-over-year. The better the earnings, the more the stock price fears it; this is the most counterintuitive aspect of cyclical stocks.
Morgan Stanley put it more directly: storage stocks often peak before the profit peak because the market tends to extrapolate current high profits into the future, so when the market is at its best, valuations actually look cheapest. The net profit upgrade rate has already dropped from a peak of 92% to 77%, indicating weakening momentum.
So I don't look at "how much it has fallen" to buy in; I look at whether earnings upgrades can accelerate again. Before that, any rebound is most likely a correction, not a reversal.
Just my personal speculation, not investment advice. The list of crashes can't hide $BTC's long-term curve: it's the exchanges that collapse, not the network
Looking at the candlesticks since 2013, major hacks and crashes almost always occur at critical points: when Mt. Gox was hacked in 2014, BTC was only a few hundred dollars; Bitfinex was hacked in 2016; Coincheck and Binance had incidents in 2018, right at the $19,000 all-time high; FTX collapsed in 2022; Bybit was hacked in 2025 again at the $126,000 high; and CoinEx lost $6.3 billion in 2026. The nodes are dense, and so is the panic.
But the pattern is clear: each event triggers a sharp drop, and sentiment almost feels like a death sentence, yet looking long-term, none of these events have truly stopped BTC from reaching new highs. Mt. Gox lost 850,000 BTC and the exchange went bankrupt, but BTC still reached $19,000, $69,000, and $126,000 afterward; FTX pushed the crypto market down to $15,500, which ironically became the starting point for an eightfold rally later.
The root cause is that the risk is concentrated in custody and exchanges, not in the BTC protocol itself. The decentralized network continues to produce blocks as usual, consensus remains intact, and if one platform fails, you can switch to another; assets remain on-chain. So crashes impact trust and liquidity, not the underlying ledger.
But don't mistake this long-term pattern as a short-term buy signal; every deep pit after an event is painful #美国中期选举在即，哪些结果值得关注？ #苹果新CEO迎来iPhone18首份成绩单 #Palantir财报前瞻：高增长能否支撑高估值 $SOPH SOPH's chart is interesting. The bears are losing interest every day, and their positions keep climbing, yet the coin price has surged more than 20 points straight up from the bottom. Low market cap small coins naturally have light selling pressure, and the main players have quietly grabbed all the chips at the bottom. The bears are stubbornly holding on here, paying rent to the bulls. Unless these guys get crushed to the ground next, this won't settle anytime soon.
#SOPH
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👇$SOPH The SOPH that is about to be delisted is instead being heavily accumulated by the whales.
Looking at the on-chain data, the top holder has been stubbornly holding nearly 24% of the chips at a low position.
With the delisting countdown hanging overhead, the whales are more anxious than anyone.
Holding so much inventory but unable to dump it, to attract retail investors to take over, they can only violently push the price up with bullish candles.
This kind of institutional self-rescue rally is often the wildest, with chips highly concentrated; it all depends on which day they suddenly launch.
#SOPH
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👇Will CORE go to zero? Three signals tell you: the chain is alive, but the coin is already "substantially dead"
As of November 3, 2026, CORE is priced around $0.012–0.014, down about 19%–27% in the past 7 days, about 37%–44% in the past 30 days, and has retraced over 99% from its all-time high. The chain is still alive. The Core mainnet is still producing blocks, with about 12.94 million on-chain transactions in the past 30 days, ranking first among BTCFi public chains; DappRadar shows a 25% increase in active wallets, and 5 DApps have over 500,000 monthly active users; BitGo has integrated dual staking, and the London Stock Exchange ETP product has also launched. Signal one: liquidity exhaustion. The 24-hour trading volume is only about $3.67 million, and large sell orders can trigger a waterfall. Signal two: imbalance between inflation and buybacks. The total supply is 2.1 billion, with a circulation rate of about 48%. Node mining rewards decay by 3.61% annually and will continue to be released for 81 years; although the economic rules were revised in June 2026 to allocate all real BTCFi business revenue to buybacks and burns, the current buyback strength is far from enough to offset unlocked selling pressure. Signal three: trust repeatedly damaged. In September, an emergency hard fork was triggered due to a reward loophole, and five major exchanges including Coinbase simultaneously suspended deposits and withdrawals. The abnormal tokens were not recovered, leaving potential selling pressure unresolved. The probability of going to zero is low, but a prolonged decline is highly likely. The team is still advancing projects like SatPay and lstBTC, and there is a lack of triggering conditions for a complete zeroing out. $SOPH withdrawal channel will be shut down on November 25, yet some people are still going crazy watching the bullish candles.
Look at the market, the top 10 addresses hold 90.58% of the tokens, such high concentration is basically closing the door to beat the dog.
The small pump these days is nothing but the dog whales using the last bit of liquidity to dump and lure buyers.
The chain is about to shut down, the current rally is purely a dead cat bounce, whoever rushes in will be left behind to guard the project's grave.
#SOPH
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👇People borrowing money to go long outnumber those borrowing to go short by 22 times.
$BTC long borrowing is 1507.55 coins, while short borrowing is only 68.89 coins.
$SOL is even more extreme, with 129,900 coins borrowed for long and 3,148 coins for short.
How is this calculated:
Borrowing coins to go long means using borrowed money with leverage to buy.
Borrowing coins to go short means borrowing to sell and wait for a price drop.
Dividing the two sides gives 22 times and 41 times respectively.
Where does this money come from:
A one-sided long position indicates everyone who should enter has entered.
With no new buying support behind, once the price shows any sign of weakness,
the first to run are these borrowers.
Those holding long-term don’t need to shift positions.
This crowding effect is a washout of leverage, not spot holdings.
#BTC持续承压，资金与市场走势出现分歧
#$BTC $SOL The $HYPE project team spent $67 million on buybacks in a single month, yet the HYPE price still stubbornly dropped by 22%.
People think buybacks protect retail investors, but actually, they provide liquidity to institutions.
Whales are crazily offloading along with the support funds.
The buying power has long been drained; entering now is purely backing the institutions.
#HYPE
$HYPE
👇Latest "Whale" 50 Million Position Insight: Not Betting on Direction, but on Funding Rates? 🧐
Core Position Breakdown
BTC Longs: Buffer Cushion 🛡️
200 BTC longs with 20x leverage, floating profit about 120,000 U, still steadily collecting 80,000 U in funding fees. The directional position acts more like a "cash flow moat," first providing a safety cushion for the portfolio.
SOL Shorts: Left-Side Resistance 😮💨
30,000 SOL shorts with 30x leverage, floating loss about 1.5 million U. The logic is to wait for the hype to fade, but the position is already trapped, relying on BTC and funding income to hold on—a typical example of high leverage getting stuck.
Popular Altcoin Longs: Funding Fee Rent Machine 🤑
Floating loss of 3 million U but still not cutting because it collects 900,000 U in funding fees daily. The profit is not from price difference but from long-side funding cash flow; as long as it doesn't liquidate, it uses interest to grind down losses.
Notes 📒
The entire portfolio is not a reckless all-in but a cash flow puzzle of "profits covering losses." Beware of high funding rate coins: the principal you chase in longs might be turning into someone else's interest. Retail investors should not blindly copy high leverage; first understand who is collecting the funding fees.tomorrow
Here is Bitcoin's performance after the last 3 midterm elections:
2014: dropped 48% within 71 days → about $40,500
2018: dropped 51% within 39 days → about $38,400
2022: dropped 15% within 13 days → about $66,300
These lows were bear market bottoms, then one year after the election: +24% / +45% / +92%$BTC Last time Bybit was hacked for hundreds of millions of dollars, Bitcoin actually didn't drop much that day, but in the following period, Bitcoin and Ethereum started a big decline.
This time Binance was hacked for tens of billions of dollars, and Bitcoin also didn't drop much that day. Many in the community think this is a bad news that doesn't cause a drop, and that a positive event later could cause a strong rally. I don't think so; I believe it will be similar to the Bybit situation—no drop at first, then a sharp decline later.
The crypto space is already quiet now, and the industry losing tens of billions of dollars is real money. With so much being drained, how could the crypto world just ignore it? I am bearish anyway; I now have a clear concept of money. Bitcoin and Ethereum have such high market caps, but to actually cash out, you'd have to take a big discount.
Market cap and actual cash that can be realized are two different things. Tens of billions of dollars is a lot of money for the current crypto space. I will keep waiting for Bitcoin to drop; I won't get on board until it reaches the strike zone. Absolutely no FOMO, no chasing highs; there are plenty of opportunities, but principal is rare. Money can be made endlessly, but losses can be final.$ETH has climbed back above $2300, but the capital flow has not simultaneously improved, so the quality of the rebound still needs to be observed. The price returning above the threshold is more of a short-term correction and is not enough to confirm a sentiment reversal.
The US Ethereum spot ETF has seen net outflows for five consecutive trading days, with about $155.7 million withdrawn on October 30 alone; from October 26 to 30, the cumulative net outflow reached $431.4 million. The continuous withdrawal of spot funds indicates that allocation positions remain cautious in the short term. Meanwhile, about 43.8 million ETH are staked, accounting for approximately 35.9% of the circulating supply. A large amount of chips are locked up, but this has not prevented the recent price decline, showing that locked tokens do not equal buying pressure.
Technically, ETH needs to first stabilize above $2300 in the short term to have a chance to improve market sentiment; if it falls back below $2200, the rebound space may continue to be limited. Compared to $BTC, ETH currently lacks sustained spot buying rather than short-term impulses.
In terms of trading, it is not advisable to directly treat standing above the threshold as a reversal. The focus should be on tracking whether ETF net outflows narrow, whether trading above $2300 can continue, and the quality of defense around $2200. It is more prudent to raise expectations after spot funds turn to sustained inflows. #ETH冲高2700美元，质押与资金面现分化 The main pricing theme in the past 24 hours is "Iran-US negotiations easing to remove war premium + China's market stabilization tools effectively implemented + US stock AI pullback and earnings divergence": Iran's Supreme Leader authorized negotiations, draft agreement circulated, oil prices plunged about 7%–8% in a single day, gold rebounded over 2%; the central bank and securities regulatory commission held two symposiums on the same day, the third swap facility operation started today, repos increased, re-lending converted to long-term and interest rate cut to 1%; US stocks closed mixed, Nasdaq down 1.07%, chip stocks continued to fall, Apple and Palantir both exceeded expectations in after-hours earnings but failed to change doubts about AI returns. Today's verification points are the US midterm election voting, the third swap facility operation, and Binance's full reserve proof report.There's something I've never quite understood. On November 1st, 7,934 extra XRP wallets appeared, which sounds pretty lively, but the price still stayed at $1.25, completely unmoved.
It's like suddenly over seven thousand households moved into a neighborhood, yet the downstairs market didn't raise prices. People came, but the money didn't; the stalls just waited there.
So now, whenever I see phrases like "new addresses hit the sixth highest annual record," my first reaction is: are these new account openings, or just people creating multiple small accounts? Those opening accounts will eventually buy groceries; those making small accounts just take pictures and leave. For this XRP wave, I'll just watch the excitement and won't rush to call it a "bullish" sign.Let's first lay out the facts: On November 1st, 7,934 new XRP wallets were created in a single day, marking the sixth highest daily increase in 2026. On the same day, the price hovered around $1.25 with almost no movement.
This number itself is not small. Out of over 300 days in 2026, only five days saw more new wallets than this. Nearly eight thousand new addresses in one day is indeed newsworthy.
However, wallet count and buying pressure are two different things. A new address could be a recipient of a transfer, a consolidation address for bulk withdrawals from exchanges, or part of a pre-arranged list for some event. What truly determines the price is whether anyone among these addresses is placing real buy orders with actual money. If all 7,934 addresses were accumulating positions, the order book should have reacted first; since it didn't, it means the money is still waiting at the door.
Therefore, $1.25 is currently an observation point, not a buying opportunity. The increase in addresses offers the "possibility that someone might buy later," not evidence that "someone is buying now." The confirmation signal should be the price moving away from $1.25 with increased volume, not just a continued rise in address count.
Looking at it from another angle, the trajectory of these addresses will split into two completely opposite outcomes: if they belong to long-term holders distributing their positions, then $1.25 is the cost they are willing to accept; if they are short-term traders speculating on expectations, then these over seven thousand addresses will eventually turn into selling pressure. The same number, two different outcomes, the difference lies in when they act.
What’s worth watching next for $XRP is not the daily new addresses, but how many of these addresses remain after a week. Retention rate is more honest than incremental growth."Uptober" surprisingly fell by 7.3%, with Bitcoin grinding everyone's seasonal faith into the ground. Guess what caused this drop—was it news hitting the market, or leverage stepping on itself? When I saw this data, I was a bit stunned. Not because the drop was extreme, but because it happened in October, a "must-rise month" that has been talked about for too long. Markus Levin, co-founder of XYO, mentioned a point I strongly agree with: traders might have bought October's market in advance as early as September. This makes sense when viewed through the lens of derivatives structure. What’s really worth watching isn’t the drop itself, but how this 7.3% drop happened. If long positions were already crowded before October, funding rates pushed high, and call options piled up at strike prices, then this drop looks more like a leverage liquidation rather than a narrative collapse. The spot market might not have been hit that hard; the futures market sneezed first. In such times, prices can fall fast and rebound quickly, but the process is definitely uncomfortable. The bullish scenario is: after crowded positions are cleared, perpetual contract open interest falls, funding rates return to neutral, which actually clears space for the market to move forward. Once spot buying holds up, price elasticity will be cleaner than before, and altcoins will dare to test the market again. Risk appetite hasn’t disappeared; it’s just forced to pull back first before deciding which way to go. The potential risk is obvious too. After the October label is slapped down, some people will directly delete the "seasonal bullish" expectation, shifting sentiment from anticipation to watchfulness. If the derivatives side continues to see short chasing plusTalking about funding fees diluting costs, but it only covers 9.2%.
BTC long 40X｜307.15 79923.7 -897,700 -503,000 Liquidation 55305.48 ETH short 25X｜11,600 2211.55 -540,000 +124,700 Liquidation 2816.81 SOL short 20X｜78,000 85.6205 -515,800 +105,500 Liquidation 174.57 Total position 92,892,900, all losing 1,953,500. Net funding fee income 179,900, only covering 9.21%. BTC is still paying out 503,000. Liquidation prices are far off, so no short-term death. Remaining 1,773,600 to bear myself. The ballast stone is leaking oil first. Hedging doesn't mean no loss, it means losing slower. #AMD财报前瞻：HeliosAI system commercialization progress Conclusion: Q3 numbers are very likely to "meet expectations," with the real variables in the second half of the earnings call. Su Zifeng's previous guidance of "more than doubling" data center revenue by 2027 is the core anchor for the current valuation; this quarter, what needs to be verified is not whether the 13 billion revenue can be realized, but whether the visibility of Helios orders continues to expand beyond the "leading initial forecast" (Anthropic 2GW, Oracle 50,000 MI450 units, deployment pace of Meta and Microsoft), and whether the 56% gross margin has already hit a phased bottom. If management can provide quantitative clues on Helios shipments in the Q4 guidance while not weakening the 2027 doubling target, the post-earnings direction is very likely upward; otherwise, even if Q3 exceeds by one or two hundred million dollars, the market may repeat the previous scenario of "best earnings report leading to a crash."$BTC
The collateral gap on Liquid has reportedly shrunk to 250 BTC. Blockstream transferred another 300 BTC to the federation wallet.
Usually, no one pays attention to this kind of thing. I watched for a few minutes and found it more interesting than the market itself—the gap is closing, which means someone is really covering the hole, not just waiting for it to fix itself.
Looking at BTC now. 76748, 24-hour low 76700. A difference of 48.
The strange thing is here. The price hovered around the daily low all night, but the open interest moved in the opposite direction—from 2.57 billion 4 hours ago to 2.605 billion now, with the funding rate still stuck at +0.01%, not moving negative at all.
The leveraged shorts weren’t scared off, and the longs didn’t give up either. Both sides are waiting for the other to let go first.
My judgment is simple: if 76700 really breaks, the key is not how much it falls, but whether open interest decreases or continues to increase. If it decreases, it’s a stop-loss acceptance; if it increases, it’s a new round of bets.
Right now, this 48-dollar gap is worth more than any prediction.
#美国中期选举在即，哪些结果值得关注？ $BTC rebound, don't rush to call a reversal
BTC has risen from a low of $76,348 to around $78,000, an increase of about 2%, with support temporarily holding near 76,500. However, the $80,000 level has not yet been reclaimed; this move still counts as a rebound within a correction window, and the trend conditions have not been established.
Next, we look at two validations: first, the quality of support before the $80,000 level; second, the policy path after the midterm elections.
More crucial is the identity of the buyers. Is it spot allocation, ETF inflows, or a combination of short covering and short-term bottom fishing? Current data is cautious: net outflows still dominate before and after the US spot Bitcoin ETF event, Coinbase premium index remains negative, and there is insufficient evidence of systematic strengthening of US buying.
Previously, leveraged long positions were concentratedly liquidated, short crowding increased, and after price stabilization, short covering was triggered. This can fuel a rebound but is tactical support, not incremental allocation capital entering the market. Weekend trading is naturally thin; sustainability needs to be verified after the US stock market opens on Monday and liquidity returns.
If ETF flows and stablecoin channels do not improve synchronously, buying near 78,000 is more likely short-term funds rather than institutional systematic inflows. The rebound has started, but whether it can upgrade to a trend still depends on the two gates of support and policy. #美国中期选举在即，哪些结果值得关注？ #苹果新CEO迎来iPhone18首份成绩单 #Palantir财报前瞻：高增长能否支撑高估值 The market is heading into NFP with very little room for complacency.
BTC is holding around a critical support zone, but the distance between current price and the $80K MA20 resistance tells you how much work bulls still have ahead. ETH, meanwhile, continues to struggle for independent momentum.
The bigger issue is positioning. With rate hike expectations elevated and traders waiting for fresh labour data, both sides are vulnerable to sudden liquidity sweeps.$BTC I told you, old Elon @elonmusk is always running errands for the King of Know-It-All, he should at least get a get-out-of-jail-free card.
When the King of Know-It-All was on the podcast Pod Force One, he said that if the Democrats take Congress in Tuesday's US midterm elections, he would immediately grant pardons to Musk and White House staff: "I wouldn't even have to think about it, just do it."
Saying this the day before the election basically means he expects to lose.
On Polymarket, the probability of Democrats taking the House is already at 95%, and over 70% for the Senate.
But the King of Know-It-All is a pro when it comes to pardons.$ZEC Update Day 15: Only 3% Left to the Liquidation Line
Yesterday the post still showed an unrealized loss of $390,000, but this morning it has turned into an unrealized loss of $2,350,000. $ZEC has dropped from yesterday's high of $1,284 down to around $1,151 now, a 24-hour drop of about 5.5%.
Based on the position opened on October 20: the cross margin position of 15,000 coins has an unrealized loss of about $990,000, the isolated margin position of 14,800 coins has an unrealized loss of about $1,360,000, totaling an unrealized loss of about $2,350,000. This is a full retracement of about $5,900,000 from the peak unrealized profit of $3,550,000 on the 11th.
More critically, the isolated margin liquidation price is about $1,120, and the current price is less than 3% above it. The last time it approached 6%, the post hit a series high of 22,200; this time it has gone straight down to 3%.
Assuming the position has not changed since opening, actual position changes have not yet been confirmed. The NU7 upgrade is imminent (around November 5), and the position, liquidation, and upgrade lines are converging at the same point.BTC closed October at 77,430, "Uptober" absent! Is PlanB's RSI bull market theory reliable?🤔
Today's news is quite interesting: BTC closed October at 77,430, no "Uptober" celebration, but PlanB claims a bull market with "RSI above 50 for 3 consecutive months." Let's objectively review:
1️⃣ RSI staying above 50 long-term only shows bulls haven't withdrawn yet, but doesn't mean they can push higher. Price failing to break previous highs looks more like stagnation after an "endurance test," not a bull market charge.📉
2️⃣ No Uptober already reveals macro funds are on the sidelines. Liquidity hasn't entered on a large scale; relying on sentiment to pull up is unstable.💧
3️⃣ Retail investors shouldn't be led by a single indicator. When the market moves sideways, altcoins bleed first; in a zero-sum game, the louder the calls, the more likely they're looking for liquidity to take the risk.⚠️
My view: A bull market isn't declared by indicators, it's bought with real money. Before a volume breakout of key resistance, hold back and don't mistake a "fake bull" for a real bull market.🧊
Do you think we can still see a big bull this year? How high does it have to go to count as a bull?🐂🚀Dollar-cost averaging in batches and options arbitrage are the main themes of the recent market 🎼The latest long position lending volume is out. I've done the math for my brothers; the overall market sentiment is highly unified bullish, and the crowding level is maxed out. A warning must be sounded here.
Let's look at the data: BTC long borrowings are 1507.55 coins, shorts only borrowed 68.89 coins, with a long-to-short lending ratio close to 22 times; ETH longs borrowed 16,400 coins, shorts 766.95 coins, also about 21 times; SOL is the most extreme, longs borrowed 129,900 coins, shorts only 3,148 coins, with a long-to-short ratio soaring to 41 times.
What does lending volume mean? It represents the scale of retail investors willing to borrow coins to leverage long positions. This number is tens of times that of shorts, indicating almost everyone is borrowing to go long, and no one is willing to short.
I've been trading for fifteen years and want to share a golden rule with my brothers: when the entire market sentiment is extremely unified and longs are crowded to the extreme, the market often fails to sustain a smooth upward trend. Instead, it tends to experience an emotional shakeout that flushes out clustered long positions. The reason is simple: longs are maxed out, and without new buying support, any slight disturbance triggers concentrated stop-loss cascades.
Coincidentally, the non-farm payrolls report is coming on November 6, and the expectations for a rate hike in December will be repriced. This sensitive timing combined with high crowding means short-term volatility won't be small.
Don't heavily chase longs when sentiment is most unanimous; wait until the shakeout is over.
#美国中期选举在即，哪些结果值得关注？ $BTC $ETH $SOL There's something quite counterintuitive: the pressure on $BTC right now isn't from big players dumping, but from a probability table. CME has priced in a 74.9% chance of a 25 basis point rate hike in December, with only a 25.1% chance of no change. In other words, the market has already accepted the hike; the discussion is just about how many times it will happen.
My current feeling is that the drop isn't severe, but every rebound feels like hitting a ceiling, especially for $ETH and $SOL. It's not that there are no positives, but the air above has become more expensive.
So at times like this, don't rush to guess the bottom; first watch the December move land, since that 74.9% is already priced in.Let's first look at a number: CME FedWatch shows a 74.9% probability of a 25 basis point rate hike in December, with only a 25.1% chance of no change. The market has already taken "action in December" as the default scenario.
Looking one month further ahead, the picture gets more interesting. By January next year, the probability of maintaining the current rate drops to just 18.2%, the probability of a cumulative 25 basis point hike is 61.2%, and the probability of a cumulative 50 basis point hike is 20.7%. Almost all three scenarios bet on rate hikes, with the only disagreement being whether it will be one or two hikes.
The mechanism is not complicated. Interest rates are the gravitational pull for risk assets. As rate hike expectations heat up, the valuation denominator for cash-flow-free assets like $BTC is raised, forcing capital to recalculate holding costs. So what’s pressing down prices isn’t a big player selling off, but every holder adjusting their discount rate.
This also explains the recent market behavior: prices fall slowly but rise with more difficulty. The rebounds of $ETH and $SOL are weaker each time—not because the story is over, but because each step up requires paying more funding cost.
Judging from this, before the December meeting, it’s likely a bottoming process rather than a trend market; the direction will only emerge after the 25 basis point hike is implemented and the 61.2% probability for January is repriced.
One point worth pondering: when 74.9% is already consensus, what hurts is often not the rate hike itself, but the realization on the day it happens that there is a second act to the script.Apple's earnings report is positive! But why did the stock price instantly drop 10%?
Honestly, this Apple earnings report is a typical case of "looking good on the surface but under pressure inside." The current revenue of $114.48 billion and profits both exceeded expectations, and the market cap has returned to $5 trillion, the data looks very impressive. But if you are going to put real money into action, you need to look at the hidden currents beneath the surface.
Based on this fundamental situation, if you want to trade Apple, my personal approach is to proceed in three steps:
First, don’t get carried away in the short term; it’s suitable to reduce some positions when the price surges. Earnings beats often come with emotional rallies, but memory costs have risen "unprecedentedly," storage cost ratios have doubled, and the December quarter faces severe supply shortages—these are swords hanging overhead.
Second, wait for a "mistake-driven" opportunity in the mid-term. The December quarter is the most pressured period; memory price hikes have genuinely eaten into profits. Oppenheimer has already warned that profit margins will be impacted by 150 basis points. If the stock price is hammered down to the $300 to $310 range due to margin pressure, that’s a good position to build a position gradually.
Third, focus long-term on AI hardware. What can truly take Apple to the next level is a long-term play—ignore short-term cost noise and focus on the rollout progress of the new Siri. The core holding for the post-iPhone era must be held firmly. #苹果新CEO迎来iPhone18首份成绩单 $AAPL $BTC ETF: IBIT "Solo Show".
Last week, BTC inflows were supported by BlackRock, with a single week increase of 676 million, while others like FBTC and ARKB were selling. On the 22nd, there was an instant reversal with a full-day outflow of 635 million.
ETH has had outflows for four consecutive weeks, totaling over 1.2 billion for the month.
Coinbase premium at -0.1259% (negative for 33 consecutive days), US buy-side is weak.$BTC: The illusion of a "mismatch".
Breaking it down: +526 million on the 19th, +528 million on the 21st, -635 million on the 22nd — three days of fishing, two days of drying nets. Weekly net inflow of 304 million (SoSoValue).
ETH has seen outflows for four consecutive weeks, with last week at -220 million, showing persistent weakness.
Coinbase premium has been negative for 33 straight days, indicating heavy selling pressure in the US market.
This is short-term arbitrage, not long-term allocation. Veterans watch the show, don’t chase the highs.$BTC ETF: October "roller coaster".
4.4 billion inflow the week before last, but the last week was countered by a massive 30-day outflow, leaving a long upper shadow on the monthly chart. ETH has had outflows for five consecutive weeks, with a monthly outflow of 1.61 billion, 90% of which is ETHA.
Coinbase premium has been negative for 38 consecutive days, with no spot buying in the US.
Funds are running away, not coming in. Veteran conclusion: the rebound is an opportunity to reduce positions, don't get attached to the fight. $BTC: Premium "distortion".
ETF data fluctuated greatly, +526 million on Monday, -635 million on Thursday, a typical high sell and low buy.
ETH has been sold off for four consecutive weeks, with a cumulative outflow of over 1.2 billion in October, and spot support is very weak.
Coinbase premium -0.1259%, negative for 33 consecutive days, US capital has not exerted any effort at all.$ETH ETF: Institutions "vote with their feet."
Four consecutive weeks of net outflows, -225 million in a single week, totaling over 1.2 billion running off since the end of September. BlackRock's ETHA has been bleeding almost the entire time.
BTC barely saved by IBIT alone, with weekly inflows of 304 million, but on the 22nd, a single day saw a sell-off of 635 million.
Coinbase negative premium for 33 consecutive days, showing weakness in US buying demand.
This is a structural divergence of strength and weakness, not a broad bull market. Veteran strategy: focus only on BTC, avoid ETH. $BTC ETF: A "arbitrage game".
Breaking down last week: 5.266 billion on the 20th, 2.316 billion on the 21st, 1.08 billion over three days; -635.49 million on the 22nd, a sudden reversal. Weekly net inflow of 443 million (SoSoValue standard).
ETH outflows for four consecutive weeks, -225 million last week, over -1.2 billion in October.
Coinbase premium -0.1259% (negative for 33 consecutive days), US spot buying is really weak.
This is not a long-term allocation, but short-term rebound quick money. Spot veterans only watch and don’t touch: no chasing. #US stocks and gold and silver plummet simultaneously, safe-haven funds diverge
Brothers, last night's market was too abnormal. Tech stocks crashed, gold fell below 3900, silver plunged heavily, and both safe-haven and risk assets were smashed together. Traditional logic is completely shattered.
Why? Because institutions are short on cash! The stock market crash triggered margin calls, forcing institutions to sell the most liquid gold to exchange for dollars to cover the gaps. Where did the money go? It all fled into interest-bearing short-term debt. This is a typical "liquidate to survive" scenario. Between non-interest-bearing gold and the highly volatile crypto market, funds chose to cash out and secure profits.
BTC linkage: Bitcoin was also used as an ATM, currently around 77,900, hammered down to about 77,500. $BTC $ETH $SOL 420,000 ETH on the edge: Who will absorb this wave of selling pressure? (・ω・)ノ
A top exchange was hacked for about $6 billion, with roughly two to three billion actually reaching the hackers, most of which have been frozen. The core assets involved are BTC and ETH: BTC lacks smart contracts and has difficulty with coin mixing; ETH has many on-chain mixers and anonymity tools, making laundering paths smoother (￣▽￣). Therefore, in the coming days to weeks, the market may face massive selling pressure.
Some estimate that the ETH stolen by hackers plus the ETH obtained by exchanging altcoins totals around 400,000 to 500,000 coins, with the 420,000 mentioned in the headline being just a fraction (｡•́︿•̀｡). Strangely, the market hasn't dropped much before. The explanation is: the largest exchange replenished coins to meet withdrawal demands, creating buy orders; now that replenishment is nearly complete and ETH hasn't risen significantly, it suggests they may not have been buying from the market but rather conducting large off-market deals.
The logic changes next: hackers want to cash out, mainly through the market, and since the stolen funds don't need to worry about price, they may keep selling continuously (╯﹏╰). So, bears believe ETH will fall below 2000, and shorting now feels like "picking up money."
But don't forget, freezing, off-market transactions, and law enforcement recovery efforts could all alter the pace. This article only compiles viewpoints and does not constitute investment advice (・ω・)ノPalantir (PLTR) has a very impressive earnings report this time, with revenue soaring, U.S. commercial business surpassing government business for the first time, and an upward revision of the full-year target. The AI implementation results are quite good.
However, the downside is that the growth rate of new orders is not keeping up, the valuation was already very high, and market expectations are fully priced in. So even if the performance beats expectations, the funds are not convinced.
#Palantir财报前瞻：高增长能否支撑高估值 Chain stopped, coins still exist: Two "life extension" approaches of $LSK and G
The blockchain shuts down, but the tokens do not disappear. The reason is not a technical miracle, but that the project team gave it a "next stop." However, whether anyone boards at the next stop is the key.
LSK is taking a business transformation route. The original Lisk Chain was scheduled to shut down on October 31, shifting focus to enterprise financial software; 100 million LSK have been burned, reducing total supply from 400 million to 300 million. The token is arranged as a loyalty incentive for the new platform, while fee payments remain in the "future plans." So, burning tokens is a done deal, but payment scenarios have yet to be realized. Next, watch three things: whether enterprises truly pay, whether rewards continue to be issued, and whether token demand can be supported by the business.
G is undergoing a network migration. The old Gravity Alpha mainnet will permanently shut down on November 1, with the new Gravity L1 already online. The old bridge and staking entry have closed early, and assets on the old chain may even be impossible to transfer out. This is not a delisting of the G token, but a change of the underlying chain. After migration, whether the new chain can bring real applications, transactions, and fees is the new test for token value; migration losses cannot be ignored.
The two are similar in form but different in essence: LSK tests commercial landing, G tests public chain activity. The certainty of the old chain's exit does not equal that new value has been realized. #美国中期选举在即，哪些结果值得关注？ #苹果新CEO迎来iPhone18首份成绩单 #Palantir财报前瞻：高增长能否支撑高估值 Another “concept pilot”? This time, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is directly putting registration, transfer, and governance on-chain.
The NYSE will collaborate with Broadridge Financial Solutions to provide on-chain governance and digital transfer agency services for its planned tokenized securities trading platform, covering shareholder registry management, shareholding verification, and on-chain voting. The key point is that this is not just another concept pilot; it directly moves exchange-level market infrastructure—registration, transfer, governance—onto the blockchain. With NYSE’s endorsement and Broadridge’s role as a mainstream transfer agent in the U.S., this fills the most critical gap for tokenized securities: the legal mapping of shareholding and voting rights.
The direction is mostly positive, but the benefits favor the narrative around RWA and tokenized securities, not any specific token. Projects working on equity tokens and RWA infrastructure thus gain stronger real-world use cases, contrasting with the path where ICE/OKX have been collectively boycotted by dozens of listed companies—one path blocked by issuers, the other led by exchanges.
In the short term, such news tends to affect sector sentiment more than immediate prices. The risk of chasing highs lies in the fact that the implementation pace and regulatory stance are not yet finalized.
Scenario one: related RWA targets show trading volume with capital support for the narrative; scenario two: volume remains stagnant, only narrative rotation occurs. Which do you lean towards?
Source: Wu Shuo The story of AI is still being told, but the capital markets have already started to settle the accounts! 🚨
Meta's credit outlook has been downgraded to negative by S&P, not because AI lacks prospects, but because the investment is too aggressive and returns are too slow to materialize. AI capital expenditures are expected to reach $135 billion to $145 billion by 2026, and cash flow pressure is already emerging.
Looking at the crypto space, BTC (the big brother) is around $78,248, ETH (the slightly slower aristocrat) about $2,300, and SOL about $94.78. The big brother and ETH have slightly rebounded, but SOL is still lagging behind; market risk appetite has not truly recovered.
What worries me more is not the AI bubble, but that once high-valued assets face credit contraction, funds may collectively hit the brakes.
Breakouts depend on volume, pullbacks depend on support. Don’t rush to FOMO now; first see if the funds are willing to come back!
Personal market record sharing, not investment advice.
$BTC $ETH $SOL
#Meta信用展望转负，AI投资信用风险受关注 Today is November 3rd, the official voting day for the U.S. midterm elections, which is the biggest event impacting the crypto space this month. Brothers, keep a close eye on it.
The Democrats are very likely to take the House of Representatives this time, but the Senate outcome is still uncertain. On the market prediction platform Polymarket, the probability of Democrats winning both chambers has been steadily rising. Why does this matter to the crypto world? Because the crypto industry has poured $206 million in political donations this time to push for crypto regulatory bills like CLARITY. Which party controls Congress directly determines whether crypto legislation next year will be loose or tight.
Looking at historical patterns: before the midterms in 2014, 2018, and 2022, BTC dropped by 48%, 37%, and 16% respectively; but in the 12 months after the elections, BTC rose on average by 53.7%.
In other words, the pre-election drop is often just emotional venting, and once the results are in, a recovery is more likely. But don’t be rigid—this time, with interest rate hike expectations layered in, history can only serve as a reference.
#美国中期选举在即，哪些结果值得关注？ $BTC $ETH $SOL The move after the market close on November 3rd hasn't been made yet; the real game has already reached the 20th move on the data center chessboard.
Let's clarify the situation first: Q2 data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year, 107% didn't come out of nowhere. It was a pawn sacrifice opening—a deliberate short-term profit margin sacrifice by management to gain control of the center squares and absolute first-mover advantage in capacity. The Instinct chip is like a minor piece—knights and bishops—agile, replaceable, and easily countered by price wars; the Helios cabinet-level system is the rook and queen combination—once placed on the open file, the threat is not just one square but the entire vertical line. Single-card computing power is tactical; full cabinet delivery is strategic. The valuation weight of these two is not even in the same league.
But the grandmaster's first rule: don't declare the endgame won just because you captured an extra pawn in the opening. Cloud providers' deployment needs are not "orders" but responses from the opponent; whether these convert into real revenue depends on the conversion rate of variations, not the rhetoric at the press conference. The market has already priced in the optimistic variations of Q3, which is equivalent to the opponent publicly revealing their king's wing attack plan—chasing now is like raising bets on a line that has already been calculated.
The real risk is not on the demand side but in the delivery rhythm. If the supply chain lags even half a step, losing just one tempo, the cabinet ramp-up will turn from a passed pawn into a hanging pawn: looking imposing but actually vulnerable to capture at any moment. I am watching three coordinates—the ramp-up slope of cabinet mass production and whether it synchronizes with cloud providers' capital expenditure cycles; whether full cabinet delivery will dilute the data center's high gross margin into low-quality scale; and the wording in the guidance. Wording is the first move; whoever controls the wording defines the midgame of the next quarter.
Now about that tokenized US stock target. It's a compressed small chessboard: the night session is shallow, and market makers are like opponents in time trouble in the endgame—one squeeze can triple the volatility. It doesn't reflect the parent company's value but the immediate discount rate of the "expectation gap." Instead of watching it, watch the parent game behind it; to watch the parent game, you have to see whether the cabinets have truly landed.
In the midgame, the most valuable thing is never courage but calculation depth. The move after the market close on November 3rd only answers one question for the opponent—did you calculate to the 20th move, or are you just counting the pawns in front of you? #amdq3heliosrevenue Looking at BTC from a historical cycle perspective:
The 2013 peak bottomed in January 2015, taking 13.5 months
The 2017 peak bottomed in December 2018, taking 12 months
The 2021 peak bottomed in November 2022, taking 12.5 months
If this cycle:
BTC's highest point is the peak in November 2025
Then according to historical patterns:
The real bear market bottom will most likely fall between November and December 2026
So, is it time to buy the dip? An increase in issuance volume does not equal the safe completion of the building structure. The circulation of USDC is expanding the balance sheet, like pouring layer upon layer of floor slabs upward—but you first need to see what is buried in the foundation. Circle's reserve asset structure is this foundation; the ratio of short-term Treasury bonds to cash deposits determines how many levels of earthquake the entire building can withstand. Reserve income is the load-bearing wall; if it's thin, the whole building will collapse; distribution costs are hidden columns, concealed within the walls but determining how high the floors can be built. Payment network expansion is the embedded mechanical and electrical system—if the pipelines run smoothly, elevators and curtain walls can be installed in the future; otherwise, it's just an empty shell frame.
The Q3 report needs to be analyzed by breaking down three structural beams: first, the rigidity of reserve income—if the interest rate environment changes, will the concrete grade drop? Second, the ratio of distribution costs to income, which determines the building's self-weight and the profit margin as net elevation. Third, the lateral extension of payment channels—stablecoins are not a single tower but multiple connected corridors; if the structural joints of the corridors are not handled well, later maintenance costs will be all about leakage.
The linkage with XGOOGL is another land boundary. The tokenized US stock targets are adjacent to the stablecoin ecosystem; how to control the floor area ratio and boundary setbacks depends on whether the USDC main artery can truly attract traffic. If payment scenario expansion remains only on paper, it's like marking an eight-lane two-way road on the blueprint but not even compacting the roadbed on site.
Professional judgment: the valuation quality of a stablecoin project is not about how many layers of circulation volume you stack, but whether there is eccentricity between the two pillars of reserve structure and distribution costs. Once eccentricity exceeds limits, growth becomes cantilevered—the farther the cantilever, the stronger the end vibration. #circleq3usdcgrowth$BTC Negative news: Midterm elections vote today, the hottest option in the market is the $58,000 put
The biggest risk lies in control of Congress; if the Republicans lose the majority, the pace of crypto regulation advancement may be disrupted, and the market has already pulled back in advance
BTC is now at $76,900, down 1.22% in 24 hours, with a daily low of $76,700, about 5% below the high before the Binance hack
The top three BTC options traded on Deribit in the past 24 hours are all puts, with the most traded being the $58,000 put expiring on November 27; put options remain more expensive than calls
Spot funds are also withdrawing; the US spot BTC ETF saw a net outflow of $643 million last Friday, the largest single-day outflow since June
Before the voting results come out, there is little reason for funds to increase positions; Friday also has non-farm payroll data, and the lower end of the $76,000 to $80,000 range is more likely to be tested.
#美国中期选举在即，哪些结果值得关注？ Duan Yongping-style interrogation of CORE: Without a moat, without cash flow, why shouldn't it go to zero?
Duan Yongping said that investing is buying future cash flow; a business without a moat, no matter how attractive, is just a story. Applied to CORE, the question is very sharp. It is not a company like Apple or Moutai that can continuously generate net cash flow, but a BTCFi public chain. Its "cash flow" comes from staking rewards, DEX fees, asset management protocol income, and then tokens are repurchased and burned. But the problem is that these income streams are still small and highly dependent on ecosystem activity and Bitcoin market conditions; once TVL declines and users leave, repurchases will shrink rapidly. The moat is also questionable. Highlights include Satoshi Plus consensus, non-custodial staking, and cooperation with the London Stock Exchange ETP, but competitors like Stacks, sBTC, BABL, EigenLayer, etc., are also vying for the BTCFi narrative. Without differentiated products, there is no pricing power; without pricing power, there is no moat. The probability of going to zero is low, but the probability of a prolonged decline is high. The team is still developing, SatPay has launched, institutional cooperation is ongoing, and there is no trigger for a complete zero. But if repurchase strength is insufficient to offset unlocked selling pressure, the price may be under long-term pressure. Duan Yongping would ask: If this company still exists in ten years, would you be willing to buy it now? If the answer is no, then you shouldn't buy just because it has "fallen a lot." Since CORE lacks a moat, it needs to truly have sustainable cash flow and a moat The Nightmare of Retail Investors: CORE Falls from the Hundredfold Idol, Is Zero Just a Matter of Time?
A decline of about 19%—31% in the past 7 days, a pullback of over 99% from the historical high. Once packaged as the "true BTCFi public chain," the narrative is now being peeled away layer by layer by reality. Why did the hundredfold idol collapse? Ecosystem implementation fell short of expectations: Although there are over a hundred on-chain DApps, as of April 2026, the ecosystem TVL is only about $5 million, far below leading public chains, and the BTCFi narrative has yet to translate into substantial demand. Continuous token inflation pressure: Total supply of 2.1 billion tokens, circulation rate only about 48%—51%, contributors, reserves, treasury tokens are still being unlocked continuously, and selling pressure remains. Extremely fragile liquidity: 24-hour trading volume is only about $3.6 million, large sell orders easily trigger liquidation cascades; in March this year, the Colend protocol liquidation caused a single-day drop of over 50%. Frequent security incidents: An emergency hard fork due to reward loopholes in September, with Coinbase and four other major exchanges simultaneously suspending deposits and withdrawals, trust was damaged again. The probability of complete zeroing is low—the team is still maintaining, SatPay has launched, and institutional layout is still progressing. But the probability of a continuous downward drift is high: if buyback and burn efforts are insufficient and the BTCFi narrative fails to attract funds again, the price may continue to decline. Judgment signals: whether ecosystem TVL can rebound, whether buyback and burn continue, and whether the BTCFi narrative can attract funds again. Missing any of the three, any rebound may be a "dead cat bounce."
The above is only market observation and does not constitute investment advice. $ARB
92.65 million tokens. In the early hours of November 15, Arbitrum will unlock this amount, with the team holding over 56 million and investors 36.5 million. At the current price of 0.1557, that's roughly 14.4 million USD.
Meanwhile, the total contract positions of ARB across the network are only 12.92 million. The amount to be unlocked is even larger than the entire perpetual contract pool. I was stunned the first time I put these two numbers side by side.
The price has already moved in advance. It dropped 4.7% in 24 hours, hitting a low of 0.1543, grinding near the daily low. Yet the fee rate is still positive, +0.01%, with longs paying shorts, and open interest hasn't decreased. Those betting on a rebound are still holding, just silent.
The unlock hasn't happened yet, the price fell first, and leverage hasn't withdrawn. This kind of situation often leads to a fake rebound first, with the second wave being the real crash. In the two weeks before unlock, I usually just watch without acting, having suffered losses once. The real drop only started after the third one-hour bearish candle post-unlock.
#美国中期选举在即，哪些结果值得关注？