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The moment the sternum is sawed open, I don't first look at the numbers on the monitor; I first use my hand to find the heart—the market is the same now. The price crash is just a depressed ST segment on the ECG, a symptom, not the lesion.
The real lesion lies in the perfusion pathway. Deutsche Bank plans to open Bitcoin and Ethereum custody for institutional and corporate clients within weeks, Charles Schwab is allowing qualified clients to withdraw to external wallets, Standard Chartered is directly doing spot trading in the Gulf region, and BNY Mellon continues to expand digital asset custody. This is not market news; this is building collateral circulation for a chronically ischemic myocardium. Custody is the vascular pathway, compliant clearing is the extracorporeal circulation machine, and stablecoins and tokenized assets are the postoperative anticoagulation regimen—to prevent settlement friction from forming clots.
In the past decade, the market's blood supply mode was a sympathetic storm: relying on retail sentiment to raise heart rate, with very low stroke volume. Although blood pressure appeared high, it was actually heart failure compensation. Institutional custody coming in is equivalent to switching the blood supply mode from "emotional pacing" to "sinus rhythm," slow but steady.
But I want to remind a surgical fact: the most dangerous moment when the channel opens is not the blockage but reperfusion injury. The first batch rushing in may not be fresh blood; it is likely the stock originally congested elsewhere being redistributed. So to judge whether this is real demand, don't listen to preoperative talks; just focus on three indicators: whether custody balances are continuously rising—that is stroke volume; whether net inflows form a continuous waveform—that is preload; and whether stablecoin supply expands synchronously—that is circulating blood volume. If these three do not resonate, the channel is open but the heart does not contract.
As for tokenized Microsoft as a target, its nature is like implanting a valve into another chest cavity—one myocardial tissue, two circulatory systems. Its linkage with the parent is not price linkage but hemodynamic linkage; when banks introduce compliant blood flow, this type of target will feel changes in perfusion pressure earlier than spot because it has two pressure sensors simultaneously.
The biggest complication has never been technical but rejection. Banks' risk control instincts and regulators' immune systems will not stop rejecting on-chain assets just because of one press conference; intimal hyperplasia often only appears six months post-operation.
The channel is already anastomosed, but the vascular clamp is not yet released. I only trust the continuous waveforms on the monitor, not those beautiful promises in preoperative talks. #schwabcryptotransfersSeven days and nights, that's seven moves — Tehran keeps mentioning the “reopening of Hormuz,” but fills the same sentence with conditions. This is not a surrender; it's a suspended pawn.
In the eyes of a grandmaster, a suspended pawn is never a weakness but a bait. It seems rootless but actually restrains the opponent on two fronts: if you capture it, your own pawn structure breaks; if you don't, it advances step by step to the sixth rank. Iran puts the card of “reopening within seven days” openly on the table while claiming to be ready to respond to any new moves — this is a classic preemptive setup: verbally conceding a passage, while holding counterattack pieces in hand. The strait is not a corner square; it is the center of the entire board. Whoever controls it places their hand on the opponent’s thinking time.
Brent oil standing above $110 is a spatial advantage. Spatial advantage does not equal a winning position, but it forces the opponent to maneuver in a narrower grid — freight, insurance, detours, inventory, every cost is a step lost in passive response. The 1.7% drop on October 19 should not be hastily read as a turning point; it was just a probing move, a player reaching out to touch the opponent’s pawn to see if they reflexively step aside. Probing does not change the position evaluation, only the opponent’s mindset.
Washington calls this an energy shock and expects inflation pressure to ease once the conflict ends. In chess terms, this is “promising the endgame first, then figuring out how to survive the middlegame.” The problem is, the middlegame has just begun. The endgame can be won because structural advantages were accumulated during the middlegame; if the middlegame is repeatedly checked by the opponent, forced to move the king, and loses the coherence of the pawn chain, then the so-called “everything will be fine after it ends” is just wishful thinking on paper. Those who promise the endgame are often the least willing to calculate the middlegame.
Returning to the linkage line of US stock token targets. Oil price is the external line; token targets are the internal line. When the external line tightens, the activity space of internal pieces is immediately compressed — but compression does not equal collapse. The real danger is misreading tactical fluctuations as strategic turning points. In this situation, the three biggest taboos are: increasing stakes on a restrained square; concentrating all pieces on one wing; and prematurely declaring you have calculated all variations while the opponent still has a hidden move.
My judgment is simple: the key variable in this game is neither on the oil price candlestick nor in the treasury secretary’s wording, but whether on the seventh day, the strait’s surface truly opens a passage — because at that moment, whoever is forced to move their pawn chain first will have their entire structure fixed at that moment. #hormuzreopeningoutlookBTC Liquidation Map Data Analysis
Current price is around 82480, positioned in a relative vacuum zone between two major liquidation clusters above and below. The short-term directional choice will determine the next wave of liquidity hunting.
Lower liquidity structure: The 80000-82000 range has an extremely dense accumulation of long liquidation orders. At position 80064, the largest single liquidation bar in the entire market appears, with Bybit exchange alone accounting for about 145 million USD; 80666, 81268, and 81870 form multiple layers of dense liquidation bands. According to OKX single exchange data, the lower liquidation bars are almost entirely dominated by 100x leverage (orange bars). The high-leverage long liquidation intensity at positions 80142, 80541, and 81111 each exceeds 30 million USD. This indicates a large accumulation of fragile high-leverage long positions below. Once the price falls and breaks through 82000, it will trigger a chain reaction of forced long liquidations, accelerating the decline.
Upper liquidity structure: The 82988-83590 range contains multiple layers of short liquidation clusters, with a short liquidation bar of about 70 million USD appearing at 83590 on Bybit. The upper short liquidation intensity is overall weaker than below, but the green cumulative short liquidation curve above 84000 continues to rise to a scale of 900 million, indicating that a large number of short stop-loss orders remain waiting to be triggered at higher levels.
#机构资金转弱，BTC与ETH谁先迎来回流？ #SpaceX上市后首份完整季度财报将揭晓 #奈飞增长或放缓，广告业务成新看点 $BTC $ETH The White House has just created a 35mm-wide expansion joint for Russian diesel, but the entire building's foundation hasn't been inspected yet. The Department of Energy has drawn the positioning lines for both buyers and sellers, the commercial terms are still being tightened on the scaffolding, and the delivery window is set for 15 to 20 days after the contract is signed—this is a typical stage of detailed construction drawings, not the topping out of the main structure. The sanction pause only removed the temporary outer barricades; not a single load-bearing wall has been poured.
Anyone who has worked on supertall buildings knows the most dangerous thing is not that the drawings fail to get approved, but that the drawings are approved, the barricades are removed, the client is pushing to get workers on site, while the geological survey report is still pending signature. This batch of diesel trade is in that state: the path is open, the load hasn't been calculated clearly, and the initial contract and supply volume are all marked with dashed lines. Oil prices dropped on October 19; this is not structural settlement, but the market waiting for pile foundation test results—without solid delivery data, all price tags are cantilever structures; the longer the cantilever, the greater the tensile stress at the root.
Looking at the linked US stock market instruments, essentially, a complex transoceanic energy transport project is compressed into a single rendering to sell. Renderings can simulate light and shadow, but they can't fool load tests. Buyers and sellers being named doesn't mean the contract is effective; contract effectiveness doesn't mean loading; loading doesn't mean on-time arrival at port. Every node in this chain is an expansion joint; missing one link causes the entire building to crack inward during thermal expansion and contraction. The so-called trade space is just turning shear walls from solid cores into openings, and the opening positions haven't undergone finite element analysis yet.
I've worked on projects for 20 years and fear two types of clients most: one who pushes to start construction before blueprints are finalized, and another who launches advertising before securing the land. The current market has both. The physical flow of diesel is like water pipes and ventilation shafts—concealed works that must be inspected segment by segment; it doesn't accept narrative gloss. The 15 to 20 days figure is the theoretical construction period in the construction organization design; wind, rain, or steel delivery delays can easily stretch it to 45 days. The market's pricing logic is exactly the opposite: it offers full floor area ratio based on theoretical duration, then cuts it layer by layer as actual construction permits come through.
The facade of this Eastern European building is being modified; the insulation layer is thickened, but the foundation depth remains unchanged. The transatlantic energy supply chain is a framework core tube system; whether the steel columns inside the tube can be hoisted on time depends on the crane capacity and insurance clauses at loading and unloading ports, not the press release timing. Multiplying the area of sanction relaxation by voyage days is not modeling; it's just painting the wall.
As for the linked stock, its trend now looks like a cantilever slab without support—the concrete hasn't reached design strength, but material is already being piled on top. Whoever stands at the slab end is betting the formwork won't collapse. #russiausdieseldealwatchThe Philadelphia Semiconductor Index has declined for eight consecutive trading days. This is not ordinary precipitation; it's eight days of continuous cold and rainy weather — the Nasdaq 100 retreated 5.5% overall last week. A cold front swept through, with AI storage and optical communication sectors hit first, and localized strong convection occurred. On October 19, Nasdaq futures briefly rebounded nearly 1%, with some chip and optical stocks rising after hours, like a beam of light breaking through the morning clouds, but the cloud cover remains thick. TSMC ADR fell despite record Q3 revenue and profits. The passage of a high-altitude trough brought a replenishment of cold air, indicating the system has not truly improved; the pressure difference between AI returns and valuations is still tugging. The upcoming tech earnings season is a critical observation window: AI capital expenditure is the moisture transport, equipment demand is the pressure gradient, and profits are the ground temperature. Whether these three can form a warm ridge to lift prices will determine if this rebound is a short-wave trough passage or a sustained warming. From the weather map, it currently looks more like a brief clearing during a cold wave interval rather than a seasonal transition. The eight consecutive down days of the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index have already embedded the cold and rainy weather into the circulation background. The intraday rebound in futures is just a boundary layer disturbance; the decline of TSMC ADR is the high-altitude guiding airflow — cold and warm advections are still converging, and the main rain belt has not shifted north. Don't mistake intermittent clearing for the end of the rainy season; the main trough of atmospheric circulation is still moving eastward. #aichipstocksrebound The Federal Reserve collectively went silent this week.
But the oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz are voting on behalf of the Fed.
Trump just signed a 60-day "oil price truce".
He suspended key sanctions and tariff enforcement against Russia under the Graham Act, allowing Secretary of State Rubio 60 days to assess the economic impact. The logic is straightforward: with less than a month until the midterm elections, diesel prices remain high, and voters are cursing at gas stations, he needs oil prices to come down.
So he released Russian oil and pressed pause on sanctions.
He wants to be the referee of oil prices.
But on the same strait, someone disagrees.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard announced that a "violating tanker" hit a mine in the southern Strait of Hormuz, causing an engine room explosion and fire. The day before, another supertanker carrying over 2 million barrels of crude oil also hit a mine. The Revolutionary Guard made it clear: this passage remains closed to unauthorized vessels.
Not just Hormuz. Hostilities between Saudi Arabia and the Houthi forces continue, with the Houthis attacking Saudi’s oil export hub Yanbu. Ukraine launched over 1,000 drones targeting sites inside Russia, igniting oil export terminals and storage facilities in Saint Petersburg. Trump wants to cool the oil market, but geopolitics is adding fuel to the fire.
This is the real hedge to watch this week: the White House is pressing down oil prices, while mines in the strait are pushing prices up.
As a result, Brent crude opened today slightly down from last week’s near $110 level, falling to around $108. On the surface, Trump’s exemption "took effect." But this is just the first round. Traffic through Hormuz is about 3 million barrels per day less than in early October, Iran’s own exports are suppressed below 500,000 barrels per day, and floating storage is rapidly being drawn down. Tankers are not just numbers; tankers mean supply.
The transmission chain is slower than Nvidia’s earnings report but more solid:
Incident in the strait → oil prices stick high → inflation expectations don’t fall → rate hikes back on the table → dollar strengthens → BTC gets hit.
The Fed entered a quiet period this week, and Wash’s silence in Bangkok has pushed the October rate hike probability down to about 15%. The market breathed a sigh of relief, and Bitcoin broke above $82,000 today, seeming peaceful.
But Wash not speaking doesn’t mean no one is pricing in.
Every $10 rise in oil prices is an implicit rate hike vote for the Fed. Trump’s 60-day window can suppress Russian oil but not the mines in Hormuz. What really determines inflation expectations this week isn’t Meta’s earnings or Tesla’s deliveries, but whether a fourth ship catches fire in that strait.
The Fed is on vacation; the tankers are working overtime.
$BTC $BZ $TSLA #机构资金转弱，BTC与ETH谁先迎来回流？ #Macro View: Waller "Leaves Room", Market Gets a Breather
Federal Reserve's Waller stated at the IMF Annual Meeting in Bangkok that he does not predict the October rate decision and did not signal a rate hike. Market expectations for a rate hike in October have dropped from over 25% to below 15%, with the dollar weakening simultaneously, marking the current core marginal change.
However, this is only an expectation reset, not a trend reversal. The probability of the October FOMC keeping rates unchanged is about 70%, and this expectation has already loosened.
Short-term baseline judgment: BTC is building a bottom with $80,000 as the core support, lacking strong upward catalysts, likely oscillating between 80,000 and 85,000.
$BTC $ETH Yesterday's $ETH move, do you admit it or not? Yesterday I already said to wait for 2425 to 2435 and then wait for the rebound to weaken, then look sequentially at 2395, 2375, 2355. All three targets were hit one after another! Now digging up yesterday's analysis, didn't I tell everyone where to wait and where to look down to? And the subsequent drop, did it all line up? Good afternoon everyone, I'm your Orla. After the US exempted some sanctions and related tariffs on Russia over the weekend, crude oil fell in early Asian trading on Monday. Why does the crypto market also watch oil? US gasoline price hikes in September contributed to more than half of that month's CPI increase. If oil prices continue to cool down, it will help ease inflation and interest rate concerns. This is a somewhat positive change, but we can't say all risks are gone yet. But today's market needs to be re-examined. $BTC was still at 80621 in the early morning, but by the morning it had touched 82777, a rebound of over 2100 points. Yesterday's bearish scenario played out, so today we won't continue shorting. The market has turned around, if you still hold onto yesterday's map to find your way, you might easily go astray. Right now, $BTC is around 82457, $ETH around 2423. Both coins have reclaimed the 20 and 60 period moving averages on the 1-hour chart, today I will wait for a pullback to go long. However, the 15-minute momentum has already slowed, chasing in now might easily get caught by a pullback right after buying. The direction is bullish, but you still have to pick your spots. [10.19/$BTC/$ETH/Trading Script] $BTC waits for 81800 to 82000, after reclaiming 82050 on the 15-minute chart, then pull back.#Institutional funds weaken, who will see the first inflow, BTC or ETH?
Recently, ETF funds have indeed loosened a bit. Since October, both BTC and ETH have experienced significant redemptions, with ETH ETF outflows last week even heavier than BTC's.
But saying "institutions are fully retreating" is a bit exaggerated; it's more about macro interest rates being relatively high and the dollar being strong, so funds are temporarily cautious.
Who will flow back first? I lean towards BTC first.
First, BTC ETF has a large pool, and redemptions account for a small proportion of the total, making the support more stable;
Second, institutions position BTC more as a "core asset," so when funds return, they usually allocate to BTC first.
For ETH to truly warm up, we need to see ETH/BTC stop falling, plus the continuous outflow of ETH ETFs to end.
Personally, I'm not chasing highs or rushing to bottom-fish now. At this position, I watch whether ETF funds turn to net inflows for several consecutive days, combined with BTC stabilizing in the 82,000–83,000 USD range. If funds don't return continuously, treat the rebound as a fluctuation; once continuous inflows happen, BTC is very likely to stabilize first, with ETH catching up later. 🙌
$BTC $ETH The technical outlook for $ETH really doesn't look good. ETH is currently priced around $2420, with the daily chart fully suppressed by the 7-day, 20-day, and 50-day moving averages. The MACD is hovering below the zero line, and the RSI is only 38.29, indicating a persistent weak consolidation. What's even more frustrating is a sell wall near 2410, accounting for 45.9% of the top 5 sell orders, with a buy-sell depth ratio of 0.70, favoring sellers. The ETF side isn't helping either; the ETH spot ETF saw a weekly outflow of $320.1 million, even exceeding Bitcoin's outflow, with BlackRock's ETHA alone accounting for over 90%. So, what's next? Signs of a reversal are also emerging. In the past 4 hours, ETH shorts liquidated $39.1 million, while longs only liquidated $400,000, nearly a 100-fold difference. Just above at 2419.83, a $5.4 million short position was recently liquidated. As long as the price can hold above 2419, there is still fuel for short covering. More importantly, while ETFs are running, whales have swept up 166,000 ETH in 72 hours, worth over $400 million, pushing the staking rate to a historic high of 36.13%, locking up more and more circulating supply. The probability of a rate hike has dropped from 27% to below 15%, easing pressure on the dollar and U.S. Treasuries. Tonight, watch two key levels: 2419 is the watershed. Holding above and digesting the sell wall above could lead to a short squeeze continuation, targeting 2450, and possibly 2488 if stronger. But if 2398 breaks and open interest rises instead of falling, it indicates new shorts are taking over, and the risk of a pullback dominates again. The 2380-2400 range is critical.$APR is the biggest loser this month, down 95%. Why do I advise you not to catch the falling knife?
APRS dropped from 0.6296 to 0.0290, a decline of 95.4%.
Many see "only 3 cents left" and think it's cheap. But do the math: to go from 0.0290 back to 0.6296, it needs to increase 21.7 times.
More importantly, liquidity: the circulating market cap is about 2.94 million USD, but the 24-hour contract trading volume is 53.11 million USD, which is 18 times the circulating market cap. The order book is very thin and dominated by leverage; a single bearish candle can halve the price again.
A 6.5% rebound after a 95% drop is not a reversal, it's a technical correction amid high volatility.
Remember three things:
A drop does not equal a bottom;
Low price does not equal undervaluation;
For small-cap contracts, don't bet heavily on a rebound.
The market doesn't owe a rebound just because a coin has fallen a lot.The main problem in the market today is no longer just inflation, but the real ability of companies, households, and governments to bear a persistently high cost of capital. Although indices like the Dow Jones and the S&P 500 appear calm on the surface, the internal structure of the market shows strong signs of stress that directly impact risk appetite and global liquidity: 1️⃣ The macro triad in the U.S. (Inflation + Fed + Weak Employment): • Inflation pressured by energyStablecoins transferred 97.9 trillion USD, which cannot be directly read as "spent this much on buying things." Allium's Q3 report divides the data for the first three quarters of this year up to September 30 into three layers: raw transfers of 97.9 trillion USD, filtered terminal transfers of about 2.4 trillion USD, among which identified payments are about 482 billion USD.
The easiest to misinterpret is 2.5%: this is the ratio of filtered transfer volume to raw transfer volume, not the proportion of consumer payments. The report excludes funds flowing through exchanges, on-chain finance, infrastructure, automation, and minting/burning, then classifies the remaining transfers in a fixed order; being excluded does not mean the transfer is fake.
For those engaged in payment business or judging stablecoin usage, the difference is significant: the same money circulates multiple times at different stages and appears multiple times in raw transfers. Directly taking the total amount as commercial payment scale easily counts fund transfers as new demand. Subsequently, compare using the same method, also looking at payment counts and single payment amounts.
In this sample, Tron accounts for about two-thirds of the payment amount. The TRX/USDT below is only a spot reference for the native coin of that network and cannot be used to infer token price increases based on payment share.
Source and original image: Allium 10/15 report summary, reviewed 10/19;
https://www.okx.com/zh-hans/trade-spot/trx-usdtOctober 19 marks the 39th anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash, and before the market opened, the term "Black Monday" was trending on overseas social media platforms. The reasons are straightforward: Brent crude oil hovered around $110, U.S. Treasury yields continued to rise, the volatility index was reported to have surged to a four-month high, tokenized AI stocks experienced a round of liquidation over the weekend, and someone calculated that U.S. tech stocks have evaporated $1.9 trillion during this period. Normally, such a combination of factors would cause crypto to dive. But the market moved in the opposite direction: Bitcoin closed slightly higher above 82,000, mainstream coins generally turned green, and ZEC, LINK, and SOL showed obvious strength. There is a counterintuitive point here—why didn’t crypto react to the same set of bad news this time? My understanding is that the leverage structure has changed. The historic liquidation on October 10 forcibly closed nearly $20 billion in leveraged positions in one day, effectively draining the high leverage inventory in the market ahead of time. Low leverage inventory means that when the same bad news comes, forced selling is much less. This is the benefit of "having already gone through a round of decline," but the cost is that the rebound elasticity is also weaker, so the rise is less satisfying. The second detail is even more worth noting: in the past day, the fund flows of various ETFs were inconsistent; Bitcoin products saw a slight net inflow, while XRP, SOL, and ETH products collectively had a net outflow of tens of millions of dollars. The money is not retreating; it is rotating positions. This is very different from a "panic escape" scenario. What really caught my attention was an on-chain operation: a whale closed a $110 million Bitcoin long position at 80,949, realizing a loss of about 3 $CORE $CORE $STX ✅Underlying Positioning (Fundamental Difference) - STX (Stacks): The true Bitcoin L2 (the real leader) Transactions ultimately anchor to Bitcoin mainchain settlement. After the Nakamoto upgrade, security is directly tied to BTC; sBTC is its core native BTC wrapped asset, requiring no cross-chain bridge, with high decentralization standards, widely recognized by overseas institutions as the top-tier BTCFi infrastructure - CORE: Bitcoin sidechain / EVM-compatible chain with Satoshi Plus consensus, leveraging Bitcoin miners' hash power for security, not a native Bitcoin L2; its advantage is EVM, allowing Ethereum developers to directly migrate contracts; the drawback is that it is an independent chain, not a Bitcoin settlement layer, and has low recognition in the BTC native community ✅Core BTC Assets & Institutional Progress - STX sBTC is the flagship product, with no deposit limit. Multiple leading institutions such as HashKey, UTXO Management, and Jump Crypto participate in BTC staking; the new Bond 2 phase with a 500 BTC quota has been fully filled by the ecosystem, generating BTC-denominated yields (yields paid directly in BTC), which is very attractive to large capital - CORE LstBTC, coreBTC, dual staking products; European ETP products are highlights, but a large portion of yields are CORE token rewards, not BTC-denominated yields, making user returns highly dependent on CThese past two days I've been playing "Prophet S3" on the @okxchinese planet, and finally found a way suitable for crypto users to study US stock earnings reports: first use free XP to make a judgment, then let PnL verify yourself. This time I bought Tesla earnings NO in Outcomes: holding 714.08 shares, purchase price 25¢, currently floating a 4% loss, and the available XP in the account is already 0. I'll first show my position, and after the earnings come out, I'll accept the win or loss, so I don't pretend to be a prophet after the results are in. I am not bearish on Tesla in the long term. Robotaxi, Optimus, AI, and energy storage all still have huge potential. But the question on the OKX planet is very specific: will Tesla's earnings this quarter beat expectations? This is completely a different question from "Is Tesla worth being optimistic about in the long term?" Tesla delivered 486,532 vehicles this quarter, which is indeed impressive, and also pushed the YES in the Outcomes market to about 76¢ at one point. Delivery volume answers how many cars were sold, but the earnings report still needs to be examined for automotive gross margin, free cash flow, AI and factory investments, and the management's guidance for the next quarter. The market now assigns a high probability to beating expectations. Continuing to bet YES at this point means Tesla's report can't just be "good," it has to be better than the expectations already priced in by the market. So I choose NO. This is also my feeling#奈飞增长或放缓，广告业务成新看点 5 Critical BTC Variables This Week, Ranked by Importance
1️⃣ Meta/Tesla Earnings Reports (After Market Close Wednesday) — Short-Term Primary Pricing Power
Last week, the Nasdaq dropped 4%, and AI stocks lost $1 trillion in market value in one week. The market isn’t trading "how good AI is" right now; it’s trading "whether AI is actually profitable."
Tesla’s EPS is expected to decline 14.5% year-over-year, and revenue forecasts are also down. Meta’s revenue is expected to grow 23%, but EPS is forecasted to drop 8%. In 2026, device and data center spending will reach $130–145 billion, plus about $10 billion in legal fees.
Translation: AI investments are burning cash, and profits are being eaten away.
Good earnings reports restore risk appetite, giving BTC a breather. Poor earnings reports cause the Nasdaq to keep falling, and BTC’s $80,000 level becomes the next domino. The first domino falls after market close Wednesday.
2️⃣ Friday PMI + Michigan Inflation Expectations — The Last Inflation Gauge Before the FOMC
The October FOMC has entered a blackout period; officials won’t speak publicly, so the market must price based on data alone.
The probability of a rate hike in October has dropped from 75% in late September to about 15%. But this "15%" is fragile—if Friday’s PMI remains strong and Michigan’s one-year inflation expectations don’t fall, the market will immediately raise the rate hike probability again.
The rate cut trade has been an invisible leverage for BTC over the past month. If data reverses this leverage, the $80,000 support must be reassessed.
3️⃣ Jensen Huang’s GTC Speech (Wednesday) — Can the AI Narrative Reignite?
Jensen Huang’s GTC talks are never just about chips. He talks about a "token factory"—data centers are no longer just storage centers but factories producing intelligent tokens, turning computing power from a cost center into a profit center.
This narrative is very important for BTC because AI sentiment and risk asset sentiment are now intertwined. If AI is stable, tech stocks are stable, and BTC gets breathing room. If AI keeps falling, BTC can’t strengthen alone.
Jensen Huang doesn’t need to call out Bitcoin; he just needs to make the market believe again that "demand for computing power hasn’t peaked." That’s enough.
4️⃣ Oil Prices + Hormuz Strait — The Master Switch for Inflation Expectations
Brent crude neared $110 last Friday, then fell back to around $108–109 on Monday. Traffic through the Hormuz Strait is down about 3 million barrels per day compared to early October.
Trump is granting waivers and suppressing oil prices. The Houthis are attacking and pushing prices up. The direction of oil prices dictates inflation expectations. Inflation expectations dictate rate hike probabilities.
This chain doesn’t directly crush BTC, but it’s the mother of all macro variables. If oil prices don’t relent, a hand will always hang over BTC’s head.
5️⃣ BTC’s Own $80,000 Gamma — The Last Technical Defense Line
BTC is now oscillating near $82,000, with $80,000 as a core support level. If open interest in options remains concentrated at the $80,000 strike and dealers maintain positive Gamma, this support has structural cushioning.
But if open interest shifts after expiration, the "options magnet" effect at $80,000 will disappear. Then the next support isn’t $78,000 but $75,000—where the 200-day EMA and a denser liquidation zone lie.
$80,000 isn’t an iron bottom. It’s a temporary table propped up by options structure.
In short: Don’t bet on direction this week; wait for earnings and PMI to reveal the cards.
You think you’re trading BTC, but you’re actually trading Meta’s EPS, Jensen Huang’s PPT, and traffic through the Hormuz Strait. Only those who wait for the cards to be revealed before betting have the right to speak in the next round.
$BTC $TSLA $META #机构资金转弱，BTC与ETH谁先迎来回流？ Last Friday, the Nasdaq dropped 2.2%, with tech stocks facing a significant sell-off.
But today, Bitcoin actually rebounded.
Here’s a question worth pondering:
Has Bitcoin started to decouple from the US stock market decline?
I think it’s still too early to talk about decoupling.
Because Bitcoin trades 24/7, while the US stock market does not.
The weekend rebound in Bitcoin and the capital choices after the US market opens are fundamentally not the same test.
What’s really worth watching is tonight’s US market open.
If the Nasdaq continues to be under pressure, but Bitcoin can maintain strength or even break through recent resistance, that would be a real validation of relative strength beginning.
But if Bitcoin falls again as soon as the US market opens, then the earlier rebound might have been more of a price correction due to weekend liquidity conditions.
The market’s easiest illusion to create is mistaking a timing mismatch for a decoupling between assets.
Don’t rush to declare Bitcoin independent.
True strength isn’t about rising when others aren’t trading, but about holding firm when others start selling. Event: Following the success of MicroStrategy in the US and Metaplanet in Japan, another technology corporation listed in Hong Kong has just announced plans to issue convertible bonds worth 150 million USD to add Bitcoin to its strategic reserve balance sheet. Detailed analysis notes: Financial model "converting debt into hard assets": Companies take advantage of the declining interest rate environment to borrow low-cost fiat currency, then convert it entirely into assets withETFs are all experiencing outflows, so where does the idea of “ETH funds shifting to BTC” come from?
I’m not quite convinced by the conclusion that “institutions are moving from ETH to BTC.” It currently looks more like a simultaneous contraction of risk exposure, with ETH bearing more pressure this week. Directly interpreting the fund changes between the two as a zero-sum game risks misreading the market retreat as a rotation between coins.
For the full week ending October 16, BTC spot ETFs had a net outflow of about $228.4 million, and ETH about $320.1 million, so ETH is indeed weaker. But looking at the last trading day, BTC’s net outflow was about $82.4 million, actually higher than ETH’s $69.7 million. On a weekly basis, ETH performed worse, but on a single day, the directions were not the same.
This data supports that “ETH has been more fragile recently,” but it does not prove that “money selling ETH is buying BTC.” If there were a clear rotation, we should at least see BTC funds continuously improving, rather than BTC itself also experiencing net outflows.
My judgment is: for now, interpret this as an overall reduction in positions rather than a quick fund migration; but if risk appetite continues to shrink, ETH, due to larger weekly outflows, is indeed more likely to come under pressure first. Conversely, if ETH strengthens relative to BTC and ETF outflows narrow, this weak bias should be withdrawn. Going forward, the key to watch is not who has more outflows in a single day, but whether BTC can first return to net inflows and whether ETH can stop its continuous outflows. #机构资金转弱，BTC与ETH谁先迎来回流？ $BTC $ETH #特斯拉交付超预期后盈利修复成焦点 My view: **HBM4 mass production is positive, but the key to "new highs" is not HBM4 itself, but the price cycle of general DRAM.**
1. **HBM4 has strong short-term certainty.** AI server demand is robust, SK Hynix has a first-mover and market share advantage in HBM, Q3 performance is very likely to continue high growth, so new highs are not surprising.
2. **The market focuses on "exceeding expectations," not just "new highs."** The viewpoint from "JinSe Finance" in the screenshot makes sense: stock price and P/B already factor in a lot of expectations; if the October 28 earnings report only meets expectations, the stock price may not rise and could even "sell the news."
3. **Cycle risks cannot be ignored.** If prices of general DRAM and NAND fall, combined with Samsung and Micron's capacity expansions and competition, HBM profits alone may not sustain overall profitability.
4. **The delay in backend equipment orders is a signal.** It indicates a possibly cautious expansion pace, which is positive for supply (beneficial for prices) but a disturbance for industry chain expectations, needing confirmation during the earnings call.
**Key points to watch in the earnings report:** HBM4 shipment share and yield, HBM pricing situation in 2027 (price and share), capital expenditure guidance, and management’s view on general DRAM prices.
Summary: **High probability of profit hitting new highs, but stock price reaction depends on guidance and expectation gaps.** Don't be fooled by "Uptober," Monday's slap woke the bulls up.
This week is a macro sell-off plus on-chain deleveraging scenario, unrelated to the crypto fundamentals.
Trigger: oil price breaking $100, the Strait of Hormuz situation, 10-year US Treasury yield topping 5.2%, the dollar hitting an 18-month high, and the Fed flipping from rate cuts to possible hikes.
Money first fled: $BTC spot ETF saw a net outflow of nearly 680 million in one week (the largest since June), $ETH ETFs have been withdrawing for over ten days, with nearly 1 billion liquidated in a single day, bulls accounting for 80%.
The three brothers diverged:
BTC fell from 87,000 to 81,000, then recovered to 82,400, holding the 81,000 support with the strongest resilience; in the latter half of the week, institutional ETFs replenished again;
ETH dropped below 2,500 and bottomed around 2,420, ETH/BTC ratio under pressure, staking unlocks plus lack of hit products make independent strength difficult;
$HYPE suffered the worst, giving back the gains from early in the month, down about 12% this week to $79, high beta retreat takes the first hit.
My judgment: this is macro passive deleveraging, not a crypto-specific crash. 81,000 is BTC's lifeline; if it holds, it's still a range, if broken, watch 78,000; no reversal talk for ETH unless it returns above 2,600. Don't rush to bottom-fish short-term, wait for US Treasury yields and oil prices to catch a breath, and risk appetite to return before acting.Last Friday, ETFs had a net redemption of 152 million, yet this morning 82,400 still holds, with all the top sellers being short stop-losses 😅
Of that 152 million, BTC was redeemed by 82.4 million, mainly from BlackRock and Fidelity; ETH was redeemed by 69.7 million, all from BlackRock alone. Big money off-exchange didn't return over the weekend.
Across the entire network, 313 million was liquidated in 24 hours, with longs accounting for 60%; in the last hour, 29.72 million was liquidated, with shorts making up 96%. The price did rise, but shorts kept the momentum going.
BTC, ETH, and SOL are all deep in the red today. SOL positions increased the most aggressively; ETH had the highest liquidation in 24 hours at 94.09 million, BTC touched 82,405, and trading volume nearly doubled.
The gainers and losers are at extremes: some up nearly 40%, others down 30%, while the mainstream coins are grinding within 1%. Fear and greed index is 60, lukewarm and steady 😐
There are quite a few macro news events today, all queued up for release: Q3 GDP and new office press conference this morning, Financial Street Forum opening, LPR tomorrow, and Canadian CPI tonight. So these news items need attention to prevent any sudden market manipulation causing sharp spikes or drops.
My trading suggestions for reference:
① ETF net redemptions combined with liquidation continuations mean the rebound is borrowed strength; don't chase longs before the news releases;
② ETH has the most liquidations but the least price increase, with the highest fee rate among the three coins at 0.0091%; shorts are paying the price, longs shouldn't rush to catch the falling knife;
③ Extremes on both ends of the leaderboard, mainstream sideways—typical stock game; wait for the news to settle before choosing a side.
All kinds of news are queued for release. Although prices have risen, I choose to hold my position and wait for the shoe to drop.The most fragile link isn't actually the price, but the patience that's being worn down bit by bit. SOL has been hovering around 100 for two years; are you still waiting for it to give an explanation? Last night I looked back at some old ETH charts from 2019 and suddenly felt a bit dazed. Back then, ETH dropped just above 140, and the screen was full of "Ethereum is finished". But then, with the arrival of DeFi Summer, it multiplied tenfold, proving everyone wrong. Now SOL is stuck around 100, sliding nearly 5 points in seven days. The fundamentals are much stronger than the 2017 version, but the market just can't get excited. This kind of "fundamentals aren't broken, but sentiment is already tired" mismatch is the most easily overlooked pricing point in this cycle. What’s really being traded isn’t whether SOL will die, but "how much longer am I willing to stick with it?" I read that Fidelity report; it said Solana itself has no major issues but pointed out staking concentration as a soft spot. Interestingly, the fact that institutions are willing to spend dozens of pages picking it apart means it’s on the serious research list. But being researched doesn’t mean being hyped—they’re watching carefully, mostly waiting for a cheaper entry point. The current price is prey, not a gift, to institutions, and this expectation gap hasn’t been fully priced in yet. The bullish path is clear: as long as the 99.38 support holds, chips are quietly changing hands. Once it breaks above 106.69, the hesitant crowd will instantly turn into buyers chasing the rally, and altcoin sentiment will warm up again. The risk is straightforward—breaking below 99 triggers a different scenario, stop#Bitcoin briefly stands above $82,000
Did Bitcoin fake a drop again? It plunged desperately over the weekend, with $BTC hitting a low just above 80,000 last night. This morning, a big bullish candle V-shaped back, pulling it back above 82,400 as if nothing happened. But whether this rebound is "fragile" or "solid" still depends on the follow-up volume.
From the chart, the 15-minute level did break through, but the trading volume didn’t keep up. It looks more like a "false breakout" caused by short covering rather than a genuine bullish push with real money. Market sentiment is very delicate now; on the macro side, the Fed’s rate hike expectations haven’t fully faded, and the 5.31% US Treasury yield hangs like a sword overhead, ready to pressure risk assets at any time.
Looking at altcoins, although some small coins like Celestia can jump a bit, overall liquidity is still far from sufficient. The order book depth for Bitcoin and Ethereum has recovered, but altcoins remain a "dead pool," with funds clearly concentrating on mainstream coins. What does this mean?
It means if you chase those "seemingly cheap" altcoins, you’re likely to get trapped in a "liquidity trap." Right now, existing funds are holding on stubbornly, institutions are quietly taking over positions, but there’s no sign yet of a broad bull market capital base.
Don’t get carried away by Monday’s bullish candle. Around $82,000, you can consider reducing your position or taking some profits, then wait for a pullback to confirm support before thinking about adding more. If it really breaks below 80,600, then be cautious!Last Friday, the Nasdaq dropped 2.2%, with tech stocks facing a significant sell-off.
But today, Bitcoin actually rebounded.
Here’s a question worth pondering:
Has Bitcoin started to decouple from the US stock market decline?
I think it’s still too early to talk about decoupling.
Because Bitcoin trades 24/7, while the US stock market does not.
The weekend rebound in Bitcoin and the capital choices after the US market opens are fundamentally not the same test.
What’s really worth watching is tonight’s US market open.
If the Nasdaq continues to be under pressure, but Bitcoin can maintain strength or even break through recent resistance, that would be a real validation of relative strength beginning.
But if Bitcoin falls again as soon as the US market opens, then the earlier rebound might have been more of a price correction due to weekend liquidity conditions.
The market’s easiest illusion to create is mistaking a timing mismatch for a decoupling between assets.
Don’t rush to declare Bitcoin independent.
True strength isn’t about rising when others aren’t trading, but about holding firm when others start selling. ZEC surged 8% today. Can you understand this move?
Three core reasons for ZEC's big rise:
1. BTC market recovery driving the rally (fundamental)
BTC stabilized and rebounded, market risk appetite increased, funds started looking for flexible targets among small-cap coins, and the privacy sector rotation reached ZEC.
2. Extremely low liquidity, a small amount of funds can drive a large price increase (most critical)
ZEC has a small market cap and thin order book, insufficient sell-side depth, so it doesn't require huge funds to quickly push up the price; at the same time, it triggers short-seller stop losses, causing a short squeeze and price surge, amplifying the rise. This is also the root cause of its frequent sharp rises and falls.
3. Sector funds speculation
There is no new main market theme, funds rotate to speculate on the privacy coin narrative, short-term funds pour in, and retail investors follow FOMO, further pushing up the price.
Key points on the chart:
• Nature: This is a short-term speculative rally by funds, not a fundamental reversal.
• Risk warning: Such impulse rallies tend to quickly fall back after peaking, and profit-taking can cause rapid declines. Whoa, Brother Sun is also playing with Meme, trading $PEPE again after two years!?
Yesterday, Justin Sun (address 0x176…0a132) received 7.2 trillion $PEPE worth 28.44 million USD from Poloniex's multisig address. This is the first on-chain PEPE operation since June 2024 (when the coin price was still $0.00001256).
Everyone knows that Brother Sun, as the top holder of $WLFI, was forcibly "locked up" and cannot withdraw.
On October 14, he said in an interview that if he could go back in time, he would still invest in WLFI. Much of the related information was only learned after the investment, and it was not fully disclosed at the time, so it was hard for him to make a different decision or feel regret. #奈飞增长或放缓，广告业务成新看点 $12.86 billion, +12% year-over-year; +11% on a constant currency basis, market consensus: about $13 billion, market expectations are higher than the company's own guidance, with a slight risk of missing expectations. Company guidance: 33.2% (28.2% in the same period last year), the biggest highlight of this quarter; the company indicates Q2 is the peak growth period for 2026 content amortization, with content cost growth slowing in the second half of the year, supporting profit margins to remain high. Capital return: remaining $27.1 billion buyback quota, the market will pay attention to the buyback execution strength this quarter...#奈飞增长或放缓，广告业务成新看点 Among the 50 perpetual contracts in the entire market, only 12 have shorts paying fees.
ATOM ranks first, with -0.0204% every 8 hours.
Annualized -22%, meaning shorts pay two-tenths of their principal in a year.
The fee is settled every 8 hours.
A negative value means shorts pay longs; the platform takes no cut.
This money just moves between the two sides.
What’s interesting is the price.
ATOM dropped 17.34% over these 7 trading days and is rebounding today.
Shorts paid fees, but the price didn’t reward them.
With the same negative fee rate, STRK is different.
Its fee rate is -0.0158%, and it dropped 48.5% over these 7 trading days.
Shorts paid fees and also profited.
JUP’s fee rate is -0.0183%, it dropped 26.13% in 7 days, and rose 4% today.
Like ATOM, shorts paid fees but didn’t profit.
So the fee rate is not a directional signal.
It only tells you which side has more people.
When shorts dominate, the price doesn’t necessarily fall.
But shorts have to pay fees, so their holding cost increases day by day.
I think the real signal isn’t the fee rate itself.
It’s what the price is doing on the day the fee rate turns negative.
If the fee rate turns negative and the price is still rising, it means shorts are adding positions against the trend.
These positions are the most fragile because they lose both time and price.
$ATOM
#FundingRate#Can HBM4 mass production drive SK Hynix's profits to new highs? *HBM4 mass production is positive, but the key to "new highs" does not lie in HBM4 itself, but in the price cycle of general DRAM.**
1. **HBM4 has strong short-term certainty.** AI server demand is robust, SK Hynix has a first-mover and market share advantage in HBM, and Q3 performance is very likely to continue high growth, so new highs are not surprising.
2. **The market focuses on "exceeding expectations," not just "new highs."** The viewpoint from "JinSe Finance" in the screenshot makes sense: stock price and P/B already reflect a lot of expectations; if the October 28 earnings report only meets expectations, the stock price may not rise and could even "sell off the good news."
3. **Cycle risks cannot be ignored.** If prices of general DRAM and NAND fall, combined with Samsung and Micron's capacity expansions and competition, HBM profits alone may not sustain overall profitability.
4. **The delay in backend equipment orders is a signal.** It indicates that the expansion pace might be cautious, which is positive for supply (beneficial for prices) but a disturbance for industry chain expectations, requiring confirmation during the earnings call.
**Key points to watch in the earnings report:** HBM4 shipment share and yield, HBM pricing situation in 2027 (price and share), capital expenditure guidance, and management's view on general DRAM prices.
Summary: **High probability of profit reaching new highs, but stock price reaction depends on guidance and expectation gaps.**High win rate does not equal survival: Why two large accounts went to zero
Seeing two large capital accounts both liquidated, the win rate was actually shockingly high, but the maximum drawdown was close to 100%.
The problem is not the win rate, but doubling down against the trend during losses. The position size keeps increasing, risk is unlimited, and a single trend can wipe out the profits of dozens of previous trades.
Essentially, it’s refusing to admit mistakes, wanting every trade to be profitable, unwilling to accept account-level stop loss, causing the hole to only get bigger and bigger.
A reminder to myself: Stop loss is a cost, not a failure. Don’t blindly increase positions. Surviving longer is more important than having a high win rate. $BTC#Macroeconomics: Wash Leaves Room for Interpretation, Market Gets a Breather
Federal Reserve's Wash spoke at the IMF Annual Meeting in Bangkok, giving no signal of a rate hike in October and stating he will not pre-judge the interest rate decision. Market expectations for an October rate hike dropped directly from above 25% to below 15%, with the dollar weakening simultaneously—this is the current core marginal change.
However, this is only an expectation reset, not a trend reversal. The probability of the October FOMC holding steady remains about 70%, and this expectation has already shown marginal easing.
Baseline judgment: BTC is building a bottom with $80,000 as the core support, lacking strong upward catalysts, likely oscillating between 80,000 and 85,000.
$BTC $ETH
#机构资金转弱，BTC与ETH谁先迎来回流？ The weekend's drop turned into such a mess, yet the bulls are still crazily adding positions. Are they really treating the dog whales like cash cows?
$DOGE is currently priced at 0.0778, with the long-short ratio stubbornly hitting 3.66! Open interest is still rising, indicating that retail investors haven't fled despite the drop and are frantically bottom-fishing. But the daily chart keeps sliding down with no sign of stopping. If the bulls can't hold and it dips below 0.075 even slightly, a chain liquidation will be absolutely brutal.
Looking at $PEPE, currently at 0.000003839, the long-short ratio is also absurdly high at 3.16. Funding rates occasionally turn negative, meaning retail investors are not only trapped but also paying to beg the whales not to dump. The buying power lacks momentum and is solely propped up by faith.
The wildest is $DNA, currently at 0.2615. I just checked the historical funding rate trend and thought it was negative, but after switching to real-time order book, the current funding rate is actually positive at 0.0050%, though the basis is still negative and open interest has surged. This means the bulls are paying the shorts to stubbornly hold! Plus, the long-short ratio data is currently unavailable (highly controlled), so entering this blind box game is just being cannon fodder.
My logic is actually simple: it's all bull traps. Retail investors are extremely crowded, and the whales are washing out positions accordingly. Catching a falling knife at this time is pure money giveaway. My current stance is to hold fire, keep my bullets ready, and wait for these high-leverage chips to be completely washed out and for the market data to return to a healthy structure before considering entering.
#美国CPI与PPI双超预期，年内能否再加息？ BTC rose 0.43% over the weekend, but overall it still fell 2.63% for the week. Why are weekend price changes usually not to be taken seriously? First, the news. Some weekend figures: BTC at $81,696, 24h +0.43%, nearly one week -2.63%, 20-day range 79,775.1 to 87,238.3; US Dollar Index 101.84 (-0.16%); gold 4,181.1 (+0.26%, spot 4,166.10); Fear & Greed Index dropped from 55 to 53. It should be noted: ETFs do not process subscriptions or redemptions on weekends, the latest single-day data is still from a trading day (+16.3 million), 5-day cumulative net outflow 324.1 million, 10-day net outflow 723.3 million; S&P 500 at 7,659.44 (-1.09%) is also the previous trading day's closing value. Next, the impact of capital. Weekend pricing has three characteristics: first, low liquidity—same buy and sell orders cause greater price volatility; second, lack of capital data verification—ETF and institutional subscription/redemption data are not updated; third, different participant structure—market makers and institutions mostly rest, so prices are more easily driven by short-term funds. Therefore, weekend price changes have the lowest signal-to-noise ratio, suitable for observing sentiment but not for judging trends. Implications for BTC: truly informative signals usually appear in weekday capital data—ETF net inflows and outflows, CME positions, stablecoin issuance. If weekend prices align with weekday capital data directionsThe US stock market is still closed, but perpetual contracts related to chip stocks have already undergone a round of concentrated liquidation. According to CoinDesk citing CoinGlass data, about $51.6 million worth of positions were forcibly liquidated in Singapore between 05:22 and 05:32 on October 18.
This figure represents the scale of liquidated positions and does not equate to the evaporation of stock market value. The contracts traded track stock prices, and the spot market did not have synchronized transactions at that time to verify the price.
My judgment is that this round of volatility first exposed the pricing challenges of all-weather trading. Leveraged positions being forced to close will continue to affect contract prices; directly using these prices to predict Monday’s chip stocks risks including liquidation pressure in the company valuations.
When stocks resume trading, whether the price gap between contracts and spot can converge will help discern how much new pricing information this volatility contains. Trading hours have been extended, but the price reference may not have been extended synchronously. #奈飞增长或放缓，广告业务成新看点 #奈飞增长或放缓，广告业务成新看点
**Netflix Q3 Preview: 72% Will Beat Expectations, But Don’t Rush to Bet Yes**
Earnings release after market close on October 20. The prediction market has already priced in a 72¢ chance of Yes, and beating expectations is indeed highly likely: Q3 guidance of $12.86 billion (+12%) is conservative, consensus has been revised down to $12.88 billion, almost on target, and Netflix has a history of "low guidance, over-delivery."
But beat ≠ stock rise: the stock has dropped 43% from its high, bad news is mostly priced in, and in Q2 it still fell despite "EPS beating expectations, revenue missing." The real game-changer is Q4 guidance and ad revenue realization — monthly active ads surpassing 250 million, this year’s revenue target doubling to $3 billion, with $750 million per quarter as the passing line.
In terms of trading: $65 is the lifeline, only holding above $80 counts as recovery; 72¢ odds are average, be cautious chasing highs.
(Not investment advice)🔥 BTC stands above 82,500, but leveraged longs are still "paying to work"!
BTC current price is 82,522, up slightly 1.66% in 24h, and the 4-hour chart is above MA5/10/20, seemingly in a "weak recovery." However, derivatives data reveals a painful detail: futures open interest has dropped to $7.68 billion, and the funding rate remains positive (0.0035% every 8 hours), meaning longs are paying shorts to hold positions — the price hasn't risen much, but leveraged longs are continuously "bleeding."
The funding situation is more realistic: BTC spot ETFs have seen net outflows for two consecutive weeks, with another $228 million outflow last week; Galaxy Research head bluntly states that ETF net outflows combined with Treasury's weak coin purchases are the main reasons for price pressure in October.
What are the whales doing? Two long orders over $100 million: one $97.87 million 40x long liquidated at 79,828, just 1.5% below current price; another $110 million long stop loss at 80,500 was nearly triggered, with a risky liquidation loss of $3.26 million at dawn before switching to US stocks. Meanwhile, an ancient whale dormant for 12-13 years moved 416 BTC. $BTC
Ordinary people shouldn't rush to chase this "recovery." The first dense resistance is at 82,500-82,800 above, and the short-term defense zone is 80,700-81,100 below. Leveraged longs are paying, ETFs are retreating, who are you taking over from if you enter? Did you make a move today? Let's discuss in the comments👇#奈飞增长或放缓，广告业务成新看点 What is the hardest asset in the world? It's Bitcoin.
Last Friday, despite the Nasdaq plunging 2.5% and the VIX soaring up to 40%, Bitcoin completely refused to drop. This is a typical bull market behavior, showing immunity to negative news.
Looking at last week's active sell volume, Binance, OKX, and Coinbase collectively sold 12,450 Bitcoins actively. This figure is relatively low and normal for August and September. In other words, despite the Nasdaq's sharp decline and the global asset sell-off, Bitcoin did not experience a large-scale panic sell-off. Holders showed considerable composure and patience.
Although the spot VD (active net buy difference) showed a net sell of 65.92 million, it remains at a relatively low level. Net inflows appeared on Saturday and Sunday. Everything is moving in a positive direction 【ZEC Upgrade Will Affect the Old Privacy Pool: Over 20,000 Coins May Never Be Spent Again】
Zcash's NU7 upgrade has a cost that is easy to overlook: the $ZEC in the old Sprout privacy pool may become permanently unspendable after the upgrade. The reason is that the proposal plans to disable the old v4 transactions, which Sprout relies on for transfers. Community data shows there are about 22,000 ZEC left in the pool, which is not a large amount, but the impact on these holders is significant.
This is not a token burn, nor are all ZEC frozen; the focus is solely on Sprout. Developers argue that it has long been replaced by the new privacy pool, and continuing to maintain it increases protocol complexity and security risks.
The controversy lies here: while the network aims to reduce burden, a minority of holders may permanently lose control over their funds. In terms of ZEC price, this quantity alone has limited impact; what is worth watching next is the upgrade governance and the trust cost of privacy assets.
If the development team confirms to proceed as planned on October 20, the November 5 mainnet launch target will become clearer. The most important current focus is whether the upgrade will be implemented on schedule and whether the remaining funds can be migrated in time. Short-term price fluctuations of ZEC will still depend on actual trading activity and should not be speculated on based solely on this news.Company guidance: $12.86 billion, up 12% year-over-year; currency-neutral basis up 11%. Market consensus: about $13 billion, market expectations are higher than the company's own guidance, with a slight risk of underperformance. Company guidance: 33.2% (28.2% in the same period last year), the biggest highlight of this quarter; the company indicates Q2 is the peak growth period for 2026 content amortization, with content cost growth slowing in the second half of the year, supporting profit margins to remain high. Capital return: remaining $27.1 billion buyback quota, the market will focus on the execution strength of buybacks this quarter; no large capital expenditures, cash flow quality overall stronger than heavy asset companies like Tesla #奈飞增长或放缓，广告业务成新看点 #Institutional funds weaken, who will see the first inflow, BTC or ETH?
Currently, the BTC market looks okay but is actually quite precarious. Over the weekend, Bitcoin briefly dropped to $80,694, then barely climbed back near 82,000; Ethereum was even more volatile on the evening of the 18th, plunging 1.1% in 15 minutes, falling from 2360 to 2332, with the 2400 level briefly breached. The technical outlook is also not good: Bitcoin's daily moving averages are still trending down, the weekly candle closed bearish, indicating short-term bearishness. Next, let's see if supports at 79,500 and 76,500 hold, while bears are defending around 83,500.
Market sentiment is also fragile. The Nasdaq dropped 2.1% the previous day, Middle East tensions pushed oil prices close to $110 per barrel, everyone is already in risk-off mode, and funds are still flowing out of crypto, combining multiple pressures.
Bitcoin is barely holding above 80,000, but ETF money keeps flowing out, Strategy's coin purchases have clearly slowed, and altcoins are falling harder, indicating weakening institutional buying power. Regulatory big bills are stuck, but the SEC and CFTC are still acting independently, and medium to long-term regulations have not stopped. The biggest short-term pressure is the chain of “high inflation → fear of rate hikes → risk assets under pressure,” with the FOMC meeting on October 28 as the next key event.
$BTC $ETH $SOL The decline of $PONS is like boiling a frog slowly, while the daily revenue scale of $PUMP is 30 times that of pons!
Let's first look at the latest data; the gap between the two is already very obvious.
$PONS: Fundamentals and price are weakening in sync. The price has dropped from a high of $0.90 to $0.26, a retracement of about 71%;
Daily protocol revenue is only about $36,000!!
Robinhood Chain's DEX trading volume yesterday was about $775 million, ranking fourth across the entire chain, but PONS's own trading volume was only about $32.7 million, basically flat compared to the previous day.
More critically, the buyback wallet has only about $430,000 of funds left to use; about 500,000 tokens were burned yesterday, bringing the cumulative burn ratio up to 32.59%. If revenue fails to recover soon, the buyback intensity may continue to decline.
$PUMP: Buyback firepower is stronger. As of October 16, PUMP's single-day buyback burn was about $979,200, burning about 212.7 million tokens;
Currently, the circulating supply is about 399.5 billion tokens, with a total supply of 1 trillion tokens. Although the price has retreated from recent highs, the protocol is still continuously investing real money in buybacks.
I think the risk for PONS is the combination of declining revenue and limited buyback fund pool; the advantage of PUMP is its larger buyback scale and sustainability, which is more worth observing. #奈飞增长或放缓，广告业务成新看点
Key Financial Expectations
1. Revenue
- Company guidance: $12.86 billion, +12% year-over-year; +11% on a currency-neutral basis
- Market consensus: about $13 billion, market expectations are higher than the company's own guidance, with a slight risk of underperformance
2. GAAP EPS
- Company guidance: $0.82 (net profit $3.45 billion)
- Analyst consensus: $0.84, with little divergence
3. Operating Margin
- Company guidance: 33.2% (28.2% in the same period last year), the biggest highlight this quarter; the company indicates Q2 is the peak growth period for content amortization until 2026, with content cost growth slowing in the second half of the year, supporting margin maintenance at a high level
4. Capital Return: Remaining $27.1 billion buyback quota, the market will focus on the execution strength of buybacks this quarter; no large capital expenditures, overall cash flow quality is stronger than heavy-asset companies like TeslaPrivate messages exploded, everyone is asking Pharaoh, Charles Schwab opens BTC transfers, Deutsche Bank is also going to do custody, these two traditional giants are acting together, is Bitcoin about to take off directly? Pharaoh directly said, not quite take off, but the "compliance expressway" has indeed widened by two more lanes. Let's first see what these two have done. Charles Schwab officially opens Bitcoin and Ethereum transfer functions to US clients, allowing clients to freely transfer assets between Schwab accounts and external wallets or other exchanges, truly achieving "self-control of private keys." Previously, Schwab only supported buying and selling crypto assets within the platform, without the ability to transfer out. Schwab manages over $11 trillion in client assets; opening this function is equivalent to building a "channel from traditional accounts to the on-chain world" for clients. Deutsche Bank's head of corporate banking confirmed plans to launch crypto asset custody services in 2026, initially covering Bitcoin and Ethereum, targeting 1,600 institutional clients. The technical partner is Bitpanda, just waiting for the EU MiCA license process to complete. What does this mean for Bitcoin? In the short term, it's a sentiment boost, not an engine. Schwab opening transfers lets clients freely withdraw assets, reducing concerns about "exchange runaways," but it won't bring large-scale incremental buying in the short term. Deutsche Bank custody won't launch until 2026, so there's still waiting. Bitcoin is currently stuck around 80,000, with short-term support at 79,800 and resistance at 82,000. In the long term, it strengthens the underlying foundation. Schwab has unlocked the "withdrawal" link, Deutsche Bank solves the "storage" link.The post from Friday was pretty much on point
At that time, it was said "$BTC won't break 80,000, it will slowly climb over the weekend, BTC will hold steady at 82,000, $ETH has a chance to reach 2,500." Looking at today, BTC indeed stabilized around 82,000, but Ethereum is still some way off 2,500
Ethereum has indeed been much weaker than BTC in this wave
The ETH/BTC rate is hovering at a low of 0.0347, with the price still below MA200 (2483) and EMA200 (2495)
Ethereum ETFs saw a net outflow of $320 million last week, while Bitcoin ETFs had an outflow of $228 million; the redemption pressure on Ethereum is heavier than on BTC
But when weakness reaches a certain point, it actually gives a reason for a catch-up rally
ETH/BTC rate is stuck at a low level, and short positions on Ethereum are also accumulating
If BTC can hold steady above 82,000 without falling, Ethereum's catch-up rally often comes suddenly when "everyone thinks it’s not doing well"
BTC first stabilizes the base, then we see if Ethereum follows
The current macroeconomic situation is not ideal, and various issues remain unresolved, so we can't expect too high a position
#BTC ETH $OP
Layer-2 competition is becoming increasingly important for Ethereum's future. Optimism's ecosystem strategy should be evaluated through developer retention, application activity, and the ability of participating chains to attract real users. More chains do not automatically mean stronger token demand. Sustainable growth requires useful applications, competitive transaction costs, and an economic model that creates lasting value beyond ecosystem expansion.