In the year of our Lord 2025, Ethereum hath anointed itself the undisputed sovereign of the blockchain realm, with a cortege of over 16,000 new developers flocking to its banner between January and September. 🧙♂️📈
It seems that according to the experts at Binance, Bitcoin is on a particularly introspective journey, experiencing what only the bravest (or most doomed) souls dare to call a “transition phase.” And let’s not forget it’s swiftly losing any ounce of swagger it had gained during the sweet, sweet days of early October. This transition is like that time you tried a new hairstyle-it’s either a fresh start or just plainly catastrophic.
Oh, Shiba Inu. The meme king that couldn’t quite hold it together. Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse, SHIB goes ahead and adds another zero to its price, like it’s trying to make its own version of a sad joke. It’s now hanging around at $0.0000097, practically begging for attention in the land of five-zero territory. So, what went wrong? Well, everything, it seems.
Well, well, well… Wallet bc1ql7c just transferred the entire 6,500 $BTC ($694M) to some new addresses after THREE long years of snoozing.
Anyway, after some dramatic drops, heavy liquidations, and a lot of nervously checking your portfolio while pretending you’re not panic-selling, Bitcoin has managed to stay above the $105,000 mark-whispering sweet nothings about a comeback like a stubborn cat refusing to quit the windowsill.
Not to be outdone, the Futures market has joined this carnival of calamity. CoinGlass, that grim accountant of losses, reveals that sellers have closed $2.3 billion in positions over three days. On October 17th, outflows ($1.24 billion) drowned inflows ($1.09 billion), sending Futures Netflow into a 132.12% nosedive to $153.99 million. A risk-off sentiment, you say? More like a full-scale retreat! 🚀🔥
The juicy tidbit: these banks reported lower provisions for credit losses than analysts expected – in layman’s terms, the cracks in the financial system aren’t as cavernous as the naysayers had us believe. This gave the S&P Regional Banks Index a boost, clawing back part of Thursday’s 6.3% nosedive. It was the kind of selloff that reminded some of the March 2023 mini-crisis, when fears about loan fraud at Zions Bancorp and Western Alliance sent everyone into a frenzy.
The recent crypto crash has wiped out a trillion in crypto market cap in hours, and it hit Solana pretty hard. While SOL recovered, how did this affect treasury companies like Upexi?
But fear not, brave investor! Corporate interest remains steady-Caliber, the ever-ambitious, has invested like a lord, and the Chainlink Reserve, that cautious beast, has added nearly 60,000 LINK to its trove. Alas, with an average cost of $21.98, they’re swimming in a deep, cold pool-down over 34%. Brrr! ❄️
Ah, Arthur Hayes, that wily wizard of wild crypto wizardry, is stirring up a storm with his family office Maelstrom, desperately drumming up $250 million for a grand private equity jamboree to nab middling crypto miscreants, or so whispers Bloomberg on this fiendish Friday.