During the bustling Hong Kong Fintech Week, the HKMA made it clear that their plan revolves around four pillars-otherwise known as “DART” (no, not the game, though that would be cool too). These pillars? Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Resilience, and of course, Tokenization. Because why wouldn’t tokenizing real-world assets be the next big thing? And they’ve got 40 initiatives to make it all happen. Buckle up, it’s a wild ride.
Amidst this, the esteemed whales of the digital ocean have been most active in their aquatic maneuvers, shifting hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and other altcoins. Accumulation? Profit-taking? A whimsical waltz of greed and caution among the wealthy few!
Bitcoin ($BTC) slipped 2.5% in the past 24 hours, underperforming a broadly weaker crypto market (-2.88%). The decline stems from multiple pressures – both macro and technical. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s hawkish remarks reignited fears of delayed rate cuts, boosting the USD and driving investors away from risk assets. Meanwhile, Spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $388 million in net outflows, the largest since August, signaling profit-taking by institutions. Technically, BTC’s drop below $109.5K triggered automatic sell orders. The key support now lies between $108K-$109K, crucial for preventing further downside. 😭💸
Poor Bitcoin couldn’t keep its head above the $110,500 pivot level and has since embarked on a fresh decline. It’s dipped below $110,000 and $109,500, landing itself squarely in a bearish zone-how utterly unfashionable. 👎
More tokens have moved into self-custody and exchange-held public wallets, because nothing says “trust in decentralized systems” like entrusting your crypto to a website that once hosted a man who claimed to be a “crypto guru” but was actually just a very enthusiastic parrot.
According to XWIN Research Japan (who, let’s face it, sounds like they should be selling sushi and crypto advice), Bitcoin might be gearing up for a breakout! This is what they call “asset-building momentum,” which is fancy talk for “Bitcoin’s been slacking off, but don’t worry, it’s planning a comeback.” The plot thickens as XWIN dives into three key on-chain metrics that could finally make this cryptocurrency drama interesting.
This hullabaloo has stirred up old grievances, including the detention of Binance’s former executive Tigran Gambaryan, and has thrown US-Nigeria relations into a pot of boiling gumbo, with crypto geopolitics as the spicy seasoning. 🌶️
Months after a validator key was compromised in September (a scandal so scandalous it could rival a Molière comedy), the engineers have overhauled the network. No longer shall users and apps rely on a single, centralized channel! Now, traffic is distributed across multiple nodes, as if throwing open many doors to prevent a single villain from crashing the party. 🚪
Everyone’s talking about ZEC’s price going up, which is nice for whoever bought it low. But the truly fascinating thing is the subsequent surge in hash power. It’s like a gold rush, but with more electricity bills and the nagging suspicion that it’s all going to collapse at any moment. 🙄
One might be forgiven for imagining that the digital economy had been placed in the hands of a particularly inept butler, given the spectacle of Amazon Web Services collapsing yet again on Oct. 20. Coinbase, Robinhood, and Coinmarketcap-those paragons of financial innovation-were left gasping like debutantes at a power outage. And, darling, there was a second hiccup ten days later. How déclassé.
