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Markets limped into the evening after a bruising stretch that saw Bitcoin’s slide deepen and nerves fray across DeFi. Bitcoin ended October in the red and kicked off November on a bearish note, slipping below 108k with more than a billion dollars in liquidations as macro jitters and recent Fed moves sapped risk appetite. A government shutdown narrative piled on, with some desks blaming the standoff for a liquidity freeze and a roughly 20 percent pullback from recent highs across majors like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Ethereum’s own flush was stark, down more than 13 percent intraday to the 3k area as cascading liquidations hit over 300k traders. The pain spread to meme caps and long-tail alts, with Dogecoin (DOGE) dropping 17 percent after whales unloaded more than a billion tokens and Shiba Inu (SHIB) weighing on sentiment despite a rising burn rate. Not everything traded in lockstep. Privacy coins caught a bid as investors rotated toward anonymity, pushing Monero, Zcash, and Dash to doubl...

Markets wound down in the red as a choppy Monday turned into a full risk off evening. The crypto complex slid nearly 3 percent, with Bitcoin (BTC) and majors giving back weekend gains and more than 400 million dollars in liquidations washing through derivatives venues. A hawkish read on interest rates added to the pressure, with fresh remarks from Chair Powell coinciding with 360 million dollars in outflows from digital asset funds. Even so, one bright spot shone through the fog as Solana products attracted notable inflows and SOL held up comparatively better than peers. Regulators stayed busy on both sides of the Atlantic. In Brussels, the EU floated a plan to centralize oversight of major stock and crypto venues under ESMA, a step that would put leading exchanges directly under a single supervisor and, in theory, sharpen the bloc’s competitive edge against the United States. France took a more targeted swing, proposing a 1 percent levy on large crypto holdings as part of a broader w...

Crypto is heading into the evening on uneasy footing. Bitcoin (BTC) is stuck in a tight range even after a Fed rate cut, closing out the first red October in seven years and inviting chatter about a possible 20 percent pullback before momentum can reset. Caution showed up in flows too: spot and futures ETFs for both Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) saw meaningful withdrawals this week, a reminder that macro uncertainty, a firm dollar, and mixed risk appetite still rule the tape. Ethereum (ETH) bore the brunt of it. The asset failed to retake 4,000 as weak onchain activity and thin futures demand met stiff resistance near 4,200. With price drifting toward support, traders are watching whether dip buyers show up or if lingering ETF outflows and low conviction keep pressure on. It is not all gloom for Ether, though: third-quarter data showed Ether ETFs actually outdrew Bitcoin ETFs on net, suggesting institutions are still building exposure on weakness. Solana (SOL) stole the spotlight....

Crypto is heading into the evening on uneasy footing. Bitcoin (BTC) is stuck in a tight range even after a Fed rate cut, closing out the first red October in seven years and inviting chatter about a possible 20 percent pullback before momentum can reset. Caution showed up in flows too: spot and futures ETFs for both Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) saw meaningful withdrawals this week, a reminder that macro uncertainty, a firm dollar, and mixed risk appetite still rule the tape. Ethereum (ETH) bore the brunt of it. The asset failed to retake 4,000 as weak onchain activity and thin futures demand met stiff resistance near 4,200. With price drifting toward support, traders are watching whether dip buyers show up or if lingering ETF outflows and low conviction keep pressure on. It is not all gloom for Ether, though: third-quarter data showed Ether ETFs actually outdrew Bitcoin ETFs on net, suggesting institutions are still building exposure on weakness. Solana (SOL) stole the spotlight....

Crypto is heading into the evening on uneasy footing. Bitcoin (BTC) is stuck in a tight range even after a Fed rate cut, closing out the first red October in seven years and inviting chatter about a possible 20 percent pullback before momentum can reset. Caution showed up in flows too: spot and futures ETFs for both Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) saw meaningful withdrawals this week, a reminder that macro uncertainty, a firm dollar, and mixed risk appetite still rule the tape. Ethereum (ETH) bore the brunt of it. The asset failed to retake 4,000 as weak onchain activity and thin futures demand met stiff resistance near 4,200. With price drifting toward support, traders are watching whether dip buyers show up or if lingering ETF outflows and low conviction keep pressure on. It is not all gloom for Ether, though: third-quarter data showed Ether ETFs actually outdrew Bitcoin ETFs on net, suggesting institutions are still building exposure on weakness. Solana (SOL) stole the spotlight....

Crypto Talkies A choppy day to close out crypto. A quarter point rate cut and cautious language from the Fed knocked risk appetite, and the market answered with a sharp flush. Bitcoin (BTC) slipped below the 110k mark as more than a billion dollars in long positions were liquidated across majors, with an earlier 300 million wave during the speech setting the tone for the selloff. Whale accumulation picked up on the dip, but steady outflows and a series of large Bitcoin transfers from SpaceX kept nerves on edge. The macro whiplash is real: only hours before, a tariff detente between President Trump and President Xi in South Korea had eased trade tensions, helping fuel a rebound in Bitcoin and the broader complex. The damage was uneven. XRP (XRP) led declines among large caps, shedding more than 9 percent from recent highs and erasing about 11 billion in market value, while Hedera (HBAR) debuted a spot HBAR ETF on the NYSE with 2.2 million dollars of first day inflows even as the token...

Crypto slipped into the evening on a cautious note despite the Fed’s rate cut, with total market cap down a little over 2 percent to about 3.81 trillion and Bitcoin (BTC) hovering near 111,000. Under the surface, though, the rails of institutional crypto kept laying themselves down. On the payments front, Visa widened its stablecoin experiment into a full-fledged buildout, adding support for four stablecoins across four blockchains and giving banks the tooling to mint and burn. Mastercard, meanwhile, is in late-stage talks to acquire Zerohash for up to 2 billion dollars, a move squarely aimed at owning stablecoin infrastructure. Circle opened the public testnet for Arc, its new Layer-1 designed to bridge traditional finance to onchain markets with help from more than 100 institutions. And Ondo brought tokenized U.S. equities to the BNB Chain, offering non-U.S. investors 24/7 access to over 100 stocks and ETFs with blockchain-based custody and settlement, a notable expansion for both O...