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10.24 Market Update | Bears Loosen, Testing Low Longs
$BTC Tug of War at 81,000
BTC is oscillating around 81,000, and I’ve started focusing on the short positions of US hedge funds. Data shows that US hedge funds still hold a considerable amount of BTC shorts; although they have been gradually reducing positions recently, the overall stance remains bearish.
Interestingly, BTC dropped from above 84,000 to around 80,500, and the market turned bearish, yet some institutions have already begun reducing their short exposure. But reducing shorts doesn’t mean going long; some short positions might just be hedging spot or ETF holdings, so a decrease in shorts doesn’t necessarily mean Wall Street is collectively buying BTC.
What really matters is whether there will be continuous short covering afterward. If the price starts to rise and shorts keep closing, the rebound could be stronger than currently expected.
Personally, I still lean towards buying at lower levels: if there are buyers around 80,500, I plan to test positions between 80,700 and 80,900, with a stop loss below 80,300. First target is 81,500, then 82,000. The 15-minute moving averages are still tangled, and 81,000 hasn’t been decisively reclaimed, so I’m not ready to fully load positions yet.
I want to see how long these funds can keep shorting: if BTC retakes 82,000, will they hold on or accelerate covering? The proportion of hedging positions still needs a closer look at the holdings data.
The above is my personal observation and does not constitute trading advice. #10月FOMC临近，美联储暂停加息还有哪些变数？ #中东原油供应风险再起，油价持续走强 X100's "Senate" was taken down — decentralized governance, but not fully decentralized
This morning, X100 on Ethereum gave the entire industry a vivid governance lesson: the attacker didn't use any sophisticated zero-day exploits but directly took over two of the three Senate seats, then "legally voted" to sell 400,000 X from the treasury into a self-created empty pool. Another attacker cooperated to destroy the Freezer position, and a third attacker used the same method to drain the remaining Uniswap V3 LP. Three transactions in total cashed out about 4.85 million USDT. At the time of the attack, about 12.2 million X were still in the Freezer, and the attack is ongoing.
A bit of sarcasm: the promised decentralized governance ended up as "two seats taken, treasury freely withdrawn." The hacker didn't even need to write complex contracts, just needed to understand parliamentary systems better than the project team. The original intent of X100's Senate design was probably to provide checks and balances, but the actual effect was roughly equivalent to hanging the safe's key on the door with a note saying "two keys can open it." $ETH Today's assessment: In the short term, I remain cautious. BTC spot ETFs (Exchange-Traded Funds) have seen outflows for two consecutive days. Although ETH has had a slight inflow, the scale is not enough to indicate a strengthening of funds. Today is Sunday, with few new updates. This issue will focus on ETF funds, next week's Federal Reserve meeting, and the progress of Exchange OS. 1. ETF: BTC outflows for two consecutive days, ETH slightly positive On October 23 data: * BTC: net outflow of $137.9 million. * ETH: net inflow between $800,000 and $4.4 million, with varying sources. * SOL: disclosed funds total zero; some fund data has not yet been fully collected. Over the past five trading days, BTC has still had a net inflow of about $301 million. The first three days saw inflows, the last two days outflows, indicating that funds are not completely withdrawing, but the inflow has not continued. The ETH inflow is not enough to indicate a trend reversal, nor can it be said that funds are shifting from BTC to ETH based on this. SOL data is incomplete, so no judgment on the direction for the day. 2. Federal Reserve meeting approaching, don't rush to see it as positive The meeting will be held October 27–28 US time, with the rate decision announced early morning October 29 Beijing time. With growth slowing and inflation concerns coexisting, I will not prematurely consider this meeting as positive. Even if rates remain unchanged, the policy statement may alter future expectations. Besides watching what the statement says, we also need to see if ETF funds can continuously return afterward. 3. Exchange OS: public beta continues, staking details still to be announced. The official team still$LAB Bottom-fishing buyers have increased again, continuing to hold. The overall trend remains bearish. With so many trapped positions, the manipulative whales won't give any chance.
Long-short ratio: Retail investors are charging wildly, while big players are making secret moves.
Retail side: Binance retail account long-short ratio is 4.4407, and OKX retail account long-short ratio is an astonishing 8.21!
OKX retail investors are extremely stubborn, with 8 longs against 1 short, all betting on a rebound.
Big players side: The number of big players long-short ratio is 5.0643 (on the surface, many are bullish), but the big players' position long-short ratio has plummeted to 1.3208!
Conclusion: The data is extremely fragmented! The number of big players long-short ratio at 5.06 means many in the big player group are shouting "bottom-fishing" with small positions; but the actual position long-short ratio is only 1.32, meaning the real big money has already withdrawn long positions and even opened shorts. Retail investors are bottom-fishing with 8 times the force, while the whales are harvesting in reverse with 1.32 times the real capital.
$BTC $ETH #10月FOMC临近，美联储暂停加息还有哪些变数？ #SK海力士Q3财报在即，HBM4能否提振盈利？
HBM4 will boost profits, but the Q3 earnings report itself is a "confirmation of the ramp-up pace," not a one-time profit release from HBM4. The market baseline is an operating profit of about 77 trillion KRW. What truly determines the stock price reaction is the management's statements on HBM4's volume ramp-up in the second half, Nvidia Rubin supply, and 2027 pricing.
1. Q3 Profit Expectations: High sequential growth, but divergence is widening
• Brokerage consensus expects operating profit of about 76.96 trillion KRW, a 27% increase from Q2's 60.54 trillion KRW
• Optimists (Meritz): 80.1 trillion KRW, DRAM shipments +13%, average price +22%, operating margin hitting 80%
• Conservatives (DS Investment): 70.1 trillion KRW, a 5.6% downward revision from the consensus three months ago
The core reason for the downgrade is not a demand collapse, but a delayed shipment schedule for HBM4—Nvidia Rubin platform delay, longer-than-expected certification and performance tuning, with some capacity reverting to general DRAM.
💡 Simple judgment: results above 77 trillion KRW meet expectations; above 85 trillion KRW counts as a "significant beat" tier.
2. The Real Contribution Rhythm of HBM4 to Profit
Q3 is a transition quarter; Q4 is when HBM4 begins to make a visible contribution.
• The company confirmed in the Q2 conference call: HBM4 started mass shipments in Q2, with yields close to the mature level of HBM3E, and a full ramp-up in the second half $TSLA
The number of active FSD users has increased to 1.74 million. Why can't we simply multiply this by the monthly fee to calculate revenue?
The Q3 report disclosed 1.74 million active FSD users, up from 1.48 million in Q2; a footnote explains that this figure includes both one-time purchases and monthly subscriptions, excluding free trials. It is not 1.74 million monthly paying accounts.
The growth in numbers indicates expanded software adoption, but revenue also depends on payment methods, retention, regional pricing, and recognition timing. Multiplying a mixed metric directly by a uniform monthly fee would overestimate recurring revenue.
If paying users, retention, and software gross margin all improve together, the business realization is more credible; if new adoption does not bring corresponding revenue, the valuation should be lowered in projections. FSD still requires active driver supervision and cannot be considered fully autonomous driving realized just because adoption is growing.$RIVER is really stable, several times it couldn't hold below 1. Keep holding, the overall trend remains bearish. The dog whales control the market, beware of sudden spikes.
Long-short ratio: Retail investors are bullish.
Retail side: Binance retail account long-short ratio is 2.7355, OKX retail account long-short ratio is as high as 2.8.
Whale side: Whale count long-short ratio is 2.9417 (looks like many people), but whale position long-short ratio has sharply shrunk to 1.5313.
Conclusion: Note that the whale count long-short ratio is as high as 2.94, even more fervent than retail investors, but the position long-short ratio is only 1.53.
This indicates there are many "hype groups" among whales, placing small orders shouting "bottom fishing";
But the real big money (position size) is only half that of retail investors.
Combined with the 1H/4H zero liquidation on the short side and continuous casualties on the long side, this clearly shows whales/market makers are exploiting retail investors' illusion that "after a 98% drop, it must be the bottom," quietly distributing chips, or using a small number of long orders as bait to lure retail investors to catch falling knives, while setting up short orders in contracts waiting to close the net.
$BTC $ETH #10月FOMC临近，美联储暂停加息还有哪些变数？ Semiconductors, with enough space both above and below 💹
The semiconductor sector plunged nearly 20% in just 14 trading days, while the S&P 500 index appears to have a mild decline. This divergence of "underlying hardware collapsing first, surface index holding strong" reveals the most vulnerable spot in the current US stock market structure.
In the AI industry chain, semiconductors are at the very upstream, profiting from the "capital expenditure arms race" of tech giants. $SOXQ dropping 20% in 14 days indicates that smart money is front-running a forecast: the growth rate of cloud giants' endless card-buying and cash-burning has peaked. If downstream software and applications fail to generate matching cash flow to cover hundreds of billions of dollars in annual hardware depreciation, the high-margin myth of upstream shovel sellers will be the first to face valuation cuts.
TS Lombard's warning of "$20 trillion evaporated, the market down 30%" essentially calculates a math equation of earnings per share + price-to-earnings ratio double hit. The real trigger would be large-scale corporate cuts in AI budgets, confirming the falsification of large model commercialization; tech giants facing massive impairment of computing power assets, cliff-like profit declines, passive index funds encountering panic redemptions, causing indiscriminate stampedes.
A pure stock market technical correction won't cause casualties, but if the semiconductor crash triggers credit market tightening (like BTC and other high Beta risk assets losing support and breaking down simultaneously), it means institutions are indiscriminately selling assets to cover margin calls, bringing TS Lombard's "systemic deleveraging" warning dangerously close.Backlog surged to about $17.8 billion, revenue up about +54% YoY, yet on Friday it plunged over 9% in one go. $FIX This bearish candle feels more like a hit to sentiment than to the financials.
Comfort Systems reported Q3 on Thursday night Eastern Time: revenue about $3.77 billion vs. market expectation of about $3.39 billion, up about +53.7% YoY; diluted EPS about 13.91 vs. about 12.81 expected, up about +68.6% YoY.
Backlog about $17.81 billion, up about $3.75 billion QoQ, nearly doubled YoY; operating cash flow for the quarter about $1.01 billion. Tech/data center business share increased to about 59%.
But on Friday it closed at 1160.86 (down about -9.26%, opened about 1211.80/high about 1212.52/low about 1111.11, previous close about 1279), intraday dropped as much as about 13%. Same day, CFO announced retirement at year-end, and the market was also selling off AI infrastructure chains.
I trust the numbers, but the price action looks more like the market asking "How long can AI infrastructure hold up?" rather than buying all the orders in one day. Let's see if it can hold around 1111–1160 on Monday; only if it recovers to about 1212–1279 can we talk again; if daily closes break below about 1111, this earnings premium is basically gone.
Do you believe the backlog piling up to $17.8 billion will keep pushing the price up, or do you trust Friday's bearish candle as an early sign of cooling off?
$FIX
#Today'sMarketTalk BTC周末一度跌破8万美元，最低触及约79,280美元。短短四小时，全市场爆仓超过4亿美元，其中绝大部分来自多头。 随后BTC重新站上8万美元，看起来似乎有惊无险。但问题在于，价格收回来了，资金却没有同步回归。 最新美国交易日，BTC现货ETF仍净流出约1.38亿美元，稳定币供应继续收缩，Solana跨链资金也保持净流出。与此同时，OKX代币化股票计划遭遇更多上市公司异议，Initia则因安全漏洞暂停网络。 这轮行情最值得警惕的，不是BTC曾经跌破8万美元，而是急跌之后，市场究竟还有多少真实买盘愿意接住价格。 📉 市场：BTC跌破8万美元后反弹，杠杆多头集中出清 截至10月25日约10:23 HKT，BTC报80,803.20美元，24小时下跌0.10%；ETH报2,361.07美元，下跌0.80%；SOL报102.32美元，下跌0.20%。 CoinGecko数据显示，加密市场总市值约2.8万亿美元，BTC市占率约57.97%。 从24小时涨跌幅来看，三大主流币似乎只是小幅调整。 但盘中发生的事情远比这些数字激烈。 根据The Block援引的CoinGlass数据，BTC在周末一$PONS continues to hold, with the overall trend still bearish. Cautiously bottom-fishing.
Long-short ratio: Retail investors are fervently bullish.
Retail side: Binance retail account long-short ratio is 1.1505, OKX retail account long-short ratio is as high as 2.01.
Whale side: Whale count long-short ratio is 1.5031 (quite a few are bullish), but whale position long-short ratio is 2.1179.
Conclusion: Note that the whale position long-short ratio is as high as 2.11. On the surface, whales appear heavily long, but combined with the 24H liquidation data (longs liquidated 400,000 U) and the continuous price decline, this looks more like a carefully set "bull trap." Whales maintain long positions with a small amount of capital to create a false impression, attracting retail investors to follow, while actually distributing quietly or waiting for macro bearish factors (such as BTC weakening) to trigger a chain liquidation of retail longs.
$BTC $ETH #10月FOMC临近，美联储暂停加息还有哪些变数？ This round of bulls has indeed been hit hard: about $542 million worth of liquidations across the entire network in 24 hours, with long positions liquidated at $460 million, accounting for about 85%, and over 115,000 people liquidated.
1️⃣ BTC liquidations at $175 million, longs accounting for 88.6%
2️⃣ ETH liquidations at $157 million, longs accounting for 84.4%
3️⃣ SOL liquidations at $23.91 million
4️⃣ ZEC liquidations at $14.32 million
However, $542 million liquidated in 24 hours, this market just finished dropping and has started short selling again.
What’s really worth watching is that the short-term cycle has already changed direction.
In the past 4 hours, liquidations reached $18.41 million, shorts accounted for $14.61 million; in the past 1 hour, liquidations were $2.61 million, with shorts close to $1.99 million. The 24-hour period is still focused on liquidating longs, but the recent 4 hours have shifted to shorts dominating, possibly indicating a market change.
This shows that after continuous declines, the market has entered a phase of two-way liquidations; those who chased longs earlier have just been washed out, and those chasing shorts are now starting to get hit. I think it’s best not to operate lightly at this time.
Currently, the overall trend remains weak, and short-term is no longer suitable for us to chase shorts at low levels. The current rebound is not a trend reversal, but more like the market cleaning out longs and then conveniently harvesting a batch of short-chasing funds again. $CP The volume has picked up these past two days, and more people are bottom-fishing again. Now there is stagnation in the rise, and it might drop further. Be cautious when bottom-fishing. This is a highly controlled low-quality token, with extremely negative funding rates.
On-chain core signal: Look at the transfer records on the right side, Aerodrome Finance : CL Pool is frantically transferring CP to unknown addresses.
This indicates that market makers or project teams are withdrawing liquidity from the DEX pool or moving chips to prepare to dump on centralized exchanges.
Long-short ratio: OKX account long-short ratio is as high as 2.38.
$BTC $ETH#With the October FOMC approaching, what uncertainties remain with the Federal Reserve pausing rate hikes? $HYPE just completed another previous order at 75.1
Hopefully it will drop further to fill my other orders as well, entering a weekly adjustment phase. Just patiently wait for the orders to fill. Spot trading is very simple and quite boring, not much to say. On the other hand, contracts have new things every second because it's always like walking a tightrope. Spot trading is like climbing mountain after mountain, rising and falling slowly.
I feel like I've said everything I wanted to say, but many people still repeatedly ask at what price to build a position in HYPE. I've posted about this before; you can check my HYPE series quotes to see my past judgments and live trading operations.
October is discount month, so seize the opportunity in spot trading. HYPE is different from other coins; it has an independent market trend and has already entered the main upward wave. Currently, it has just entered a weekly-level adjustment, and the adjustment range and duration may be shorter than other altcoins.
In the crypto circle, Fat Donglai, I believe, is still very worth allocating. You can check related logic in historical posts.When the tide recedes, you see who is swimming naked; when macro headwinds arise, you see the true quality of capital.
BTC has flipped from support to resistance, with a complete bearish alignment on the hourly chart. The ETF cost line at 81,300 and the 50-day moving average at 81,700 overlap here, forming the last short-term defense line; if broken, the support below points directly to 73,000–75,000. ETH looks even more distressed: the whale's $396 million long liquidation price has been pushed down to 2,181, with the lowest price touching 2,282, only about $30 away from liquidation; 2,400 is the premise for a rebound, and if 2,300 breaks, the downside space will immediately open.
Altcoins: the index is lying, but the breadth is telling the truth. The altcoin season index has risen to 66, a one-year high, but 20 out of 26 narrative categories are falling, with breadth only at 23.1%, compared to 92% two weeks ago. Over the past 15 days, the altcoin market has seen outflows exceeding $134 billion, with the top ten altcoins absorbing more than 80% of the funds. This is not rotation, but contraction—the existing funds are fighting each other in an increasingly narrow pool.
BTC's 81K and ETH's 2,300 are observation windows; if broken, they are broken, and the structure will not change just because "it has fallen a lot." Altcoin liquidity is being lost unilaterally, anchored by liquidity rather than by the extent of the decline. A broad altcoin rally requires Bitcoin to strengthen first.
When the tide recedes, many swim naked, but few hold the oars. #SK海力士Q3财报在即，HBM4能否提振盈利？ The official says "handing over to the community," but in reality, it's offloading operational burdens: a harsh translation of Core DAO 10.25 latest updates
The official withdrawal from running official validator nodes and handing block production tasks to the community is packaged as a transfer of power and a move toward autonomy. Stripping away the rhetoric, the essence is to shed the heavy operational burden, no longer bearing server costs, network failures, or the ultimate responsibility for chain stability.
Currently, there are only about 20 active independent validators left, with low security redundancy, dangerously close to the red line of 15 nodes going offline. Instead of expanding the node group to 31 as planned, it has been continuously shrinking. Core permissions such as code upgrades, hard fork initiation, and treasury CORE token allocation remain firmly in the hands of the project team and have not truly been handed over to the community.
Past risks have not been eliminated: the ghost tokens left from the 8.31 vulnerability continue to circulate, SatPay is delayed without public testing, on-chain gas revenue is extremely low, Q3 revenue buybacks failed due to lack of cash flow, and large token transfers from reserve addresses still occur frequently.
Staking BTC relies on Bitcoin's CLTV timelock, with private keys self-held, so principal is not affected by Core chain consensus risks.
Simple translation: this is not decentralization or shared governance; it's a refusal to keep spending money to bear responsibility; the pressure is passed to a few validators, while profit-related permissions are retained by themselves. Bitcoin plunged to 79,221 in the middle of the night, breaking the nearly 30-day low of 79,800; Ethereum also dropped to 2,282, similarly breaking the 30-day low of 2,318. According to many people's habits, this would be the time to call the trend bearish.
But looking again in the morning, Bitcoin bounced back to 80,890, and Ethereum returned to 2,366, both fully recovering. The break only left a lower shadow wick.
This is what I often say: an intraday break doesn't count as a real break if it recovers. Trend trading looks for confirmation, not a momentary scare. A true break is when the price can't recover after breaking and keeps falling; a false break is when it breaks but then recovers, showing support below.
Today's market itself isn't strong: among the top 30 coins by trading volume, only 10 closed in the green, with a median of -0.74%. BNB is the strongest among them, at 744.33, up 0.49%. Weak, but not panic.
My view remains unchanged: until the big picture turns bad, don't change your plan because of a single spike; if you really need to adjust, wait for the close confirmation, not just that moment in the middle of the night.
For that kind of false break last night, did you wait for the close confirmation, or did you already act according to your own rules?$BTC $ETH #SK Hynix Q3 earnings report is imminent, can HBM4 boost profitability? SK Hynix is very likely to deliver another historic performance in its Q3 earnings report. Institutions generally expect its Q3 revenue to be about 98 trillion KRW, operating profit between 77 trillion and 80 trillion KRW, with an operating margin close to 78%, potentially setting a new single-quarter record again. The core drivers remain the dual engines of “HBM long-term contracts + DRAM price increases.” HBM4 was mass-produced ahead of schedule in the first half of the year, and capacity ramp-up in the second half will drive up the overall ASP; general DRAM contract prices rose significantly more than expected in Q3, with server and mobile DRAM prices strengthening simultaneously. However, profit elasticity is not unlimited: about 60% of HBM capacity is locked in by earlier low-price long-term contracts, limiting the benefit from spot price increases, which is why some institutions have slightly lowered their expectations recently. What truly deserves attention is not the absolute profit value, but three signals: first, the supply progress and market share of HBM4 for Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform; second, management’s judgment on the supply-demand pattern and price trends for 2027; third, whether capital expenditure and shareholder return plans provide clearer guidance. If management confirms that “the boom will last at least until 2027” and HBM4’s share remains stable, the storage supercycle logic will be further strengthened; conversely, if price growth slows or LTA details fall short of expectations, the market may reprice the “peak” risk.Performance This Week
The European STOXX 50 fell about 2.2% cumulatively this week, marking the largest single-week drop in nearly three months.
The German DAX30 fell about 2% cumulatively this week.
The European STOXX 600 fell about 1.6% cumulatively this week.
Main Reasons for the Decline
French Fiscal and Political Risks: Large-scale protests erupted in France, pushing up government bond yields, widening the France-Germany bond yield spread to a 15-year high, dragging down French and European stock markets.
AI Sector Sell-off Spreads: The market is concerned about the returns on massive capital expenditures in AI, leading to collective declines in European semiconductor stocks such as ASML, Infineon, and STMicroelectronics.
Oil Price Surge: Tensions in the Middle East pushed Brent crude oil above $117 per barrel, increasing energy costs and exacerbating inflationary pressures in Europe.
Individual Stock Drag: Volvo Cars plummeted over 27% due to poor performance, and Kering Group (Gucci's parent company) fell over 10%.#SK海力士Q3财报在即，HBM4能否提振盈利？ #SK海力士Q3财报在即，HBM4能否提振盈利？ It will exceed expectations, but the stock price will decline #BTC现货ETF资金反复，市场买盘能否企稳？ 早起一看，大饼又回到81000附近晃荡了，好像昨晚啥也没发生似的。昨晚我瞎挂在79748的小单子被触发了，也算吃到一点7开头的 $BTC 。 看麻吉大哥真有点惨，据 Lookonchain 监测，Machi @machibigbrother 在 1 小时内被清算 5 次，目前账户仅剩约 5000 美元，再次被精准爆破了。不知道他有没有再开仓抄底，早上看新闻说有个巨鲸于 10 小时前在链上以均价 2315 美元买入 2887.49 枚 ETH，价值 668 万美元。该巨鲸买入 10 分钟后，大盘触及短时底部并开始反弹，目前浮盈 12.2 万美元。但愿是麻吉的小号吧，希望大哥能挺住，继续撑住多军的大旗。 8万是心理防线，但防守一次比一次弱。昨晚BTC直接扎到79220，这不是什么“健康回调”，就是一场针对杠杆多头的定点清除。 BTC市占率已经怼到60%以上了，ETH、SOL跌幅全比BTC大，SOL多头爆仓1730万，负费率跟多头清算互相喂饭。前300大山寨一周中位数跌了快4个点，BTC同期才跌0.7%。资金在往大饼缩，山寨在裸泳。 9$ETH
Has rebounded significantly from the low, so why is the 24-hour return still negative?
In this morning's spot snapshot, ETH's 24-hour price change was -0.62%, ranging between 2282.85 and 2390.48 USDT.
A rebound from the low and rolling returns answer different questions. The price moving away from 2282.85 does not mean the entire day's losses have been recovered; when BTC is nearly flat, ETH remains weak, indicating that relative strength has not improved in sync.
If the ETH to BTC ratio starts to rise steadily, the rotation explanation is more credible; if only the USD price rebounds while the ratio continues to decline, it should be understood as a follow-up correction.At 09:00, CAP's trading volume was nearly double the average volume of the previous hours, while the nominal value of open interest slightly decreased.
At 09:00, OKEx perpetual contracts closed from $0.08045 to $0.08107, with a nominal trading volume of about $990,000, which is 1.92 times the average volume of the previous 24 closed hours. As of 10:27 Beijing time, the price is about $0.08284, up approximately 18% in 24 hours.
The nominal value of open interest in the hourly contract statistics dropped from about $2.88 million at 08:00 to about $2.84 million at 09:00. My judgment is that this price increase was accompanied by more active trading, but open interest did not rise correspondingly. If you only look at the daily price increase, it’s easy to mistake the amplified trading volume as new positions entering the market.
Nominal open interest is affected by price changes, and two-hour data cannot distinguish which side is exiting. If in the following full hour the price stands above $0.08329 and open interest rises simultaneously, I will revise my judgment; if it falls below $0.08045, the sustainability of the volume surge at 09:00 will be questionable.
$CAP Volume has shrunk. The pace has slowed down. ⚡
With Meme this time, I'll first watch for support, not rush to look for a rebound. It's lively, but in the short term, the biggest fear is mistaking sentiment for liquidity.
As of 10:01 on October 25, the combined core trading volume of major Meme markets like Solana, Robinhood, and BNB was about $168 million, down 18.8% day-over-day. Robinhood was about $51.08 million, down 13.9%, the smallest decline among the three major markets.
My judgment: This is somewhat negative for short-term sentiment, but it doesn't directly mean prices will fall. Cooling trading volume indicates shrinking trading enthusiasm; if the order book depth also thins simultaneously, then the same order could cause greater volatility. Robinhood's smaller decline only means its trading volume is relatively more resistant to shrinking; it doesn't prove that funds are flowing in.
When I look at inflows and outflows, I consider volume recovery and price support together. If the price just spikes but volume doesn't keep up, I'll wait first; if after a volume surge the pullback still finds support, then I'll consider participating. Exiting follows the same logic: if support fails, I won't comfort myself by "waiting for the heat to come back." Quick hands are fine, but the reasoning can't lag behind.
When you encounter news of nearly a 20% drop in daily trading volume, do you pause and wait for volume to return, or continue observing the markets with smaller declines? Which confirmation signal do you value most?The consensus that $BTC has already bottomed is precisely what makes it suspect. Every cycle low has left a recognizable fingerprint, and this one has yet to press a complete set. The historical checklist is unglamorous but consistent. A bottom typically forms near the 0.786 Fibonacci retracement, with weekly oversold readings accompanied by bullish divergence. Price tends to sit at or below the 200-week moving average. And buyers usually endure successive liquidation cascades running into the t💻 I treat this message as a code review: As of 10:01 on October 25, the combined core trading volume of major Meme markets such as Solana, Robinhood, and BNB was about $168 million, a day-on-day decrease of 18.8%. Among them, Robinhood was about $51.08 million, down 13.9%, the smallest decline among the three major markets.
My judgment is: this is a signal of cooling trading enthusiasm, but directly translating it as "Meme market is over" has not passed logical testing. For players who frequently enter and exit and rely on liquidity, this data comparison is more important than just watching the excitement.
Logically, a decrease in trading volume indicates a decline in trading activity within this statistical group, but it cannot distinguish whether it is a retreat of buying interest or a reduction in short-term turnover. Robinhood's smaller drop only indicates relative resistance to decline and cannot be used to conclude that funds are migrating there.
A potential bug lies in the statistical scope: which assets are covered by "core trading volume," and whether the markets are comparable; the material does not elaborate. If the volume shrinkage is accompanied by thinner order books, then slippage might be more painful; this is my speculation, not a concluded fact.
If I were to revise this judgment process, I would additionally check several consecutive days of trading volume, active trader numbers, and order book depth before deciding whether to upgrade the risk alert. Please help me review: to confirm this cooling, which data would you most want to supplement? Where is the flaw in my logic?$LIGHT is up +37.7% in the last 24 hours, but what’s driving it isn’t contract leverage, it’s spot buying — which you actually can’t see on OKX.
Three numbers:
1) The funding rate is stuck firmly at the 0.005% floor, exactly the same for 36 of the last 40 periods. The longs haven’t pushed at all, and the usual premium during a real rally hasn’t appeared.
2) OKX open interest is only $1.93 million, but 24-hour perpetual contract volume is $46.9 million, a turnover of 24 times. And there’s no LIGHT spot on OKX at all, only 10x perpetuals (launching 2025-12-15).
3) The buying is on-chain: PancakeSwap V3 pool on BSC has $19.07 million in 24h volume, with pool liquidity only $1.78 million. The total circulating market cap is just $13.5 million.
Two numbers to cool things down: total supply is 420 million tokens, circulating supply only 43.06 million, FDV of $132 million is 9.8 times the market cap; current price $0.3158 is only 6.6% of the ATH $4.8.
Bitlight is building RGB protocol + Lightning Network (RLN client, RGB Lightning Node v0.0.9).
No contract premium, no spot anchor for the price rise — do you dare to take it?📊 As of now, the implied probability of no change in interest rates futures for October is about 85%–90%, and the vast majority of 100 economists also expect no change in October. But almost all respondents expect another hike in December. Why not hike directly now?
September CPI year-on-year is 3.7%, PPI year-on-year is 6.3%, inflation pressure remains; meanwhile, September nonfarm payrolls increased by only 29,000, giving the Federal Reserve a reason to "wait one more step." More importantly, September PCE will not be released until October 29, later than this decision. No rate hike in October does not mean the tightening cycle is over. For BTC, the real risk is not a single pause, but the market repricing "high rates lasting longer."
Currently, BTC is fluctuating around 80,800. In the past few days, US spot BTC ETFs have seen continuous net outflows (about $635 million outflow on the 22nd alone, continuing on the 23rd), with institutional buying strength clearly weakening. Leveraged longs have been shaken out, but spot buying has not shown obvious follow-through.
⚠️ My judgment is: temporarily holding around 80,000 does not mean the risk is gone. If it can only fluctuate between 80,000 and 82,000 but never firmly hold above 82,000, this rebound is still weak. Conversely, if it dips again but quickly recovers accompanied by ETF capital inflows, that is more worth watching.
What we fear most now is not breaking below 80,000, but repeatedly breaking below with weaker and weaker rebounds. $BTC #FOMC #FederalReserve #BTC #Macroeconomics #Robinhood交易业务增长能否延续？ It's difficult, the business volume is limited, mostly small retail investors. It can't really take off#SK海力士Q3财报在即，HBM4能否提振盈利？ In short: The main driver of Q3 profits is not HBM4, but the long-term contract for HBM3E plus the price increase of server DRAM; HBM4 is more about valuation and growth logic after Q4, with limited contribution this quarter, making it the biggest variable to watch in the earnings report.The Worldcoin project-related address has cumulatively deposited 10.5 million $WLD to exchanges in the past 11 hours, valued at 4.857 million USD 👀
Tracing the source of funds backward, these are $WLD funds transferred by the project team 3 years ago; another related address also transferred tokens worth 1.61 million USD to exchanges three days ago
Wallet address 0x9b6614727CE1525DaEEd6f7607Ed0719f4a98fE3Subscription revenue is a relatively stable cash flow that smooths out the cyclical fluctuations of trading business.
⚠️ Core risks restricting growth (also the growth ceiling)
1. Trading business is inherently highly cyclical, heavily dependent on retail investors' risk appetite and market volatility
The trading volume of options and event contracts is strongly tied to VIX and hot events. If the US stock market enters a low volatility range and macro uncertainty decreases, retail trading enthusiasm will decline, and the trading volume of options and event contracts will cool down rapidly, causing a significant slowdown in trading revenue growth. Historically, after the retail boom faded in 2021, Robinhood experienced a prolonged downturn.
2. Regulatory risk is the biggest black swan
◦ The compliance boundaries of prediction markets and event contracts are unclear, with varying regulatory attitudes across US states, posing risks of restrictions and tighter licensing;
◦ Derivatives, high-leverage perpetual contracts, and AI automated trading agents will attract stricter SEC scrutiny;
◦ The crypto business itself remains under pressure, with high uncertainty in US crypto regulation, limiting the recovery potential of this segment.
3. Competitive pressure
Schwab, Webull, and IB are all increasing zero-commission options, community trading, and AI tools; Robinhood's advantage lies in rapid product launches and appeal to young users, but under the commission war, relying solely on fees makes it difficult to continuously capture market share, so continuous product innovation is necessary.
4. Growth naturally slows after the base rises
The event contract segment currently has a small base, allowing for hundredfold growth; once this business scale grows, high growth will converge to the growth levels of options and stocks, making it difficult to sustain an overall 40%+ growth long term #SKhynixQ3HBM4Earnings
Samsung's operating profit for Q3 is expected to increase by about 8 times — it seems like cheating, but upon closer inspection, AI for storage, HBM4 shipments, and rising prices of storage chips all contributed to this.
The full financial report will be announced on October 29. The community has already started to cool down the enthusiasm: profits exceeded expectations, but the increase is limited; strong forecasts have already been priced into the stock, so an initial pullback may occur after the announcement.Bitcoin hasn't escaped any of the past four midterm elections.
In 2010, it retraced 72%. In 2014, 65%. In 2018, 52%. In 2022, 27%.
What's even more painful is Q4. In three of the past four midterm election years, Q4 posted negative returns — down 16.7% in 2014, 42% in 2018, and 14.75% in 2022.
Voting is on November 3rd, less than 10 days away.
It's not shameful to be anxious. The data is right here; ignoring it is self-deception.
In 2014, 2018, and 2022, the bear market lows all appeared after the election. The lows were 71, 38, and 13 days after election day in January 2015, December 2018, and November 2022, respectively.
What about this year?
The low was on July 1st at $57,850, 125 days before the election.
By October 22nd, the price had already rebounded to $81,455, about 40% up from the low.
The market has already priced in the "election bottom" early. Using the script of "bottom only after the election" now is applying the wrong timeline.
Ali Charts clearly states: around $73,000 is close to the average purchase cost of short-term holders. In an established bull market, deep pullbacks often find support around this level.
Coincidentally, Strategy holds 848,000 BTC at an average cost of $75,446.
Short-term holders' cost is $73,000, institutional cost is $75,446. Both figures cluster in the same range.
The real damage of the election curse isn't in the word "election" itself, but that it may act as a catalyst for the price to test the shared cost zone of $73,000–$75,000. If it falls there but doesn't break, the bull market continues; if it breaks, that's the real problem.
BTC's intraday low today was $79,146, already below $80,000, down about 2.7% in 24 hours.
The liquidation heatmap shows $80,000–$80,844 as a dense liquidation zone, with about $3.6 billion long positions near $79,000 below.
$80,000 is the first gate. $78,000 is the second. $73,000–$75,000 is the final gate testing the true strength.
CoinDesk's judgment is worth serious consideration: Bitcoin's midterm weakness reflects more its own market cycle than the election itself.
The election is just a date on the calendar. The cost zone is real money on the ledger.
Elections cause volatility; cost determines survival.
It can drop on November 3rd, but $73,000–$75,000 cannot be lost.
$BTC $ETH $SOL Under the surgical light, the blood vessel has been opened, but the blood pressure on the monitor is dropping.
This is the scene I least want to see on the operating table—a success anatomically, but a disaster hemodynamically. Today's phase III data is like that just-opened bridge vessel: a 42% reduction in risk of recurrence or death, a 38% reduction in risk of distant metastasis or death, statistically significant for the dual endpoints, with the primary endpoint already achieved. Angiographically, the anastomosis looks perfect, no residual stenosis, and grade 3 blood flow. Yet the stock price crashed over 26% intraday and still lost 17.6% by close.
The problem has never been the vessel, but the myocardium.
The market pump has long been overloaded due to "expectations," causing compensatory hypertrophy. This year's gains are like that thickened ventricular wall—looking strong but actually stiff, with poor compliance and diastolic dysfunction long established. When the good news finally lands, it's like suddenly removing the preload; the hypertrophied myocardium instantly decompensates. This is not a complication from the data, but reperfusion injury: the heart didn't die during ischemia, but when blood flow returns, arrhythmias occur. The 42% and 38% figures were already converted into "cure" and priced in during preoperative discussions. When the surgeon actually opens the chest, the only option is standard procedure—the expectation gap is the ventricular fibrillation caused by reperfusion.
What's worse is that the more beautifully this surgical record is written, the more it exposes a fact: the lesion was removed, but the patient's cardiac function grading was never truly assessed. The market previously priced not efficacy, but "better than efficacy." This optimistic sentiment itself is a latent cardiomyopathy, with normal ECG at rest but revealed under stress testing.
As for the $XAUT linkage line, it resembles intraoperative extracorporeal circulation support—when the market myocardium is stunned and blood pressure can't hold, capital instinctively seeks perfusion sources, and gold targets become temporary left heart support. But assist devices save pump failure, not preoperative assessment errors.
What is truly fatal has never been tumor recurrence, but turning "42% risk reduction" into "42% cure rate" during preoperative talks. #modernaearlydisclosure【Raised $12 billion to buy BTC, but Strategy can't keep up with buying coins?】
The treasury company has raised funds through preferred shares and has cumulatively purchased 136,000 $BTC, accounting for over 0.5% of the total supply cap. Data shows that as of October 5, the scale of these preferred shares is about $12 billion, indeed opening a new buying channel for Bitcoin.
However, the latest weekly data is a bit glaring: Strategy spent $193.1 million to repurchase STRC but only $22.1 million to buy 267 BTC, with a fund usage ratio close to 9 to 1. The company also raised the repurchase authorization for preferred shares to $3 billion.
The contradiction in this financing model lies here: preferred shares can attract investors who want to earn returns but are unwilling to hold BTC directly, yet dividends must be continuously paid. If the stock price falls below par value, new financing becomes more difficult; the company must first stabilize the financing instrument, so the speed of buying coins naturally may slow down.
This does not mean Strategy has lost confidence in BTC; it’s just that the financing instrument itself needs maintenance. If preferred shares can recover to trade near par value and issuance continues to expand, this demand channel still has growth potential; if discounts persist and dividend pressure rises, funds for buying coins may be squeezed out. What needs to be watched now is whether the preferred share price can stabilize and whether new issuance will convert back into actual coin purchases.This technical position analysis is basically valid, but the core contradiction is not in the position itself, rather in the fact that macro pricing before and after the FOMC has not yet unified.
BTC at $80,000 is a psychological barrier, but what truly determines whether it can hold is the ETF capital flow and whether the dollar and U.S. Treasury yields coordinate synchronously. The daily MACD death cross and weak RSI indicate insufficient short-term momentum, but if there is volume-supported buying near 80,000, it can only be considered a rebound window, not a direct trend reversal. The judgment that ETH is weaker than BTC also holds; there is obvious resistance near $2,400, and capital support is still weaker than BTC. SOL is testing support near $100, with $100–$102 being a recent key area; if it breaks below, watch out for $97 and $92–$95 below, while a rebound must first reclaim $105–$107.
On the macro side, it is highly likely that interest rates will remain unchanged in October, but the probability of a 25 basis point hike in December remains in the 67%–75% range; a pause does not equal easing. More importantly is the post-meeting statement: how Waller explains the pause, whether the tightening bias is retained, and whether inflation stickiness continues to be emphasized—these will influence crypto market elasticity more than the decision itself.
In terms of operations, it is not advisable to heavily bet on direction before the FOMC. For BTC, watch if 80,000 can hold; for ETH, watch if $2,400 can be reclaimed; for SOL, watch if $100 is effective. Position sizing is more important than judgment; after the decision, observe whether capital flows back. The above is for market communication only and does not constitute investment advice.
$BTC $ETH $BTC Comprehensive Analysis
Dow Theory confirms 79145 false breakdown = bear trap
Chan Theory bottom fractal confirmed + new core reconstruction, 79700-80300 is a secondary buy zone
Wave Theory Y' wave likely ends, new impulse wave starting point
Volume-price relationship three consecutive declining candles + Delta turning positive = selling pressure exhausted
Order flow 1.479 billion post-low Delta = main force aggressively accumulating
Price action spring bottom + long lower shadow + minimal volume consolidation = eve of reversal.
Six-dimensional comprehensive: 79145 is very likely the ultimate bottom of the six-week grinder, currently at the starting area of a new market cycle. However, Sunday's 300 million minimal volume cannot confirm direction; Monday (10-26) US session's movement will determine the direction for the next three months
Short-term strategy recommendation (turning bullish):
Short positions handling: All short positions should be fully closed with profits in the 79700-80000 range. The +1.479 billion post-low Delta at 79145 proves the bear power is exhausted; continuing shorts is very risky
Long positions already entered (79500-80200): Hold, move stop loss to 79500 (below spring low), targets 81400→82000→83550
For those not yet entered: Currently 80667 can be lightly bought (1/3 position), stop loss 79500; if Monday retraces to 79700-80300, add to normal position; break above 81400 add another 1/3 #BTC spot ETF weekly inflow hits near one-year high Over the weekend, BTC fell below 80,000.
The low was 79,146 USD, down 2.7% in 24 hours. The entire network saw liquidations of $820 million, with long positions accounting for 93.1%, and over 213,000 people forcibly liquidated.
Within a single hour, $200 million in leverage evaporated.
If you’re still treating 80,000 as a “key support,” you’re already behind the curve.
This isn’t testing support. This is breaking through support.
What’s even more painful: the sell-off wasn’t caused by a black swan event, but by three things happening simultaneously.
First, ETFs are running. On October 22, spot Bitcoin ETFs saw a net outflow of $635.6 million, the largest single-day outflow since June; on the 23rd, another $137.9 million flowed out, totaling $774 million over two days. BlackRock’s IBIT alone withdrew $254 million.
Second, the Nasdaq is falling. On October 22, the Nasdaq dropped 2.6%, with tech stocks being heavily sold off. The risk appetite for crypto and tech stocks is now tied together.
Third, oil prices are burning. Brent crude hit $112. The Middle East situation is pushing inflation expectations higher, further squeezing the Fed’s room to cut rates.
Institutions withdrawing, stock markets falling, inflation pressure — a triple resonance, with leveraged longs being the first to get crushed.
Now look at the next layer of liquidity — this is the truly critical point.
Coinglass data shows: if the price continues to fall below 79,000, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on major CEXs below is about $855 million; if it rebounds and breaks through 82,000, the short liquidation intensity above is about $519 million.
The longs’ “ammunition” is stacked below, the shorts’ “fuel” is above.
But the price is less than $1,000 away from the lower trigger point.
The resistance going down is much smaller than going up.
Then there’s the Fed on the 28th.
CME data shows a 90.6% probability of no change. The market has almost priced in “no rate hike.”
But “no rate hike” doesn’t equal good news.
Because what really hangs over us isn’t whether they act this time, but whether they will cut rates at all this year.
If the market’s probability for “no rate cut this year” is already absurdly high, then even if the Fed holds steady, it only confirms a bad news that’s already priced in. No new buying, only a battle over existing positions.
What’s more troublesome is that the probability of a rate hike in December has risen to 67.5%, and all 100 economists surveyed by Reuters expect another hike then.
The 28th isn’t the end. It’s the calm before the “second shoe” drops.
80,000 broke — the long liquidation massacre completed its first round.
But the first round of liquidations doesn’t mean the bottom; it only means some leverage has been cleared.
Next, watch three things: whether the $855 million longs below 79,000 will be triggered; whether ETF outflows will stop bleeding; and whether Fed’s Waller on the 28th will call the “pause” a “hawkish pause.”
Those who survive aren’t the ones who guessed the direction right. They’re the ones who weren’t carried away when the direction was wrong.
$BTC $ETH $IRYS JPMorgan has finally incorporated Bitcoin into its ten-year master chart — but the main beam marked "10% annualized" is supported by a cantilever structure with 55% amplitude; such a component, when placed in a wind tunnel, requires recalculating after just three load cycles.
In my field, whether a blueprint can be realized never depends on how pretty the renderings are. The white paper counts as scheme design, the consensus layer as the foundation, and the node implementation as construction quality; but volatility is the wind load, the seismic fortification intensity, a lateral force that must be included in the calculations and cannot be avoided. They provide three levels: baseline 10%, optimistic 17%, pessimistic -9.7%, which is standard envelope design acknowledging uncertainty, and I agree; but setting the annualized volatility at 55% is like stuffing a damper that can reverse at any time into the core tube. The upper tenants won’t feel stability, so how can they talk about long-term holding?
What’s more troublesome is "unstable correlation." Translated into structural terms: the load transfer path is unclear. If a project can’t even clearly explain how vertical loads transfer from the roof to the foundation, it won’t be included in any combined configuration construction drawings. The essence of diversified returns is structural redundancy: two systems back each other up, one fails and the other holds. But when the correlation coefficient between BTC and risk assets jumps between 0.2 and 0.8, that redundancy is illusory, equivalent to drawing two trusses on the same column but marking different safety factors.
Matt Hougan says returns are underestimated and volatility overestimated. I’m familiar with this: the general contractor is saying the design institute is too conservative. Whether conservative or not, don’t listen to words, look at the long-term readings of settlement monitoring points; ten years is the observation period they set themselves.
As for the linkage of US stock token assets like $XPL, essentially it’s an addition and renovation on the existing main structure. The biggest fear in additions isn’t the new dead load, but that the original structure didn’t leave rebar inserts or post-cast joints. Opening a new room upstairs means the shear wall downstairs must first be opened and reinforced; if the process is wrong, cracks will run from the transfer floor all the way to the basement.
One more point: 55% volatility means this system must be designed for a high seismic intensity zone: foundations must be deeper, beam-column joints must have sufficient ductility, and enough inter-story drift angle must be reserved between the curtain wall system and the main structure. All these will add to costs, ultimately borne by the holders. Institutions aren’t afraid to live in tall buildings, but they dare not live in a building where the reinforcement is recalculated every day.
I don’t look at the colors rendered in the renderings, I just ask one question: is the structural design service life of this system written as fifty years, or just "until the next halving cycle"? #jpmorganbtcforecastThree hours, two big players each more ruthless than the other｜Today's Top 5 Decline Rankings Changes (10:00)
$IRYS climbed from 5th to 1st, -29.92%, 24h -66.27%. At 07:00 it was still -3.26%, 3h price -27.55%, position -20.33% (4.26M → 3.39M), volume ratio 49.3. Three days ago it was still number one, 24h changed from +32.44% to -66.27%.
$RLS 4→6, 3h price +0.42% no drop, squeezed out by those hit harder; HUMA 3→11.
$ORDER 2→2, today -23.34%, 24h +45.24%. At 08:00 it bounced +4.80%, 3h price -17.35%, position -7.38% (2.58M → 2.39M), volume ratio 123.8.
$OFC 1→3, today -12.60%. 1h price -0.50%, position -1.14% slow grind, 630K position.
$ZBT 4→9, 3h price -5.92%, position -12.05%, 410K small cap.
$ANIME 6→5, today -8.85%, 24h only +1.26% left. At 06:00 it was still 2nd on the gainers list, fee rate capped at -1.0000%, 3h price -11.58%, position -7.71%, daily gains and losses swapped.📉 79,220 is not the bottom, it's a probe before the meeting
Reconciliation: Last night said breaking 80,458, touching 79,900, at 23:00 smashed to 79,220 all fulfilled, the surrender line 82,300 was not touched. People are exhausted.
Most read it as "washed out." What didn't move were rent and positions.
Fee rate settled at 08:00 is 0.00219%, the lowest in six periods, only up to 20% of the benchmark, premium is still negative. Neither longs nor shorts pay.
Positions of 3 million contracts unchanged for three days; 15m amplitude 0.1305%, cost eaten up by 77%.
Liquidations reversed: 12-hour BTC cleared 169 million, longs 88.7%; recent 4-hour shorts 98.9%.
Not building a bottom, just waiting. FOMC 10/27–28, PMI 57.6 hits a 53-month high.
IRYS down 63.8% in one day, ZEC rose 3.7% against the trend. Clear these tickets before the meeting.
The most expensive before the meeting is not the direction, but the position.
Prediction: Before 10-29 02:00, it won't go out of 79,000–81,300 (lower edge lets pass yesterday's low 79,220; upper edge = today's high 80,985×1.003). If it stands above 81,300 or breaks 79,000, consider me wrong. (Not investment advice)
Before the meeting, first shrink volume to grind, or smash one first?
$BTC #OctoberFOMC approaching, what uncertainties remain with the Fed pausing rate hikes?历史级转折信号： 周六（10-24）79,700第四次测试以"假跌破"方式完成——最低 79,145（破掉79,700 555点），但随后放量反弹至 80,770 收盘，形成 +1,624点长下影。Delta 从三连阴（-31.7/-8.3/-1.9亿）转为 +8.52亿，其中 post-low（79,145之后）Delta 高达 +14.79亿。周日（10-25）3亿地量整理于 80,667。六周绞肉机的"最后一跌"大概率已在79,145终结，但周一能否站稳81,000-82,000是确认关键。 一、道氏理论（Dow Theory） 假跌破+长下影收回，道氏结构出现质变： 道氏视角下，10-24的79,145跌破了六周箱体下沿（79,700），但收盘 80,770 位于下沿上方1,070点——这是经典的"spring"（弹簧）结构：假跌破清洗止损盘，多头迅速收复失地。道氏"低点降低"序列在79,145被否决（未形成有效收盘低于79,700），短期结构从"偏空"转为"中性偏多"。 道氏结论： 假跌破收回=道氏意义上的空头陷阱。79,700从"支撑"升级为"强支撑+弹簧底"，收盘站稳81#SpaceX业绩大增，与特斯拉合并能否推进？
Musk: As long as there is no world war, SpaceX will break through a $100 trillion market cap within 10 years. Setting aside faith, purely based on hardcore calculations of math, physics, and macro liquidity, how long will it actually take?
Math calculation: The current combined SpaceX valuation after merging with xAI is about $2.07T, needing to multiply 48.3 times to reach $100T. To hit the target in 10 years, the compound annual growth rate must maintain an astonishing 47.4%; assuming a 25–30x PE ratio, it would require annual net profits of $3.5T+ and nearly $10T in revenue by then.
Relying only on rockets and broadband, even monopolizing global telecom, the ceiling is only $5T–$8T. To reach $100T, three steps must be completed:
0–5 years: Starlink + defense contracts support a $5T–$8T base
5–15 years: xAI + space orbital data centers, monopolizing space-based AGI computing power, pushing to $20T–$35T
15–30 years: Earth-Moon economic belt and Mars infrastructure taxpayers, creating incremental space GDP
Physical bottleneck: Vacuum does not conduct heat; space computing relies on large radiation panels for cooling and suffers cosmic ray damage. It will take 8–12 years of iteration for costs to outperform terrestrial nuclear power.
Financial pressure: Building tens of thousands of Starships and buying cards to burn money have pushed 5-year CDS to 194 basis points.
Liquidity: Unless there is epic hyperinflation of the dollar, the global capital pool 10 years from now simply cannot hold $100T.At the same time, a tale of two extremes—ZEC surged 6.62% in a single day, while IRYS plummeted 23.35%, tearing the crypto market apart in extreme divergence.
BTC ($80,858, +1.45%): Aftershocks of liquidations remain
Last night, Bitcoin briefly fell below $80,000, with over $800 million liquidated across the network in 24 hours, affecting more than 210,000 traders. Although the current price has slightly recovered, the fear and greed index is only 54, with bulls and bears still locked in a tug-of-war around the $80,000 mark.
ZEC ($1,220, +6.62%): Narrative shift drives independent rally
The key catalyst is the Winklevoss brothers submitting the S-1 filing for a ZEC spot ETF, planning to list on Nasdaq with an initial $100 million subscription intention, directly changing the privacy coin’s narrative. Coupled with a repair demand after prior overselling, ZEC has staged a counter-trend rally.
IRYS ($0.035, -23.35%): A textbook case of leverage collapse
Previously, short squeezes pushed prices up, followed by excessive accumulation of long leverage. Single-day contract trading volume soared 1,035%, with open interest reaching $1.2 billion at one point, ultimately triggering about $68.51 million in chained forced liquidations. Shallow liquidity tokens have no buffer when leverage recedes.
Summary: The market is in a fragile balance post-liquidation, with ZEC’s ETF narrative and IRYS’s leverage clearing forming a stark contrast. In a divergent market, narrative strength and leverage levels determine individual fates, rather than the overall market direction itself. #10月FOMC临近，美联储暂停加息还有哪些变数？ #Robinhood交易业务增长能否延续？
Conclusion: Growth can continue, but with a change in the "billing engine," the growth rate baseline will also shift downward
The trading revenue line has not weakened; its growth driver is shifting from "crypto + interest rates" to "options + stocks + event contracts." Under the baseline scenario, trading revenue in the second half of 2026 can still maintain a year-over-year growth of +10%~20%, with the 2027 growth rate baseline dropping to 10%~15%. Three key factors determine whether it is a "continuation" or a "stall": regulation of event contracts, single contract fee rates for options, and when crypto assets will recover.
A reminder of a timeline: The Q3 2026 earnings report will be disclosed after the U.S. market close on October 27. The latest complete breakdown is for Q2 2026 (ending 6/30).
Latest quarter breakdown: The growth engine has changed
Trading line Q1'26 YoY Q2'26 YoY Q2'26 Revenue Judgment
Options +8% +29% $342 million The most stable cash cow, volume 774 million contracts (+50%), revenue growth slower than volume growth
Stocks +46% +95% $129 million Trading volume $956 billion (+85%), volume and revenue grow in sync, fastest growth and highest quality
Event contracts and other trading income +320% +10x $156 million Annualized about $620 million, new category starting from zero Sunday morning, take out the deadline for $BZ and verify it.
Three criteria, go through them one by one.
First, has the geopolitical signal truly shifted? These past two days, I haven't seen anything that would make me change my judgment; no easing, no loss of control. This point indeed hasn't changed.
Second, has the price pushed further away from the opening day 107.72, and I can't find a new reason? Marked 110.94, three and two-tenths away from my opening price; account at −149.4 (−8.96%). I've looked for new reasons for two days, but simply can't find any.
Third, do a final check before Monday's opening. Today is the last day.
Two out of the three criteria don't hold up. According to the rules I wrote the day before yesterday, this position should go, not "give it one more day."
The forced liquidation price is 136.55, still twenty-five away from the mark, far from liquidation. But that's not why I'm keeping it—the problem with this position has never been whether it will liquidate, but whether the direction is right.
$DOGE +139.24 (+14.35%), marked 0.0778594, forced liquidation price 0.1084158, the farthest away, continue to ignore.
$UNI half position +79.11 (+83.92%), marked 6.8369, the reason hasn't broken, continue to hold.
A few words: the hardest part about setting a fixed deadline isn't executing it, but feeling reluctant when executing. Today I will feel reluctant, but my hand still has to move.
#10月FOMC临近，美联储暂停加息还有哪些变数？ $IRYS big funds, really shows the benefits of having big funds. Didn’t enter when life was boiling, then entered when the team abandoned the position, holding until now. Meanwhile, you and my friends, many lost in longs and shorts, almost liquidated. Although he said there were losses not disclosed, this trade made a profit. It shows that big funds wouldn’t go all-in just for a single coin.
Then, I earned $8,000 on this coin with Ao Ying. For a whale, it’s a drop in the bucket, not even enough for the 10,000 U red envelope he sent the day before yesterday. That red envelope should have been just one normal one, about 2,000 U, which I also grabbed. The rest all had issues, and it seems the OKEx platform refunded him, saying they would compensate again, but who knows if that’s true @allincrypto熬鹰资本 I just finished eating and checked the market, getting caught up by a set of twisted numbers: BTC spot ETF had a net outflow of 138 million on October 23, with 7,562 coins withdrawn the day before; meanwhile, on the same day, ETH spot ETF had a net inflow of 4.4 million, after an outflow of 111 million the previous day, flipping completely in one day 🔄.
Money isn’t running away; it’s just changing seats. BTC pulls back first, ETH probes first, and divergence is more worth watching than moving up or down together.
The three major assets are each moving independently on the market. BTC hovers around 80,755, basically unchanged, with holdings up 1.08%, topping 54 billion; ETH grinds around 2,356, down 0.79%, holdings shrink 1.26%, remaining at 30.3 billion; SOL hovers around 102, down 0.15%, holdings at 6.2 billion, shrinking 0.23%.
The liquidation chart is even more surreal. BTC’s current price is pressed by the brightest liquidation bands above and below—above between 81,000 and 82,000, below around 79,000. The price is squeezed between these two high-pressure lines ⚡; whichever side breaks first will trigger a chain of orders.
On the options side, open interest surged more than fivefold in one day, reaching 45.3 billion. Money isn’t leaving the game; it’s just switching tables to play 🎲.
My stance is very clear:
First, ETF divergence isn’t over; don’t mistake BTC capital withdrawal for a market-wide exit;
Second, with price squeezed between liquidation bands, chasing gains or losses is just crashing into high-pressure lines;
Third, the explosive rise in options positions shows someone is betting on volatility, but betting doesn’t equal direction. I’ll watch first and follow once one side breaks.4 hours vaporized $404 million in long positions, Bitcoin only dropped 1.9%.
Bottomed at $79,280, $208 million vaporized in 15 minutes - not a big drop, but excessive leverage stacking.
Self-check 3 things: leverage not exceeding daily volatility tolerance; maintaining sufficient margin; separate calculation for spot and futures contracts.
Choose a side: is the main cause excessive leverage deserving the outcome, or intentional price dumping to harvest? $BTC #BTCETFFlowSwings