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AI wrote 75% of the code, but it didn’t make itself move faster. Google just poured cold water on AI self-improvement 🦖

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The investigators: Google DeepMind, one of the world’s largest AI labs. What they investigated: the hypothesis of recursive self-improvement—the idea that AI creates a smarter version of itself, which then creates an even smarter next generation, so quickly that humans can’t test, regulate, or simply shut it down in time. The conclusion, in the latest flagship model safety report published on October 14: no evidence of acceleration.

First, three numbers. One: more than 75% of production code at Google DeepMind is now written by AI. The share of code submissions handled entirely by AI rose from 7.5% in April to 11.9% in September. AI is clearly becoming more deeply embedded. Two: around 88% of code changes still need multiple rounds of human guidance—or are written by people themselves. Three: the company’s internal composite capability index, which combines 123 models and 92 benchmarks into a single score, has risen by about 0.1 points per month. There was no statistically significant acceleration after April 1, 2026, either.

The shape of the curve says even more. The flagship generation at the end of 2024 scored around 0.5 points. The previous generation, from this September, scored just over 2.9. Almost every version lies along a straight line. The latest model, Argon, scored around 3.3—the only point that sticks out. But its margin of error is wide enough to overlap with the trend line. Researcher Haydn Belfield, who took part in the evaluation, explained that most of this outperformance comes from increased computing power and organizational investment, not AI accelerating itself.

The data on actual work is even more direct. Google examined 1,389 work logs from Argon acting as an internal agent. The conclusion: the bigger the task, the less likely it is to complete it independently, and the more often a human needs to step in. It managed only about half of internal research engineering tasks, while DeepMind considers 90% the threshold for full automation. Another survey of 12 senior leaders and researchers found that automation is highest for clearly defined, verifiable tasks, and lowest for open-ended scientific creativity, designing new experiments, diagnosing unstable training, and long-term research judgment.

Some context: a month ago, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly said recursive self-improvement was already accelerating. Sam Altman and Elon Musk echoed him. Those remarks sent chip stocks down nearly 6% that day, while Bitcoin was rising ⚠️

My take: this audit isn’t declaring that AI has hit a wall. It is pulling the runaway-acceleration hypothesis down from market expectations. For crypto markets, some assets with an AI narrative premium are priced partly on the assumption that AI will keep getting faster on its own. Now the company best placed to build AI says its internal data shows otherwise. In the short term, that’s clearly a sentiment headwind. But the 75% and 11.9% figures also show that AI is already deeply embedded in production workflows. The underlying demand for payments and settlement in the agent economy hasn’t been overturned 📉

A quick look at the markets: Bitcoin is fluctuating around $82,000, and Ethereum is hovering below $2,500. The market-implied odds of a Fed rate hike in October have risen from 18% to 29% over the past week. In other words, as the AI narrative cools, macroeconomic tensions are tightening.

Do you think AI will lose control of itself first, or will data like this gradually disprove the idea? If fears of another AI acceleration surge return, will Bitcoin once again become a safe haven for capital? Share your thoughts in the comments.

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#比特币现货etf单日净流出2.61亿美元
In just one day, Bitcoin ETFs flipped from $175.7 million in net inflows to $261.4 million in net outflows 🦖
On October 14, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $261.4 million in net outflows. The previous trading day, October 13, they had still recorded $175.7 million in net inflows 📉

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Most of the money came out of the two biggest funds: Fidelity’s FBTC saw $152.7 million withdrawn, and BlackRock’s IBIT saw $110.9 million withdrawn. Those two alone accounted for the vast majority of the day’s redemptions.
But one fund went against the trend: Bitwise’s BITB saw $2.2 million in net inflows, making it the only major product still attracting money 💰
This wasn’t just an ordinary fluctuation in fund flows. Since U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs launched in January 2024, their daily net flows have become one of the most direct, real-time indicators of institutional sentiment. The swing from $175.7 million in inflows to $261.4 million in outflows—more than $400 million in a change of direction—happened in just 24 hours.
Here’s my take: The large redemptions were concentrated in the two biggest funds, Fidelity and BlackRock. This looks more like institutions rebalancing between leading products, and between ETFs and the over-the-counter market, rather than collectively exiting the market. The real signal isn’t what happened on this one day—it’s whether the outflows can be made up over the next few days ⚠️
On the other hand, if net outflows continue for two or three days, Bitcoin’s latest rebound above $80,000 will have less spot-market buying to support it. A rally driven by leverage and sentiment can pull back even faster.
There are three things to watch next: First, will FBTC and IBIT see outflows for a second or third day in a row? Second, can smaller funds like BITB continue attracting money against the trend? Third, can Bitcoin hold the $80,000 level?
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The $1.8 billion stablecoin payment rails have been switched on for the first time today. One card aims to connect settlements across 200 countries 🦖
Mastercard launched its Global Money platform on Thursday, systematically integrating BVNK—the stablecoin infrastructure company it acquired in August for approximately $1.8 billion—into its payment network for the first time. At its core is a global money account where fiat currencies and stablecoins can sit side by side and be converted between one another through a single interface 💳

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This isn’t a niche tool for the crypto world. It’s foundational infrastructure for banks, fintech companies, and businesses. They can embed these accounts into their own branded products to offer real-time conversions, stablecoin-linked cards, and payouts to local banks—or simply use them to manage their own funds and settlements.
The scale is significant. Once connected to Mastercard’s transfer network, stablecoin balances can be converted directly into local currency and deposited into recipients’ bank accounts. By 2027, the platform is expected to support more than 40 currencies across over 200 countries. Stablecoin balances can also be spent directly across Mastercard’s acceptance network, with card issuance available in more than 130 countries. The first partners include payments company Nuvei, card-issuing platform Marqeta, and Ontop, Beem, and Almond FinTech 🌍
Mastercard Executive Vice President of Blockchain and Digital Assets Raj Dhamodharan says the future of commerce will be built on interoperability between multiple currencies. The next steps include support for AI agents making automated transactions and for tokenized deposits. The company has already enabled payments by AI agents and secured a New York license covering stablecoins and tokenized deposits 💰
My take: The real turning point for stablecoins isn’t technology—it’s the settlement and compliance rails. Whoever controls the acceptance network and the right to issue cards gets to define how stablecoins are spent. This time, it’s a card network stepping up, not an exchange. That shows traditional finance is moving sooner than many people think. Conversely, crypto-native stablecoin payment companies will either be absorbed or have to compete in the corners that card networks can’t reach ⚖️
Three things are worth watching: first, whether the promise of 40 currencies across 200 countries by 2027 is delivered on time; second, whether banks simply issue their own stablecoin accounts; and third, when these accounts will become directly available to everyday users.
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Inflation goes through the roof: Bitcoin plunges below $80,000, then climbs back to $82,000 an hour later 🦖
The US September Producer Price Index (PPI) surged to 6.3% year over year, a full 100 basis points above market expectations of 5.3%—the biggest monthly increase since March 2022. The day before, CPI had already come in hotter than expected, leaving markets on edge.

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Bitcoin briefly fell to $80,983, its lowest level since September 18, and was down as much as 3% on the day. Ethereum, XRP, and Solana fell even harder. But after a wave of short positions was liquidated, the price climbed back above $82,000 💥
The strangest move came from elsewhere: despite the scorching inflation data, Treasury yields actually fell. The 30-year yield dropped 8 basis points to 5.08%, well below its recent high of 5.36%, while the 10-year yield also fell by around 3%.
Robin Brooks, former head of FX strategy at Goldman Sachs, calculated that the 30-day correlation between upside data surprises and the 10-year yield has fallen from nearly 0.6 earlier this year to virtually zero by the end of August. His explanation: markets are now focused on the path of the fiscal deficit, not the data itself.
Rate-hike expectations have also cooled. CME data shows the odds of a hike this month to 4%–4.25% are down to just 29%, after briefly approaching 50% following the CPI release ⚠️
Technically, the 21-week and 50-week exponential moving averages are at $76,144 and $78,459, respectively. Analyst Rekt Capital says that in early bull markets, it’s common for prices to retest these levels before moving higher. Aksel Kibar, meanwhile, says last week’s close at $83,700 lacked breakout strength, with the top of the range at $82,800.
My take: The hotter the data, the lower the yields—meaning markets are now trading stagflation and fiscal deficits, not rate hikes. Bitcoin’s rebound came from shorts getting squeezed, not stronger buying. To confirm a bullish turn, we need to see it reclaim the $82,800 range high.
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#以太坊跌破2400美元
Crypto market cap drops 2.5% overnight; Ethereum falls 5.5% in a day, altcoins get hammered, while Bitcoin is down just 3.1% 💥

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Over the past 24 hours, total crypto market cap shrank 2.5% to $2.8 trillion. Ethereum fell below $2,400, dropping 5.5% in a day and bringing its market cap down to $289 billion. Bitcoin, by comparison, fell just 3.1% and still has a market cap of $1.6 trillion. The gap is plain to see. Analysts call this “outsized drawdowns”—in plain English, it means falling much harder than the broader market 🦖

At the same table, XRP fell 5.1% to a market cap of $82.4 billion, and Solana (SOL) dropped 3.8% to $60.6 billion. Altcoins across the board fared much worse than Bitcoin.

The trigger was the U.S. September CPI report released Wednesday, which showed a 3.7% year-over-year increase, higher than expected. Prediction market Myriad raised the odds of an October rate hike from 18% a week ago to 28%. With expectations of rate hikes back to pour cold water on the market, high-beta assets were the first to get hit.

The institutional moves are what really matter. Nick Forster, founder of options platform Derive, said traders switched into protection mode almost instantly, and hedging activity on the platform doubled. Whales unwound the long positions they had placed in the spring. He called it a dramatic regime shift, with institutions reassessing their macro risk exposure ⚖️

Luke Nolan of CoinShares added the missing link: the U.S. Dollar Index has reached a near 18-month high. A stronger dollar is a form of tightening. As liquidity expectations fade, altcoins—which are especially sensitive to financial conditions—are the first to fall.

Max Shannon of Bitwise Europe offered another perspective: the drop is a hangover after a sharp rally. Since October, open interest in altcoin futures excluding Ethereum has fallen by $8 billion. Money has been pulled off the table. Ethereum has also outperformed Bitcoin for three consecutive months—the first time since March 2021—and investors who have made enough are starting to take profits. Ethereum ETFs have seen net outflows for 11 consecutive trading days, totaling $782.8 million. After a brief inflow on Tuesday, funds turned back to outflows, with the latest single-day net outflow reaching $129.5 million 📉

My take: this isn’t a collapse in fundamentals so much as high-level repositioning combined with leverage coming out of the market. But there’s one condition to watch: rate-hike expectations must not climb further. Nolan also said that if Bitcoin can’t hold its ground, altcoins will continue to bleed. On the other hand, if Bitcoin gets back above $80,000 and holds, the rebound could be just as dramatic.

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A 5-year exemption puts 63 U.S. stocks on-chain—but the whole building could be flattened by a single court ruling 🦖

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The SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission just made a major move. After the CLARITY Act fell short in a 49–50 vote, the two agencies went straight around Congress and set rules for themselves. The SEC issued a 5-year exemption allowing tokenized stocks to be issued and traded. One exchange teamed up with ICE, the parent company of the NYSE, to launch 63 U.S. stocks; another firm, Securitize, launched 12. Apple, Nvidia, and Microsoft are all on the list.

On the surface, regulators are giving the green light. But investment bank TD Cowen poured cold water on the news, saying rules set by executive agencies are the easiest to overturn. The policies left behind by the previous administration were almost entirely wiped out once the new administration’s appointees took office ⚖️

The real risk was buried in 2024, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 1984 Chevron precedent. In the past, when courts encountered ambiguity, they generally deferred to regulators’ expert interpretations. Now judges can reassess matters for themselves under the Howey test—and the scales are clearly tipped toward overturning the rules.

Lawyer Yuriy Brisov breaks it down further: to overturn a new rule, it’s not enough to say you don’t like it. You have to prove two things: first, that the rule wasn’t supported by sufficient research; and second, that it caused actual harm to businesses. The Business Roundtable won its 2011 lawsuit against the SEC on those grounds, when a new shareholder proxy-voting rule was ruled unlawful.

A group representing community banks has already sued the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, arguing that allowing crypto companies to obtain national trust bank charters exceeds the agency’s authority.

My take: the foundation of this policy windfall isn’t legislation passed by Congress, but regulatory interpretation and judicial deference. A change of administration or a single lawsuit could wipe it all out. Companies that have already poured money into infrastructure for tokenized stocks are betting on a time advantage while shouldering institutional risk. That’s also why regulators keep reminding everyone: an FAQ is only a guide, not a legally binding document.

Do you think these rules, established by going around Congress, can survive the next election? 📉 Let’s talk in the comments.

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The privacy coin that surged 460% was hit with an 11% sell-off in a day. What’s really weighing on it may be an AI math problem 🦖

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Privacy coin Zcash fell 11% over the past 24 hours, but its market cap is still $18.5 billion. It’s one of the biggest mainstream coins to fall today. What’s more intriguing, though, is that the market is pointing to two completely different explanations ⚠️

First, the most straightforward one: leverage. Luke Nolan, a senior researcher at research firm CoinShares, said the drop was mainly driven by leveraged positions built up during the rally being unwound. The bigger the gains, the more people pile in using leverage. Then, when the market so much as sneezes, the moves get amplified: traders either have to cut their positions or get liquidated outright.

The data supports this explanation. According to CoinGlass, Zcash long positions worth $17.9 million were liquidated over the past 24 hours. Over the same period, liquidations in another popular perpetual-futures coin totaled just $7.3 million—a 2.4-fold difference.

But zoom out, and the picture looks different. Since its low in March this year, Zcash is still up 460%. Even after a cumulative pullback of more than 35% recently, on the daily chart it still looks like a decent correction. So Nolan’s view is clear: this looks more like a normal cooldown after a huge rally than a fundamental problem 💥

The second explanation is more intriguing. Some say what’s really weighing on privacy coins is the possibility that AI could crack encryption before quantum computers do. Last week, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik and Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake called on the industry to prepare for “bunker mode” in advance. The trigger was a mathematical breakthrough at OpenAI.

Ryan Zurrer, founder of investment firm Dialectic, put it bluntly: he said OpenAI’s mathematical breakthrough has made the entire crypto world nervous, because there are so few proofs in cryptography to begin with. If core primitives are rendered obsolete ahead of time by AI-driven attacks, more complex privacy protocols like Zcash could have the most to lose.

Here’s the irony: the very project people are worried about is the one that’s been running the fastest. Zcash full-node developer Zakura said the team expects to achieve quantum protection by January next year, along with a reasonable level of AI protection. Tim Sun, a senior researcher at research firm HashKey, also believes this post-quantum roadmap is a key catalyst behind Zcash’s latest rally.

Put simply, this drop isn’t about Zcash’s fundamentals. It’s high leverage colliding with macro noise. What’s really changing is the narrative: the privacy coin story is evolving from anonymous transactions to resisting AI and quantum computing. Whoever makes the most progress on that front will have a valuable long-term advantage.

Two things are worth watching: first, whether research emerges that provides direct proof AI can crack today’s encryption; and second, whether Zcash delivers on its quantum protection roadmap by January next year.

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After shutting down 400 websites in three years, they still couldn’t stop them all. This time, they took down 112 servers at once.

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The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that, working with the FBI, it had dismantled the core infrastructure of a transnational crypto investment scam. A total of 112 servers and 241 domain names were seized or disabled. Searches spanned three time zones, and the investigation had been underway for three years.

The victims were Russian-speaking people living in the United States. They clicked on Russian-language investment ads on Facebook, then received calls from people claiming to be investment advisers. Step by step, they were guided to open accounts on crypto websites, buy coins, and transfer them to specified addresses. Weeks or months later, when they tried to withdraw their money, their accounts were either locked or they were told to pay additional fees and taxes.

The most vicious part of the scam came in the second step. Even if you accepted your losses, someone might contact you weeks later, claiming they could help recover your stolen assets. That’s what the industry calls a “recovery scam”—a second hit against the same victims. Prosecutor Eric Gonzalez retrieved this data from the seized servers. His exact words were: “These criminals first defraud victims of tens of millions of dollars, then try to harm those same victims a second time with false promises of recovering their funds.” ⚖️

Look at the numbers: The investigation lasted three years. Authorities had already seized or disabled 400 related domains, yet new websites kept appearing. Prosecutors estimate that tens of millions of dollars were involved, with some victims losing all their savings. About $300,000 has been recovered so far. The servers were hosted by both U.S. and Eastern European companies, while the scammers’ network infrastructure and IP addresses were primarily based in Eastern Europe.

Why was this approach different? Taking down domains is like playing whack-a-mole—the scammers can come back with a new domain. Taking down servers cuts off their tools of production. They can’t quickly build new websites, and they also lose the means to keep contacting victims who have already been ensnared. In other words, the focus shifts from attacking the symptoms to cutting off their capacity to operate. ⚠️

To put it plainly, the most common point of failure in crypto scams isn’t technology getting hacked—it’s people and processes being exploited. Fake ads, fake advisers, fake recovery services: all three rely on psychology, not code. So even the strongest on-chain tracing capabilities won’t stop new victims from coming in as long as those ads keep running. What’s really worth watching is whether cases like this will eventually bring ad platforms and server-hosting companies into the picture too.

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7-day countdown: An Ethereum Layer 2 wants to break away from Ethereum. The reason isn’t fees—it’s quantum computing ⚛️
Starknet officially launched a non-binding governance vote on Thursday, asking STRK holders whether it should explore upgrading from an Ethereum Layer 2 to an independent, post-quantum Layer 1 blockchain. The three options are to support further research, oppose it, or remain neutral due to insufficient information. Voting closes on October 22 🗳️

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The developers at StarkWare put it plainly: as long as Starknet remains on Ethereum, its timeline for becoming quantum-resistant will have to follow Ethereum’s. Ethereum’s own post-quantum team was only established this March, and its preliminary goal for protocol-level protection is 2029.
StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson put it this way: “Quantum-proofing cryptography is urgent. We have to move at lightning speed.” He and the company’s official account had already hinted on October 8 that the goal was to become the first fully quantum-resistant network by 2027. In June, the company also published a three-phase quantum-resistance roadmap covering signature upgrades, smart contract migration, and the infrastructure that depends on Ethereum.
To put it another way, this isn’t a breakup announcement. It’s a dispute over timelines. The vote makes it clear that voting in favor only means supporting research—it does not authorize a migration. Any actual move would require another proposal and governance vote, and no specific timeline for becoming a Layer 1 has been announced so far.
But the direction is clear. Starknet currently relies on Ethereum for its bridge and data availability, and those are precisely the areas it acknowledges still have quantum-security vulnerabilities. If it really does become independent, it will have to take responsibility for its own bridge, data availability, and even its security model. Instead of sharing Ethereum’s security, it would have to pay for its own security.
My take: what matters isn’t whether Starknet actually leaves, but that quantum risk has become a new dimension of competition between blockchains for the first time. The market used to treat it as a distant issue a decade away. Now a project is making it a selling point and putting it to a governance vote. If this vote passes, other Layer 2s will likely follow with quantum-resistant roadmaps to stake their claim early 🦖
Two things are worth watching: first, the October 22 vote result; second, if Starknet really does leave, how liquidity and asset bridges in the Ethereum ecosystem would be disentangled.
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The global crypto fund market is worth $172.9 billion, but Hong Kong gets just 0.42%. Now Thailand wants in too 🦖

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Thailand’s listing rules for Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs officially take effect this Friday. Local retail investors will finally be able to buy locally listed crypto ETFs on the Stock Exchange of Thailand. But James Butterfill, Head of Research at CoinShares, has poured cold water on the excitement: he expects the first products to attract only tens of millions of dollars in inflows. Billions are wishful thinking 🧊

First, let’s look at how the door is opening. Thailand is allowing locally listed crypto ETFs to be offered directly to retail investors. But if you want to buy overseas crypto ETFs through domestic brokerages, access is still limited to institutions and ultra-high-net-worth investors. Two channels, two very different barriers to entry 📊

The reality check comes from a ready-made comparison: Hong Kong. Despite being an international financial center, Hong Kong accounts for just 0.42% of global crypto ETP assets. As of late September, global crypto investment products had $172.9 billion in assets under management, while Hong Kong had just $733 million—less than 1% of the total.

Thailand already has players in this space. In 2024, MFC Asset Management launched MBTCETF-UI, a Bitcoin ETF-tracking fund whose underlying investment is BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT). ONE Asset Management also became Thailand’s first asset manager approved to offer a Bitcoin ETF-linked fund in 2024. So the new local ETFs won’t be entering an empty market: investors can already get Bitcoin exposure through overseas funds or by buying crypto directly.

Butterfill puts it plainly: local ETFs will need to convince new investors to enter the market or give existing investors a compelling reason to switch. Otherwise, they’ll just be fishing in the same pond ⚠️

There’s another step still to come. Thailand’s first crypto funds will need separate regulatory approval, as well as custody and distribution arrangements, before they can actually be listed and traded. In other words, the rules take effect Friday—the products don’t.

Put simply, opening the gates and getting money flowing are two different things. Thailand has one of Southeast Asia’s larger retail investor bases, but ETFs will have to prove they can attract new money rather than simply shift existing over-the-counter holdings or overseas investments into a new wrapper. Over the next few months, watch for two signals: when the first products get approved, and whether first-month inflows reach tens of millions or break into the hundreds of millions.

How much do you think these Thai ETFs will attract in their first month? Could one be a surprise hit, or will it be a lot of noise with little to show for it, like in many emerging markets? Share your thoughts in the comments.

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#btc跌破8.1万美元
Whales had already loaded up on 3.03 million BTC before the CPI announcement. Then the data came out, and the price plunged straight below their cost basis 🦖

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US September CPI came in at 3.7% year over year, above the 3.6% forecast. Core CPI was 2.6%, also higher than the expected 2.5%. Within minutes of the release, Bitcoin started sliding. It fell 3.3% in 24 hours to $80,979.

Here’s the really painful part: around $81,000 is the average cost basis of US spot ETFs’ Bitcoin purchases. According to Glassnode, the current price has already dropped below it. On the same day, these ETFs also saw net outflows of $261.5 million, according to SoSoValue.

The leverage side got hit even harder. Nearly $1 billion in positions were liquidated across the market in the past 24 hours, 91.6% of them longs. Long traders got wiped out the most thoroughly 💥

Here’s the contrast: CryptoQuant data shows that in the weeks before the report, whales had already shifted from distributing to accumulating. Holdings outside exchanges and mining pools surged to 3.03 million BTC, the highest level since November 2025. Most of their cost basis sits between $80,000 and $100,000 🐋

Sentiment is split, too. Among retail traders, Santiment found that the ratio of bullish to bearish comments on October 13 was just 0.82. Repeated failures to break through $87,000 have steadily undermined confidence. Among analysts, however, CryptoQuant’s Consensus Index stood at 49.2 on October 14, with 84% of 164 analysts bullish.

Glassnode poured cold water on the rally, saying there wasn’t much new demand behind the price move. Buyers who entered the market over the past two years have cost bases between $88,000 and $100,000, and those two levels have pushed the price back down twice this year. The $88,000 level is also the cost basis for buyers who entered 6–12 months ago and a liquidation zone for short positions.

In plain English, the key level to watch now isn’t simply whether the price goes up or down—it’s $80,000. That’s where the largest buy order sits on the spot order book, and it’s also the 365-day moving average. If the price breaks below $80,000, longs below that level may be forced to cut their positions, exposing the $78,000 Realized Price. On the other hand, a daily close holding above $88,000, together with a return to net ETF inflows, would show that the bulls had truly absorbed the selling pressure 📈

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61,800 Bitcoin tied to a Ponzi scheme from a decade ago are now worth about $5 billion 🦖

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A court in Tianjin has just accepted an application to confiscate proceeds of crime. The assets in question are more than 61,800 Bitcoin and other assets from the Qian Zhimin case, worth about $5 billion at current prices. Qian herself was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison in the UK last year.

The events took place between 2014 and 2017. She ran a Ponzi scheme in China, signing at least 128,409 investment contracts, according to case files. Victims invested a total of about 40.2 billion yuan (roughly £4.1 billion). Around 34.1 billion yuan was returned to some investors. She later converted the money into Bitcoin and transferred it overseas. British police eventually seized 61,000 Bitcoin—the largest Bitcoin seizure in UK history.

On Monday, the High Court in London issued a key ruling on which country's laws should apply to victims' claims. The court ultimately ruled that Chinese law applies, rather than local law ⚖️. The judge's reasoning was straightforward: where the fraud took place and where the money was handed over are where the loss is deemed to have occurred. Local law had been considered more favorable to victims because it could allow them to claim that these Bitcoin were theirs all along.

There are three striking contrasts here. First, Bitcoin's price has multiplied several times over the past few years, but victims may not get a share of that increase. To recover the coins, they must first prove they have a proprietary interest in them—and applying Chinese law raises that bar considerably. Second, the possibility of using the money to plug a hole in the UK's public finances was privately discussed domestically. In other words, it remains unclear who will get the $5 billion. Third, this ruling does not decide who ultimately gets the coins; it only establishes which country's law will be used as the yardstick.

The victims' lawyers have said they will appeal. The details of Chinese law and how it applies will be decided at the next stage ⚠️. In other words, the real fight over who gets the money is only just beginning.

My take: The biggest significance of this case isn't the amount of money involved. It's that it sets a precedent for cross-border assets: the country where the coins are held determines which rules apply. No matter how far assets travel on-chain, in the end they still fall under the jurisdiction of some country 💰

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555 financial institutions inspected in one sweep; 130 failed; 100,000 customer records exposed ⚖️🦖

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South Korea’s Financial Services Commission announced the results of a cybersecurity inspection covering 555 financial companies. It found cybersecurity weaknesses at 130 of them—nearly one in four. The inspection followed several security incidents involving 16 institutions, including crypto trading platforms and banks. Around 100,000 customer records were exposed, including names, contact details, and national ID numbers.

Two crypto platforms were on the list. The operator of one had previously acknowledged that an October 2 attack exposed some customers’ personal information. Regulators say they are still investigating whether the incidents involved artificial intelligence and whether the same group of attackers was responsible. 💥

The next steps are specific: large financial institutions must conduct vulnerability assessments at least twice a year; industry threat-intelligence sharing will be upgraded; and smaller companies are considering using AI for security monitoring. Regulators also want a spare key: the authority to conduct surprise inspections outside the regular assessment schedule when an urgent threat arises.

My take: what’s really changing this time isn’t the technology—it’s accountability. The new rules explicitly call for stronger personal accountability for executives. We all know the old script: an incident happens, a statement is issued, a small sum is paid in compensation, and executives keep their bonuses and their jobs. Now that responsibility is being assigned to individuals, incentives may finally change. ⚠️

Two details are worth noting. First, the inspection covered banks as well as crypto platforms, showing that this kind of risk is no longer confined to one corner of the industry. Second, regulators suspect attackers may have used AI while also planning to use AI for defense. Both sides of the cybersecurity battle have chosen the same tool—a new dynamic emerging this year.

In the broader picture, South Korean regulators have been taking action one after another this year: stablecoins, trading platforms, cybersecurity, and market access. Together, these measures aim to bring crypto out of the gray zone and into mainstream finance. The cost is higher compliance expenses for all platforms, which could further squeeze smaller players. 📉

Do you think inspecting the industry first and setting rules afterward will make ordinary people’s data safer? Or will the costs simply be passed on to users and smaller platforms? Let’s talk in the comments.

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The US is still arguing over crypto legislation, while Australia has already put the rules in writing. The bar: $9.7 million ⚖️🦖

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On Thursday, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) launched a public consultation on capital, custody and trading rules for crypto platforms. Consultation Paper CP 392 proposes that platforms without a qualified third-party custodian hold at least A$14 million (about US$9.7 million) in net tangible assets, or 10% of their average revenue over the past period—whichever is higher.

The consultation paper also includes three other measures: first, it sets out three possible capital models; second, it restricts platforms from using their own funds to trade on their own account; and third, it requires them to report quarterly on the wallets holding client assets. It also proposes allowing offshore custody, while raising a key question: if an overseas parent or affiliate goes under, should the Australian platform have emergency access to the private keys? 💰

For context, in April this year the Australian Parliament passed the digital asset framework provisions in an amendment to the Corporations Act. This consultation is the final round of feedback before the rules are implemented, with 2027 as the target date.

My take: these rules are expensive—and just expensive enough. Industry players themselves say the standards are reasonably strict, because they reward those who invested early in compliance and custody, while penalising those who kept waiting. US$9.7 million is pocket change for the biggest platforms, but a matter of survival for smaller ones. So the real effect isn’t protecting users—it’s reshuffling the industry. 📊

The global picture makes this clearer. The EU’s MiCA has been in effect for a while, while US legislation remains stuck in Congress. Australia has chosen a third path: lay out the guidance first, then enforce it in 2027. Not aiming to be the fastest, but to eliminate uncertainty first.

The two things to watch are offshore custody and emergency access to private keys. Once these rules are finalised, they’ll directly determine whether small platforms can keep operating in Australia—and whose hands users’ money is actually in.

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$1 Billion in Leverage Wiped Out Overnight: Bitcoin Wasn't the Hardest Hit—Ethereum Was 🦖

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Over the past 24 hours, about $483 million worth of Bitcoin and Ethereum futures contracts were liquidated. Ethereum alone accounted for roughly $286 million, while Bitcoin saw only about $197 million. Ethereum fell 6.4% in 24 hours to $2,356, while Bitcoin dropped 3.2% to around $81,000. XRP and SOL fell about 5%, and Dogecoin dropped around 6%.

Here's the contrast: Ethereum has about $30 billion in open interest, compared with Bitcoin's $52 billion. Its market is only about 60% the size, yet the amount liquidated was half again as much. 💥

My take is that this shows Ethereum longs are more crowded and their leverage more fragile. Once the price breaks key levels, a cascade of liquidations can drive it even lower. Liquidations don't care whether you want to sell; they only care whether you have enough margin. If someone uses $1,000 to control a $10,000 position, a move of less than 10% in the wrong direction can wipe out their principal.

The trigger was still the Fed. After Wednesday's CPI came in hotter than expected, the market's implied probability of a rate hike in October briefly surged to nearly 50%, before retreating again. Risk appetite faded across the board, and Asian stocks plunged in tandem: South Korea's KOSPI fell 8% intraday, and the Nikkei 225 dropped 5%. Crypto was just one of the markets dragged down with them. 📉

Put simply, this isn't a Bitcoin story—it's a leverage story. Leverage magnifies gains when prices rise, and magnifies losses when they fall. The more crowded the leverage on one side, the harder that side gets hit.

One thing to watch: Ethereum's price is now hovering around $2,350. If more of those $30 billion in contracts are liquidated, the next wave of liquidations could be triggered at even lower prices. To see a real signal that the sell-off is ending, watch for open interest to shrink—not just for the price to bounce a few percentage points. ⚠️

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Miners lose 13% overnight in Wall Street’s worst sell-off this round—but Bitcoin wasn’t what got hammered 🦖

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U.S. stocks suffered their worst single-day sell-off since July 29 on Wednesday. The S&P 500 fell 1.1%, the Nasdaq dropped 1.9%, and 21 of 23 AI infrastructure stocks ended lower, with an average decline of 7.46%. Even Bitcoin miners that have already pivoted to AI data centers were dragged down hard.

TeraWulf fell 12.64% in a single day, Core Scientific dropped 12.44%, Cipher Mining slid 12.35%, and IREN lost 12.2%—all four down more than 12%. Riot, Bitdeer, MARA, and CleanSpark followed suit. The trigger was the release of U.S. September CPI that day: up 3.7% year over year, above the 3.6% forecast and well above the Fed’s 2% target. Rising gasoline prices amid the Middle East conflict were one of the main drivers.

Here’s the most striking part: Bitcoin wasn’t actually the hardest hit that day. AI infrastructure stocks took the biggest blows: CoreWeave fell 16%, Nebius dropped 11%, and Oracle sank 9%. Miners were simply caught up in the sell-off.

The reason is easy to understand. As rate-hike expectations rise, the financing costs of data center companies expanding through debt are immediately reassessed. Over the past few years, miners have converted a large share of their computing capacity into AI data centers, putting themselves in the same valuation basket. The market is no longer valuing them based on mining revenue; it’s recalculating them through the lens of highly leveraged AI infrastructure stocks ⚠️

Now, on to interest rates. After the data came out, the market-implied probability of a Fed rate hike in October briefly topped 50%, then retreated. San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly said that day that another hike might be necessary, but there was no need to rush this month. That one comment put the worst-case scenario on hold for now 📉

My take: this was a classic case of an unjustified sell-off compounded by panic selling. Bitcoin fell less than 2% that day, while miners lost double digits. That suggests the market isn’t selling the Bitcoin story right now—it’s selling leverage and financing costs. If rate-hike expectations ease, the stocks that fell hardest are often the ones that bounce back fastest 📈

Of course, it’s worth keeping an eye on things. Miners’ financial results increasingly depend on AI leases rather than mining itself. Going forward, their correlation with Bitcoin’s price will only get weaker. If you want to ride this trend, watch electricity prices, debt maturities, and AI orders—not mining difficulty.

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Only 4.6% away from $100: 12% of leveraged positions exited in a week 🦖

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SOL is currently at $104.59, down 2.1% in 24 hours and 9.3% over the past week. It’s now just about 4.6% away from the key $100 level. But the real shift this time isn’t in the price—it’s in leverage. Over the past week, open interest in SOL futures fell by 12.1%, while funding rates slid from positive territory all the way to zero 📉

This suggests that the leveraged positions built up during the previous rally are now being unwound in an orderly fashion. It’s not panic selling; traders are simply paying down their borrowed positions. Spot prices are still holding firmly above $100, and over the past 30 days, SOL is actually still up around 1.3%. It’s leverage that’s falling—not the underlying holdings.

The timing is even more interesting. Next Wednesday, October 21, Solana is set to launch its next-generation consensus mechanism, Alpenglow. It will activate at epoch 1064. According to the official targets, transaction finality will drop from around 12.8 seconds today to 150 milliseconds—about 85 times faster. Vote transactions will be moved entirely off the block, freeing up block space. The network’s fault tolerance is set at 20% malicious stake plus 20% of nodes going offline ⚡

On one side, the technology aims to cut confirmation times from over ten seconds to a fraction of a second. On the other, market participants are choosing to reduce leverage first. The fact that both are happening at once is what makes this market move worth watching.

My take: paying down leverage before the upgrade is usually healthier than seeing prices drift steadily lower until a cascade of liquidations kicks in. But it’s still worth staying alert. If SOL loses $100, stop-loss orders and liquidation levels could cluster around that key threshold. At that point, the test won’t be sentiment—it’ll be whether spot buyers are willing to step in.

There are two things to watch: first, whether SOL can hold $100 at the daily close; second, whether active addresses and actual network fees pick up on the day the upgrade goes live. No matter how compelling the story sounds, the data will have the final say.

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#strive斥资2.8亿美元增持3311枚btc
After pouring in $515 million across two purchases, it now has just 18 more Bitcoin than its rival—and has claimed fourth place among U.S.-listed companies holding Bitcoin 🦖

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Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin treasury company Strive has made another move. It bought 2,822 Bitcoin between October 12 and 13 at an average price of $83,266, spending about $235 million. That brought its total holdings to 35,595 Bitcoin—just 18 more than longtime mining company MARA’s 35,577, putting Strive in fourth place 📈

This didn’t happen in isolation. Just a few days earlier, Strive had bought 3,311 Bitcoin at an average price of $84,500, for about $280 million. Combined, the two purchases total 6,133 Bitcoin and roughly $515 million in spending. Its holdings jumped from 29,462 to 35,595 Bitcoin in one go, an 8.6% increase in a short time 🐋

Here’s the current leaderboard: Strategy is far ahead of everyone with 848,250 Bitcoin, followed by Metaplanet with 44,000, Twenty One Capital with 43,514, Strive with 35,595, and MARA with 35,577. In other words, the gap between fourth and fifth place is just 18 Bitcoin, worth about $1.47 million at current prices. Normal price fluctuations over a single day could easily flip their positions back and forth.

What’s even more worth considering is the cost basis. The average purchase prices for these two buys were $83,266 and $84,500, both above Bitcoin’s current price of $81,716. In other words, they’re already sitting on paper losses. But the price isn’t what they’re focused on—it’s their ranking, and the stock price that ranking can help deliver. The stock is up 87% so far this year. Earlier in the year, Strive also completed an acquisition, bringing Semler Scientific into the fold and adding about 5,048 Bitcoin—turning a healthcare company into a Bitcoin treasury company.

My take: the ranking race among Bitcoin treasury companies is itself fuel for fundraising. The higher a company ranks, the easier it is to issue shares and debt, raise money, and buy more Bitcoin—pushing it further up the rankings. This cycle looks perfect when prices are rising, but it ties companies’ share prices ever more tightly to Bitcoin’s price. If prices fall, fundraising windows and repayment pressures could hit at the same time. Rather than a moat, Strive’s extra 18 Bitcoin may simply put it right on the dividing line.

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Ethereum falls below $2,500 after 10 straight days of declines—money had just started flowing back, but it couldn’t stop the slide 🦖

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In the early hours of October 15, Ethereum was trading at $2,428, down 2.83% over 24 hours. The $2,500 threshold had officially been breached. At the same time, Bitcoin fell to $81,528, down 1.81% over 24 hours. More than 83,000 crypto traders were liquidated across the market in the past 24 hours 📉

The trigger didn’t come from crypto. U.S. CPI rose 3.7% year over year in September, above the market’s 3.6% forecast. Oil prices pushed inflation back up. In just one day, the odds of another 25-basis-point rate hike at the Fed’s meeting later this month surged from 22.1% to 53.7%. The 10-year Treasury yield jumped to 5.308%, nearing a 24-year high. U.S. stocks and silver fell together, and crypto looked like collateral damage.

The starkest contrast is this: Ethereum spot ETFs had just ended a 10-day streak of net outflows, with a single-day net inflow of $24.8394 million. Grayscale’s ETH fund alone accounted for $16.72 million. Money had only just turned positive, yet the price broke below support. That suggests pricing power this time isn’t coming from crypto-market flows—it’s coming from macro factors 🐋

The knock-on effects are showing up too. Ethereum treasury stocks weakened across the board during U.S. trading, with SharpLink leading the declines. Bitmine, the largest ETH accumulator, now holds 6.03 million ETH—about 4.9% of the circulating supply. Every step lower in the token’s price puts more pressure on these companies’ balance sheets and financing narratives. In a downturn, the treasury strategy comes down to who can access cheaper capital.

My take: Ethereum’s fundamentals haven’t deteriorated; it’s been reclassified as a risk asset. This CPI-driven drop has put rate-hike expectations back on the table. As long as oil prices stay high, it’ll be hard for crypto to rally independently before the Fed meeting. The key level to watch now is whether ETH can reclaim $2,500 from $2,428 within two days. If it can’t, the next area to watch is around $2,300 🦕

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