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#黄金自7月以来首次跌破4000美元
Gold has fallen from $5,586 to $4,000. Bitcoin has also dropped from $116,300 to $81,300. The two strongest safe-haven narratives of the year have broken at the same time 🦖

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On the night of October 23, gold fell below the $4,000 mark for the first time since July, briefly dipping under it. At the same time, Bitcoin was trading near $81,300, down about 30% from its year-to-date high of $116,300 📉

Let’s line up the numbers first. Gold’s 52-week high is $5,586; it’s now at $4,011, down about 28%. Bitcoin has fallen from $116,273 to $81,318, a 30% drop. Meanwhile, Brent crude is at $111.77, up more than 90% from its year-to-date low of $58.72. The 10-year Treasury yield is at 4.98%, nearing 5%, while the S&P Global US Services PMI has also pulled back. Put these five numbers together, and the picture is clear.

Many people’s first reaction is that safe-haven assets have failed. I don’t see it that way. The market has simply shifted to a different pricing logic. Gold isn’t falling because people aren’t afraid; it’s falling because it rallied too much over the past year. Profit-taking at these levels is moving faster than panic buying. With real interest rates hovering near 5%, the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding gold is too high ⚠️

Bitcoin’s decline is more straightforward. It’s now being traded as a high-beta risk asset, not digital gold. When the Nasdaq weakens, Bitcoin weakens first. It hasn’t decoupled during this AI-stock pullback, which shows that investors simply aren’t treating it as a safe haven.

Only two things are really rising: oil and yields. When both climb together, the market is pricing in stagflation—not a flight to safety 🛢️

Stagflation is the worst-case scenario for crypto. With oil above $110, inflation won’t come down. Fed Chair Warsh’s room to cut rates is being squeezed. The federal funds rate is still at 3.75%–4.00%, and it was only just raised once in September. As long as oil prices don’t retreat, valuations of risk assets will remain under pressure.

But there’s one signal pointing the other way. On Thursday, US spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $636 million in net outflows—the largest single-day outflow in October—yet the price fell only around 3%. There was no cascade of liquidations. That suggests this is a reduction in positions, not a collapse in confidence.

Keep an eye on three numbers next: $80,000, the line between bullish and bearish positions in Bitcoin; $4,000, gold’s psychological threshold; and 5%, the key round number for the 10-year yield. If two of the three break, then this stagflation trade will have truly begun.

Do you think this is the start of a stagflation trade, or just another false breakdown? Let’s talk in the comments 👀

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$1.7 trillion asset management giant starts automatically turning clients’ stock dividends into Bitcoin 🏦

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On October 22, Franklin Templeton filed Form 8-A with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, completing the final regulatory step to list two Bitcoin DRIP index ETFs on Nasdaq. The prospectuses are set to become effective on October 27. The stock-focused fund, ticker FBEQ, starts with an allocation of 95% U.S. stocks and 5% Bitcoin. The company’s regular and special dividends will be used to buy Bitcoin directly at market open on the day after the ex-dividend date, gradually increasing the position with each dividend payment.

The part worth paying attention to is the rebalancing rule. Each quarter, if Bitcoin’s share exceeds 5%, it gets cut back to 4.5%. If Bitcoin surges to 20% between rebalances, the fund must bring it back down to 4.5% within two trading days. All the excess money flows back into stocks. In other words, if it rises too fast, the fund is forced to trim its position.

The backdrop is substantial, too. The company manages about $1.7 trillion in assets. It filed for a spot Bitcoin ETF back in September 2023 and launched one in January 2024 under the ticker EZBC. In April this year, it acquired 250 Digital and established Franklin Crypto. The two new products charge 0.09% in fees and have no 12b-1 fees. They track two indexes from VettaFi. As of September 30, the stock-focused fund held 499 U.S. stocks; the innovation-focused fund selects the 100 largest non-financial companies on Nasdaq. The funds do not directly hold on-chain Bitcoin, either. Their exposure comes from Bitcoin ETPs, futures, options, and depositary receipts, with some exposure routed through a Cayman Islands subsidiary.

The contrast emerged on the very same day. On Thursday, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw total net outflows of $636 million, wiping out the previous day’s net inflows in one fell swoop. The largest fund by assets saw a single-day outflow of $254.1 million. 📉

On one side, money is pulling out; on the other, a long-established asset manager is laying the groundwork for automatic buying. My take: this product wasn’t designed for crypto enthusiasts. It was designed for stock investors who would never buy Bitcoin on their own. Here, Bitcoin isn’t a speculative asset—it’s a byproduct of dividends. The allocation starts at 5% and gradually grows through annual dividend payments. The incremental buying won’t come from how much is purchased on the first day of trading, but from the mechanical buying that happens on every future ex-dividend date.

But the hard 20% cap also makes the message clear: even the issuer doesn’t think Bitcoin should be allowed to take up an unlimited share of the portfolio. If it rises too quickly, the fund is required to sell and move the proceeds back into stocks. ⚠️ Also, it doesn’t hold on-chain Bitcoin; it gets exposure through ETPs and derivatives. Be sure to understand the tracking error and counterparty risks. Don’t treat a 5% allocation as a reason to go all in. 🦖

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They scammed $1.16 billion, used only $26 million for real trading, and still lost $18.2 million 🦖

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This Thursday, New York Attorney General James filed court papers seeking about $1.37 billion in restitution from NovaTech founders Cynthia and Eddy Petion. The couple had already fled the U.S. before a default judgment was entered in August 2025.

First, here’s how the machine worked. According to prosecutors, from August 2019 to May 2023, investors worldwide deposited about $1.16 billion in crypto assets into NovaTech wallets. But the company transferred less than $26 million to trading service providers. Of that $26 million, $18.2 million was lost. At least $134.5 million went directly into the founders’ own wallets 💥

How did they bring in the money? Prayer groups. The complaint lays it out clearly: the couple advertised in Haitian Creole and recruited people through prayer groups, social media, and WhatsApp groups, leaning on religious messaging and promises of a better life. They promised returns of 2% to 4% per week—more than 140% a year. Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide took the bait, including more than 11,000 investors in New York alone.

More important is where the returns came from. Weekly payouts and referral bonuses were paid using new investors’ principal. This was a textbook Ponzi scheme. When the platform collapsed in 2023, tens of thousands of investors couldn’t withdraw their money. Before that, the couple had also been top promoters for another mining project, AWS Mining, which promised monthly returns of 15% to 20% and collapsed in 2019. In chat messages, Cynthia admitted she made at least $3 million from it ⚠️

The money being sought this time falls into two parts: about $1.13 billion in disgorgement and another $232 million in interest. Four top promoters have already settled, agreeing to pay nearly $6 million in total and accepting lifetime bans from the securities, commodities, and cryptocurrency industries.

My take is straightforward: even if the numbers in a court judgment are huge, getting the money back is another matter when the people have fled the country. For ordinary people, there’s only one takeaway: the more a project relies on faith, community, or hometown connections to recruit you, the more you should ask one question first: whose wallet is the money actually in?

There’s another signal worth noting. When state prosecutors filed suit in June 2024, they said the amount exceeded $1 billion. Two months later, the SEC brought a case based on $650 million. Now state prosecutors are seeking $1.37 billion. Three different figures for the same matter show that the numbers in cases like these are never as easy to pin down as they seem.

Has anyone you know ever been pulled into a group like this by someone they knew? What happened afterward? Share in the comments.

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A public blockchain with a $26 million market cap was robbed of $2.6 million—one-tenth of its circulating market cap wiped out in an instant 🦖

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On the night of October 23, on-chain security analyst Spreek broke the news that the Initia chain had been attacked and a large number of tokens had been minted without limit. By the time he posted, the hacker had cashed out around $2.6 million, and funds were still being moved.

To be clear about the seriousness of this: unlimited minting isn’t an ordinary private-key leak. It means an attacker can create coins out of thin air, then dump the newly minted tokens into a pool and exchange them for real money. The chain is still producing blocks, but its supply may no longer match the figure in its white paper 💥

Here are the hard numbers: according to CoinGecko, INIT is currently priced at $0.124, down 4.2% over 24 hours. Its circulating market cap is about $26.08 million, with a circulating supply of around 210 million tokens. The total supply is 1 billion tokens, and its fully diluted valuation is $124 million. It has already fallen 91.3% from its all-time high of $1.42.

Put another way, the $2.6 million stolen is roughly one-tenth of this chain’s circulating market cap. What hurts more than the price drop is the loss of trust in the token supply: if tokens can be printed without limit, every holder’s share is being diluted, and no one knows how many have actually been minted ⚠️

My take is straightforward: we saw a similar playbook just last month. One project had 408.5 million tokens minted out of thin air, while 8.7 million FET were stolen. The methods were almost identical. Small-cap chains have few nodes and low security budgets. From finding a vulnerability to cashing out and disappearing often takes just a few hours. By the time an announcement comes out, the money is already in a mixer.

There are two things to watch next. First, Initia’s team has yet to issue an official response. Was this a contract vulnerability, a compromised permission, or did the analyst get it wrong? The answer will directly determine where INIT goes from here. Second, if unlimited minting is confirmed, could deposit channels at major exchanges and cross-chain bridges be compromised? Once these assets enter deep liquidity, recovering them becomes exponentially harder 🦕

A candid word for anyone still holding: don’t rush to buy the dip. Check the official announcement first, then watch the on-chain total supply to see whether it keeps rising. Any technical rebound is untrustworthy while the chain’s supply is still changing.

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$635 million flows out of ETFs in one day as AI runs short of cash—but Bitcoin is the first to crash 🦖

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Bitcoin fell 3.2% on Thursday, dipping to a low of $80,840. It’s still struggling below $82,000. That same day, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw net outflows of $635 million—their biggest single-day redemption since late June 📉

The real reason isn’t in crypto. It’s in AI’s balance sheet.

This sell-off began with earnings reports: the numbers on AI capital spending just aren’t adding up. Neocloud provider CoreWeave fell 15.5% this week, hitting its lowest level since May 2025. Investment bank Bernstein slashed its price target from $74 to $51. Market maker QCP Capital says credit pressures in the AI infrastructure sector are spreading, and institutions are starting to reassess capital spending and returns.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang put it bluntly on CNBC on Thursday: the demand for capital far exceeds the supply.

In other words, AI is short of cash—and short enough that projects are getting cut. Tesla’s lower-than-expected Q3 capital spending was also cited by the market as evidence.

Asian markets reacted first on Friday. The KOSPI opened at 5,402, hit an intraday low of 5,305—its lowest level since late July—and only just managed to recover to close up 0.3%.

Across crypto, $336 million in positions were liquidated over 24 hours, including $281 million in long positions 💥 In other words, those betting on a rebound got wiped out first. It wasn’t a sudden surge in short selling—the bulls simply couldn’t hold their ground.

My take is straightforward: Bitcoin is no longer moving to its own beat. It’s tied to the AI capital spending chain. As long as AI financing costs remain high, and companies like CoreWeave keep getting downgraded, Bitcoin will struggle to avoid the fallout. On the flip side, once credit spreads in AI stabilize, Bitcoin will be among the first assets to rebound—because it has the best liquidity, falls the fastest, and recovers the fastest too.

Glassnode identifies $87,700 as a key level. There’s heavy overhead supply from investors stuck at higher prices, while $80,000 is the floor of this range ⚠️ If that level breaks, the $336 million in liquidations will only be the beginning.

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#pepe上涨14%领涨山寨币反弹
Up 14% in a day and 23% in a week—this frog has had no good news at all, yet it’s become the strongest performer in the room 🦖🐸

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On October 23, Pepe rose 14% in a single day, leading the CoinDesk 100 Index and marking its biggest one-day gain in a month. It’s up 23% over the week and 16% over the month. 24-hour trading volume was about $353 million, 10% higher than at the same time the day before. Meanwhile, Bitcoin was up just 0.5% around $81,700, and Ethereum gained 0.9%.

The key point is that there’s no clear catalyst for this rally. No mainnet launch, no announcement from a major exchange, no celebrity endorsement, and no sign of large-scale buying on-chain. The price simply went up.

The contrast is even clearer when you compare it with other coins in the same sector. FLOKI, BONK, and SHIB are up just 3.3% to 4.9% today, and they’re still down by as much as 16% over the month. In other words, the meme coin sector as a whole isn’t rallying—Pepe is running on its own.

Now let’s look at the broader market. The Nasdaq fell 2.6% on Thursday, its worst day since June. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $635 million in net outflows on Thursday, wiping out more than half of the over $1 billion in inflows from the first three days of the week. Brent crude is hovering around $113, and inflationary pressures remain. The Fed meets on October 27–28, and the market is waiting for the outcome.

The derivatives market tells an even clearer story. 24-hour futures trading volume fell 19%, and liquidations dropped 23%, while open interest rose 1%. That suggests traders aren’t closing positions and leaving—they’re opening new ones. The taker buy/sell ratio is 51.6% to 48.4%, giving sellers a slight edge. Bitcoin’s funding rate rose from 0.0041% to 0.0067%, meaning longs are starting to pay more to hold their positions. Bitcoin’s one-week implied volatility skew fell from 14% mid-month to 4%, suggesting less concern about a drop. For Ethereum, however, it’s still 13%, with put options clearly more expensive.

My take is simple: risk appetite hasn’t returned. Instead, capital is looking for assets with room to move within a compressed range. Bitcoin hasn’t moved more than 6% in either direction in a month, so money has nowhere to go and is squeezing into the most volatile assets. The lighter the story, the faster the bounce.

To confirm a true altcoin season, watch for three signals: first, sustained net inflows into ETFs; second, the CoinMarketCap Altcoin Season Index rising from its current score of 58 to above 75; and third, trading volume across the meme coin sector increasing as a whole, not just for Pepe. Right now, we’re only halfway there on one of the three. So this looks more like rotation than a reversal.

Let’s talk in the comments: do you still hold any meme coins? Do you think this is the start of a rotation—or the final hurrah? ⚠️

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Two hours. $356 million. Nearly $50,000 per second. Moved from BlackRock’s wallets into exchange custody

On-chain analytics firm Onchain Lens detected that over the past two hours, wallets associated with BlackRock ETFs transferred 3,215 Bitcoin to the institutional custody platform of a U.S.-listed exchange, worth approximately $262.41 million at the time. They also transferred 38,882 Ethereum, worth about $93.22 million. The two transfers totaled approximately $355.63 million.

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When those numbers appeared, many people’s first reaction was that the ETFs were selling. But that conclusion is premature 🐋

ETF coins are never held by the fund company itself; they sit in the custodian’s accounts. Every day, when market makers and authorized participants create or redeem shares, the custodian moves coins back and forth between cold and hot wallets. When shares increase, coins are brought in; when shares decrease, coins are sent out. So these addresses move every day, and large amounts are routine. This is more like a shipping manifest than a trade confirmation.

Two other sets of data can actually confirm the direction. First, did U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs see net creations or net redemptions that day? Second, after these coins entered the custody platform, did they continue on to exchange deposit addresses? Only if that second step happens does it indicate that the coins may be getting ready to be placed for sale.

The current backdrop isn’t particularly strong. Bitcoin is trading sideways around $81,000, with almost no change over 24 hours. Ethereum is around $2,400. Meanwhile, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have just erased the previous day’s inflows, with net outflows of about $636 million for the day. That suggests marginal buying hasn’t picked up again. Put that together with a large transfer, and the picture looks different 💥

My view: the information value of a single $356 million transfer is being overstated. It’s neither evidence of selling nor bullish news; it looks more like a routine heartbeat of ETF operations. What’s more worth watching is creation and redemption data over the next three to five trading days. If net redemptions continue while on-chain transfers keep moving in one direction toward custodians, then that would be a genuine reduction in holdings.

Another key date is the October 27–28 rate decision. Rates were already cut once in September. If there’s another move this time, risk-asset valuations will need to be reassessed. Only then might the market reinterpret today’s transfer 📉

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A $1 trillion stock market is now trading at just 4.2 times earnings—for the first time on record 🦖

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According to Bloomberg data from October 23, the Korean KOSPI’s forward 12-month P/E has fallen to 4.2, making it the first trillion-dollar market on record to drop below the 5-times mark. Among the 18 markets whose valuations exceeded $1 trillion at the start of this year, no benchmark index had reached this point before 📉

The contrast is even more striking: South Korean exports are on track to reach $1 trillion, and demand for chips from SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics remains strong. Yet investors simply aren’t willing to pay more for those earnings. The index is heavily weighted toward memory chip stocks like Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. The better earnings get, the lower their valuations are being pushed.

Bloomberg attributes this to a tech stock sell-off triggered by cooling enthusiasm for AI. South Korea’s market valuation is now close to that of Indonesia, which faces the risk of an MSCI downgrade, and the discount is widening. But the report also notes that extremely low valuations could create room for a recovery. If sentiment turns, Korean stocks could outperform for a time. As for when that might happen—or whether they’ll fall further first—a low P/E by itself doesn’t mean the market has bottomed ⚠️

Put simply, 4.2 times earnings doesn’t mean the market is cheap. It means investors don’t believe those earnings can last. Cyclical chip stocks naturally have low P/Es when business is booming, because investors assume profits will fall next year. What will really determine the direction of Korean stocks isn’t the valuation figure, but the memory chip price cycle and whether MSCI actually downgrades the market.

The connection to crypto isn’t about prices—it’s about capital. South Korea’s crypto market is worth around $7.8 billion, the second-largest in Asia. Trading volume denominated in won has long ranked just behind the U.S. dollar. Korean retail investors are a major force in the local stock market and among the most active participants in global crypto markets. On one side, a stock market at 4.2 times earnings; on the other, a crypto market where prices can double in 24 hours. Capital moves back and forth between the two. If Korean stocks really do start recovering, the first money pulled out may not be foreign capital, but local retail investors’ speculative positions. Conversely, if Korean stocks keep sliding and an MSCI downgrade comes through, these investors will only become more reliant on crypto’s high volatility 🐋

A quick look at the markets: Bitcoin is at $81,587, Ethereum at $2,397, SOL at $104, and pepe is up 13% on the day. Yesterday, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw another $636 million in net outflows. Risk appetite hasn’t really returned; it has just shifted away from AI to somewhere else.

My view: South Korea’s 4.2-times P/E is more of a signal that global capital is repricing all high-valuation assets. South Korea is the first trillion-dollar market to be pushed below 5 times earnings, but it won’t be the last. For crypto, the short-term effect is liquidity being drained; the medium-term effect is a redefinition of valuation benchmarks.

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The bottom came 125 days early: Bitcoin didn’t follow the midterm-election playbook this time 🦖

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There are just 10 days left until the U.S. midterm elections. Bitcoin is currently trading around $81,700, up about 40% from its July 1 low of $57,850. But in the past three midterm elections, the actual bottom didn’t come until after Election Day.

In January 2015, December 2018, and November 2022, the major bear-market bottoms came 71, 38, and 13 days after Election Day, respectively. The pattern was clear as a textbook example. Many people were waiting for one last leg down after November 3. But this time, the low came on July 1—fully 125 days before Election Day 📉

The contrast goes beyond timing. The pre-election declines have also varied. In the six months before the 2018 midterms, Bitcoin fell about 29%; in the six months before the 2022 midterms, it fell about 37%. So far this year, it’s down only about 6% over 30 days, while it’s still up 26% over 90 days.

The comparison becomes even clearer when we bring tech stocks into the picture. The Nasdaq ETF QQQ fell about 23% from the end of September 2018 to its December low, with most of that decline coming after Election Day. In the three months before the 2022 midterms, it fell 17%. But in the six months before the 2014 midterms, it actually rose 17%. Same pattern—except it went the other way once out of three times ⚠️

Bitcoin and QQQ are both down about 6% over the past 30 days. But over 90 days, Bitcoin is up 26%, while QQQ is up just 3%. QQQ didn’t hit a new high of $762.86 until October 6, while Bitcoin is still far from its all-time high. One is pulling back from a high; the other is climbing from a low.

My view is simple: midterm elections are more of a narrative for Bitcoin than a mechanism. The bottoms happened to come after the elections in those three cycles because that’s when the liquidity inflection points in those bear markets happened—not because voters had cast their ballots. This year’s early bottom simply shows that the rhythm of this cycle is being driven by its own funding conditions.

So what’s the real short-term judge? First, the Fed’s October 27–28 policy meeting. Second, ETF flows. On Thursday, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $635 million in net outflows in a single day, wiping out more than half of the over $1 billion in net inflows from Monday through Wednesday 📊

So at this point, we’re neither at a textbook pre-election panic bottom nor looking at a confirmed reversal. It’s more like a repair taking its time. If the Fed meeting doesn’t offer a new direction, $81,700 could remain a battleground.

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Bitcoin hasn’t moved more than 6% in a month. All of the top five cryptocurrencies by market cap have stayed within 2% over the past seven days. Some say this is a sign of a bull market ahead 🦖

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Bitcoin is currently around $81,735, down 1.2% on the day. Over the past full month, it hasn’t moved up or down by more than 6% even once. According to data compiled by Decrypt, all of the top five cryptocurrencies by market cap posted weekly gains or losses of less than 2% over the past seven days. The Fear and Greed Index is stuck at 47—right on the neutral line 😴

This isn’t a dead market. It’s a market under compression.

Blockworks senior research analyst Jake Koch-Gallup puts it plainly: this kind of calm usually doesn’t last. Similar periods of low volatility in the past have been followed by sharp swings of around 30% within a few months 📊

André Dragosch, head of research at Bitwise Europe, is more optimistic. He calls this a constructive signal, pointing out that the early stages of bull markets often look like long stretches of calm punctuated by a few sharp rallies. This cycle’s pullbacks have also been milder than in the past. At the same time, volatility in oil prices, semiconductor stocks, and U.S. Treasuries has been rising, while Bitcoin has remained the steadiest. As he put it, this is resilience, not euphoria.

There are dissenting voices, too. GSR vice president of research Carlos Guzman believes boredom is neither a good nor a bad sign. The global mood is risk-off, the macro picture is too complicated, AI stocks are being repriced, and buying hasn’t been consistent enough—so the market is just moving sideways.

The data tells only part of the story. BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF saw net inflows of $665.2 million on Monday, but there were no follow-on inflows in the days that followed. A one-off big-money inflow doesn’t amount to sustained buying pressure ⚠️

More importantly, Bitcoin’s position matters. Dragosch says Bitcoin is sitting at the market’s economic midpoint. At this level, roughly half of holders are in profit and half are at a loss. Neither buyers nor sellers have much incentive to push the price away from where it is.

The real catalysts arrive next week. The Fed’s decision is due on October 28. It raised rates in September—the first hike since 2023—and September CPI rose another 0.6%. Then, on October 30, $11.69 billion worth of Bitcoin options are set to expire. Both events are packed into just three days.

My view: low volatility doesn’t mean low risk. The more volatility is compressed, the more crowded leverage and positioning become. Once a direction emerges, the move could be amplified. If the Fed holds steady and ETF inflows continue, an upside breakout is more likely. If it raises rates again, the $75,000–$77,000 range could once again become a floor.

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Only 5% of people still use cash, yet this country has picked up its central bank digital currency again
This week, Sweden’s central bank publicly called on lawmakers to reassess the e-krona, its proposed digital currency

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The reason isn’t technological progress. It’s that foreign-currency stablecoins and the digital euro, which could launch in 2029, are gradually squeezing the krona out of the picture 🏦
First, some background. In 2023, the Swedish government conducted a review and concluded that demand was insufficient, so it recommended against moving forward. Two years later, the central bank has changed its tune. Payment habits are changing, and so are security risks. It’s time to take another look.
Deputy Governor Per Jansson put it plainly: if cash goes digital and the krona doesn’t have a useful digital form, it won’t be able to compete with payment tools that are more convenient for cross-border transactions.
A small figure underpins this argument. In a survey by Sweden’s central bank, only 5% of respondents said they had used cash for their most recent purchase 💵
That’s no small thing. When cash usage falls to single digits, it means the central bank has fewer levers to manage the economy. The smoother payments become, the more money resembles an invisible layer of infrastructure.
The timeline is realistic, too. Lawmakers haven’t approved the plan yet, and the central bank itself acknowledges that even if it were approved today, building the system would take at least 5 years. The digital euro could launch as early as 2029, and Sweden hasn’t ruled out using its infrastructure directly.
The central bank hasn’t said it will definitely issue a digital currency. It’s only asking lawmakers to start preparing legislation now. The short-term risks are limited, but the long-term threat remains. It also sees value in offline payments, which could serve as a backup during power or internet outages.
My take is that stablecoins—not Sweden—are the real protagonists here ⚖️
Stablecoins are liabilities of commercial institutions, while central bank digital currencies are liabilities of central banks. They’re becoming increasingly similar in how they feel to use for payments, but they’re completely different when it comes to who stands behind them.
For a small, open economy, once payment habits shift, they’re hard to reverse. That’s why a country where cash has almost disappeared is, paradoxically, the most anxious.
The 5% figure is the result, not the cause. The cause is that US dollar-denominated stablecoins have already brought down the cost of cross-border payments.
For markets, the takeaway is this: the more successful stablecoins become, the faster central banks will move. What follows is tighter regulation and more compliant stablecoins entering the market 🦖
When was the last time you used cash? If stablecoins and a central bank digital currency were both available to you, which would you choose?

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$255 billion, three central banks— a stablecoin settlement rail is taking shape 🦖

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On October 23, Bank Negara Malaysia and the Bank of Thailand joined the Monetary Authority of Singapore-led BLOOM initiative as policymakers on the same day. The initiative only launched in October 2025, and there are already nine institutions at the table, including Mastercard, Visa, Ripple, and the World Bank Group. The goal is straightforward: use stablecoins and tokenized deposits for cross-border payments.

BLOOM stands for Borderless Liquid Open Online Multi-currency. Put simply, it’s a shared set of rules for how digital money is accepted, exchanged, and ultimately settled across institutions, networks, and borders. It doesn’t issue coins; it just sets the standards ⚖️

What really matters is what it aims to eliminate. In the past, a bank had to negotiate arrangements and set up channels separately with every counterparty and in every market. This framework aims to consolidate all those repetitive steps. The Monetary Authority of Singapore says it will “reduce implementation costs and shorten time to market.” Participants span corporate cash management, trade finance, and payments automatically executed by AI agents within preset limits 💸

There’s an easily overlooked detail here: one of the three key areas is “programmable controls,” which explicitly includes identity verification, sanctions screening, and transaction controls. In other words, central banks connecting to stablecoins doesn’t mean letting them flow freely. It means embedding compliance checks into every transfer. Anonymous settlement is essentially off the table in institutional settings.

Now, consider the scale. Among US dollar stablecoins, USDT has a market cap of about $182.5 billion and USDC about $72 billion. Together, they exceed $254.6 billion—more than the broad money supply of many countries. For a long time, a pool this large has circulated only between exchanges. Now it’s starting to move into trade, payroll, and supply-chain settlements. That’s what gives this news its weight 🌏

My take: this isn’t bullish news for coin prices; it’s a redistribution of the plumbing. What gets bypassed is the middleman cost of layers of correspondent banks—not the US dollar itself. In February, Bank Negara Malaysia said it would test three ringgit stablecoin and tokenized deposit initiatives in 2026. Thailand is focused on wholesale settlement. Whoever standardizes interoperability and compliance first will secure the default position in the next wave of institutional payments.

But let’s pour some cold water on this: policymakers joining doesn’t mean the system is live. The framework, laws, and foreign exchange controls remain in each country’s hands. There’s currently no data to show whether the 2026 tests will translate into real transaction volume.

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390 projects, 5,000 vulnerability reports—only one-fifth could be reproduced

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Bitcoin Core developer Antoine Poinsot announced on the developers’ mailing list that they’re changing a vulnerability disclosure policy that’s been in place for years 🦖 The reason is straightforward: large language models have made many old vulnerabilities easy to uncover with a single prompt. Keeping them under wraps without fixing them no longer protects anyone ⚠️

First, let’s be clear about what’s changing. In the past, Bitcoin vulnerabilities were usually kept secret for a long time so users would have time to upgrade before the details became public. The downside was that fixes were difficult to backport to older versions, leaving regular users waiting for the next major release. Under the new rules, if a vulnerability is deemed easy to discover, the fix will be pushed out as soon as possible to all major versions that are still maintained, alongside a security advisory. How low is the bar for this category? The official example is a vulnerability that can be found using just one simple AI prompt.

The rest will be disclosed according to severity. Low-severity vulnerabilities will be disclosed two weeks after the major release containing the fix. Medium- and high-severity vulnerabilities will remain undisclosed until the last affected version reaches end of life—usually a year after the fix is included in a new version. Critical vulnerabilities won’t follow this standard process and will be handled separately through an ad hoc procedure.

The numbers behind this are what really deserve attention. In August this year, the volunteer-run Bitcoin Red Team reported nearly 5,000 potential issues across 390 projects. In the end, only about one-fifth could be reproduced. That same month, after receiving several AI-generated vulnerability reports, Core Lightning developers directly urged node operators to upgrade or take their nodes offline. The technical details were kept under wraps for two weeks before being made public.

My take is that this isn’t an ordinary security update. It’s the first time the Bitcoin ecosystem has publicly acknowledged that AI has squeezed the defenders’ window of opportunity 💥 In the past, how long a vulnerability could stay hidden depended on how many people carefully read the code. Now it depends on whether anyone can write a prompt. Eighty percent of those 5,000 reports were noise, but if even one is real, the consequences are borne by holders across the entire network. So core developers have chosen to fix vulnerabilities that are easy to discover immediately—even if that means attackers learn the details sooner—rather than leave users exposed on old versions.

Put simply, the most practical takeaway for everyday holders isn’t about price: you should start paying attention to whether the software you’re running is still maintained. Wallets, nodes, and the Lightning Network—if your version is past end of life, you may not even get security patches anymore 🐋

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#以太坊hoodi测试网glamsterdam硬分叉推迟
Just 3 days before launch, and Ethereum has hit pause on its own upgrade 🦖

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Ethereum’s Hoodi testnet Glamsterdam hard fork has been postponed. At Thursday’s All Core Developers Execution call, developers decided to halt the activation originally scheduled for October 26 at 17:42:48. The planned test to raise the gas limit to 200 million was canceled as well, and no replacement date was announced.

The halt was prompted by an October 13 report. Security firm ChainSecurity found that two changes, EIP-8037 and EIP-8038, would alter how existing smart contracts behave when they run out of gas. The gas cost of creating a new storage slot could rise from 22,100 to 110,020—almost five times higher. Contracts operating on old estimates could unexpectedly fail during operations that should otherwise be valid.

The risk in the opposite direction is even more concerning. Previously, when a contract call failed with too little gas left, the entire transaction would revert. A lot of code assumes this safety net is in place. Under the new rules, gas used to create a record would be refunded, leaving the contract with enough gas to write the failure state to the chain. An error that should have disappeared could become a permanent record ⚠️

That’s why developers would rather delay than take a gamble. Glamsterdam was meant to give Ethereum a new block-building system while enabling the network to handle larger blocks. Sepolia activated successfully on October 6. Hoodi was the last public dress rehearsal before mainnet, but now that rehearsal hasn’t gone to plan, and the mainnet launch date is up in the air.

My take is simple: Ethereum’s biggest fear has never been moving slowly. It’s breaking contracts that are already running on mainnet. There’s real money at stake across the chain, and any change in behavior could be amplified by arbitrageurs into a cascade of liquidations. Being a month late is a small problem; getting it wrong once is a big one 📉

For the market, this means one less short-term catalyst. ETH is now at $2,391, down 2.2% over 24 hours; Bitcoin is at $81,488, down 1.6%. With the upgrade narrative pushed back, capital can only turn its attention back to macroeconomic data and ETF flows.

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#股票财报季
60.3%: $55.3 billion in a week. The hottest contracts in crypto aren’t Bitcoin anymore 🦖

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Talos’s October 22 market report covers the week of October 15–21. Perpetual contracts on traditional assets like gold, crude oil, and stocks saw a combined trading volume of $55.3 billion, up 26.2% from the previous week. That’s equivalent to 60.3% of Bitcoin perpetuals’ trading volume over the same period.

The breakdown is even more striking: gold saw $11.5 billion in trading volume for the week; SpaceX contracts on Binance saw $8.9 billion, up 35.8% week over week; and crude oil hit $6.6 billion, up 25.9%. Those three alone accounted for around $27 billion—nearly half the week’s total. Memory chips saw the biggest surge: perpetuals on SK Hynix rose 75% on one on-chain derivatives platform, while Micron perpetuals on Binance were up 22%.

Why was activity so concentrated this week? AI and memory stocks sold off across Asian and U.S. markets. Inflation was 3.7% in September, and the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield climbed above 5%. The numbers no longer add up for AI spending fueled by debt issuance. CoreWeave fell about 25% at one point, and yields on its own bonds approached 16%. Contracts that trade 24/7 became the only outlet.

SpaceX is the clearest example. It released its third-quarter results after the U.S. stock market closed on Tuesday, reporting 161% year-over-year revenue growth. Binance’s SPCX contract traded right through to Wednesday’s U.S. market open, gaining 8.5% in total. SpaceX perpetuals across the two platforms saw a combined trading volume of about $5.6 billion—more than eight times the previous day’s—but open interest fell about 8% after the earnings release. That suggests most traders were jumping in and out around the event, rather than building long-term positions 💥

Here’s the contrast: Bitcoin rose 3.3% over the same week and climbed above $84,000. Open interest in Bitcoin futures also increased 6% to $47.9 billion, while the annualized funding rate stood at a bullish 5.4%. So it’s not that money is abandoning Bitcoin to speculate on stocks. The same traders have simply opened another 24/7 battleground. Bitcoin’s 30-day correlation with the Nasdaq has already reached 0.6.

My take: it’s still hard to tell how much of this $55.3 billion was a one-off earnings-season spike and how much represents a permanent shift. Once earnings season is over and volatility dies down, trading volume will probably fall. This is a byproduct of stock earnings season ⚠️ And perpetuals keep trading even when U.S. markets are closed, with funding fees, margin requirements, and liquidation rules all in effect. The cost of holding positions overnight is never zero. Today, Bitcoin has already fallen back to $81,138, down 4.1%, slipping below the roughly $81,500 average cost basis for ETF holders. Risk appetite is fading faster than expected 📉

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#比特币etf三日净流入10.8亿美元
$524.8 million poured into Bitcoin ETFs, yet the price fell below $82,000. Is this money positioning early or buying the top? 🦖
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw combined net inflows of $524.8 million in a single day, led by BlackRock and Fidelity. IBIT alone took in about $665 million on October 19. Meanwhile, Bitcoin fell below $82,000, and the DeFi sector led the declines. On the platform, the topic of Bitcoin ETFs’ $1.08 billion in net inflows over three days has been pushed to the top.

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Money is flowing in while the price is falling. This divergence is what matters most in this market cycle.
Market maker DWF Labs released a report today analyzing all 694 trading days since ETFs launched in January 2024. The conclusion is sobering: Bitcoin fell more than 15% on eight occasions, and ETFs saw net outflows in seven of them. Conversely, during all nine occasions when Bitcoin rose more than 15%, ETFs saw net inflows. Daily fund flows had a 0.54 correlation with prices over the previous five trading days, but just 0.03 with prices over the following five. In other words, ETFs are a rearview mirror, not a navigation system. 📊
Even more striking is the scale of the withdrawals. From October 2025 to February 2026, investors withdrew a net $6.9 billion from ETFs. Then, from May to June 2026, they pulled out another $8.2 billion. DWF also estimates that about one-fifth of flows aren’t directional bets at all: investors go long through ETFs while shorting on the CME, pocketing the spread between the two. Money coming in doesn’t necessarily mean investors are bullish; it may simply mean there’s a profit to be made. ⚠️
So what does the $524.8 million tell us? My take is that the rebound in recent days really did draw in people who had been sitting on the sidelines. It confirms the price move; it didn’t cause it. The real leading indicators are leverage, macro conditions, and the mood at the Fed and in oil markets. Slow money is always a beat behind fast money.
Of course, slow money is growing too. BlackRock has filed for an options-based Bitcoin ETF that uses options to provide some downside protection, at the cost of giving up some upside. Germany’s Sparkassen savings bank group is also gradually rolling out crypto trading in its banking app. The gateways into traditional finance are slowly widening.
So the thing to watch next isn’t how much money flowed in today. It’s whether these $1.08 billion in three-day net inflows can continue while prices move sideways. If outflows start as soon as the market goes flat, that would show this rally really was just a rebound.
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#股票财报季
At 5:22 a.m., the U.S. stock market was still closed. In just six minutes, a batch of U.S. stock positions was wiped out 🦖
In the early hours of October 18, large sell orders suddenly appeared in U.S. stock contracts on crypto platforms. $407,000 was traded in one second, then $1.03 million the next. Less than a second later, 10 addresses collectively sold six contracts—including SNDK, MU, and SOXL—within 1.8 seconds. Every trade opened a new short position.

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Six minutes later, trading volume for MU contracts surged to around $10 million per minute, triggering a cascade of liquidations. MU briefly fell to $818.57, 6% below its pre-flash-crash price, then recovered most of the loss within an hour 💥
Accounts holding actual shares were unaffected over the weekend. Those liquidated were people trading contracts with leverage. The price came back; their positions didn’t.
The IMF’s October Global Financial Stability Report gives an even clearer picture: tokenized stocks are about 1.5 times as volatile as their underlying shares. Data from 30 weekends also shows that when the Monday opening gap exceeds 1%, perpetual contracts predict the direction correctly 69% of the time—but by Sunday evening in New York, they reflect only about a quarter of the gap’s size ⚠️
The real change is in the cycle. Bitcoin peaked at $126,000 in October 2025, then hit a low of $59,100 in June 2026—a 53% drawdown. Previous bear markets saw drawdowns of 77% to 93%, making this one almost half as deep.
Who’s providing the support? ETFs saw net outflows of about $10 billion from November 2025 to June 2026, including $4.5 billion in June alone. Then $6.3 billion flowed back in from July to September. Stablecoins have contracted just 3% from this year’s peak, compared with 26% in 2022. Tokenized U.S. Treasuries grew from $9 billion to $16 billion and now stand at $14.5 billion, with around 85,500 holders.
But in reality, there’s only one major buyer. The largest bitcoin-treasury company increased its holdings from 650,000 coins to 843,775, adding 194,000. In January this year, it accounted for 97.5% of net purchases by publicly listed companies. It stopped buying after the week of June 22. Relying on a single company’s ability to raise capital for support—that’s the fragile part 📉
On the other hand, the tokenized U.S. stock market is worth around $3.45 billion. Offshore tokenized stock trading volume is just 0.084% of the median volume in traditional markets. Of the 63 stocks, nine issuing companies have directly objected. Each individual large-cap stock is capped at 0.25% of its daily volume; the first 63 stocks together have a daily cap of around $710 million, with Nvidia capped at $64 million.
Put simply, crypto now needs U.S. stocks to smooth out its cycles, but can access them only under Wall Street’s rules. The regulated format best suited to providing stability is also the most heavily restricted. So in the short term, it dampens volatility—not the cycle itself.
My take: It’s getting harder for Bitcoin to chart an independent course this cycle. Earnings season, the Fed, and Treasury yields all feed directly into crypto prices. What could really change the script is whether on-chain capital is willing to treat U.S. stocks as collateral and a place to park funds—not just another high-leverage bet.
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#btc
500 Bitcoin, worth $41 million. A wallet that had been dormant for a long time suddenly moved 🐋
On-chain intelligence firm Arkham labeled the sending address as a wallet linked to an Irish drug dealer. The recipient was a U.S. regulated exchange.

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But so far, the transaction hash, timestamp, and exact dollar amount have not been independently verified by any third party. All we have is a single platform label.
That’s the strangest part of the whole story: the funds definitely moved, but who was behind it and why are based entirely on one label.

First, the numbers. At the time of the transfer, 500 BTC was worth about $41 million. At the current price of $84,207, it’s worth about $42.1 million. Bitcoin’s 24-hour trading volume is $83.78 billion, so this transaction accounts for just 0.05% of that—hardly enough to directly affect the market.
But it coincides with another number: Bitcoin’s market dominance has reached 59.7%, and its total market cap is $2.83 trillion. At these levels, any large transaction will be interpreted as significant.

Platforms like Arkham generate labels by clustering addresses, tracing historical transactions, and incorporating intelligence submitted by some users. Labels can be changed, challenged, or simply wrong from the outset. A label is not a court ruling; court documents and law enforcement statements are what count.
So, for now, the only thing we can confirm is that 500 BTC moved from one address to a deposit address at an exchange. Three scenarios are plausible.
First, a cash-out: the owner of an old wallet is taking profits around $84,000.
Second, a custody transfer: the funds are moving to a new custodian, with no sale necessarily involved.
Third, a law enforcement seizure: the assets are being transferred to a regulated platform in cooperation with authorities.
These three scenarios have completely different implications for price. The first means selling pressure, the second is neutral, and the third could even mean the funds are locked up long term.

I’d treat this as a reminder rather than a signal, because exchanges are the only point in the on-chain world where someone can hit pause. U.S. regulated platforms are subject to the Bank Secrecy Act and can freeze funds and report suspicious transactions. The exchange’s European subsidiary was fined €21 million by the Central Bank of Ireland in 2025 for deficiencies in its transaction monitoring ⚖️
In other words, moving large sums of dirty money to a regulated platform is one of the easiest ways to get caught. Money that’s truly trying to disappear usually doesn’t take this route.

So why would anyone still choose this route? Liquidity. Depth. Only a handful of places can absorb tens of millions of dollars’ worth of Bitcoin without driving the price down. That’s the perennial tension between compliance and efficiency 🦖

In the short term, these 500 BTC look more like a sentiment story than a supply-and-demand story. A 0.05% share isn’t enough to fuel a trend. But if more dormant addresses wake up over the next week, then it’s no longer an isolated case—it’s a wave of old coins changing hands 💥
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19-page filing submitted to the EU: Staking your own ADA could require a license

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On September 30, the Cardano Foundation submitted a 19-page position paper to the European Commission’s MiCA review. It was only made public on Wednesday, and its core message boils down to one sentence: Don’t create separate regulations for DeFi and staking. ⚖️

The backdrop is tightening regulation in the EU. In September, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) recommended creating a new category of regulated services for companies that provide staking, lending, and access to DeFi protocols. In other words, companies that help users connect to DeFi may need to get licensed first.

The foundation’s objection is straightforward: regulation should focus on the function and risks of an activity, not the technology it uses. When users delegate ADA to a node, their private keys and assets remain in their own hands. That’s very different from handing coins over to an intermediary for staking. The former is participation in network security; the latter is an asset management service. 📜

Behind this statement lies a much bigger question: If licenses are required for providing access, wallets, front ends, and even node operators could all be considered part of the financial services chain. Who will ultimately bear the cost? Ordinary users.

The foundation also warned that MiCA overlaps with existing EU financial regulations, while interpretations vary across member states. The same staking business could be required to submit different compliance documents in 27 countries. This uncertainty could drive projects out of Europe.

Notably, Cardano isn’t the only one raising this issue. On October 20, six organizations—Chainlink Labs, the Cardano Foundation, Hedera, Aptos Labs, Ava Labs, and the Stellar Development Foundation—jointly wrote to the U.S. SEC, asking it to explicitly include digital commodities in its rules rather than issue only interpretive guidance. That round of public consultation received around 140 submissions over 60 days. 🦖

As for the market, ADA is currently at $0.2275, up 3.08% over 24 hours, with a market cap of about $8.54 billion. Bitcoin is trading near $84,500, while the total crypto market cap is $2.9 trillion, up 2.2%. The market has just climbed out of the hole it fell into when prices dipped below $80,000 earlier this month.

My take: The regulatory focus is shifting from “Is this a security?” to “Who controls users’ assets?” The dividing line between self-custody and intermediaries is the real make-or-break issue for DeFi. Where that line is drawn will determine whether staking is considered infrastructure or a financial service. If ESMA’s new category takes effect, compliance costs will eat into some of users’ returns. But on the other hand, clear rules could give large investors the confidence to enter the market. ⚠️

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#特朗普拟阐述打击海外加密诈骗
$833 million wrested from overseas scam compounds. 503 websites taken down ⚖️

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The White House held a cybersecurity event on Wednesday, where Trump put the crackdown on overseas crypto scams front and center. A White House official said U.S. law enforcement had intercepted around $833 million in funds linked to overseas crypto scams. A Department of Homeland Security task force seized 503 scam websites and proactively notified nearly 9,000 Americans who were being scammed 🦖

Here’s the contrast: crypto scams have already stolen tens of billions of dollars from Americans. The $833 million recovered doesn’t even amount to a drop in the bucket ⚠️

These scam compounds aren’t small-time operations. They’re sprawling industrial parks across Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, and the Philippines. First, they build an emotional connection—chatting with victims on social media for months—then steer them to fake investment platforms. The USDT victims deposit is split into hundreds of transfers and moved within minutes, then converted to cash through over-the-counter channels. Phishing links, ransomware, fake customer service reps—the whole operation runs like an assembly line 💥

So the key to this operation isn’t arresting a few people. It’s cutting off the infrastructure: domains, payment channels, servers—shutting them down layer by layer. Last November, the Treasury Department set up an interagency scam center strike force. Then, on September 9 this year, it sanctioned a guarantee platform called Xinbi Guarantee. This White House event laid out the whole effort.

My take: $833 million recovered out of tens of billions means a recovery rate of less than 2%. You’ll never recover money after the fact as effectively as you can stop people from being scammed in the first place. Two things can really make a difference: first, ask one more question before transferring money; second, platforms should block suspicious deposits at the point of entry. For compliant platforms, regulators turning their attention from exchanges to the scam industry chain is actually a good thing. Cutting off gray-market money flows may create localized selling pressure in the short term, but in the long run, it clears out the bad actors.

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