👍 #BTC Head of Research K33: After the recent leverage reduction, we are moving to constructive BTC growth, although patience remains key. Liquidity is likely to remain low in the short term as traders recover from forced selling, but previous such declines have often marked market bottoms. coindesk

🔍🐳 Whale Transactions:
1. FTX/Alameda unlocked another 192,936 #SOL ($39.32 million) and deposited 88,131 #SOL ($17.64 million) on Coinbase Prime;
2. Forward Industries, which previously bought 6.82 million #SOL ($1.38 billion) at $232, posted 993,058 SOL ($192.08 million) on Coinbase Prime. Of these, 250k SOL ($50m) were transferred to Galaxy Digital.

🤔 #USDC Analysts at William Blair are betting that steblecoins are entering the commercial era, and begin coverage of Circle with an "outperform" rating. They describe USDC as "a critical player in the steblecoin ecosystem poised to transform cross-border finance." theblock.co

📊 #SOL Hyblock: 76% of Solana retail traders are in the long position, which is a historic bullish signal.
Treasury firms and institutions are also accumulating SOLs below $200. cointelegraph

👍 #RWA CEO BlackRock: traditional financial assets are expected to shift towards their tokenized version over the next few decades. cointelegraph

💵 1 billion #USDT minted at Tether Treasury

🇫🇷 French banking giant ODDO BHF, which manages $175 billion in assets, is entering the cryptocurrency market with a euro-backed #EUROD stablecoin. coindesk.com

😱🤑 Fear&Greed Index for #BTC and #ETH

💸 #BTC Over the past 24 hours, ~$627M worth of contracts have been liquidated, of which longs have liquidated ~$425M and shorts ~$202M.

📊👀 #BTC #MSTR Michael Saylor's Strategy is buying Bitcoin every quarter starting in Q3 2020.

📊🤔 #BTC trades near $112,500, but short-term holders (STH) keep panicking, per realized price.

Recent liquidations hit hard—even yesterday's dip triggered fresh panic. Yesterday: >56K BTC from loss-making STHs flooded exchanges, exceeding liquidation volumes.

STHs under heavy pressure—third panic in days. Many are recent buyers chasing breakeven, stalling zone breakout. cryptoquant

🔍 One LuBian wallet has woken up after three years of inactivity, transferring all 9757 #BTC ($1.1 billion) to new wallets.
This comes just a day after news broke that the US government wants to confiscate 127,271 BTC ($14.4 billion) stolen from LuBian.

🐳 Another whale, "0xc2a3", just opened a 5x short on 1,240 #BTC ($140M) on Hyperliquid. Liquidation price: $137,700.

👍 MegaETH will hold a public ICO on Cobie's Sonar platform.

🆕 #ZBT ZEROBASE will be available on Binance Alpha and Binance Futures (2025-10-17). binance

📊 #BTC Glassnode: Bitcoin Options markets show net premium concentration at $115k–$130k, suggesting traders remain positioned for upside.

Despite the futures flush, call demand dominates, implying investors see the drawdown as a leverage reset.

💵📈 Matrixport: Despite the recent market crash, stablecoin inflows tell another story — over $74B in new liquidity has entered the ecosystem this year. The crypto cycle isn’t over — it’s simply maturing. #stablecoin

🕵 Galaxy Digital contributed 250K #SOL ($51.69M) on Binance.

📊🐳 #BTC CQ: Bitcoin market enters the “Speculative Phase” as new whales take control.

The key signal to watch next will be a decline in STH share, which would mark the start of a renewed accumulation phase led by long-term investors.

🇭🇰🏦 #BNB China Merchants Bank tokenizes $3.8 billion fund on BNB Chain in Hong Kong cointelegraph.com

🕵️‍♂️🇨🇳 LuBian wallet transferred another 2129 #BTC (~$238.6m) to another wallet.