Will the Fed end QT soon? What it means for crypto? 🤔

JPMorgan expects the Federal Reserve to end its quantitative tightening program at the next FOMC meeting on October 28–29. That means the Fed will stop shrinking its balance sheet, which has dropped from nearly $9 trillion in 2022 to around $6.6 trillion today.

👉 Quantitative tightening (QT) is when the Fed lets bonds mature without buying new ones. It drains liquidity from the financial system and usually pressures both yields and risk assets. The opposite, quantitative easing (QE), injects liquidity and tends to boost asset prices.

Ending QT means the Fed is likely done removing money from the system. Liquidity stops shrinking, funding markets calm down, and yields may ease. This can lift sentiment across equities, bonds, and crypto.

TLDR: more dollars in the system = higher prices of everything 📈

The decision comes after growing signs of liquidity stress and volatility in short-term funding markets. I think the Fed may be choosing stability over continued tightening.

If QT really ends here, it’s a signal that the restrictive phase of policy is over, it opens the door for a softer stance — and markets are already front-running this ↗️

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Dropping some super hopium for those who were late to this bull market 📊

This chart shows how bitcoin traded against gold in 2020. Back then, there was a big pump on gold price while BTC was trading sideways for a year.

📈 Then, gold started dropping while BTC went on an insane run, going up 500% before forming a double top. Then, we had the 2022 bear market.

Over the last few years, gold has been on an even stronger run, but it recently topped around $4,400 and has already dropped by 6%.

What if this time is not different, and we'll see BTC catch up with gold, making a new ATH between $150k and $200k ⁉️

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Update: In just 8 days, ChatGPT lost 42 out of 44 trades, losing 71% of its initial $10,000 bankroll 📉

Can we conclude that it has achieved human-level intelligence? Because most humans trade similarly 🤣

What Is x402 and Why It Matters 🤖

x402 is a new onchain payment standard backed by Coinbase and Cloudflare. It’s designed to let AI agents and apps pay each other directly using stablecoins. The name comes from the old internet code “402 – Payment Required,” which is finally being used for what it was meant to do — handle payments online.

🤖 Think of it like this: an AI or app requests data or an API. The server replies, “pay this small fee,” the agent pays automatically in crypto, and access is unlocked. No accounts, no subscriptions, no credit cards. Just direct payments between machines.

Why it’s important: over the next few years, AI systems will start acting as independent users. They’ll need to buy data, pay for compute, and settle bills on their own. x402 is building the rails for that.

🤖 If you’ve seen projects like Virtuals, Heurist, or PayAI — they’re all experimenting with x402 for onchain payments. Most of this activity is happening on Base (Coinbase’s chain), but it’s expanding to Solana, Polygon, and Near too.

TLDR: x402 is an infrastructure that could power how agents transact in the real world. If the AI economy becomes as big as people expect, this protocol could sit right at the center of it. You can find related projects in the picture above, DYOR to find tokens tied to this new meta 🔍

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This is what it's been like trying to trade this market over the past few weeks 😱

5 biographical books that anyone interested in the world of finance should read 📚

These aren’t just stories about rich people, they’re portraits of obsession, risk, and how a few individuals reshaped global finance. Each one shows a different path to power 👇

🔖 Jesse Livermore: World’s Greatest Stock Trader — The rise and fall of a man who turned instinct into a trading system long before algorithms existed.

🔖 The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life — A look inside the mind of the ultimate long-term thinker who built an empire on discipline and compounding.

🔖 Soros: The World’s Most Influential Investor — The story of a man who treated markets like a reflection of human psychology and bet on global shifts before anyone else saw them coming.

🔖 King Icahn: The Biography of a Renegade Capitalist — The unapologetic tale of how one investor weaponized capitalism itself, forcing companies to bend to his will.

🔖 The Harder You Work, the Luckier You Get: An Entrepreneur's Memoir — Joe Ricketts tells a story of how a normal kid took on the exclusive brokerage business on Wall Street, shook it up and walked away with a billion dollars.

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Smart trader with a perfect record just added more to his ETH longs 📈

Current positions:

🤑 2,083 BTC ($237.8M)

🤑 47,548 ETH ($196.06M)

His total profit now sits at $24.8M, up 66% in the last 30 days as the rally continues.

You can track every trade and position here 🔎

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If I had less than $10K in crypto right now, here’s what I’d actually do 🤔

First, I’d make around 20 wallets and farm airdrops. The goal isn’t to get one big hit, it’s to catch a dozen small ones (base rewards). Right now the best shot is in perp DEXes like Hyperliquid, Lighter, Paradex, Extended, EdgeX, Pacifica... I’d keep small delta-neutral positions to farm points safely instead of gambling on directional bets 👛

Then I’d farm airdrops from other projects: Polymarket, Kalshi, Metamask, OpenSea, Base, Unit, and HyperEVM eco.

🗣 I’d build a Crypto Twitter presence. Post daily, share ideas, and grow your network. That’s how you find jobs in web3 (and you need one, because $10k in capital is not a lot in crypto). Once your account has traction, go for SocialFi campaigns that pay to post: Kaito, Cookie, Ethos, etc.

Finally, and it's very important: I’d build a small group of around 8 people max — where everyone brings a unique edge. Share info, test ideas, and move together 🤝

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Still waiting for a 2021-style alt season? You probably shouldn’t. The environment that made it possible no longer exists 🔍

In 2021, there were around 20,000 coins listed on CoinMarketCap. Today, there are over 26 million. That explosion in supply diluted everything. Liquidity, attention, and speculation are now scattered across too many tokens. The pool of money that once lifted thousands of coins can no longer move the market in the same way.

🤑 Even if the total market cap grows, most capital now sits in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and a few large narratives. The rest of the market just doesn’t have enough fuel left to make every altcoin double.

There will still be winners, but the next true “alt season” will be selective, not universal, so choose wisely 🧠

The NEO robot by 1X just launched. This is a $499/month humanoid “assistant” for your home. It can walk, grab things, open doors, and so on. Sounds futuristic, right? Until you realize what’s actually happening behind the scenes 😨

🤖 When NEO doesn’t understand a command, it connects to a remote human operator who takes control through VR. That person — possibly sitting in an office somewhere across the world, literally steers the robot around your house using its cameras.

🤖 They can see what the robot sees, hear what it hears, and manipulate its arms to complete tasks. The company says this helps “train” the AI for future autonomy.

So for now, you pay for a robot that secretly depends on human labor. It’s brilliant technology — and an oddly dystopian business model. Kinda creepy IMO 😨

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Why TVL Numbers Are Often Fake 🔍

TVL (Total Value Locked) is supposed to show how much money is deposited in a protocol. In practice, it’s one of the easiest metrics to manipulate.

🤑 Here’s how it really works. You deposit 1,000 USDC into a lending platform like Aave. You borrow 800 USDT against it. Then you take that borrowed USDT, swap it back to USDC, and deposit it again into the same protocol.

Now the dashboard shows 1,800 USDC total value locked. But there’s still only 1,000 real dollars in the system — the rest is debt counted as if it were new deposits. Do this a few more times and the platform’s TVL can easily double or triple without any new capital coming in.

🔄 This is called looping. It happens everywhere in DeFi. It’s not illegal or even dishonest, but it creates an illusion of liquidity and adoption that isn’t really there.

There’s another version of this, the kind used by CeDeFi “farming vaults.” You deposit USDT and the protocol issues you a synthetic asset, let’s say kUSD. Then the same protocol takes that kUSD, uses it in DeFi as collateral, and borrows USDC against it. With that new USDC, it mints even more kUSD from itself 💸

On paper, TVL explodes. In reality, it’s just leverage — a closed loop of assets lending to each other inside the same system. There’s no real liquidity growth behind it, only rehypothecation stacked on top of itself.

💸 Whenever you see a protocol showing rapid TVL growth, check whether it’s new money or just the same capital being reused again and again. Real liquidity is the money that can actually leave the system.

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This guy got Monad airdrop (mentioned here) worth $427,200 for practically doing nothing, just because his crypto wallets and social media accounts were eligible for high tier airdrop 😮

💸 This is a perfect demonstration that in crypto, having wallets with rich on-chain history and a good X profile is life-changing.

Be active in DeFi, own blue chip NFTs, participate in token sales, grow your profile on X, and maybe one day you'll be able to post a screenshot like this 🏆

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ETH just tapped the same support zone that’s held three times since the October 10th crash. RSI on both 1h and 4h touched oversold territory, showing clear short-term exhaustion.

📊 Sentiment across the market is pretty bearish after weeks of liquidations and slow bleed. If you’re still bullish into Q4, this is a technical area worth paying attention to. As long as this support holds, a rebound toward 4.2k and potentially new highs remains on the table.

Invalidation is simple — if this zone breaks cleanly, it would confirm that momentum has shifted and that a deeper correction is likely 🐻

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On this day 17 years ago, the Bitcoin Whitepaper was published by Satoshi Nakamoto 🟠

📕 As proposed in the document, Bitcoin was designed to allow direct payments between users without relying on banks, governments, or any trusted third parties.

It introduced a decentralized system where transactions are verified by a network of nodes through cryptographic proof, not institutional authority.

It wasn’t just a technical paper. It was a manifesto against financial control, born out of the 2008 crisis, proposing freedom through math and code 🤑

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Putting $5,000 into U.S. stocks in 2008 instead of Eurozone stocks would’ve been a whole different story today 📈

As the saying goes, "Never bet against America" 🇺🇸

One of the best-performing crypto assets of the last two years wasn’t a coin or DeFi token — it was Telegram Anonymous Numbers 💻

Launched in late 2022, these are NFT-based virtual phone numbers that let you use Telegram without a SIM card. Each number is minted and verified through the TON blockchain, using the unique +888 prefix. They give users full privacy, as no personal data or SIM registration is needed to create an account.

🤑 At launch, random numbers were minted for around 9 TON ($16–27), while premium ones were auctioned for much higher. Today, even basic numbers trade around $3,200, that's a 100×–200× gain.

The total supply is only 130k numbers for Telegram’s 1 billion users (one number per 7,700 people). With scarcity like that, it’s no surprise prices have been up only since launch 📈

I know that fraudsters like to use these numbers, but at these prices? Not every scammer can afford such luxury

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You cannot trust what you read. You cannot trust what you hear. And now, thanks to AI, you cannot even trust what you see 🤖

Alibaba’s new Wan 2.2 AI can fake your voice, map your movements onto another face, and create a fully realistic video of it.

Imagine trying to explain to your parents not to trust “you” calling them on video, asking for money. Your voice, your face, everything may seem real, but it isn’t you talking 😨

$116 million Balancer hack 🚨

Balancer just suffered one of the biggest DeFi hacks of the year. Over $116 million was drained from its V2 vaults across Ethereum, Base, Berachain and other chains. The attacker moved everything into a single wallet packed with ETH and liquid staking tokens.

😐 The hacker used a basic permission bug that let someone move funds they never deposited. A mistake hiding in plain sight — inside a protocol that’s been live for years, audited many times, and forked by dozens of others.

That’s what makes it so worrying. If something this simple can take down Balancer, one of the oldest and most trusted DeFi projects, then no one is really safe 💰

What you should do now:

⏺Withdraw funds from Balancer V2 pools immediately.

⏺Revoke your contract approvals for the vaults using Revoke.

⏺Monitor your wallets and all related activity.

⏺If you’re building, double-check every permission check and sender verification.

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The Hindenburg Omen Just Flashed Again. What is this indicator? 🚨

Last Wednesday, for the first time since November 2021, a Hindenburg Omen appeared. It’s named after the Hindenburg disaster because it tends to show up when markets look fine on the surface but are structurally breaking underneath.

📊 The signal triggers when an index is rising while an unusual number of stocks hit both new highs and new lows. It means the rally is losing depth, only a few names are driving it while the rest quietly weaken.

For a full Hindenburg Omen to trigger, five things must align:

🟢The market is in an uptrend.

🟢At least 2.2% of NYSE stocks hit new highs.

🟢At least 2.2% of NYSE stocks hit new lows.

🟢The smaller of those two groups exceeds 2.8% of total issues.

🟢The McClellan Oscillator, a breadth momentum tool, turns negative.

If all five conditions listed below are met, the indicator gives a yellow dot signal. When all that happens twice within 36 days, the indicator confirms — flashing red dot on the chart.

Not every Omen leads to a crash, but it’s often seen before major drawdowns — including the 2020 pandemic selloff and the 2008 crisis. What matters now is that market breadth is again falling apart. A handful of mega-caps are carrying the market while most stocks lag behind.

Even if no crash follows, history suggests it’s a time to rotate out of overcrowded trades and focus on assets with real strength instead of momentum built on hope & cope 📉

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