ETF redemptions accelerated with ETH spot ETFs seeing a $429 million exit (3rd day of outflows) while BTC spot ETFs also registered a $327 million outflow yesterday.
Price momentum faded after the strong Monday one. BTC dropped 2.2% to $112,455; ETH 2.1% to $4,050; BNB down 7% to $1,215; SOL flat at $198.
Market structure: Open interest turned down sharply (≈ −77k BTC and −1.67 million ETH), indicating low return of leveraged traders.
Macro pressure: Gold hit a new ATH of $4,130 and S&P 500 +1.5% with China vowing to “fight trade war to the end.”
VC & product demand: Fundraising surged to a record $3.48 billion in one week, as venture appetite returns even as spot sentiment cools.
The deal would give Payward a full EU banking license on top of its Irish e-money license, letting it pay interest on deposits and lend across five European markets.
An implant that read recovery phrases off the screen and sent them out over LTE has been linked to more than $86 million in suspected thefts, and a second tampered device has now surfaced in Singapore.
Headline and core CPI both came in a tenth above forecasts, and Bitcoin slipped below $82,000 as traders raised the odds of a second consecutive rate increase at the Fed's Oct. 27–28 meeting.
Tiger Research's Q3 data shows the rebound's capital went into tokens and ETFs, while the money that did reach crypto companies came increasingly from exchanges, lenders and public markets instead of the lead VCs that set terms in past cycles.
