The FOMC delivered a 25 basis point rate cut but at the same time, Fed Chair Powell's comment on “December not guaranteed” triggered a sell-off with Bitcoin sliding below $110,000 and currently stabilizing near $108,500.
Spot ETF flows flipped negative: Oct. 29 saw Bitcoin ETFs net outflows of $471 million and Ethereum ETFs net outflows of $81 million. Bitwise’s Solana ETF debuted with inflows of $69.45 million, the highest daily inflow for any ETF in 2025.
Technical battleground: immediate support is $107,000–$109,000; while heavy supply sits at $117,000 and continues to cap rallies.
Tactical posture: reduce risk, keep cash available, and prefer staggered re-entry on confirmed demand; avoid momentum chasing into headline noise.
The Singapore-based pool's U.S. units lined up a $52 million stalking-horse bid for their West Texas sites, four years after Poolin's wallet arm froze withdrawals and left customers holding $163.7 million in IOUs.
Bitkub says its founders quietly covered the loss to prevent a bank run and that no customer was ever harmed, but the SEC's case rests on the argument that concealing the theft from regulators was itself the violation.
BIP-110’s forced activation path and a parallel fork threaten to turn a technical dispute into a live chain-split risk just as Bitcoin searches for a price floor.
The exchange that invented the 100x perpetual swap says the closure follows a strategic review rather than financial trouble or regulatory pressure, and will unwind positions on a fixed schedule starting August 26.
