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.
Bitcoin looks calm on the surface, but ETF inflows, thin liquidity, leverage and geopolitical risk are building a market primed for a sharp move in either direction.
The prediction market built its name calling elections. Two days after closing a funding round above a $21 billion valuation, it turned itself into a leveraged trading venue with a real order book.
The model is the first from OpenAI to cross its own "critical" threshold for cybersecurity risk, and its launch sharpens a parallel question about how autonomous AI agents will actually pay for what they do.
The two treasuries fund their accumulation in very different ways, and a filing shows Strive holding a stake in Strategy's own preferred stock, so the two are not just parallel bets on bitcoin. They hold each other's paper.
