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 Solana-based yield protocol has $500 million in liquidity and a delta-neutral strategy with four and a half years of trading history – but its CEO's bigger argument is about what most DeFi investors still fail to check before they deposit.
With $7 billion in stablecoin settlement already flowing through its network and new tools for AI agent authentication, Visa is positioning itself as the trust layer for an increasingly autonomous commerce landscape — without requiring banks or merchants to replace their existing systems.
The funding round — at a $2 billion valuation — is one of the largest institutional blockchain bets in years, and the participant list reads like a consensus view that Canton has won the privacy-preserving infrastructure race for regulated markets.