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.
Professional traders now dominate Polymarket volume, and in a zero-sum market that leaves less and less on the table for the retail bettors who made prediction markets popular.
OpenAI may have solved Navier-Stokes as written, but exploiting a flaw is not the same as gaining insight. Web3 makes the same mistake when it passes off regulatory workarounds as innovation.
Tokenized dollar liquidity funds have grown roughly tenfold in two years, but Fidelity's digital assets lead says secondary markets, collateral rules and human fallbacks are now the harder problems.
Stablecoin issuers froze more than $2.5 billion within hours, but estimates of what was taken range from about $3.3 billion to nearly $6 billion, and Binance has yet to give its own figure.
