Bitcoin recovered to $109,780 after Powell’s hawkish tone sent it briefly to $107,000. Ethereum and BNB remained range-bound, while Solana dipped 3% to $186. Total crypto market cap remains stable at $3.7 trillion despite weak U.S. ETF flows.
Bitcoin ETFs saw $488 million in outflows; Ethereum ETFs lost $184 million. Solana ETFs bucked the trend, posting $37.33 million in inflows, its third straight day of gains.
President Trump’s meeting with President Xi yielded trade, energy, and fentanyl agreements.
U.S. GDP data delayed to December due to government shutdown; Coinbase adds $299 million in BTC holdings.
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.
The trade settled a two-year note within minutes and pledged it as overnight collateral, a test of whether tokenization can shorten the gap between buying a bond and financing it.
