Bitcoin opened the week weaker, sliding to $108,000 after weekend range-trading and ETF outflows; short-term support sits around the $107k cost-basis band.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded net weekly outflows near $799 million last week; Ethereum ETFs were roughly flat for the week. Solana’s debut ETFs drew $199 million and remain a tactical destination for flows.
Large-holder balance remains concentrated: wallets holding 10–10k BTC control 13.68 million BTC (≈68.62% supply); these cohorts added ~110,010 BTC in October and sold ~23,200 BTC since.
Onchain and derivatives signals are mixed: realized profitability compressed, funding muted, and options skew modestly put-biased; participation has cooled and leverage is lower.
Action bias: maintain defensive sizing, prefer staggered entries into dips; watch whether spot ETF flows reaccelerate and whether BTC can reclaim and hold above $110k on sustained volume.
THORChain’s history of centralization, security failures and questionable money flows is well documented. But are today’s critics getting the technical and legal arguments right – and are they applying the same standards to other major DeFi projects?
Three months after Kraken's parent closed its acquisition of the Hong Kong stablecoin card issuer, Reap is building out Mexico as a second hub and pitching AI agents as its next growth channel.
The launch gives a stablecoin native placement on up to 82 million US devices, though at launch users can only hold and send USDC, and the announcement does not say how they will get it into the wallet.
The basic agreement names the venture and splits ownership for the first time, leaving the US connectivity startup in control and its two Japanese shareholders as minority partners.
