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.
The shift follows a 2025 edition that drew more than 11,000 attendees from 90 countries, and adds closed-door tokenization roundtables to a festival previously built around a single unified stage.
The exchange is enforcing Brussels' sanctions list to the letter, down to the exact spelling of each entity's name — the same pattern it followed with Iran-linked platforms two weeks earlier
After weeks of selling BTC to fund preferred dividends, Strategy raised $334 million through MSTR share sales and made no bitcoin purchases or sales at all — a pause inside a $5 billion monetization program the company approved just weeks earlier
Anchorpoint's HKDAP entered phase-one Beta Access on August 12 with HashKey and OSL as distributors — a controlled first step for the token Blockhead called a parallel, tightly controlled track rather than an open market
