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Crypto’s Oct 10 nosedive was less “apocalypse” and more “stress test with a side of chaos,” according to Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan. His memo? A masterclass in financial whodunits and crypto’s version of “the floor is lava” without anyone actually catching fire.
Imagine if your crypto portfolio decided to take a vacation to the moon… and forgot to pack a parachute. 🚀 This ETF is like a 5x turbo button for XRP’s daily swings. If XRP jumps 2%, you’re dancing in the clouds! If it drops 2%, you’re diving into a pit of snakes. 🐍💸
What sorcery is this? Behind this resurrection lies a tapestry of fundamental developments-a new ETP, partnerships, and the whispers of institutional favor. Could it be that the stars have aligned for Stellar once more? 🌌💫
From CoinGecko’s dubious oracle, we glean that the sector’s lofty valuation tumbled from $6.2 billion on that wretched Friday to a mere $5 billion by Saturday-a 20% prune in market capitalization, as if the blockchain gods were trimming hedges. What a spectacle! 📊
Traditional remittance systems? More like a three-ring circus of inefficiency. Slow as a sloth, expensive as a luxury yacht, and fragmented like a jigsaw puzzle missing half its pieces. Stablecoins, on the other hand, are the high-speed train that collapses all that chaos into one smooth ride. Secure, quick, and cheaper than a cup of coffee. ☕✨
The token, which is basically the BNB Chain’s VIP pass and can be used to pay trading fees on Binance, bounced back from $1,145 to $1,237 faster than a cat jumping off a hot stove. Buyers are still in the game, even though the macroeconomic world looks like a game of Jenga played by drunk toddlers. 🐱🔥
Crypto adoption, that most fashionable of frenzies, accelerates! Driven by rising prices, regulation as predictable as a Shakespearean tragedy, and tools for self-custody so sleek they’d fit in a Bond film. Users, once content to leave their treasures on exchanges, now demand wallets that feel less like assembling IKEA furniture and more like a spa day.
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Now, according to the folks at CryptoQuant (who, I assume, wear lab coats and have very serious faces), these whales weren’t just splashing around-they were aggressively depositing XRP like it was going out of style. Between October 10 and 12, the price plummeted from a cozy $3.10 to a chilly $2.40. 🥶 Arab Chain, the analyst with a name that sounds like a Bond villain, pointed out that this was no accident. Whales, it seems, were either locking in profits or hedging their bets after a volatile rebound. Because, you know, why not add a bit more chaos to the mix? 🎢
Spot Bitcoin ETFs, those digital zeks, netted a paltry $102.58 million, a rebound from the monstrous $326 million exodus of yestercentury, as per the grim ledgers of SoSoValue. And lo, Fidelity’s Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC), ever the sly one, led with $132.67 million, while BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) sputtered a mere outflow of $30.79 million-ha, the irony of black rocks in this gilded cage!
