The DeFi world was hit with another shock as Stream Finance, a platform known for its yield and capital efficiency strategies, paused all withdrawals and deposits after suffering a massive $93 million loss. The company said the loss came from an external fund manager responsible for handling a portion of its assets, and operations will …
The bitcoin price is approaching $103,000 as the federal shutdown ties the 2018–2019 record while dollar the strengthens and tech market futures decline.
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Bitcoin’s pullback on Monday sent a quick chill through crypto markets, pulling sentiment down to levels not seen in months. Prices dipped to a 24-hour low of $103,938 after earlier trading above $109,000, and gauges of market mood turned sharply negative as investors reassessed risk. Related Reading: Bitcoin May Be This Week’s Big Story As Saylor Teases Fresh Buy Crypto Fear Hits Extreme Readings According to the Crypto Fear & Greed Index, the score fell to 21 out of 100 on Tuesday, a move that registers as “Extreme Fear.” That mark is the lowest in nearly seven months; the index previously hit 18 out of 100 on April 9, when markets reacted to US President Donald Trump’s global tariff measures. Reports have disclosed that the index has been swinging between calm and alarm since the large sell-off in early October, when readings tumbled after prices slid from a peak above $126,000 on Oct. 6. Market participants pointed to a mix of weak institutional flows and macro worries. Based on reports, Bitcoin-tied exchange-traded funds recorded net outflows of nearly $800 million last week. Analysts said institutional buying recently fell below the amount of newly mined Bitcoin for the first time in seven months. Those trends reduce the steady inflows that had helped support prices. Price Action & Short-Term Drivers Bitcoin recovered above $104,100 after the low, but the sharp intraday swing highlighted fragility. Some traders blamed cooling activity on exchanges and wallets, while others flagged concerns about the Federal Reserve’s stance. The Fed cut interest rates for the second time this year on Wednesday, yet signaled there may not be more cuts in 2025. That hint of a less-accommodating outlook appeared to catch investors off guard, prompting quick re-pricing in both stock and crypto markets. There are also technical points at play. The Crypto Fear & Greed Index last fell into the “Extreme Fear” zone on Oct. 21 when it hit 25 out of 100, after Bitcoin slid from over $110,000 to below $108,000. Earlier, the index had topped 70 — a “Greed” reading — showing how fast sentiment can flip when price moves accelerate. Related Reading: Forget Billions—XRP Could Hit Trillions, Leading Expert Says What Traders Are Watching Next Traders will be watching ETF flows, on-chain activity, and any fresh signals from US policymakers. Based on reports, lower blockchain activity and fewer large buys by institutions have been cited as immediate reasons for the decline. If inflows return, they could stabilize the market. If outflows continue, the pressure may deepen. Market bulls, however, still point to seasonal history. According to historical patterns cited by some analysts, November has often been a strong month for Bitcoin, with average gains above 40% in past years. Featured image from Gemini, chart from TradingView
The FTX Recovery Trust dropped a motion to limit payouts to creditors in countries including China, which holds about $380 million in claims.
Over $1.3 billion was wiped out across the crypto market as traders shifted their focus to $100,000 as the last line of defense for Bitcoin.
Bitcoin dropped below $106,505.22 on Nov. 3, down 3.6% in 24 hours, as a strengthening US dollar and sustained ETF outflows pressured crypto across the board. As of press time, Bitcoin has lost that key support level, now trading below $104,000 for the first sustained time since June. Ethereum trades at $3,490, falling 9%, while […]
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Bitcoin gave up $104,000 for the first time in weeks, while traders warned of a return to sub-$100,000 levels and new buyers amassed unrealized losses.
The crypto market conditions are deteriorating, with over $250 billion lost in the past 24 hours and nearly $100 billion in the past few hours. Bitcoin price slipped below $104,500 and is believed to be heading towards the crucial support at $102,436. The altcoins are also badly hit, with most of them following the star …
Arthur Hayes thinks Zcash can move an order of magnitude faster than most investors expect—and he spelled out why in a Coin Bureau interview released on November 3. The former BitMEX CEO ties the new Zcash bull case to a three-part story that mixes technical maturation, visible shifts in on-chain behavior, and a looming supply inflection. “I think that 10% to 20% of the value of Bitcoin quite quickly is something that Zcash could achieve,” he said—an estimate that, at current Bitcoin prices, translates to roughly $10,000–$20,000 per ZEC. Why Zcash Could Skyrocket To $10,000-$20,000 For Hayes, the technology is no longer the 2016 experiment that divided the market over ceremony theater and cryptographic trust. He recounted being “deep into Zcash in 2016” when BitMEX listed a pre-genesis futures market and spot prices briefly printed around “$3,000 a coin on Poloniex” before supply filled in. What’s changed, he argues, is the removal—by protocol upgrades—of the original single biggest credibility drag. “One of the big issues with Zcash back then was this trusted setup issue… but essentially, I think it was the Halo 2 upgrade recently removed or maybe a few years ago removed that trusted setup issue.” That, in his telling, reframes Zcash from a clever but encumbered R&D project into a privacy asset whose cryptography now clears the institutional sniff test. Related Reading: Zcash Rally Gains Steam, Can ZEC’s 4.5M Shielded Supply Push It Back Into the Top 20? He couples that with direct user-level experience. Hayes says he installed Zashi, Zcash’s flagship wallet, and used Near Intents flows to shield and swap, which he likened to an industrial-strength mixer. “When you do that, it’s essentially like Tornado Cash on steroids,” he said, emphasizing that the resulting output asset “appears, but it’s not linked to any other transaction.” Costs remain a friction—“It’s definitely not cheap yet”—but he points to trend data he has reviewed showing a secular rise in actual privacy usage: “the amount of shielded transactions is approaching I think 30%, up from like a few percentage points when I cared about Zcash a long time ago.” In other words, the privacy feature set is not just theoretically stronger; it is being used. The demand narrative rests on a simple claim: in the age of on-chain forensics and AI-enabled pattern recognition, true cash-like privacy is a product with differentiated utility. Hayes draws a sharp line between pseudonymity and privacy. “I believe in privacy coins… I think Bitcoin being synonymous is actually a good thing because I want to be able to track Bitcoin, but I also want to have internet cash where there is no traceability of that.” He contrasts Zcash with Monero’s recent headlines, citing reports that “the Japanese authorities were able to deanonymize Monero by… linking together different disparate parts of some information.” Scarcity is the third pillar. Hayes flags the Zcash halving “coming up in a few weeks, November,” framing it as the timing catalyst that could supercharge reflexivity if investor attention and liquidity arrive in tandem. The supply cut is not the entire story for him—he dismisses halving dogma in Bitcoin—but he does view a synchronous demand narrative plus a mechanical issuance drop as unusually potent for a small-float asset when a privacy bid is already rising on-chain. Related Reading: $10K Is Coming: Arthur Hayes’ Zcash ‘Vibe Check’ Sparks 30% Moonshot Liquidity and access are precisely why he sees the setup as asymmetric. Zcash is not broadly quotable, which is a risk and an opportunity. “I hit up… eight or nine OTC brokers. Only two brokers would quote me Zcash,” he said, describing how hard it was to acquire size through traditional venues. He expects that, if the price begins to trend, the path will run through permissionless rails rather than regulated exchanges. “If the price rises high enough… I can buy it on one of these decentralized exchanges and that’ll be how you really get access… just like how Bitcoin was back [then].” Hayes also addresses the change in his own posture, including what catalyzed it. He credits a dinner during Token2049 with Naval Ravikant, who “started shilling me on Zcash,” prompting him to push past his 2016-era objections and re-underwrite the protocol. “I bought a few million bucks on the spot at that point,” he said, adding that he kept buying “even though I bought it after the 80% pump when Naval sent out that tweet.” Hayes believes the upside can compress into weeks rather than years. In his words: “I’ve bought a lot of it… I’m still buying it. I think that this is probably going to be one of my better trades of the cycle.” At press time, ZEC traded at $464. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com
AI systems drive crypto fraud while the industry relies on outdated postmortems. Real-time transaction defense must become infrastructure.
Stablecoin settlement times vary wildly depending on their blockchain. Purpose-built payment chains must remain open, or they will repeat TradFi fragmentation.
Decred (DCR) price just delivered a jaw-dropping 137% overnight surge, catapulting its price above $52 and peaking at $68.62. This isn’t just a wild move, it’s part of a privacy coin rally that put the sector up 15% just days ago. I believe two key forces are driving the action right now. One, widespread concern …
The crypto market is facing a major crisis as Bitcoin struggles to stay above the $107,000 mark, hovering dangerously close to its key support zone between $105,000 and $110,000. Ethereum is also under pressure, trading near $3,400, a sign of broader weakness across altcoins. The total market capitalization has slipped to around $3.5–$3.6 trillion, indicating …
Strategy Inc has announced the launch of $STRE, its first euro-denominated perpetual preferred stock, offering 3.5 million shares priced at €100 each. This euro-denominated stock pays 10% annual dividends, payable quarterly starting December 31, 2025. The funds raised will be used for general corporate purposes, including buying Bitcoin and supporting working capital. This move supports …
Validators halted the network on Monday as the exploit on Balancer V2 exposed vulnerabilities in Berachain's native decentralized exchange.
For the first time since 2018, the Bitcoin price has closed the October trade in the red. With this, the market sentiments are slowly turning more fearful every day. The volume has doubled in the past 24 hours, reaching over $212 billion, and nearly $250 billion has been wiped out of the market cap. Moreover, …
XRP's key averages are set to produce a death cross.
Bullish’s new crypto options platform attracted $82 million in trading volume in five days, with participation from institutional traders.
Monero has grabbed the spotlight just as privacy coins take off, challenging narratives after Dash and ZCash set new highs. While the overall crypto market dropped over 4%, XMR surged, defying the market trend. Wondering what led to such an event? A perfect storm of events fueled this rise, the first being bullish chart signals, …
Amid the bearish pressure that has rocked the market, the Bitcoin price continues to fluctuate around the $110,000 support, especially with selling pressure building up. This has led to predictions that the Bitcoin price is headed for another crash amid the weakness. One analysis that stands out comes from crypto analyst Toby Dawson, who pointed out the formation of a bearish Heads and Shoulders pattern that could trigger a cascade below $100,000. Head And Shoulders Pattern Points Downward In the analysis shared on the TradingView website, Dawson outlines the formation of the head and shoulders pattern. The first shoulder here, the left shoulder, was created at around $117,000, when the price was struggling back in the month of September. The subsequent recovery would then give rise to the formation of the head. Related Reading: Dogecoin RSI Returns To Pre-Launch Levels, Analyst Says Next Major Surge Is Close Next was the rapid Bitcoin price rise to a new all-time high above $126,000 before hitting resistance. This resistance at this level led to the formation of the head of the pattern, and, as expected, the price continued its downtrend following this. The most recent of these is the formation of the right shoulder, which was created in the rally toward $117,000 at the end of October. Once again, the Bitcoin price hit another major resistance, marking the completion of the head and shoulders pattern. With this formation, the crypto analyst points out the possibility that the Bitcoin price will see a major bounce. However, in the case of a breakdown, the expectation would be for the price to crash below the $100,000 and move toward $90,000. Bitcoin Price Crash Expectations Spread Another crypto analyst has also called out the possibility of the Bitcoin price crashing. This comes after the cryptocurrency made a new all-time high above $126,000, and the analyst points out that the digital asset has always seen a major price crash after reaching new peaks. Related Reading: Billions In Bitcoin And Ethereum Leave Exchanges: Is Selling Pressure Easing? From here, the focus is now on the 1-week 50 EMA and the support at $100,000. These two are serving as the last line of defense, and if they fail, then the analyst expects the Bitcoin price to go into free fall. As a result, the analyst warns that investors should get ready to exist as “Bitcoin is heading straight to hell!” Just like Dawson, the crypto analyst expects that Bitcoin will break below $100,000, but puts it even further. This time, it isn’t expected to actually stop above $90,000, but to reach deeper into the $80,000 territory before finding support. Featured image from Dall.E, chart from TradingView.com
November 4, 2025 06:55:35 UTC Ripple Acquires Palisade to Strengthen Institutional Custody Services Ripple has announced the acquisition of Palisade, a digital wallet and custody firm, as part of its strategy to expand institutional services. The move enhances Ripple’s custody infrastructure, enabling it to directly serve fintechs, corporates, and crypto-native firms seeking secure digital asset …
Stream Finance is investigating a $93 million loss and has paused deposits and withdrawals, which has caused its stablecoin to depeg to $0.50.
Bitwise and Grayscale have announced management fees for their upcoming XRP and Dogecoin ETFs, even though they haven’t yet received official approval from the U.S. SEC. Crypto ETFs Move Forward Despite Regulatory Silence Both firms are taking an unconventional approach by planning to list their ETFs without waiting for SEC approval. This mirrors Grayscale’s recent …
DeFi platform Stream Finance is engaging law firm Perkins Coie LLP to lead investigation after an external fund manager disclosed a huge loss.
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Michael Saylor’s Strategy has filed to offer euro-denominated shares in its latest push to raise capital for more Bitcoin.
The Federal Reserve’s 25-basis-point cut last week was widely expected, but Chair Jerome Powell’s restrained tone dampened risk appetite after he hinted that December’s cut isn’t guaranteed.
Stablecoins, tokenized money market funds and tokenized treasuries could become a common treasury asset in the future, Fireblocks’ John Hallahan told Cointelegraph.