A surprise appearance by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at the opening of a Bitcoin-themed bar in Washington, DC, has drawn sharp attention from both crypto supporters and cautious observers. Related Reading: Trump’s WLFI Moves To Contain Wallet Breach While Federal Inquiry Looms According to reports, Bessent stopped by Pubkey during its launch event, a move that many in the Bitcoin community read as a visible sign of warmer relations between parts of government and the crypto sector. Pubkey Visit Raises Eyebrows And Cheers Pubkey, a venue that bills itself as Bitcoin-friendly, has grown from a New York outpost into a small chain. Reports have disclosed that the New York location once hosted US President Donald Trump, who reportedly paid in Bitcoin during a previous visit. The Washington opening, where Bessent appeared unannounced, triggered a flurry of online reaction. Some community figures called the moment historic. Others urged caution, saying public appearances do not automatically translate into policy shifts. Had to do a second buy today using my “it was so obvious” framework. Having the Secretary of the Treasury at the Pubkey DC launch seems like a moment I could easily look back on and say “wow, it was all so obvious”. Stack Sats and chill. https://t.co/8uPWEqLJ9y pic.twitter.com/Dew1A4gkFZ — Ben Werkman (@BenWerkman) November 21, 2025 Policy Signals And Concrete Talk Based on reports, Bessent has been public about ideas that place Bitcoin on the government agenda. He has spoken about the GENIUS Act and has discussed ways the Treasury could use seized Bitcoin to seed a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve in a budget-neutral manner. In an interview dated March 7, 2025, he suggested the Treasury was exploring options that would avoid immediate sales of seized crypto and instead look for ways to keep BTC on the books. That shift in tone is being watched closely by traders and policy watchers alike. Community Reaction Was Fast Ben Werkman, a crypto fund CIO, said the event felt like a “moment” for the industry. Another industry figure, Steven Lubka, called it the sign many had been waiting for. At the same time, analysts warned about reading too much into a single photo op. One trader noted that market moves are driven by many forces, and that symbolic gestures often take time to matter for prices. Short-term traders may ignore signals like this, while longer-term holders may file them away. What This Means For Markets And Lawmakers If the Treasury takes steps to pause sales of seized BTC and to test ways of holding coins, the move could change how institutional players view the asset class. But reports also remind readers that policy ideas meet legal and budget tests before they become real. Lawmakers and regulators will have to weigh the proposal. The public nature of Bessent’s visit, though, makes the discussion harder to treat as private or theoretical. Related Reading: XRP Supply Shock Ahead? ETFs Could Consume It All, Analyst Predicts A Moment, Not A Promise The image of a cabinet official mingling at a Bitcoin bar is powerful. It gives the community talking points. Yet, officials and experts say more formal steps are required before the visit becomes policy. For now, the appearance stands as a public sign of interest, backed by statements and proposals that are still in play. Bitcoin’s supporters will note the visibility. Critics will watch for the paperwork. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by vvelda@ymail.com/Flickr and Wavebreakmedia/iStock/Getty Images Plus, chart from TradingView
With short-term holders driving Bitcoin’s sell-off, realized losses are hitting historic levels, leaving investors to wonder where the bottom might be.
GSR upgraded GSR One, unifying market making, over-the-counter trading and treasury services as demand for institutional-grade crypto infrastructure increases.
Short-term realized-loss dominance is typical of market stress, but the magnitude this week stands out.
Previously having essentially written off chances of further monetary ease in 2025, interest rate traders are now pricing more than a 70% chance of a rate cut at the Federal Reserve's December meeting.
SOL and XRP ETFs have attracted nearly $900 million in combined inflows, highlighting rare investor conviction amid an ongoing market rout.
New York Fed President John Williams has reopened the door to a “near-term” rate cut, putting fresh pressure on a divided Federal Reserve. Why it matters: the December 9-10 FOMC meeting is now the biggest macro swing point for Bitcoin and risk assets heading into year-end. Williams Signals a Possible Shift Ahead of the December …
Coinbase's acquisition of Vector could significantly boost its market position by enhancing trading capabilities and expanding asset access.
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As pension funds evaluate Bitcoin’s scarcity, resilience and inflation behavior, a core question emerges: Can BTC become a true institutional store of value?
The surge follows months of rapid trading growth and key regulatory shifts reshaping the U.S. prediction market space.
With Bitcoin trading around $85,000, Jeff Park, Partner and CIO at ProCap BTC, used his Nov. 20 conversation with Anthony Pompliano to argue that the drop may be valuable for reasons that have little to do with short-term “dip buying” and everything to do with narrative regime change. His central claim is that the classic halving-anchored rhythm is losing its foundation. Why The Bitcoin Crash Is Necessary “The four year cycle is almost definitively over,” Park said, because what it was “based off of historically, which is the halving, is just irrelevant from the additional marginal demand that comes from other channels that have opened up.” In his framing, the market is being pulled into a different cadence: “logically and fundamentally the four-year cycle should no longer exist and a new cycle should emerge that is more in sync with institutional risk capital appetite.” Related Reading: Is The Bitcoin Bottom In? Fidelity Research Lead Weighs The Odds Park is careful not to treat that as a clean break, because beliefs still move prices. He stressed that a large legacy cohort continues to trade as if the four-year script is real. “There is still a big group of investors that believe it should exist,” he said, describing them as early adopters with “characteristics that almost feel like the occult where they have prophecies.” The key, in his view, is their supply control: “the biggest Bitcoin holders in wallets that are 10,000 [BTC] and plus in size still control a good chunk of the market […] they are still a third of the Bitcoin market.” That concentration makes the cycle potentially reflexive: “if a third of the Bitcoin holders believe the four-year cycle is true and they act like the four-year cycle is true, well then it doesn’t really matter because they’re the price setters […] these things can be self-fulfilling.” From there, Park pivots to why weakness into year-end could be constructive. He noted that Bitcoin is now “below year to date […] in 2025,” raising the prospect of a red close. In a deliberately sharp line, he joked that if 2025 ends negative, “that breaks the four-year cycle because now we have a red [yearly candle] and so it’s a three-year cycle.” Related Reading: Why Bitwise Thinks Bitcoin Still Hits $200,000 In 2026 The humor masks a strategic preference: “maybe we do need this red [candle] right now so we could have the ability to unleash the super cycle for Bitcoin to come without ever having to talk about the four-year cycle again.” Park framed a marginally green close as the worst of both worlds. “The last thing I want honestly is […] an up 5% year to 2025 where we close at like $98K or $99K or $100K and that counts as a green year,” he said, because then “the next year everyone’s going to talk about […] this is the down year now,” leaving 2026 under the “harrowing weight over your head that we’re actually going to have another down year.” Pompliano pressed the obvious counter-scenario: “Is there a world where it could just kind of rip right back […] and go to $140,000 or something?” Park didn’t rule it out. “It’s absolutely possible. Anything can happen,” he replied. But he summarized the trade-off starkly: “we either have to hope for […] that it either goes up a lot to make the year count or we just try to notch in a small loss here for the year so we can just wipe out the four-year cycle altogether.” For Park, Bitcoin at $85,000 is “good news” only insofar as it increases the odds of breaking a self-reinforcing calendar myth, clearing the way for a market driven less by halving folklore and more by institutional risk cycles. At press time, BTC traded at $84,469. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com
The Department of Homeland Security-led "Operation Red Sunset" examined whether Bitmain's machines could enable espionage or grid sabotage.
BlackRock's significant crypto deposits into Coinbase Prime highlight the growing integration of digital assets in traditional finance strategies.
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Karp's share sale may signal insider confidence shifts, impacting investor sentiment and raising questions about Palantir's future valuation.
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The October 10 crypto crash wasn’t just another violent wick on the chart. According to Tom Lee, chairman of Ether-focused treasury and market-making firm BitMine, the selloff exposed “structural weaknesses” within major liquidity providers that only become visible when volatility hits hard. Speaking with CNBC, Lee said the record liquidation cascade, nearly $20B wiped out in hours, forced over-leveraged market makers to rapidly unwind positions as collateral values sank. That derisking drained liquidity from order books, widened spreads, and accelerated the crash in a classic feedback loop. For regular users, that kind of liquidity vacuum isn’t just macro noise. It’s when swaps fail, fees spike, and centralized wallet pipelines become bottlenecks precisely when you need them most. When the infrastructure you rely on cracks under pressure, you’re effectively outsourcing your survival to someone else’s balance sheet. That’s why many investors are now shifting their focus from price action to tools that hold up during stress. Best Wallet is positioning its presale around that exact narrative: a mobile-first, non-custodial ecosystem built to keep users in control even when market plumbing breaks elsewhere. In a post-crash environment where structural fragility is once again front and center, that message is resonating. How a Market-Maker Liquidity Crunch Spills Into Everyday Crypto Use Lee’s point is simple but uncomfortable: when major market makers run aggressively leveraged books, a shock like the October 10, 2025, crash can flip a liquidity provider into a forced seller almost instantly. Once those books start unwinding, liquidity doesn’t just thin, it evaporates. Slippage spikes, execution quality drops, and long-tail tokens or smaller venues become structurally untradeable for hours. We’ve seen versions of this story before. Centralized exchanges and brokerages often look stable right up until volatility reveals mismatched liabilities or overextended positions. For everyday users, the question is painfully practical: How do you trade, route liquidity, or rebalance portfolios without being dependent on a single entity’s balance sheet or uptime when markets are blowing up? Different wallets are attempting their own solutions. MetaMask is leaning hard into smarter routing and institutional integrations. Trust Wallet focuses on simplicity and broad asset support for casual users. Phantom expanded from Solana to EVM chains to capture multichain retail flow. Best Wallet Token, currently in presale, aims to join this field from a different angle, pairing a consumer-grade mobile UX with a security-centric backend built on Fireblocks’ MPC-CMP infrastructure. In a cycle where liquidity reliability is suddenly front-page news again, that positioning stands out. Why Best Wallet Is Positioning Itself as “Crash-Resistant” Infrastructure Most wallets still act as thin front-ends. Best Wallet is taking a different route, building a full-stack, volatility-aware ecosystem that assumes turbulence is the norm, not the exception. The team is openly targeting 40% of the global wallet market by the end of 2026, aiming at users who want institutional-grade security packaged inside a mobile-first interface. At its core is what the team calls the first fully integrated Fireblocks MPC-CMP wallet, housed within a retail app. Instead of relying on a single private key, multi-party computation splits signing across independent shards, eliminating a single-point-of-failure while keeping transactions fast enough for everyday trading. The app’s multi-wallet portfolio system lets users cleanly separate long-term holdings, active trading, and experimental positions without juggling addresses. Beyond storage, the product places a strong emphasis on access. The Upcoming Tokens portal curates early-stage presales and embeds a streamlined purchase flow, allowing users to participate in vetted launches without jumping through third-party sites. The Best DEX aggregator, powered by Rubic, pulls routes from multiple chains, DEXs, and cross-chain bridges, optimizing trades for both price and execution in real-time. On the token side, $BEST is designed to tie utility directly to user activity. Holders receive reduced in-app fees and can stake into a dedicated 800M-token rewards pool (8% of supply). Payouts scale proportionally with each staker’s share of the pool, and staking is live during the presale, giving early buyers a head start on compounding. That pitch appears to be resonating. The presale has already raised over $17.2M with tokens priced at $0.025975 and just 7 days remaining. Whale-tracking data shows two recent large purchases totaling $136k, including a confirmed $56K buy on September 2, 2025, a signal that some larger players are willing to take early directional exposure. For anyone recalibrating after the October 2025 crypto crash, tools like Best Wallet offer a more constructive response than trying to time the exact bottom. Rather than betting on perfect entries, you can build a stack that remains flexible, fee-efficient, and self-custodial the next time liquidity disappears without warning. Join the $BEST presale today. This article is for informational purposes only and should not be considered financial, investment, or trading advice. Authored by Aaron Walker, NewsBTC – https://www.newsbtc.com/news/crypto-market-crash-october-10-2025-best-wallet-presale
Your day-ahead look for Nov. 21, 2025
In a recent letter to President Trump, over 65 crypto firms have outlined a series of immediate steps that agencies can take to protect and promote innovation, ensuring that the U.S. remains the leader in the crypto space. Backed by major crypto firms including the Solana Policy Institute, Exodus, Pantera, and Uniswap Labs, the letter …
A crypto industry-backed developer program is giving students in a remote province their first exposure to on-chain building.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are betting on privacy protocols gaining major traction as AI continues to grow at an exponential rate.
While aPriori dismissed the claims related to insider activity, investors are still awaiting more details on the Sybil cluster that claimed 60% of the airdrop across 14,000 wallets.
Market sentiment suggests potential volatility and risk in Bitcoin investments, impacting trader strategies and broader crypto market stability.
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The real-world asset (RWA) market is gearing up for a major breakout, with Plume CEO Chris Yin predicting the sector could grow 3–5x by 2026. After crossing $35 billion in on-chain value and attracting over 539,000 holders, RWA sectors are finally moving beyond the crypto niche and taking their place in mainstream finance. Yin believes …
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor, Sanjay Malhotra, has issued a strong public warning against the rising adoption of cryptocurrencies and stablecoins in India, citing their “huge risk” to national financial stability and monetary policy, if not handled carefully. While the US is planning to make Bitcoin a strategic reserve, India is choosing a …
Ethereum is still struggling after the initial market crash on October 10 that rocked the market. The subsequent market declines have pushed the largest altcoin by market cap toward $3,000, breaking below it for the first time at the start of the week. With the price looking to find support, there is the possibility of a dead count bounce happening that could see the price rise by more than 10%. However, with a dead count bounce being ultimately bearish, the target remains much lower. Why Ethereum Could Be Headed Lower Crypto analyst TradingShot, in a recent analysis, outlined how the Ethereum price looks to be caught in a bearish trend since early October. This had first begun after the altcoin put in a new all-time high just above $4,900 before being hit hard in the October 10 market-wide crash. Related Reading: Dogecoin Price Could Surge Above $1 As It Repeats This Trend From 2023-2024 Since then, the digital asset has been caught within a Channel Down. This Channel Down is what triggered the double-digit decline that has been recorded for the altcoin since then. As the crypto analyst explains, the Ethereum price has seen a 27.50% decline on both of its bearish legs since this trend was established. Recently, though, there has been a small turn in the tide after the price dropped below $3,000, and this happened after Ethereum formed higher lows on the 1-Day RSI. Mostly, this is bullish for the cryptocurrency’s price, but the catch is that it is likely only going to be so for the short term. If the bullish divergence does play out as expected, then the Ethereum price is definitely set for some recovery. TradingShot believes that this recovery could bring the ETH price up by 10%, pushing it up to $3,400 before the bears step back in again. However, the overall trend still remains bearish, and this could act as a hindrance to this recovery. Once the bears mount enough resistance to stop the rally in its tracks, it is expected that the decline will resume. If this plays out, then it could mean that the recovery was only a dead cat bounce. Related Reading: Here’s Why The Bitcoin Price Keeps Crashing- Is $80,000 Next? This $3,400 level lies at the 1-Day MA50, which is important because it was the point of rejection back on October 27. Last time, it led to a 27.50% crash for the Ethereum price. This time, once the sell-offs begin again, the crypto analyst believes that this could trigger a sharp crash below $3,000. The timeframe for this ranges from the end of November to the start of December, giving it only a couple of weeks to play out. The crash is expected to push Ethereum down to $2,650 before finding a bottom, marking a new lower low. Featured image from Dall.E, chart from TradingView.com
Bitcoin’s break below $85,000 triggered more than $2 billion in crypto derivatives liquidations within 24 hours as risk assets came under pressure again. BTC briefly approached $85,000 earlier in the week before bouncing, but momentum for a recovery was minimal as it broke down as low as $81,600 overnight. Bitcoin liquidations hit $2 billion overnight […]
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Both memecoins and NFTs have plunged to their weakest levels since early 2025, with traders pulling back from speculative assets across the board.
Two traders captured more than $1.3 million in profits by exploiting Base’s new “flashblocks” system during the debut of the network founder’s creator coin.
Binance CEO Richard Teng argued that Bitcoin’s current slide reflects broader risk-off deleveraging, and its volatility is in line with most major asset classes.
Crypto markets plunged toward April lows on Friday as a lingering liquidity crunch amplified price swings. Bitcoin and ether fell more than 10%.
The crypto market faced a heavy shock as Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, suddenly dropped to around $81,000, pulling the entire market down with it and wiping out $2 billion in value. Now, investors are worried about where BTC is heading next, and many analysts say the key level to watch is $74,000. Strong U.S. …