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The crypto market is beginning to display early indications that a new altcoin season could be approaching, as analysts reference historical patterns and technical signals hinting at a rebound after a lengthy slump. Although altcoins have recently lagged behind Bitcoin, bullish factors from data and macroeconomic parallels are building optimism that a change in liquidity conditions might trigger a strong market-wide rally for altcoins. Altcoin Dominance Hits Record Oversold Levels According to crypto analyst Javon Marks, altcoin dominance has entered oversold conditions for the first time in history. Marks highlighted in his post that the indicator, which measures the market share of all altcoins, is now the most oversold it’s ever been. The OTHERS.D chart shows the market dominance percentage of all cryptocurrencies except the top 10 by market capitalization. It is a measure of the combined market share of smaller altcoins and can be used to identify broader altcoin rallies. His long-term chart of the OTEHRS.D movement spans over a decade, with each major low followed by an extended period of recovery and massive market gains. The chart reveals that dominance has declined sharply since its 2021 peak of around 20%. At the time of writing, the OTHERS.D dominance is around 7%. A wave trend indicator at the bottom of the chart is in deep negative territory around negative 50%, which is its lowest in history. Marks noted that such oversold conditions often precede strong reversals. It means that selling pressure has been exhausted and that a major rebound could soon begin. If this pattern repeats, altcoins may be entering one of their most attractive accumulation phases in years. Crypto Total Market Cap Excluding Top 10 Dominance. Source: Javon Marks on X Fed’s Monetary Shifts And Their Impact On Crypto Liquidity Another technical perspective came from analyst Ted Pillows, who compared current market conditions to the 2019-2020 cycle when the Federal Reserve ended quantitative tightening (QT) and later resumed quantitative easing (QE). His chart of the crypto total market cap excluding Bitcoin shows a 42% decline following the end of QT in late 2019, followed by an explosive recovery after the Fed initiated QE in March 2020. Pillows explained that while ending QT may ease financial pressure, it does not directly inject liquidity into the economy, something altcoins need to rally. In contrast, QE or Treasury General Account (TGA) releases flood the market with liquidity and allow inflows into cryptocurrencies. He noted that ending QT isn’t enough for alts to rally. It is either the Fed starts another QE or the Treasury releases TGA liquidity into the economy. The most feasible option right now is the second one. Crypto Total Market Cap Excluding BTC. Source: Ted Pillows On X With the US government currently in a shutdown, he suggested that a TGA-driven liquidity release may occur once the fiscal impasse is resolved, and this will serve as the next major driving force for the altcoin market. Featured image created with Dall.E, chart from Tradingview.com
With S2F in the rearview, the live power-law channel indicates that BTC is roughly 20% below fair value, but ETF flows could push it to either extreme. Bitbo’s implementation of Giovanni Santostasi’s model places the price near $109,700, the fair value near $136,100, the support near $48,300, and the resistance near $491,800, which frames the current cycle […]
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Bitcoin (BTC) tumbled below the $110,000 level in a sharp move that rattled markets and triggered a wave of short-term panic selling. The sudden decline followed an initial post-Fed volatility spike, as traders reacted to the US Federal Reserve’s 25bps rate cut and announcement of an impending end to quantitative tightening. With uncertainty still lingering, BTC briefly slipped into a risk-off spiral, testing investor conviction and flushing out leveraged positions in the process. Related Reading: $780M Worth of Ethereum Pulled From Exchanges – Biggest Withdrawal Spike in Weeks Despite the market turbulence, several analysts argue this move may represent a classic shakeout, rather than the beginning of a larger breakdown. Historically, Bitcoin has often seen sharp pullbacks immediately before renewed upside momentum, especially during early liquidity-expansion phases. For now, all eyes are on whether Bitcoin can stabilize and reclaim the $110K zone, a level that has repeatedly acted as a pivot throughout the past month. As markets digest the Fed’s decision, the focus turns to whether Bitcoin can wake up from this sudden sell-off and reclaim strength heading into November. PoC Becomes Critical Battleground as Market Signals Indecision According to top analyst On-chain Mind, Bitcoin’s current price structure is being defined by a major volume cluster centered around $117,000, which now serves as the Point of Control (PoC) in the local market profile. This level represents the price zone with the highest traded volume in the recent range — effectively the point where buyers and sellers have shown the strongest interest and where the market has spent considerable time balancing liquidity. In practical terms, the PoC functions as a fair value zone for market participants. When the price trades below it, bulls need to reclaim the level to regain trend strength; when the price trades above it, the zone tends to act as support. Today, BTC remains beneath the $117K PoC, signaling that the market has yet to re-establish bullish dominance after the recent shakeout. On-chain Mind notes that reclaiming $117K would likely trigger renewed momentum, opening the door for a retest of the $120K–$123K range. Until then, however, the structure remains indecisive, with price hovering in a neutral zone where neither bulls nor bears hold a clear advantage. This aligns with broader market behavior: reduced leverage, mixed sentiment, and trader caution following aggressive liquidations earlier in October. The market is digesting macro shifts, recalibrating position sizes, and waiting for a clearer signal. If Bitcoin can stabilize above recent support and begin rotating back toward the PoC, reclaiming $117K could mark the moment the next leg up begins. Related Reading: Bitcoin Records Over $300B Spot Volume In October – Investors Shift Away From Leverage Bitcoin Attempts Rebound Above $110K Bitcoin (BTC) is currently trading near $110,180 on the 4-hour timeframe, attempting to stabilize after yesterday’s sharp drop. The price managed to reclaim the $110K level, suggesting buyers stepped in at intraday lows around $108,500, an important local demand zone that has repeatedly supported the price since mid-October. However, the recovery remains fragile, with BTC now approaching a cluster of short-term resistance levels. The 50-period EMA sits just above the current price, and the 100- and 200-period moving averages remain overhead, stacked bearishly. This alignment indicates that momentum has not fully shifted back to the bulls yet. To regain control, BTC must break above $112,000–$113,000, where multiple moving averages converge and prior support now acts as resistance. Clearing this zone would open the path toward the critical $117,500 Point of Control — the key level bulls need to reclaim to re-establish medium-term strength. Related Reading: Ethereum ICO Whale Awakens After 8 Years – 1,500 ETH Sent to Kraken After 8 Years If Bitcoin fails to hold $110K, support lies at $108,500, followed by the deeper liquidity zone around $106,000, where buyers strongly defended price during the October 10 flush. For now, BTC remains in a neutral recovery posture, trying to build a base while navigating overhead pressure from macro uncertainty and recent leverage unwinds. Featured image from ChatGPT, chart from TradingView.com
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The crypto community has long referred to October as Uptober, a nickname earned through Bitcoin’s consistent history of strong monthly performances. The trend has been so reliable that the month became synonymous with price surges. Bitcoin has always closed October in profit over the previous seven years, a record streak unmatched by any other month in its history. However, October 2025 appears to be challenging that reputation. As the month draws to an end, Bitcoin is roughly 4% below its monthly open, and October might finally end in red territory for the first time since 2018. Bitcoin Might Close October In Red Bitcoin’s price opened October at $114,079, and its sentiment was overwhelmingly bullish at the beginning of the month, carrying over a positive 5% monthly close in September. This bullish sentiment saw the leading cryptocurrency break above $126,000 for the first time before finally setting a new all-time high of $126,080 on October 6. The move strengthened hopes that Uptober would live up to its name once again. Related Reading: Analyst Reveals What Traders Are Missing After The Bitcoin Price Spike To $116,000 However, the bullish momentum cooled off rapidly, with Bitcoin slipping below $120,000 very quickly. By the middle of the month, Bitcoin witnessed a flash crash that caused its price to fall as low as $101,000 in a quick move. As it stands, Bitcoin is now consolidating near $110,000 by late October, and it can only register a monthly close above this level. The last time Bitcoin closed October in the red was in 2018, when it closed at $6,303, which is about 4% below its October open of $6,958. That year was during the height of a prolonged bear cycle, when the crypto market was struggling to recover from the massive 2017 rally. Bitcoin’s price had already suffered consecutive down months, and October’s decline was followed by an even more brutal 36.4% crash in November, the steepest monthly loss in the cryptocurrency’s history. Could November Be Different This Time? The question now is whether Bitcoin might repeat this downtrend in November 2025. If history were to repeat itself, like it always does in the crypto market, a negative October close could precede another correction in November. However, the answer might not be as straightforward. Related Reading: 100% Of Bitcoin Bull Market Peak Indicators Remain Untouched, Is There Still Room To Run? Unlike in 2018, Bitcoin’s current market structure is supported by several bullish fundamentals. Institutional interest through Spot Bitcoin ETFs, exchange outflows, and on-chain data shows that long-term holders are not selling aggressively. Even as the price is consolidating around $110,000, volatility is lower than during previous market tops, and this indicates a phase of cooling before another breakout. Even if the month closes in red, the overall bullish trajectory of Bitcoin is intact. Bitcoin continues to hold its dominance and attract capital inflows. The only sure way Bitcoin might end November 2025 in red is if Spot Bitcoin ETFs perform very poorly throughout the month. At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading at $109,700. Featured image from Pixabay, chart from Tradingview.com
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The Bitcoin Lightning Network was once the crown jewel of Bitcoin’s scaling story, a living map of open channels and growing liquidity that reflected adoption in real-time. However, as the network matures, the picture has blurred. Behind the steady decline in public Bitcoin Lightning capacity lies a quiet transformation: exchanges, wallets, and merchants are routing […]
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Ethereum is once again testing the strength of its key support band around the $3,700 zone, a level that has acted as a crucial lifeline for bulls in recent months. With momentum fading after repeated rejections near resistance, speculations are whether buyers can step in to spark a renewed push upward or if a deeper correction is on the horizon. ETH Pulls Back After Golden Pocket Rejection In his latest market update, Luca shared insights on Ethereum’s current technical setup, noting that the asset recently faced rejection at the high-timeframe resistance zone he had highlighted in earlier analyses. This rejection aligns with the golden pocket between the 0.5 and 0.618 Fibonacci points of interest (POIs). Following this rejection, Ethereum’s price has retreated into the broader accumulation range marked in green on his chart. Related Reading: Why This Analyst Is More Bullish On XRP Over Ethereum For The Short-Term According to Luca, this accumulation zone has served as a strong reversal area in recent months, providing crucial support whenever price corrections intensified. It also coincides with the Weekly Bull Market Support Band, reinforcing its importance as a potential turning point in Ethereum’s next major move. Despite this, the analyst cautioned that the current market structure appears vulnerable to a breakdown. Luca emphasized that while he remains optimistic about Ethereum’s long-term potential, if the breakdown is confirmed, he plans to stay objective by hedging part of his spot holdings. Doing so, he believes, would help reduce exposure to downside volatility while keeping capital ready to re-enter the market once a more sustainable bullish reversal emerges. Luca concluded by reiterating his adaptive trading strategy, a balance between flexibility and discipline. By maintaining moderate cash positions and exposure to defensive assets, he ensures the ability to act quickly when clear opportunities arise while safeguarding capital during volatile market phases. Ethereum Holds The Mid-Range Support Zone Between $3,600–$3,700 According to GrayWolf6, Ethereum is currently trading within a defined range between $3,900 and $3,100, with the price recently touching the mid-range support area around $3,600–$3,700. He noted that the Stochastic RSI is flashing a bullish signal, hinting at the potential for a short-term rebound from this zone as buyers begin to regain momentum. Related Reading: Is The Ethereum Bull Cycle Over? Analyst Identifies Potential ‘Double Top’ Pattern GrayWolf6 further explained that since ETH reached $4,250 just a few days ago, another move toward the upper band remains a possibility. Should the price reclaim strength, the next upside target could extend to around $5,200. Despite this optimistic outlook, the analyst cautioned that Ethereum remains confined within the lower range, keeping the downside risk near $3,100 in play. He mentioned taking profits on his earlier short position and is now watching closely for signs of a bounce from this intermediate support level. For him, the strategy remains steady, risk-managed, positions hedged, and the next move is patiently waiting. Featured image from iStock, chart from Tradingview.com
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Bitcoin is sitting on its first true make-or-break support of the cycle, and the market is now in what crypto analyst Dom (@traderview2) calls a “fork in the road.” His message is direct: if Bitcoin cannot stabilize and reclaim key levels quickly, the structure that has defined this entire run breaks for the first time — and he’s positioning for downside. “This is the last chance for Bitcoin to hold this level and to push higher,” he said in a live analysis stream on October 29. “If Bitcoin does not see its footing here over the next week or two, I think that this is going to break down. And I think that we’re going to see the mid to low $90,000s again.” Final Stand For Bitcoin’s Staircase Rally Dom’s base case is not a classic crypto winter. He does not expect an 80% wipeout. Instead, he’s warning that the next few days will decide if Bitcoin can defend the “staircase” structure that has held all cycle. If that breaks, he expects a controlled but persistent retrace — not a collapse, but not continuation either. “I don’t think that we’re going into a year and a half bear market like we always have,” he said. “Those are a thing of the past… unless the world goes into a terrible recession like Great Depression type thing.” The key line he’s watching for Bitcoin is roughly the $111,000–$114,000 region, which he referenced in the context of reclaimed resistance and VWAP levels. “If it doesn’t regain that in a quick timeframe, I think we need to get ready for a larger breakdown and that’s going to be sub $100K,” he said. His first target on breakdown is near $98,500, which lines up with what he called the 12-month rolling VWAP — “our bull market band this entire cycle.” Below that, he’s looking at whether buyers step in aggressively or not at all. That reaction, he says, will decide if $95,000 is a local wipeout and reset, or the start of something worse. The reason he considers this moment “do or die” is that, unlike earlier legs in the cycle, Bitcoin is no longer bouncing instantly from support. Throughout the advance, Dom says, Bitcoin followed a single clean pattern: break a major resistance, retest it once, and explode higher. “Any time that we cleared resistance, we held that as support,” he said. “It’s been a perfect pattern throughout the entire cycle.” Related Reading: Bitcoin Crash To $87,600 Looms If This Support Snaps, Warns Veteran Analyst That behavior has now changed. After the October 10 liquidation event and the brief strength around the Fed decision and China headlines, Bitcoin stalled. It broke above resistance, then just sat there for “four or five months,” failed to expand, and is now losing momentum at the exact same level buyers previously defended with urgency. “Somebody does not believe that this is a discount,” he said. “We’ve had so many bounces at the same price and buyers just aren’t interested. What’s going to get them interested? Logically lower prices.” This is classic auction theory for him. In strong uptrends, the first retest of a key level is bought instantly because participants see it as cheap. Now, he says, order flow shows hesitation, not urgency. That is how tops actually form in crypto: not one dramatic candle, but buyers refusing to defend the same level for the fifth time. He also pointed directly to shallow liquidity on major spot books. On Coinbase, he said, “these order books are empty… nobody’s saving us down here.” He described only thin passive bid interest near $100,000 — “that’s only 170 Bitcoin. That’s really not much” — and heavy active sell pressure on Binance. “People are actively market selling… and we don’t have anyone on the other side to absorb that pressure.” His conclusion: this is exactly the setup that precedes fast air-moves lower if a key level breaks. Related Reading: Bitcoin Records Over $300B Spot Volume In October – Investors Shift Away From Leverage That fragility is not hypothetical. Dom says the October 10 crash already proved how dependent crypto still is on a handful of market makers. “We basically slid through an empty order book,” he said. “It proves how fragile crypto really is… If their risk systems say, ‘Hey, we’re not going to quote this,’ markets are going to crash like they did.” No 80% Crash This Time Still, Dom is not in the “cycle is over forever” camp. He thinks the market has changed structurally and that most traders are still using a 2021 mental model in a 2025 market. He argues Bitcoin is now an institutional instrument, not a purely speculative retail instrument. “This right here has been a very steady staircasing kind of growth,” he said. “The difference… is that this was really pushed because of institutions. I think the institutions were the main driver behind this cycle… ETFs launched and we’ve kind of just staircased our way up.” That slow, controlled advance is why he rejects the idea that Bitcoin will repeat the classic -80% drawdown after topping. He calls the new flow “parked money” — capital from ETFs, corporate treasuries, allocators, and “financial advisors, 401k money,” that is not actively panic-selling every 5% move. “They’re not calling you every other day and saying, ‘Oh, you know, it’s down 5%. Let’s sell it,’” he said. He also pointed out that this cycle barely doubled the old all-time high instead of going vertical, and even printed new highs before the halving. In his view, if the upside blow-off was muted and institutional, the downside is likely to be muted and institutional. At press time, BTC traded at $110,280. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com
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Solana (SOL) processes approximately 70 million transactions per day and recorded over $143 billion in monthly DEX volume as of Oct. 30, according to DefiLlama. The network operates with 1,295 consensus validators across 40 countries, and a Nakamoto Coefficient of 20, according to the Foundation’s June 2025 Network Health Report. Production throughput runs at approximately […]
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