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BTC slips below $108,000 and trades between major moving averages, with crucial support and resistance levels now in focus.
More than $320 million in liquidations hit as bitcoin slipped under $108,000 and total crypto market value fell 3.2%
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Bitcoin’s violent futures deleveraging earlier this month reset market positioning but did not break the broader bull trend, according to Julio Moreno, Head of Research at CryptoQuant. Speaking on the Milk Road podcast on October 20, Moreno argued that the path to fresh highs remains open if spot demand stabilizes and the macro overhang from US–China tariff negotiations clears. The key inflection he’s watching is Bitcoin reclaiming its on-chain traders’ realized price near $115,000. “The resistance will be around $115K,” he said. “If the price goes above that… the range that we could expect is $150–$195K. To the downside… it’s around like $100K.” Bitcoin Bull Run Is Reset Moreno characterized the October 10 deleveraging as the largest dollar liquidation in the history of Bitcoin and Ethereum perpetuals, with roughly $20 billion in open interest wiped out in a single day as total OI fell from an all-time high near $78 billion to around $58 billion, later hovering closer to $56 billion. He noted that in unit terms the event was “a little bit short of the FTX liquidations,” but emphasized that the dollar magnitude reflected today’s larger derivatives base, not a structural break. The relative resilience of spot price—Bitcoin “only got to… $110,000” that day, after a wick to “103,000” two days prior—underscored, in his view, that demand and the cycle’s price floor sit well above prior cycles even amid forced unwinds. “It doesn’t put you in a bearish market,” Moreno said, adding that buyers still absorbed supply quickly enough to avert a trend break. Related Reading: Bitcoin Enters ‘Disbelief Phase’ – Could Short Sellers Face The Next Squeeze? CryptoQuant’s composite “bull score” of ten on-chain indicators had already rolled over before the crash, dropping from roughly 80 to 40 by October 6 as momentum cooled and spot demand began to contract. After the liquidation, the score slid toward 20, which Moreno described as “on the bearish side right now.” He stressed that on-chain metrics are not price predictors so much as risk gauges: “It’s going to signal to you the risks… when all these metrics… converge into telling you there’s increasing risks, then it’s when you have to be more careful.” Several datapoints pointed to a market that was stretched into the shock. Total crypto open interest set a record near $78 billion just before the event, a classic over-leverage tell. Profit-taking surged above $3 billion in early October as spot neared the prior all-time high in the $124K–$126K zone, fitting CryptoQuant’s “profit–pause–push” framework in which aggressive realization precedes cooling. Moreno also highlighted that spot demand flipped from growth to contraction around October 6—days before tariff headlines and the liquidation—helping explain why the risk backdrop was deteriorating even without the macro spark. “We were starting to see some high profit taking… not only because of the macro events,” he said. Who’s Selling, Who’s Buying Bitcoin? The compositional flow of coins during the drawdown supports the view of a rotation rather than a structural buyer strike. Moreno said “OG” whales and early miners—an aggregate cohort he estimates hold roughly 600,000 BTC excluding Satoshi—resumed distribution as prices pushed past $100K, a recurring dynamic in every cycle as supply migrates to new hands. Institutional demand, by contrast, remained steady. Related Reading: Bear Market Alert: Top Expert Claims Bitcoin Price Fate Hangs On $101,700 Support Level Because ETF custodial wallets often bucket between 100 and 1,000 BTC per address for security, CryptoQuant tracks that “dolphins” cohort as a proxy. “That cohort… is still buying,” Moreno said, adding that whales increased their accumulation “during this correction,” with year-over-year holdings expanding “above trend.” Liquidity conditions corroborate the bid: stablecoin market caps, led by USDT, continued to expand through the drawdown, a pattern he would not expect “if we are… in a bear market.” Altcoins were far more fragile around the shock. Transactions sending altcoins to exchanges spiked to year-to-date highs during the liquidation, signaling a scramble for exits across low-liquidity names. Moreno cautioned that this cycle has been notably selective across sectors rather than a blanket “alt season,” and reiterated a theme that has become more obvious in 2025: robust protocol activity and fee generation no longer translate mechanically into token outperformance without explicit economic linkage. “Even if the protocol is doing well doesn’t necessarily mean that the token is going to do well,” he said. What To Expect From Q4 And 2026 Macro remains the wild card for Q4. Moreno believes rate-cut expectations are largely embedded—“the market already… has priced what the Fed will do”—and that only an unexpectedly large cut would be a fresh positive catalyst. By contrast, the US–China tariff trajectory is front-and-center. “If we get that out of the way then… a really positive Q4 can resume,” he said, noting that tariff headlines were the proximate trigger for October’s deleveraging and were also behind a sharper demand contraction back in March–May. Until clarity returns and spot demand re-accelerates, he expects chop around well-defined levels. That leaves Bitcoin boxed between a tactical resistance and a psychological floor. Moreno pegs the traders’ on-chain realized price near $115,000 as first resistance and the $100,000 area—where short-term holders sit on roughly a 10% unrealized loss—as the downside line where forced selling typically abates in bull markets. A decisive reclaim of $115K would, in his model, validate a run toward $150,000–$195,000. “We’re not that far… from the previous all-time high,” he said, adding that new highs in Q4 are plausible if the tariff overhang resolves. As for the cycle peak, he leans against an extended mania deep into 2026 or 2027, citing CryptoQuant’s diminishing-intensity bull readout even as price has risen. “I would not expect… more than Q1 2026,” he said, with the caveat that timing tops remains guesswork. “Probably we all are going to be wrong.” At press time, BTC traded at $108,187. 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Tether’s USDT fell from 70% market dominance in November 2024 to 59.9% by October 2025, the second sub-60% reading in a single year, while Circle’s USDC climbed from 20.5% to 25.3% over the same span. The shift coincides with Europe’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation enforcement, but the dynamics tell a more complex story than […]
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On October 20, both US spot crypto ETFs saw a sharp decline in inflows. According to SoSoValue, Bitcoin ETFs dropped to $40.47 million outflows, while Ethereum ETFs reported $145.68 million. Bitcoin ETF Breakdown Bitcoin ETFs recorded $40.47 million in outflows led by BlackRock IBIT’s $100.65 million withdrawal. Other than that, five ETFs posted small inflows …
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Ether ran into resistance at $4,000 as the absence of new buyers and weak spot Ethereum flows threatened ETH price dropping to $3,100 next.
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Bitcoin’s price dropped again, falling below $108,000 as worries grow over rising tensions between the United States and China. The trade dispute between the two biggest economies has made investors nervous, pushing many to sell risky assets like crypto. Bitcoin Stuck in a Volatile Zone Bitcoin is now trading around $107,800, after briefly jumping to …
Bitcoin price dropped 2.5% on Tuesday in an attempt to fill the latest weekend CME futures gap, while traders warned that $100,000 could fail as support.
Coming out of the weekend, the Ethereum price has seen a rise in its bullish momentum. While it is still in its early stages, there is the possibility that the bulls are able to hold this momentum for a reasonable amount of time, thereby pushing sentiment straight into the positive once again. If this happens, then it carries some implications for the Ethereum price and could trigger the next wave of rallies for the cryptocurrency. Ethereum Price Eyes Next Breakout Speaking on the recent bullish momentum that the Ethereum price has enjoyed, crypto analyst Klejdi Muni revealed that this was a direct result of the formation of a bullish flag pattern on the chart. Not only did the Ethereum price complete this bullish formation, but it was also able to break above the flag, something that is very bullish for the cryptocurrency. Related Reading: Bitcoin Holding Above Gaussian Channel, Bull Market Structure Still Intact The initial breakout above the $4,000 resistance shows that bulls are picking up momentum, and the only hurdle now is to keep this momentum going. If the momentum is sustained, then the next target for the Ethereum price to beat would be at the $4,285 level. Once this level is broken, then it is only a matter of time before Ethereum rallies in what could be another campaign for new all-time highs. On the flip side of this, though, is the possibility that bears would be able to drag the price back downward. This would happen if the support at $3,900 were to be broken. Such a move could invalidate the entire bullish thesis, especially if they are able to stop the current bullish momentum in its tracks. Thus, Ethereum bulls must keep the price above the $3,900 support if they want to maintain the current trajectory. Bullishness Is The Order Of The Day Another crypto analyst, Linofx1, has also echoed the bullish sentiments surrounding the Ethereum price. In their own analysis, Lino expressed that the Ethereum price was now bullish after testing a significant daily support level above $3,800. Related Reading: XRP Wallets Holding Over 10,000 Tokens Hit Record High Amid Price Recovery With this, there was the formation of an Inverted Head and Shoulders pattern, which is ultimately bullish for any digital asset. The price was able to complete a breakout from the neckline, rising to the top before encountering some resistance. This, the analyst explains, shows that there has been a local change of character from bearish to bullish. From here, the analyst highlights that the next level that needs to be broken is the $4,300 level. This is eerily close to Muni’s $4,285 resistance that holds the key to the next breakout. Featured image created with Dall.E, chart from Tradingview.com
The global crypto market witnessed a sharp downturn in the last 24 hours, as Bitcoin price and Ethereum prices tumbled under the weight of mounting sell pressure and investor fear. The sudden decline follows a perfect storm of massive ETF outflows, infrastructure disruption from an AWS outage, and over $200 million in leveraged liquidations. With …
October 2025 proved to be one of the harshest months for the crypto market. In October itself, the market erased over $370 billion in value, with Bitcoin plunging to $104,000, Ethereum dipping below $4,000, and many altcoins dropping 50–90%. Traders liquidated more than $19 billion, while spot crypto ETFs saw hundreds of millions in outflows …
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) began trading in the UK on Oct. 20, opening a market that could funnel between $1.5 billion and $2 billion into the fund over time as UK retail investors gain regulated access to Bitcoin (BTC) exposure. The launch capitalizes on the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) recent reversal of its ban […]
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SpaceX, led by Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, has once again moved a total of 2,395 BTC of its Bitcoin holdings valued at $268 million just three months after its previous major transfer in July. On-chain data from Arkham Intelligence confirms that two significant transactions were made early Monday. Is SpaceX selling Bitcoin? The motive behind …
Spot bitcoin ETFs in the US recorded $40.5 million in net outflows yesterday amid a broad recovery in crypto market prices.
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Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder CEO of Solana Labs, has unveiled plans for a new decentralized exchange (DEX) named Percolator, designed as a sharded perpetuals protocol built directly on the Solana blockchain. The platform aims to provide a self-custodial and high-speed solution for perpetual futures trading, allowing crypto traders to speculate on price movements without the limitation of expiry dates. Solana’s Percolator Documentation Released The documentation for Percolator was released on GitHub, where it is described as “implementation-ready.” It introduces two primary components: a Router and a Slab program. The Router manages collateral, portfolio margins, and cross-slab routing, while the Slab program functions as a matching engine overseen by liquidity providers (LPs). Each slab operates independently, enabling what Yakovenko refers to as “fully self-contained matching and settlement.” Related Reading: Analyst Uses AI To Show How The XRP Price Could Rally To $1,700 This design ensures that any issues arising from a particular slab do not affect users who have not interacted with it. Yakovenko emphasized the advantages of this architecture, stating: This design keeps each LP’s slab fully self-contained and innovable, while the Router guarantees atomic routing, portfolio netting, and capability-scoped safety. The project’s GitHub repository already shows completed data structures for order books and memory pools, although the development of liquidation systems is still in progress. However, no official launch date has been announced. Competition In Derivatives Market Intensifies Currently, the Solana Foundation has not disclosed whether Percolator will receive formal ecosystem support or if it will emerge as a community-driven protocol. Should it succeed, Percolator would add to the expanding repertoire of native financial primitives being developed on the Solana blockchain, which already includes decentralized options, lending protocols, and tokenized asset platforms. At present, the code for Percolator remains under review on GitHub, and developers engaged with the repository indicate that the project is “deep in testing.” This suggests that a launch could be imminent, provided that the liquidation and governance components are finalized. The introduction of Percolator comes at a critical time, as competitors like Hyperliquid (HYPE) are expanding their presence in the derivatives-focused DEX space. Related Reading: ‘Buy Of The Century’: Cardano Could Be The 2026 Game-Changer Under $0.20 — Analyst Hyperliquid recently implemented permissionless, builder-deployed perpetual contracts through its HIP-3 upgrade, allowing users to stake a minimum of 500,000 HYPE tokens—approximately $18 million—to launch their own perpetual markets with independent margin rules. Hyperliquid accounted for 35% of all blockchain revenue in July, attracting users away from platforms like Solana, Ethereum (ETH), and BNB Chain. Asset manager VanEck recently noted that Hyperliquid has successfully retained high-value users, thanks in part to its “simple, highly functional product.” As of press time, SOL is trading at $187.70, marking a 20% loss over the past fourteen and thirty days. This puts SOL 35% below its all-time high of $293, which was reached earlier this year. Featured image from DALL-E, chart from TradingView.com