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From October 25 to 31, 30,435 BTC more were withdrawn from crypto exchanges than deposited - about $2.34 billion at the current rate. A week earlier the picture was the opposite: a net inflow of 3,434 BTC to the platforms.
On Friday, Ethereum dipped below $2,200, losing 3-4% for the day. Over 24 hours, $360.5 million worth of positions were forcibly closed on the market, and almost all of that amount was bets on growth.
On October 30 at 11:00 Moscow time, monthly options on BTC worth $10.86 billion and on ETH worth $783 million expire on the Deribit exchange. After BTC fell below $80,000, downside protection there costs noticeably more than bets on growth.
Galaxy Research analyzed the filings of major managers: nine hedge funds and banks cut their positions in U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs by 68,000 BTC - about $5.4 billion. The reason is not a bet against the market, but that the arbitrage scheme has almost stopped generating income.
Payward, the parent company of the Kraken exchange, is set to become the first operator of perpetual futures on the Hyperliquid blockchain operating under the supervision of the US regulator CFTC. The announcement came out on October 26, 2026; no launch date was given.
BTC's trip to $85,000 ended in a reversal: from a high of $84,840 the price fell to $81,500, down almost 3%. The trigger did not come from crypto - the market was disappointed by Tesla's earnings report, and $431 million in leveraged positions were wiped out in a day.
Data from the analytics platform Santiment: open interest (the sum of all open futures positions) rose sharply, and trader sentiment turned openly bullish. At night the market moved against the crowd.
In 24 hours, BTC gained about 2.4% and rose to $83,500 - a weekly high. The rebound follows last week's decline, when crypto tumbled along with Nasdaq on a hot US inflation report.
Over 30 days through October 19, 6.05 billion XRP were deposited to exchanges - the most since March. Total exchange reserves rose to 11.81 billion tokens, the 99th percentile for the year.
Ethereum rose to $2,444.75, gaining 4.2% in 24 hours. Over the same period, $73.42 million in ETH positions were liquidated, and almost 60% of them were shorts.
Over the past 24 hours, leveraged positions worth $951.4 million were liquidated on the crypto market, with $876.3 million coming from longs. Bitcoin dropped to $80,764, while Ethereum lost more than 6%.
The funding rate for Bitcoin perpetual futures on Binance dropped to about -0.00215, the lowest level since January. Negative funding indicates growing demand for shorts amid BTC's decline to $83,000 and below.
On the evening of October 7, Ethereum dropped to $2,570, definitively breaking through the $2,700 zone. Over the day, $233.36 million in positions were liquidated on ETH, with about 95% of that amount coming from longs.
On October 7, Bitcoin broke through $83,000 and dropped to $82,734 on Bitstamp, updating its October low. Pressure came from external markets: Brent rose above $102, and US government bond yields reached 24-year highs.
On the night of October 5, Bitcoin rose to $86,972, but again failed to consolidate above and returned below $86,000. This is already the second failed attempt to break through the $87,000 zone in a week.
