🎯Today's Crypto Pulse
Updated 1h agoWhat's happening: Bitcoin ETF Custody Concentrates Power, Raising Systemic Risk
Spot Bitcoin exchange‑traded funds now hold over $54 billion, roughly 1.5 million BTC. The ETF structure places the underlying coins in a trust controlled by a handful of custodians, with Coinbase identified as the dominant custodian, creating a single point of operational failure.
Also developing:
By the numbers: Pepeto raises $7M in token presale
News•Oct 31, 2025
Can Asia’s Mid-Caps Absorb 30% of New BTC Supply?
Asia’s mid‑cap companies are emerging as a new source of demand for Bitcoin, with Japan’s Metaplanet now holding more than 30,000 BTC and Korea’s Bitplanet launching a supervised, rules‑based accumulation program. These moves follow earlier corporate treasury experiments by firms such as Nexon and Meitu and coincide with recurring billion‑dollar inflows into Bitcoin ETFs, suggesting the region could ultimately absorb up to 30% of the annual new BTC supply.
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 31, 2025
Tether Profits Topped $10B in First Nine Months of Year; Starts Share Buyback Program
The stablecoin issuer saw strong growth in the third quarter, reporting a $17 billion increase in circulating USDT and $135 billion exposure to U.S. Treasuries.
By CoinDesk
News•Oct 31, 2025
Filecoin Rises Over 4%, Rebounding From Thursday's Drop
Filecoin (FIL) jumped 4.3% to $1.4792, rebounding from Thursday's sharp decline as the broader crypto market rallied. Trading volume spiked to 5.46 million tokens, a 98% increase over the 24‑hour average, confirming strong buying at the $1.41 support level. Technical analysis...
By CoinDesk
News•Oct 31, 2025
Wall Street Divided on Coinbase’s Path Forward After Q3 Earnings Beat
Coinbase reported third‑quarter transaction revenue of $1.05 billion and adjusted EBITDA of $801 million, both beating consensus estimates. While analysts agree the beat was driven by derivatives, subscription services and the Deribit integration, they diverge sharply on outlook: bullish analysts cite expanding...
By CoinDesk
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Coinbase Boosts ETH Holdings to Scale Base L2
Coinbase is buying ETH Last quarter Coinbase increased its ETH holdings by $100m. That's 148k ETH worth $617m. ETH and BTC are the two assets Coinbase continues to accumulate for its treasury. This makes sense. The 1st generation of Coinbase was built on bitcoin....
By David Hoffman
Social•Oct 31, 2025
TGA Buildup Signals Upcoming Liquidity Surge, Market Rally
Every time the Treasury General Account (TGA) drains, liquidity flows back into markets, and risk assets pump. Currently, the TGA is climbing because of the U.S. government shutdown. Gov closed = cash piles up Gov reopens = liquidity boost Keep an eye on...
By Lark Davis
News•Oct 31, 2025
Core Scientific Upgraded to Outperform Following Failed CoreWeave Merger: Macquarie
Macquarie upgraded Core Scientific (CORZ) to Outperform from Neutral and lifted its price target to $34, roughly a 90% increase from the prior $18, after the CoreWeave merger collapsed. The failed deal gives the bitcoin‑miner‑turned‑AI‑infrastructure firm flexibility to lease its...
By CoinDesk
Social•Oct 31, 2025
APT Undervalued Now, Poised for $5‑6 Rally
During market corrections, projects are massively mispriced. It will take some time, but then, they'll come back to their fair value. $APT is one of them. They are on the lowest valuation in the past four years, however, they keep expanding...
By Michaël van de Poppe
Blog•Oct 31, 2025
Flutterwave and Polygon to Launch Africa-Wide Stablecoin Payments
Nigeria’s fintech leader Flutterwave has partnered with Polygon Labs to launch a stablecoin‑based cross‑border payment network covering 34 African countries. The platform will use Polygon’s Ethereum‑compatible infrastructure to accelerate transaction speed and slash settlement costs, with the aim of bypassing...
By Laura Shin
Blog•Oct 31, 2025
Meteora MET Flop & Heavy Baggage
Meteora, the dominant liquidity engine on Solana, operates a suite of AMMs—including DLMM, DAMM v2, and a Dynamic Bonding Curve— that routes the majority of the chain’s trading volume and generates continuous fee revenue. The protocol launched its native MET token...
By Lark Davis
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Base to Reach 10k‑20k TPS, Ethereum Scaling Boom
With Ethereum's december upgrade to fusaka Base will be able to scale to 400-500 mgas by early 2026 Base at 10k-20k tps in a few months Wild Actually read the entire Base scaling post This is one of the best and most well funded...
By David Hoffman
Blog•Oct 31, 2025
Western Union Files ‘WUUSD’ Trademark After Solana Stablecoin Reveal
Western Union filed a trademark for “WUUSD” one day after announcing its USDPT stablecoin on the Solana blockchain, covering digital‑wallet software, stablecoin payment processing and crypto‑trading services. The company plans to launch USDPT in early 2026 through Anchorage Digital Bank,...
By Laura Shin
News•Oct 31, 2025
If Web3 Is Decentralized, Why Do DeFi dApps Still Break when the Cloud Goes Down?
On Oct. 20 a failure in Amazon’s US‑EAST‑1 region cascaded through the crypto ecosystem, causing degraded service at Coinbase, timeouts at Infura and Alchemy, and stalls in several roll‑up sequencers. The outage did not affect blockchain consensus but exposed the heavy...
By CryptoSlate
Blog•Oct 31, 2025
Ethereum Set to Dominate $2 Trillion Tokenized Asset Market: Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered projects the market for tokenized real‑world assets to swell from about $35 billion today to $2 trillion by 2028, with the bulk of that growth expected on Ethereum because of its reliability and network effects. The bank forecasts roughly $750 billion...
By Laura Shin
News•Oct 31, 2025
Brazil’s OranjeBTC Joins Wave of Struggling Crypto Treasury Firms Turning to Buybacks
Brazil's OranjeBTC, the country's largest bitcoin treasury firm, repurchased 99,600 shares for 1.12 million reais (about $220,000) to narrow the discount between its market price and the net asset value of its 3,708 bitcoin holdings, worth roughly $409 million. The buyback follows...
By CoinDesk
Social•Oct 31, 2025
AI‑Powered Validators Signal Ethereum’s Leap Into Self‑Defense
deep future when we get to the point where an autonomous AI agent can run an ethereum validator we will have crossed a significant milestone ethereum is a property rights system for humans and AI validators are the military AI's joining the army to...
By David Hoffman
Social•Oct 31, 2025
BTR Poised for Breakout Amid Bitcoin Ecosystem Mispricing
This one remains one of the strongest set-ups. Immediately reversing after the correction yesterday and on edge of a breakout upwards. It's $BTR. I've mentioned it several times, but the #Bitcoin ecosystem is a strong one to be keeping an eye on. I think...
By Michaël van de Poppe
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Gold's 6,000‑Year Bubble: Central Banks Should Sell, Stablecoins Rise
Gold = a 6,000-year bubble? 😳 Ex-Citi Chief Economist Willem Buiter joins @bitsandbips to explain: 💰 Why central banks should sell their gold 🪙 Why he thinks Bitcoin still isn’t money 🏦 Why CBDCs and stablecoins may win the future Timestamps: 💰 0:00 Introduction 🏺 0:28 Is...
By Laura Shin
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Altcoin Crash Highlights Market Maker's Crucial Role
The #Altcoin markets crashed massively on October the 10th. Yesterday, we've seen another market correction of more than 10% on the #Altcoins. What is the role of a market maker? Wintermute explains it here: https://t.co/gJWal9m78B
By Michaël van de Poppe
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Banks Now Co‑opt Bitcoin, Ending Retail’s Chance
The Bitcoin Whitepaper dropped 17 years ago. It was 2008, hardworking Americans got screwed by the banks, some lost everything. In 2025 the banks are vertically integrating Bitcoin and everything else that gave retail a chance.
By Wendy O
Social•Oct 31, 2025
USDC Agents Get Verified Spending Policies
Keep up the pace! Spending policy proofs for agents transacting in USDC
By Jeremy Allaire
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Stablecoin and Stablechain Hype Hits New Heights
Stablecoin and Stablechain Mania https://t.co/Hft0Jyr0U5
By Laura Shin
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Square Rewards First 20k Merchants with $50 Bitcoin
JUST IN: Jack Dorsey's Square to offer $50 in $BTC to the first 20,000 merchants to accept Bitcoin. https://t.co/TJX3etNtua
By Lark Davis
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Tokenizing Everything: Watch Top RWA Crypto ETFs
Larry Fink wants to tokenize everything. Therefore, I pay attention to the top RWA crypto projects that will be or are ETFs. It's very simple.
By Wendy O
Social•Oct 31, 2025
ZEC Aims for Strong Presence at Zillions Event
Zillions. Will try to have a ZEC presence at this as much as possible
By Zaki Manian
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Bitcoin's Revolutionary Ideas Fit in Nine Pages
Fun fact: the bitcoin whitepaper is only 9 pages long. https://t.co/EM9LwpmNkB
By Tyler Winklevoss says: Gemini won't hire ex-SEC chair's students
Social•Oct 31, 2025
TAO Poised to Break Resistance with Strong Momentum
$TAO Strong. Hopefully it can finally close above resistance https://t.co/WWSTEtHCfZ
By Nebraskan Gooner
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Unchained Live: Stablecoin Craze Discussion at 11:30 ET
Unchained is live today at 11:30am ET! Tune in as @HadickM and @hexonaut join the show to discuss the continuing stablecoin/stablechain craze 🔥 📺: X, YouTube, PumpFun, Twitch
By Laura Shin
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Unified API and App Simplify Multi‑Chain Asset Trading
Developer friendly API that abstracts chains, gas and allows to operate with assets. User friendly app to hold and trade all assets with any wallet provider or PassKey. Growth.
By Illia Polosukhin
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Three Proven Crypto Business Models: Issuance, AUM, Volume
3 business models that work in crypto: * asset issuance * assets under management * volume
By Anatoly Yakovenko
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Earn $5 Bitcoin with Steak N Shake Burger
🚨 Bitcoin & Burgers 🍔 @fold_app has partnered w/@SteaknShake for new Bitcoin Burger rewards program Customers who purchase a Bitcoin Burger or Bitcoin Meal can redeem their receipt on Fold for $5 in bitcoin while supplies last 🔥 https://t.co/36xmhKO19e
By Hailey Lennon
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Waiting for a Total Crypto Crash Before Re‑entering Market
Btw at this point in the cycle I'm waiting for a devastating crash before I start buying again... When I say devastating I mean when people genuinely think crypto cannot recover, its over. Until then, I'm watching closely and sitting tight.
By Layah Heilpern
Social•Oct 31, 2025
1M TPS Runs on Just 10 Gbps Links
6m tps would run on 40gbps. Firedancer demo last year sustained 1mtps with full global replication on 10gbps links. Not even dual 20s or anything fancy. My grandma has 10gbps at ho me.
By Anatoly Yakovenko
Social•Oct 31, 2025
US Treasury Chief Meets Singapore PM to Promote Crypto Adoption
𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗡: Treasury Secretary Bessent just met with Singapore Prime Minister to boost adoption of crypto and stablecoins. https://t.co/OnlWmI5DlF
By Lark Davis
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Update TA Levels with New Data or Lose Trades
Adjusted VS Non-Adjusted TA levels: When new data comes in, you have to update your levels, as the same levels might not be tradeable anymore. Example👇 https://t.co/S6keNYYBBR
By Koroush Khaneghah
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Record $72M Daily Volume Highlights Latin America Surge
Reached 2025's highest daily payment app volume last week at $72M! More and more growth happening in Latin Amerca with @aveniaio driving $25M in volume in a single day Looking forward to meeting Latin American builders at Money Rails at DevCon Sign up...
By Sandeep Nailwal
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Satoshi's White Paper Revolutionized Money, Solving Double‑Spend
17 years ago Satoshi published the Bitcoin white paper and forever changed the way we think about money and solved the double-spend problem. Happy Bitcoin Day 🧡 https://t.co/Dm3Z1Z4Tze
By Hailey Lennon
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Ethereum to Double L2 Capacity Again by January
Ethereum will 2x L2 capacity again by January This will be the second 2x since May Shipping. Scaling. Staying decentralized. https://t.co/cWNcBffqeW
By David Hoffman
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Ticket Prices Rise Tonight—Use HODL for Discount
Ticket prices go up tonight for Bitcoin Amsterdam! Don’t miss this fantastic conference and the chance to hear Jack Mallers, Tyler & Cameron Winklevoss, Saifedean, Adam Back and many more speakers! Use code HODL for discounted passes. Link in thread. https://t.co/GM5e3SrD9N
By Natalie Brunell
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Bitcoin White Paper Turns 17: Money’s Most Impactful Blueprint
Happy 17th Bitcoin white paper anniversary! Undeniably the most consequential money paper ever written in history. https://t.co/r1oAgGl40G
By David Marcus
Social•Oct 31, 2025
KARRAT Hits Fresh All‑time Low
$KARRAT New lows ✅ https://t.co/PzLn1ZbLRw
By Nebraskan Gooner
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Will $PUMP Repeat Altcoin 99SMMA Sell‑off Pattern?
$PUMP We've seen a lot of altcoins lose 99smma support, pop back above as a deviation and then continue to sell off further. Is PUMP destined for the same? https://t.co/Ijh3M54UUB
By Nebraskan Gooner
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Crypto Becomes AI’s Payment Layer
Crypto is the payment layer for AI
By David Hoffman
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Bitcoin Defies Bears: 10 of 12 Candles Green
10 of the last 12 six month #Bitcoin candles have been green. $BTC Perma-bears picked the wrong asset. https://t.co/I29egdobkJ
By Nebraskan Gooner
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Spotting Profit Opportunities in a Heavy Crypto Market
The markets look heavy. BTC...ETH...BNB...SOL...ZEC... Scanned every coin in my watchlist. Here's where to look if you actually want to make money🧵:
By Koroush Khaneghah
Social•Oct 31, 2025
MegaETH Innovates with Fresh Apps, Avoids DeFi Copycats
i like that megaeth is building new apps not just copy pasting ethereum defi
By David Hoffman
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Bitcoin
17 6,205 148,920 8,935,200 536,112,000 Whether you measure in years, days, hours, minutes or seconds, we are still so very early in Bitcoin time… 🧡 ⏰ 🚀
By Mark Yusko
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Privacy and Composability Are Possible, Though Not Trivial
Question: Can we have both privacy and composability? Could 2 apps be composable if both were private? The answer is: It's not trivial but yes. Or Yes, but it's not trivial (depends on the type of person you are) https://t.co/r3DEiSBBCA
By Eli Ben-Sasson
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Ethereum Reveals Crypto's Decentralization Race: Bitcoin Holds Steady
When you understand Ethereum you realize nothing in crypto is close. Other chains are chasing slot times and TPS. Only bitcoin and ethereum are chasing decentralization. And bitcoin has decided (so far) not to upgrade to snarks cryptography and scale. End game bullish.
By David Hoffman
Social•Oct 31, 2025
I’m Unable to View the Linked Content, so I Can’t Create a Headline.
https://t.co/tziOeqxF8s
By Anatoly Yakovenko