Today's Crypto Pulse
Updated 3h agoBitcoin 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 20, 2025
Avail Integration Enables TRON dApps and Users to Access Cross-Chain Liquidity and Unified Markets
Avail announced integration with the TRON network via its Avail Nexus, enabling TRON dApps and users to access cross-chain liquidity and unified markets spanning 10 additional blockchains. The move leverages Avail’s modular infrastructure for horizontal scalability, cross-chain connectivity and unified liquidity, promising seamless access to deeper markets and assets for TRON-based protocols. Business implications include expanded liquidity and market reach for TRON projects, stronger interoperability that could accelerate DeFi growth and user onboarding, and a competitive boost for both Avail and TRON in the cross-chain ecosystem.
By CryptoSlate
Social•Oct 20, 2025
Skipping AWS US‑East‑1 Saves Us From Outages
>wake up and see AWS has a massive outage >whole internet down >blockchains also hurting because they use AWS >check alerts in Espresso Slack >no alerts >see notice from Espresso devops that we explicitly don't run in the region that had issues (US-EAST-1) because it...
By Jill Gunter
Social•Oct 20, 2025
Seek White Space for High‑Probability Breakout Continuations
Trading Concept: "White Space" One of my criteria for a high-quality breakdown/ breakout play is how much "white space" is available for price to move through. -More white space= less immediate levels of support/ resistance that can stop price from trending in...
By Koroush Khaneghah
News•Oct 20, 2025
Monad’s Fast EVM Chain Promises ‘Night and Day’ Performance Gains
Monad, a new EVM‑compatible layer‑1 gearing up for a token airdrop and mainnet launch, says its reengineered virtual machine can deliver “night and day” performance gains that could rival the fastest blockchains. The team cites four technical levers—parallel execution, asynchronous...
By CoinDesk
Social•Oct 20, 2025
New
🚨New hosts alert! 🚨 Big welcome to Zero Knowledge Consulting’s @CampbellJAustin and CoinFund’s @perkinscr97, the newest crew members of Bits + Bips! 👏 🧑🏻✈️ Tune in LIVE at 4:30pm ET as Austin, Chris, and @ramahluwalia are joined by Equity Management Associates’ @LawrenceLepard...
By Laura Shin
Social•Oct 20, 2025
Forking Empowers Communities to Overcome Captured Governance
Yes we will see various interested parties work incessantly to gain advantages unchain, just as we see VCs and crypto corporates lobby governments today. This is an important engine of innovation. Their efforts will be far more legible and traceable onchain....
By Joseph Lubin
News•Oct 20, 2025
$1.2B Exits US Bitcoin ETFs Just as London Makes Crypto Comeback
U.S. investors pulled $1.2 billion from the 12 spot Bitcoin ETFs last week, marking the funds’ second-largest weekly outflow since their January 2024 launch and ending a two-week inflow streak that had added over $5 billion. The retreat comes as...
By CryptoSlate
Social•Oct 20, 2025
ZEC Shows Strong Bullish Momentum, Targets $250‑$300
ZEC (ZCash) Showing strong relative strength- almost uncorrelated to BTC. The 0.618 dip was a perfect entry, and structure still looks clean. Key levels: Breakout: $250 → $300 local highs Support: $200 Holding above $200 keeps the trend bullish. A break above $250 with BTC confluence =...
By Koroush Khaneghah
Social•Oct 20, 2025
Crypto Outlook Remains Positive After Major Altcoin Stress Test
Very happy with the status of @MNFund_ after nearly four months of executing trades. The projection is that this month will be profitable, while the biggest stress test of crypto until date has happened on #Altcoins. We remain positive on...
By Michaël van de Poppe
News•Oct 20, 2025
Bolivia’s New President Backs Blockchain to Tackle Government Corruption
Bolivia’s president-elect Rodrigo Paz announced plans to deploy blockchain technology in public procurement and to require cryptocurrency disclosures in asset declarations as part of a new sovereign fund initiative. The move targets corruption by creating immutable records for tenders and...
By Cointelegraph
Social•Oct 20, 2025
Testing Claude to Build Single‑Memory Perp DEX Router
Oh man, I now know @AndreCronjeTech’s pain. I am just messing around with Claude to see how well it can generate Pinocchio and test with surfpool. Pls steal the idea. I want to see if it’s possible...
By Anatoly Yakovenko
Social•Oct 20, 2025
Banks Target Open Banking Rule, Threatening Crypto Innovation
Banks want to gut the Open Banking Rule (1033) so they can tax and control your financial data and remove your freedom to choose the services you want. This is bad for crypto and financial innovation in America. Now is your...
By Tyler Winklevoss
Blog•Oct 20, 2025
OpenSea Prepares SEA Token Airdrop, Pledges 50% Community Allocation
OpenSea said it will launch its SEA token in Q1 2026 and airdrop 50% of the supply to active users and rewards-program participants, signaling a major shift from NFT marketplace to multi-chain token trading. The company also pledged to use...
By Laura Shin
Social•Oct 20, 2025
Small Crypto Investors in Free Societies Don't Need Privacy
Privacy: Who needs it and who doesn't? As "godfather of ZK" (as some people referred to me) I've spent a lot of time thinking, reading, learning, arguing about privacy on blockchain. Here's what I think about who needs it and who...
By Eli Ben-Sasson
Social•Oct 20, 2025
VCs Exploit Ethereum While Claiming Ecosystem Benefits
Yes, the goal of @paradigm and many other VCs is to suck as much value as possible from the Ethereum and broader ecosystem, while also adding value to the ecosystem in the service of maximizing their own gains. Paradigm is...
By Joseph Lubin
Blog•Oct 20, 2025
Binance Cracks Down on Alpha Program Abuse, Bans Hundreds of Accounts
Binance has banned more than 600 accounts for using unauthorized third‑party trading tools and automated bots to exploit its Binance Alpha and related trading programs, part of a broader crackdown on platform abuse. The move targets scripted strategies and third‑party...
By Laura Shin
News•Oct 20, 2025
Blockchain.com Has Held Talks to Go Public Via SPAC Deal: Sources
Blockchain.com has held talks to go public in the U.S. via a SPAC and has appointed Cohen & Company Capital Markets as an adviser, according to sources; the company says it is preparing to be a public company when markets...
By CoinDesk
Blog•Oct 20, 2025
Hyperliquid Founder Denies Claims That DEX Prioritizes Revenue Over Traders
Hyperliquid founder Jeff Yan publicly rejected allegations that the DEX prioritizes protocol revenue over traders, calling the claims “FUD” and defending the platform’s automatic deleveraging (ADL) mechanism as designed to protect users. Yan cited the Oct. 10 ADL event as...
By Laura Shin
Social•Oct 20, 2025
SharpLink Hires Crypto Veterans, Boosting Confidence in Ethereum
Proud to welcome 3 additions to our senior leadership at SharpLink – @mandyzcamp as Chief Marketing Officer, @sheffieldreport as Chief Investment Officer, and @mcamarda0 as Chief Development Officer. With backgrounds spanning Bain Crypto, OKX, FalconX, Bridgewater, Consensys, and J.P. Morgan, they're...
By Joseph Lubin
Social•Oct 20, 2025
Crypto Q4 Surge: Outages, Treasury Moves, Volume Milestones
Crypto things you might have missed: -AWS outage crashes Coinbase and DeFi!🚨 -@Ripple execs to join new $1B XRP treasury firm -September was busy month for @hedera -BNB Chain surpasses $2T trading volume -Three catalysts that could pump crypto in Q4 LIVESTREAM LINK IN BIO
By Wendy O
News•Oct 20, 2025
Michael Saylor’s Strategy Takes Another Small Step Toward 700K Bitcoin
After a modest new purchase, Michael Saylor’s Strategy now sits about 59,582 BTC shy of reaching a 700,000 BTC target, implying current holdings of roughly 640,418 BTC. The latest incremental buy underscores the programmatic accumulation approach that has driven sizable...
By Cointelegraph
Social•Oct 20, 2025
Morgan Stanley's Gold Target Sparks Bitcoin Allocation Debate
Morgan Stanley advising 20% of your portfolio is gold. How long till they recommend 10% is in bitcoin?
By Peter Smith
Social•Oct 20, 2025
Biggest Crypto Crashes Yield Biggest Gains
The COVID-19 crash was the lowest point in the previous cycle for many #Altcoins. $LINK went down 80% in a single night. It did make a 3,700% since then in 15 months. In hindsight, the largest crashes are the best financial opportunities....
By Michaël van de Poppe
News•Oct 20, 2025
Decentralized Science Will Bring the Brain Onchain
As brain-computer interfaces such as Neuralink advance, concerns are growing that mental control and neural data will be concentrated in corporate hands; proponents say decentralized science (DeSci) can put the brain “onchain” to redistribute governance and access. DeSci models propose...
By Cointelegraph
Social•Oct 20, 2025
CZ Predicts Bitcoin Will Overtake Gold's Market Cap
💥BREAKING: Binance Founder CZ says Bitcoin will 'flip' gold's market cap. https://t.co/LDMeLF33zN
By Crypto Rover
Social•Oct 20, 2025
Every Token Needs a Clear Revenue Model
Everything with a token should have revenue
By Rune Christensen
News•Oct 20, 2025
New Film ‘Code Is Law’ Explores Moral Quandary Behind Crypto Hacks
Directors James Craig and Louis Giles have released Code Is Law, a documentary that probes infamous cryptocurrency hacks by focusing on the moral reasoning and reckonings of those who carried them out. The film traces how attackers justify or confront...
By Cointelegraph
Social•Oct 20, 2025
Bitcoin Destined to Surpass Gold as Store of Value
Prediction: Bitcoin will flip gold. I don't know exactly when. Might take some time, but it will happen. Save the tweet. https://t.co/bR4Bq0JeVE
By Changpeng Zhao
Social•Oct 20, 2025
Network Tolerates Byzantine-Level Failures of Ginx
The network is tolerant up to a Byzantine number of ginx
By Anatoly Yakovenko
News•Oct 20, 2025
Elon Musk Posts His Pet Dog Floki on X; Memecoin Pumps 29%
Elon Musk posted a video on X of his Shiba Inu dog Floki being treated as the platform’s “CEO,” triggering a near 29% surge in the Floki memecoin. The spike underscores Musk’s outsized ability to move crypto markets with social...
By Cointelegraph
Social•Oct 20, 2025
Cycle Won’t End Until Bankless Re‑enters Top Five
not the cycle top until bankless is top 5 again https://t.co/1dH3FKr0ea
By David Hoffman
Social•Oct 20, 2025
TAO Breaks Triangle, Eyes $495‑$500 Resistance
$TAO just broke out of a descending triangle to the upside Former resistance has already been tested as support Now the next hurdle is the $495–$500 zone, which acted as a prior swing high Clear that, and things could get spicy. https://t.co/dZPLai2OK2
By Lark Davis
News•Oct 20, 2025
XRP Price Targets $3 as Whale Wallet Count Hits New All-Time Highs
XRP staged a sharp rebound—rising as much as 13% to $2.48—driven by record whale accumulation and dwindling exchange supply, with wallets holding at least 10,000 XRP hitting an all‑time high of about 317,500 and on‑exchange supply falling to 3.9% from...
By Cointelegraph
Social•Oct 20, 2025
Beware Three‑Sided Markets: Someone Always Gets Rinsed
Watch out for three sided markets. Someone always gets rinsed.
By Hugh Karp
Social•Oct 20, 2025
Zcash Rise Mirrors 2018 Bear Market, Not a Pump
Throwback to crypto bear market of 2018. This is my answer to the current theory being promoted by Cory Klippensten that Zcash's recent price rise is due to a "coordinated" pump. https://t.co/pOkn8Q1AXj
By Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
Social•Oct 20, 2025
Decentralization Is the Better Product
Decentralized because decentralization is a better product 🦾🦾🦾
By Anatoly Yakovenko
Social•Oct 20, 2025
Fed's First Payments Conference Signals Crypto Comeback
🇺🇸The Fed to hosts its first EVER Payments Innovation Conference TOMORROW👀 Speakers:👇 Cathie Wood @ARKInvest @BlackRock COO @Circle CLO @Coinbase CFO Fed Gov Waller 🏛️From banning crypto in ‘23 → inviting it to D.C. ⛽️Is this enough to reignite rally??🔥🚀
By Paul Barron
Social•Oct 20, 2025
Spot Bitcoin ETF Hits $2 B Volume in Two Hours
💥BREAKING: TOTAL SPOT BITCOIN ETF TRADING VOLUME SURPASSES $2 BILLION IN THE FIRST 2 HOURS OF TRADING TODAY.
By Crypto Rover
Social•Oct 20, 2025
Four DeFi Leaders Unite for Cross‑protocol Collaboration
Aave 🤝 Ethena 🤝 Pendle 🤝 Plasma
By Stani Kulechov
Social•Oct 20, 2025
David Remains with Ripple as EvernorthXRP Advisor
David never really left Ripple. David is still here but in a different capacity and it’s as a Strategic Advisor for @evernorthxrp Defi and $XRP
By Wendy O
Social•Oct 20, 2025
Bitcoin-Powered Global Money Movement Gains Builder Momentum
Putting work out there and seeing this many builders so pumped is the best feeling. Getting lots of love for @spark and @lightspark Grid rn. Global money movement built on Bitcoin is so going to win.
By David Marcus
Social•Oct 20, 2025
Bitcoin News Roundup: Top Stories in Ten Minutes
The latest headlines and biggest stories in Bitcoin covered in just 10 minutes on The News Block. H/t mentions in this episode include @Matt_Hougan @NeilJacobs @zackbshapiro and more! https://t.co/Hg3gnJ8nbE
By Natalie Brunell
Social•Oct 20, 2025
2025 Crypto Market: Mainstream Adoption Accelerates Rapidly
Crypto market in 2025: https://t.co/6dxnyC30Ed
By Lark Davis
Social•Oct 20, 2025
Bitcoin Forms Another Double Top Pattern
Bitcoin ''Double Top'' again... https://t.co/pERbuJDscw
By Crypto Rover
Social•Oct 20, 2025
The Sole Path to Crypto Generational Wealth
This is the only way to make generational wealth in crypto https://t.co/sPslRjdTf0
By Layah Heilpern
Social•Oct 20, 2025
BTC Bears Until $116K; Shorts Preferred Over Alts
BTC Key Resistance: $116K Immediate Support: $105.5K "Gates to Hell": $101K (Macro breakdown) Medium term market structure remains bearish (lower highs, lower lows). Until price reclaims $116K, the downtrend isn’t invalidated and breakdown shorts remain the higher probability play. Avoid longs on altcoins while this downtrend...
By Koroush Khaneghah
Social•Oct 20, 2025
Bitcoin's Biggest Threat: The Quantum Computing Challenge
New series from me, on the most important issue Bitcoin is facing Bitcoin and the Quantum Problem (Part I)
By Nick Carter
Social•Oct 20, 2025
Key ETH vs BTC Support and Resistance Levels
Most important $ETH vs $BTC S&R levels. 👇 https://t.co/kLhxo5Ya19
By Crypto Rover
Social•Oct 20, 2025
Digital Gold Replaces Fiat as Network Reserve Currency
Gold is the reserve currency of the state. Digital gold is the reserve currency of the network. Fiat currency is the reserve currency of the failed state. https://t.co/leMo8Jy2Uc
By Balaji Srinivasan
Social•Oct 20, 2025
ADA Near Golden Cross, Could Spark 60% Surge
$ADA is about to print a daily MACD golden cross below zero The last time this happened, Cardano pumped over 60%. However, ADA needs to get past a resistance zone around $0.74 to $0.77. A downward resistance line that started in August...
By Lark Davis