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#OilPricesRemainElevated $XTIUSD $XBRUSD #ShareWeekly
Think of $115 oil as a tax on every household. The real question isn’t which asset reacts first, it’s which one is already most sensitive to the rate repricing that tax creates. Here’s my read.
1. The size of the tax (my math)
Brent traded around $65 in January and is near $115 now, up about 77%. One report puts it up 17% in the past month alone. That feeds directly into inflation expectations, which hit 4.7% in the latest consumer survey, and into a Fed that already hiked to 3.75%–4.00%.
2. What’s driving it, and why Monday dipped
Brent g

$ERA Shorts are bleeding out! The negative funding-rate meat grinder is on—longing now is just asking to get rekt?
Shorts won’t die, longs won’t stop; but those who chase the highs often die in the pullback just before dawn.
Zhang’s conclusion is straightforward: the whales are trying to squeeze shorts, not liquidate longs. The funding rate is -0.2209%, an absurdly negative annualized rate—shorts are paying longs every second they hold on. Whales hold 2.41M in shorts, with unrealized losses of 183,000 U. Shorts are stacked high above on the liquidation map, while longs below have already been

#StriveCEOHintsAtMoreBitcoinBuying🚨 Strive CEO Hints at More Bitcoin Buying: Institutional Demand Remains in Focus! ₿
The Bitcoin market continues to attract attention as Strive's CEO hints at the possibility of additional Bitcoin purchases. This development puts corporate Bitcoin accumulation back in the spotlight and raises an important question: Are more companies preparing to strengthen their exposure to the world's leading cryptocurrency?
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On Saturday, BTC fell to 79180, then rebounded twice to around 81000; each time, it came under renewed pressure and declined accordingly;
On Saturday, ETH fell to 2280, then rebounded twice to around 2370; it also came under renewed pressure and declined to varying degrees.
Technically, BTC’s oversold rebound failed to break through 81000 before turning sharply lower, with the high moving down again;
It is currently stalling near 80500, with resistance lowered to 81000--81500 and heavy daily resistance at 82000--82500.
Looking at external markets, crude oil bulls have cooled in the short term,

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#GateWCTCS9GlobalTradingCompetition $BTC $ETH #ShareWeekly
WCTC S9 Is Live — My Strategy Is to Trade the Setup, Not the Competition
A trading competition can create pressure to take more trades, increase position sizes, or chase leaderboard rankings. That is exactly when discipline matters most.
With BTC battling around the $80K area and ETH showing weak momentum on my latest chart, I would rather focus on clear setups than force trades just to increase volume.
My BTC watchlist
Resistance: $81,800, then $84,180.
Support: $77,020, followed by $75,700–$75,500.
Momentum: RSI near 41 and negative

What Is Token Approval? Why Can a Single Signature Put Assets at Long-Term Risk?
In the DeFi world, you may only want to swap tokens once, provide liquidity once, or use a new decentralized application.
During the process, your wallet may ask you to confirm an approval transaction.
Many people see a familiar token name and what looks like a normal operation, then click confirm right away. But the questions that really matter are: Who are you authorizing? How many tokens can they use? Will this permission remain in effect after the transaction is complete?
Understanding these three questions is

Bitcoin Hashrate Reclaims 1 Zettahash as Mining Competition Rebounds
BlocksBridge Consulting says Bitcoin’s seven-day hashrate has risen above one zettahash per second, its highest level since March 3. That milestone comes from the firm’s October 22 Miner Weekly report, which also recorded a 5.92% increase in mining difficulty on October 16. Taken together, the data show that individual operators leaving mining should not be read as a direct measure of network-wide competition.
A mining company can change strategy without making Bitcoin mining any easier for those that remain. BlocksBridge’s a

Community discussion around BTC falling below $80,000 is bearish: $79,200 is seen as the first key support, with $72,000–$75,000 potentially the next range if it breaks; over $200 million in longs were liquidated in one hour, with total liquidations of around $840 million over 24 hours, while spot ETFs saw outflows of $635.5 million over the same period.

$CAP
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What happened in the crypto market this weekend?
• Bitcoin fell below $80,000, Ether below $2,350, SOL below $100 and XRP below $1.30, with more than $200 million in long positions liquidated in 60 minutes
• Spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $635.6 million in outflows in one day, the highest since June, including $254.1 million for BlackRock’s IBIT
• A record 36% of the ETH supply is now staked
• Grayscale’s spot ZEC ETF recorded $51.5 million in net inflows over four days
• CoinDCX confirmed a $16 million loss after wallets were drained, which its CEO had previously called a “false alarm”
• Tether r

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10.26 SOL Market Analysis
　　After a rapid drop from 105.22 to 98.51, SOL has now entered a consolidation and recovery phase following oversold conditions. The Bollinger Bands, which had widened during the decline, are gradually narrowing. Price is trading below the middle band and above the lower band. Bearish momentum has been fully released, and gradually rising lows are showing signs of stabilization. The current price is near the lower end of the consolidation range, with clear support from the lower Bollinger Band around 100.2. As long as the previous low of 98.51 is not decisively broken

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Weekly Trading Setup & Tournament Watch
Reviewing my portfolio allocations for the coming sessions with the market moving, I usually look for active exchange events to add extra yield to regular setups
Gate WCTC S9 is active right now with a 6M USDT total pool solo trading, squad battles, and market predictions. The added liquidity around these competitions often creates good short term trading opportunities
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Whales dumping and fleeing! Is a long-side massacre about to unfold? $HYPE
Candlesticks are just the surface; capital flows are what really matter. Whales are transferring coins to exchanges, and every rebound is just to fleece retail traders! A whale has frantically transferred 37.83 million HYPE to a major holder, clearly planning to cash out.
More than 20 million in funds have fled; the major players are all slipping away. Retail traders, don’t get itchy to buy the dip just because prices have fallen a lot. Follow the major players to make money, and whatever you do, don’t catch a falling

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