What is a market maker? How do they provide liquidity to the market by continuously offering buy and sell quotes, and what risks do they take on?
In crypto markets, traders want someone to sell to them when they want to buy, and someone to buy from them when they want to sell. Market makers help create more continuous quotes by continuously offering bid and ask prices, reducing wait times for some trades and improving market liquidity.
First, what is a market maker?
Market makers typically place buy and sell orders in the market at the same time. For example, if an asset's bid is 100 USDT and

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🔥Bitwise raises its Bitcoin price target to $1.6M by 2036
🔴On October 28, Bitwise raised its 2036 BTC price forecast from $1.3M to $1.6M, equivalent to an annualized return of 34.3%, 5 times that of US stocks and 3 times that of private equity.
🔴Bitwise outlined three scenarios:
- Base case: BTC captures 25% of the store-of-value market ($110T) and 1% of institutional assets ($303T), reaching $1.6M.
- Bear case: 2.5% market share, with a price of around $131K.
- Bull case: 50% market share, with a price of $3.67M.
🔴Capital flow drivers for $BTC according to Bitwise:
- Institutions manage a

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GateUser-d089e618 an hour ago

I've almost gone from playing memes to farming airdrops
The happiest part of every day now is waking up to claim $PTAH and $BEM , mine, withdraw, and sell
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Bitcoin Evening Outlook: 10.29
$BTC The price action over the past couple of days has been both frustrating and exciting! The exciting part is, you can't say there's no volatility—there's at least a little. The frustrating part? It can't seem to rise, but it can't fall either. Doesn't that feel awful?
As a trader, you’re not afraid of sharp rallies or crashes; what you fear most is choppy consolidation. You don't know whether to trade, and if you sit out, you worry about missing out. It's enough to make you feel miserable! Although Bitcoin has been bouncing wildly up and down, it still hasn't

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Japan’s services inflation split complicates the BOJ outlook before Friday’s decision
Japan’s September services producer inflation hit 3.7%, up from August’s revised 3.5%, while the rate excluding international transport held steady at 2.9%. High-labor-cost services price growth slowed to 2.6%, complicating the policy signal ahead of Friday’s BOJ decision.
Freight pushed Japan’s services producer inflation higher in September while price growth in labor-intensive services slowed, complicating the policy signal for Bitcoin investors watching Friday’s Bank of Japan decision. The potential crypt

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Happy Republic Day 🇹🇷

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BREAKING:
US PCE data came in at 3.6%
Expectations: 3.6%

GateUser-81df1a40 an hour ago

REMINDER:
GDP + PCE in the next coupe of hours.
one more hurdle. then the market can breathe 🇺🇸

Rashid_BNB7 minutes ago

$DRV — Rising Wedge Signals Bearish Risk! 📉
💰 Price: $0.3641 | 15-min Chart
🔻 A rising wedge is forming, suggesting weakening bullish momentum and potential downside pressure.
🛡️ Support: $0.35–$0.36
🚨 Breakdown confirmation: Below $0.35
🎯 Chart target: ~$0.27
⚠️ Resistance: $0.39–$0.40
Will $DRV break down or surprise the bears? 👀

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TheTradingParrot 2 hours ago

🚨 Bitcoin just formed a textbook bear flag with a technical target of $76,000. We already trapped longs at the top of the flag. If this breaks down, November turns red fast. Watch the full breakdown at 4:44 in today's video.
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CEO_CRYPTO25an hour agoBullish

$AKE /USDT Short Position Setup
Direction: Short 📉
Entry Zone: 0.0222469 – 0.0225291
Take-Profit Targets:
TP1: 0.0203848 8.95%
TP2: 0.0190494 14.91%
TP3: 0.0170463 23.86%
Stop-Loss: 0.0250589
$AKE ‌

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Maneki_neko2 hours ago

What Is an Iceberg Order? How Can It Hide Part of an Order’s Size and Reduce the Market Impact of Large Trades?
In cryptocurrency trading, directly placing a very large order may allow other market participants to infer trading intentions, affecting prices and execution conditions. Iceberg orders reduce how much of the full order size is exposed at once by displaying only part of the order and replenishing the displayed quantity after it is filled.
First, how do iceberg orders work?
Suppose you plan to buy 100 BTC but display only 10 BTC at a time. Once the currently displayed quantity is fill

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Maneki_neko7 minutes ago

Positive funding rates: Why can longs still lose money?
In cryptocurrency perpetual futures trading, many people see a positive funding rate and assume the market is bullish, so holding a long position should be more profitable. But funding rates reflect the payment mechanism between longs and shorts in the contract market; they do not guarantee that prices will rise.
First, a positive funding rate does not mean prices will necessarily rise. A positive funding rate usually means longs pay funding fees to shorts, but prices can still be affected by spot selling pressure, market sentiment, and c

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Fed held at 3.75-4.00%. ETF money is flowing one way:
BTC ETFs: 3 days of inflows, +$423.6M total
$136.0M of yesterday's +$137.3M came from IBIT alone
ETH ETFs: 3 days of outflows
ETHA hasn't had one inflow day since Oct 14
Is this BTC demand or BlackRock demand?

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