ExpertOfCrypto

🚨 BTC & ETH Weakness: Sellers Are Taking Control!
Guys, pay attention! The market is showing weakness, and both Bitcoin and Ethereum are struggling to recover.
Buyers are failing to build strong momentum, while sellers are putting pressure on the market again. I'm keeping a close eye on the SHORT side.
🔴 BTCUSDT – SHORT SETUP
Current Price Zone: $74,200
🎯 TP1: $73,500
🎯 TP2: $73,000
🔴 ETHUSDT – SHORT SETUP
Current Price Zone: $2,091
🎯 TP1: $2,080
🎯 TP2: $2,050
📉 WHAT I'M WATCHING:
• BTC needs to defend the $74,000 area.
• ETH needs to hold above the $2,080 zone.
• Continued selling pre

🚨TRUMP OPENS THE DOOR TO IRAN SANCTIONS RELIEF!

A White House official told CNN Trump is willing to ease sanctions and release frozen funds if Iran makes concrete progress on nuclear issues.

Talks through mediators are continuing this week.

Trump already rejected Iran’s latest Hormuz offer as unacceptable. Any real move here hits oil and risk markets because the strait is still the choke point.$NVDA ‌$MU

$SOL Is Getting Serious Money
Something interesting is happening with Solana while most traders are focused only on the chart.

U.S. spot SOL ETFs pulled in $188.2M last week — the strongest weekly inflow since launch.

Even more interesting: all seven tracked funds saw positive inflows.

Bitwise’s BSOL alone attracted around $128M, roughly 68% of the weekly total. Friday also saw a record $86.7M daily inflow.

But here’s the part I’m watching:

Institutional demand is increasing, while SOL is still trading around the $120 area.

That creates a very different setup from a market driven purely

The Hidden Signal Inside Funding Rates

Most traders watch funding only when it turns extreme.

But the real signal is the relationship between funding and open interest.

BTC is around $84.4K, while funding remains positive but relatively controlled.

Meanwhile, total BTC open interest is around $54.7B.

That combination tells us something important:

Leverage exists, but traders aren’t paying extreme costs to chase BTC.

This is different from a heavily crowded long trade, where funding starts accelerating alongside open interest.

So I’m watching the relationship:

Price ↑ + OI ↑ + Funding

👀 $90K isn’t just a random $BTC target.

BTC options currently show around 422K BTC ($35.8B) in open interest.

The biggest call concentration is near $90K, while the major put wall sits around $60K.

The overlooked part?

A heavy call wall doesn’t guarantee BTC reaches $90K. It shows where positioning is concentrated — and that can matter for hedging and liquidity.

For traders, watch how price behaves around $90K rather than assuming it will be reached.

Sometimes the important level is where the market has the most exposure.

$NEAR ETF approval is only step one. 👀

Bitwise’s NEAR ETF is set to list on NYSE Arca under $NRR, giving traditional investors easier exposure to NEAR.

But traders should look beyond the headline.

Bitwise’s long-term scenarios reportedly range from $1.63 to $155.85 base case and $562.81 bull case.

Those numbers depend on much more than ETF access.

The overlooked signal is actual capital flow after launch.

Watch ETF inflows, spot volume, NEAR accumulation and how the market absorbs supply.

If real capital enters consistently, the ETF becomes more than a headline.

If flows stay weak, t

The interesting part isn’t the whale selling. It’s where that ETH is going.

A wallet that accumulated 130,591.56 ETH in 2023 at an average cost of $2,026.56 is now moving a huge portion toward exchanges.

Over the last five days, around 112,052 ETH has reportedly been sent to exchanges.

That’s more than $227M worth of ETH based on the original acquisition price.

But here’s what traders should not miss:

An exchange deposit is NOT the same thing as an executed sell.

The blockchain can confirm ETH reached an exchange-controlled address. It cannot confirm whether the holder immediately sold,

$UNI I whale activity has picked up sharply, with both large profit-taking and fresh accumulation appearing on-chain.

One whale, 0xA799, bought 788,000 UNI around $6.26 six days ago and later sold near $8.85, locking in roughly $2.04M in profit.

Meanwhile, fresh capital is still entering. Newly created wallet 0xEFC4 bought 269,477 UNI worth around $2.84M, while wallet 0xf415 added 138,442 UNI for roughly $1.23M. That wallet now holds 360,397 UNI, worth around $3.55M.

This creates an interesting on-chain picture: one whale is taking profit while other large wallets are continuing to accumula

Raiffeisen Expands Crypto Access

Raiffeisen Bank International is partnering with Bitpanda to create a framework that could bring crypto services to up to 18 million customers across its Central and Eastern European banking network.

The important part is the distribution model. Instead of requiring customers to move to a dedicated crypto platform, digital-asset services can potentially be integrated into the banking infrastructure they already use.

The partnership is initially focused on building the technology and regulatory framework, while individual banks within the network can decide w

$18B Crypto Options Expiry Nears

Around $18B worth of Bitcoin and Ethereum options are scheduled to expire this Friday, making it one of the largest options expiries of 2026.

Bitcoin accounts for the majority of the positioning, with roughly $16B in BTC options and around $2B in ETH options coming off the board.

A large amount of positioning expiring at once can create significant changes in hedging flows, liquidity and short-term volatility, especially with Bitcoin currently trading around the $85K–$87K region.

BTC options positioning is heavily concentrated around higher strikes, while t

Bitcoin Still Has Room to Catch Up

Bitcoin has been showing strength, but the broader global liquidity picture suggests there may still be a gap between liquidity conditions and BTC’s current price action.

If global liquidity begins expanding more decisively while Bitcoin maintains its bullish structure, that combination could provide an additional macro tailwind for the market.

The key areas to watch remain global liquidity, institutional flows, dollar strength and BTC’s price structure.

Bitcoin may already be moving ahead of the liquidity cycle — but if liquidity starts accelerating, the

Wall Street Expands Deeper Into Crypto

CME Group plans to launch Bitcoin Cash ($BCH ) and Uniswap ($UNI ) futures on October 19, pending regulatory review.

The move gives market participants new regulated derivatives products for two major crypto assets, creating additional opportunities to hedge exposure, manage risk and trade price movements without directly holding the underlying tokens.

The announcement also triggered a notable reaction in the market, with BCH and UNI moving sharply higher as traders responded to the news.

The bigger picture is the continued expansion of institutional cr

Russia Expands Crypto Derivatives Access

Russia’s largest exchange, MOEX, has officially entered a new phase of crypto-market expansion with the launch of crypto perpetual futures.

The new contracts track some of the market’s major digital assets, including $BTC , $ETH , $XRP , $SOL and $TRX , giving qualified market participants another way to gain exposure to crypto price movements without directly holding the underlying assets.

The development is notable because perpetual futures are one of the most actively used instruments in crypto markets, allowing traders to position for both upward and

XAUT Brings Gold On-Chain

XAU₮ (Tether Gold) gives users digital exposure to physical gold, with each token representing one fine troy ounce of gold held in reserve.

What makes XAU₮ interesting is the combination of gold’s traditional value with the flexibility of blockchain technology. Instead of dealing with physical bullion, users can hold and transfer gold exposure digitally.

XAU₮ also represents a broader trend in the crypto industry: real-world assets moving on-chain.

As demand for tokenized assets continues to grow, gold-backed digital assets could become an important bridge between

$LTC USDT — Bullish 1H Setup 🔍

LTC is holding a bullish 1H structure with higher highs and higher lows.

🎯 Entry: 60.60
🛑 Stop Loss: 60.18
🎯 TP1: 61.44
🎯 TP2: 62.84

📌 Resistance: 62.84
📌 Supports: 58.31 / 56.70 / 55.04

⚠️ The SL is close to entry, so execution risk is higher. Keep risk to a maximum of 1% per trade.

Trade with a plan, not emotions.

$AMD FROM $1.61 TO $613 | IS THE MACRO RETRACEMENT STILL COMING.
AMD
: FROM $1.61 TO $613 | IS THE MACRO RETRACEMENT STILL COMING?

AMD
Stock has delivered an insane 37,973%+ move since July 2015.

Back then: $1.61 | Today: ~$613.92

That Means:
▶️ $1,000 invested in
AMD
→ ~$381,316 today
▶️ That's roughly 381X your original investment.

But here’s what catches my attention 👇
On the Macro 3-Month chart,
AMD
has been in an extremely strong long-term uptrend after breaking above its multi-year descending trendline.

The interesting part?
Since the 2015 bottom, we haven't seen a major macr