According to ChainCatcher news and Jin10 reports, the minutes of the Fed's October policy meeting will be released at midnight next Thursday Beijing time, increasing investors' uncertainty about the path of U.S. interest rates. Last month, the Fed lowered the benchmark interest rate to a range of 3.75% - 4%, but Powell's statement that "further rate cuts by the end of the year are not a foregone conclusion" has reshaped market expectations. Boston Fed President Collins has questioned the possibility of a rate cut next month, emphasizing that "the threshold for implementing additional easing in the near term is relatively high." Data shortages will become a major obstacle to the Fed's decision-making.

Odaily News According to analyst Ali's monitoring, in the past 72 hours, over 10,000 BTC (approximately 1 billion dollars) flowed into encryption trading platforms.

PANews, November 16 news, according to on-chain data monitoring, James Wynn closed a losing PUMP long order 1 hour ago. Currently, he holds a SOL long order with 20x leverage that is in unrealized gains. This order was opened yesterday, with an open interest of 15,066 SOL, and the position value is approximately $2.154 million, with a liquidation price of $129.768.

BlockBeats news, on November 16, researcher Adam from Greeks.live posted on social media, stating, "The community shows a bullish sentiment, with traders discussing aggressive bullish strategies, despite potential concerns about downside risks, and mentioning $85,000 as a potential support level. Key focal points include BTC $100,000 call options and ETH in the $3,000-$5,000 range, while there is debate about appropriate hedging strategies using $90,000 put options."

According to BlockBeats news, on November 16, crypto KOL Cobie tweeted that he has held ZEC since 2016 and has not participated in paid promotions. He stated, "New holders may not understand the 'brutal education' experience of old holders over the past ten years with ZEC. So when ZEC finally sees a pump, they think we received money. Most of us in this group were scammed by purchasing so-called 'mining contracts' before ZEC went live."

Odaily News According to Bitcoin Treasuries data, institutional holdings of BTC reserves have increased by more than 500 million dollars worth of BTC in the past 30 days.

According to the Gate News bot, in an official announcement on September 17, 2025, Gate will launch Hippo Protocol (HP) spot trading at 17:00 (UTC+80 on September 17. The trading pair will be HP/USDT. Hippo Protocol is a blockchain infrastructure project aimed at the healthcare sector. The protocol provides hospitals, clinics, and institutions with medical data storage, verification, and processing solutions that comply with HIPAA, GDPR, and FHIR standards. Through zero-knowledge proofs and encryption technology, the Hippo Protocol enables individual users to have complete control over their health records, while providing medical service providers with gas abstraction and blockchain integration capabilities. The project contract address is https://river.hippoprotocol.ai/.

The Bubi Foundation announced that it will lead the real world asset tokenization project PTR and establish a strategic partnership with the asset equity confirmation protocol RPT to promote RWA compliance on-chain in Singapore and Indonesia. The PTR project features an equity confirmation model and risk control system compatible with regulatory frameworks, addressing the challenges of cross-border asset tokenization.

Golden Finance reported that Caixin disclosed Qian Zhimin's diary, which shows that she has formulated a "six-year plan" related to Bitcoin from 2018 to 2023, expecting to sell a total of 5,500 Bitcoins at set prices in different years.

Odaily News Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley stated on the X platform that the prevailing view is that there is a 4-year cycle, thus 2026 will be a year of BTC's fall. This expectation may lead people to sell BTC in 2025 to avoid market downturns, making 2025 itself a year of fall, thereby breaking the original 4-year cycle.

Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley observed that the four-year cycle of Bitcoin is being broken. He pointed out that the market generally expects 2026 to be a down year, which will lead to a dumping in 2025, resulting in the down year phenomenon. Horsley believes that the launch of the Spot ETF has changed the market structure, and the future environment for Crypto Assets will be more favorable.

In the context of deteriorating market sentiment, the super whale group holding a large amount of Bitcoin shows composure, with loss levels significantly lower than in previous key pullback periods. Core chips remain stable, and BTC price fluctuates in the high-level chip area, with short-term selling pressure mainly concentrated around $100,000.

Gate News bot message, on September 15, 2025, according to the announcement from Gate exchange. Gate announced the adjustment of the trading start time for Tharwa (TRWA), which has been postponed from the originally scheduled time of September 15, 2025, 18:00 (UTC+8 to 20:00 )UTC+8 on the same day. Tharwa is an Ethereum-based DeFi protocol, with the TRWA token serving as its native governance token, providing holders with participation rights in the protocol, including treasury management, staking, and governance functions. The contract address for the TRWA token is 0x7b10d50b5885bE4c7985A88408265c109bd1EeC8, and the TRWA/USDT trading pair will be available on Gate.

The global ETF issuance continues to rise, increasing by 19% year-on-year in October, reaching a record of 137, with a total of 918, surpassing last year's total record. The increase in Crypto Assets ETFs is significant, with expectations to exceed 1,100 by 2025, ushering in a wave of issuance.

Huawei will release breakthrough AI technology on November 21, which is expected to increase the utilization rate of computing power resources such as GPUs and NPUs from 30%-40% to 70%, effectively improving resource utilization efficiency and achieving unified management and efficient support of computing power.

PANews reported on November 16 that economist and cryptocurrency critic Peter Schiff stated on the X platform that $MSTR has fallen over 64% from its peak in November 2024. More importantly, Saylor has expanded his balance sheet through leverage over the past five years, spending more than $47.5 billion to acquire over 640,000 Bitcoins at an average price of $74,000 each. Now, the paper profit of this investment is only 27%.

Odaily News Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley stated that with the recent significant rise of Zcash, the viewpoint of "only focusing on Bitcoin, everything else is eyewash" is facing challenges, and the relevant groups may find it difficult to provide a consistent response. Horsley mentioned that the market is gradually reassessing the long-term value of privacy assets and the broader encryption ecosystem.

According to DeFiLlama data, the total DEX trading volume across all chains in the past week was $95.229 billion, a year-on-year decrease of about 21.6%. The Solana chain ranked first with $23.815 billion, followed by BNB Chain and Ethereum in second and third place, respectively.

Trump invested over $82 million in corporate bonds and municipal bonds from the end of August to early October, involving multiple sectors including chip manufacturing, technology, retail, and Wall Street banks, totaling more than 175 transactions.

According to Foresight News, Nic Carter, co-founder of Castle Island Ventures, tweeted to suggest that "market participants emotionally depeg from Crypto Assets and stop putting so much pressure on themselves to achieve success in this cycle. Real life isn't like that. The price movement of Crypto Assets over the past decade has confused you. It won't be like that anymore. To succeed, you need to create something tangible and generate real value."

BlockBeats news, on November 16, the encryption sentiment analysis platform Santiment pointed out that the discussion volume of Bitcoin on social platforms has surged. Although this is not a definitive signal of a bottom in the crypto market, the probability of a market reversal is significantly increasing. When the price of Bitcoin fell below $95,000 this Friday, the discussion heat reached a new 4-month high, indicating that the extreme panic and FUD emotions among retail investors are fully erupting.

According to ChainCatcher news and a report from 10x Research, the current Bitcoin price is below the 7-day and 30-day moving averages, indicating a bearish signal; the weekly decline is -6.7%, and it has fallen below the $100,000 mark due to large investors (whales) starting to sell, resulting in the largest weekly decline in months; the outflow of funds from the US spot Bitcoin ETF has surged, indicating weak institutional demand. In addition, the correlation between Bitcoin and the Nasdaq 100 index continues to show a negative skew, which means that during technology stock sell-offs, the fall in Bitcoin is greater than the rise in Bitcoin when technology stocks go up, exacerbating investors' cautious sentiment. Despite the presence of macro catalysts such as central bank interest rate cuts and ETF fund inflows, these factors have failed to create upward momentum due to weak fundamental demand.

Odaily News Bitcoin pioneer and Blockstream co-founder Adam Back stated in a post on the X platform that the Bitcoin treasury company Strategy has been buying Bitcoin. The previous wallet switch was merely to transfer Bitcoin to another custodian and did not involve selling. The leverage ratio of Strategy is actually very low, currently holding Bitcoin worth 64 billion dollars, with liabilities of only 8 billion dollars, resulting in a leverage ratio of about 13%. Moreover, its debt is all long-term debt, which does not need to be repaid in the short term.

The largest hedge fund on Wall Street reduced its holdings in some tech giants, including Nvidia and Amazon, in the third quarter, while allocating new funds to areas such as application software and e-commerce. At the same time, the fund also reduced its investments in the healthcare and energy sectors. In this quarter, the market overall rose, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 indices rising nearly 8% and 9%, respectively.

Golden Finance reported that BitMine Chairman Thomas (Tom) Lee stated that the recent signs of weakness in the crypto market indicate that one or more market makers may have significant gaps in their balance sheets, and the market is attempting to trigger their Liquidation. He believes this is a short-term Fluctuation and will not change the long-term Supercycle trend of Ethereum, and he reminds investors not to use leverage at this time to avoid the risk of Get Liquidated.

According to recent tracking data, the privacy public chain Secret Network based on Cosmos SDK has become the most unfollowed project on Twitter in the past 7 days, with notable figures such as NFT collector Gmoney and encryption trader James Wynn unfollowing it one after another. Meanwhile, Pundi X is also one of the projects that has been unfollowed frequently.

Tom Lee of BitMine, an Ethereum treasury company, pointed out that the fall in the crypto assets market has exposed several hidden risks, such as issues with the balance sheets of market makers, but he expects these pains to be short-term. He emphasized that it is not suitable to use leverage at this time and mentioned that resolving the balance sheet issues may take 6-8 weeks.

Odaily News The father of smart contracts, Nic Carter, stated in a post on the X platform that the 2025 cryptocurrency market situation is "worse" and is not alarmist. Although the market experienced a fall in 2022, there are still potential "catalysts," indicating that the issues of price decline can eventually be resolved. But now cryptocurrency has become the forgotten child, with artificial intelligence and Mag7 as the main characters. Retail investors are starting to follow data centers, quantum computing, and rare earth stocks. The market fall is due to market weakness, a lack of attention and buyers, and the aftermath of DAT's long-term slump, which means concepts like "four-year cycles" and "alternative investment seasons" are outdated. Now, to make a profit, one must genuinely create value, presenting a severe challenge for the market.

As of September 30, Brown University holds $13.8 million worth of IBIT shares, while Emory University holds approximately $51.82 million in the Grayscale Bitcoin Miners Trust, with significant increases in Holdings, and also holds 4,450 shares of the iShares Bitcoin Trust.

PANews November 16 news, according to Glassnode data, the relative profits of alts (Top 500) are stabilizing in the depth capitulation zone, with only about 5% of the supply in profit, while Bitcoin's profits have just started to decline sharply. This unusual divergence between Bitcoin and alts is unprecedented in previous cycles.

Odaily News Eric Balchunas, a senior ETF analyst at Bloomberg, stated that Bitcoin's rise of 122% last year, far exceeding traditional risk assets, did not trigger market skepticism; the slowdown in growth this year is a normal regression to the previous excessive gains. He noted that, based on a two-year average performance, Bitcoin still recorded a return of about 50%.

Odaily News According to 10x Research analysis, ETH has now fallen below the 7-day and 30-day moving averages, with a bearish technical pattern, and a decline of 6.6% in the past week. Meanwhile, ETH ETF has seen a net outflow of over $1.4 billion, with on-chain long-term holders holding for 3-10 years selling at the fastest pace since 2021, creating additional supply pressure. Despite the increased selling pressure, large addresses are reverse accumulating during the decline, with multiple whales accumulating over $1 billion worth of ETH.

Golden Finance reports that the U.S. Department of Justice stated on Friday that it has filed a petition to seize Tether USDT stablecoins worth $15.1 million, which were confiscated from North Korean hackers associated with the APT38 organization. The U.S. Department of Justice also obtained guilty pleas from four U.S. citizens and one Ukrainian national, who admitted to aiding North Korean IT workers in fraudulently obtaining jobs at U.S. companies by providing stolen identities and hosting company laptops.

Golden Finance reported that the American fast-food chain Steak 'n Shake began accepting BTC for the first time in May and is now expanding its stores to El Salvador.

According to a report by Jinse Finance, emails from Jeffrey Epstein show that cryptocurrency entrepreneur and stablecoin issuer Tether co-founder Brock Pierce discussed Bitcoin with former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers at Epstein's townhouse in Manhattan. According to the email content, Pierce claims to be the "most active investor in Bitcoin," while Summers expressed a cautious interest and noted that market volatility poses reputational risks.

According to a report by Jinse Finance, Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas stated that last year Bitcoin rose 122%, which is five times that of the S&P 500 index and GLD. Has any Bitcoin holder complained about this? Has anyone thought, "Wait a minute, the historical performance of Bitcoin relative to risk assets suggests it shouldn’t have risen this high, that’s terrible!"? No, you all enjoy this extra rise and double profits, so you got nothing this year, and the average increase still reached 50%. In my view, you are really lucky. Wishing you peace and happiness.

Golden Finance reports that Paul Atkins, the chairman of the SEC, stated that the agency will soon consider establishing a formal "Token Classification" based on the long-standing Howey investment contract securities analysis. The Hawley Test originated from a case in 1946, when people purchased an orange grove in Florida, hoping to profit from the labor of the growers. It defines a security as an investment of money in a common enterprise and the expectation of profits derived from the efforts of others.

Golden Finance reported that Grant Cardone, CEO of the American real estate investment company Cardone Capital, stated early this morning on the X platform that the beauty of the dollar-cost averaging method is that Cardone Capital accumulates cash flow every month and uses this cash flow to buy Bitcoin at different price levels. An order has been placed for 935 coins - they are almost in hand.

Golden Finance reports that El Salvador is expanding its leading position in Bitcoin education through the improved Bitcoin Diploma 2.0. The brand new WeSpark course offers a dynamic and easy-to-use experience, simplifying key concepts of digital currency and personal finance through visual tools, practical exercises, and creativity-centered teaching methods.

The Chief Strategy Officer of MegaETH, namik, stated that the value of MegaETH depends on the success and decentralization characteristics of Ethereum, expressing concerns that policy support for centralized L1 could affect its logic. He believes that Ethereum should maintain decentralization, while MegaETH needs to innovate in scenarios where Ethereum L1 is lacking, to validate the rationality of architectural trade-offs.

According to Jinse Finance, data from DefiLlama shows that the total market capitalization of stablecoins across the network is reported at 304.246 billion USD, a decrease of 0.41% over the past 7 days, with USDT's market share at 60.44%.

Odaily News According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, Address 0x1fc...FAEd5 borrowed 9.41 million USD to buy the dip 5 hours ago, ultimately spending 5.528 million USD at an average price of $3141 to buy 1760 ETH, with the remaining open orders not filled; currently, he holds over 60 million USDT0 and 68.68 million USD in $ETH.

Gate News bot message, Gate market shows that GT has pumped 3.09% in the last 24 hours, current price 11 USDT.

The venture capital firm Founders Fund, led by billionaire Peter Thiel, held 928,389 shares of ETHZilla as of September 30, 2025, accounting for 5.6%, a decrease of 1.9% from 7.5% on August 4.

Anthony Scaramucci and his son AJ support the Bitcoin mining company American Bitcoin, founded by the Trump family, with AJ's company leading a $220 million financing round in July. Despite Scaramucci being a critic of Trump, he is actively involved in the investment.

Foresight News reports that the privacy security computing network Nillion will gradually migrate to Ethereum. The official stated that it will first migrate the treasury and NIL Token from NilChain to the Ethereum Mainnet, adopting a new ERC-20 token contract. In February 2026, the team will launch a cross-chain channel to the Ethereum Mainnet, allowing users to migrate NIL tokens from the Cosmos network to Ethereum and participate in activities directly within the Ethereum ecosystem. Additionally, next year, the team will deploy the Nillion L2 layer on Ethereum based on native smart contracts and network tools, enabling staking functionality, on-chain coordination mechanisms, and seamless integration with Nillion's private computing and storage layer through the existing wallets and infrastructure of developers.

Odaily News Perptual Futures Aster stated on the X platform that the recent update of the ASTER Token economic model has caused confusion in the community, and hereby clarifies that the ASTER Token economic model remains unchanged. Aster added that the relevant updates aim to accurately reflect the circulating supply of the Token and address the issue regarding the monthly unlocking allocation for the community and ecosystem distribution. The monthly unlocked Token allocation has not been used and has not been counted in the circulating supply of the ASTER Token. In the future, the unlocked Tokens will be transferred to a separate public unlocking Address, but currently there is no expenditure demand or plan for this Address.

Odaily News Hyperbot data shows that "Brother Magi" Huang Licheng has just made a small increase in his 25x leveraged Ethereum long order, bringing his position to 7745 ETH, with a liquidation price of $3047.88 and current unrealized losses of $1.968 million. In addition, Huang Licheng has also placed 8 limit sell orders for ETH in the $3188.8-$3400 range.

Dephy has formed a strategic alliance with APRO to launch the world's first AI-assisted quantitative system, Dephy Apro System, focusing on RWA, AI-Agent, and Decentralized Finance prediction markets, marking a transformation in the blockchain smart economy, injecting self-learning and self-verifying capabilities into the smart economy, while the DAS token will also be launched.