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Bitcoin bounced from an $80,308 low to about $83,770 on Oct. 11, stalling just under $84,000 resistance. CryptoSlate, citing Checkonchain, puts the largest holder cost-basis cluster at $84,000 to $85,000, with support at $77,000 to $79,000 if the breakout fails.
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Doppler Finance's XRP vault passed 90 million XRP on Oct. 12, up about 76% from 51.09 million on Feb. 27, according to its transparency reports. As much as 83% of that gain was in hand by June 19, before Evernorth's Nasdaq listing.
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Bitcoin closed the week at $83,773, 4.2% above its $80,393 low, after an estimated $140 million of shorts were liquidated, news.bitcoin.com reported. Funding sits near neutral, so the open question is who buys once the shorts are covered.
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Papertrade's open interest fell 93.7%, from $11 billion to $693 million, in about a day, news.bitcoin.com reported. Deposits on the Hyperliquid-built exchange fell far less over the same stretch, so most of the cash outlasted most of the notional.
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Traders hold 25,030.6 BTC of $95,000 bitcoin calls expiring Oct. 30 on Deribit, about $2.07 billion in notional. Max pain for that expiry sits near $78,000, and since both figures come from the same contracts, the gap depends on whether the calls were bought outright or sold by holders.
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One Hyperliquid whale lost 28,716 ETH, worth $69.69 million, to forced liquidation on Oct. 9, then posted 10 million USDC of fresh margin within half an hour. Its rebuilt 78,955 ETH long now liquidates about 8% below the market, Bitcoin.com News reported, at prices anyone can see.
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Bitcoin fell to $83,404 on Wednesday after one overnight hour traded 309 BTC, at least three times the volume of any hour around it. Whether that low holds depends on how much futures leverage the selloff forced out.
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Ether fell below $2,600 on Oct. 7 after six straight days of outflows from U.S. spot ether ETFs. Read by their rules, its three prediction markets point to a year-end close to Wednesday's opening price, with wide odds on either side.
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