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👀 Be Careful Here! (If You`re a Bear)
PLUS it`s full on Runes Season!
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As Trump waved to the crypto bros from a McDonald's drive-thru window today, bulls are waving goodbye to all the sidelined bears as marching into what could be the most bullish months for crypto yet.
BTC is now undeniably in a bullish motion. Can we have a few thousand-dollar dip soon, heading back to around $66,000? Sure, it would make sense (as a matter of fact it might be happening today). Nevertheless, it would be tough for bears to successfully invalidate the current bullish structure.
The lesson here: in a bull market, dips are shallow and short-lived, making it hard for shorters to hold their ground (beware). Personally, I’m not getting swayed into a bearish mindset anytime soon.
On top of that, we’re finally seeing real bottoming signs on ETH, which is currently outperforming BTC today. As we mentioned last week, it won’t take much for ETH/BTC to stage a strong technical bounce here.
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ETHUSD 1D Coinbase Log Chart
Two possible paths for Eth here. It needs to hold the $2,600 level for more upside. Lovely bullish weekly close, which suggests we likely hold here, but it’s Eth, so you can’t discount the chance of a retrace down to the $2,450 area. RSI on the 1D has been channeling upwards - a very similar structure on the BTC 1D.
In both cases, BTC & ETH, we need to break up out of this channel or we get that bigger retrace ($63k for $BTC). Check out the Coinglass 6-month heatmap to see the juicy liquidity at $3,400 and $3,900.
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Smart-money movements of the day:
Source: Chainedge
Mindshare leaders of the day:
Source: Kaito
Runes Season
Quick brag: Ever since we mentioned Ordinals and Runes around a month ago, the Bitcoin ecosystem has gone on an absolute tear. So, it`s time for a little update and highlight the new contenders.
This season is definitely largely Runes-dominated, while the NFT side shows absolutely dominating strength of Bitcoin Puppets and also newly emerging Based Angels, perhaps boosted by recent bullishness for Remilia (Milady) by Murad.
Before we jump into the picks, read this statistical explanation closely: not much is needed to send the whole ecosystem another 10x upwards.
Bringing you some numbers.
During the Runes are dead era (until early September), Runes had roughly ~800K-1M in daily volume (on-chain). It took only an increase of 3-5x in daily volume to send some of the leaders 5-10x in market cap during this last month.
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— Juanse | BIP-420 (@The0xJuan)
1:16 PM • Oct 20, 2024
Let`s get into it (none of this is financial advice).
Most interesting current Runes picks:
Gizmo the imaginary cat is the current main contender for a cat of Bitcoin. Considering that it`s a meme closely tied to the Puppets community and the fact that it`s still only around $30m market cap, this has ways to go as long as the bull run continues.
It is currently pretty pumped, so diving in during the next dip might be wiser than blasting a green candle.
Kika the bunny plus is a meme made exactly in the Gizmo style, currently seen as kind of a beta play. Very low market cap and solid market mind share as of now.
Based Angles runes are running simply because of the aforementioned Based Angels strength. As long as the NFTs stay strong, so does the runes.
PUPS is an interesting one currently. It`s one one of the top runes since the first run earlier this year, still ways of the all-time-high, and also on a nice entry point considering that it dippers as liquidity flew away into Gizmo.
RSIC runes could become a nice underdog bet. It used to be one of the main runes contenders and is currently creating a bottom. Might require patience, but a chance for a run is solid here.
Good luck out there and have fun!
The important bits.
Sophon (Entertainment layer) - Partners with OPEN, the leader in onchain ticketing
Core DAO (Bitcoin DeFi) - Core`s TVL is up over 1,000%
Peapods Finance (DeFi) - explains the innovation of Zero Emission Money Markets
SKALE (L2) - Partners with Pixel
GammaSwap (DeFi) - Implements automated yield tokens
Entangle (Interoperability) - Now supports bridge to Avalanche
Tokemak (DeFi) - Launches Tokemak Autopilot
Pumpfun (Token launcher) - Introduces “pump advanced”
World Coin (L1) - Rebrands to World Network
Even more important bits.
Stripe has sealed a $1.1 billion deal to acquire stablecoin platform Bridge
Kraken unveils wrapped Bitcoin token kBTC
The ECB says Bitcoin could reach €10,000,000 in price
Vitalik explains 3rd possible future of Ethereum: The Surge
Zoomer lays out the main thesis for Eigen Layer
Bpjan explains how Forkanomics will save Ethereum L2s
Statistics and charts of the day.
BTCfi mindshare is growing rapidly
ETH held in accumulation wallets increased by 65%
Solana's weekly REV (fees+tips) just closed at $36.8m
List of token unlocks for this week
BTC just witnessed its first-ever bullish cross since Oct 2023
Hyperliquid open interest grows rapidly despite the end of point season
New launches and projects for your daily research.
Contagno (DeFi) - Updates on V3
SuiFlow (MEV for Sui)
Magic Eden for Berachain (Berachain NFT market)
PAIN (Meme)
Coinshift (RWA)
TrueMarkets (Global events trading)
Offmarket (Prediction markets for IPOs)
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We really live in the funniest timeline.
Donald Trump launches a crypto project and then 10 days later starts working at McDonald’s you cannot convince me we aren’t in a simulation
— Zack Voell (@zackvoell)
2:17 AM • Oct 21, 2024
Anyone who wasn`t in the Meal Deal Discord this weekend (including me being out shitfaced at the worst time ever) missed an absolutely epic weekend full of onchain cooks, capturing the AI memecoin meta big time and nailing the largest gainers.
Next time, I`m not missing a weekend of blocmates craziness.
stay safe homies,
Hix0n 🫡
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