Crypto Crash Course: Bitcoin Battles $100K, DeFi Defies, and Regulators Rumble in Wild Week

Cryptocurrency News Today: Market Updates & Analysis podcast.Hey frens, it’s Crypto Willy coming at you with the wildest week in crypto — and trust me, the charts have been wilder than a meme coin on launch day. Let’s buckle up and unpack what’s really going on across Bitcoin, Ethereum, DeFi, and good old regulation as we steer through November 2025.First off, **Bitcoin** has been feeling the heat. Just this past week, Satoshi’s finest dropped below the oh-so-iconic $100,000 mark, a level everyone’s been watching like a hawk. According to Rootstone’s Market Round Up, things got dicey as macro fears flared and the Federal Reserve’s hawkish talk scared off the bulls. Thursday saw about $240 million in net inflows to spot BTC ETFs, breaking a brutal six-day outflow streak, but it wasn’t enough; we saw the second-biggest ETF outflow on record — $869 million yanked in a day! That’s the kind of cash that can tank a market, and it did: Bitcoin sank as low as $93,684 and had everyone from Miami to Mumbai holding their breath.Technical analysts at TabTrader and Binance say BTC is locked in a “descending channel,” with $98,500 acting as the new ceiling. Daily RSI is under 35 — classic oversold territory — but momentum just isn’t flipping yet. Fear is absolutely everywhere: the Crypto Fear & Greed Index crashed to 10, the lowest in nine months. That kind of number screams “capitulation”— or at least enough panic for those cool-headed contrarians to start sniffing around for a bargain.If you’re looking for glimmers of hope, DeFi’s keeping it together while most of the other sectors are redder than a lobster in July. DeFi names like UNI and AAVE managed to put in some surprise green despite the carnage elsewhere. Meanwhile, gamified tokens such as SAND and AXS, even with integrations of shiny new AI features, just couldn’t gather steam and kept sliding down.Altcoins overall aren’t faring great. According to YouHodler, the TOTAL3 index (the altcoin sans-BTC/ETH index) is pushing bearish, flashing warning lights for the wider market. Litecoin (LTC), everyone’s classic silver to Bitcoin’s gold, took a sharp 13% nosedive last week and slipped to 19th in the global ranking, according to a recent technical breakdown.Zooming out, the crypto market cap is currently hovering around $3.25 trillion per Binance’s latest. That’s about a trillion dollars vaporized since peaking over $4.2 trillion in October — thanks, flash crash, and big tech profit-taking. Mudrex put it bluntly: over $1.3 trillion wiped out in just a few weeks. Yikes.It’s not all doom and gloom. Eth heads will want to keep a close eye on that $3,055 support, which, if it holds, could spark a little bounce — but a breakdown there, and the fun’s probably over for a while. XRP, meanwhile, saw some short-term buy-the-dip action after getting rejected from its resistance at $2.58, but it’s not out of the woods yet.On a global level, regulators keep reminding us that the game is changing. OANDA reports the Financial Stability Board and IOSCO raised concerns about major gaps in the crypto rulebook — especially as tokenization goes mainstream. The smart money already knows that more rules are coming, and long-term survival means getting cozy with compliance.That’s your wrap-up for crypto this week! Thanks for tuning in with me, Crypto Willy. Don’t forget to check back next week for more action. This has been a Quiet Please production — for more on all things crypto and tech, check out QuietPlease dot AI. Catch you in the next block!Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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