Plus: Whales snap up BTC after retail panic selling

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GM. Some coins ripen overnight while others turn mushy - thankfully, we pick only the best fruit for your feed.

Here's what's ripe for the taking today:

🍍 Bitcoin volatility and whale accumulation day;

🌍 Africa's trade gets an upgrade;

🍋 SGX introduces crypto futures, CZ denies pardon deals + more

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🍍 Market flavor today

Find out more about the Fear & Greed Index here.

Name		Price	24H	7D
Crypto Market Cap: $3.16T -1.28% (24H)
	Bitcoin BTC	$93,025.15	-0.38%	-10.35%
	Ethereum ETH	$3,123.79	1.32%	-10.59%
	XRP XRP	$2.21	1.37%	-9.37%
	BNB BNB	$929.07	2.57%	-5.01%
	Solana SOL	$139.70	3.49%	-13.45%

Prices as of 11:00 AM EST. Click here to see live data.

The crypto market feels like a weird remake of The Hangover.

You wake up with a pounding headache, the room's a mess, and Bitcoin - the one friend you really needed to keep an eye on - is nowhere in sight.

Everyone's retracing their steps, trying to remember how last night ended.

Then your phone rings.

"Dude... where are you?"

And Bitcoin just groans, "Man... I'm under $90K."

Yep. First time in seven months. Perfect way to start the day, right? 🫠

Bitcoin price chart from BitDegree, 11-18

Source: BitDegree

Now, the drop didn't start as a crash. First, a drift from $92K to $91K, then a little stumble.

But once it touched anything starting with "8," that's when people felt it in their stomachs.

Most small investors (the folks with 1 BTC here, half a BTC there) tend to get jumpy when the big round numbers break. And over the past few days, on-chain data shows fewer of these small-holder wallets, meaning some of them sold as the price slid.

But here's the twist: while the smaller hands were easing out, the whales (the wallets holding 1K BTC or more) started doing the opposite. Their numbers actually rose to about 1,384 wallets, the highest in months.

That's a huge sign. Whales don't buy because they're excited; they buy because the math makes sense. They see dips not as danger, but as discounts.

So while the surface-level mood was fear, underneath it was a steady accumulation.

Basically, the market still feels a little shaken. But at least it's still standing.

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💸 Ready to move money the Ogvio way?

11-18 Mission: Ogvio

Imagine a world where sending money to someone is as easy as sending a meme.

That's the promise of Ogvio, and with launch day creeping closer, it's time to learn how the whole bank-transfer superpower actually works.

Meet the new BitDegree Mission: Ogvio & Bank Transfers: All You Need to Know!

And yes, you can get rewards just for learning:

🎁 2,000 Bits
🎁 100 USDC

FYI: stacking more Bits = a bigger share of the $15K Season 8 Airdrop.

So this Mission? Kinda a double win.

🗓️ Deadline: Nov 30.

Aight, ready to see why bank transfers on Ogvio feel almost suspiciously smooth?

Start Mission

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🥝 Memecoin harvest

Memes are making waves out here 🌊

Data as of 09:47 AM EST.

Check out these memecoins and plenty more here.

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🌍 Africa's trade gets an upgrade

Moving goods across Africa right now honestly feels like trying to send a text with a 1990s flip phone - slow, clunky, and there's a decent chance your message never makes it 😬

If you're shipping tea, coffee, grain, electronics - basically anything people actually trade every day - you're dealing with slow paperwork, duplicated forms, surprise fees, and border queues that can stretch into days.

That's the problem ADAPT (Alliance for Digital Africa and Pan-African Trade) is trying to fix.

Their goal: make cross-border trade in Africa faster, cheaper, and more transparent by replacing the paper-based process with digital rails. As in:

👉 Digital IDs to verify traders and businesses,

👉 Stablecoin payments for faster settlement, and

👉 Blockchain-secured trade documents.

Kenya is the pilot country. Ghana comes next. If the system works, more countries get added.

Africa, Payments, Digital, Iota, Stablecoin

Source: Dominik Schiener

This could cut those brutal 6% - 9% border fees and shrink multi-day customs delays into hours. Hours.

All open source, too.

And this matters because it's another real-world validation that blockchain beats the old systems. If ADAPT works, it becomes an example that blockchain is the infrastructure the world actually needs.

That's the kind of adoption that pushes the space forward, brings in institutions, and makes the tech impossible to ignore 💪