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GM. Crypto updates are sticking like mango juice to your hands.

Let's wipe it up and get into it:

🍍 Market panic and price drops everywhere;

🚗 DeFi's missing keys;

🍋 AWS-OpenAI computing deal, Trump on Zhao pardon + more

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🍍 Market flavor today

Fear and Greed Index
Find out more about the Fear & Greed Index here.

 Crypto Market Cap: $3.48T -2.54% (24H)
  Name   Price 24H 7D
Bitcoin Bitcoin BTC $103,594.52 -2.46% -9.89%
Ethereum Ethereum ETH $3,508.87 -2.79% -14.67%
XRP XRP XRP $2.29 -2.36% -13.60%
BNB BNB BNB $952.28 -3.46% -16.43%
Solana Solana SOL $161.80 -3.64% -18.94%
Prices as of 11:00 AM EST. Click here to see live data.

This is gonna sound very old of me, but I do love me some funny cat videos.

(Don't judge.)

And the crypto market is acting like those cats that stare straight at you while pushing your glass off the counter. Zero remorse.

Bitcoin tripped below $104K, and suddenly the whole market was slipping and sliding - every coin, every trader, no one safe from the splash 😬

Bitcoin price chart from BitDegree, 11-04

Source: BitDegree

That fall triggered a whole lotta liquidations. $1.3B of positions got wiped out, to be exact.

Once stuff like that happens, everyone gets twitchy. The Fear & Greed Index is now nearly in Extreme Fear territory (its lowest point since April), and my group chats are full of "should I just go outside and touch grass for a while?" 🌧️

On top of that, the big money doesn't seem to be bailing anyone out:

👉 Bitcoin ETFs saw $186.5M head for the exit;

👉 And Ethereum ETFs had $135.7M in outflows yesterday.

Usually, it feels like someone's got our back - today, it was crickets. And no one's sure if this is just one of those bad days or the start of something bigger.

Everyone's on edge, hoping the panic selling runs out of gas soon.

Until then, check your footing - this market is slippery.

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🥝 Memecoin harvest

Memes printing faster than your uncle's inkjet 📠

Data as of 09:38 AM EST.

Check out these memecoins and plenty more here.

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🚗 DeFi's missing keys

Lending your car to a friend might seem like no big deal.

But let's say that friend secretly gives your keys to someone else, and suddenly five strangers are joyriding in your sedan.

Pretty soon, you've lost track of where your car is, who's driving it, or whether it's ever coming back.

Image of three dogs driving a car

That's basically what's happening in DeFi right now, thanks to the meltdown at Stream Finance.

Stream Finance was a DeFi platform experimenting with synthetic stablecoins - crypto tokens designed to track the value of a dollar, but backed only by algorithms and crypto collateral instead of actual USD.

Their flagship token, xUSD, was meant to stay pegged at $1. In theory, it offered users a stable, decentralized dollar they could lend, borrow, or trade across protocols.

The catch? Stability depended entirely on Stream's internal systems and how other projects used its tokens.

Now, Stream wasn't operating in isolation. Its synthetic assets - including xUSD - became integrated into major lending and yield platforms like Euler, Silo, and Morpho.

That meant users across multiple protocols were holding or using Stream's tokens without necessarily realizing how dependent they were on Stream's own balance sheet and risk management.

Then, something terrible happened: Stream reported a $93M loss and suddenly froze deposits and withdrawals.

Confidence evaporated overnight. xUSD dropped to $0.33 within hours.

And because this stablecoin was integrated into other platforms, the collapse didn't stop at Stream. Other protocols tied to xUSD, like TelosC and Elixir, were left nursing massive losses, their liquidity pools drained or devalued.

In total, blockchain analysts from Yields And More uncovered around $284M in tangled exposure across the network.

DeFi sleuths trace $284M in loans and stablecoin risk linked to Stream Finance

Source: Elixir

The lesson to take from this:

DeFi is made to remove middlemen, not to remove risk. When you swap banks for code, you trade human error for systemic design risk.

"Trustless" doesn't mean "safe" - it means you are the risk manager now.

Be careful with who you give the car keys.

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🍋 News drops you can't miss

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🤖 AWS cut a $38B, 7-year deal to supply OpenAI with computing power. OpenAI's getting access to tons of NVIDIA GPUs and can level up to millions of CPUs if needed.

🇺🇸 Donald Trump said he doesn't know Changpeng Zhao, and the pardon wasn't political. He says there's no real connection between them.

🚀 A lot of blockchain startups get stuck chasing trends to win over investors. Rosie Sargsian from Ten Protocol says it's getting rare for teams to stick with long-term crypto projects.

⚖️ Coin Center's defending against fraud claims in court, backing Anton and James Peraire-Bueno. The two brothers are accused of using Ethereum MEV to profit, but Coin Center says it's not fraud.

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🍌 Juicy memes

Meme about craving more of something desirable or popular.

Source: @CryptoMemes

Meme about contrasting lifestyles and profits of stock vs. crypto investors.

Source: @naiivememe

Meme about the illusion of choice in coding and engineering work.

Source: @0xgaut

Gode S. Web3 Market Analyst
Gode is a Web3 Market Analyst who researches the most important industry events and interprets how they affect the wider Web3 space. Her formal education in media culture & digital rhetoric allows her to employ a methodical approach to evaluating critical Web3 news data, including large-scale events and the wider social sentiment within the ecosystem.
Gode is a mutilingual professional, having studied in multiple universities all across Europe. This allows her to have a one-of-a-kind opportunity to analyze Web3 social sentiments spanning different cultures and languages and, in turn, develop a much deeper understanding of how the Web3 space is growing within different communities. With the rest of her team, Gode works to identify crucial crypto news patterns and provide unbiased and data-driven information.
Gode’s passions include working and communicating with people, and when she’s not researching Web3 news, she spends her time traveling and watching true crime documentaries.

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