Panic Drop Podcast

Panic Drop - Timothy Assi

This podcast gives you a fast daily recap of the biggest crypto and financial market headlines. It’s made to sound like a smart friend catching you up with just sharp insights in a few minutes. panicdrop.substack.com

  1. 6h ago

    Sa 14/11 | Daily Crypto & Macro News

    Happy Saturday all! If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here’s your full recap: 🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨 - $BTC is trading around $66,937, down about 2.6% in the past 24 hours, after crashing under $67,000 overnight with $250M liquidated in just 10 minutes. - Over $330M was liquidated from the crypto market in 2 hours as BTC fell under $67,000, ETH under $1,900, XRP under $1 and SOL under $75, bringing 24 hour liquidations to $1.04B. - Kalshi traders now forecast Bitcoin could go as low as $64,000 this month. - Jane Street nearly doubled its spot Bitcoin ETF holdings to about $1.9B heading into the selloff. - A new Texas bill would allow every city and county in the state to buy up to $10M in Bitcoin, and Texas has over 1,450 cities and counties. - Bill Miller IV of Miller Value Partners says the gold analogy would imply a value of $1.3M per Bitcoin. - Wall Street closed mixed, with the Dow up 0.1%, the S&P 500 down 0.4% and the Nasdaq down 0.9%, as tech led the losses. - Nvidia fell another 2.0% to $162.85 and is now down about 15% since the Jensen Huang scandal broke on Nov 8. - Nvidia employees started a petition to bring back Jensen Huang as CEO, Elon Musk says he is signing it, and billionaire shareholder Leo KoGuan says he won’t invest more without Huang. - Ian Buck is favored to become Nvidia’s next CEO, while Nvidia also approached Arm CEO Rene Haas for the role. - Nvidia unveiled GR00T 2, an AI model that lets robots learn from humans and share skills with other robot bodies. - US PPI rose 6.5% year over year, lower than expectations. - The US government took in $369B and spent $773B in October, a $404B deficit in just one month. - The FAA issued a nationwide ground stop that halted all US flight departures, now lifted, with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blaming an old and overloaded air traffic system. - OpenAI launched ChatGPT Wallet, letting its AI agents make purchases for users, built with American Express, Mastercard and Visa. - Meta is testing a prediction market app called Takes with employees, where users wager cred instead of money. - A Federal Reserve report identifies artificial intelligence as a major risk to the US financial system. - Democrats say banning Congress from trading stocks is a top priority after winning the House and Senate. - Elon Musk will join President Trump on his trip to China next week. - Institutional bets on US stocks hit $330B, the second highest level ever. - Earnings: Mitsubishi UFJ posted record profit with Q2 revenue up 12% and raised guidance, Sumitomo Mitsui lifted its full year profit guide to ¥1.9T with a buyback of up to ¥220B, and SBC Medical beat with $58.6M in revenue, up 35% YoY. 📊 Altcoin Market Updates 📊 - ETH is trading around $1,894, down about 1.6% in 24 hours, after falling under $1,900. - Tom Lee’s Bitmine Immersion is sitting on over $8.6B in unrealised losses, a 43.11% decline in the value of its Ethereum treasury. - A whale dumped 16,700 ETH ($31M) in a single trade at $1,852, just one month after buying 8,631 ETH at $2,749. - Ripple’s RLUSD overtook PayPal’s PYUSD to become the 7th largest stablecoin by market cap. - Thailand launched WORPT, an app that lets tourists convert crypto into Thai baht for purchases. - The central banks of Thailand, the UK and Singapore successfully tested a system connecting traditional and tokenized foreign currency trading. - MANTRA paused all OM unbonding for 7 days after hackers unstaked users’ tokens without consent amid a Web3Auth and Keplr wallet exploit. - The Solana Foundation launched Solana Confidential Compute, open source tools for building private AI, now in beta on devnet. - Solana tokenized assets platform Sunrise says its assets passed 1 million holders in less than a year. - TON flipped Robinhood Chain in 24 hour app revenue, while Solana’s app revenue is nearly 10x Robinhood Chain’s. - The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan disclosed a new $35.3M stake in Hyperliquid treasury company HypeStrat. - Bybit warned users to update Telegram immediately over a reported Android vulnerability. - Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson says the ADA roadmap is complete. - XRP is trading around $0.992, down about 1.3% in 24 hours and over 15% in the past 7 days. - SOL is trading around $75.4, down about 3.6% in 24 hours. - BNB is trading around $615, down about 2.7% in 24 hours. - DOGE is trading around $0.0629, down about 0.7% in 24 hours. - HYPE is trading around $68.4, down about 2.7% in 24 hours. If you enjoyed this daily roundup, make sure to follow me, I’ll see you tomorrow! $BTC $SPY $QQQ $OIL $SMH Looking to profit from altcoins? Here’s a FREE 5-day email course! Get instant access here: https://panicdrop.kit.com/5dayaltcoincourse Avoid the mistakes killing 97% of traders. Master the charts & time your entries using Bitcoin’s signals. Written by Timothy Assi, an Elite Popular Investor on eToro. Not investment advice. eToro is a multi-asset investment platform. Your capital is at risk. For information and educational purposes only. Copy Trading does not amount to investment advice. The value of your investments may go up or down. Your capital is at risk. Connect with me on: 🟦 Linkedin: Timothy Assi 🟪 Instagram: @panic_drop ⬛ X: @timoassi 📧 timothy@panicdrop.com 🟩 Panic Drop Podcast : on your favorite streaming app www.panicdrop.com This is a public episode. 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  2. 1d ago

    Fr 13/11 | Daily Crypto & Macro News

    Happy Friday all! If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here’s your full recap: 🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨 - $BTC is trading around $68,816, down about 6.6% in the past 24 hours, after falling below $70,000 overnight. - $1.24B in long positions were liquidated from the crypto market in 24 hours, with $500M wiped out in just one hour as Bitcoin slid under $69,000. - Jensen Huang officially resigned as Nvidia CEO and will no longer have any role at the company, with Colette Kress stepping in as interim CEO. - Nvidia plunged as much as 14% after the open and briefly fell below a $4T market cap for the first time since July 2025, before closing down about 4.3% at $166.19. - The US Justice Department launched an investigation into Nvidia, and Jensen Huang agreed to testify before Congress. - Trump said Apple’s Tim Cook should replace Jensen Huang, while retail investors bought $111M of Nvidia shares in the first 30 minutes of the session. - Wall Street closed slightly lower, with the S&P 500 down 0.35%, the Nasdaq down 0.39% and the Dow down 0.36%, after recovering much of the early losses. - Markets now price a 100% chance of a Fed rate hike in December, with CME FedWatch showing 90.8% odds of 25 bps and 9.2% odds of 50 bps. - Over $1.1 trillion was wiped out from gold and silver in just 24 hours. - The US Justice Department seized or restrained over $1.2B in crypto stolen from Binance in North Korea’s $6B+ hack, and Binance says it has now covered 100% of the losses. - BlackRock ETF clients sold $269.7M worth of Bitcoin. - El Salvador bought another Bitcoin and now holds 7,833 BTC worth about $559M, while Cardone Capital bought 20 BTC on the dip. - The Bitcoin Fear & Greed Index dropped to 28, firmly in “Fear”. - India overtook Taiwan as the world’s 5th largest stock market with a $5.4 trillion market cap. - Trump threatened to immediately double tariffs on Mexico unless it stops migrant caravans heading to the US border. - SpaceX and Tesla could reportedly announce a merger as early as December. - Earnings: Cisco beat with $18.5B revenue (+24% YoY) and raised its FY27 guide to $74.8B to $75.8B, Applied Materials beat with $10.41B and guided Q1 to $11.1B, Cerebras jumped about 15% after hours on a big guidance raise, and Nubank missed on revenue with $5.82B vs $5.96B expected. 📊 Altcoin Market Updates 📊 - ETH is trading around $1,927, down about 6.0% in 24 hours, after dropping below $2,000. - BlackRock ETF clients sold $129.78M worth of Ethereum. - DTCC will connect its tokenization service to Solana, allowing eligible DTC custodied securities to be tokenized on Solana, with the launch planned for H2 2027. - Visa will support stablecoins issued by Anchorage as native settlement assets on its network, starting with Western Union’s USDPT. - Solana recorded $84M in tokenized Nvidia stock volume, more than all other chains combined. - The Nvidia perp on Hyperliquid hit a record $2.14B in daily volume on its 1 year anniversary, ranking second only to Bitcoin and ahead of Ethereum. - The XRP Ledger is moving closer to an institutional lending launch, letting banks borrow, lend and earn yield on digital assets. - Gemini sold its UK and European operations to stablecoin payments firm KAST for under $10M. - South Korea will let crypto exchanges freeze deposits and withdrawals when a hack is only suspected, and will require 24/7 monitoring and more cold wallet storage. - Trezor says its latest firmware update neutralizes implants found in Safe 5 devices sold by a reseller, and it cut its reseller network by about 80%. - The FBI warns North Korean hackers are hijacking Telegram and LinkedIn accounts to lure crypto workers into fake Zoom and Teams calls, stealing over $400M from 900+ victims. - SOL is trading around $78.4, down about 5.5% in 24 hours. - XRP is trading around $1.01, down about 3.5% in 24 hours. - BNB is trading around $633, down about 6.5% in 24 hours. - DOGE is trading around $0.0634, down about 5.6% in 24 hours. - HYPE is trading around $70.4, down about 2.2% in 24 hours. If you enjoyed this daily roundup, make sure to follow me, I’ll see you tomorrow! $BTC $SPY $QQQ $OIL $SMH Looking to profit from altcoins? Here’s a FREE 5-day email course! Get instant access here: https://panicdrop.kit.com/5dayaltcoincourse Avoid the mistakes killing 97% of traders. Master the charts & time your entries using Bitcoin’s signals. Written by Timothy Assi, an Elite Popular Investor on eToro. Not investment advice. eToro is a multi-asset investment platform. Your capital is at risk. For information and educational purposes only. Copy Trading does not amount to investment advice. The value of your investments may go up or down. Your capital is at risk. Connect with me on: 🟦 Linkedin: Timothy Assi 🟪 Instagram: @panic_drop ⬛ X: @timoassi 📧 timothy@panicdrop.com 🟩 Panic Drop Podcast : on your favorite streaming app www.panicdrop.com This is a public episode. 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  3. 2d ago

    Th 12/11 | Daily Crypto & Macro News

    Happy Thursday all! If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here’s your full recap: 🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨 - $BTC is trading around $73,574, down about 0.2% in the past 24 hours. - The New York Times reports a second alleged affair by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, this time with an Nvidia executive, and the WSJ says Nvidia is preparing to oust him. - Nvidia will reportedly hold an emergency board meeting today to decide whether to replace Jensen Huang with a temporary CEO, and the stock fell about 4% after hours. - Kalshi traders now see a 69% chance Jensen Huang leaves Nvidia before Sunday, while Elon Musk says it would “be an honor” to hire him. - MSCI officially decided to remove Strategy from its global indexes by the end of this month; JPMorgan estimated removal could trigger up to $2.8B in forced selling from passive funds. - Wall Street bounced back with the S&P 500 up 1.31%, the Nasdaq up 1.60% and the Dow up 0.49%, adding over $845B to US stocks in the first two hours alone. - Bank of America warns the Fed could raise rates by 50 bps in December after the hotter than expected CPI. - Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest bank, officially launched Bitcoin and crypto custody for its clients. - Russia’s central bank says exchanges can begin crypto trading from November 17. - OKX and NYSE parent ICE will launch a 24/7 tokenized securities venue on November 23, with 70+ tokenized assets including Coinbase, Robinhood, Circle and Strategy. - Israel Discount Bank will become the first bank in Israel to let customers buy, hold and sell Bitcoin. - Global central banks bought 321 tonnes of gold in Q3, their largest quarterly purchase since Q4 2024. - The Bitcoin Fear & Greed Index has fallen to its deepest fear level since August, while Kalshi traders see Bitcoin ending the year around $75,232. - Commerce Secretary Lutnick reportedly stalled Trump’s efforts to restrict Nvidia chip exports to China over fears of a trade war. - Trump says the US is taking billions of dollars worth of oil from Venezuela and expects hundreds of billions soon. - 12.9% of US credit card balances are now 90+ days delinquent, near the highest since 2011, and auto loan delinquencies hit a record 5.7%. - The S&P 500’s forward P/E has dropped to 17.7, the lowest since November 2023, as earnings estimates rose much faster than prices. - Earnings: AEVEX grew revenue 56.5% and raised its full year guidance, Riskified grew revenue 41%, Franco-Nevada beat on EPS but missed on revenue, and Xanadu badly missed with $1.31M vs $2.79M expected. 📊 Altcoin Market Updates 📊 - ETH is trading around $2,047, down about 1.0% in 24 hours. - Stablecoin supply dropped $14.2B, the largest decline since the 2022 bear market. - The Nvidia perp on Hyperliquid dumped 10.6% in under 35 minutes on the Huang news and flipped Ethereum in 24 hour volume. - Hyperliquid priority fees hit an all time high, with a 7 day annualized run rate of $108.5M, up 86% from the previous high. - Open interest on Anthropic pre IPO perps on Hyperliquid passed $300M after reports the IPO is multiple times oversubscribed. - Kraken’s xStocks is launching 200+ UK and EU listed stocks onchain, including on Solana. - Pyth Network now distributes real time quotes and trades from all 5 NYSE Group equity exchanges. - Telegram says over 1M self custodial wallets were activated in just 48 hours, with GRAM up 10% in a day. - Solana Mobile added Helius and Jito as the first independent guardians of its dApp Store, each bonding 250,000 SKR. - Sui wallet Suiet is shutting down after November 14, so users should back up their recovery phrases and move to another wallet. - ZEC dropped below $1,000. - SOL is trading around $82.8, down about 0.3% in 24 hours. - XRP is trading around $1.04, down about 1.2% in 24 hours. - BNB is trading around $676, down about 0.8% in 24 hours. - DOGE is trading around $0.0670, down about 1.9% in 24 hours. - HYPE is trading around $71.9, down about 0.3% in 24 hours. If you enjoyed this daily roundup, make sure to follow me, I’ll see you tomorrow! $BTC $SPY $QQQ $OIL $SMH Looking to profit from altcoins? Here’s a FREE 5-day email course!Get instant access here: https://panicdrop.kit.com/5dayaltcoincourseAvoid the mistakes killing 97% of traders.Master the charts & time your entries using Bitcoin’s signals. Written by Timothy Assi, an Elite Popular Investor on eToro. Not investment advice. eToro is a multi-asset investment platform. Your capital is at risk. For information and educational purposes only. Copy Trading does not amount to investment advice. The value of your investments may go up or down. Your capital is at risk. Connect with me on: 🟦 Linkedin: Timothy Assi 🟪 Instagram: @panic_drop ⬛ X: @timoassi 📧 timothy@panicdrop.com 🟩 Panic Drop Podcast : on your favorite streaming app www.panicdrop.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit panicdrop.substack.com/subscribe

  4. 3d ago

    We 11/11 | Daily Crypto & Macro News

    Happy Wednesday all! If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here’s your full recap: 🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨 - $BTC is trading around $73,654, down about 1.4% in the past 24 hours. - Bitcoin slipped under $73,000 again after the hotter CPI print, and over $718M was liquidated from the crypto market in 24 hours. - US October CPI came in hotter than expected at 0.4% vs 0.3% forecast, the 68th straight month with inflation above the Fed’s 2% target. - A 25 bps Fed rate hike in December is now fully priced in, and Fed’s Waller says “we need to raise rates to put downward pressure on inflation.” - Goldman Sachs now forecasts two 25 bps rate hikes, in December and in March 2027. - Wall Street closed lower with the Dow down 0.49%, the S&P 500 down 0.69% and the Nasdaq down 1.20%, led by tech. - Microsoft passed Nvidia to become the world’s second most valuable company at $4.035 trillion vs $4.032 trillion. - Bank of America removed Nvidia and Micron from its top stock picks, while Nvidia now trades at a lower P/E (22x) than Procter & Gamble (25x). - Jack Dorsey’s Square enabled Bitcoin payments for about 4 million US merchants. - Trump Media bought 1,510 BTC worth $112M in Q3, bringing its holdings to about 15,649 BTC. - Kazakhstan’s central bank invested about $100M in crypto funds plus $90M in Bitcoin ETFs. - Miami-Dade now accepts Bitcoin for property taxes, online and in person. - Fitch says Bitcoin’s reaction to the Binance hack has been more resilient than in past stress events. - BlackRock sold $213M worth of Bitcoin and $118M worth of Ethereum. - Binance stopped processing transactions with MEXC after FinCEN named MEXC a primary money laundering concern. - Goldman Sachs expects Anthropic’s revenue to exceed $600B by 2030. - Earnings: CoreWeave beat with revenue up 168% to $3.66B and a $132.5B backlog, Sea beat with $8.58B and a new $1B buyback, while Rigetti badly missed with $1.41M vs $3.67M expected. - US credit card debt hit a new record of $1.29 trillion, and US home prices fell 0.4% year over year, the first decline since 2023. 📊 Altcoin Market Updates 📊 - ETH is trading around $2,064, down about 2.7% in 24 hours. - Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Santander and Deutsche Bank committed $270M to launch a joint stablecoin. - Visa launched 24/7 stablecoin settlements, including weekends and holidays. - USDT’s market cap fell $6.6B in 60 days as crypto liquidity tightens. - The XRP Ledger unveiled a quantum resistant account upgrade with no extra fees, targeting full quantum protection by 2028. - Backpack Securities issued tokenized QQQ on Solana, redeemable 1:1 for the underlying ETF shares. - X now lets users tap any Solana token cashtag and trade it directly. - Helius launched Solana Privacy Rings on mainnet. - Pump.fun added limit orders, TWAPs and cross margin to its perps, powered by Hyperliquid. - ZKsync launched Prividium Connect, letting institutions swap assets privately across blockchains. - Across Protocol warned users not to connect wallets to its app while it investigates a domain issue. - An accounting bug on a Robinhood Chain perps exchange let one account withdraw $2.23M it wasn’t entitled to; the shortfall was covered from its treasury. - SOL is trading around $83, down about 3.6% in 24 hours. - XRP is trading around $1.06, down about 3.8% in 24 hours. - BNB is trading around $680, down about 1.3% in 24 hours. - DOGE is trading around $0.0683, down about 2.1% in 24 hours. - HYPE is trading around $72.1, down about 2.8% in 24 hours. If you enjoyed this daily roundup, make sure to follow me, I’ll see you tomorrow! $BTC $SPY $QQQ $OIL $SMH Looking to profit from altcoins? Here’s a FREE 5-day email course!Get instant access here: https://panicdrop.kit.com/5dayaltcoincourseAvoid the mistakes killing 97% of traders.Master the charts & time your entries using Bitcoin’s signals. Written by Timothy Assi, an Elite Popular Investor on eToro. Not investment advice. eToro is a multi-asset investment platform. Your capital is at risk. For information and educational purposes only. Copy Trading does not amount to investment advice. The value of your investments may go up or down. Your capital is at risk. Connect with me on: 🟦 Linkedin: Timothy Assi 🟪 Instagram: @panic_drop ⬛ X: @timoassi 📧 timothy@panicdrop.com 🟩 Panic Drop Podcast : on your favorite streaming app www.panicdrop.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit panicdrop.substack.com/subscribe

  5. 4d ago

    Tu 10/11 | Daily Crypto & Macro News

    Happy Tuesday all! If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here’s your full recap: 🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨 - $BTC is trading around $74,615, down about 0.3% in the past 24 hours. - Bitcoin flash dumped toward $73,000 yesterday, wiping about $80B from the crypto market. - Bitcoin closed the week below its 50 week moving average, ending a run of 7 straight weekly closes above it. - Michael Saylor’s Strategy bought another 1,036 Bitcoin worth about $77M. - Strive added 29 Bitcoin worth $2.2M, bringing its treasury to 43,153 BTC, while BitFuFu added 66 BTC through mining and now holds 1,454 BTC. - Coinbase received full US federal approval to operate as a national trust bank. - BlackRock says demand is surging to convert self custodied Bitcoin into ETF shares, citing security concerns. - Nvidia fell about 6.5% at the open after the Jensen Huang affair news, and the US Congress has now summoned Huang. - Nvidia and Jensen Huang were also sued for allegedly defrauding shareholders by hiding ties to an alleged Chinese spy. - Nvidia is now down 4% this year with a $4.3 trillion market cap after a 25% drawdown since early October, and Apple has reclaimed the top spot as the world’s largest company. - Despite that, $2 trillion was added to the US stock market yesterday. - Anthropic plans to IPO next week on the Nasdaq under the ticker ANT, aiming to raise up to $69.3B at $70 to $80 per share. - Anthropic also launched its most powerful Claude models yet, Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2. - The Bank of England warned that inflated AI stock prices could lead to a market crash. - Odds of a US recession next year fell after Democrats won control of the House and Senate, and Senate Democrats are preparing a 10% cap on credit card interest rates. - Earnings: Rocket Lab beat on revenue with $267.8M and grew its backlog 52% in one quarter to $3.57B, The Trade Desk beat estimates and approved a $1B buyback, while Hims & Hers missed and cut its full year guidance. - China’s trade surplus fell to $105.28B in October, below expectations. 📊 Altcoin Market Updates 📊 - ETH is trading around $2,116, down about 1% in 24 hours. - Kalshi traders see ETH going as low as $1,920 this month. - Charles Schwab added Solana, Avalanche and Chainlink trading for its crypto clients, next to Bitcoin and Ethereum. - The upcoming NYSE affiliated platform for tokenized stocks will settle trades exclusively on Avalanche. - Formation notified the SEC that it plans to run the first tokenized securities venue on Solana, with US listed shares settling onchain 24/7. - PNC Bank partnered with Coinbase for stablecoin payments and started testing USDC payments on Ethereum for corporate clients. - Stripe partnered with MiPlata to launch a Visa prepaid card for spending stablecoin balances. - Telegram’s CEO says over 700K self custodial wallets were created on TON in just 48 hours. - Equities volume on Hyperliquid has overtaken Bitcoin again at 126% on a 7 day average, and Bitso launched perps on 200+ Hyperliquid markets. - North Korean hackers are using memecoins on NEAR to launder funds stolen in the Binance hack, while NEAR AI paused its cloud inference after unauthorized access. - A former Ethereum Foundation staffer is suing the Foundation and Vitalik Buterin, alleging she was fired 13 days after disclosing cancer; the claims are unproven. - SOL is trading around $85.8, down about 1.8% in 24 hours. - XRP is trading around $1.09, down about 1.2% in 24 hours. - BNB is trading around $688, roughly flat in 24 hours. - DOGE is trading around $0.0695, flat in 24 hours. - HYPE is trading around $74, down about 0.7% in 24 hours. If you enjoyed this daily roundup, make sure to follow me, I’ll see you tomorrow! $BTC $SPY $QQQ $OIL $SMH Looking to profit from altcoins? Here’s a FREE 5-day email course! Get instant access here: https://panicdrop.kit.com/5dayaltcoincourse Avoid the mistakes killing 97% of traders. Master the charts & time your entries using Bitcoin’s signals. Written by Timothy Assi, an Elite Popular Investor on eToro. Not investment advice. eToro is a multi-asset investment platform. Your capital is at risk. For information and educational purposes only. Copy Trading does not amount to investment advice. The value of your investments may go up or down. Your capital is at risk. Connect with me on: 🟦 Linkedin: Timothy Assi 🟪 Instagram: @panic_drop ⬛ X: @timoassi 📧 timothy@panicdrop.com 🟩 Panic Drop Podcast : on your favorite streaming app www.panicdrop.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit panicdrop.substack.com/subscribe

  6. 5d ago

    Mo 09/11 | Daily Crypto & Macro News

    Happy Monday all! If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here's your full recap: 🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨 - $BTC is trading around $74,824, down about 1.3% in the past 24 hours. - About $1B was liquidated from the crypto market in just 10 minutes, with Bitcoin briefly falling under $74,000 and over $1B liquidated across the past 24 hours. - Michael Saylor hinted at another Bitcoin announcement today: "Connecting the dots." - Strive's CEO also hinted at buying more Bitcoin, saying "The hurdle rate is orange." - Nvidia's board launched an independent investigation into CEO Jensen Huang's relationship with a suspected Chinese spy, after he admitted an affair in a letter to employees. - Nvidia shares fell about 3.7% after hours on Hyperliquid, with the NVDA perp dropping below $180. - Kalshi traders now see a 34% chance that Jensen Huang leaves as Nvidia CEO before July 2027. - Jensen Huang also said China is not an enemy and called US chip policy a mistake. - President Trump says the US stock market lost $3 trillion in a single day after the midterm elections. - Democrats plan to block President Trump's $1.5 trillion military budget. - The US Treasury is set to buy back up to $95B of debt over the next 3 months. - Data center construction spending has surged 90% over the past year to a record $96.5B, while voters are increasingly pushing back against new data centers. - Big tech CapEx as a share of revenue is at record highs: Meta 43%, Microsoft 39%, Google 34% and Amazon 27%. - Value stocks (up 24%) are beating growth stocks (down 6%) by over 30 percentage points in 2026, which would be a record spread, even wider than in 2000. - The UK rejected calls to slow down AI development. - Earnings this week: Constellation Energy, KKR, Monday.com, Take Two, Hims & Hers and The Trade Desk today, CoreWeave, On and Sea on Tuesday, and Cisco, Applied Materials, Nu Holdings and Nebius on Thursday. 📊 Altcoin Market Updates 📊 - ETH is trading around $2,137, down about 4.3% in 24 hours. - Altcoins have lost roughly $200B in market cap, and 70% of Binance listed altcoins now trade below their 200 day moving average, according to a CryptoQuant analyst. - Vitalik Buterin says ETH as a store of value makes much more sense than ETH as a fee burning token, adding that the value of ETH comes from elsewhere. - Solana co-founder Toly agreed that you can't focus on fees as the product, while a GM Capital VC called Vitalik a "wacko" over the store of value take. - StarkWare's CEO says Starknet going L1 is even more urgent after the Glamsterdam delay; Ethereum's next upgrade was paused after auditors found it could leave some contracts vulnerable. - Binance re-enabled HYPE and APT withdrawals, with more assets and networks to be restored in phases as security checks are completed. - Senator Blumenthal gave Binance, Tether and Trump family crypto firms until January 4 to hand over records for investigations. - ZachXBT says Percolator rugged holders of its old token: the Solana perps team dropped its Pump.fun token to raise $250K for a new one via MetaDAO, with no airdrop or swap for old holders. - ZachXBT also called Canada a bottom three jurisdiction globally, after the US Treasury sanctioned 8 Canadian OTCs linked to Iran. - SOL is trading around $87.4, down about 1.8% in 24 hours. - XRP is trading around $1.11, down about 4.7% in 24 hours. - BNB is trading around $687, down about 1.2% in 24 hours. - DOGE is trading around $0.0696, down about 2.3% in 24 hours. - HYPE is trading around $74.5, down about 3.5% in 24 hours. If you enjoyed this daily roundup, make sure to follow me, I'll see you tomorrow! $BTC $SPY $QQQ $OIL $SMH Looking to profit from altcoins? Here’s a FREE 5-day email course! Get instant access here: https://panicdrop.kit.com/5dayaltcoincourse Avoid the mistakes killing 97% of traders. Master the charts & time your entries using Bitcoin’s signals. Written by Timothy Assi, an Elite Popular Investor on eToro. Skip the work - Copy my portfolio Not investment advice. eToro is a multi-asset investment platform. Your capital is at risk. For information and educational purposes only. Copy Trading does not amount to investment advice. The value of your investments may go up or down. Your capital is at risk. Book Portfolio Strategy Call Connect with me on: 🟦 Linkedin: Timothy Assi 🟪 Instagram: @panic_drop ⬛ X: @timoassi 📧 timothy@panicdrop.com 🟩 Panic Drop Podcast : on your favorite streaming app www.panicdrop.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit panicdrop.substack.com/subscribe

  7. 6d ago

    Su 08/11 | Daily Crypto & Macro News

    Happy Sunday all! If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here’s your full recap: 🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨 * $BTC is trading around $75,847, roughly flat over the past 24 hours. * Kalshi traders currently forecast Bitcoin could go as low as $71,000 this month. * An entity bought about $228M worth of Bitcoin, according to Arkham. * BlackRock ETF clients sold about $403M of Bitcoin and about $91M of ETH. * The US reportedly approved Nvidia chip sales to Chinese firms with empty offices and suspicious ties. * Google’s SpaceX stake is about 95% of its disclosed stock portfolio. * China’s gold holdings rose to 78.30 million fine troy ounces at the end of October, up from 77.47 million at the end of September. * Elon Musk says California’s extreme taxes and regulations forced SpaceX and Tesla to move operations to Texas. * Bitcoin (down about 13%) and gold (down about 6%) are the two worst performing major assets so far in 2026, something not seen before in any calendar year. * From the November 5 correction low, the S&P 500 is about 6% below its all time high and the Nasdaq 100 about 15%; Nvidia is down about 26%, TSM about 28%, AMD about 39%, Broadcom about 41%, Micron about 48%, Applied Materials about 57%, Lam Research about 58%, Intel about 64% and Sandisk about 66%. * Over the last 10 years, Nvidia is up about 11,159%, Bitcoin about 10,587%, AMD about 6,745%, Tesla about 2,720%, Apple about 1,269%, Microsoft about 918%, Google about 636%, Amazon about 588%, Meta about 410% and the S&P about 313%, while gold is up about 199%, US inflation about 39% and US bonds about 16%. * Berkshire Hathaway bought back $9.6B of stock in Q3, up from $4.5B in Q2, and holds about $357B in cash and short term securities. It was a net seller of stocks again (about $0.4B) and operating earnings were down 6%. * A big earnings week is coming from November 9 to 13, with reports from Rocket Lab, Take Two, AST SpaceMobile, CoreWeave, Rigetti, Nebius, Cisco, Applied Materials and Nu Holdings. * Two solo miners mined Bitcoin blocks today and received over 3.1 BTC each, worth over $230,000. 📊 Altcoin Market Updates 📊 * ETH is trading around $2,235, down about 0.2% in 24 hours. * The share of 2026 midterm winners that are pro crypto has risen to 69.5%, according to Stand With Crypto. * OKX’s CEO told users to avoid transferring funds directly from MEXC to OKX, saying MEXC funds may be frozen and accounts investigated, with OKX acting ahead of FinCEN’s 30 day transition period. * Binance named Justin Yek as CFO, replacing Kai Ng, who is leaving for a new venture. * Kepler Wallet reported unauthorized transactions on some Google and Apple login accounts and paused social login; recovery phrases and hardware wallets were not affected. This follows Web3Auth pausing its embedded wallet service over a security issue. * Binance founder CZ warned that apps can’t protect users from operating system vulnerabilities and urged everyone to update their OS immediately, flagging a Windows Paint flaw that can allow remote code execution without authentication. * Elon Musk said a viral claim that he called out Binance’s 80% crypto market share is made up, and that he never wrote anything like that. * SOL is trading around $89.1, down about 0.9% in 24 hours. * XRP is trading around $1.16, up about 0.8% in 24 hours. * BNB is trading around $696, up about 0.2% in 24 hours. * DOGE is trading around $0.0712, down about 0.8% in 24 hours. * HYPE is trading around $77.2, down about 2.8% in 24 hours. If you enjoyed this daily roundup, make sure to follow me, I’ll see you tomorrow! $BTC $SPY $QQQ $OIL $SMH Looking to profit from altcoins? Here’s a FREE 5-day email course! Get instant access here: https://panicdrop.kit.com/5dayaltcoincourse Avoid the mistakes killing 97% of traders. Master the charts & time your entries using Bitcoin’s signals. Written by Timothy Assi, an Elite Popular Investor on eToro. Not investment advice. eToro is a multi-asset investment platform. Your capital is at risk. For information and educational purposes only. Copy Trading does not amount to investment advice. The value of your investments may go up or down. Your capital is at risk. Connect with me on: 🟦 Linkedin: Timothy Assi 🟪 Instagram: @panic_drop ⬛ X: @timoassi 📧 timothy@panicdrop.com 🟩 Panic Drop Podcast : on your favorite streaming app www.panicdrop.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit panicdrop.substack.com/subscribe

  8. Nov 7

    Sa 07/11 | Daily Crypto & Macro News

    Happy Saturday all! If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here’s your full recap: 🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨 * $BTC is trading around $75,830, roughly flat after briefly falling under $75,000. * US stocks closed mixed as tech rebounded: the S&P 500 rose 0.3% to 7,377, the Nasdaq gained 1.1% to 24,579, and the Dow fell 0.5% to 51,286. * Semiconductors led the bounce, with the SOX up about 4.2% after Thursday’s worst session in six years; Nvidia gained about 3% and AMD about 11%. * US employers added 165,000 jobs in October and the unemployment rate fell to 4.1%, both better than expected, with August and September revised up by 84,000. * Kalshi traders put about a 78% chance on a Fed rate hike in December after the hot jobs print. * The US Treasury is banning crypto exchange MEXC from the US financial system over about $16B in transactions tied to Iran, North Korea and Russia. * A final Labor Department rule that would ease crypto, private equity and real estate in 401(k)s reached the White House for review. * OpenAI raised $11B at a $1.25 trillion valuation. * Anthropic plans to IPO before Thanksgiving at a $1.5 trillion valuation, per the FT. * US intelligence finds Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had a romantic relationship with a Chinese spy, according to the FT. * BlackRock ETF clients sold about $105M of Bitcoin and about $75M of ETH. * Strive disclosed $509M in net income and added 28,000 BTC in Q3, bringing its Bitcoin treasury to 43,124 BTC worth about $3.26B. * Apple and Meta rejected OKX plans to tokenize their stocks, bringing the total of companies blocking tokenization to 67. * High beta, high momentum and meme stocks are down about 21%, 27% and 57% from their 2026 peaks and now underperform the S&P 500 on the year. * Intel is down about 54% over the past 30 days, losing over $310B in market value. * Elon Musk says SpaceX revenue this quarter will be substantially higher than NASA’s entire annual budget. 📊 Altcoin Market Updates 📊 * ETH is trading around $2,243, up about 0.6% in 24 hours. * Russia’s central bank officially approved Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT trading for retail investors starting November 17. * China’s central bank halted Solana’s Shanghai event before it started and is investigating crypto advertising there. * South Korean crypto exchange Gopax halted withdrawals following a hacking threat. * Binance says it aims to reopen $HYPE withdrawals by the end of next week, along with INJ, APT, Plasma, NEAR and LTC. * Enter_Elysium, a Hyperliquid L2 by Kinetiq, launches mainnet on November 9. * Markets.xyz announced spot trading going live on November 9 across Hyperliquid L2, HyperEVM, Solana, BNB Chain and the Robinhood Crypto chain. * Morpho says gold backed loans are live on Coinbase for US users outside New York, borrowing stablecoins against tokenized gold on Base. * Gnosis Pay detected unauthorized access to the system powering its branded cards; funds were not affected and containment began within two hours. * A former FBI agent pleaded guilty to stealing $2.47M in cryptocurrency using wallet credentials obtained from FBI investigations. * Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said stablecoins allow anyone in the world to hold US dollars and send money globally in seconds for less than 1 cent. * Coinbase’s VP of US Policy said more Democrats are coming into Congress that are pro crypto than ever before. * Democrats are discussing tougher cryptocurrency laws after winning the US House and Senate. * Near Intents refused to process over 500 million quotes from the Binance hackers. * SOL is trading around $90.0, up about 0.5% in 24 hours. * XRP is trading around $1.15, down about 4.3% in 24 hours. If you enjoyed this daily roundup, make sure to follow me, I’ll see you tomorrow! $BTC $SPY $QQQ $OIL $SMH Looking to profit from altcoins? Here’s a FREE 5-day email course! Get instant access here: https://panicdrop.kit.com/5dayaltcoincourse Avoid the mistakes killing 97% of traders. Master the charts & time your entries using Bitcoin’s signals. Written by Timothy Assi, an Elite Popular Investor on eToro. Not investment advice. eToro is a multi-asset investment platform. Your capital is at risk. For information and educational purposes only. Copy Trading does not amount to investment advice. The value of your investments may go up or down. Your capital is at risk. Connect with me on: 🟦 Linkedin: Timothy Assi 🟪 Instagram: @panic_drop ⬛ X: @timoassi 📧 timothy@panicdrop.com 🟩 Panic Drop Podcast : on your favorite streaming app www.panicdrop.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit panicdrop.substack.com/subscribe

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