Monday Market Report | Oct 24 - 30, 2022

• Happy Halloween 🎃
• Bank of Canada hiked rates by 50bps–surprising to the downside;
• Risk assets rallied
• Bitcoin and Ether hit 6-week highs
• Bitcoin is up 5.57% w/w, Ether–a whopping 17.05%
• Elon finally closed on Twitter; Doge rallied 43% w/w
• Rishi Sunak resumes plans to position the UK as Crypto-Open-For-Business
   

FUNDING:

• Crypto VC Funding Down Last Quarter-But Not Out-Blockworks
• Bitcoin Miners Are Flocking to Maple Finance's $300M Lending Pool- CoinDesk

INDUSTRY:

• Bitcoin weak hands 'mostly gone' as BTC ignores Amazon, Meta dips - Coin Telegraph
• Crypto Faithfuls Await Elon Musk's Blockchain Plans for Twitter - Blockworks

LEGISLATIVE ENGAGEMENT:

• Crypto-Friendly Rishi Sunak to Become UK Prime Minister Following Truss Exit - CoinDesk
• UK has a new name for stablecoins and a new bill to regulate crypto - Coin Telegraph

• BTC CA $27,983 +5.57%
• ETH CA $2,157 +17.05%

🔼 TOP GAINERS this week

• DOGE CA $0.17 +101.95%
• GALA CA $0.05 +27.08%
• SAND CA $1.23 +21.05%
• SHIB CA $0.000017 +19.82%

🔽 TOP LOSERS this week

• AAVE CA $114 -4.80%
• XRP CA $0.62 -0.80%

As of 10/31/2022 12:00 AM EST
 

Well, we finally got that breakout we’d been expecting for weeks, and perhaps–just perhaps–we have our very own Bank of Canada to thank for it.

BTC's price could have gone both ways–there’s a boilerplate case for either direction. But when the Bank of Canada surprised to the downside in their announcement that they were hiking the benchmark lending rate by only 2/3rds of the 75bps that were expected, market participants saw it as a possible first sign of Central Banks easing off on the hiking (for at least the near term–if not pivoting altogether) and risk assets rallied.

Or perhaps markets were tired of depressed price levels and needed a reason–any reason–to buy. (At the very least cover shorts!) If you detect a hint of apprehension, you’re at least partially correct: No one’s waving any white flags as of yet–quite the opposite–and few believe this rally signifies the end of the crypto bear market, let alone the looming recession.
So as has been our practice since the Fed first started signaling their intentions circa last ‘Uptober’; we’re taking this nice splash of green–accent color that it is in our predominantly red charts–with a pinch of suspicion… As we continue to DCA and 👀 with bated breath.

- Yours in the #Hodl, Grateful for Bitcoin

Like your favorite action hero stuck in a room with walls closing in on them, BTC’s price corridors were becoming too narrow and something had to give.

Well, gave it did: Tuesday through Wednesday, and then again on Friday–after a brief ‘rest’ on Thursday–to finish off the week up roughly 8%.

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• Hyperbitcoinization' Coming to an Emerging Market Near You, Ray Youssef - CoinDesk
• What is the Lightning Network - Bitcoin Magazine
• The Network State, A new book by Balaji Srinivasan - TheNetworkState.com

• Why Bitcoin’s Bear Market Hashrate Surge May Not Be Bullish - CoinDesk - The Breakdown w/ NLW
• 4th Quarter Macro Overview w/ Luke Gromen - The Investors Podcast - Bitcoin Fundamentals w/ Preston Pysh

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• Nov 2nd – Next FOMC
• November 4th – US Non-Farm Payrolls
• November 10th – Consumer Price Index

Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide investment, legal, accounting, tax, or any other advice and should not be relied on in that or any other regard. The information contained herein is for information purposes only and is not to be construed as an offer or solicitation for the sale or purchase of cryptocurrencies or otherwise.