A certain Bitcoin ancient whale has added to their short position by 200 BTC, with a total short position of nearly $100 million.

On October 21st, based on HTX market data, due to the influence of Trump's speech where he once again brought up high tariffs, Bitcoin dropped below $111,000 and reached a low of $110,579. It is currently trading at $110,739.
This evening, as Bitcoin neared the high of $111,705, Trump once more brought up the topic of high tariffs.

On October 21st, according to official information, Coinbase is set to launch Nomina (NOM) perpetual contract trading on October 21, 2025. Provided that liquidity requirements are fulfilled, the NOM-PERP market will commence trading in the supported regions at 9:30 AM Coordinated Universal Time or thereafter.

On October 21st, Jesse Pollak, the creator of the base and the protocol lead, posted on social media: "Base is yours (with Chinese voiceover in the video); today is a great day to build on Base."

On October 21st, the founder of Binance, CZ, stated on social media: "Bitcoin will eventually replace gold. I'm not sure of the exact time. It may take some time, but it will happen."

On October 20th, following the relaxation of restrictions on cryptocurrency investment instruments by the UK regulatory authority, the BlackRock Group has officially launched a Bitcoin-linked Exchange-Traded Product (ETP) in the UK. According to the asset management company's official website, the iShares Bitcoin ETP started trading on the London Stock Exchange on Monday. As reported by The Sunday Times, the product is designed as a Bitcoin-linked security, enabling investors to purchase Bitcoin shares at a unit price of approximately $11. The ETP tracks the Bitcoin market price within a regulated environment, allowing UK investors to participate in Bitcoin investment through traditional brokerage accounts (instead of cryptocurrency exchanges). BlackRock stated that this product offers retail investors a channel to participate in the Bitcoin market under the UK securities regulatory framework. According to SoSoValue data, the product follows a similar structure to US and market-

On October 20th, the co-founder of Solana, Toly, responded to rumors on social media about the "possible launch of a new Perp Dex" and said: "I can now understand Andre Cronje's pain. I was just having fun with Claude (Anthropic's AI), trying to see if it could generate a prototype and then testing it with surfpool. Please quickly copy this idea - I want to see if the fierce competition sparked by spot trading desks back then can be replicated in the perpetual contract field: · Develop a perpetual contract DEX program that packs all functions into a memory fragment of a single account and is equipped with an LP/risk/matching engine. · Create a routing coordinator that can automatically rebalance between any number of DEXs. Really, I just accidentally open-sourced a code repository, and the whole world went crazy like a madhouse."