Whales Accumulate 1,090 $BTC ($90.38M) From Wintermute Across 3 New Wallets

According to Lookonchain's monitoring, five wallets deposited USD1 into Aster and used 5x leverage to go long SPCXUSD1 contracts. Their total position amounts to 16,287 SPCX, valued at $2.63 million, with an unrealized profit of $223,000 as of now.

According to an official announcement, Binance will adjust the minimum price increment (TickSize) of U.S. dollar-margined perpetual contracts including BILLUSDT, IDOLUSDT, ESPORTSUSDT, BRUSDT, and AGTUSDT at 14:30 (UTC+8) on October 22, 2026. This adjustment will not affect existing orders or contract trading operations.

Reuters’ latest survey indicates that market expectations for the U.S. Federal Reserve’s interest rate outlook are undergoing a notable shift. Expectations of an October rate hike have cooled, but a consensus among surveyed economists now holds that another rate hike in December is likely, as strong economic growth and persistent inflation pressures are reshaping monetary policy expectations. The survey, conducted between October 16 and 20, polled 94 economists who projected the Fed will keep the federal funds rate in the 3.75% to 4.00% range at its October 27-28 meeting. This outlook aligns with market pricing, and the meeting falls just days ahead of the U.S. November midterm elections. In contrast, expectations for December rates have seen a sharp turnaround: last month’s survey found fewer than half of economists anticipated a December rate hike, while this time, all 100 respondents forecast another hike by then.

Former Bank of Japan Executive Director Eiji Maeda: I expect the next interest rate hike will take place in December, with another one to follow in March or April. The current pace of rate hikes has accelerated to roughly once every three months, which I deem appropriate. (Jinshi)

kimchi(@kimchi1x) withdrew 1.35B $PUMP($6.43M) from #Binance and #OKX.

According to Farside's monitoring, yesterday, the total net inflow of U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs reached $23.2 million. Among them, IBIT saw a net inflow of $29.9 million, FBTC a net inflow of $3.6 million, BITB a net outflow of $10.3 million, while all other products recorded zero capital flows. For U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs, total net outflows stood at $26.1 million. Specifically, ETHA posted a net outflow of $33 million, FETH a net inflow of $3.6 million, Grayscale Ethereum Mini Trust (ETH) a net inflow of $3.3 million, with all other products registering zero capital movement.