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Bitcoin treads water as AI stocks rebound bitcoin:native is trading in the -$70,000s, while the rest of crypto waits for a catalyst. Macro isn’t helping: Tuesday’s hotter-than-expected inflation print kept the Dollar Index above 102, and traders now price an 86% chance of a December rate hike. Outside crypto, AI got a lift. CoreWeave posted 168% revenue growth and raised its full-year forecast, sending shares up 10% premarket and dragging other AI infrastructure names higher. Nasdaq futures are up more than 1.5%. Anthropic’s bankers are also floating an IPO valuation above $1.5 trillion, with Google, Nvidia and Microsoft set to put in billions more. Inside crypto, Midnight (midnight-3:native) is leading with a 4.5% gain after Ledger 9's mainnet upgrade and a 500% jump in Morpho Midnight RWA deposits. Gram (GRAM), formerly Toncoin, slipped 0.5% — a sharp reversal after an earlier surge that saw more than a million self-custodial wallets activate on Telegram in 48 hours. Pepe lagged, down 12.2% as memecoins cooled off. The December Fed decision is weeks away and rate-hike odds are driving sentiment, so Bitcoin is likely to stay put until the macro picture clears.

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Vitalik Buterin just told the Ethereum crowd to stop believing in “ultrasound money”. In his view, ETH should be a store of value, not a fee-burning token. What else moved the market? A hot inflation report pushed Bitcoin to $72.8k, its lowest since August, and Grayscale put $1M behind Zcash while ZEC kept sliding. Here’s your Clapp Weekly 👇 clapp.finance/blog/clapp-wee…

"Politics and markets can hit hard. That’s why it’s important to have access to liquidity."

Swapping one dollar token for another sounds pointless. Sometimes it is, and all you get is a fee. So when does a USDT to USDC swap actually make sense? When a platform only takes USDC, when you’d rather trust a different issuer, or when your balances are scattered. Plus five things to check before you hit confirm 👇 clapp.finance/blog/usdt-to-u…

Can you lose more than you deposit as collateral? On a standard crypto-backed loan or credit line, no. These products are overcollateralized: you deposit more than you borrow. If the market crashes and your collateral hits the liquidation threshold, the platform sells it to cover the debt and that’s the end of it. Your loss is capped at the collateral you posted. You keep the funds you borrowed, the lender keeps the liquidated collateral, and nothing extra comes out of your pocket. The exception is leverage. If you use borrowed funds to open futures or margin positions, a fast price gap can push your account negative. Some exchanges offer negative balance protection, but not all do. So if you borrow against crypto and hold the funds in stablecoins or spend them, your downside is limited to the collateral. If you put the borrowed money into leveraged trades, you can lose more than that. Check our full article on this topic: clapp.finance/blog/what-happ…

LTV buffer in crypto loans and credit lines When you borrow against crypto, your LTV buffer is the gap between your current loan-to-value ratio and the level where the platform steps in. The wider it is, the more room you have before a price drop becomes a margin call or liquidation. LTV is your loan divided by your collateral value, times 100. Deposit $10,000 in BTC, borrow $5,000, and your LTV is 50%. If the margin call comes at 75%, BTC has to fall roughly a third before you hear from the platform. Borrow at 30-40% and prices have to fall much further. Borrow at 70% and you get more cash upfront, but almost no cushion. Your loan stays fixed while your collateral moves, so a price drop pushes LTV up. Once it passes the warning level (usually 70-80%), you’ll be asked to add collateral or repay part of the debt. Ignore that and liquidation follows. With Clapp credit lines, you can widen the buffer after you’ve borrowed. Add, remove, or swap assets in your collateral pool at any time, even after drawing funds. If LTV starts creeping up, top up with stablecoins or swap in a steadier asset.

Wealth is mostly what you didn’t do in a panic.

Crypto PACs spent more than $170 million on the US midterms. Some of their biggest bets didn’t pay off. So what happens to crypto rules now that Democrats control both the House and the Senate? The CLARITY Act faces a tougher Congress, while the SEC and CFTC can keep their rulemaking going. Here’s what changes in January and what stays in place 👇 clapp.finance/blog/crypto-af…

Market Moves 👆👇 Injective is up after getting a foothold in traditional finance. On November 5, Canary Capital launched INJC, the first US spot-style ETF for ethereum:0xe28b3b32b6c345a34ff64674606124dd5aceca30 with built-in staking. It can stake up to 90% of holdings, so institutions, banks and brokerages can get exposure through standard portfolios. Weekly burn auctions also keep taking supply out of circulation, which helps. #Ethena is down following a Binance security incident that involved roughly 217 million ethereum:0x57e114b691db790c35207b2e685d4a43181e6061 tokens. The affected assets were moved and swapped for ETH. Ongoing unlocks and earlier distributions to early investors have grown circulating supply, and the automated buyback is still inactive as USDe supply hasn’t reached the $7.5 billion threshold. Add a risk-off rotation out of mid- and large-cap alts and thin weekend liquidity, and there was little to absorb the selling.

Most crypto loans don’t go wrong in a crash. They go wrong earlier, with a muted alert, a fully drawn credit line or collateral picked without a second thought. So what should you watch for? Five common mistakes people make with crypto-backed loans, and a simple routine that keeps your LTV in a safe zone 👇 clapp.finance/blog/crypto-lo…

Market Recap 👻 Bitcoin jumped past $80,500 as Wall Street opened Wednesday, up more than 4% from its lowest level since Sept 16. The trigger wasn’t crypto-specific: risk assets took off and bond yields eased after Democrats swept the midterms, flipping seven Senate seats and 25 in the House. Ether led the majors, up 5.2% over 24 hours. Stocks reversed hard. S&P 500 futures sank to their lowest since July, then snapped back, which one trading desk called a “textbook bear trap.” Oil did even more of the work: WTI slid below $93 a barrel, down nearly 12% on the week, after Trump and Vance both acknowledged the Iran war cost Republicans the election. Schumer didn’t wait either, vowing to end the conflict. That relief spilled into bonds. The 10-year yield dropped to 4.895%, easing the pressure that’s been sitting on Bitcoin for weeks. Real yields and ETF flows may still matter more than politics, but with oil falling and rate-hike bets cooling, the macro backdrop just got a lot friendlier.

The biggest crypto hack of the year started with a job interview. Attackers posing as recruiters got a Binance engineer to download a “coding task”, and months later around $6.3 billion was hit. What else happened this week? Bitcoin dipped to $76k as ETF outflows continued, markets are digesting the midterm results, and DTCC brought $30 trillion worth of securities onchain. Here’s your Clapp Weekly 👇 clapp.finance/blog/clapp-wee…

What's your take on tokenized equities?

Waiting for the “right amount” to start saving is one of the most expensive misconceptions. With savings, time may do more work than size. Starting small and adding regularly often gets you further than waiting for a big deposit. Flexible savings keep your funds accessible, fixed terms trade access for a higher rate. We broke down the numbers across different balances and timeframes in the full guide 👇 clapp.finance/blog/how-much-…

Who are you as of today?

Fifty companies, including Microsoft, Goldman Sachs and Coca-Cola, have told a new crypto venue not to tokenize their stock. Under the SEC’s new rules, that objection is the only lever they have. So who should control tokenized stocks: the companies, crypto platforms or Wall Street itself? Here’s how the two tokenization models differ, why issuers are pushing back, and what it means for investors 👇 clapp.finance/blog/who-contr…

Market Moves 👆👇 Hyperliquid is getting close to its $97.96 all-time high. The latest catalyst is ICE, the NYSE's parent company, announcing plans to bring Hyperliquid-based perpetual futures to US traders through a regulated market, in partnership with TradeXyz and pending approvals. There's also a steady source of buying pressure behind hyperliquid:native . Around $15 million in USDC reserve earnings is set to fund buybacks of roughly 180,000 HYPE this month. Meanwhile, 97% of platform fees already go toward daily buybacks and burns. That's a fairly direct link between platform activity and token demand. Bitway had a much rougher week. On November 2, 100 million BTW tokens, worth roughly $110 million, entered circulation. Early holders wasted little time selling. A reported exploit at Binance added to market anxiety, sending bitcoin:native below $78,000 and triggering hundreds of millions of dollars in liquidations. With relatively little liquidity in BTW's trading pools, the selling pressure hit especially hard.

November is going to be legendary 💯

Most crypto wallets come down to 12 or 24 words on a piece of paper. Lose them, and your coins may be gone. Leak them, and someone else can move them. MPC wallets work differently: there’s no single key to lose, and a lost phone doesn’t have to mean lost funds. Here’s how it works, how it compares to hardware wallets and exchanges, and what it still doesn’t fix 👇 Read Now: clapp.finance/blog/how-mpc-w…