OVERVIEW

Alts Are Tighter Than A Latex Catsuit After Three Pumpkin Latte Martinis 🐈‍⬛

Before we dive in, here’s today’s crypto market heatmap:

And here’s a look at crypto’s total market and altcoin market cap charts:

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TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Charts Don’t Lie: Breakouts Loading Across the Board 📊

It’s that time of the week/month/quarter where I get to do my favorite part of the job. A boatload of alts are prepped for a breakout. 🚣‍♂️ 

Mina Protocol $MINA.X ( ▲ 2.17% ) 

Knife catching on the monthly chart? Could be a bad decision. Oh well, chalk it up to a lifetime collection of things that felt good in the now but turned into a bad decision in retrospect: like any Taco Bell after 1AM.

Oddly enough, if there was a chart that was a description for what Taco Bell at 1AM looks like, Mina’s monthly chart is a solid contender:

There are some of things that a knife-catcher like me absolutely loves about this chart:

1. There’s a stupid amount of gaps between the candlestick bodies and the Tenkan-Sen. I always tell folks that the candlestick bodies and the Tenkan-Sen are like an unhealthy co-dependent couple who fight, run away, but always come back.

   1. But to be honest, my heart goes out to the Tenkan-Sen here - the sheer number of months these gaps have existed make me think the candlestick body has given itself over to another man, had a family, and forgot to tell the Tenkan-Sen ‘we’re done’ and is never coming back.

2. The slope of the Composite Index suggests that it’s going to cross and possibly close above its fast moving average for the first time ever.

3. The slope of the DPO suggests it’s going to cross and close above the zero line soon.

It’s ugly, but hey, it’s Halloween and maybe Mina’s a Cinderella who just needs a horse-drawn Pumpkin-carriage to take it somewhere nice. But I totally plan on treating it like any other Pumpkin at the end of Halloween and chucking it before it starts to stink. 🎃 

Sei $SEI.X ( ▼ 0.19% ) 

So before we dive into the chart, this just happened today for Sei. $BLK ( ▼ 0.11% ) and Brevan Howard tokenized funds launched in Sei. Kind of a big deal.

I’ll make this as painless as possible. A daily close at/above $0.3473 would confirm an Ideal Bullish Ichimoku Breakout - that’s the most conservative of bullish entry setups for the Ichimoku system.

BUT.

A weekly close at/above $0.3223 would put the weekly above its weekly Tenkan-Sen ($0.3147) and the bottom of the Cloud, Senkou Span A ($0.3222). For the weekly chart, this would constitute an aggressive entry opportunity. 

There is one couple technical bullish consideration not shown that I want to tag here quick. Sei’s current monthly close is above the Tenkan-Sen. There’s plenty of Rocktober left, but if Sei can manage to close above the monthly Tenkan-Sen ($0.2603), that will be the first time in its short history to do so. 📕 

Pendle $PENDLE.X ( ▼ 2.0% ) 

Out of the three altcoins here, Pendle is the one that looks the least like Glen after Neegan introduced him to Lucille.

This chart already had a confirmed Ideal Bullish Ichimoku Breakout setup weeks ago. Now it’s in the prime ‘add-to or add-new’ condition, which is fulfilled when the weekly closes above the Tenkan-Sen ($5.21). 

The hidden bullish divergence and the slope of the DPO are tempting as hell. But there’s a lot of the week left and confirmation is always a necessity. ✅ 

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NEWS
Big Labor & Big Banks Bitching: Crying About Crypto Like It’s The End of Their Monopoly 🎻

First came the bankers in August. Then the labor unions followed in October. Both clutching the same pearls - crypto might actually work without them. 😱 

August: Bankers Beg Congress To Keep Their Turf

On August 12, state banking associations sent a joint letter to Congress whining about “loopholes” in the recently passed GENIUS Act. Stablecoins threaten their business model.

They don’t want exchanges or issuers paying yield because that’s their racket - collecting your deposits, paying you crumbs, and lending your money ten times over.

They claim letting people earn yield on stablecoins “undermines the financial system.”

They even asked Congress to repeal Section 16(d) of the GENIUS Act, which lets special-purpose depository institutions operate across state lines. Can’t have Wyoming’s crypto-friendly banks showing up and embarrassing the old guard. 🤦 

October: Labor Joins the Choir of Control Freaks

Then, yesterday (October 7, 2025), the AFL-CIO decided to jump in with its own doom letter, warning that the Senate’s Responsible Financial Innovation Act (RFIA) could “put workers and the financial system at risk.” 🙄 

According to the union, the bill is “a facade of regulation.” Gving FDIC-insured banks permission to hold or trade crypto is a national crisis now. The union claims it would “heighten systemic risk” and “expose workers’ pensions and 401(k)s to instability.”

The Common Denominator

Different industries, same panic. Big Banks and Big Labor built their empires on control over credit, over savings, over who gets to participate. Crypto breaks that chain.

So now they’re waving the “consumer protection” flag, hoping Congress mistakes self-preservation for public service. But here’s the truth: if your model collapses the moment people have alternatives, maybe it’s not the system that’s risky… 🤔 

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⚙️ Metis Dodges SEC Trouble With a Real Decentralized Sequencer

The SEC might be hunting for targets (well, maybe hunted) - but Metis already moved the goalposts. While most chains flirt with “decentralization” but still run a single sequencer, Metis actually built one that regulators can’t call an exchange. Its live decentralized sequencer rotates operators, posts batches to Ethereum, and uses BFT consensus so no one’s sitting on the power switch. Metis.

🌐 Alchemy Pay Turns 8 and Still Thinks Big

Alchemy Pay’s journey from a 2017 fiat-crypto bridge to a global payment network spans Coinbase listings, Visa/Mastercard compliance, and 173-country coverage. Now it’s building Alchemy Chain for stablecoin settlements and an RWA platform for tokenized investing. Eight years in, the company’s still doing what TradFi can’t - connecting both worlds without catching fire. Alchemy Pay.

🧠 ZKsync’s Atlas Upgrade Goes Full Turbo - 43K TPS and One-Second Finality

Atlas turns Ethereum-anchored chains into a real-time, cryptographically-verified internet economy. The new Atlas upgrade for the ZK Stack brings a sequencer hitting 15K–43K TPS and Airbender proofs finalizing in one second flat. With costs down to $0.0001 per ERC-20 transfer, it’s practically faster than Visa and cheaper than your dignity on gas fees day. ZKsync.

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