Hot CPI hit risk assets hard, Fire fam. US CPI: 3.7% (Est: 3.6% | Prev: 3.4%). Core CPI: 2.6% (Est: 2.5% | Prev: 2.4%). Markets took a heavy hit:
$BTC ( ▼ 2.87% ) slipped toward $81K,
Gold ($XAUUSD ( 0.0% )) briefly fell below $4,100, while the selloff spread across stocks.
Asia got hit even harder: KOSPI -8% and Japan’s Nikkei roughly -5%.
⚡ Heads up: PPI this morning at 8:30 AM ET! "Uptober" is hitting very differently this year... 😅

Here’s what we got for you today:
👀 5 safe-haven assets the rich use in crashes
⭐ $BTC at $80K: will whales defend?
⭐ SpaceX at $100T: alpha or hopium?
🔥 Burning hot takes for the road


Don’t Wait for the OpenAI IPO
OpenAI and Anthropic could be two of the biggest AI IPOs Wall Street has seen in years.
But investors don’t have to wait for those names to hit the public markets to get exposure to the AI boom.
MarketBeat’s 7 AI Stocks to Buy Now report reveals 7 publicly traded companies already positioned to benefit as the next wave of AI investment moves beyond the private model providers.
These are the stocks investors can buy today, before the IPO crowd rushes in.

What do billionaires buy when stocks, property, and the usual “safe” assets stop feeling so safe? The answer isn’t just gold.
Some wealthy investors spread risk across scarce, portable assets that behave very differently from traditional markets. In this guide, we break down:
What makes an asset a safe haven
Why scarcity matters more than hype
Where Bitcoin fits - and why it’s not quite “digital gold” in every market shock
💡 Our insights: The wealthy look for assets that are hard to reproduce, hard to inflate, and easy to move. 👇

🐳 $BTC LOSES ETF COST BASIS AFTER HOT CPI. NOW $80K IS THE WHALE TEST
Bitcoin got rekt after September inflation came in hotter than expected.
Headline CPI rose to 3.7%, above the 3.6% forecast, while core CPI hit 2.6% vs. 2.5% expected.

Source: CNBC
$BTC ( ▼ 2.87% ) droped about 3.3% in 24 hours to $80,979, slipping below the average cost basis of U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs at roughly $81,500.
1/ ETF buyers are underwater… again
The CPI selloff pushed BTC below what spot ETFs paid, on average, for their coins. And ETF flows weren’t helping either.
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $261.5M in net outflows on CPI day, while total crypto liquidations approached $1B over 24 hours.
Around 91.6% of those liquidations were longs. Basically, leverage got rinsed fast.
The next obvious level is $80K, where Glassnode says the biggest bid block currently sits on Binance’s spot order book.

CryptoQuant also puts Bitcoin’s 365-day moving average around the same zone.
2/ Whales were buying before the dump
Before CPI landed, large holders had already flipped from distribution back into accumulation.
CryptoQuant data shows whale balances outside exchanges and mining pools reached 3.03M BTC, the highest since November 2025.

Analyst Darkfost also estimated 30-day spot + futures demand at roughly 69,000 BTC.
So the question now isn’t whether whales bought. They did! :)
The question is whether they keep holding if $80K cracks.
3/ $80K support. $88K resistance.
If $80K fails, Glassnode sees another important level around $78K, near the True Market Mean - roughly the average cost basis of active investors.
On the upside, $88K is the wall to reclaim. That level lines up with the cost basis of 6-12 month holders and a cluster of short liquidations.
Above that, there’s still heavy supply between roughly $88K-$100K from buyers accumulated over the last two years.
🧠 My take
ETFs are leaking, leverage just got flushed, and macro turned hostile.
But whales accumulated into the weakness before CPI, and $80K is sitting right where real spot bids are stacked.
If whales defend that zone, this could stay a nasty shakeout. If they don’t, $78K comes into play fast.

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🚀 MUSK SAYS SPACEX COULD HIT $100T IN 10 YEARS: ULTIMATE ALPHA OR PEAK HOPIUM?
Elon Musk just put one of the wildest valuation targets yet on SpaceX.
Asked whether the company could top $100 trillion within the next decade,
Musk’s answer was basically:
Probably - unless a major world war gets in the way.
For context, SpaceX was worth about $2.07T at the Oct. 14 close. So yeah fam, Musk is talking about roughly a 48x from here.
1/ Bull case: Starlink & Orbital AI compute

Elon’s tweet was a flex replying to billionaire investor Ron Baron, who just predicted SpaceX would hit $20T–$50T ("Elon thinks I'm way low"). Their gigabull thesis rests on two engines:
The Starlink Cash Cow: Baron sees Starlink alone scaling into a $14T-$15T juggernaut over the next decade.
Orbital AI Data Centers: The real moonshot is building AI compute in space, which Baron thinks will outgrow Starlink several times over.
2/ Reality: Cash burn & Debt alarms
Before you FOMO in, check the fundamentals. Since pulling off history's biggest IPO four months ago (peaking at $225.64 and briefly making Elon the world’s first trillionaire before slipping back under $1T), SpaceX stock ($SPCX ( ▼ 2.8% )) has been chopping hard:
Massive AI Cash Burn: Right now, only Starlink turns an operating profit. Meanwhile, the AI division torched $15.8B on infrastructure last quarter and is reportedly seeking $40B in new debt just to buy Nvidia chips.
Smart Money Is Hedging: SpaceX’s 5-year credit default swaps (insurance against debt default) surged from 110 bps in June to 194 bps - costing $19,400/yr to insure $1M of its BBB-rated debt. Even SpaceX’s own IPO filing admitted orbital AI compute is unproven and might never be commercially viable.
🧠 Follow the money, not the hype
Look fam, Elon is the undisputed king of pumping a narrative, and upgrading his $100T target from "possible" to "probable" is peak Musk energy.
But bond traders don't buy hopium. Surging credit risk shows Wall Street is sweating that $40B debt load.
For us, the real alpha is the pick-and-shovel play: if SpaceX is levering up $40B for Nvidia GPUs, the AI compute narrative is far from over. Watch Q3 earnings and the next Starship flight to see if the numbers can actually back up the flex.

🔥 BURNING HOT TAKES FOR THE ROAD
White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt is leaving as the CLARITY Act stalls, becoming the third top crypto official to exit in 2026. Read more
HEX ($HEX ( ▼ 31.13% )) and PulseChain ($PLS ( 0.0% )) founder Richard Heart was detained in Istanbul over alleged tax fraud in Finland - $4M cash and 64 luxury watches. Read more
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour says prediction-market insider trading happens “in broad daylight,” making suspicious trades easier to spot. Read more
AI agents are already paying with crypto on their own, with 138M+ x402 transactions so far. U.S.-funded wallets account for 88.1% of tracked activity. Read more
Kraken parent Payward agreed to buy Saldo Bank, potentially becoming the first crypto-native firm to own a European bank. Read more
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