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DeFi

Crypto News: Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $261M for Seven Days, but Buyers Keep Pouring Into Pepeto From Pepe's Cofounder

If the crypto news feels heavy this week, the fund data shows why. Big money keeps heading for the exit. US spot bitcoin funds lost a net $261.46 million on October 14, TokenPost reported, ci

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Crypto News: Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $261M for Seven Days, but Buyers Keep Pouring Into Pepeto From Pepe's Cofounder
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If the crypto news feels heavy this week, the fund data shows why. Big money keeps heading for the exit.

US spot bitcoin funds lost a net $261.46 million on October 14, TokenPost reported, citing SoSoValue. It was the seventh straight day of selling for both bitcoin and ether funds, per Coinfomania. Yet those funds still hold $56.96 billion more than they ever took out.

Seven bad days have not erased years of buying, and not every buyer is leaving. Pepeto, a meme coin from the cofounder of the original Pepe, kept raising through the selling and just passed $11.1 million before its first listing.

Crypto News: Bitcoin Funds Lose $261.46M as the Selling Run Hits Seven Days

The crypto news from October 14 came straight from the fund data. Fidelity's FBTC lost $152.73 million, and BlackRock's IBIT lost $110.94 million, Bloomingbit reported.

Ether funds lost $130 million the same day, and $110 million of that left BlackRock's ETHA. Funds sell in big blocks, and a small holder cannot change that. What he can choose is where his own coins sit while the big money waits.

Crypto News for Holders: Earn While Funds Sell, With Pepeto, Ether and Kaspa

Pepeto: A Staking Pool That Pays While the Market Waits

A fund share earns nothing while it sits, and most funds charge a yearly fee on top. So seven days of fund selling raise a fair question about whether your money earns anything while it waits. For holders of Pepeto, a meme coin still in presale, the answer is yes.

It started as a meme coin, but its staking pool already pays and its tools are already live. Analysts put 100x on the table once it lists, and the staking pool is the part that works for holders today.

Staking pays a 161% APY right now. That rate comes from the reward pool and the amount staked, so it moves daily and is not guaranteed. Locked plans keep the rate shown when you join for the whole term, and rewards can be claimed at listing.

At today's rate, a stake of 5 billion tokens would earn about 8 billion more over a year, if the rate held. Those extra tokens also gain if the price rises after listing.

The pool sits beside PepetoSwap, the project's exchange with no swap fee, and a scanner that flags bad contracts before you buy. SolidProof audited the code, and the team passed KYC with SolidProof too, which matters when tokens stay staked for months.

Fund money left for seven straight days, while Pepeto stakers kept adding rewards the whole time. Each stage costs more than the last, so for anyone tired of watching funds sell, Pepeto is the pick that pays you to wait.

Ether: Funds Pull $130M While ETH Trades Near $2,431

ETH trades at $2,431.62 on CoinGecko, after a 3.6% dip this week. Reaching its $4,953.73 record from August 24, 2025 needs about 104%, per CoinMarketCap.

Ether still powers much of DeFi. At nearly $300 billion, though, a double takes a flood of fresh cash.

Kaspa: A New Token Standard Reaches Its Final Review

KAS trades at $0.03535 on CoinMarketCap, down 8.55% in a day. Its KCC20 token standard, which lets people build tokens on Kaspa, entered last call, its final review, on October 13, BSC News reported.

That is real progress. Still, KAS sits about 83% under its $0.2075 record from August 1, 2024, and a return there needs nearly 6x.

Conclusion: Seven Days of Fund Selling, and a Pepe Pattern That Already Worked Once

This week's crypto news reads grim, with seven straight days of fund selling in bitcoin and ether. Red weeks like this are when new names earn a closer look.

The cofounder behind Pepeto built the original Pepe, a pure meme coin with no tools, and it passed $11 billion in value in December 2024, per FXStreet. Pepeto's full 420 trillion supply is worth about $80 million at today's price, and this time a live exchange and a paying pool sit behind it.

If the 100x that analysts see comes true after listing, $200 today becomes $20,000, and Pepe's early price only came once.

Pepeto's early price is open now on the Pepeto official website. Every stage costs more than the last, so $200 staked in this one starts at the lowest price left and earns rewards all the way to listing.

Join the Pepeto presale before the next stage

FAQs

Why is Pepeto in the crypto news today, and what does it do?

Because while crypto news is full of fund selling, Pepeto's staking pool pays holders 161% APY to wait. Its cofounder already took Pepe past $11 billion.

How do the $261 million bitcoin fund outflows affect Pepeto?

They push small buyers to look early, and early is where big gains sit. Analysts see 100x for Pepeto after listing, and stages on the Pepeto official website keep climbing.