Outpoll Weekly Recap: Crypto (November 10 – 16, 2025)

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The crypto ecosystem this week felt like a high-stakes stress test for decentralized governance, with Ethereum’s core developers finally setting a tentative date for the long-anticipated Prague/Electra upgrade, sparking a flurry of prediction market activity on platforms like Polymarket. Traders are now betting heavily on whether the proposed EOF implementation will hit its Q2 2026 target, reflecting a market that’s learning to price in protocol risk alongside macroeconomic swings.Over in DeFi, a surprising narrative emerged as liquid restaking tokens (LRTs) briefly outpaced memecoin mania in daily volume, suggesting a maturing appetite for yield complexity over pure speculative frenzy. This wasn't just a technical week, however; it was a cultural one.The sudden 40% surge in the price of an obscure altcoin, following a cryptic post from a prominent AI researcher about on-chain autonomous agents, perfectly illustrated how crypto’s frontiers are blurring. It’s no longer just about money or tech in isolation—it’s about the convergence of sovereign digital infrastructure, AI-native economies, and community-led coordination.While Bitcoin held steady, acting as the bedrock amidst the altcoin experiments, the real story was in the prediction markets themselves, where questions about Fed policy, tech stock correlations, and even specific protocol failure events saw record liquidity. This signals a pivotal shift: crypto is becoming the world’s real-time sentiment engine, a global, permissionless betting slip on the future of everything from code to central banks.

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