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$BTC is moving with $XAU, $ETH is still moving with BTC
Lately, I've been feeling more and more strongly that BTC and ETH seem to be taking two different paths.
BTC is becoming less and less related to the US stock market and more and more like gold. The 90-day correlation between BTC and the Nasdaq 100 has dropped from 60% at the beginning of the year to 33%, while the correlation with gold has risen from nearly zero to 0.53.
ETH is not following this pattern at all. The 30-day correlation between ETH and BTC remains above 0.95, basically meaning when BTC goes up, ETH goes up, and when BTC goes down, ETH goes down. The correlation between ETH and gold is only 0.23, less than half of BTC's.
In plain language: BTC is becoming "digital gold," while ETH is still acting like a "tech stock."
Grayscale research head Zach Pandl said that BTC's scarcity, monetary independence, and store of value function are being repriced. With US national debt surpassing 40 trillion and long-term Treasury yields rising, the market is looking for assets that can hedge against fiscal deterioration.
BTC is that asset. ETH is not.
I still hold long positions in ETH. When I saw this data, I felt a jolt in my heart because it means the logic driving my assets is different from BTC — ETH is following an industry narrative, not a macro narrative.
Both logics are valid, but the pace is different, and so is the risk. I set a take-profit at 2600; once it hits, I'll exit part of the position without greed. The rest will let profits run, but I'm also prepared to exit at any time.The harshest truth of a bull market: past experience is always broken by the market
The easiest way to lose money in the crypto space is by relying on historical experience as gospel. At the peak of every bull market, unprecedented new narratives emerge, convincing everyone that the rally will continue and overturning past lessons.
In March 2024, Bitcoin surged to $73,000, and no one in the market talked about a bear market anymore; the entire network unanimously expected $100,000. Based on past cycle experience, people believed that after Bitcoin hit a new high, altcoins would explode. Many users sold Bitcoin to heavily invest in altcoins, hoping for a wealth leap.
But $73,000 was the peak of that cycle. The market then turned bearish, and almost all the bull market profits in altcoins were wiped out, leaving countless people working hard for nothing. Historical patterns just failed.
Don’t trade based on subjective predictions. What really works is a trading system that doesn’t try to forecast the market. When the market consensus is highly bullish, don’t get caught up in whether the narrative is true or false; just reduce your positions in batches and mechanically follow discipline.
This logic applies equally in a bear market. In June this year, the whole network was waiting for Bitcoin to drop to $50,000 or $40,000 to buy the dip, forming a strong bearish consensus. At that point, worrying about whether the price will actually reach those levels is meaningless; the consensus itself is an important signal.
At the end of this bull market, new and strange stories will again appear to push prices higher. Remember, there’s no need to deeply analyze the logic or truthfulness; when mania arrives, prioritize locking in profits. Human nature always repeats itself; clinging to old ways will ultimately be taught a lesson by the market.
#BTC冲高回落，期权到期放大关口博弈 A notable new signal today lies not in the price of BTC but in the health of American consumers. Consumer confidence in August fell to 89.4, a 7-month low; 12-month inflation expectations rose to 5.8%. Reuters reported that consumers are increasingly pessimistic about the business and employment prospects. More notably, recent data shows that the US economy is in a divergence: GDP in the second quarter grew only 1.5%, but consumption still grew by 3.4% and business investment increased sharply thanks to AI. 🧠 Why this matters for CryEthena surged 140% in 10 days, from 0.07 to 0.17. You'll understand why it surged after reading. If you've been holding $ENA for the past two years, you probably won't laugh—it fell from 1.52 all the way to 0.07, a 95% drop, with every rebound being unlocked and knocked down. But this round is a bit different. The biggest minefield has been dismantled! ENA's biggest problem in the past wasn't that no one used the product, but that every month VC tokens were unlocked and then dumped into the market regardless of cost. This kind of continuous supply-side selling pressure can't withstand any fundamentals. This time, the foundation did four things to directly defuse this ticking time bomb: 1. Spend money to buy back all the tokens that seed investors haven't unlocked yet, and these will not enter the market again. 2. Reach an agreement with major investors to cancel all future monthly unlocks. After that, no investors' tokens will be locked up. The only tokens locked up are the team tokens, which will proceed as planned. With these two moves, the market no longer has to watch the unlock calendar every month. The biggest uncertainty on the supply side is gone. 3. Revenue is finally distributed to token holders, with protocol revenue linked to ENA. ENA used to face an awkward situation: USDe is already the third largest stablecoin, and the protocol earns tens of millions every month, but ENA holders get nothing except voting. This deadlock has now been broken. The foundation launched a proposal to use 95% of the protocol's net revenue to buy back ENA on the secondary market. When USDe supply reached 7.5 billion, buybacks started and reached 10SNDK $SNDK stock perpetual contract trading volume reached 62.4% of the US spot trading volume, the highest level in existing data According to tokenized stock data on WuBlockchain Data,
on August 19, the total trading volume of SNDK (SanDisk) stock perpetual contracts across 32 tracking platforms reached $16.291 billion, while the US spot trading volume of SNDK on the same day was about $26.1 billion
(16.28 million shares, with an average price of about $1,603). This ratio reached 62.4%, a historical record.
During three consecutive trading days from mid to late August, this ratio remained high: August 17 was 42.0% ($13.4 billion vs. $31.94 billion), August 18 ($16.19 billion vs. $30.78 billion), August 19 was 62.4%. By August 26, it dropped to 38.0% ($4.98 billion vs. $13.1 billion). Among all equity-linked perpetual bonds, SNDK ranks first in this metric, followed by CRCL (47.2% on August 5), SOXL (38.1% on August 6), MSTR (20.0%), and MU (14.6%). NVDA and Meta both have ratios below 3%.
#财报观察员：AI需求从硬件扩散至软件 $ETH Ethereum is currently in a high-level consolidation phase between $2480 and $2565.
Yesterday, short positions near the $2480 support were decisively closed when the price did not break below.
Ethereum's directional breakout depends on waiting for the key catalyst of Fed Chair Walsh's speech tonight.
Before the speech, market sentiment is cautious.
Volatility will be significant during the speech tonight, so for now, we wait and watch.
Intraday short-term support is near $2480; if broken, look for $2450-$2400 range.
The news is mostly positive; the recommendation is to wait for a pullback to go long.
1. ETF capital inflow — the core driver of this rally
The US spot Ethereum ETF saw a total net inflow of $697 million last week, one of the strongest single-week inflows since 2026. On August 19, a single-day inflow of $189 million marked the highest in nearly 10 months; August 26 saw another $192.4 million inflow; August 27 continued with $234.5 million inflow. The cumulative inflow in August has exceeded $1.2 billion, the strongest monthly performance since August 2025. BlackRock's ETHA fund is the main contributor.
2. Jackson Hole Annual Meeting — the biggest short-term variable
Tonight (August 28), Fed Chair Walsh will deliver his first major keynote speech since taking office at Jackson Hole. His remarks may impact US Treasury yields, the dollar, and the crypto market. A hawkish tone could suppress risk assets; dovish signals might boost risk appetite.
3. Macro liquidity improvement — medium-term support
The US Treasury announced it will double bond repo operations starting September, expected to inject tens of billions of dollars in liquidity into financial markets; the SEC's proposed new crypto asset framework may also provide projects with greater financing flexibility. The Crypto Fear & Greed Index has surged from "Fear" (below 40) to 80 (Extreme Greed), the highest since December 2024.
4. On-chain data — holders reluctant to sell
Santiment data shows that since early June, exchange ETH holdings have dropped from 7.69 million to 6.28 million, a decrease of about 18% (approximately 1.4 million ETH outflow), mainly moving to self-custody wallets and staking protocols. Currently, staked ETH accounts for over 35% of total supply. During the price rise, there has been no significant profit-taking flow back to exchanges, differing from typical bull cycle behavior.
The above are personal views for reference only.
#沃什今晚亮相杰克逊霍尔，能否明确政策框架？ #银行链上支付两条路线：稳定币与代币化存款 #ETH触及2500美元后震荡 #WalshPolicyFramework The Fed's biggest asset isn't lower rates. It's predictability. With inflation still above target and jobs holding up, Walsh has room to stay cautious. But if Jackson Hole fails to explain what actually triggers a policy change, markets will fill the gap themselves.
That means every PCE print, jobs report and yield spike becomes a guessing game. A vague framework doesn't preserve flexibility for free. It transfers uncertainty into the dollar, bonds, gold and BTC.$TRUMP's secondary short squeeze rebound after an oversell, but it is not yet the main trend rally.
Current price 2.69, 24H +17.5%, the previous low of $2.24 was quickly reclaimed with increased volume; previously, contract OI had clearly been cleared, and funding rates turned negative, indicating this move first killed leverage then pulled up, with short covering as the main fuel. However, the long-short liquidation in the past 24 hours has nearly balanced, and the odds of chasing higher are starting to worsen.
Operation: Do not chase at 2.69, wait for a pullback to 2.52–2.56 for support before buying; positions can be held. First resistance at 2.79, only if volume breaks and holds above this level look for 2.91–3.00; if it falls below 2.40, exit immediately, indicating the rebound is over. BTC remains near 80,000, risk appetite is intact, but TRUMP recently faces selling pressure shadows from teams transferring coins to exchanges, so don't get overexcited at resistance levels.Tonight at 10 PM! Waller's debut, the crypto world is focused on these key price levels
$BTC This is his first official statement at such a top-tier annual meeting since taking office, and also the last tone-setting before the September rate decision. The key is that he has long cut the “forward guidance,” no clear signals, all guessing, so volatility tonight will be unavoidable
$ETH Current institutional sentiment: most funds bet he will play it coy, 30% bet hawkish, very few dare to bet dovish. Interest rate futures have already priced in over 70% chance of a rate hike by year-end, US Treasuries have risen for several weeks, all the pressure is here
Three scenarios for Bitcoin:
Dovish: Admit inflation is controllable, rate hikes can stop, directly surge to 82000, altcoins broadly rise
Neutral playing coy: neither say hike nor cut, just watch data, continue sideways around 80000
Hawkish: firmly fight inflation, keep September hike, likely retest 77000-78000, if support fails beware deep correction
A heads-up: Tonight exactly $6.44 billion worth of Bitcoin options expire, 75000 and 80000 are the most concentrated strike prices, market makers’ hedging will amplify volatility, high chance of spikes up and down, don’t chase highs or buy at mid-levels
Honestly: Don’t expect him to ease to save crypto. He said in July the Fed won’t backstop crypto, fundamentally hawkish, inflation control always first
No need for nonsense tonight, just focus on one sentence: Is the rate hike option still on the table?
Heavy positions hedge in advance, light positions set conditional orders, don’t trade emotionally
#沃什今晚亮相杰克逊霍尔，能否明确政策框架？ #BTC冲高回落，期权到期放大关口博弈 📌 Tonight at 22:00, Wash will appear at Jackson Hole. The real risk is not whether to cut interest rates, but how to define inflation.
The market is betting on a rate hike or cut in September, but the key point is not here at all.
US July PCE remains at 3.7%, core PCE is still above 3%, clearly far from the 2% target; initial jobless claims continue to decline, employment has not slowed down. Persistent inflation + economic resilience put the Federal Reserve in a dilemma.
Wash is very unlikely to give a direct answer for September.
What to really watch: how the new policy framework defines the inflation tolerance boundary and how to face the high long-term US Treasury yields.
🔹 If the wording is hawkish, continuing to emphasize inflation risks:
The dollar and US Treasury yields will rebound, putting pressure on BTC and gold. BTC's rebound to 80,000 largely comes from continuous ETF net inflows of 2.8 billion; once this benefit fades, profit-taking could trigger a sell-off.
🔹 If it acknowledges inflation is high but shifts focus to economic and financial conditions
Signals of no rush to tighten will be released, and the rebound in risk assets will continue.
It's very interesting now: US stocks, BTC, and gold are all strengthening simultaneously, with completely disconnected bullish and bearish logic.
Don't get stuck on the speech wording; watch after the speech: whether the dollar, US Treasury yields, and BTC can hold 80,000. Prices are more honest than rhetoric.
Tonight is not a night to deliver a market rally, but a moment for global assets to be repriced.
$BTC $ETH $SOL
#JacksonHole #FederalReserve #沃什今晚亮相杰克逊霍尔，能否明确政策框架？ There's one data that almost the entire market is waiting for: PCE. Usually this is one of the most important data to read the direction of the Fed. PCE is hotter than expected? The Fed is hard to soften. PCE is lower than expected? The rate-cut narrative is stronger. Sounds familiar. But I think there's a big problem: The market may be focusing too much on the PCE numbers themselves... while what determines BTC's reaction lies elsewhere. Because right now the market doesn't have just one variable. We're having it at the same time: Bond yields are high. DebtBitcoin treasury companies are reaching new heights of internal competition.
American Bitcoin CEO Michael Ho has clearly explained the core logic of buying these types of stocks: it's not about buying Bitcoin itself, but betting that the management can continuously increase the "Bitcoin holdings per share." With the same amount of money, buying an ETF only allows passive holding, while buying companies like ABTC may achieve compounded growth—provided the management team can execute capital operations.
Even more aggressive is Treasury CEO Khing Oei's arbitrage approach: find treasury companies whose stock prices are below net asset value and are too small to sustain independent listings, then consolidate them. The effect is equivalent to buying Bitcoin at a discount.
This strategy advances the MicroStrategy model one step further: from "holding Bitcoin" to "optimizing Bitcoin per share," and then to "merger arbitrage." ASIC miners are also redefined—not just mining equipment, but "hard asset infrastructure" that uses Bitcoin to create more Bitcoin.
But the risks are also obvious: when treasury companies start competing on "capital allocation ability," the purity of Bitcoin gets diluted. Are you buying Bitcoin, or are you buying a leveraged Bitcoin derivative with management premium/discount?The Ministry of Finance plans to use TGA for repurchases, which sounds like a bailout for the bond market but is actually more like an admission that the bond market is already hurting.
TGA is a reservoir that can be used to provide some liquidity to the market. In the short term, repurchasing long-term bonds can help suppress interest rates and also make the market feel that the authorities are not letting the long end get out of control.
But the root problems are not that easy to solve. The deficit remains, bond issuance continues, inflation hasn't fully come down, and buyers still demand higher compensation. Using the cash account to buy some bonds solves volatility, not trust.
This matter is critical for both BTC and gold. Because when the long-term bond market starts repeatedly asking "who will take over," risk assets will also be repriced accordingly. Once the bond market loses faith in fiscal discipline, all assets must have their discount rates recalculated.
#财政部拟用TGA回购，财政压力仍待化解 #沃什今晚亮相杰克逊霍尔，能否明确政策框架？
Tonight, Wash's clear explanation of policy is more important than whether to cut interest rates or not.
Core PCE remains at 3.3%, and at the July meeting, three officials already advocated for a rate hike; the market's current pricing for a September policy adjustment is not extreme, leaving Wash room to reprice.
But funds have clearly front-run: BTC rose from about 63,500 to 81,000 in the past week, an increase of nearly 28%, with spot BTC ETF inflows of about $1.92 billion in a single week; gold is also oscillating near the high of $4,600.
So the market has already priced in part of the "dovish/liquidity improvement". If Wash only gives vague statements tonight, it may easily kill longs; if he clearly provides a reaction framework of "inflation down → rate cuts," BTC and gold could have a second wave.
Still bullish on $BTC, currently the most worth watching, but above 80,000, definitely don't take the speech as a signal to blindly chase longs. $BTC quietly climbed back above 80,000 early this morning.
Latest quote is 80,741 USD, up 2.7% intraday. This surge isn’t just retail investors rushing in blindly; it’s real money from spot ETFs buying in. The US spot Bitcoin ETF has had net inflows for eight consecutive days, accumulating about 2.8 billion USD over that period. On August 26 alone, net inflows reached 232 million USD, with BlackRock IBIT accounting for 202 million USD—over 70% of the entire net inflow streak. Institutional analysts agree that net inflows sustained for more than five days indicate genuine demand, not a one-day hype.
From a technical perspective, resistance above 80,000 is actually quite strong. The 80,000 to 82,000 range is exactly the average cost zone for many ETF holders and also coincides with the 50-week moving average at 81,081 USD. The liquidation chart is even more exciting: if BTC breaks through 82,386, short covering could reach 1.477 billion USD, likely triggering a strong accelerating bullish candle. On the downside, support is first seen at 77,000–78,000, with a firmer bottom line at 72,000.
On the sentiment side, the greed index has reached 71. After fourteen consecutive days of negative Coinbase premium, it has returned to the zero line, indicating buyers are still present but momentum has slightly cooled.
My view: don’t get ahead of yourself before 80,000 is firmly held. Only a breakout above 82,000 with volume truly opens up space. Position management is more important than guessing direction; chasing highs in this market risks being shaken out. Consider adding only after a pullback that holds above 78,000—there’s no shame in that. Looking back at Mo Ge's chart of $BTC near 65,000, the most valuable thing isn't that he guessed it later rose to 80,000, but that he didn't just rely on feeling to top during a series of bullish candles. The daily trend is upward, the price has regained short-term support, the box is attempting to break out, and the rising candlestick is trading volume—these four points together show that bulls have a higher win rate than bears. Now that BTC has briefly touched around 81,500, this is a report card for this judgment. But I want to add three more points that I have only recently truly grasped. First, it depends on who is actually buying this rally. If only contract positions and funding rates are surging together, it might be a firework created by leverage; If ETFs and spot trading are also taking over, the market will be more confident. Recently, US spot BTC ETFs have seen continuous capital inflows, with cumulative inflows exceeding $3 billion in August; Currently, the perpetual fund rate is about 0.0092%, with bulls dominating, but not to the point of being excessively hot. This shows that the rally is driven by both leveraged sentiment and spot funds. CoinDesk's ETF fund tracking Second, candlesticks are never living in a vacuum. On August 19, the U.S. Treasury announced the expansion of long-term Treasury repurchases, with the market first trading yields falling and financial conditions easing, with BTC and gold both under pressure. But this is not QE; the Treasury itself has said that old repurchased bonds will be replaced by new issuance, essentially focusing more on improving bond market liquidity. U.S. Treasury announcement and quarterly financing explanation: Currently, core PCE is still at 3.3%, indicating that inflation has simply not worsenedOn August 28, the South Korean KOSPI index weakened, falling about 1.5% intraday, underperforming among major Asian stock indices. Previously, the market had rallied the AI sector based on Nvidia's impressive earnings report, but the Korean market saw a clear high-level profit-taking.
There are three main reasons for the decline:
First, the AI sector had accumulated significant gains earlier, and the Korean stock market has high exposure to the AI industry chain. Core stocks like Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix saw concentrated profit-taking. Although Nvidia's results exceeded expectations, investors began to worry that current valuations have already priced in future growth expectations, cooling trading sentiment.
Second, the semiconductor sector has a huge impact on the index. Samsung and SK Hynix, as core weights of the KOSPI, saw a chip sector pullback directly dragging down the broader market, amplifying the index's downward movement.
Third, there is macro-level uncertainty as the market awaits Federal Reserve official Waller's remarks at the Jackson Hole symposium. If a hawkish signal is released, high-valuation AI tech stocks will face further pressure.
However, the fundamentals of the South Korean economy have not deteriorated: exports in August remain strong, with Reuters surveys forecasting a year-on-year growth of 62.6%, driven mainly by semiconductor and AI chip demand; the Bank of Korea recently raised its 2026 GDP growth forecast to 3.3%, with semiconductor exports as a key support. $BTC $ETH $SNDK #财报观察员：AI需求从硬件扩散至软件 $ETH has spent the past several sessions doing very little. It's basically flat today, modestly green on the week, and visibly behind both $BTC and $SOL, which have been putting up the kind of candles that get screenshotted. If you're only watching price, this looks like a coin that's lost the plot. Look one layer deeper, and a very different story shows up. Who's Actually Buying While Everyone Else Watches SOL On-chain data tracked by CryptoQuant throughout 2026 has documented a persistent, unuChains compete on narratives, but the tokens with the most value on them tell the real story. We sorted the top-50 tokens by market cap on seven major chains into categories, and each one has a signature of its own. On Robinhood Chain, more than half of the top-50 tokens by market cap are memecoins, with a concentration no other chain comes close to. The category it was actually built for, tokenized assets, sits at just 12%. Leading category by chain: • $Robinhood — Meme • $HyperEVM — Tokenized The $BTC spot premium index is still steadily and slowly rising.
However, there was a quick pullback after a short-term new high breakout, with limited volatility, which can be seen as a small-scale profit-taking action by futures bulls.
Currently, another key factor to watch for short-term upward movement here is whether the net inflow of spot ETFs has declined?
After all, the market structure over the past two weeks has been: positive narrative - rapid short squeeze - sideways consolidation - waiting for spot to take over.
The first three stages are now complete, leaving only the last stage. The spot ETFs and on-exchange spot buying will determine whether this rally marks the first key turning point from bear to bull.
Finally, one more point: until the weekly left-side rebound high of 82.8k is decisively surpassed, strictly speaking, the bear market is not over. Currently, sentiment and capital flows have warmed up, but the technical aspect is still missing.
The above are all personal views, not investment advice, for reference only.#财报观察员：AI demand spreads from hardware to software
"NVIDIA pulls in 96 billion in a single quarter, but software side is still paying the electricity bill: How big is the monetization gap in AI?"
The hardware giant pulled in a massive 96 billion USD in cash in a single quarter, but downstream software companies are still struggling with the high daily electricity costs.
The entire market is undergoing a realistic aesthetic shift; people are no longer satisfied with grand narratives about how powerful computing power is.
Users are accustomed to low monthly fees of tens of yuan, but the computing power cost consumed by deep inference can instantly eat up the meager subscription fees.
Interconnect chip manufacturers are desperately customizing dedicated low-power chips for cloud providers, and software giants are also starting to shift towards revenue sharing based on business outcomes.
Tech stock valuations have clearly diverged, and the entire industry has officially moved from pure hardware capacity expansion into a new phase of commercial monetization validation. $BTC $NVDA (NVIDIA) — Closed at $227.98, up +8.74% for the day
$NVDA rose 8.74% after the earnings report, with trading volume close to 300 million shares. The market's answer is straightforward: at least for now, the demand for AI computing power has not shown the obvious cooling that many feared.
But I think the most important thing about the earnings report is not that revenue hit a new high again, but that growth is still faster than the market's original expectations.
What really needs to be observed next is whether large cloud providers, after continuing to increase capital expenditures, can generate enough revenue from AI services. As long as customers keep expanding data centers, $NVDA's order logic remains intact.
In the short term, $220.90 is the intraday support, and $230.47 is the resistance. Whether today's gap can hold is more important than how much it can rise tomorrow.
If volume shrinks on a pullback, it means the market is accepting the new valuation; if the gap is quickly filled, be cautious of profit-taking after the good news is priced in.
I am Yuvi. The earnings report answered that demand is still there; next, we need to find out how long this demand can last. Why hasn't Bitcoin broken through $82,000 yet?
The answer might lie in the $6.4 billion options contracts expiring tomorrow.
BTC rose from $62,000 to $80,000 in a week, but every attempt to break $82,000 has pulled back, possibly due to the "pinning effect" in the options market.
Current key market levels:
$82,000: resistance above
$80,000: options concentration zone
$75,000: support below
About 81,700 BTC options worth $6.44 billion expire tomorrow, with many positions near $75,000 and $80,000 expiring.
This means the forces suppressing the price may change.
If $82,000 is effectively broken, the selling pressure from market makers hedging may weaken, giving BTC a chance to push further to $85,000.
My judgment: $82,000 is the true short-term watershed; breaking it could open up more room.
This is just my personal opinion and does not constitute investment advice. $BTC $ETH #沃什今晚亮相杰克逊霍尔，能否明确政策框架？ $IREN locking in $4 billion ARR may boost market risk appetite in the short term, but the high-leverage financing structure increases sensitivity to interest rates and delivery schedules. The $2.8 billion GPU financing covers 90% of capital expenditures, making the funding position highly dependent on refinancing ability in a high-valuation environment. If macro risk appetite continues and 2026 capacity is delivered on schedule, high leverage will accelerate the transmission of returns to the trading side. If inflation expectations rise, pushing up financing costs, or if construction delays occur, deleveraging pressure will quickly transmit from the capital side to the market.
#沃什今晚亮相杰克逊霍尔，能否明确政策框架？ #OpenAI自研芯片亮相，推理成本成关键 #BTC冲高回落，期权到期放大关口博弈In October 2026, the Federal Reserve held its policy meeting, keeping the benchmark rate unchanged. Powell's press conference sent a clear hawkish signal, suggesting that high rates will persist for a longer period, and rate cut expectations for the year were completely postponed. After the news arrived, Bitcoin briefly dipped to support near $75,000 before quickly recovering, while Ethereum slightly retreated to the $2,300 mark. The market did not see extreme sell-offs, and the earlier volatility and digestion fully priced in hawkish expectations. The crypto market officially entered the second half of the fourth quarter to build up momentum. On the capital side, spot Bitcoin ETFs saw slight short-term redemptions after the rate meeting, but leading institutions did not reduce their positions on a large scale. Mainstream ETFs like BlackRock still maintained their base positions, showing a divergence of "short-term speculative funds exiting, long-term institutions holding their positions." On-chain exchanges still hold Bitcoin reserves at historic lows, whales continue to accumulate coins offline, and the long-term chip structure remains stable, confirming the effectiveness of the $74,000 bottom support. Ethereum ETF funding volatility has further amplified, incremental buying remains scarce, and although Layer 2 network activity remains stable, supply pressure from staking unlocks persists. The ETH/BTC price ratio remains under pressure, and risk aversion preferences are increasingly concentrated on Bitcoin, making it increasingly difficult for Ethereum to emerge from a strong rally. At the derivatives market level, volatility rose short-term after the interest rate event followed by a rapid decline, perpetual contract funding rates returned to near the zero axis, and long and short positions tend to balance. The Fear and Greed Index remains in a neutral range, and leveraged positions continue to be reducedThe bulls are coming from all directions, yet you are still waiting for a second dip. The Zhongyuan Festival coincides with the robot's seventh day memorial, the revival of big tech, and coal's ninth consecutive weekly gain. Electronics and communications soar together, coal aligns with agriculture and forestry, all in a dazzling array of red.
Right now, the market is a few groups each cooking their own pot—small investors are avoiding Nvidia's earnings and Walsh's speech; veteran investors are huddled in dividend and defensive sectors; macro players are buying gold to hedge against dollar credit risk; speculators are playing hot potato with short-term consecutive limit-ups. Volume wants to expand but can't, groups want to rally but can't, rotation is still fast, yet the index just won't fall.
Nvidia lived up to expectations last night and saved the tech stocks. The conference call repeatedly mentioned "supply remains a bottleneck," and unusually provided guidance for fiscal year 2028. Revenue growth guidance is +70%, or +100% without supply constraints. Based on Nvidia's usual tendency to exceed expectations, actual growth is expected to be +80%-85% year-over-year, implying fiscal 2028 revenue of about $756 billion to $777 billion, far exceeding Bloomberg's forecast of about $573 billion, beating it by nearly $200 billion.
Jensen Huang joked on the call: the best US stock trade in 2026 is to watch who he dines with; the next day, that company's stock price will double.
How big is the gap between what you think and reality? You think Walsh will hawkishly tighten or keep repeating the same old lines, but the market is already quietly pricing in macro headwinds, pushing long bond yields higher itself. You think this year's macro theme is a strong or weak dollar, or whether AI is a revenue closed loop or a bubble burst, but actually this year's macro theme is Hormuz, Jianxiawo, and Mongolian coal—who recovers first.
You think the bull market means new lows in the index and volume, letting you calmly build positions. The reality is the bull market means three consecutive up days in the index, steady big bullish candles, forcing you to chase buys while tumbling.
We are all watching for the bull market, waiting for the sheep to rise, crouching for the leopard to pull, watching who Jensen Huang dines with. You are still watching the US debt crisis, tech ARR missing expectations, still waiting for a second dip. No wonder you missed out. When it rises, it's the bull market; when it falls, it's the leopard's father. Tomorrow, will the bull still come?#Will Walsh debut at Jackson Hole tonight, can he clarify the policy framework? Good afternoon everyone!
1. Current macro prerequisites
Core PCE meets expectations, inflation stickiness remains, rate cut expectations delayed, US Treasury yields fluctuate at high levels, the market has already priced in neutral inflation results. Walsh's speech tonight is the biggest short-term macro variable. Walsh leans pragmatic and will not give aggressive forward guidance. Focus on three points: whether to keep the rate hike option, statements on the duration of high interest rates, and tolerance for financial market volatility.
2. BTC Bitcoin
BTC is the crypto asset most sensitive to Federal Reserve policy, with the highest institutional holdings.
If the speech is hawkish: emphasizing anti-inflation priority and retaining the rate hike option, US Treasury yields rise, leveraged longs at the 80,000 level will face concentrated liquidation, BTC will retest support at 76,000-78,000, spot long-term holders will not sell off significantly, resulting in a downward oscillation.
If the speech is neutral and ambiguous: continuing data-dependent rhetoric, BTC will maintain sideways trading above 80,000, with the market driven by ETF inflows and US crypto legislation events, making it difficult to actively break new highs.
If the speech is dovish: signaling rate easing, US Treasury yields decline, institutional funds return, BTC is expected to test the 82,000-84,000 resistance level.
Overall, BTC has the strongest risk resistance, with extreme market declines much smaller than the other two.
3. ETH Ethereum
Beta higher than BTC, constrained by both macro interest rates and regulation.
In a hawkish environment, high interest rates further weaken ETH staking yield attractiveness, ETH/BTC ratio remains under pressure, correction magnitude significantly larger than BTC, L2 and RWA narratives will be suppressed by macro negatives in the short term.
In a neutral environment, macro factors no longer exert additional pressure, funds will re-balance expectations on regulatory implementation and Layer 2 network value capture, following the overall market oscillation, making it difficult to form an independent trend.
In a dovish environment, risk appetite rises, ETH elasticity releases, ratio has repair opportunities, but the upside limit is still constrained by SEC securities classification tail risks.
4. SOL Solana
Highly elastic speculative asset, no institutional base holdings, fully dependent on market risk appetite.
Hawkish speech impacts SOL the most, speculative funds quickly withdraw after US Treasury yields rise, on-chain MEME heat rapidly fades, large sharp pullbacks occur, making it the most severely falling among the three.
In a neutral environment, only existing on-exchange funds compete for hotspots, market mainly shows pulse-like short-term fluctuations, lacking external incremental funds, poor upward sustainability.
In a dovish environment, risk appetite fully recovers, SOL will see a short-term violent surge, but fundamentals show no substantial improvement, market bubble characteristics strong, high risk of subsequent pullback.
Summary
Tonight's speech will determine the short-term direction of the crypto market: Hawkish → SOL sharply drops, ETH corrects, BTC bottoms out; Neutral → high-level oscillation, mainly structural market; Dovish → all three rise synchronously, SOL leads in elasticity. The current market has priced in neutral expectations in advance; once the stance turns hawkish, high-level leveraged positions will face concentrated liquidation pressure.Risk warning: This article is only an objective market review and does not constitute any investment advice. Crypto assets are highly volatile, so be sure to pay attention to risks. After the regulatory framework was established, the crypto market officially entered a new stage of deep institutional participation, but BTC and ETH faced a clear divergence in capital preferences. Traditional conservative funds prioritized Bitcoin as the ballast for major asset allocations; Institutional funds with higher risk appetite gradually laid out Ethereum and entered the market closely tied to ecosystem implementation progress. This stratification of funds means that the subsequent market trends of the two major coins are no longer synchronized, but instead follow their respective value logic to form structural movements. Bitcoin institutional funds exhibit a pattern of "long-term bottom positions + swing rebalancing." Pension funds, family offices, and listed companies have included BTC on their balance sheets, forming stable long-term buying demand, with ETFs continuously meeting this allocation demand. But institutions do not hold one-sided positions long-term; they dynamically adjust positions based on U.S. Treasury yields, inflation data, and valuation levels. Prices are at low levels, and funds flow in steadily; In the short term, rapid surges and lower risk-reward ratios will cause profit-taking orders to emerge in an orderly manner. Long-term holders' low-cost chips form bottom support, but historical trapped positions and institutional swing selling pressure still exist above, and the risk of intermediate drawdowns will not disappear due to regulatory clarity. Bitcoin's cashless nature remains unchanged; valuations are anchored to global liquidity. If macroeconomic easing expectations are delayed, valuation centers will remain under pressure. Ethereum's institutional funds remain in a state of "strategic recognition and tactical wait-and-see." Regulators have cleared out spot ETFsRegarding SanDisk
Its fundamental logic hasn't changed; the 93.9 billion long-term contract locks in revenue for the coming years, and the long-term targets given by investors are indeed solid. But in the short term, it has risen too much, profit-taking, a cooling sentiment in the tech sector, and guidance falling short of expectations—these three factors combined caused a drop.
This is a correction of the price increase, not a rejection of the fundamentals. The fundamental demand for AI storage remains, and Wall Street's major banks have an average target price of $2220. But the short-term volatility isn't over yet; wait until the shares have fully rotated and sentiment stabilizes.
Be patient, follow the trend, and it's not too late to act once the direction becomes clear.
$SNDK $BTC 兄弟们，我跟你一样，真的被这行情磨掉一层皮了。我也在震荡里来回止损，亏麻了。但越是这样越要冷静，我把15:37的最新数据理了一遍，结合今晚的消息面，咱们一起看看这盘到底在玩什么？ $BTC和$ETH都在30分钟内从MA5上方跌到MA5下方，多头防线正在被蚕食。ETH的支撑写着 $2,217，离现价快280刀——这哪是支撑，这是悬崖。 现在市场最大的问题是——美联储内部自己都打起来了： 7月FOMC会议：9票对3票维持利率在3.5%-3.75%不变，3名有投票权的官员直接投反对票、主张加息25个基点 鹰派（哈马克、施密德）：认为当前利率“甚至可能具有宽松性”，通胀已连续65个月高于2%目标 鸽派（柯林斯、古尔斯比）：认为利率仍有抑制效果，可以再等等数据 今晚北京时间22点，美联储主席沃什将在杰克逊霍尔发表上任后首次主旨演讲。目前期货市场定价：9月加息概率约35%，年底前至少加息一次的概率超过70%。 这意味着什么？市场已经从“什么时候降息”变成了“要不要再加息”。这种预期反转，对风险资产是最致命的。 我的判断：暴风雨前的宁静，方向可能向下 从盘面看，几个信号非常危险： 1. 量价背离：BDid a statistic: starting from 1999, investing 10,000 yuan annually in various countries' stock market indices, how much would it be worth this year (27 years of investment totaling 270,000 yuan)
If invested in Nasdaq, worth 2.03 million
If invested in S&P, worth 998,000
If invested in Nikkei 225, worth 563,000
If invested in South Korea KOSPI, worth 543,000
If invested in Shanghai Composite Index, worth 386,000公链长期稳定运行的核心，在于底层容错设计、故障修复逻辑和危机发生后的社区处置方式。比特币和以太坊历经十余年发展，都遭遇过协议漏洞、网络分歧、节点异常等突发状况，但二者的修复思路、社区决策模式、容错底线截然不同，形成了两套完全对立的危机应对体系。 比特币的底层协议极度精简固化，历史上仅出现过两次严重的原生故障：2010年溢出漏洞产生巨额BTC、2013年客户端版本分歧引发短暂链分裂。面对协议级漏洞，比特币的修复原则是最小改动、算力共识驱动、拒绝人为回滚账本状态。早期溢出漏洞中，中本聪发布客户端补丁，依靠算力共识切换到正确链条，仅回滚极短区间的区块，绝不改动历史账本；版本分歧危机里，网络依靠算力自然博弈，算力更强的链条自动成为主链，全程没有社区人为干预账本数据。 比特币社区始终坚守“代码不可篡改、历史账本永久固化”的底线，即便出现重大安全问题，也只会通过升级客户端、统一节点版本的方式修复，绝对拒绝硬分叉逆转历史交易。这种模式让比特币的账本历史具备极强的不可逆性，一旦上链就永久生效，杜绝了人为干预的道德风险，但也意味着遇到极端合约漏洞时，没有灵活的补救空间，只能接受既定损失。同时比特币故障大$SNDK previously experienced a violent market surge driven by concentrated funds rapidly pushing it up in the short term, but from its historical peak, it directly entered a cliff-like crash with zero support, with an overall retracement exceeding 99%. The market was continuously suppressed by relentless early-stage chip distribution selling pressure, unable to hold up for more than a few hours before being smashed through.
Peers in the same sector like $BICO, $BEAT, $ALLO, $KAITO, and $APR all precisely captured the active buying brought by the loose liquidity released in this market cycle. The rhythm was clear, but $SNDK didn’t benefit at all from the sector rotation dividends, completely detached from the entire sector’s upward momentum. Instead, it remains trapped in its own independent downtrend channel, steadily declining along the short-term moving averages. Currently, the market has not undergone multiple rounds of sufficient turnover, and the risk of blindly entering to bet on a reversal has already reached an extremely high level Bitcoin surges back to $80,000! Up 1.4% in 24 hours. But this time is different — US spot ETFs have seen net inflows for eight consecutive trading days, with over $3 billion in cumulative cash flows in August, directly setting a new monthly record for 2026! BlackRock's IBIT alone absorbed 72% of the profits. Futures leverage isn't crazy; spot institutions are buying up real money. This time, institutions are seriously playing! Data truth: Over 2.6-3 billion yuan in inflows in 8 days is not something retail investors can accomplish. Traditional funds regain BTC exposure through compliant products. Long-short battle: The upper 80,000-83,000 yuan is the selling pressure zone for long-term holders to break even. But as long as ETFs keep buying, the selling pressure will gradually be absorbed. Only when it falls below 76,600 (short-term cost line) does the rebound end. My judgment: this is a critical period shifting from "short squeeze" to "genuine buying." Don't go all in on every rise, and don't cut losses every time it falls. Watching ETF data, as long as you're still buying, buy ETFs for 8 consecutive days—do you think BTC can hold above 80,000 and surge to 86,000? Bullish ones deduct, 🚀 those who watch pullbacks deduct 📉Core PCE sticks at 3.3%, initial jobless claims unexpectedly drop to 203,000, economic data continues to send mixed signals. Inflation hasn't worsened, employment hasn't weakened, but there's also no reason to ease policy. The probability of a rate hike in September slightly increased after the data release; market trading logic is shifting from "betting on data" to "betting on the framework"—because the data itself can no longer provide decisive evidence in a single direction.
At 10 PM tonight, Waller's speech at Jackson Hole is currently the only external variable that might break the equilibrium. The market is not short of hawkish or dovish judgments, but lacks a reusable decision-making logic: what thresholds of inflation, employment, and financial conditions will trigger action, and where are the functional boundaries between the Federal Reserve and the Treasury in managing long-term interest rates. If Waller continues to use vague wording to avoid building a framework, then divergences in rate hike expectations will only further split, and various assets will be tugged repeatedly within their own logics.
Consensus on direction remains, but rhythm divergences intensify. The dollar and U.S. Treasuries are waiting for a new pricing anchor, gold is constrained by uncertainty in real interest rates, and $BTC is narrowly digesting within the $78,000-$80,000 range; a directional breakout requires an external trigger.
In terms of operations, it is not advisable to heavily bet on one side before the speech. If Waller's wording lacks novelty, the market will most likely vent disappointment through intense two-way volatility. It is far more cost-effective to enter after the framework becomes clear and volatility converges than to bet on direction before the speech. #沃什今晚亮相杰克逊霍尔，能否明确政策框架？ Why did many people miss out this year, not buying any spot below 60k in June-July, still thinking about the "last dip"? Still not believing that we are currently on the path of reversal? Because most people are stubbornly comparing this to the 2022 and 2018 bear markets, generally believing that the 2026 bull market will start in January next year, just like the previous two bear markets.
In fact, this bear market operates very differently from before. This bear market completed two main down Is the AI boom something NVIDIA "loaned" out?
The financial report is flawless, with perfect revenue and profits.
But one question remains: who is actually buying these GPU orders?
Since when did NVIDIA seem to stop just selling chips? It feels like it's everywhere.
They even asked Wall Street to find funding for AI infrastructure, with some projects even offering residual value support.
Customers don’t have money to buy, so institutions finance them; institutions fear GPU depreciation, so NVIDIA helps support the bottom line.
When this approach works smoothly, it’s called solving funding bottlenecks and turning GPUs into financeable assets.
If it doesn’t go well, it’s a bit like the seller helping the buyer borrow money and then using sales volume to prove strong market demand.
The skepticism from the "big short" prototype isn’t about GPUs not selling, but whether customers can actually make money from these GPUs.
After all, orders can be made in advance through financing, but cash flow isn’t so easy to negotiate.
As long as AI companies can keep making money, this is financial innovation. If they can’t, however lively things are today, there will be many accounts to settle slowly in the future.
#财报观察员：AI需求从硬件扩散至软件 ETH discussion has clearly slowed down, let's first look at the denominator of this tone group
This round of ETH numbers shows a sense of direction, but I am more concerned about the sample size. OKX Onchain OS recorded 19 mentions in one hour at 12:00 on August 28, with 42% bullish and 11% bearish, and the discussion speed is about 0.62 times the 24-hour hourly average.
A few concentrated reposts can significantly rewrite the ratio, so "bullish clearly dominant" can only describe this batch of texts and cannot be equated with how much capital is betting on the same direction. Regarding sources, X 18 times, news 1 time, also need to pay attention to whether it is the same news repeatedly spread.
Next, see if the tone can be maintained after expanding the sample, then cross-verify with transactions, funding rates, and on-chain activity, which is more reliable than drawing conclusions based on a single percentage.Tonight is setting the tone, not a night of make-up classes. "Can the policy framework be clarified"—if it refers to whether rates will be cut in September, how QT will go, or how inflation will be determined, Jackson Hole's debut is hard to give a complete answer. The theme revolves around financial innovation, and policy implications are mostly brief. But for BTC, that's enough: a loose/hawkish statement can better determine risk appetite than a ten-page speech. Now $79.8k, 24h +1.2%, 7-day +3%. Walsh can't avoid the PCE background: core year-on-year flat at 3.3%, month-on-month from 0.1% to 0.2%. The market likes to read "flat"; stickiness is hidden in "acceleration." Flat year-on-year gives hawks fewer excuses; month-over-month acceleration prevents doves from declaring victory—he doesn't need to repeat the data, but must clarify: stickiness is tolerable or must be suppressed. At 22:00, I only heard three sentences: (1) Do you recognize stickiness or not? (2) Is liquidity loose or tight? (3) Will you wait and see for September or put pressure on the market? Loose → Try $80.0k, high beta follows. Neutral → 78–80k sideways consumption. Hawkish → Focus on $78.0k first. Not betting on crypto mention, betting on whether tone will flip sentiment. Market is also waiting: 16:00 $6.4B options cleared; OI 7-day -4% (deleveraging); 60-day steady 80k only once. ETF surpassing $3B in August is confidence; confidence ≠ should chase tonight. Fear and greed 27→74, sentiment is hot. PCE flat vs. month-on-month acceleration—setting the toneFor a long time, the AI trade felt pretty simple: more AI = more GPUs, more servers, more data centers.
But I think we’re starting to enter a different phase.
The infrastructure buildout is still huge, but now I’m paying much more attention to the software layer. Companies have spent billions building AI capacity the next question is whether software businesses can actually turn that computing power into products people are willing to pay for.
Salesforce is already seeing strong growth from its AI products, while Workday says AI agents are contributing meaningfully to new business. That’s interesting to me because it suggests AI monetization may finally be spreading further downstream.
Personally, I don’t think this means the chip story is finished at all. Nvidia and AI infrastructure are still important. But the next winners might not only be the companies building AI they could also be the companies that figure out how to sell AI effectively.
#AIShiftsToSoftware $BTC $BTC hit a high of $81,500 today, then pulled back to around $79,700. At this level, many people start to feel spot prices are rising too slowly and are preparing to temporarily switch to high-leverage contracts.
Over the past 9 trading days, BTC spot ETFs have seen continuous net inflows, with $242.3 million bought on August 27; the funding rate is only 0.0066%, the long-short ratio is about 1.01, and the contract market is not currently skewed to one side.
However, the fear and greed index has risen to 71, and the daily RSI is about 80.7. Buying pressure remains, and the short-term market is indeed a bit hot.
Check the line that matches your position:
Empty position: Do not chase between 80,800–81,500. Wait for the price to pull back to around 78,000 with support, or break through 81,500 and then pull back without breaking it.
Spot: Continue to observe above 77,600. Hold the base position if your cost is low, and take partial profits in batches when prices surge; pause adding positions if the daily closes below 77,600.
Contracts: There is a dense liquidation zone for long positions around 75,800. Lower your leverage, set stop losses in advance, and do not mistake the liquidation price for a stop loss.
Going forward, only monitor two signals: whether ETFs continuously turn to net outflows, and whether the daily closes below 77,600. If one appears, the pullback may deepen; if neither appears, treat the area around $80,000 as a temporary consolidation and turnover.
#BTC冲高回落，期权到期放大关口博弈 $ETH has been fluctuating repeatedly around $2,430 recently, showing weak intraday performance. Although there has been a slight rise over the past week, it has clearly underperformed BTC and SOL. On the surface, ETH does seem somewhat "unstoryd." But if you look from the candlestick to on-chain data, the situation is not so pessimistic. Recent data shows that large holders holding over 100,000 ETH continue to increase their positions, while the 10,000–100,000 ETH tier holds positions near historical highs. In other words, it currently seems more like large funds quietly absorbing supply rather than retail investor sentiment driving a rally. Meanwhile, US spot ETH ETF funds continue to maintain net inflows. Institutions have not made large-scale withdrawals just because ETH has shortly underperformed BTC or SOL; instead, they continue to take on spot chips in the market. Another point worth watching is ETH's current realized price, which is around $2,380. The current price is not far from this cost zone: not a deep discount after extreme panic, nor an overvaluation zone after a frenzied rally, but more like a middle zone where the cost density of medium- and long-term holders is concentrated. So the current logic is actually very clear: 📉 price performance is not strong 🐋, large players' positions are still increasing 🏦, ETF funds continue to provide buys 🔒, market circulating supply is gradually stabilizing, ETH may not need fundamentals now, but a way to restockJust now, BTC performed a "roller coaster": it surged 25% from 62,000 all the way up to 81,000 USD, then plunged back sharply, now stuck around $79,956 playing dead. Why exactly is it stuck at 80,000? Because today (August 28, 08:00 UTC), 81,700 BTC options on Deribit are expiring, with a notional value of 6.44 billion USD. 75,000 and 80,000 USD are the two strike prices with the most concentrated open interest—there are 236 million call options at 75,000 and 157 million at 80,000. To translate: the whole market’s eyes are fixed on the 80,000 gate, and market makers’ hedging positions will amplify volatility here to the extreme. 🔪 Why the spike and then the drop? On August 26, a sharp drop briefly pushed BTC below 78,000, liquidating 270 million USD worth of longs. This wasn’t a normal correction; it was market makers’ "Gamma hedging" ahead of options expiry causing the disturbance—they actively buy and sell BTC near key strike prices to hedge risk, resulting in the price being repeatedly rubbed between 75,000 and 80,000. 💰 Is the 6.4 billion USD a real cash dump? No. The 6.44 billion is the "notional value," not actual funds entering the market. In fact, 62% of contracts will expire worthless (options expiring worthless), and only a small portion actually causes cash flow. But even so, Deribit’s Chief Risk Officer Shaun Fernando personally admitted: the current BTC market price$XAU Gold is still the same gold, but the reasons to buy it have changed
Gold fell from 4697 to 4610, failed three times to break 4700, and is oscillating around 4600 in the short term. But looking at the funds is more concrete: 165 long whales have an 84% win rate, with positions twice that of shorts; 108 shorts are still holding losses, making it clear who controls the direction.
The three failed attempts to break the top only resulted in a $90 pullback, and the buying pressure below is not weak. Overall, gold rose by $600 in August, and the monthly chart still shows a bullish pattern. Citibank forecasts 4800 in 3 months and 5000 in 6 months; institutions are not just talking—they have already taken positions.
But the biggest change in gold is the shift in logic. The Grayscale report shows that the 90-day correlation between Bitcoin and gold has exceeded 50%. With US debt surpassing 40 trillion, the market is re-evaluating fiat currency credit, and gold is being reallocated as a scarce asset, not just an old-school safe haven.
In terms of trading, aggressive traders can try going long at the current price, while conservative ones should wait for stabilization around 4550-4570 before entering; consider short positions only if resistance appears between 4635-4680. Avoid heavy positions before the Fed speech; I've seen this many times—once the speech starts, the market turns quickly. The long-term logic is strengthening, so don't misstep on short-term rhythm. I'll share specific levels in the chat room in real time.
—Aze #Gold rose about 14% in August #KOSPI falls due to cooling AI enthusiasmEntering October 2026, the crypto market continues the box-range oscillation pattern seen in September. Bitcoin remains trading between 74,000 and 80,000 USD, while Ethereum holds steady in the 2,300 to 2,500 USD range. As the Federal Reserve's October interest rate meeting approaches, concerns about a prolonged high interest rate cycle are rising. The inflow pace of Bitcoin spot ETFs has marginally slowed, with significant single-day net outflows occurring at the end of the month. Ethereum ETF funds have become more volatile, with existing supply competition further intensifying. The strength divergence between BTC and ETH became increasingly apparent in early October. On the capital side, Bitcoin spot ETFs still maintain a net monthly inflow overall, but the inflow scale has sharply contracted compared to the short squeeze phase in August. Leading BlackRock IBIT steadily increased positions earlier but saw short-term redemptions at month-end due to macroeconomic expectations disturbances. Smaller ETF funds continue to consolidate towards the leaders, with institutions shifting from aggressive accumulation to cautious observation. On-chain exchange Bitcoin holdings remain at historically low levels, with whale addresses continuing to hold coins offline. Long-term selling pressure is controllable, but multiple attempts to break the 80,000 USD level lack sufficient volume, and existing capital turnover struggles to drive an effective breakout. Ethereum ETF net inflows remain weak and fragmented. Layer 2 network transaction activity is stable, but ongoing staking unlocks continue to release circulating supply. The DeFi ecosystem lacks blockbuster applications to drive revenue growth, and the ETH/BTC price ratio remains under pressure. Capital preferentially flows to Bitcoin as a safe haven, making it harder for Ethereum to strengthen independently. Speculative sentiment in the derivatives market continues to cool. Perpetual contract funding rates have long hovered near zero, with long and short positions tending towards balance, and leverage positions held$NVDA's market value surged by $442 billion overnight last night. It rose 8.7%, completely breaking the curse of its earnings day always dropping. Revenue reached 96.2 billion, up 106% year-over-year, with Q3 guidance at 108 billion, and a preliminary outlook for fiscal year 2028 growth of 70%.
Brothers, do you know what this number means for the crypto world? Last night, among the eleven sectors of the S&P 500, only the tech sector rose; the average S&P stock actually fell. What is this? This is a typical liquidity clustering—there isn't much money, but all the money is squeezed into the most crowded risk asset track. And BTC is never a bystander in this environment; it is the thermometer of risk appetite. On days when the Nasdaq rises 1.5%, BTC rises 3%, with a magnification effect always between 1.5 to 2 times. Today BTC broke 81,000, up 2.78%, perfectly fitting the script.
But this clustering market has a fatal weakness: all risk assets share a single liquidity pipeline. After Nvidia's earnings, the market is now fixated on one person—Powell. Every word from this Federal Reserve chair is a valve on the pipeline; if he leans hawkish, tech stocks and BTC go silent together; if he eases, liquidity continues to pour into risk assets. The market's current situation is: fundamentals have ignited the fire, but the valve is in someone else's hands.
I'm watching this market with the script in mind: there is one more stress test in September, either Powell or CPI, one of the two. The first target is to rise above 82,500 before the test; the pit caused by the test will be the last cheap chips of this round.
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Actually, one reason is that the U.S. Treasury is buying back government bonds. Previously, they bought 2 billion at a time, now they’ve doubled to start at 4 billion. Bonds are being bought up, so there’s more cash in the market, interest rates drop, and money starts flowing into risk assets.
Crypto rises along with it, and volatile ones like SOL rise even more sharply.
Institutions are also buying with real money. Solana’s ETF is getting money every day, tens of millions of dollars daily, adding up to quite a lot in a week. Big banks are buying, and Schwab is even preparing to open SOL trading for regular clients. It’s not retail investors pumping each other up; big money from outside is entering.
Short sellers are even worse off. Many had short positions, but when the price pulls up, their positions get liquidated immediately. SOL alone liquidated over 10 million in shorts in one day, and the market liquidated tens of billions in a few days. Shorts are forced to buy back to close positions, effectively helping push the price up—the more liquidations, the higher it goes.
On-chain voting is still ongoing, aiming to issue fewer coins and burn more fees. Trading volume has also hit new highs. Several factors combined have driven the price up like this.
It will definitely still jump around and spike back and forth later, so don’t expect a straight skyrocket.
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