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I, the mold guy, have stood up!
Both trades were profitable yesterday: BEAT short trades yielded 39% profit, and SKHYNIX long trades earned 23%.
My family's opposition and your ridicule couldn't stop me from making a solo comeback.
After quitting, I took a flat-sided rental the second day, and today I started my first deal; Short MMT!
The second day of lying flat, no need to get up early to catch the bus, no need to listen to the roar of machines, no need to look at the supervisor's face.
Open your account, and the U will be credited.
My family's persuasion, your persuasion, I know it's all for my own good. But I didn't listen to a single word.
"The great roc rises with the wind in a single day, soaring ninety thousand miles upward." No matter how much you say, it's useless; achieving results is better than anything else.
Today, I set my sights on $MMT.
This coin pulled from 0.185 to 0.256 before pulling back, closing with a long upper shadow on the daily chart—a typical case of selling after a rally.
On-chain data shows that whales have just transferred 2.1 million tokens to exchanges, valued at 525,000 USD, with a cost around 0.19, and unrealized gains exceeding 30%.
Another address transferred out 1.3 million coins in three transactions within five minutes, suspected of off-exchange selling.
Even more disgusting, the largest position address placed consecutive sell orders in the 0.25-0.26 range, with three cancellations cumulatively—a classic case of fake pallets.
On August 4, there are still 12.53 million MMT to be unlocked, valued at about $2.26 million.
The total supply is 1 billion tokens, with only 200 million currently in circulation, 80% still locked.
For these kinds of altcoins, just push them up and short them.
Short at 0.248-0.252, stop loss at 0.258, target 0.235-0.22.
Others laugh at me for being too crazy, I laugh at them for not seeing through things. No sight of the tombs of the heroes of the Five Tombs; without flowers or wine, I hoe the fields to cultivate the fields.
If this order makes a profit, I'll head straight to Haidilao tonight!
$SKHYNIX
$BEAT
#美联储三票主张加息, tonight's PCE is a new highlight (1) BTC (Bitcoin) Current Trends: Bitcoin continued its rebound momentum on the last trading day of July. As of the Asian session on July 31, Bitcoin was trading at around $64,763, up about 1.54% in the past 24 hours. Previously, at 5:08 a.m. Beijing time, Bitcoin briefly fell to a low of $63,269, then continued to rise, forming a V-shaped reversal. In the past 24 hours, over 90,000 people worldwide experienced liquidation. In the South Korean market, Bitcoin was quoted at 917,900 won on Upbit, up 0.39% from the previous day, but the market still recorded a -2.05% "reverse kimchi premium," indicating that the Korean market is still at a discount to global prices. Driver: Federal Reserve rate decision implemented—rates unchanged but internal divisions deepen. In the early hours of July 30 Beijing time, the Federal Reserve announced it would keep the federal funds rate target range at 3.50% to 3.75%, marking the fifth consecutive time holding it unchanged. But the vote was 9 to 3, with three officials—Hamack, Kashkari, and Logan—all advocating for a 25 basis point rate hike. This is the first time since 2016 that three dissenting votes have appeared in unison, with Kashkari shifting from centrist to hawkish, indicating that inflation concerns have spread from traditional hawks to centrists. Before the meeting, the market had about a 30% chance of factoring in rate hike expectations. When the Federal Reserve announced rates would remain unchanged, market pressure was instantly released, and Bitcoin rebounded in response. Short-term technical rebound. Short-term bullish forces dominate, prices continue to rise upward, and the influx of incremental funds drives the market higher.I only treat this kind of news as financial dispatch, not $BTC as a bullish signal.
Hyperscale Data sold 100 $BTC to supplement the AI data center's cash flow, plus using BTC as collateral for credit lines. Essentially, it treats coins as balance sheet tools—not to increase holdings or attract new money. Here's the point of controversy about the market: many people automatically interpret "AI + BTC treasury" as a positive sign, but I don't accept that logic.
Currently, $BTC is at 64,898, with a 24-hour high and low of 65,176 / 63,603. The price is near the upper bound of the range, and the funding rate is only +0.0100%. The bulls are not considered aggressive; But the contract/spot transaction ratio has reached 6.5x, so trading mainly revolves around derivatives. At this stage, the biggest fear is using company news to find reasons for short-term price chases.
My action was straightforward: I didn't chase long above 64,950, placed a 5% light short position near 65,180, stopped loss at 65,650, and targeted 64,080 first. If spot trading can hold above 65,200, I'll close my short position and won't argue with the news.
Do you take this news as good news? $BTC #BTC
The market is changing; what works today might be wrong tomorrow.Apple fell, Amazon rose: Two earnings reports, one lesson
This earnings season, it's particularly interesting to look at two companies side by side: Apple's earnings were good, but its stock price fell; Amazon's cash flow was negative, yet its stock price rose.
Apple: Did well this time, but forecasted to do worse next time
Let's first look at Apple's report card.
Revenue was $109.4 billion, up 16% year-over-year; net profit was $29.8 billion, up 27%. Breaking it down, iPhone revenue rose 22%, Mac rose 29%.
This is a very impressive result. Both phones and computers sold very well, and the company remains highly profitable.
So the question arises: with such good results, why did the stock price fall?
Investors look at earnings reports not just to see how much was earned in the past three months, but more importantly, whether growth can continue.
To give an analogy: a student scored 90 this time, which is very good. But if he tells his parents, "Next exam, I’ll probably only score just over 80," how would the parents feel? Certainly not happy.
Apple did exactly this: it forecasted next quarter revenue growth of 9%–11%, below market expectations. The services business was not as strong as imagined, and AI has not yet brought significant revenue.
So Apple's problem is not that it isn't making money now, but the market worries that its growth rate may slow down.
Amazon: Spending aggressively, but already seeing returns
Now let's look at Amazon. The focus of this earnings report is not online retail, but AWS.
What is AWS? You can think of it as a computing power rental company. Many businesses don't want to buy servers or build data centers themselves, so they rent from Amazon. AI companies especially need computing power, so AWS naturally becomes the most direct beneficiary.
Looking at the numbers: total revenue was $200.6 billion, up 20%; operating profit was $27.5 billion, up 43%. AWS revenue was $42.2 billion, up 37%—the fastest growth in the past 18 quarters.
But Amazon also spends aggressively: this year it plans to invest $220 billion on chips, data centers, and AI. Because of heavy spending, free cash flow over the past 12 months was negative $7.6 billion.
Negative cash flow, so why did the stock price still rise?
Another analogy: someone spends a lot to build a factory, so cash is tight initially. But as factory orders increase and revenue grows rapidly, lenders won't panic because they can see the money coming back.
Amazon is in this state now. AWS's 37% growth signals to the market that the money invested is already turning into revenue.
Why does Amazon rise while Meta falls despite both burning cash?
Yesterday we talked about Meta. Both Amazon and Meta are burning cash to build AI infrastructure, and both have declining free cash flow, but the market's attitude is completely different.
What's the difference?
Amazon spends money but can directly sell computing power to customers through AWS; customers pay for servers, cloud services, and AI usage as they go, so money comes back immediately.
Meta? It makes money from Facebook and Instagram ads, then invests that ad revenue into AI models and data centers. AI can improve ad targeting accuracy, but the returns versus investment are not clearly accounted for.
Amazon spends money and earns money simultaneously; Meta spends first and the future earnings are still uncertain. The market naturally prefers the former.
Apple's problem is not lack of profit, but possibly slower future growth; Amazon's problem is heavy spending, but AWS has proven the spending is worthwhile.
This principle applies to all companies: spending money is not scary; what's scary is spending money that doesn't bring back more revenue and profit.
Borrowed a chart from @你的爱播Misa to use here The BTC decline is not due to the interest rate itself, but rather the result of the derivatives market pre-pricing in the 'next rate hike.' All 104 economists predicted rates would remain unchanged, so why did BTC fall by 1% instead? Fact: The Fed kept the benchmark interest rate steady at 5.25-5.50% at the July FOMC, but BTC fell 1% to $63,890. The market repriced not the freeze itself, but the 9-3 opposition vote (three advocating a 25bp increase) and the 82% probability of a September hike reflected in OIS. The internal rift within the Fed widened from 12-0 to 9-3, which is the result of the derivatives market hedged the 'worst-case scenario' by accumulating a historic open interest of 967,136 contracts. Market Structure Changes: While the hold was within the expected range, three opposition votes pushed the September rate hike expectation from 13% to 38%. With Fed Chair Walsh abolishing the comprehensive guidelines, the market had to adjust its position amid uncertainty without a dot plot. The record open interest in CME fund futures was large-scale hedging as traders bet on short-term rate increasesAccording to OKX real-time data, $XMU was quoted at $901.67, with a 24-hour increase of 21.02%. The intraday high reached $911.56 and the lowest was $723.69, with an amplitude of 0.0% and a turnover of 0.0B. This set of data reflects a situation where the opening and closing price ranges closely overlap according to statistical criteria. In reality, intraday volatility remains severe, prices quickly surged to high levels after narrow consolidation, and short-term capital games are evident. Switching to on-chain metrics, MVRV currently reads at 2.3, meaning holders' average unrealized profit exceeds 130%. This value has entered a historical overheating range; after the last three MVRV breaks above 2.2, $XMU has seen a 9% to 14% drawdown within 72 hours. The SOPR index fell back to 1.08, cooling from 1.14 the previous day, indicating that profit-taking is gradually releasing selling pressure, though panic exit has yet to form. On the URPD distribution chart, the most concentrated chip accumulation is between $792 and $810, which corresponds to the tightly traded zone before yesterday's volume breakout and serves as effective short-term support. If the price pulls back within this range and MVRV falls below 2.0, the long-bear structure will regain balance. In terms of exchange balances, the net inflow of XMU on the OKX platform increased by 12% quarter-on-quarter in the past 24 hours, with an absolute volume of about 48,000 coins. The number of on-chain addresses transferring to exchanges is rising simultaneously, indicating that some profitable tokens are being transferred to trading platforms, and potential short-term selling pressure should not be ignored. However, the average holding cycle for outflowing addresses still exceeds 40 days, so the confidence of medium- and long-term holders remains unshaken for now. This structural differentiation is a typical feature of the market entanglement phase. From a technical perspective, on-chain signals show that $XMU showed divergence signals at high levels, while rising exchange balances reinforced expectations of a pullback. MVRV is relatively high, SOPR is weakening, and chip stacks still hold support, so the direction is likely to be bearish in the short term. Below, watch the URPD concentration zone near $800, and above it needs to hold above $915 to open new space. In the medium- to long-term logic, some wallets have only been inflowing and not withdrawing for months, viewing $XMU as a tool for configuring the digital future. This belief in scarcity is like a kind of wealth code, but short-term price movements are not driven by sentiment. Bullish and bearish judgment: Short-term pullback pressure is accumulating, leaning cautious; If the medium-term pullback does not break below $792, the upside structure remains intact. The above analysis is based on on-chain data and market indicators, and does not constitute investment advice. BTC ETFs are flowing out, ETH ETFs are flowing in, and money is moving
Last week: Bitcoin ETFs saw net outflows of 3,170 BTC (about $200 million), Ethereum ETFs saw net inflows of 37,959 ETH (about $71 million). ETH has seen net inflows for three consecutive weeks.
BlackRock's IBIT is flowing out, and BlackRock's ETHA is flowing in. The same company is moving funds from BTC to ETH.
Why? ETH's ETF fees are lower, ETH offers staking yields, and ETH is starting to increase in demand from corporate treasuries (BitMine's stock price rose 13%, and SharpLink continues to increase its ETH holdings).🚨 Major Scenario Revealed: Is the Crypto Sector Declining in Form? A 24-hour transaction heatmap tears open the harsh truth
Opening the perpetual contract trading volume rankings on major exchanges, let's first ask everyone a tough question:
Are we still trading on exchanges now or not?
First, look at this transaction heatmap—the reality of fragmentation is obvious to the naked eye:
✅ The only truly native cryptocurrencies are: $BTC, $ETH, SOL, COTI
The remaining massive trading volume that accounts for half the market is all mirror contracts:
Micron MU, SanDisk $SNDK, SK Hynix, Semiconductor Long-Short ETF SOXL/SOXS, Gold XAU, Silver XAG, Crude Oil CL, and various overseas stock ETFs......
Massive leveraged funds have long fled massively from counterfeit crypto tokens, flooding into US stocks and commodity perpetual markets.
Many people still live in old beliefs: crypto = speculating on Bitcoin, Ethereum, and all kinds of new meme coins.
But the reality at the moment is extremely cold:
Centralized exchanges are no longer just cryptocurrency exchanges.
It has evolved into a 24/7× leveraged trading infrastructure supporting high leverage and stablecoin settlements.
What the target is doesn't matter at all.
Whether it's a blockchain-native token, or a US chip stock, gold, or crude oil, it makes no difference for the platform.
The platform only earns transaction fees.
As the narrative of Grey Dog, public blockchains, and MEME coins continues to fade, and native crypto small-coin liquidity continues to dry up, exchanges naturally frantically launch traditional asset mirror contracts to compete for incremental capital.
Funds vote with their feet, the trend is clear at a glance:
Speculative funds are tired of empty tokens that lack fundamentals and rely solely on shouting to push the market.
Compared to altcoins with extremely high risk of reset, storage chips, gold, and crude oil have clear macro logic and industry cycles, making capital more willing to bet on real-world cyclical markets.
⚠ Two layers of reality—you must distinguish between them:
The boundaries of the derivatives speculative circle have become completely blurred
A large number of so-called "crypto traders" now don't touch new coins at all.
Open the software to trade semiconductor cycles, gold hedging, and crude oil supply and demand.
It simply borrows the leverage and uninterrupted trading environment of crypto platforms.
It's hard for outsiders to tell whether he's a stock investor or a crypto player.
The native crypto track remains independent, but speculative capital is losing its value
BTC and ETH remain the foundation of the industry, while on-chain DeFi and RWA infrastructure continue to evolve.
However, the most aggressive and largest derivatives hot money is slowly decoupling from native crypto assets.
🔥 The most important point to watch out for:
Traditional assets like SOXL, MU, XAU are perpetual ≠ spot stocks / physical gold.
The vast majority are just price mirror derivatives issued by exchanges, without the backing of underlying underlying assets.
You may seem to be trading US chips and gold, but at your core, you're still a bet on the platform, with liquidity gaps, pin insertion, and price spread risks far higher than native crypto assets.
In the past: entering the market = trading cryptocurrencies
Now: Enter = pick any 24-hour leveraged contract
Ask yourself: When most trading volume on exchanges has nothing to do with blockchain or crypto tokens,
Can the "crypto world" we talk about still be called the crypto world in the original sense?
#交易之声: Your experience deserves to be heard US stocks violently rebound 🚀
Microsoft surged 15.5% in a single day, marking its biggest gain since 2008, with a financial report proving that AI investments can pay off. The Nasdaq rose 2.78%, ending a six-day losing streak, the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index soared 8%, and SanDisk led the charge with a 26% jump.
But don’t rush to call a bull market—Meta plunged 8% (cash flow plummeted 91%), Apple fell 6% after hours (AI lagging anxiety), and the 30-year US Treasury yield spiked to 5.2%, hitting a 19-year high.
The rebound is real, but so are the divergences. Microsoft has become the new anchor in the AI race, but other giants are still struggling. Retail investors have a memory of only three days, but the macro debt hasn’t been paid off yet.
Timing the market is less effective than reading the trend. See clearly who is swimming naked. Strategy lost $8.2 billion in Q2! You read that right—8.2 billion, and that's US dollars. Because of $BTC's poor performance, unrealized losses have snowballed and grown. But not only did they not leave, they even built a 3.75 billion yuan cash reserve pool. They say it's to support preferred stock dividends, and they've launched some kind of $BTC monetization plan. I was stunned by this move. On one hand, the books were losing like dogs, while on the other, they were hoarding cash in anticipation of disbursements. Is it too confident, or is it too deeply trapped? Don't panic, let's take a look at it. This company is now the world's largest enterprise-level holder of $BTC. The amount of Bitcoin held in their hands exceeds the reserves of many small countries. Paper losses are just floating losses; as long as you don't sell, it's not a loss. But the timing of their cash pool is delicate. After losing 8.2 billion yuan in Q2, they immediately said they had 3.75 billion yuan in cash as a backup. It looks just like issuing an announcement after a crash to stabilize morale. But then again, A company that managed to pull out nearly 4 billion yuan in cash in such a market is no ordinary person in itself. This shows the capital chain hasn't been cut and the confidence remains. What the market fears most is not losing money, but panic. If Strategy can really survive this round of adjustment and wait for $BTC to recover, the 8.2 billion unrealized loss could be wiped out instantly. But at this critical moment, I think it's best to see if $BTC can hold its ground first. With Bitcoin unstable, all sorts of cash pools and monetization plans are just paper talk. Don't rush to copy homework. Before the drama was even #加密行情回暖finished, Bitcoin rose #美股全线走高, crypto stocks led the #伦理条款获特朗普认可, and divergence remained 2026.07.31 Chanlun Community Web3 Morning News 💥
1. Bitcoin rose 1.54% to $64,764
Commentary: Gold breaks through $4100, and a weaker dollar drives a rebound
2. Ethereum outperformed Bitcoin far in July
Commentary: The ETH/BTC ratio has risen to a three-month high, indicating clear capital rotation
3. Over 90,000 investors worldwide were liquidated in the past 24 hours
Comment: The volatility isn't huge, yet so many people are liquidated...
4. Bitcoin ETFs end four consecutive days of net outflows
Commentary: BlackRock's IBIT injected $89.83 million in a single day, which was the main reason for the reversal
5. Ethereum ETFs have outflowed Bitcoin net inflows for three consecutive weeks
Commentary: Institutional interest in ETH allocation has clearly increased
6. U.S. Treasury Secretary Bescent urges the Senate to immediately vote on the CLARITY bill
Commentary: Senate majority leaders expect it to fail to pass before the August recess
7. JPMorgan: Probability of CLARITY Act Passed Drops to 37%
Commentary: If the bill is delayed, tokenized applications may be absorbed by traditional financial infrastructure
8. SEC Chair: If CLARITY fails, the SEC will set its own rules
Commentary: Regulatory certainty will not be absent; it may just be implemented in a more fragmented manner
9. Coinbase wins major class-action lawsuit
Commentary: Involving more than 60 tokens including XRP and Dogecoin, it was ruled that "matching transactions" do not constitute securities sales
10. Coinbase's Q2 revenue was $1.22 billion, marking 14 consecutive quarters of profitability
Commentary: Trading income is under pressure during a bear market, but earnings remain resilient beyond expectations
11. 500 single transaction addresses transfer 594 BTC ($38 million) within 25 minutes
Commentary: The concentrated abnormal movement of single-signature addresses has raised market concerns about security and potential selling pressure
12. BlueNoroff's new phishing toolkit targets the Web3 industry
Commentary: Social engineering + AI deep forging new threats
13. In the first half of 2026, crypto hacker losses will exceed $1 billion
Comment: Private key and voucher management have become the biggest weak links
14. WEMIX suffered a smart contract vulnerability attack
Comment: The impact of exposing contract vulnerabilities cannot be underestimated
15. Ondo Finance evaluates acquisition deals up to $500 million
Commentary: Industry consolidation is accelerating, with leading players vying for market share through mergers and acquisitionsSK Hynix Daily Market Summary (July 30, 2026)
1. Core market data
- US ADR closing price: $146.88, up 15.85% for the day.
- Korean Common Stocks: Rebounded intraday, but due to previous sharp declines, the overall market is still in a period of intense recovery (the previous trading day's intraday crash of over 19%).
- Market Cap Changes: The total market capitalization of US ADRs rebounded to about $1.08 trillion, a significant recovery from the previous trading day.
2. Core drivers of the surge
- Improved macro liquidity expectations: The U.S. core PCE price index for June rose 3.3% year-on-year (in line with expectations and below the previous value), while Q2 GDP grew only 1.5% quarter-on-quarter (significantly below the expected 2.1%). Dual signals of moderate inflation and slowing growth have pushed the market's expectation for a Fed rate hike in September from a "certainty" to about 60%, easing liquidity tightening concerns and directly igniting a rebound in tech stocks.
- AI capital expenditure concerns disproved: Microsoft and Meta's latest earnings have dispelled market concerns that "AI investment has peaked." Microsoft has confirmed that AI infrastructure capital expenditure next quarter will still exceed $50 billion; Meta has raised its annual capital expenditure guidance to $130 billion. The two giants have spent real money to declare that the AI "money-burning" battle is far from over, reinforcing the long-term logic of storage demand.
- Industry supply and demand tightness expected: At the earnings briefing, Samsung Electronics clearly stated that "memory chip supply shortages will continue until 2028," with 60%-70% of total capacity already used to ensure long-term supply agreements, and new customers must pay advance payments. Executives from the three major storage giants previously stated that tight supply and demand will continue beyond 2027, further reinforcing expectations for an upcycle in the memory market.
- Management's increased holdings convey confidence: SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won directly bought 3,620 shares of SK Hynix common stock for the first time, with a transaction amount of about 4.8 billion KRW (approximately $3.34 million). This move was interpreted by the market as management's confidence in the long-term value of semiconductors and a judgment of the current severe undervaluation, serving as a key catalyst for the stock price turning from a decline to a rise in pre-market trading.
- Oversold Recovery Demand Released: Previously, SK Hynix's stock price fell from a historical high of 2.987 million won on June 25 to 1.322 million won on July 30, a decline of over 56%, while Micron Technology pulled back more than 20% over the same period. Multiple positive factors combined with technical recovery demand after oversold conditions jointly generated a strong single-day rebound of over 15%.
3. Market sentiment and risk warnings
- Clear Sentiment Reversal Characteristics: The previous trading day, panic selling was triggered by Q2 results falling short of expectations (revenue and operating profit both about 5.7% below institutional forecasts), causing a single-day plunge of nearly 10%; The next day, driven by multiple positive factors, it quickly rebounded, showing typical "emotion-driven" volatility.
- Volatility risks in cyclical stocks remain: Memory chips are a highly cyclical industry. Although the current rebound has confirmed the long-term logic of AI storage, the stock price has already priced in high growth expectations. Going forward, continued attention should be paid to the strength of quarterly earnings reports, changes in capital expenditure guidance from AI giants, and marginal changes in storage price gains, to be wary of the cycle pattern of "buying in panic, selling in unison."
- A-share linkage impact: The sharp rise of overseas storage giants is highly likely to catalyze sentiment in the A-share storage sector. Domestic storage manufacturers such as Jiangbolong, Baiwei Memory, GigaDevice, and SK Hynix's domestic agent Shannon Chip Innovation are expected to benefit. However, it is important to rationally distinguish between short-term sentiment and long-term fundamentals, and avoid blindly chasing themes that previously saw overly high gains.
4. Key data supplements
- Q2 core performance indicators: revenue of 79.32 trillion KRW (YoY +257%), operating profit of 60.54 trillion KRW (YoY +557%), net profit of 93.92 trillion KRW (YoY +1242%). All three indicators hit single-quarter records, but net profit included a one-time investment gain of 62.17 trillion KRW (sale of Kioxia shares).
- Industry Price Forecast: TrendForce forecasts a 13%-18% quarter-on-quarter increase in DRAM contract prices and 10%-15% in NAND in Q3 2026; UBS forecasts a 32% quarter-on-quarter increase in DRAM contract prices in Q3 and an additional 18% increase in Q4.
- Supply-demand gap data: Currently, the industry-wide supply-demand gap exceeds 15%, with storage chip capacity construction cycles of 2-3 years, and new capacity not released until 2028 at the earliest; The DRAM capacity per AI server is 8-10 times that of traditional servers, and global HBM demand growth is expected to reach 67% by 2026.
Note: The above data is based on the US stock market close on July 30, 2026, and publicly available market information for that day, and does not constitute any investment advice. The stock market carries risks; caution is advised when entering the market$CORE Debunk: Don't be brainwashed by the idea that 'the team will surge after the 2027 team unlocks'
A very confusing view circulates within the circle: as long as they hold out until early 2027, when the team share is fully unlocked and selling pressure disappears, CORE can see a reversal.
Blindly focusing on the unlock schedule and fantasizing about market trends is a fatal misconception. Combining the token release mechanism with the current on-chain situation explains the logic thoroughly.
1. In 2027, it only means the team will not add new unlock chips, but it does not mean the project team has no chips to spend
The team shares 315 million tokens, which will stop unlocking in January 2027; however, the treasury will have 199.5 million tokens and ecosystem reserves of 210 million tokens, with a 10-year release period continuing until 2033.
Over 400 million in controllable chips have been held by the foundation for a long time, with collateralizable loans, off-market disposal, and phased sell-offs—there's no such thing as 'once the unlock ends, there will be no project selling pressure.'
2. Permanent long-term selling pressure: Block mining rewards have been continuously released for 81 years
Many people deliberately avoid this core rule. The CORE block consensus reward cycle lasts 81 years, slowly decaying by 3.61% annually, continuously producing new tokens over the long term.
Even if the project team stops selling, the continuous demand for new tokens to cash out from nodes, miners, and staking users will persist. Selling pressure is just a change in the main body; it will not disappear.
3. The market rally relies on new buying interest, not simply a decrease in selling
The most fundamental financial logic: without external incremental funds and sustained ecosystem cash flow, simply reducing selling pressure cannot drive a trending rise.
Current situation: The on-chain ecosystem is nearly stagnant, with Colend, Molten, NFT, and perpetual contracts all failing one after another; lstBTC and SatPay narratives were delayed; Official commitment to buybacks, with zero buybacks in the past eight months; External institutional funding has almost completely disappeared.
Without real demand support, even the lowest selling pressure cannot support prices, and the low-volume bearish decline can continue indefinitely.
4. Harsh reality: In 2027, the team's chips are cleared out, and project teams lose the motivation to maintain the market
At present, occasional pulse rebounds, false trading volumes exist on the market, and various narratives are continuously launched, all driven by zero-cost token unlocking and selling.
Once all team shares are cashed out, project teams no longer have incentives to engage in PR, maintain quantitative market views, or continue to package positive news.
At that point, there is a high probability that the narrative will stop, the market will be left unmaintained, liquidity will continue to dry up, and the coin will become a complete zombie currency.
5. The iron rule of the crypto world: Buy expectations, sell facts
Many retail investors are unanimously hoping for 2027, with expectations already fully priced in. When the unlocking is complete, the good news will be realized, making it easy for a concentrated crush.
Summary:
2027 is not the starting point for reversals, but merely a phased unlocking milestone.
Treasury and ecological reserves will continue to release funds until 2033, combined with perpetual mining inflation over 81 years, with long-term selling pressure; The core issues of ecosystem bleeding and lack of incremental funds will not be automatically resolved once the unlock ends.
Don't pin your hopes for a breakthrough on a distant timeline; each brief rebound in the narrative is more an exit window than a chance to seize the opportunity.
Virtual currencies carry extremely high risks, and there is a risk of principal being lost to zero. The content objectively reviews mechanisms and logic and does not constitute any investment advice.Interest rates unchanged, but BTC fell—this is not an accident; the market is telling you "you haven't understood yet." 🫧 Do you also think that since all 104 economists unanimously bet to hold the rate and CME data shows a 70% probability of holding the position, then the decision should "meet expectations and remain calm"? As a result, BTC slipped from above 65,000 to 63,890, and ETH also fell by 1% in tandem. In fact, the real signal is never in the "result" itself, but in the "cracks behind the result." - The first layer, and the easiest to overlook—the voting result is even more deadly than interest rates. This time, 9 to 3, the chairs of Cleveland, Minneapolis, and Dallas all voted against it, advocating a 25 basis point rate hike. Last time, it was unanimously approved 12-0, but this time it split into a quarter. These three votes were the most hawkish dissenting votes during Wash's term, telling the market that some within the Fed already feel that not raising rates is a mistake. The interest rate hasn't changed, but the expectation of a "rate hike in September" has been fully activated by these three bills. In the derivative structure, the probability of a July rate hike implied by OIS once soared to 38%, and the September rate hike expectation has soared to 82%. - Second: Inflation hasn't stopped at all, and energy is secretly adding fuel to the fire. The Fed's statement made it clear: inflation remains above 2%, partly because Middle East tensions are driving up oil prices. Iran's Revolutionary Guard just launched ballistic missiles, and the US military precisely struck Iranian-controlled targets in Iraq, causing oil prices to rebound by nearly $4 to $83. If it fluctuates repeatedly between 80 and 90 dollars, inflation expectations won't come down. The probability of rate hikes is fromVisa's latest earnings report reveals figures: quarterly net revenue of $11.6 billion, with payments exceeding $4 trillion, but what truly excites Wall Street is its stance in the stablecoin sector. This payment giant announced its joining the OpenUSD alliance, maintaining a multi-currency, multi-chain strategy but clearly not issuing its own stablecoin. This approach of only focusing on infrastructure and charging fees is more sophisticated than institutions that issue tokens directly. Visa's cross-border transaction fees are as high as 2% to 3%, while stablecoin transfer costs are almost zero. Visa is embedding assets like $USDC and $USDT into its clearing network, essentially laying a toll road in the crypto world. Currently, the total market capitalization of stablecoins exceeds $180 billion, accounting for more than 60% of $USDT. Visa's entry will drive explosive adoption of stablecoins in e-commerce, remittances, and other scenarios. This also acts as a catalyst for public chains like $ETH and $SOL, as large amounts of stablecoin flow require support from the underlying network. Visa does not bear the risk of price fluctuations, and its win rate is clearer about fees—this is the real calculation of traditional financial giants. The stablecoin ecosystem will see accelerated compliance, with medium- to long-term bullish prospects. Visa #微软逆势下调资本开支, up 8.5% in after-hours #财报观察员: Microsoft Cloud revenue surpasses 100 billion, Meta disappoints guidance—Is the AI story diverging? Did I miss out again? Is it still possible to get on board with $SOFI now? Wait, I calmed down and looked at the numbers again, feeling a bit laughable. Over 380,000 crypto products—sounds huge, right? But in Q2, net trading revenue was only $1.2 billion. What does that mean? Gross profit of 130 million, transaction costs over 130 million... Almost a waste! The story of institutions entering the market has been told for years, and it turns out their own calculations are just as bad. I remember chatting with a friend a couple of days ago, she said, "The institutional era has arrived, retail investors have no way out." I asked her back, "Look at SoFi's financial report—does it seem like there's any way to survive?" 380,000 products... After deducting mainstream assets like $BTC and $ETH, what's left? A bunch of small-scale coins with exhausted liquidity, and even market makers are too lazy to place orders. Honestly, after seeing this data, I actually felt relieved. I used to think big players were invincible, and I was just a leek. Turns out no one has it easy. Costs eat up 90% of the profits—that's real world trading. We complain about gas fees and slippage, but for big platforms, that's tens of millions of dollars in friction costs. So not all "positioning" is worth chasing. Not all "institutional entries" make money. Sometimes, staying still is better than moving recklessly. Play steady and wait for a truly understandable opportunity. Right now, the whole internet is hyping up all kinds of narratives, but I think we should stay steady first. $BTC when you're going sideways, don't rush to find tenfold coins. Waiting for the wind to pick up the sails again, #美股全线走高 crypto stocks led the #特朗普将决定是否扩大对伊战事 #谷歌特斯拉Q2财报今夜见分晓Risk appetite is like a roller coaster; risk-on is back, but don't mistake a rebound for a reversal—the last time someone thought this way, their graves were already three meters tall.
Look at the numbers
$BTC 64,859 +1.44% $ETH 1,926 +1.01%
$QQQ +3.30% $SPY +1.68% $IBIT +1.94%
$DXY -0.83% $GLD +1.64%
All the hype this round is on the semiconductor side: $SNDK +32.5%, $SKHYNIX +14.7%, $MU +22.0%, $SOXL +32.6%. The AI narrative has directly boosted risk appetite. The fire between crude oil and Hormuz is still lingering, and inflation expectations are fluctuating; $DXY If it softens, risk assets dare to breathe, but the exchange rate line can turn against you at any time. Don't treat the US dollar as a backdrop.
In the crypto world, $BTC led ETF gains in small steps, $IBIT +1.94% still managed to keep up with spot trading. The problem lies in the $ETH, where they haven't even touched 2,000, and the funds are clearly holding on. Is it the knockoff season? Don't worry, even the big brother hasn't steadied himself. $QQQ is quite steady, and the Nasdaq's bullish candlestick has made many people believe it again. $GLD is still rising, but safe-haven funds haven't fully withdrawn, indicating the market base is still uncertain.
A barrage of analysis is fierce as a tiger, but whether the market rises or falls, Trump is still watched. Whoever shows weakness first will set the direction for the next few days. I choose to wait a bit longer; one or two candlesticks don't matter.
#比特币与纳指相关性大幅下降: Independence or IllusionToday, there are only two types of people opening their accounts.
One type held on and breathed a sigh of relief watching the rebound.
The other type sold off, feeling worse today than when they were losing money.
Those who held on: watching SanDisk pull back 22%, Microsoft rise 14% in one day, the red numbers in their accounts are less than yesterday, they breathe a sigh of relief, feeling that their recent ordeal was not in vain.
Those who didn’t hold on: panicked during the continuous sharp drops these days, sold off, or had their positions forcibly liquidated due to leverage.
Seeing the rebound numbers today, their mood is worse than when losing money. Because losing money is just painful, but watching the stocks they just sold off rally 22% is both painful and infuriating.
Which type are you?
Microsoft’s earnings report last night actually gave the whole market a strong boost. No need to look at too many numbers, just remember one thing: after spending $41 billion on AI infrastructure, free cash flow is still $19.6 billion.
On the same night, Meta’s report was the opposite: expenses rose 55%, free cash flow dropped to less than $800 million. One company spent money and made a profit, the other spent money and dug a hole. The market made its judgment overnight.
But don’t rush to think the sky is clear with today’s rebound. A large part of the rally is short covering. The funds that shorted with leverage a few days ago couldn’t hold on and started closing positions, forced to buy back and push prices up.
Leopold’s Situational Awareness fund holds $8.5 billion in puts on chip stocks. Today, he’s scrambling for cash everywhere. If his positions start being liquidated passively, just the covering alone could create a significant rebound.
So whether this rebound turns into a real reversal depends on tonight’s earnings from Apple and Amazon.
Microsoft proved AI can make money, but one company’s earnings aren’t enough; more need to deliver the same answer.
The cruelest thing this month isn’t how much it dropped, but who’s still here and who’s gone. SanDisk’s 22% rebound today has nothing to do with those who were forcibly liquidated at the bottom last week.
They endured the entire drop and left the rebound to others. The direction was right, but they died in the three days they couldn’t hold on.
A phrase that can be used repeatedly this year: it’s not about whether you saw it right, but whether you can survive until the day you’re right.
Tonight Apple and Amazon report. Are you still here? $SNDK $MU Last night, AI stocks saw a massive rebound, with several key observations:
1️⃣ This round of AI stock crashes has finally found a reasonable explanation.
The forced liquidation of Leopold funds perfectly explains why this wave of AI stocks is selling so fiercely.
Often, market declines are not due to sudden deterioration in fundamentals, but rather liquidity crises caused by leveraged funds trampling on them.
Once the cause is found, panic tends to end.
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2️⃣ But note: rebound ≠ reversal.
The first phase of the AI market—the hype cycle driven by imagination, sentiment, and valuation expansion—has basically come to an end.
Next, the market will enter a more complex phase:
There is a constant tug-of-war between fundamental pricing and sentiment pricing.
A true AI winner needs to prove itself through performance.
As for short-term sentiment, it may still take some time to recover, and the market needs to "feed the chives" again.
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3️⃣ South Korean market: Kimchi discounts may recover, but most likely only a rebound.
South Korea's apparent financing situation remains relatively stable for now, but overall leverage remains relatively high.
If further government restrictions on short selling are compounded, market sentiment may improve.
The long-standing 'kimchi discount' in the Korean stock market has a chance to recover in the short term.
But don't forget:
Valuation recovery ≠ the start of a bull market.
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4️⃣ The actual impact of this wave of market volatility in South Korea may not be as significant as the market imagines.
I asked some friends outside the circle who studied in Korea, and they gave feedback:
There were no obvious abnormalities in the living, consuming, or working environments around us.
This indicates that currently, most fluctuations are still at the financial market level, with no obvious spread to the real economy for now.
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5️⃣ Tonight's rebound in AI stocks may not be good news for BTC and ETH.
Funding is always limited.
After risk appetite returns, capital usually remains the first choice for core AI assets in the US stock market.
In the short term, the AI rebound may continue to drain some liquidity from the crypto market.
BTC and ETH may need to wait for new catalysts to strengthen.
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To sum up:
Tonight is about emotional recovery, not a trend reversal.
AI has moved from "storytelling" to the stage of "submitting report cards";
The Korean market is experiencing a breathing room, but leverage risks remain;
The crypto market may continue to face pressure in the short term.
The most dangerous times in the market are often not when the market plunges, but when people start to believe "it's already bottomed." #ai股票# #美光# #闪迪# #海力士# #比特币btc# Last night, the strongest line in US stocks
Not AI applications
It's storage
SNDK rises 26%
MU up 18%
WDC rises 15%
STX up 11%
The reason is straightforward
Microsoft AI CapEx has not cooled down
Samsung has once again made the storage shortage cycle longer
The market is beginning to reassess one thing
AI is not just about the GPU
Also uses HBM DRAM NAND SSD
Today's trend is seen as divergence
After a surge in storage, it's easy to surge and turnover
If it is strong, funds will continue to stay in AI hardware
If weak, first test near the 5-day moving average and look for support
On the crypto side
BTC is a barometer
ETH is expected to catch up
SOL depends on risk appetite
BNB XRP ADA DOGE is more like sentiment spread
If US AI hardware continues to strengthen,
Mainstream coins in the crypto world are unlikely to be too bad
But don't chase cyclical stocks into faith
The above content is for market analysis only and does not constitute investment advice
Investing carries risks; caution is advised when entering the market with $ETH $SNDK Losing 140 USD on a long position, a counterintuitive trick saved me. Damn, long trading got stuck at 140 USD. Staring at floating losses gave me chills, but I didn't want to cut losses—because I knew the problem wasn't in the direction, but in that voice in my head.
⭐ Here's an unconventional tip: Don't focus on your purchase price; the market doesn't care about your cost at all.
Most losing trades stem from the "anchoring effect"—you cling tightly to the opening average price of 65,331.5, thinking that only after the drop falls does you break even, but the more you hold on, the more passive you become.
In fact, the market speaks for itself: the current price is 64,909.1, while MA7 (64,807) and MA30 (64,395) are both below, firmly holding above the moving average. The short-term trend is bullish, and the 24-hour increase is still 1.45%.
When you're intimidated by unrealized losses, the market's signal is actually "You can still get a little more." Principles + Practical Cases (Two-Step Approach):
1. The anchoring effect makes you treat the "cost price" as the Bible, but the candlestick only looks at the future. My long position lost 140 USD, but the middle band of the Bollinger Bands at 64608 held up below, and the RSI at 61.42 was still in neutral territory—neither overbought nor oversold—indicating the bullish moving average judgment was not overturned. If you only focus on floating losses, you would have cut long ago and sold at relatively low levels. 📌
2. Trading volume shrank by 37%, indicating weakened selling by bears and bulls in the same direction. At that moment, I told myself: forget the opening price, just look at how much higher the current price of 64909 is than the MA7—less than 100U. If the trend hasn't broken, why rush?
Note: Don't use tricks as excuses to stubbornly hold onto them.
If the price falls below the MA30 (64395) or the RSI drops below 40, I will admit my mistake and exit. - 32x leverage is too aggressive, liquidation price near 63,600, already close to the 24-hour low of 63,606.
Next time, I'll lower the leverage to within 10x to leave enough room for pullbacks. Have you ever been tricked by the "anchoring effect"?
$BTC $BEAT If the current price is short, it feels like you'll get stuck. If you buy a big position, just take over. August 1st is coming soon. Should we take advantage of this rally to sell? Some brothers say it's the foundation's unlocking chips, so it might not necessarily sell the stock. I don't really know now, but there's a pattern: if you look at the one-minute moving average, you can sell two or three times in a row for over 700,000, even over a million. Most likely, it's a big deal between the big players and the big players. I've followed suit several times, and the profit isn't much, but it's safer. This is just my personal observation, for reference only. I'm just waiting for it to surge up or show a right-side trend. I don't believe the big players won't cause trouble at 8.1!#财报观察员: Microsoft Cloud revenue breaks 100 billion, but Meta's guidance disappoints—has the AI story diverged? After nearly the entire month of July's decline, the storage sector saw a collective surge tonight—SanDisk +20%, Western Digital +16%, Micron +13%, Hynix ADR +11%. Many people's first reaction: Microsoft earnings drove a 14% rise and led the rally.
Let's share some views:
1. First, let's look at how they fell.
Yesterday, Hynix reported "the highest profit in history," yet its stock price once dropped 19% intraday and finally closed down 9.6%, nearly halving from the June peak by about 46%. The reason wasn't a collapse in demand but that the ASP month-over-month increase of +30% missed expectations, HBM4 volume ramp delayed to Q3, combined with a 2x leveraged ETF blowup in Korea forcing retail investors to deleverage. This was a position and sentiment washout, not a fundamental shift.
2. However, the market misread "Hynix's slight pricing rhythm flaw" as "AI hardware demand has peaked." Micron fell 27% from its high, SanDisk 46%—this is how the narrative of "AI bubble burst" gained ground.
3. Microsoft's earnings report precisely shot down this narrative: Azure +43%, next quarter guidance accelerating to +45%, cloud business annualized revenue surpassing $100 billion for the first time, and management this time talked about "ROI on capital expenditure," not mindless cash burn. Demand is not slowing down; it's accelerating.
4. This is the key transmission: mega-capex acceleration = continued tight demand for HBM + server DRAM + enterprise SSD.
Samsung also gave the same signal yesterday—server DRAM/eSSD/HBM supply tightness will continue in the second half. Storage prices are "leveraged" on this capex curve, so when it falls, it falls hardest; once capex panic is disproved, it rebounds strongest.
In short: Microsoft is not the fundamental reason for storage price increases; it is the trigger that removes the "demand collapse" tail risk. Storage is always the purest and highest beta expression in AI computing power trades.
But don't get carried away.
This is still a cycle extremely sensitive to supply rhythm—upcoming verification points include the 8/4 Future Storage Conference, Hynix HBM4 volume ramp in Q3, and Nvidia earnings on 8/26; Let's talk about two things
Apple's sharp drop and the rebound of storage semiconductors
Actually, there's not much to say about Apple's latest quarter; revenue, profit, and iPhone sales were all good, even exceeding market expectations
So why did the stock price still fall?
The reason is not complicated. What people are looking at now is no longer how much Apple earned this quarter, but whether it can continue to surprise next quarter. Apple's growth forecast was slightly below Wall Street's original target, so the market saw it as just okay and sold off first
$AAPL
This is the most interesting part of earnings season
Whether the results are good is one thing, but whether they can be better than expected is another
Now let's look at semiconductors and storage
Micron, SanDisk, Hynix — today's move follows a completely different logic
Yesterday they were heavily sold off by the market, but today they suddenly rallied together. A very important reason behind this is Microsoft's earnings $MSFT
Microsoft's AI capital expenditure is still ongoing, and Azure's growth hasn't noticeably slowed. The market was originally worried that AI giants spending so much money might start to think it's not worth it
Unexpectedly, Microsoft's current answer is: the money still needs to be spent, and it's worth it!
So upstream players like Micron, SanDisk, and Hynix naturally have a story to tell again $MU
Especially the memory and storage segment, which has already been hyped by the market for a long time due to AI demand and supply tightness expectations. After such a sharp drop yesterday, Microsoft's boost today caused short sellers to cover and funds to scramble back in, making the rise particularly fierce
So today's market looks scary
Apple's side is "great performance, but the future isn't that surprising," so the stock price still falls
On the chip side, it's "AI still needs to keep burning money," so Micron, SanDisk, and those selling the shovels are happy
As expected, no matter what the hype or market, it's always good for those selling the shovels haha
The market now increasingly seems to be picking narratives
AI isn't failing, but it's starting to distinguish who can really make money from AI and who is just mindlessly throwing money into it
As for whether this wave of memory stocks can continue, it depends on whether there are new narratives to follow up on Microsoft's boost Bitcoin 65,000 level is deadlocked: bullish and bearish battles and breakthrough paths amid a volatile pattern
At the end of July 2026, Bitcoin maintained high volatility near the $65,000 mark, while Ethereum simultaneously narrowed its volatility. This article combines the latest on-chain data, ETF capital flows, macro geopolitical risks, and technical signals to deeply analyze the current market structure, proposing short-term trading strategies based on real data and three scenario simulations, providing investors with decision-making references that combine depth and practical value.
1. Current Market Situation: Structural Contradictions Behind High-Level Consolidation
Entering the last week of July, Bitcoin's price repeatedly struggled around the $65,000 mark. As of July 29, BTC was trading at about $64,430, up 1.37% in 24 hours; Ethereum is at $1918, up 1.74%. On the surface, this is a typical stalemate of "no chase when prices rise, no buying when prices fall," but the deeper structure is far more complex than price figures.
In terms of volatility characteristics, the market has recently shown a distinct pattern of "compressed oscillation." After each round of volatility, bulls and bears only hovered within a hundred points, compressing Ethereum's volatility to just a few dozen points. This "space suffocation" is no coincidence—it reflects the typical state of market momentum before major direction choices. Compared to previous trends, the current range of volatility has further narrowed. If the price fails to break out strongly in a one-sided manner, trading within the consolidation range will remain the main theme.
Notably, this narrow range of volatility occurred after Bitcoin rebounded from its yearly low of $57,700 in early July. On July 13, BTC briefly fell to $62,600 due to a net outflow of $425 million from ETFs in a single day, but then saw five consecutive days of net ETF inflows from July 17 to 21 (totaling about $727 million), pushing the price back to around $65,900. However, on July 24, ETFs saw another net outflow of $240 million, with prices falling back to $65,400; on July 28, risk aversion surged ahead of the FOMC meeting, with BTC dropping to $63,600; and on July 29, it rebounded slightly to $64,400. This "two steps forward, one step back" rhythm is a true reflection of the evenly matched forces between bulls and bears.
2. Technical analysis: The logic of offense and defense at key price points
2.1 Bitcoin: $65,500 is the lifeline of reversal
Looking at the hourly chart, the current price has stabilized and surged after pressure, but has not yet broken out of the consolidation range. The price is consolidating near $65,000, and in the short term, further upward testing is expected. At the four-hour level, the trend holds above the middle band's support. If it breaks upward afterwards, the market is expected to challenge the high of $66,900.
However, what truly determines the nature of the trend is the daily chart. The current daily resistance is at $65,500—this is the dividing line between bulls and bears, and also the location of the 50-day EMA. Only when the daily price stabilizes above this price can a true reversal occur. Before that, all rally can only be seen as minor rebounds, not trend reversals.
From a longer time horizon, the 200-week moving average (around $63,300) is currently the strongest support. Historically in Bitcoin, the 200-week moving average has never been effectively broken during bull market cycles; every time it is touched, it serves as a strategic buying zone for medium- to long-term capital. Currently, the price is repeatedly battling around this moving average and has yet to confirm a stable hold. If the daily close remains below $61,000 (about 4% below the 200-week moving average), technical signals will be issued.
Regarding the MACD indicator, the daily MACD histogram shortened in early July with green bars (weakening downward momentum), but DIF is still trading below DEA, on the edge of a "low-level golden cross below the zero axis." RSI (14) is around the 42-45 range, below the 50 neutral line, rebounding from the oversold area below 30 but with limited strength. Multi-cycle comprehensive judgment: short-term (4H/1H) tends to rebound bullish, medium-cycle (daily) stabilizes but remains in a bearish trend, long-cycle (weekly) adjustment structure is not yet complete—this is a typical "counter-trend rebound" pattern.
2.2 Ethereum: Sluggish follow-up, volatility narrows
Ethereum's performance is noticeably weaker than Bitcoin's. The current price is near $1920, with volatility compressed into a narrow range between $1880 and $1950. From a technical perspective, ETH's 30-day funding rate has climbed to its highest level in six months, indicating a recovery in bullish sentiment, but buying strength at the spot level remains insufficient.
ETH's key support is at the psychological level of $1800; a break below this level would trigger a surge of larger stop-loss orders. Resistance above is focused on the two round value levels at $1950 and $2000. Considering that ETH ETF funds have recently been more active than BTC (Ethereum ETF net inflow of $9.4 million on July 29, totaling $125 million over 7 days), ETH has catch-up potential, but BTC needs to break out first to open up space.
3. On-chain Data and Capital Flows: What Is Smart Money Doing?
3.1 Long-term holders increase their holdings against the trend, while short-term speculators sell their losses and exit
On-chain data reveals a key divergence: long-term holders (holding coins ≥ 155 days) reached a historic high of 14.85 million BTC, increasing holdings by about 310,000 BTC in Q2; Meanwhile, short-term holders' positions continue to decline, and investors who entered the market in the past 3-6 months are selling at a loss. Loss-making supply accounted for about 54%, surpassing profitable supply for the first time in history.
ARK Invest specifically emphasized this signal in its research report: prices have fallen, but the most steadfast holders are increasing their holdings against the trend. In past cycles, this divergence often appeared at the bottom area—the "weak" handed over their chips to the "strong," and the market completed turnover. However, it should be noted that part of the reason long-term holders hit record highs is that ETF custody addresses are passively held, not entirely actively bottom-fishing.
#美联储三票主张加息, PCE becomes a new highlight tonight. #微软逆势下调资本开支, up 8.5% in after-hours trading. #财报观察员: Microsoft Cloud revenue surpasses 100 billion, but Meta's guidance is disappointing—Is the AI story diverging?
$BTC $ETH $SNDK Seizing the oversold recovery rally of SNDK (SanDisk), the bulls successfully closed out their positions and closed the market successfully.
Entered at 1049.03, closed position at 1212.25, and earned a 765.34% profit from a 50x perpetual long position.
Let's talk about my understanding of SanDisk's current market rally:
Previously, the storage sector experienced a deep correction, with two major concerns concentrated in the market—high AI capital spending and oversupply of forward computing power and storage. SanDisk followed the track in a weakening phase, with valuations severely suppressed.
Last night's PCE data was neutral to slightly positive, with marginal cooling in inflation, easing the Fed's ongoing hawkish fears. Coupled with severe short-term oversold properties of the target, funds have begun to gamble for a technical recovery.
But it's important to distinguish the nature: this wave is an oversold rebound, not a trend reversal. The medium- to long-term suppression logic in the storage sector has not disappeared; the upper side is heavily trapped, and cashing out during the rebound is a rational choice.
Trading Insights:
After a major drop, the biggest taboo is subjective bottom-guessing; patiently wait for both macro signals + price stabilization before making a move. High leverage is a double-edged sword. When the market is doing well, the explosive returns are extremely strong. Once the direction is wrong, the risk of liquidation is imminent. Pocketing for peace is always the unchanging principle; floating profits on paper are just numbers; the profits from closing positions truly belong to oneself. Rebounds lack strategic vision, don't fantasize about one-sided reversals, and make the most of your own segment of the market.At the moment of cardiac arrest, the crosshair of the scope has locked onto the target—not a person, but the line in Microsoft's financial report stating "FY2027 capital expenditure guidance first decline." With a fourfold windage correction, the trajectory is clear: revenue of 90.01 billion, Azure +43%, all fully penetrating estimates. But the real sniper value isn't in these hit rings; it's in the subtle angle between the 4.1 billion ammunition consumption and the guidance downgrade. Those panic-selling AI concept stocks outside are like foolish birds exposed in the open field, while I am hidden at the six o'clock position, finger resting on the trigger guard.
Meta, that weak stock, dropped nearly 7% in after-hours trading—the machine gun jams when out of ammo. Microsoft, however, popped 8.5% because it took real action on ammo management. Remember, an ace barrel never chases continuous fire; it only cares about the net gain of each shot. A 70% ammo increase (Q4 capex 41B) sounds scary, but that's to suppress the cost curve over the next two years. AI isn't a fixed target on a shooting range; it's a moving target that requires preemptive wind speed correction.
Look at those panic sellers smashing the market, mouths full of "AI spending with no returns," yet they can't see the real battlefield: Microsoft uses fewer bullets to stamp a bigger steel seal. Down 18% YTD this year? That's the market, like a rookie, blinded by anxiety over AI payback. I've been lurking all year and finally caught this signal—while other big players rush to increase investment, it slows down to adjust its breathing; this is the wind speed window to pull the trigger.
The bullet is already chambered, the crosshair locked on the $XCOIN target linkage depth. Either it's the precise guidance delivered by AI, or a tactical breather amid heavy expenditure. But for me, if the risk-reward ratio isn't at least 1:3, even the gun barrel won't beat in sync with my heartbeat. Mainstream assets stagnate in key box levels, with funds flowing into low-liquidity micro-cap tokens. The core contradiction lies in the liquidity imbalance between extreme overbought and deep scarcity in $MMT and other assets.
$MMT rose 38.30% in 24 hours to $0.2654, with an intraday volatility of 47%, but the volume of sell one to five sell orders was less than $20,000. This extreme lack of depth means that a single $10,000 market price sell-off can cause over 8% price slippage, and the price rally lacks substantial capital accumulation.
The current driving forces are as follows: first, mainstream sectors consolidating sideways under macro risk aversion; second, speculative hot money migrating into small-cap stocks in a low-leverage environment. The synchronized pulse of $XIREN rising 36.59% and $ROBO rising 25.45% confirms this capital flow.
To maintain the upward trend, $MMT must break through the psychological resistance level of $0.30 within the next two trading days with a volume greater than one-third of today's volume. This increase in volume will change the current liquidity vacuum reflected in the 0.0B rounding volume, confirming incremental buying support.
Conversely, if intraday trading volume continues to shrink, the 14-period RSI is in the extreme overbought range of 88 to 91, triggering a technical pullback. Historically, similar low-liquidity pulses have a 68% probability of falling more than 15% within 48 hours after the RSI breaks above 85, indicating that prices are very likely to approach the $0.2380 support level of the MA30.
If the US dollar index falls below 104 or gold breaks through resistance, the mainstream market reactivates, and hot money will quickly exit the micro-cap sector, at which point liquidity simulations based on $MMT independent moves will fail.
In the next 48 hours, focus on whether $MMT's intraday volume breaks above the 0.0B indicated limit and whether the RSI falls below the key overbought threshold of 85.
#SpaceX获 $1.6B US military contract, stock price plunge, sparking controversy between two camps. #美光暴跌后: Is it at the bottom or halfway up?Today's crypto exchanges are quietly becoming another kind of "entry point for the US stock market."
Opening OKX's TradFi page, there's a change worth pondering: S&P 500, Google, Nvidia, SanDisk, Micron, SpaceX, SK Hynix, and even triple long semiconductor ETFs all appear on the same page as USDT trading pairs.
Many people, upon seeing these things, immediately think, "The exchange has added several new products." But I think what really matters is not the number of products, but that trading habits are changing.
In the past, to buy US stocks, you had to open an account, exchange currency, wait for trading hours, and adapt to another account system. Now that these assets have been directly brought into the crypto trading environment, users are no longer seeing two completely different markets—"US stocks" and "cryptocurrencies"—but different risk assets within the same account. For crypto users accustomed to 24-hour trading, this experience can easily change investment decisions.
What's even more interesting is that the price increases in the chart already indicate some issues. SanDisk, Micron, Triple Semiconductor ETF, and SK Hynix all strengthened simultaneously, but behind this is the same AI hardware industry chain being repriced by capital. In the past, when we talked about AI, we mostly discussed AI concept coins beyond BTC and ETH; But now, AI infrastructure companies with real performance, cash flow, and industry demand are actually starting to enter crypto users' eyes directly through TradFi products.
The biggest impact on the crypto world, in my view, is not that "people will stop buying cryptocurrencies anymore"—on the contrary, it's that crypto users' asset allocation boundaries are getting wider.
In the past, when the market was downturning, funds basically rotated among BTC, ETH, and altcoins; Another situation may arise in the future: when clear opportunities arise in semiconductors, tech stocks, or a certain AI industry chain, funds can directly switch from crypto assets to traditional assets without leaving the original trading system.
This may seem like a slight convenience, but the long-term impact could be significant. Because what exchanges truly compete for is never just the trading volume of a particular coin, but users' money, attention, and trading habits.
So now, I'm more focused on one change: will future crypto exchanges still be "places to buy coins," or will they gradually become 24/7 global asset trading gateways?
If the latter really happens, TradFi may not be a competitor in the crypto market, but rather the biggest incremental market for crypto exchanges in the next phase.
Of course, having more products doesn't mean less risk. Especially for highly volatile products like triple ETFs, once placed in a 24-hour trading environment, the risks brought by volatility and leverage become even more direct. What truly deserves attention is not "buying anything," but rather that as more traditional assets are moved into crypto accounts, shouldn't our original price-focused investment framework be replaced too? After playing the macro card, how should BTC be chosen? A comprehensive breakdown after FOMC+PCE is implemented. Brothers and sisters, the macro drama we've waited half a month for is finally over. FOMC landed, PCE landed, both cards flipped, BTC was still fluctuating around 64,800, neither going up nor down. You might say it's strong, but it surged to 64, then 745 and then withered; You could say it's weak, but 63,000 managed to hold on. Prices are consolidating within a narrow range, just like someone standing at a crossroads, unsure which way to go. Once the macro card is played, the next step depends on the market's choices. Part One: The three opposing votes at the FOMC are signals, not results. Keeping rates unchanged is not surprising. What really concerned me were the two words hidden in the voting results: disagreement. The vote was 9 to 3, with three committee members supporting a 25bp hike and three against it. This is the first time since 2016 that three votes have been voted against the same direction. The opposition vote was upgraded from "opposing wording" to "opposing action"—not just talk, but real action. KPMG's chief economist has already issued a warning: some Fed governors may have already begun laying groundwork to support further rate hikes. More importantly, Walsh's statement at the press conference, in plain language, is: "The inflation problem cannot be solved in nine weeks." " He even said that if inflation remains high, "interest rate hikes will be one of the solutions." There is no such thing as a "soft inflation target"; the only target is 2%. Market expectations for a rate hike in September have been pushed up to 82Global risk assets are undergoing a silent differentiation. The US dollar index hovered around the 104 level, spot gold held support at $2,300 but lacked upward momentum, and the S&P 500 failed to effectively break above the upper boundary of its range for three consecutive trading days. At this time, the crypto market responded in a completely different way, with some small-cap tokens breaking free from the traditional gravitational pull of risk appetite with an almost vertical slope. According to OKX real-time data, $MMT is currently quoted at $0.2654, with a 24-hour increase of 38.30%. The intraday high reached $0.2744 and the low was $0.1864. A notable outlier is the amplitude data system showing 0.0%, which clearly contradicts the actual high-low price difference. It usually points to gaps or underlying data granularity issues at the opening price, but after manual recalculation, the actual intraday fluctuation is close to 47%, which itself is a strong liquidity warning signal. The price trajectory on the 15-minute chart shows almost no decent pullback bands. The candlestick body has closed bullish, with the moving average system forming a standard bullish pattern. The latest MA5 value at 0.2610 is accelerating upward above the MA30's 0.2380, and the gap between the two is widening rather than converging, indicating that short-term momentum has not yet entered a window of exhaustion. On the MACD indicator, the DIF line remains above the DEA line, and although two red histograms have shortened lines, they then elongated again, failing to form a bearish divergence structure. This leaves bears with almost no reliable sniper positions on the short-term chart. But if we turn our attention to RSI, the situation becomes more complicated. The 14-period RSI reading has pushed above 88, with an intraday high of 91, which is often considered an extremely overbought zone. In the past three similar impulse market statistics for low-liquidity tokens, after the RSI breaks above 85, the probability of a price pullback exceeding 15% within 48 hours is 68%, with half of these pullbacks occurring after a sudden shrinkage in volume. And trading volume happens to be the most vulnerable link right now. OKX data shows that $MMT's 24-hour trading volume is currently at 0.0B. This is not because trading has truly dropped to zero, but because liquidity is too thin, and after rounding the statistical units, it is swallowed up. Looking at the depth of order books, the cumulative order volume between sell one and five is less than $20,000. Any single market sell order exceeding $10,000 is enough to push the price down by more than 8%. This order book structure is highly similar to the micro-level market behavior during the recent digital art NFT issuance: initially, there are only buy orders but no sell orders, the price discovery mechanism is almost ineffective, and the candlestick chart itself resembles a continuously stretching digital artwork, visually striking but concealing a bottomless liquidity vacuum behind it. $XIREN and $ROBO in the same sector showed similar impulse characteristics. $XIREN Current price is $39.27, up 36.59%, with a sharp intraday high-low gap; $ROBO closed at $0.0139, up 25.45%, with a trading volume of 0.1B being a relatively "generous" case, but even with this amount of capital, it is negligible among mainstream stocks. $CARDS rose 22.55% in parallel, priced at $0.1587. There is no significant fundamental logic linkage among these tokens; they are driven by the same market sentiment: when the direction of traditional assets is unclear and the overall market leverage is low, hot money spontaneously flows into low-market cap, low-float, high-volatility targets, creating seemingly considerable book returns at extremely low capital costs, inducing the illusion that the wealth code has been decoded. Considering the US dollar liquidity environment and the slight outflow of funds from the US tech sector, this seems more like a short-term migration of hot money rather than trend-driven capital inflows. From the perspective of risk-reward ratio, $MMT is currently facing the first psychological resistance zone at the $0.30 level. If it fails to break through this level within the next two trading days with a volume greater than one-third of today's, the RSI will be overwhelmed #财报观察员：微软云收入破千亿，Meta却指引拉胯——AI故事分化了？
The AI narrative flipped overnight.
Microsoft surged 15.5% last night, with its market value soaring by $450 billion in a single day, setting a record in U.S. stock market history. This is not just one of the largest single-day gains for a U.S. stock, it is the largest. The market value increase that night surpassed Nvidia's $440 billion record set in April 2025. Microsoft's full-year decline narrowed from 19.3% to 5.8%.
Why did Microsoft rise while Google and Tesla fell?
The answer lies in the business model—Microsoft has proven itself the "AI monetization champion." Azure grew 43% year-over-year, marking the fastest growth in four years. Azure's annual revenue surpassed $100 billion for the first time. Microsoft 365 Copilot paid users exceeded 30 million. Two years ago, people thought Copilot was a gimmick; now it is generating real revenue.
Two years ago, the market asked "who has more GPUs is stronger"; now it asks "who can turn GPUs into profit." The market is rewarding with real money those companies that "clearly explain how they make money back."
Coincidentally, my TQQQ grid orders also benefited from this rebound—from 62.36 last night to 64.59, the grid went from -10% to +7%. Still running, not stopped. This is the advantage of grid orders: no need to judge whether Microsoft's earnings will beat expectations, no need to guess if the Nasdaq will rise or fall, as long as the price fluctuates within the range, it operates automatically.
Microsoft's $450 billion gain shows that the AI narrative is shifting from "storytelling" to "accounting." Next up are Apple and Amazon; let's see who can deliver the next earnings report that convinces the market "this money can be earned back."
$TQQQ $MSFT $TSLA The prodigies who emerged from the crypto world have collectively stumbled this time in the US and Korean stock markets, giving off a vibe similar to a phoenix man being ruthlessly harvested by a wealthy heiress.
Who in crypto hasn't clawed their way out of a sea of corpses to reach the top? They know well in their hearts: so-called meme coins, altcoins, even Ethereum and Bitcoin, are essentially a game of hot potato Ponzi schemes. So they are naturally cautious, ready to run at the slightest sign of trouble.
But the US and Korean stock markets made them lower their guard. They felt this was value investing, backed by real production capacity, cash flow, and genuine liquidity. So they dared to go heavy and leverage up, thinking they could hold on and get through it. Little did they expect, when the US stocks fell, the severity was no less than that of altcoins.
I casually checked SanDisk; last July it was just over $40, now after a peak and halving, it’s still around $1000, a 25x increase. Some might say you can’t value US stocks that way, but I only accept one simple truth: since I missed out on this huge surge, I’d rather miss it than catch the falling knife.
Of course, as someone still at the foothills, I have no right to mock those who have already descended. I still firmly hold native crypto assets, firmly believing in the power of cycles—the real winners in the next bull market will always be those who didn’t run and held their positions. I can hold this small patch of land, cultivate it deeply, and when the flowers bloom, it will be enough to feast and drink to my heart’s content. While others chase highs and catch falling knives outside, I wait here for the wind to come, fearing that by the time you want to enter, it will already be too late. #trading Today's key focus: $BTC, $ETH, $SNDK (1) $BTC | Current price is 64,804. It is now around 64,804, with a high of 65,158 at midnight and a low of 63,580, fluctuating around 1,500 dollars. Trading volume was 63,800 coins, with a transaction value of 4.138 billion yuan. The price has reached 64,600, STOCHRSI is around 42, neither high nor low, and the price is fairly stable. No rush; wait for a pullback to stabilize near 64,500-64,600 before buying. ② $ETH | Current price 1923. Now it is around 1923. The early morning high reached 1936 but didn't hold, the lowest was 1892, fluctuating up and down by over 40 dollars, showing a bit more steady movement than Bitcoin. Trading volume was 2.4 million coins, with a transaction value of 4.623 billion yuan. The price has reached 1914, STOCHRSI is around 55, slightly higher than Bitcoin, but not extreme yet. If you have positions, remember to lock profits around 1930-1940—don't be greedy. ③ $SNDK | Current price 1351. Yesterday, the high was 1370, the low was 996, with a fluctuation of over 370 points. Now it has returned to around 1351, up 8 points. Trading volume was 2.44 million coins, with a trading volume of 3.299 billion yuan. The price has reached 1290, STOCHRSI has dropped to 7, not overheated yet, but this level has already bounced back quite a bit, so chasing in isn't cost-effective. Not chasing this level, waiting for a pullback to 1300-1320 before talking. 👀 Also checking $LAB: up 0.4 points, fluctuating around 0.148Macro Tone: **risk-on/off? Neither, it's risk-split**.
BTC is hovering at $64,872, with a fear index of 28. Traditionally, US stocks are intertwined, but OKX's tokenized US stock sector **4 up and 1 down, averaging +18.55%**. This isn't following the crypto trend; it's **independent funds betting on extreme hedges**.
Funding split into two camps:
- **XSOXL (+35.33%)**: 3x bullish semi-lead, betting on AI/chip rebound. Volatility of 35.8%, trading volume of $6.69M.
- **XSNDK (+33.81%)**: 3x short on NASDAQ, betting on continued tech crashes. Volatility 36.3%, trading volume $20.83M.
**At the same time, in the same basket, two reverse heavy bets. ** This is a typical **hedge fund tear-off**, not retail FOMO. XSPY ($743.41, +1.42%) held the market with a turnover of $55.99M, but only a 1.7% swing, indicating **the main players are pretending to hold steady** while small caps are risking their all.
XSKHY (ARK Innovation ETF, +22.83%) rose, but XSPCX (PC sector, -0.63%) fell. **Innovation takes the lead, the old economy pays the bill. ** Funds are fleeing traditional hardware, pouring into high-volatility narratives.
Crypto side? **Not even a shadow. ** BTC draws a line between $64-65k, and no one pays attention to news of Strategy's loss of $8.2B. Everyone is waiting for the Fed, but tokenized US stocks have already used 3x leverage to **bet on tonight's rate cut or tech crash**.
In short: **You are staring at the candlesticks, while big funds are playing hedging arbitrage. ** Don't just stand there foolishly.⚡ $65,000! Bitcoin rose over 10% in July — but three undercurrents are tearing the market apart
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BTC is currently at $64,800, up more than 10% since rebounding from 57,737 in July. The Fear & Greed Index is 35, still in the "Fear" zone. The price is back, but confidence is not.
📊 Three data sets reveal the truth:
1. Fed's "Hawkish Ceasefire" — 9:3, three votes for a rate hike
On July 30, the FOMC held rates steady at 3.50%-3.75% with a 9:3 vote. This is the first time since 2016 that three FOMC members simultaneously voted against holding rates steady and for a hike. Federal funds futures show a 72% chance of a rate hike in September. This is not dovish; it's a "knife hanging over the head."
2. ETF: Ending four consecutive days of outflows, but only BlackRock is supporting
On July 29, ETF net inflows were $32.11 million, ending a previous four-day cumulative outflow of $527 million. But all the inflows came from BlackRock's IBIT — a single-day inflow of $89.83 million; Fidelity's FBTC had an outflow of $43.08 million the same day, and ARKB outflowed $14.64 million. This is not collective bullishness; funds are moving from FBTC/ARKB to IBIT.
3. July ETF inflows hit a historic low — only $205 million
SoSoValue data shows Bitcoin spot ETFs had net inflows of only $205 million in July, the worst monthly performance since their launch in 2024. After outflows of $2.43 billion in May and $4.52 billion in June, this small inflow is negligible. Ethereum ETFs had inflows of $343 million in the same period, surpassing Bitcoin.
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🧠 My judgment:
Technically, daily moving averages are converging, and Bollinger Bands continue to narrow — a major market move is approaching. Resistance is at 67,500, support at 63,882. If 63,000-64,000 breaks, the target is 62,000 or even lower.
The biggest mid-term risk: institutional demand is at a historic low. ETF flows now explain about 45% of Bitcoin's weekly price changes — if demand collapses, what will support the price?
At $65,000 BTC, three forces are pulling — the Fed's hawkish shadow, structural weakness in ETFs, and an imminent directional choice.
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Let's discuss in the comments: Is 65,000 a starting point or an endpoint? 👇
#BTC #Bitcoin #Fed #ETF #CryptoMarketAnalysis $BTC Few people have noticed this key divergence: In July, $BTC rose 10%, while the Nasdaq directly dropped 10%, marking the worst July performance for the Nasdaq in recent years.
According to past market logic, a major drop in US stocks would definitely drag BTC down as well, but this time it held firm.
It is highly likely that funds quietly shifted from US stocks to crypto. Such cross-market capital rotation is hard to detect early; by the time everyone realizes it, most of the move has already happened.
August is a critical watershed.
Capital rotation never makes a big show; it only brews quietly and slowly.The whole network is asking when the bull market will come, still fixated on the Federal Reserve, data, and interest rate tables, but actually, they are all focusing on the wrong key points!
The real bottleneck for the global market and the key to deciding bull or bear markets is actually in the U.S., in tomorrow's Bank of Japan decision!
Today, the yen had no news or data catalysts but directly surged 2.5% violently, marking the strongest in 76 days. This is capital betting in advance on tomorrow's decision; this meeting is definitely not ordinary!
Let me explain the underlying logic:
Japan has had zero interest rates for years, creating the world's largest carry trade play—the yen carry trade.
Institutions borrow interest-free yen, exchange it for dollars to invest in U.S. Treasuries, stock markets, and crypto, steadily earning the interest rate spread.
The rise of all global risk assets in recent years has relied on this cheap yen liquidity!
Previously, the more the yen fell, the better—borrowing costs were lower, market liquidity was ample, and the market was stable.
But now the situation has changed:
Japan relies on imported energy, yen depreciation leads to soaring import costs, causing imported inflation to skyrocket, forcing the need to raise interest rates.
Previously, simply intervening to save the exchange rate was a temporary fix; only raising rates can solve the fundamental problem.
Tomorrow's decision has two possible outcomes:
✅ If rates are raised
Cheap yen funds will end immediately, global carry trades will collectively be forced to liquidate.
It's not retail investors selling voluntarily, but leveraged funds forced into passive liquidation, causing a short-term bloodbath in global assets.
But the negative impact will be dumped all at once, clearing all selling pressure and actually removing the biggest obstacle to a bull market!
❌ If rates are not raised
It may seem stable in the short term, and the market may breathe a sigh of relief,
but inflation and exchange rate risks will continue to accumulate, liquidity shadows will weigh long-term, and the market will grind down endlessly.
Add a chain reaction:
Japan holds $1.2 trillion in U.S. Treasuries; once rates rise, Japanese bonds become more attractive, and capital will flow back to Japan collectively.
With no buyers for U.S. Treasuries and rising yields, crypto liquidity will tighten further.
Finally, key points to watch tomorrow:
1. Whether rates are raised + the hawkish or dovish tone of the statement
2. Whether the yen can hold today's gains
3. Whether yen volatility completely calms down (most critical)
Bull markets are never created by sudden rises; they are forged through grinding!
Wait until the yen's violent fluctuations end and all passive selling pressure is exhausted,
then the long-suppressed market will officially start a new major bull run!#交易之声：你的经验值得被听到 #美联储三票主张加息，今晚PCE成新看点 BTC and ETH hold steady, but altcoins are collapsing; shrinking liquidity is changing the market. What variables have already been priced in and what have not? Currently, the market is reflecting structural weaknesses such as lack of liquidity and leadership gaps rather than the price drop itself. WLD fell 8%, SHIB fell 6%, and BCH and ADA also failed to defend key support levels. This is not just a simple correction but a sign that buying forces have disappeared. What has already been reflected in prices is the overall sluggish demand for altcoins and the exit of short-term traders. The variable yet to be reflected is whether BTC and ETH can maintain support levels during this liquidity contraction phase, and whether conditions will be formed for capital to flow back into altcoins. - Recent bullish coins like XLM, ACH, and TRX have also lost upward momentum along with reduced trading volume. This is the opposite of the typical pattern of past altcoin seasons. The absence of a leader coin and the disappearance of all rebounds indicate that the market is choosing caution over trust. - Whale Behavior Chart If MU can fall to near 500, i.e. the 200-day moving average area, I will enter a buy order.
The correction of the US stock market this time will not recover in a V-shape, at least until the time of the 3rd quarter financial report.
So there is no need to rush to catch the bottom, prepare in a few months.
The Federal Reserve can only reduce panic sentiment in the short, medium and long term, having to look at the growth rate of financial statement data.
Q3 is the best landmark, if it continues to exceed expectations, Q4 is very likely to create a bottom and go up.
Brothers who play US stocks, keep waiting$MUU $MU #Fed3Dissents #AIStoryDiverges #KoreaETFApology Market analysis on July 31, 2026
Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) are both on the rise, but overall market sentiment is cautious.
📈 Quick overview of market trends
· Bitcoin ($BTC): $64,850, up 1.54% in 24 hours, rebounded after dropping to $63,269 intraday. The cumulative increase in July has already exceeded 10%.
· Ethereum ($ETH): $1,926, up 1.18% in 24 hours.
💡 Key influencing factors
· Macroeconomic policy: The Federal Reserve paused rate hikes and the US June core PCE data came in line with expectations, easing market pressure. At the same time, the US dollar weakened, gold broke through $4,100, which benefited risk assets like BTC.
· Market Structure and Capital: Approximately $147 million in leveraged liquidations occurred in the past 24 hours, with short positions accounting for 62.7%. Passive short closing has driven prices higher, but market trading volume has not significantly increased, indicating that funds have not flowed back on a large scale.
· News and Events: July 30 marks the 11th anniversary of ETH's genesis block. Although network expansion has made progress, the price is still down nearly 50% year-on-year. Strategy significantly increased its holdings in BTC to 843,800 coins. The "negative kimchi premium" in the Korean market usually indicates weakened local purchasing power.
Overall, today's rally was mainly driven by favorable macro policies and concentrated short positions unwinding, rather than strong incremental capital inflows. Currently, the market is still in a wait-and-see recovery phase, with Bitcoin performing relatively firmly while Ethereum and altcoins are relatively weak.Strong rebound in semiconductors today: trend reversal or oversold recovery?
Look at MU and SNDK stocks, surging over 25%, very strong, price rising with volume increasing, truly eye-opening.
On July 30, the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index surged 9% in a single day, Micron Technology (MU) rose 17%, SanDisk (SNDK) rose 24%, Lam Research soared 23%, AMD and Intel both rose over 14%. After several weeks of continuous sharp declines, this rebound came fast and fierce.
The core question is only one: is it a trend reversal or an oversold rebound?
1. The trigger for the rebound: Microsoft's “responsible” AI narrative.
Microsoft’s earnings report was the direct spark for the rally.
Capital expenditure increased by 70%, but management emphasized strong free cash flow performance, stating they will not enter a cash burn mode. Meanwhile, Samsung said memory shortages will continue until next year, reaffirming that the industry fundamentals remain solid.
In market terms: “AI is burning money, but not burning through cash flow.”
This relieved investors. Microsoft’s cloud revenue growth does not support the premise of AI spending overwhelmingly increasing and cash flow being unsustainable.
2. Core evidence: the rebound is an oversold recovery, not a trend reversal!
We can see three data points supporting the “oversold rebound” side:
First, the prior decline was too extreme.
SK Hynix ADR fell below its issue price, SanDisk halved from its high a month ago, Micron plunged over 40% from its peak.
South Korea’s KOSPI triggered circuit breakers 7 times in one month, with 1 in 30 Korean adults facing liquidation risk. Such a level of decline inevitably accompanies a violent rebound—the deeper the fall, the stronger the bounce.
Second, deleveraging nearing completion signals a bottom.
Typically, when those with excessive leverage give up, the market is at the bottom.
South Korean financial regulators urgently tightened leverage ETF rules, raising the guarantee amount from 10 million KRW to 30 million KRW, forcing massive leveraged positions to be liquidated. Deleveraging nearing its end is often one of the most reliable signals of a phase bottom.
Third, the storage industry fundamentals have not deteriorated.
TrendForce expects global semiconductor storage to reach $889.3 billion by 2026, and $1.28 trillion by 2027, a 44% year-over-year increase.
Samsung stated that even with increased production, memory shortages will persist until next year. Micron has 16 irrevocable long-term contracts totaling over $22 billion, with all capacity sold out through 2026.
3. STS system comprehensive judgment: rebound ≠ reversal.
This is the judgment from my stock trading system. Using the STS six-dimensional framework:
Long dimensions: performance (fundamentals intact), sentiment (recovery after extreme panic) — 2
Short dimensions: macro (rate hike expectations remain), management (CEO high-level selling) — 2
Neutral dimensions: expectations (huge divergence), volume-price (rebound hasn’t surpassed key resistance) — 2
Overall signal: neutral leaning to wait-and-see, the rebound is a technical recovery, not a trend reversal.
The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index has risen about 111% year-to-date; even after this round of sharp declines, it still ranks among the top global indices.
The fundamental narrative of the storage supercycle remains intact, but the valuation contraction process is not yet fully over.
Looking back at MU stock price, it has rebounded to the 0.618 level near 920, close to the planned shorting price.
If MU price rebounds to the 880-920 range and faces volume resistance, consider shorting; stop loss at 950; first target 780-800.
Other storage chip stocks like SNDK, Hynix, etc., are basically oversold rebounds rather than trend reversals. Zhao Changpeng's statement about testing meme coin functionality triggered a short-term overheating in market risk appetite. The core contradiction lies in whether the test signal can convert into sustained capital inflows, rather than mere sentiment speculation.
Currently, $BNB has recorded a single-day gain of 3.78%, with the price reaching $592.60, a rise that establishes short-term bulls' sensitivity to news stimuli. At the same time, $Giggle's turnover rate exceeded 30% within 48 hours, indicating that funds engaged in defensive turnover and speculative positions before the usual selling pressure period.
The main drivers currently driving the market are first the risk appetite transmission of founders' testing of trading features, second is Giggle's expected flow of funds by converting donated tokens into $BNB at the end of each month, and finally, retail investors' follow-up position changes driven by historical sentiment effects.
If test wallet addresses are tracked on-chain and buy actions confirmed within the next 72 hours, market risk appetite will further increase. Under these conditions, $BNB needs to hold above the $600 mark to confirm upside potential. Observation variables include the number of new on-chain addresses and the amplification of overall meme sector trading volume, while failure signals include test wallets buying non-public tokens or delayed launch of trading functions.
If no actual transactions are realized in the coming week, or if clarifications cause speculative positions to take profits, funds will withdraw quickly. Under these conditions, if $BNB falls below $580, it will signal the exhaustion of the upward momentum triggered by this round of news. The observable variable is the flow of deposits from major player addresses to the trading platform, and the failure signal is the official sudden announcement of a clear test schedule and cooperation list.
The most important observation variables over the next 7 days are testing the wallet's actual on-chain transaction movements and the actual execution rate of the $Giggle month-end exchange $BNB.
#HYPE遭大额解押减持, a 10% drop in #Zcash主网激活Ironwood升级 in one week, launching a new shielded pool #比特币与纳指相关性大幅下降: Independence or IllusionRight now, it's not chasing the rally; it's like a ghost ship is rocking. Have you noticed that while the rise lacks momentum, the drop is decisive? There has been a subtle sense of hollowness in the market these past two days. The price didn't seem to crash, but buying seemed to be pulled away. WLD fell 8%, SHIB dropped 6%, and even established coins like BCH and ADA failed to hold key support. What warns me most is not the decline, but the lack of a leading stock. Each rebound is like bubbles on water, dispersing before forming waves. Large funds are also shifting to defensiveness. I saw a leading ICP whale address directly add a short position. Whether hedging or actively shorting, this signal points in the same direction: caution, not confidence. Previously, fast-moving stocks like XLM, ACH, TRX are cooling down, trading volume has shrunk, sentiment has softened, and continuity has broken. This isn't the knockoff season; it's a stress test. What the market is trading now is not positive news, but whether someone is taking over. In a state of liquidity exhaustion, many coins' ups and downs are actually driven by emotions, not by fundamentals. The real risk isn't how much it drops, but that even if it rises, no one will follow. My own strategy is to withdraw BTC and ETH. It's not that they will definitely rise, but that when funds return, the strongest assets will be noticed first. Don't chase those flickering green candles; watching where the money flows is more reliable than watching price increases. The market now seems to be waiting for a catalyst that will reprice everyone; until then, any rebound seems like a fake move. Review report on the strong rebound today (July 30, 2026) of the US storage sector Micron, MU, SanDisk, SNDK, and Western Holdings after recent sharp declines. #微软逆势下调资本开支, up 8.5% in after-hours trading. 1. Recent trend review: from surges to sharp drops, then to today's V-shaped rebound. In the first half of 2026, driven by explosive demand from AI data centers for HBM, DRAM, NAND, and HDD, the storage sector experienced a super rally. Micron (MU) has surged significantly since the beginning of the year (with gains exceeding 200%-300% at times), SanDisk (SNDK) has surged several times (peaking at over 800%), and Western Digital (WDC) and Seagate (STX) have also recorded gains of several hundred percentage points. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOX) and Roundhill Storage ETF (DRAM) strengthened simultaneously. July Sharp Drop Phase (Main Triggers): China Changxin Technology (CXMT) IPO impact: On its first day of A-share listing in late July, the market value surged over 460%, with market value soaring and raising concerns about future DRAM capacity expansion and intensified low-price competition. US storage stocks plunged sharply that day (SanDisk down about 11%, SK Hynix ADR down about 7.5%, WDC/STX down about 4%, MU down about 2.3%, etc.). Valuation and AI sustainability concerns: After the previous large rally, concerns about AI capital expenditure returns for hyperscalers, capital rotation, and volatility transmission in some Korean storage stocks have been transmitted. Specific locationsOn your chessboard, the king and queen are no longer on the same diagonal.
In Q2 2026, the daily correlation between BTC and the S&P 500 plummeted from 0.58 at the end of last year to 0.12, and its linkage with the Nasdaq even dropped to 0.21 — the weakest secondary linkage in nearly a decade. The community is split into two camps: one says ETF capital flows and institutional allocations have repriced BTC, marking a structural "sacrifice" where this pawn in the US stock market has been exchanged; the other scoffs: last week when chip stocks collapsed, BTC still dropped $3000 that day, and when risk appetite contracts, correlation will rise again like a passed pawn in the endgame.
As someone who has calculated thousands of midgame transitions on the international chessboard, I tell you: don’t be fooled by the illusion of short-term decoupling. True strategists look at the twenty-three moves before the "check," not the immediate move’s fluctuation. The correlation between BTC and US stocks has never been linear; it’s more like the "bishop" on the chessboard — seemingly moving diagonally in tandem, but once the flank changes sides, it can instantly change direction. In Q4 2025, expectations of loose liquidity synchronized the two; in Q2 2026, macro structure fractured — rate hike end anticipation, tightening bank credit, AI chip inventory cycles — these factors are like suddenly sprouted double rooks on the board, forcing BTC, the "queen," to shift alone to the flank.
But pay attention to the full name of that underlying: $XNVDA. It’s the real trap buried in the endgame. When the community shouts "decoupling," the computing power narrative represented by NVDA is deeply intertwined with BTC’s miner economy, Layer2 staking, and AI on-chain activity. On the day chip stocks crashed last week, BTC still plunged $3000 — indicating the rear flank’s pieces haven’t truly withdrawn, just temporarily hidden behind the pawns. The decoupling camp ignores a fundamental chess rule: when the queen and rook are no longer on the same line, it doesn’t mean it won’t suddenly deliver check on g7. ETF inflows lock in some liquidity, but on-chain leverage ratios, miner sell-off cycles, cross-exchange hedge fund arbitrage positions — these are the small pawn chains that decide the endgame’s outcome.
I never trust any early signal of correlation break unless you simultaneously see the positions of these three pieces: whether off-exchange crypto ETF options implied volatility converges, whether perpetual funding rates return to neutral, and whether the second-hand GPU market prices start to decline. At this moment, they are not synchronized. So what you see as decoupling is more like a strategic "passed pawn" in the midgame — the opponent captures your e-pawn, but you immediately counterattack with the d-pawn, forcing the opponent’s king flank to be exposed.
A true player doesn’t rush to capture when the opponent sacrifices a piece but calculates the check pattern twenty moves ahead of the throne. At this moment, the endgame has not yet begun. You are watching correlation; I am watching the control shift at the center of the entire board. #btcnasdaqdecouples#财报观察员: Microsoft's cloud revenue breaks 100 billion, while Meta's guidance disappoints—Has the AI story diverged? The hot and cold of cloud business, AI profitability divergence: The growth crossroads for tech giants
In the 2026 mid-year tech industry earnings season, a rather intriguing "Song of Ice and Fire" played out: Microsoft's intelligent cloud quarterly revenue surpassed 100 billion yuan for the first time, maintaining a year-on-year growth rate above 30%. Azure OpenAI services now cover over 60% of the global Fortune 500 companies, and the commercialization dividends of AI are continuously realized within Microsoft's business portfolio; on the other hand, Meta delivered a Q3 earnings guidance far below market expectations. The dual pressures of high investment costs in AI infrastructure and a peak in advertising business growth have clearly shaken market confidence in its AI story.
The performance contrast between the two giants officially signals that the previously industry-wide AI dividend storytelling period has ended, and the era of AI commercialization divergence has officially arrived.
The cloud + AI closed loop: Microsoft has taken the most stable growth path
Microsoft's cloud business crossing the 100 billion threshold essentially hit the core node of the current explosive demand for enterprise-level AI.
The traditional cloud business already had a stable customer base. By embedding large model capabilities into Azure cloud services, Microsoft effectively "upgraded" its original cloud products: enterprises no longer need to build large models from scratch; they can directly call GPT capabilities on Azure to deploy AI, turning cost reduction and efficiency improvement demands directly into incremental cloud business for Microsoft.
More importantly, Microsoft has formed a clear "investment-profit" cycle: the paid rate of consumer AI products like Office Copilot continues to rise, B2B cloud service revenue grows steadily, and AI investment has not become a profit burden but rather the core driver for improving gross margin. This "commercialization feeding back into R&D" model has put Microsoft's AI growth into a positive cycle.
Meta's dilemma: high investment struggles to yield high returns in the AI gamble
Meta's disappointing performance is precisely a reflection of another path in the AI industry: a story of heavy investment and slow realization, losing market patience.
To support its dual-track layout of generative AI and the metaverse, Meta's investment in AI computing power and data center construction increased nearly 40% year-on-year over the past year, but the corresponding commercialization has consistently fallen short of expectations: the advertising business, as the base, has slowed growth due to macro environment and industry competition; AI-related new businesses have yet to generate scaled revenue contributions. High investment has not translated into revenue increments but has continuously eaten into profits, naturally discounting market expectations for its future profitability.
A deeper contradiction lies in Meta's AI layout never finding a "high-certainty landing scenario" similar to Microsoft's cloud: consumer AI application payment habits have not yet formed, and B2B AI services lack a customer base like cloud business. This "investment first, profit unknown" state naturally raises market concerns during earnings disclosure periods.
Under the AI divergence wave, the industry's underlying logic has changed
The performance contrast between the two giants also points the entire AI industry toward the next competition direction: the era of "storytelling" is over, and the era of "fighting for implementation" has arrived.
Going forward, the AI industry's value evaluation criteria will shift from "how advanced the technology is" to "whether it can make real money": companies with mature landing scenarios that can convert AI capabilities into actual revenue will continue to enjoy industry dividends; companies with investment but no clear commercialization path will find it increasingly difficult to gain market recognition.
This divergence is actually a sign of industry maturation: AI is not a "universal cure" for all companies. Ultimately, those who succeed will always be the players who can combine technology with their own business and establish a clear profit path. The upcoming tech industry will see more such divergence. Whoever can first turn the AI story into tangible performance will earn the ticket to the next round of growth. $BTC This CLARITY Act bank co-signing letter is practically a shoddy "structural change application"—the 134 banks signed a joint agreement not to reinforce the foundation, but to forcibly install load-bearing walls before the floor slab is poured, sealing all stablecoin revenue pipelines at the bottom layer!
Let's look at the focus of their panic: Will yield-bearing stablecoins "erode hundreds of billions of local loan funds"? From the perspective of an architect like me, it's like a developer discovering the neighboring project uses new concrete and fearing that their traditional brick-concrete structure might collapse from the earthquake. The "foundation" of the banking system is the **deposit-loan spread**, and stablecoin yield design is like implanting a **vertical prestressed steel cable** inside a building—it doesn't occupy the underlying space but directly connects to top wealth, allowing funds to be quickly pumped from the inefficient "savings layer" to the highly liquid "crypto layer." What banks fear is not the loss of funds, but that their "traditional pipe wells" will prove outdated and leaky.
Now, SEC Chairman Atkins is optimistic about passing the bill before the August recess. It was more like stamping a vague official seal on the "construction permit." The real risk isn't in the outcome, but in the process—have you ever seen a skyscraper where the Legislative Council discusses the angle of its glass curtain wall brick by brick? Before the blockchain "scaffold" is even laid, regulatory "safety nets" must be caught from below. Often, the net traps the air but bends the steel structures that actually bear the load.
As for the market synergy of $XIWM? That was just a microseismometer in the foundation recording surface noise. What really matters is whether the underlying developers are still writing core contracts in a "blockchain-level" language, or have already started revising their blueprints according to policy trends.
No matter how beautifully painted a paper wall is, it can't withstand the tearing of the first bear market monsoon. #clarityactbankpushJust checked on-chain data: within 25 minutes, 500 single-signature addresses transferred 594 BTC, worth 38 million USD.
In this market with an amplitude of only 0.16%, this signal is worth pondering. Single signature addresses are usually personal or small institutional wallets, not exchange collections. 500 addresses acting simultaneously are either strategic planning before major events or veteran investors collectively re-rotating positions.
KDJ's J value has already reached 94.21, and the overbought zone has been stuck for a long time. However, the price remained flat at 64,900, with trading volume shrinking to 3,900 coins, and volatility was almost gone. In a market where retail investors are asleep, big moves on the chain have never stopped.
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