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分析称，美国财政部长贝森特近日据报道敦促日本加息以遏制日元持续贬值，凸显传统货币政策易受政府与外部因素影响。相比之下，比特币的货币政策由代码预先设定，新币发行遵循固定节奏，并约每四年减半，具备更高的可预测性 不过，比特币短期内仍难摆脱传统金融市场冲击。若日本加息推动日元快速升值，长期积累的低息日元融资交易可能平仓，进而引发股票、债券及加密资产抛售。2024 年 8 月，日本央行加息曾推动日元走强，并导致包括比特币在内的风险资产承压 技术面上，BTC 50 日均线目前持续上行，并接近上穿 200 日均线，可能形成「黄金交叉」。但分析认为，移动平均线具有滞后性，黄金交叉作为独立指标的历史预测效果并不稳定Japan raises interest rates, is the US stock and crypto market doomed? Don't panic, the opportunity is here!
The world's most powerful "money printing machine" is about to shut down! Japan's 10-year government bond yield has surged past 3%, and this is no small matter. For decades, global investors have been borrowing nearly free yen to buy US stocks, tech stocks, and Bitcoin. Now, this "free lunch" is over.
My view is clear: be cautious in the short term, watch the show in the medium term, and expect a huge bull market in the long term. With Japan raising rates, the first to be hit are the overvalued US tech stocks and the highly volatile crypto market. Money will flow back to Japan, and Bitcoin, as a high-risk "global liquidity barometer," is very likely to be panic-sold into a dip like in August 2024.
But! If you panic, you lose. This is exactly the touchstone for the "digital gold" narrative. Traditional currencies are being printed more and more recklessly, making Bitcoin's fixed monetary policy even more precious. Every crash caused by macro liquidity is a discounted entry ticket for long-term investors. Wash's hawkish remarks are still burning, gold is still testing its position support
Wash's hawkish stance at Jackson Hole has not been quickly digested by the market; short-term U.S. Treasury yields remain high, and the pricing of prolonged high interest rates continues to burn risk assets across the market.
Gold is now repeatedly probing support and being pulled back by buying, which is a direct contest between speculative shorts and long-term allocation funds.
1. Two layers of signals in the market
1) The short-selling force is still present
As long as U.S. Treasury yields remain high, the non-yield asset gold continues to suffer valuation pressure. Speculative futures sell on rallies, so prices keep testing lows, indicating the market has not fully digested the rate hike risk; the shadows of non-farm payrolls and the September rate decision have not dissipated.
2) Real support exists at lows but belongs to long-term funds bottoming
Every time gold hits key support, buying comes in to absorb selling pressure, mainly from central bank physical gold purchases and medium-to-long-term allocation funds. This force limits deep declines in gold; however, these funds only buy at lows and do not actively push prices up.
The result is: there is a floor on declines, but weak upward momentum, leading to a pattern of repeated bottom testing and oscillation, making a direct reversal into a strong rally difficult.
2. Insights from linkage with BTC and U.S. stocks
Gold's current state is highly similar to the crypto market:
• There is bottom-fishing support below, locking in the space for a big drop;
• Heavy macro pressure above, large funds unwilling to chase highs, with selling pressure on rallies.
Gold's support indicates that safe-haven allocation funds have not massively fled, but this does not mean it will immediately translate into a BTC bull market. Gold is more of a physical reserve; BTC is more driven by risk appetite and incremental ETF funds. They are linked in the short term but involve different capital groups.
3. Distinguishing real vs. false support
✅ Real support: After testing support, volume expands, price holds above support, and U.S. Treasury yields fall simultaneously.
⚠️ False support: Only a quick dip followed by a technical rebound, U.S. Treasury yields continue rising, rebound lacks volume; this is just a short-term short-covering, and the low will be tested again later.
4. Core observations going forward
1. If non-farm payroll data is strong and rate hike expectations heat up: even if gold has support, it will continue probing lower supports; BTC and U.S. stocks will remain under pressure.
2. If non-farm payrolls weaken significantly and rate expectations cool: gold's low support will turn into upward momentum, simultaneously driving a rebound in risk assets.
Summary: Gold testing low support shows shorts are not done, but long-term funds refuse deep declines, entering a macro waiting period; this is just oscillation and bottom building, not a reversal signal. The final direction will be decided by non-farm payroll data.
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#BTC高位震荡，与黄金联动增强 $BTC Bitcoin surged 24% in August, marking the best performance of the year, while the probability of a rate hike soared to 64%, suppressing the start of September — Crypto Evening Report on September 1
Good evening, brothers, the first day of September, the market is a bit dull.
BTC is oscillating narrowly between $78,000 and $79,000, with volatility significantly contracting. August just passed saw Bitcoin record a 24% gain, the best single-month performance since November 2024. But entering September, macro pressures are emerging — the probability of a Fed rate hike in September has surged from 35% before Waller's speech to over 64%.
ETH dropped to around $2,440, down about 1%; SOL hovered near $104, also down 1%. XRP fell below $1.40, and BNB closed near $693. The market is waiting for direction.
📊 Market Data
Asset Current Price 24h Change Key Changes
BTC ~78,400-79,000 Narrow range oscillation 24% rise in August, best this year
ETH ~2,440 ~-1% Following BTC's movement
SOL ~104 ~-1% Slight pullback
💥 Liquidation Data: Long and Short Both Exploded
In the past 24 hours, the crypto market experienced intense volatility with both long and short liquidations, with significant discrepancies across data sources:
Coinglass data shows $168 million liquidated across the network in the past 24 hours, with $66.959 million in long liquidations and $101 million in short liquidations. Bitcoin long liquidations were $18.7146 million, short liquidations $34.2519 million; Ethereum long liquidations $9.9291 million, short liquidations $26.5892 million. Globally, 62,280 people were liquidated, with the largest single liquidation occurring on Binance - ETHUSDT, valued at $4.9298 million.
Another source reports that as of 4:58 AM on September 1, the top 20 assets by liquidation volume totaled $295 million, with long liquidations accounting for 70.29%, 2.4 times that of shorts. Ethereum led with $103.9 million, followed by Bitcoin at $94.55 million.
💰 ETF Fund Flows: BlackRock Leads $217 Million Reversal of Outflows
The US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded a total net inflow of $216.7 million on Monday, reversing the $201.8 million net outflow from last Friday.
BlackRock's IBIT led with a net inflow of $205.9 million, Fidelity's FBTC net inflow was $6.9 million, Bitwise's BITB net inflow $4.3 million, Grayscale's BTC net inflow $9.4 million. VanEck's HODL saw a net outflow of $13.4 million, with other products showing zero net flow that day.
August's monthly net inflow for Bitcoin ETFs exceeded $3 billion, the strongest month since 2026, about twice that of April.
📰 Macro Focus: September Rate Hike Probability Soars to 64%, Market Awaits Nonfarm Payroll Data
Following Fed Chair Waller's keynote speech at the Jackson Hole symposium last Friday, market expectations for interest rates made a 180-degree turn. Waller stated that although recent inflation data has eased, "they do not lead me to believe that the underlying inflation trend has meaningfully improved."
According to CME FedWatch, the probability of a rate hike at the September 15-16 meeting surged to 64%-66.1% on Monday, nearly double the level before Waller's speech.
However, Wall Street is divided on rate hike expectations. Citi economists consider Waller's remarks "only slightly hawkish," and current economic data does not indicate an urgent need for tightening monetary policy. US Treasury Secretary Yellen also said, "We believe we are facing supply-side shocks, and traditionally you don't raise rates during supply-side shocks."
Key variable this week: The August employment data released on Friday will be a critical indicator before the September FOMC meeting. If the employment data disappoints, yields may surge further, forcing BTC to retest the $77,200 low.
Additionally, geopolitically, US military actions in the Strait of Hormuz pushed Brent crude prices up 1% to $91 per barrel, continuing to pressure risk assets.
📊 Key Levels
· BTC: Resistance 79,500-80,000, Support 77,200-77,500, Strong Support 76,500
· ETH: Resistance 2,500-2,530, Support 2,400-2,420
· SOL: Resistance 105-107, Support 100-102
💡 Summary
After surging 24% in August, BTC is stuck in high-level oscillation at the start of September. The 64% rate hike probability is the biggest market suppressor, but continuous ETF net inflows (Monday $217 million) and August's monthly inflow exceeding $3 billion indicate institutional demand remains. Friday's nonfarm payroll data is the biggest variable this week — if better than expected, rate hike probability may rise further; if worse, it could provide the market some breathing room.
Before direction emerges, watching more and trading less is best.
Brothers, did you get swept in this wave? Let's chat in the comments👇#就业数据密集公布，沃什政策立场受检验 #BTC高位震荡，与黄金联动增强 The quietest corner on the chessboard often hides the deadliest move. On August 30th, when the opponent chose to make a move on the nearly dried-up liquidity pool of TONIC, a true grandmaster was not surprised in the slightest—low liquidity is never an accidental mishap but a sacrificed piece waiting to be exploited. The attacker gently pushed a worthless pawn, using fake high-value collateral to lever open Tectonic’s treasury, then bridged six million dollars and walked away, leaving behind a ledger wound of seventy-five million and a wry smile from Cronos as it paused block production.
You ask what I saw? I didn’t see a hacker, but another chess player. He calculated that the oracle, the referee, would blink; he calculated that the risk limit, the defensive line, would leak; he even calculated the block production pause itself—that was like pressing the chess clock pause, but in the rules of chess, pausing the clock requires raising a hand, and he was the one who never gave you the chance to raise yours.
The fundamental skill of a grandmaster is to treat the midgame as the endgame. When the collateral price is manipulated, it’s like the opponent’s bishop wandering freely on your half of the board—you can see its attack direction but not the liquidity pit it’s stepping on—no, not a pit, it’s a hole we dug ourselves. The 8.7 million loss at Moonwell, Avici’s payment contracts and third-party risks, and today’s Tectonic stalemate are all variations of the same Sicilian Defense: you voluntarily open the line, expose your fragile rear wing to the opponent, then hope they don’t see the bishop already suspended in midair.
Cronos pausing block production is called “sealing the board” in the current game record. Sealing the board was originally an elegant etiquette designed by predecessors to preserve the position, but on the digital chessboard, sealing means you admit you’ve lost the ability to calculate twenty moves ahead. True masters know that when your king’s castle is surrounded and your baseline is breached, pausing only delays the loss; it cannot rewrite the defeat. The market-linked volatility of $xCRCL is just the audience outside the board gasping at the electronic screen; true players never look at the scoreboard—they only focus on the squares still smoking on the board.
So I flipped through that stack of repeatedly used old game records: low liquidity collateral is an isolated pawn, oracle pricing is a referee always dozing off, risk limits are tampered chess clock buttons. The attacker never invents new moves; he just lays out known flaws in sequence—first sacrifice then capture, then maneuver and restrain, finally forcing the entire chain to press pause between check and response. This move has a name: low liquidity sacrifice cascade. Every step seems forced but is precisely calculated. The attacker’s goal was never the six million bridged assets but to plunge the entire board into a fog of self-doubt.
The cruelty of endgame training is that the opponent won’t give up checkmating you just because your time is tight. He will use a knight to capture your pawn, use a rook to control your baseline, then promote a pawn to a new queen—just like the manipulated TONIC price, like the inflated collateral, like the heartbeat of the arena you only remember hearing after unplugging the power. What truly matters to calculate is not whether to press the emergency pause button but whether, at the moment the clock stops, you still have a piece on the board that can move.
The clock stopped. But the curse of checkmate never lifts just because the clock stops. #cronoshaltsafterattackThe moment the design blueprints were torn apart, the cracks on the load-bearing walls were already glaringly obvious. Advent and Stripe, two developers claiming they could reshape PayPal, ultimately broke down in negotiations over a "valuation letter" priced at $60.50 per share. The $53 billion acquisition plan was halted before even the foundation pit support was completed. PayPal's stock price immediately dropped 12.7%, and those investors who once cheered for the acquisition premium now stand outside the construction site barriers, counting whether they can still return the safety helmets they bought. The most ironic part is that neither side was willing to leave even a single "review comment"—to structural engineers, this is like the contractor destroying all the hidden works' acceptance records.
Those of us in construction know best: the value of a building never lies in the glass curtain walls shown in the renderings, but in the deep rock-layer piles, the concrete grade poured into the main beams, and the dampers hidden in the ceilings. The offers from Advent and Stripe were essentially a "structural reinforcement plan." They thought that this old PayPal building only needed a new facade and two sightseeing elevators to continue generating rent. But what is financing cost? It is the ambient temperature during concrete pouring—if the temperature is off, the initial setting time of the entire floor slab will go out of control, causing light surface scaling or severe cracking. What is regulatory review? It is the fire performance verification by the plan review office—every partition wall must be revalidated for fire resistance limits. The valuation gap is the cognitive divide between the client and contractor regarding the residual bearing capacity of the same column. Now that the scaffolding is dismantled and the tower cranes removed, PayPal must finally face its true self-weight. The 12.7% drop is not a collapse but the most honest settlement data of the original soil experiencing unloading rebound.
What looks truly ugly now is the building's own structural health report. The slowdown in payment business growth is like excessive moisture content in the foundation soil; stagnant profit margins correspond to abnormal drift in the basic cycle of the frame structure. More troublesome is PYUSD, their so-called "new podium building"—a glass box cantilevered from the main building's core. I've reviewed too many similar design blueprints; if the additional structure cannot independently form a load transfer path, it will ultimately become a decorative tumor on the main building—the taller the building, the more dangerous it becomes. The blockchain world is no different; whitepapers are just renderings hastily produced by designers bidding overnight. What truly determines whether a building is a century-old project or a temporary shack are the underground structures—the invisible load-bearing walls, drainage slopes, settlement monitoring points, and whether the construction team properly tied the stirrups on every floor.
This drop is not a storm but a load test after the main structure's completion. It drags PayPal back from the artificial atmosphere of acquisition premiums to the real construction site, exposing every bolt and weld to the hammer of inspection. If this building truly deserves to be called a masterpiece, it won't need outside contractors to save the enclosure structure; if it's just a paper skyscraper, then everyone applauding the merger failure today will have to walk under the eaves wearing fall protection nets in the future.
Whether a building can stand tall has never depended on whose developer sign hangs at the door, but solely on whether its own foundation piles are willing to silently bear everything. #stripeexitpaypaldown13% [Analysis: The rise in U.S. Treasury yields may involve three different capital drivers: inflation expectations, real interest rates, and term premiums]
Recently, U.S. Treasury sell-offs have resumed, with the 10-year Treasury yield breaking above 4.75% and the 5-year above 4.50%, while the 30-year yield has not surpassed its previous high. Meanwhile, gold prices, which previously rose in sync with long-term yields, have clearly declined. Reports indicate that in early August, the 30-year yield and gold rose together, reflecting market concerns about the long-term purchasing power of the dollar; however, this round is more about the combined effect of rising medium- and long-term rates, higher real interest rates, and a stronger dollar, which suppresses the "non-interest-bearing asset" gold.
The author emphasizes that the rise in U.S. Treasury yields may include three different capital drivers: inflation expectations, real interest rates, and term premiums, and that judgments should be made accordingly on whether this supports or weighs on gold #就业数据密集公布，沃什政策立场受检验 #苹果换帅：Ternus接任CEO
The Cook era officially ends, a new CEO takes office, and Apple stands at a crossroads.
On September 1, Cook officially stepped down as Apple's CEO and became the Executive Chairman of the Board, with John Ternus taking over. When Cook took over in 2011, Apple's market value was less than $350 billion; now it has reached $4.6 trillion. Since Cook took office, Apple's stock price has risen by 2275%, and the total return including dividends has reached 2736%, while the S&P 500 rose 769% over the same period.
Ternus has worked at Apple for 25 years, always responsible for hardware engineering, managing product lines including iPhone, Mac, iPad, AirPods, and even Vision Pro. He is a typical "hardware veteran," obsessing over details—finding 35 grooves when the specification required 25, and arguing on the spot.
He has taken over, but also inherited problems:
Apple is clearly behind in AI, not building data centers on a large scale like Microsoft and Google. Siri's AI capabilities still rely on Google support, and several AI executives have left for Meta. Ternus's first big test after taking office is the September 9 fall launch event, where the first foldable iPhone will likely debut.
For those holding Apple shares, the CEO change itself is not a reason to sell; historically, such internal smooth transitions have little impact on stock prices. What really determines the direction is whether the new CEO can find a new position for Apple in AI.
#波动雷达：币种异动观察 $AAPL September 15 isn't the vote everyone thinks it is. It's a procedural cloture vote permission to start floor debate on the CLARITY Act. Even if it clears 60, the actual bill still needs full Senate passage and House reconciliation after that. Markets are pricing this like a coin flip on regulation itself; it's really the first domino. Kalshi has it around 22% to clear 60 votes. That's the mispricing worth sitting with not because the bill is likely to pass, but because of what's attached if it doThe entry logic for this trade is very simple: around 0.151 is the lower edge of the previous dense trading zone and also the last defense line for the bulls. Every time the price dips to this level, it is quickly pulled back, indicating that there is capital absorbing the sell-off. I chose to go long with 50x leverage directly, placing the stop loss below the cost.
After the price was pulled up, the market started to show divergence. The open interest rose to a high level and then started to stagnate, with no new positions coming in, resulting in a stalemate between bulls and bears. At this point, greed is the biggest taboo; 50x leverage is not suitable for betting on directional choices.
My strategy: take profit on 90% of the position, move the stop loss of the remaining 10% to 0.15103 to break even, and trail the stop at 0.158. This way, even if there is a pullback, the remaining profit is locked in. If the price continues to rise, the remaining 10% can still gain; if it falls back, I exit at break-even without loss.
For those who haven't entered, watch the changes in open interest. Don't bet on direction during consolidation; wait for volume to expand again before looking for opportunities. Be patient, the market never lacks opportunities $SOL $ZEC At the beginning of September, BTC faces a new variable to watch out for: interest rate hikes.
As of the latest market pricing on September 1, the probability of the Federal Reserve raising rates by 25 basis points in September has reached about 65%.
The current federal funds target rate is 3.50%—3.75%. If a rate hike does occur, the range will move back up to 3.75%—4.00%.
This change is not favorable for BTC.
Because if the market continues to price in rate hikes, U.S. Treasury yields and the dollar are likely to remain high, and the liquidity environment for risk assets will tighten further.
BTC is currently still around $78,000, having rebounded quite a bit recently. If rate expectations continue to rise and yields keep climbing, the biggest risk to watch for is a sudden pullback from this high level.
Of course, the 65% is just a market forecast and does not guarantee a rate hike in September.
But at least it indicates one thing:
The macro environment in September is no longer as comfortable as it was earlier.
So for now, I prefer to be prepared for a potential pullback in BTC first. For a while, I got obsessed with grid trading, thinking that setting the range properly would let me make money effortlessly.
I set up a grid on $BNB, with the upper and lower bounds set at 20%, automatically buying low and selling high.
The first two days went well, with a trade every few hours, watching the profits accumulate bit by bit.
I couldn't help but double my principal and widen the range to 30%.
But on the third day, $BNB suddenly dropped below the lower bound, the grid stopped running, and I got stuck inside.
At the time, I thought since the grid was still active, I could wait for the price to recover and get unstuck, so I ignored it.
However, $BNB stayed flat at the bottom for a full two weeks, with no trades executed by the grid, and all my funds were frozen.
Meanwhile, I saw other coins rallying, and I wanted to move some money out to chase gains, but I couldn't.
When $BNB finally rebounded back to the break-even line, I immediately closed the grid and liquidated my position.
In the end, after half a month of fussing, I didn't even make enough to cover the fees—just wasted effort.
Later, I realized that grid trading is best suited for markets that are consistently sideways and oscillating.
Once there's a one-way rally, you sell off your holdings faster than a rocket, losing all your chips.
Once there's a one-way drop, you end up passively adding positions until your hands are full of coins, getting deeper into a loss.
So choosing the right coin and range is especially important; not just any will work.
I later switched to $XRP to try again and found it tends to hover within a range for years.
After setting up the grid, it felt comfortable, earning small profits daily—not much, but steady.
But when news shocks hit, it still breaks the range, so I have to manually pause and adjust the range.
Gradually, I gained experience: I only run the grid with 20% of my total position, keeping the rest flexible.
Also, I stopped being greedy by setting the range too wide; I prefer smaller ranges with multiple segments.
That way, even if one segment breaks, the others can keep working, keeping overall risk manageable.
I still keep a screenshot of my first grid liquidation on my phone as a reminder.
Grid trading isn't a money printer; it's just a tool—used well, it's worry-free; used poorly, it's frustrating.
The best approach is to set it and forget it, occasionally checking if the range is normal.
I've had enough of those days staring at every trade to calculate profit and loss.
Now, I transfer the small profits from grid trading out directly to save up, rewarding myself with a hotpot once I have enough.
This way, I enjoy the thrill of gains without increasing risk exposure through reinvestment.
Anyway, I don't expect to get rich from grid trading; I just want my account to stay active.
Compared to manually chasing highs and lows every day before, this semi-automated method saves me a lot of trouble.Is there a possibility that Solana was originally backed by Wall Street, and now Wall Street has just moved to RobinHood🤣
Solana seems very much like Wall Street's crypto beta testing ground, and Robinhood Chain is the product of Wall Street turning this system into a product, retailing it, and making it compliant
Solana has actually been following this line for the past few years:
• High-performance chain = more like an exchange matching/high-frequency environment
• meme + DeFi = retail liquidity experiment
• RWA / tokenized stock / PayFi = Wall Street's rehearsal of asset on-chain
• Jump, Pyth, Jupiter, HFT market-making culture, all very "financial engineering"
And at Robinhood, they directly get involved:
• Users are originally native US stock retail investors
• The narrative is not "Web3," but stocks onchain/RWA
• meme is no longer just a zoo, but stonks / broker / options / yolo / index
• Liquidity carriers change from SOL/ETH to NVDA, SPY, QQQ, USDG Core judgment: BTC holding 78K is not strength, it's waiting; tonight, the US stock market's semiconductor index turned green, only then can 78K be considered for an offensive, any further drop will break through with a single stab. 1. CRYPTO BTC 77,904, still tugging near 78K. Despite the semiconductor index falling for two consecutive days, it hasn't broken down, which is the first signal. But the long-short ratio fell from 1.18 to 0.99, this is not "calm sentiment," it's the longs trapped at 81K going silent. Altcoin mainline: DeFi linkage (ARB +28.9%, UNI +12%) with volume and carriers; BTR +104% is a speculative play on an airdrop event, circulating market cap only 40 million U, turnover is 8 times market cap, a typical high-chasing trap zone, watch only, no follow. Tone: BTC is between "not bad" and "not good," direction depends on tonight's US stock market. 2. A-shares Main board resists decline (Shanghai Composite only -0.16%), but STAR 50 -2.19%, ChiNext -1.32%, Shenzhen Component -1.02% show obvious declines. Funds are moving from tech/growth to heavyweight/defensive, same logic as US stocks "shifting from AI hardware to blue chips." Beijing Stock Exchange 50 +1.34% reversed to green against the trend, but small volume, does not represent overall sentiment recovery. 3. Hong Kong & Asia-Pacific Hang Seng Index -0.93%, following US tech stocks down; Nikkei almost flat; South Korea and Taiwan relatively strong (Taiwan +1.78%). No resonance within Asia-Pacific, each moves independently. 4. US pre-market Recent close (Monday 8/31): Dow -0.72%, Nasdaq -0.64%, Semiconductor -2.92%.The narrative of $OKB is changing
Previously, platform tokens mainly focused on trading volume, fee buybacks, and platform popularity, essentially being "business-driven assets."
But now the gameplay of OKB has changed
On the supply side, it is completely locked with no additional issuance.
The total supply is permanently capped at 21 million, with all issuance and burning functions removed. This is not a simple deflationary model but directly transforms OKB from an "adjustable tool" into a "fixed supply asset"—matching BTC in scarcity.
On the demand side, it is tied to the X Layer public chain.
OKB is now the native Gas token of X Layer; all on-chain interactions, DeFi, stablecoin settlements, and ecosystem applications consume OKB. The value anchor shifts from "whether the exchange profits" to "whether there is on-chain usage"—the latter being a more solid long-term support.
So now when looking at $OKB, don’t focus on the candlestick for price changes, but on whether the on-chain activity of X Layer can continue to grow.
As on-chain demand rises, OKB’s value support is more direct than that of a simple platform token.
The more vibrant the on-chain ecosystem, the stronger the value anchor of OKB.The ETH daily death cross has already formed, so I’m not going long for now. The focus will be on shorting from the highs these two days! $ETH ##就业数据密集公布，沃什政策立场受检验
The above is my personal trading insight record and does not constitute investment advice!Mainnet Gas Falls Below 1 Gwei, Ethereum Returns to Inflation Era: Has the Ultrasound Money Myth Bankrupted?
The deflationary myth of "Ultrasound Money," once a source of pride for Ethereum believers, is facing unprecedented real-world challenges.
On-chain data shows that Ethereum mainnet Gas fees have recently normalized below 1 Gwei. Due to extremely low mainnet consumption, the burn volume from EIP-1559 has plummeted, and the network's annualized ETH supply has quietly shifted to a mild inflation of 0.2% to 0.8%.
Why is Ethereum not becoming more deflationary but instead starting to inflate again?
The answer lies in Layer 2's "low-cost rent" mechanism:
First, the Blob upgrade has set the expansion cost. Hard forks like Dencun have reduced the cost for major L2s to submit data to a floor price. Although L2 transaction volume is booming, the rent paid to the mainnet is pitifully low;
Second, high-value economic activities on the mainnet are being diverted. A large number of transfers, DeFi interactions, and speculative purchases are absorbed by various Layer 2 networks. The mainnet lacks high-frequency native consumption, so the burn rate naturally cannot keep up with the issuance rate from PoS staking.
Expansion has brought extremely low fees but sacrificed the direct deflationary value capture of Ethereum mainnet tokens. Until the mainnet regains massive high-value settlement demand, relying solely on the "deflation faith" to support the token price has become invalid.Whale dumping + Fed sharpening the knife, who suffers more in this wave, $BTC or ETH?
Brothers, today's market has my blood pressure maxed out.
Let's start with ETH, which got completely crushed by a mysterious whale on-chain—this whale is frantically dumping 167,855 $ETH onto exchanges, still holding 97,000 more that haven't been sold yet.
This isn't just selling coins, it's offloading like there's no tomorrow.
ETH originally had the bullish support from staking ETFs hanging by a thread; on-chain withdrawals are ongoing, exchange inventories hit new lows, and mid-to-long-term holders are still holding strong, but facing this level of selling pressure, even the best fundamentals can't hold up.
The rebound volume is thin, every rally gets pushed back down, short-term support basically relies on faith.
Now for BTC, it looks more resilient than ETH on the surface, but there's turmoil underneath.
Although net inflows continue, the funds are all "fence-sitters"—they rush in when prices rise and flee at the first pullback, fully playing the swing trade game.
BTC exchange inventories have quietly been rising recently; some veteran retail holders are moving coins back to exchanges during the rebound, preparing to exit, which sharply contrasts with ETH's ongoing withdrawals.
On the macro side, the Fed's September rate hike probability has surged to 55.5%, the 10-year US Treasury yield is at 4.73%, plus the tanker incident in the Strait of Hormuz has escalated geopolitical risks, causing BTC to plunge sharply to 77778, triggering a double blow to bulls and bears.
ETH is being ground down by the whale, $BTC is getting hit from both macro pressures and retail swing traders. Don't expect a big rebound in the short term; the whale hasn't finished dumping, rate hike expectations haven't cooled, so sideways drifting with a slow decline is the most likely scenario. If you hold longs, take profits on rallies.When will BTCFi explode?
Here’s the conclusion directly: BTCFi will not "explode" in the remaining months of 2026. The real scale jump will most likely occur in the window from the second half of 2027 to 2029, which, according to Bitcoin’s own 4-year cycle, corresponds to the mid-to-late stage of the next bull market. Below is a breakdown of the timeline.
Second half of 2026 to first half of 2027: Recovery period, not an explosion period
Currently, we are at the tail end of the TVL retracement reshuffle (Q1 2026 shrank 74% from the 2025 peak, Babylon stabilized above 4 billion, Stacks/Core are running real revenue).
The hard catalyst in the second half of 2026 is the US CLARITY market structure bill (passed by the House, Senate has not voted before August recess, market predicts about a 50% chance of enactment within 2026) and the SEC-CFTC explicitly classifying BTC as a digital commodity (guidance issued in March 2026 but not codified law).
After these are implemented, compliance funds will tentatively enter, not a surge. Institutions need to see 2-3 consecutive quarters of auditable revenue before scaling up, and this rhythm naturally extends into 2027.
Second half of 2027 to 2028: Technical catalysts + cycle resonance, the first "quasi-explosion"
OP_CAT / OP_CTV soft fork: mainnet activation earliest in 2027, median expectation second half of 2027 to 2028. This is a key unlock of native programmability, determining whether Stacks/Citrea/Bitlayer can upgrade from "sidechain" to "Bitcoin security inheritance."
If Babylon multi-staking, LBTC across 70+ protocol combinations, and Core’s revenue buyback model run 2 years of data successfully, institutional staking scale could jump from tens of billions to hundreds of billions.
If Bitcoin enters a new halving-driven main rise phase in 2027 (historical rhythm), BTCFi TVL moving from the current ~5.6 billion to 20-30 billion is a neutral expectation, corresponding to penetration from 1% to 2.3% (Galaxy’s 2030 route of 47 billion/2.3% penetration, the first half of which completes in these two years).
2028–2029: Mid-to-late stage of the next bull market, the window for the "explosion" definition to be fulfilled
Most institutional research’s neutral baseline: 2028-2029 is the mid-to-late stage of Bitcoin’s next major bull market, BTCFi will amplify with overall market risk appetite, penetration hitting 3%-5%, TVL reaching 60-100 billion USD (based on 2 trillion market cap at 3%-5%).
Necessary conditions to trigger the "explosion feeling" (at least 2 must be met):
US approval of income-generating BTC ETF or LST-ETF (Core/Babylon systems lobbying)
Custody giants (BitGo/HexTrust/Coinbase Prime) standardizing institutional BTC staking products
Native covenant applications running blue-chip projects after OP_CAT activation
BTC price itself in the main rise phase, yield narrative gains multiplier effect
Why not "exploding next year"
2024-2025 already had a "pseudo-explosion" (TVL surged to 9.1 billion then halved), the market learned to distinguish Farm subsidy TVL from real fee revenue, so the second start will be slower but more solid.
Institutional fund attributes determine: ETF holders need to amend charters to do staking yield, compliance chains are measured in "years," not "months."
Token layer (STX/CORE/BABY) explosions usually lag protocol TVL explosions by 1-2 quarters and are constrained by their own unlock/buyback models. Don’t equate "track growth" with "your tokens flying proportionally."
In short
Remaining 2026: sideways recovery + regulatory implementation observation, no explosion
From second half of 2027: technical (OP_CAT) + multi-staking product maturity, acceleration begins
2028-2029: mid-stage of next BTC bull market, the moment BTCFi as a "track" is called an explosion by the market
From now: about 1.5 to 3 years, not a matter of a few months
If you ask based on position cycle—short-term trading should not rely on "explosion" assumptions; mid-term (1-2 years) layout of STX/CORE with revenue models can accept realization in 2027; long-term (3+ years) odds are more reasonable based on the 2028-2029 next cycle. 🔥#英伟达向联发科投资35亿美元
NVIDIA invests $3.5 billion in MediaTek convertible bonds, accepting zero interest, buying a strategic position. 💰
On August 31, NVIDIA officially announced the subscription to MediaTek's overseas convertible corporate bonds, taking nearly 90% of the $3.5 billion issuance, with a 0% coupon rate and a five-year term. No interest is taken; instead, NVIDIA gains access to MediaTek's custom AI chip business, which can utilize NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion interconnect technology and NVHBM high-bandwidth memory.
Customers ordering custom AI chips from MediaTek don't need to start from scratch on architecture, interconnect, and packaging engineering. NVIDIA and MediaTek provide a bundled solution, covering NVLink connections, memory architecture, and rack-level technology required for mass production and deployment. Jensen Huang said: "NVIDIA's network ecosystem has become part of MediaTek's supply chain, and MediaTek's XPU is also integrated into our supply chain."
MediaTek expects AI chip revenue of $2 billion this year, targeting $7-12 billion next year, aiming to capture up to 15% of the global AI ASIC market share.
Jensen Huang's goal is not to have MediaTek replace NVIDIA, but to have all custom chips run on NVIDIA's interconnect standards. MediaTek's stock on the Taiwan Stock Exchange surged nearly 10% at opening, hitting the daily limit.
NVIDIA is transforming from a "chip seller" into a "toll operator of the AI superhighway." Anyone wanting to build their own AI chips must first connect to this highway. 👇
Join the discussion in the comments: do you think this deal is NVIDIA blocking competitors or nurturing a future rival for itself?The hotter the market, the more you need to watch who is really taking over the position. Have you ever thought about, after a coin doubles from the bottom, who exactly is left with the remaining space? Recently, with not much going on, I casually reviewed the $XPL token. To be honest, at first glance, it felt somewhat familiar. Not the kind of excitement like "it's about to take off again," but more like a rhythm I've seen before in historical candlestick charts, a sense of déjà vu. Let's look at the current situation. The price is consolidating around 0.09 to 0.1 USD, having risen quite a bit from the 0.06 bottom, but still far from the historical high of 1.68, separated by a vast gap. This low-level horizontal consolidation structure indeed reminds one of the patterns before the rallies of $ALLO and $ESP — the classic script known among veteran players as "strong manipulation control, squeezing shorts to push the price up." But that's not what I want to focus on. The real key point is the cross-market linkage logic. The Plasma behind $XPL is not some storyless air project. It is an L1 focused on stablecoin payments, with the core selling point being zero-fee USDT transfers. Behind it stand names like Peter Thiel, Founders Fund, Framework Ventures, and the public sale was oversubscribed by more than 7 times. Additionally, with Plasma One's crypto spending card, user numbers and deposit data are both increasing, so the fundamentals have support. But we need to see one fact clearly: what the market is trading now is not Plasma's payment vision, but "Tonight, the focus of the US stock market is not Nvidia, but Dell's order guidance.
SanDisk, Micron, Western Digital, and Seagate all fell 2.2%~2.6% in pre-market trading, with the four stocks moving in a highly consistent direction and magnitude. This synchronization indicates a sector-wide profit-taking, not news from any single company. The previous trading day, SanDisk rose 5.50% and Micron rose 2.77%, but most of that gain was given back in one day.
Another signal is in volatility. The VIX rose 6.23% to 15.85, while the S&P 500 only fell 0.33% and the Nasdaq fell 0.12% during the same period. The increase in volatility far exceeds the decline in the indices, indicating buying insurance against events rather than selling off positions.
Dell will report earnings after the market closes tonight, with an estimated EPS of $4.72, compared to $2.10 in the same period last year, requiring a 1.25x increase, and only 5 analysts cover it.
Judgment: The direction of the storage sector in the next 48 hours will be determined by Dell's order guidance, not by its own supply and demand. $BTC moved only 0.35% in 24 hours, $ETH moved 0.10%, the risk pricing center is not in crypto, so watch if the VIX rises above 18 first.U.S. stocks will open in half an hour, but tonight I actually dare not easily go long on BTC.
What deserves the most attention now is not this single BTC candlestick, but the overall state of the risk market before the U.S. stock market opens.
Today, U.S. stock futures are weak, oil prices have surged to around $87, and the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield has risen to about 4.79%.
If these several factors rise simultaneously, it is not good news for risk assets.
BTC has now returned to around 78,000, still some distance from 80,000.
So after the U.S. stock market opens tonight, what I want to see most is not whether it can immediately pull back, but a very simple signal:
If U.S. stocks continue to drop, will BTC also fall with increased volume?
If U.S. stocks drop at the open but BTC can hold steady, or even quickly recover the pre-open losses, it would indicate that the crypto market's support might be stronger than expected.
But if at the open, BTC, ETH, and U.S. tech stocks all plunge together, then today's high-level volatility needs to be reassessed.
Especially since Dell and Palo Alto Networks have after-hours earnings tonight, the sentiment around AI and tech stocks may continue to impact risk assets.
So I won’t rush in the first minute tonight.
I’ll first watch the real reaction after the U.S. stock market opens, then decide if there’s a worthwhile trade for the night.
What do you think? When U.S. stocks open tonight, will BTC drop along, or will it first dip then rebound? #财报观察员：博通与戴尔接棒，AI回报再受检验 $BTC $ETH Japan raises interest rate to 1%, hitting a 31-year high! The black swan of yen carry trade unwind is approaching again: Will the crypto world relive the crash tragedy?
The undercurrent of global liquidity is quietly surging across the Japanese archipelago.
The Bank of Japan recently raised its policy rate to 1%, and its 2-year government bond yield has hit the highest level in 31 years.
Many retail investors who only watch the market may not realize how powerful this hidden macro risk really is.
Over the past decade, the most favored no-capital business for global hedge funds and whales has been the "Yen Carry Trade" — borrowing cheap yen at near-zero interest rates, then converting it into dollars to aggressively buy high-yield risky assets like U.S. stocks and Bitcoin.
But now, with the US-Japan interest rate gap suddenly narrowing and the yen appreciating strongly, the borrowing cost of this tens of trillions of dollars in carry trades has skyrocketed. Borrowing institutions must sell high-risk assets to repay yen liabilities:
In early August 2024, yen carry trade unwinding triggered a global financial market Black Monday, with Bitcoin plunging sharply in a single day;
Now, with the Bank of Japan maintaining a hawkish stance and the rate hike cycle continuing, this undoubtedly hangs a high-risk liquidity Damocles sword just before the Federal Reserve's September meeting.
Don’t just watch for rate cut expectations; keep a close eye on the yen exchange rate and every move of the Bank of Japan to guard against sudden cross-market liquidity drains. 🚨This Week's Top Priority: A Wave of Employment Data Expected to Decide the Short-Term Direction of the Crypto Market.
This week, the U.S. will release a large batch of employment data.
This batch of data will determine the Federal Reserve's general direction on interest rates in September. The movements of BTC and ETH will largely depend on these results.
July's employment data had already started to weaken, with job numbers being revised downward and companies showing less willingness to hire.
However, in his speech at Jackson Hole, Waller took a tough stance: inflation has not yet met the target, the current monetary environment is not tight enough, and priority must be given to suppressing inflation; interest rate cuts will not come easily.
The market reacted immediately to this statement, with the probability of a rate hike in September jumping from 35% to nearly 60%.
Next, it all depends on this week's data, with two very clear outcomes:
✅ Employment data worsens, falling short of expectations: bullish for $BTC, $ETH, and $OKB, with a chance for the market to rebound.
⚠️ Employment data remains strong, exceeding expectations: BTC, as a high-risk asset, will continue to face downward pressure, consistent with my previous judgment: first consolidation and grinding, then a higher probability of decline.
When trading, don't just stare at candlestick charts; macro liquidity is the fundamental driver of major market moves.
This week is data-heavy, so market volatility will increase. If trading contracts with leverage, be sure to manage risk carefully, as stop losses can be triggered back and forth easily.
⚠️ The above is purely my personal market analysis and does not constitute investment advice. The market can change unexpectedly at any time. Trade at your own risk.
#就业数据密集公布，沃什政策立场受检验 U.S. stocks fell 1% pre-market, with $BTC and $ETH also slightly retreating, signaling
The pre-market is a period of relatively weak liquidity; a 1% drop alone is not a crash signal but a risk pre-pricing ahead of the nonfarm payrolls.
1. Direct signal: active contraction of risk appetite
U.S. stock futures fell 1% pre-market, with BTC and ETH following suit, indicating that cross-market linkage is still effective. Institutions are reducing risk exposure in advance and are unwilling to push risk assets higher before the nonfarm data release. Short-term profit-taking occurred near previous highs of 79,000 and 2,480.
2. Macro-level implication: the market is pricing in "two possibilities for nonfarm payrolls"
The market is conflicted: on one hand, betting on weaker employment to favor easing; on the other, wary of still-strong employment and a hawkish Fed.
The slight pre-market decline reflects funds preparing for the scenario of stronger-than-expected nonfarm data and renewed rate hike expectations.
Fund behavior: no active shorting, but also refusing to chase highs, reducing positions at highs to hedge and waiting for data clarity.
3. Signals within the crypto market
1) BTC and ETH declines are controlled around 1%, with no volume-driven sell-off; spot markets show no large-scale exits, mostly short-term contract funds withdrawing.
2) ETH has higher beta; if U.S. stocks continue to weaken, ETH’s correction will likely exceed BTC’s.
3) Altcoins will further diverge: strong narrative tokens resist declines, while small-cap hotspot coins may experience catch-up drops.
4. Two possible follow-up scenarios
① If U.S. stocks recover the pre-market losses after opening: this indicates only pre-market sentiment disturbance, and crypto returns to its original wide-range oscillation, continuing to contest the 80,000 resistance level.
② If U.S. stocks continue to fall after opening, with the Nasdaq weakening further: risk appetite will be further suppressed, and BTC will retest lower support levels.
Summary
A 1% pre-market drop mainly signals that large funds choose to hedge and observe before nonfarm payrolls, stopping chasing highs and making precautionary position reductions. It is not a confirmation of a complete trend reversal.
The truly decisive market move depends on the nonfarm data release; pre-market moves should only be considered sentiment references, not definitive forecasts for the market.
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#BTC高位震荡，与黄金联动增强 The total market cap of BTCFi track tokens is only about $670 million, a tiny fraction of the entire crypto market—indicating this is a very high-risk, high Beta niche, not a core position. Below, they are divided into three tiers by "logical strength," not by price increase.
Tier 1: Native Staking (core of the track, strongest logic)
Babylon (BABY) — track leader, but the token is a pitfall
At the protocol level, it is the biggest winner: TVL around $4-5.6 billion, native BTC staking, no bridging or wrapping, the cleanest risk model
But the BABY token market cap is only about $54 million, price $0.0126, down 92% from ATH ($0.1728), down 73% in one year
Core contradiction: huge protocol TVL but almost no value capture by the token—the staking yield goes to BTC holders, BABY is just Cosmos chain gas + governance. A typical case of "bullish on the track ≠ bullish on the token"
pSTAKE Finance / Lorenzo Protocol — liquid staking derivative layer
Non-custodial BTC to LST, connected to Babylon system, small market cap, high elasticity, but also faces "weak value capture" problem
Tier 2: Bitcoin-anchored execution layer (real products, real revenue)
Stacks (STX) — established + recent catalysts
Market cap about $460-490 million (one of the largest in the track), price $0.25, 1.81 billion circulating fully unlocked, no unlocking selling pressure
Longest tested since 2017; near-instant finality after Nakamoto upgrade, sBTC 1:1 pegged, non-custodial, no wrapping
Recent movement: 7 days +51%~83%, 1 month +84%, clearly capital betting on some catalyst
Downside: still down 93% from ATH ($3.84), ecosystem is relatively small
Core DAO (CORE)
Largest Bitcoin sidechain TVL: about $314 million, 5541 BTC staked
Key difference: clear shift in 2026 from "emission subsidy yield" to "real revenue buyback of CO2"—using LST/SAT Pay actual fees to buy back tokens
Market cap about $32.68 million, price $0.026, a low market cap + revenue model elastic asset
Tier 3: Supporting / yield layer (not pure BTCFi but beneficiaries)
Pendle (PENDLE) — frequent top gainer in the track
Market cap about $260 million, price $1.51, 7 days +10.9%
Not native BTCFi, but Boros product builds interest rate layer, an "yield trading" entry for BTC interest products; institutions regard Pendle as the yield track leader
Lombard (LBTC) — largest liquid staking share (~60%)
But LBTC is a stablecoin-like asset (pegged to BTC), not a speculative token, not suitable for "buying tokens to bet on price rise"
Preference Asset Logic
Stable (relatively) STX Unlocked, has product, recent capital
Elastic / reversal
CORE Revenue buyback model + low market cap
Pure speculation
BABY, pSTAKE Highest track Beta, but weak token value capture
A few hard reminders:
"Strong protocol ≠ strong token": Babylon protocol is king, but BABY has fallen 92% from ATH and hasn't stopped falling, don't blindly buy the track leader
Look at "income per BTC" not TVL: Solv's $2.15 billion TVL with only $41 daily income is a lesson; CORE and STX are among the few running real revenue
Low market cap traps: many tokens have market caps under $30 million (Sovryn, MERL, Bitlayer BTR), poor liquidity, easy to go to zero
Data as of end of August 2026, token prices fluctuate in real time, verify before buying
⚠️ The above is only an objective data summary and track logic analysis, not investment advice. Small-cap crypto tokens are extremely volatile; only invest funds you can afford to lose, do your own research (DYOR). Are the $CL 80 short positions stuck? That's normal, I almost reached out there myself.
We need to clearly understand what's behind this rally. It's not the main force entering to grab chips.
On August 26th at 5 PM, oil prices suddenly surged. On the surface, it looks like the EIA inventory data did the trick—crude oil only increased by 95,000 barrels, while the expectation was 1.5 million barrels, and gasoline inventories dropped sharply, indicating strong demand.
But don't just look at the data. The previous continuous drop in oil prices was because the Middle East was cooling down. The Strait might reopen, the US softened its stance, and the geopolitical risk premium is being quickly squeezed out. This rebound was forcibly pulled up by an inventory data point against the backdrop of continuous declines.
So what to do with those positions?
1. If your position isn't heavy, hold on and don't move. This kind of data-driven rebound won't last long; the big rope of Middle East easing is still tied there. When sentiment cools down, prices will slide down again. At that time, minimizing losses or even breaking even is a hundred times better than cutting losses at the bottom now.
2. If your position is heavy, set a stop loss near the previous high around 88, don't be greedy. A V-shaped rebound going up is a low-probability event, but you have to leave yourself a way out.
The worst thing is to add to short positions during the rebound. I've done that before and ended up losing so badly my mom wouldn't recognize me. The market won't keep rising forever; just be patient.
Short positions can be saved, but what saves you is not luck, it's patience.
#OKX预言家：CS2波尔图激战，F1与英超接力 #财报观察员：博通与戴尔接棒，AI回报再受检验 #BTC高位震荡，与黄金联动增强 Recently, the market has been emphasizing the "massive return of institutional funds into the crypto market," and the numbers do look impressive. But if you only focus on net inflows into ETFs, it's easy to overlook another issue: money is coming in, but why hasn't the price reacted by the same magnitude? In the past period, BTC spot ETFs recorded inflows for nine consecutive trading days, with a cumulative scale of about $3 billion. But on August 28, there was a sudden net outflow of about $201.9 million, directly ending the previous streak of continuous inflows. Meanwhile, the ETH spot ETF continued to attract about $102.1 million that day, maintaining net inflows for ten consecutive trading days. This shows that the market is not simply "institutional retreat." What is even more noteworthy is — capital is becoming more divergent. 📊 BTC: Inflows still exist, but there is significant resistance 📊 near breaking $80,000. ETH: ETFs continue to attract funds, but remain in a phase of volatile digestion 📊. XRP: Capital inflows continue, with a net inflow of about $📊 110 million in the last week of August. SOL: institutional funds remain active, but price performance does not fully match the capital's popularity. The latest data has shown another change. On August 31, the US spot BTC ETF recorded a net inflow of about $217 million, with BlackRock's IBIT contributing about $206 million; ETH ETFs saw a net inflow of about $87.68 million during the same period. So, now it's said that "ETF funds are fleeing."[Pharaoh's Market Watch]
Pharaoh taps the pyramid blackboard: Today's drop from 79,100 to 77,700, don't panic, just three things smashed the market—Wash's hawkish stance, the Middle East fire, and the ETF guys pulling up their pants and running.
First, Wash's hawkishness is even tougher than Pharaoh's mummy.
Last Friday he said "inflation is unbearably high," the market immediately pushed the September rate hike probability from 35% to over 60%, the 2-year US Treasury yield soared, the dollar hardened like Pharaoh's scepter, and all risk assets had to kneel.
Second, the Middle East is firing off at the Strait of Hormuz again.
When the US and Iran clash, oil prices hold steady at $88, choking off 1/5 of global oil supply. Oil prices spike, inflation expectations rise, the Fed dares not ease, and risk assets fall first out of respect.
Third, ETF funds are fleeing faster than Pharaoh's tomb raiders.
August saw a record $3 billion inflow, but on August 28 alone, there was a net outflow of $200 million!
Adding technicals, a 25% rise in August has exhausted the market, RSI has long been overbought and crying for help, the resistance zone between 80,000-86,000 is as thick as Pharaoh's pyramid, and without volume, it simply can't break through.
In summary: Wash's hawkishness + Middle East conflict + ETF retreat, three hammer blows knocked the price down from above 80,000 to 77,700, perfectly reasonable. Next, watch two things: September 4 Nonfarm Payrolls, September 15-16 FOMC. $BTC $ETH $SOL #BTC高位震荡，与黄金联动增强 Is something big coming?
$BTC is currently stuck around 77800, grinding until it makes your scalp tingle. Last Friday it even surged to 81310, but then got a cold splash from a hawkish stance by Walsh, and the price dropped directly. From the weekend to Monday, there were several rebounds to around 79350, but it never truly held above that level.
The problem is clear: the trapped and long positions left from the previous sharp rally haven't been fully digested, the continuous inflow rhythm of the spot ETF for 9 days was interrupted, market expectations for a September rate cut cooled down again, and incremental funds naturally are reluctant to chase aggressively at this level.
So even though the chart looks stable sideways now, both bulls and bears are holding their breath. If economic data continues to be on the hot side, a quick dip might come again to wash out the floating chips and leverage above.
But I still say: as long as the big cycle trend isn't broken, more pullbacks are just turnover, not the end of the bull market.
This position is not suitable for emotional chasing; the truly comfortable opportunities often hide when the market is most impatient.
The big direction hasn't changed, buy the dip, and patiently wait for the next real volume breakout.
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#BTC高位震荡，与黄金联动增强 Does BTCFi still have a future?
It does have a future, but not the kind of "hundred-chain war, Farm with 30%+ annualized BTCFi" like in 2024. Instead, it will converge into a narrower, more institutionalized path: transforming BTC from a "static digital gold" into an "auditable interest-bearing/collateral asset." The reshuffle in 2025-2026 has already filtered out most of the pseudo-demand.
Current stage
At the beginning of 2024, BTCFi TVL was about $300 million → peaked at $9.1 billion in October 2025 → retracted to about $5.6 billion in Q1 2026, with EVM clone-type BTC L2 peak dropping 74%.
Penetration rate is extremely low: only 0.46%-0.8% of BTC supply has gone through BTCFi, while ETH is about 15%, a difference of an order of magnitude.
77% of BTC holders have never used any BTCFi product, and only 3% include it in their BTC strategy—indicating it is still a small circle experiment.
Why "there is still a future"
The underlying driving force is not hype but the capital efficiency demand after institutional holdings:
Spot ETFs had a net inflow of over $21 billion in 2025; 401(k) and FASB fair value accounting turn BTC into balance sheet assets. Institutions cannot be satisfied with "just holding for appreciation"; they want cash flow and auditable returns.
BTC market cap is about $2 trillion; even if penetration climbs from 0.5% to 3%-5%, the absolute TVL increment is still very large.
The native path has been proven: Babylon uses native BTC staking to secure PoS networks (no bridging, no wrapping, no self-custody relinquishment), with TVL around $5.6 billion / 56,800 BTC by mid-2026; Lombard’s LBTC connects to 70+ Ethereum DeFi protocols for liquid staking derivatives; Stacks Nakamoto upgrade, Rootstock, and Bitlayer are working on native execution layers.
But the old narrative is dead
The survivors and failures in 2026 will diverge based on three key points:
Yield (subsidized annualized) → Revenue (real fees): Solv locks $2.15 billion TVL but earns only about $41 daily, a typical "paper TVL"; liquidity evaporates when farming ends.
Native BTC > Wrapped BTC > EVM clone L2: Botanix shutdown is a negative example—Bitcoin users want simplicity and self-custody, unwilling to sacrifice security assumptions for complex bridging.
Institutions go through compliance channels: many real "BTC interest-bearing" activities actually happen in ETFs, brokerages, centralized lending desks (Ledn with $188 million BTC loans securitized in 2026, Morgan Stanley/Galaxy managing collateral), not necessarily on native BTC chains.
Three viable paths
Native staking/re-staking: Babylon + Lombard/SolvBTC types, BTC stays on-chain, producing secure yields, simplest and aligns with BTC holders’ mindset.
BTC as cross-chain collateral: WBTC/cbBTC/tBTC go to Ethereum, Solana to tap mature DeFi depth; trust assumptions are weaker but liquidity is best; short-term institutions prefer this path.
Bitcoin-anchored execution layers: Stacks, Rootstock, Bitlayer, Citrea develop native smart contracts, slow but align with "Bitcoin security inheritance" long-termism, provided soft forks like OP_CAT can advance.
Conclusion
At the sector level: real existence in the next 3-5 years, but scale will be far below the "ETH DeFi volume replication" expectation, more like the infrastructure layer for BTC financialization, not the next DeFi Summer.
From investment/participation perspective: avoid pure farming tools, anonymous team EVM clone L2s, projects with high TVL but near-zero daily income; focus only on native custody models + real fee income + institutional custody/audit access (Babylon series, Lombard, Stacks ecosystem, Sovryn/Zest on Rootstock).
Biggest variables: US regulation on "whether BTC staking counts as securities/needs broker licenses," and whether Bitcoin L1 is willing to open limited native programmability via covenant/OP_CAT—the former determines the ceiling, the latter decides if native faction can make a comeback. Why is it that the stronger AI gets, the more "old stuff" like hard drives haven't been phased out?
Many people think that the AI era is all about GPUs, HBM, and high-speed SSDs, and that mechanical hard drives should be useless. Actually, it's quite the opposite. AI generates more and more data, and eventually, it all needs to be stored somewhere.
Simply put: HBM is the workstation next to the GPU, SSD is the cabinet for grabbing things quickly, and HDD is the huge, cheap warehouse in the back. Model training data, videos, logs, backups—these don't need to be read every second, but their volume is enormous. Storing all of this on SSDs would be too costly.
So when cloud providers expand AI data centers, besides buying GPUs, they also continue to increase large-capacity storage. $STX and $WDC cater to this demand, and now single hard drive capacities are moving toward 30TB, 40TB, or even higher.
I mainly watch two things on this front: cloud providers' CapEx and large-capacity hard drive prices. AI is responsible for crazily generating data, and hard drive manufacturers are responsible for storing this data cheaply.
Sometimes, the easiest part to overlook in the AI industry chain is actually the most traditional business. The total market capitalization of the crypto market is currently about $2.1T, with BTC fluctuating repeatedly in the $78K–$80K range. Compared to a broad market rally, recent funds have clearly favored certain mainstream assets and specific sectors. 📊 New changes in ETF funds: - 🟠 BTC spot ETF recorded a net inflow of about $217M, ending the previous outflow pressure - 🔵 ETH ETF continues to remain strong, with another inflow of about $87.7M on August 31, marking the 11th consecutive trading day of net inflows - 🟢 XRP ETF continues its positive fund trend, receiving funds for the 10th consecutive trading day - 🟣 SOL ETF also maintains net inflows, but the scale is significantly lower than previous peaks Among them, BlackRock's IBIT attracted about $205.9M in a single day, showing that institutional funds still have strong concentration. 🌍 The real focus should be on the macro environment. The start of September is not easy. The US 10-year Treasury yield rose to about 4.79%, oil prices increased due to escalating tensions in the Middle East, and the market is once again worried about inflation and the possibility of further Fed tightening. High yields usually weaken the valuation space for high-risk assets, so BTC may still face short-term pressure. 🎯 My key observations: 1️⃣ Do not chase sudden surges in small-cap coins; prioritize assets that are truly receiving sustained funding support. 2️⃣ BTC's current key area remains near $78K. If it can hold, the market still has a chance to rebound In the past couple of days, many friends have missed capturing the key abnormal movements behind the Ethereum market. Here's a simple summary for everyone.
Previously, an institution planned to sell about 154,300 ETH, corresponding to a market value of $378 million. In just over a day, the institution has successively transferred 52,739 ETH, equivalent to $129 million, to six major centralized exchanges including Binance and OKX. Currently, the wallet address still holds 101,561 ETH, valued at about $249 million.
Tracing the complete flow of this batch of ETH: these tokens were withdrawn by the institution from Coinbase during 2021-2022 at a cost of about $1,700 each; they participated in Ethereum staking in 2023; completed staking redemption in January last year; recently consolidated into two wallet addresses and started transferring in batches to major CEXs, which is a typical cash-out move.
Affected by this large sell pressure and market panic caused by the Wash interest rate hike remarks, the ETH hourly K-line shows a slow rise followed by a sharp fall.
We still hold short positions. Here, we remind everyone again to strictly set stop losses in trading, control position risk, and avoid holding positions to gamble. There may also be false breakouts.
Risk warning: The above is only a market information summary and does not constitute investment advice.The latest CME data shows that the probability of a rate hike in September has surged to 65.4%, up from less than 40% a week ago. Risk assets will definitely take a hit in the short term, but don’t rush to call a crash.
Focus on two key dates: September 4th non-farm payrolls and September 11th CPI. These two data points are the real decisive factors. If employment disappoints or inflation doesn’t pick up, the rate hike expectations could reverse at any time.
Additionally, the Fed and the Treasury are somewhat at odds. Starting September 9th, the Treasury will increase the long-term bond repurchase quota from 2 billion to 4 billion, clearly aiming to suppress long-term yields. Meanwhile, the Fed wants to hike rates, which is contradictory. So, September is likely to be hawkish in words but inactive in action.
The crypto market liquidity is not panicking. Last week, $BTC and $ETH ETFs had a combined net inflow of nearly $1.75 billion. In August, Bitcoin ETFs attracted over $3 billion, the strongest single month this year. Although BTC ETFs saw a $200 million outflow on the day of the Fed chair’s speech, ETH ETFs have had net inflows for 11 consecutive days, and stablecoin supply has stopped falling and started to rise.
My personal view is to avoid short-term adjustments, but I’m not bearish. The 65.4% probability sounds scary, but the real direction depends on the September data.
Before that, every big dip is an opportunity to buy in batches. If the data confirms a rate hike, there’s still time to exit. Don’t scare yourself now. (Not investment advice!)
#就业数据密集公布，沃什政策立场受检验 #BTC高位震荡，与黄金联动增强 #贝森特拟放宽银行信贷，高利率压力待解 $SOL The real change has arrived
It's no longer just supported by Meme coins
Today I saw a set of Solana data, and I think it's more worth paying attention to than the short-term price fluctuations of $SOL.
Although Solana network revenue in the first half of this year dropped 87% year-on-year, the underlying structure has completely changed: the proportion of Meme coins in spot trading volume dropped from 40% to 16%, while stablecoins rose from 6% to 19%.
Even more striking, Solana now accounts for about 97% of on-chain tokenized stock spot DEX trading volume, with related transactions reaching $4.9 billion in the first half of the year; stablecoin settlement volume also exceeded $1.9 trillion.
At the same time, SOL exchange balances fell about 4.9% over the past week, and the US SOL ETF has seen net inflows for seven consecutive weeks, attracting over $150 million last week alone.
So now when I look at SOL, I no longer simply see the next round of Meme speculation.
It is gradually transforming from a public chain with strong casino attributes into a trading infrastructure for stablecoins, stocks, and RWA.
If this transformation continues, the valuation logic for this round of SOL may need to be recalculated.
$BTC Everyone is talking about billions flowing into crypto ETFs. On the surface, it sounds extremely bullish. But there’s another question worth asking: Where is the price reaction? Last week, BTC ETFs recorded roughly $924M in net inflows, while ETH ETFs attracted around $824M. SOL and XRP products also posted strong weekly numbers. Yet the market hasn't exactly exploded higher. $ETH is still struggling to establish a strong trend, while $SOL remains largely range-bound. That divergence deserves at$CVX
$CVX is gaining +9.02% while DeFi names strengthen together. UNI, CRV and CVX moving simultaneously makes this rotation interesting. Holding $2.30 could keep the rally alive.
EP: $2.34–$2.43
TP: $2.55 / $2.70 / $2.90
SL: $2.20HYPE is the strong coin I least want to chase a direct rally on today.
BTC is holding around 78,000, ETH and SOL are showing weakness, yet HYPE once surged about 4% to near $84. The market easily interprets this as funds starting to cluster in strong coins, but after checking the data, I think what’s really worth watching isn’t the price increase, but the upcoming supply and demand test for HYPE.
Tokenomist’s latest data lists HYPE as one of the biggest cliff unlock projects in the next 7 days; interestingly, the same data source shows that in the past 7 days, HYPE buybacks amounted to about $11.55 million. In other words, while new tokens are entering circulation, protocol revenue is continuously forming buy orders. The most direct answer to whether the price will be strong next is: can buyback demand absorb the new supply?
There’s another variable the market doesn’t discuss much.
On-chain data verified by Arkham found that Lazarus-related wallets have sold over $30 million BTC on Hyperliquid in the past three weeks, then converted it to ETH, SOL, and transferred to other exchanges. This is not "HYPE whales shorting," and shouldn’t be interpreted that way, but for a platform striving to enter the US compliant market, sanctions and AML risks will directly affect valuation discounts.No wonder $ETH hasn't been able to rise recently; turns out there's such huge selling pressure above!
Damn, on-chain data shows a mysterious giant whale is continuously transferring 167,855 $ETH, worth about $408 million.
After gathering ETH from multiple wallets, this whale is directly depositing it into major exchanges. In the past 48 hours, it has deposited 70,739 ETH, worth about $174 million, and still holds 97,115 ETH untouched.
Over $400 million worth of chips flooding the market—no one could withstand that, right? 😂
What’s worse is the weak macro environment.
Polymarket data shows the market’s expectation for a 25 basis point Fed rate hike in September has risen to 55.5%. Walsh’s hawkish remarks last week at the Jackson Hole meeting have also fueled rate hike expectations, pushing the 10-year US Treasury yield up to 4.73%.
The continuous selling pressure from the giant whale plus rising rate hike expectations create a double whammy.
No wonder $ETH has been struggling to break upward lately.
Right now, I just want to ask:
What the hell should I do with my long position...😭
#LaborMarketTestsWalsh #BTCGoldCorrelation #BroadcomDellAIResults ETF funds show structural divergence, BTC and ETH institutional buying logic changes
Bad news
Recently, US spot crypto ETFs have seen a round of capital inflow, with the combined net inflow of the two major coins hitting a nearly 10-month high in a single week, but fund preferences have clearly diverged.
ETH-ETF has maintained net inflows for several consecutive days, with BlackRock's ETHA as the main driving force. In contrast, BTC-ETF shows a "big rise inflow, outflow on pullback" wave pattern, with net outflows on some trading days.
The deeper reason lies in the different attributes of two types of institutional funds:
$BTC-ETF contains a large number of trading-type institutions; once the market fluctuates, they quickly take profits and exit, with funds following price volatility very obviously.
$ETH-ETF's new funds are more for medium- to long-term allocation, betting on the allocation benefits brought by the launch of staking ETFs, and tend to accumulate in batches on pullbacks. But this batch of funds also has shortcomings, belonging to risk appetite funds; if macro tightening continues, concentrated redemptions will also occur.
On-chain data simultaneously confirms this divergence: ETH continues to be withdrawn from exchanges into self-custody wallets, with exchange inventories hitting new lows; BTC exchange inventories have slightly increased, with some long-term holders returning coins to exchanges during the rise, preparing for swing trading.This core viewpoint is good, but there are two factual suggestions to correct: Jensen Huang founded NVIDIA in 1993, not 1932; if SPCX refers to the SpaceX-related token/asset you mentioned earlier, it's better to avoid directly equating its listing history with NVDA and TSLA.
It can be revised into a more impactful version:
Why do truly great companies often take several years or even decades to emerge?
Look at $NVDA.
Jensen Huang founded NVIDIA in 1993. This company has gone through financial crises, chip business difficulties, mobile failures, and many tests before reaching today.
$TSLA is the same.
It has gone through near bankruptcy, production capacity crises, market doubts, and gradually persevered to achieve its current status.
So I'm not saying $SPCX is bad.
On the contrary, I am optimistic about its long-term story.
But the problem is:
SPCX has only been developing for a few months, yet the market has already given it very high expectations.
Completing in a short time the valuation expansion that others take many years or even decades to achieve means huge risks.
The tallest tree catches the wind.
When expectations are too full and the rise is too fast, the capital market is more likely to start cooling it down.
So I tend to believe:
Short-term cooling and volatility to digest valuation; long-term, if fundamentals are realized, it will gradually rise.
Truly big companies are not afraid of time.
What they fear is the market prematurely speculating the story of the next ten years all at once.
$SPCX . $HYPE really has its reasons.
Data from Allium shows that cryptocurrency buybacks reached $638 million this year, far exceeding the same period last year.
As of August, Hyperliquid leads with about $370 million in buybacks, followed closely by Pumpfun with $200 million.
This means the two projects account for 90% of the total, while the remaining N projects share less than $100 million.
This is the core issue: buybacks are a strategy borrowed from the stock market, and for it to work, there is a prerequisite: you have to actually be making money.
Hyperliquid earns fees from perpetual contracts, and pump.fun profits from token issuance commissions—both are businesses with real cash flow coming in.
Most projects don’t have this prerequisite, so what do they use to buy back?
Using tokens issued from their own treasury to exchange for U is not a buyback; that’s just moving money from one hand to the other. 🫡This message contains a lot of information, so I've compressed it into a version more suitable for posting, keeping the four main themes: Nonfarm Payrolls + CPI/PPI + SPCX market + Risk warnings:
🚀 Here it comes, $SPCX brothers, the two key words to watch this week are: data!
The September 4th Nonfarm Payroll data is about to be released, a crucial employment indicator before the September rate decision.
The last Nonfarm data showed a clear cooling, while inflationary pressure remains. Next up are August's PPI and CPI, which will directly influence the market's judgment on the Fed's next policy move.
So this week for SPCX, the market might not move very smoothly.
On the market front, $SPCX continued to turn upward on Monday, with a recent low pullback to $139, and the recent high of $149.72 still unbroken.
Currently, bullish momentum remains, but a straight rally is unrealistic.
Before the rate decision, it's most likely to be repeated shakeouts and waiting for data.
Also, an interesting rumor: the market says Trump bought SPCX around $156.11.
But the authenticity of this news and whether there will be follow-up buying is hard to confirm, so no need to overinterpret.
We retail investors don't have that much capital; what we can do is simple:
Don't chase highs, be patient, and strictly control risk.
Wait for Nonfarm, CPI, and PPI to be released one by one, then see how the Fed opens this "powder keg." 💥
$SPCX $BTC
#EmploymentData #FederalReserve #SPCX$SNDK 🔥 SanDisk SNDK: Is the real big rally possibly not over yet?
Recently, SanDisk's performance has been very strong, but the most critical question now is not "how much it has risen," but whether this rally is supported by fundamentals.
The answer is: yes, and very strong.
SanDisk's FY2026 Q4 revenue reached $8.965 billion, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 51%; full-year revenue was $20.25 billion, a year-on-year increase of 175%. Among these, the data center business surged 437% year-on-year.
The core logic behind this is very clear:
AI computing power expansion → data volume explosion → increased enterprise SSD demand → NAND price rise → SanDisk's profit elasticity further amplified.
Notably, about two-thirds of the Q4 quarter-on-quarter growth came from price increases.
So now, SanDisk is no longer just trading on the "AI concept," but is trading the storage price increase cycle.
But especially at times like this, one must not blindly chase highs.
Next, I focus on three signals:
① Whether NAND prices can continue to rise
② Whether the data center business can maintain high growth
③ Whether key support can hold after a high-level pullback
If none of these three conditions show obvious weakening, I believe the medium-term trend is still worth being bullish on.
In terms of operations, I prefer: continue holding low-position shares, avoid heavy buying at high positions; if there is a sharp drop but fundamentals remain unchanged, consider phased accumulation.
#就业数据密集公布，沃什政策立场受检验 Micron, SK Hynix, and SpaceX each have their own plans
At the close of the US stock market, the two storage giants and SpaceX quietly followed completely different scripts.
Micron ($xMU) rose 2.77% to close at $958.73, up 227% year-to-date, with AI storage demand driving both its DRAM and NAND;
SK Hynix ($xSKHY) rose 2.2% to close at $164.58, as the leader in HBM, it recently raised $26 billion on the Nasdaq, setting the largest foreign listing record, and is evaluating building a factory in Japan to expand production. Goldman Sachs raised its 2028 operating profit forecast by 24%.
Looking at SpaceX ($xSPCX), it rose 1.55% to close at $143.69. Its June IPO was the largest in history, dropping from a high of 225 down to 143. The first financial report won't be revealed until November, with analysts' average target price at 216, showing huge divergence.
My view: Storage is currently the most certain AI main theme; MU and SK Hynix have logic that holds even with eyes closed; SPCX is a "story stock," Musk's halo remains, but it needs to prove with financials that it is not a castle in the air. The former depends on performance, the latter on expectations. 1. Two Extremes: The "Crisis of Faith" in Digital Assets On August 31, 2026, Bitcoin was priced at about $77,800, down 0.34% in 24 hours, with the total cryptocurrency market cap shrinking to $2.61 trillion. Meanwhile, spot gold surged dramatically, breaking through $4600 in August, marking the strongest weekly performance for precious metals since 2008 — the Gold Miners Index (GDX) soared 21.3% in a single week. The divergence between these two curves is striking: over the past year, Bitcoin's returns have clearly lagged behind gold and silver. Looking back at historical cycles, during the 2017 bull market, Bitcoin surged 1359%, while gold rose only 7%; in the 2022 bear market, Bitcoin plunged 57%, yet gold slightly increased by 1%. The narrative of "digital gold" is being repeatedly challenged by real data. 2. Three Major Deadlocks in High-Level Volatility Tightening Liquidity, Interest Rates as the Biggest Variable The Federal Reserve has kept the benchmark interest rate in the 3.5%-3.75% range and withdrawn forward guidance on rate cuts, with market expectations for a September rate hike rising to 82%. Historical data shows that over the past 15 years, August has been the worst seasonal month for Bitcoin with an average return of -7.87%. In a high interest rate environment, risk assets generally face pressure, with Bitcoin hit first. The "Siphoning Effect" of Capital is Obvious Spot Bitcoin ETFs have faced net redemptions for consecutive months, as Wall Street funds accelerate their shift toward AI tech stocks. Meanwhile, gold has attracted incremental funds due to safe-haven demand and a weakening dollar, creating a zero-sum game of "one rises as the other falls." The regulatory window period remains pendingLast week's on-chain and corporate disclosures revealed a different layer of demand in the crypto market. Strategy, Bitmine, and Strive successively announced increased holdings: Strategy purchased 4,603 Bitcoins for about $369.7 million, with a total holding close to 845,000; Bitmine invested about $131 million to add 53,500 Ethereum, nearing 5.9 million; Strive purchased another 1,800 Bitcoins, involving about $143 million. In a single week, the three companies disclosed crypto asset purchases exceeding $640 million. 📊 More important than the amount is the holding logic behind the funds. Short-term traders and companies that put digital assets into their corporate vaults make completely different decisions. Corporate treasury strategies are usually based on longer-term judgments and better tolerance for mid-term volatility, a patience that often allows retail investors to withstand drawdowns they find hard to bear. But this doesn't mean the direction is always right, nor does it mean prices can only rise—deep corrections still exist. 📉 It's more like a gradual shift in demand structure: from early retail investors and leveraged dominance, to now ETFs, corporate balance sheets, and institutional portfolios stacking up, market support is thickening. What really matters next isn't who announces buying, but whether these companies are still willing to increase positions against the trend when Bitcoin pulls 15% or even 20%. Only sustained accumulation that can withstand a bear market is the most honest footnote to long-term belief. 🧭 Risk warning: AccordinglyRecently, ETF capital flows in the crypto market have indeed been quite active. BTC and ETH have taken turns attracting attention, and SOL and XRP-related products have also shown clear allocation. From the surface data, it seems institutions are continuously increasing their positions. But the real question worth pondering is: when funds have flowed in, why haven't coin prices surged sharply in tandem? This is precisely the most noteworthy aspect of the current market. Net inflows into ETFs do not mean that funds of the same size will immediately convert into direct buying in the spot market. Institutions may build positions through subscriptions, portfolio rebalancing, arbitrage, and asset allocation, so looking at ETF inflows alone is hard to simply equate with "prices rising immediately." 📊 Recent market news is also worth noting: at the end of August, BTC spot ETF capital flows showed significant fluctuations, with a single-day net outflow of about $170 million. The previous continuous inflow rhythm was interrupted, and market sentiment has become more cautious. Therefore, rather than focusing on the so-called "about $2 billion inflow" and then announcing a bull market return, it's better to observe a more fundamental signal: after funds enter, can the price break through key resistance? Currently, the focus is: 🔹 BTC: Can it hold above 🔹 $81,000 ETH: Can it effectively recover and hold $2,550 🔹; ETF funds can sustain net inflows 🔹; whether trading volume expands in sync and form trending buying? If ETFs continue to attract funds, BTC and ETH prices will follow