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BTC is still near 80,000, but ETH can't hold 2,500: ETFs are buying, so why isn't the price rising?
Today's market watching feels the most awkward. $BTC is around 79,870, after breaking above 81,000 it fell back below 80,000; $ETH is about 2,502, fluctuating around 2,500; $SOL is holding near 107, with a noticeably smaller decline.
According to yesterday's data, BTC spot ETFs had a net inflow of about $232 million, and ETH even saw $192 million inflow. ETH's market cap is less than 20% of BTC's, yet its fund inflow is nearly 80% of BTC's. Logically, ETH should be strong, but the price can't even hold 2,530.
This indicates ETF funds are currently more like supporting the bottom, without forming a real breakout buying momentum. Profit-taking above, whale sell-offs, and options expiration are all waiting for a better exit point.
Right now, I only watch a few signals: BTC volume recovery above 80,800, ETH holding above 2,530, SOL breaking through 110, to consider risk appetite continuing to expand. Conversely, if BTC falls below 79,000, ETH loses 2,470, ETF inflows might just be defensive, not offensive.
The worst fear is not that institutions aren't buying, but that institutions are buying while the price is only supported by short covering.
Brothers, do you think institutions have really returned, or are they just taking over high-level positions?
#沃什今晚亮相杰克逊霍尔，能否明确政策框架？ #BTC冲高回落，期权到期放大关口博弈 #伊朗开放临时航道，美拒恢复旧协议 The most worth watching for $CORE this month is the large-scale launch of the stablecoin AUSD — this is Core's touchstone for shifting from "drawing a pie in the sky" to "earning fees." Coupled with SatPay buybacks and the continuous growth of BTC staking volume (TVL up 75% year-on-year since April), the fundamentals are indeed moving in a positive direction. But reality is harsh: the coin price has dropped over 99% from its peak, the token release cycle from 1981 creates selling pressure like a Damocles sword, and the entire BTCFi sector competition is fierce, with liquidity not automatically flowing in just because of the narrative. So September looks more like a watershed moment — if AUSD can generate real revenue, it might trigger a positive cycle of "staking growth → fee increase → buyback and burn"; if the launch falls short of expectations, then under macro uncertainty, it may continue to bottom out in the short term. My view: suitable as a long-term value observation target, not a short-term gamble, so keep enough position size and patience.#BTC surges then falls back, options expiration amplifies the key level battle
Bitcoin surged to 81,000 this morning, marking the sixth time in this period it broke through 80,000, but then immediately dropped back below 80,000, currently hovering around 79,600. It has risen 30% in a week, now stuck in a dilemma around the 80,000 level.
Bitcoin options expire today with a volume of $6.4 billion, more calls than puts, with large positions stacked at 75,000 and 80,000 strikes. Sellers want to push prices down to render contracts worthless, while buyers are defending 80,000 to lock in profits, resulting in a hard-fought battle. Ethereum is weaker, hovering near 2,500, with the options pain point at only 2,200, showing capital clearly favors Bitcoin. Gold is also tugging around 4,600, up about 14% since August, moving in sync with Bitcoin; its correlation has shifted from Nasdaq to gold.
The real direction will be decided by Powell's speech tonight at Jackson Hole. This is his first appearance at this event since becoming Fed Chair, and the market is guessing whether he will be hawkish or dovish. He has been quiet since taking office, refusing to explain the reason for holding rates steady at the July FOMC press conference, while the 30-year Treasury yield was crushed to the highest since 2007. CME data shows the probability of a September rate hike has risen from 33% to 40%.
Bitcoin has already risen 30% in a week and is overbought. The options battle is a short-term matter; Powell's words are the real variable. If he speaks dovishly, Bitcoin can catch a breath; if hawkish, the 80,000 level likely won't hold. I'll wait for his speech before making any moves, no action before tonight. $BTC $ETH $XAU Recently, Bitcoin $BTC and Ethereum $ETH have both been stuck in a high-level sideways consolidation. This stalemate of "not rising, not falling" essentially means the market is waiting for a clear breakout signal.
From a macro perspective, the market is waiting for the Federal Reserve's policy path. The previous Jackson Hole meeting released a hawkish signal of "no rush to cut rates," while the September FOMC meeting is the real critical point—if inflation continues to decline and strengthens easing expectations, it will inject a strong boost into risk assets.
From the perspective of capital and regulation, the market is also waiting for new catalysts. Although the BTC spot ETF once saw large capital inflows, the domestic spot purchasing power in the U.S. is still absent, making it difficult for prices to break through. Meanwhile, the CLARITY crypto market structure bill has been postponed to autumn, and regulatory clarity is another variable the market eagerly anticipates.
Before the direction becomes clear, both bulls and bears choose to wait and see. This low-volatility "grinding" market, though frustrating, is often the accumulation phase before a new trend starts.
#沃什今晚亮相杰克逊霍尔，能否明确政策框架？
#BTC冲高回落，期权到期放大关口博弈 #BTC surge and pullback, options expiration amplifies key level battle
Tonight is options settlement, the final long-short showdown at the 80,000 level
At 4 PM (Beijing time), $6.44 billion worth of Bitcoin options on Deribit will expire. This is the largest single-day settlement recently, so today will definitely not be calm.
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Key data: Call option open interest is heavily concentrated at the 75,000 and 80,000 strike prices, while the max pain point (the price most disadvantageous to buyers) is around 68,000 to 70,000, about $10,000 below the current price. Market makers will hedge by actively trading at these key levels, amplifying short-term volatility.
Three possible scenarios:
The most likely is a range-bound close between 78,000 and 80,000. Most contracts have little value left, and with over $3 billion net inflow into ETFs in the past 9 days, spot buying support exists, so the price is unlikely to crash.
A bearish scenario is a pullback to 75,000—there is significant profit-taking near 80,000, and if ETF buying doesn’t keep up, the price may retest the 75k strike price, triggering long stop losses.
A bullish scenario is holding above 80,000—this requires continued large ETF inflows after settlement, which would need an unexpectedly strong capital signal.
My judgment: Volatility will increase around settlement, but the final settlement will most likely be near 79,000. Options expiration is just short-term noise; the core trend depends on whether ETF funds can sustain.
Advice for brothers: Wait for a clear direction before acting. 80,000 is a psychological level, but holding above it will take time. 今晚22点，沃什的杰克逊霍尔"走钢丝"：一场决定美元、黄金与BTC的定价权 兄弟们，今晚别睡。 北京时间22点，美联储主席沃什将在杰克逊霍尔发表上任以来第一次主旨演讲。 三个月了。这家伙上台后干了三件事：取消前瞻指引、停更点阵图、记者会拒绝解释政策逻辑。 市场憋疯了。 30年期美债收益率飙到2007年以来最高。黄金逼近三个月高位。BTC在8万刀附近上蹿下跳。 今晚沃什说的每一个字，都在给美元、黄金和比特币定价。 先说说美联储信誉为什么崩了。 第一，沟通真空。 7月FOMC会议，9票对3票按兵不动。沃什在记者会上拒绝解释为什么——他直接说“让市场替美联储加息”。 记者问他什么情况下会加息？不回答。问他通胀目标会不会调整？不回答。 结果是什么？债市出现多年来最严重的一轮抛售。 第二，财政部添乱。 财政部长贝森特上周宣布扩大长期国债回购规模。当天30年期收益率跌了10个基点，第二天全涨回来了。 市场直接懵了：你们俩到底谁说了算？ 多伦多Silver Gold Bull外汇总监原话：“沃什希望减少干预让市场信号更清晰，财政部却在扭曲这些信号。如果沃什周五不澄清立场，美元可能大幅下跌。” 第三，General.
The most dangerous moment on the chessboard is never the opponent's already played checkmate move, but when he suddenly withdraws his pawn, opening a path—the central channel of the Strait of Hormuz now resembles a king's wing lured away by a sacrificed piece, revealing a narrow chance of survival. The Iranians' move appears as "reconciliation" on the surface, but at its core, it remains a tactical probe. They use the "permanent passage requires a US MOU" as a feint, guiding oil tankers toward an apparently safe passage, but the real checkmate is hidden behind the concession: our (Iran's) lost ground will ultimately force you to pay in hard cash on sanction terms.
The June plan was overturned on the table, and Washington's response is to continue seizing four lines of troops: oil, shipping, finance, and cross-border payments. What does this mean? In the king's wing attack, you let the opponent take an extra step, thinking you can gain time from the open channel, but within that time window, all settlement channels remain tightly blocked. This move is like opening the rear pawn line but trapping the most crucial queen in place. Investors on the field see "reduced disruption risk," which only perceives shallow changes before the endgame. Those who have calculated twenty moves ahead understand that the sanction piece has not left the board; it has merely retreated one square to regroup.
Oil prices falling from $141 to $91 is not a return to normal but a piece exchange maneuver in the midgame. Every channel, every oil export exemption, every payment settlement is a pawn on the board; advancing or conceding all serve the struggle for the endgame posture. Trump's rejection of the old June agreement is tantamount to refusing to shake hands with the opponent before the endgame; he demands full control of the board through forced conversion. The Iranians know this well, so they firmly demand oil sale exemptions, lifting blockades, and restoring the old agreement before agreeing to continue opening the strait—treating every move of the Ibrahim opening as a condition, not a concession.
The $xSPCX board is precisely the core variable in this midgame. To the players, it is not a chip but a strong piece—whoever controls it gains positional advantage over Middle Eastern oil routes and the dollar settlement system. The temporary opening of the channel is merely a seemingly free repositioning opportunity for the opponent; the real offensive and defensive focus lies in offshore payments and the actual enforcement strength of sanctions. If the market bets only on the "increased probability of passage," it is like evaluating the entire game’s strength with a one-move perspective. Every step of oil route opening is accompanied by the contraction and expansion of triple sanction shadows.
On the cold chessboard, the king is still exposed in the center, and both sides are calculating the other's next sacrificed piece. The brief opening of Hormuz is like sending out a g-file pawn—sweet and deadly. The true masters now watch not the channel itself but who will first err in the dark lines of sanctions. At this stage of the game, no move is a pure concession—every "opening" means a trap is quietly forming in some corner.
The sharp sword still hangs over the oil tankers; victory and defeat have never been so close, nor so unresolved. #IranOpensHormuzLane The July PCE data was already on the table two days ago, with total year-on-year 3.7%, slightly above the market expectation of 3.6%. The core PCE's year-on-year 3.3% was a precise hit, both month-on-month and 0.2%. The numbers weren't explosive, but the tone was subtle. That 0.1 percentage point above expectations might have been noise in other periods. But on the eve of Jackson Hole, in the 48-hour countdown to Walsh's debut as Fed Chair, this warm signal became a grenade hanging over all risk assets. Let's first look at the market's real reaction. BTC was tug-of-war around $80,000, hitting 81,000 during the session before falling down, just one step away from this month's high of 83,000 but still unable to cross. Gold fell from above $4,600 to around $4,580, appearing down 0.4% on the surface. But from another perspective, gold, which had risen 13% over the past month, has only given back a small amount, clearly showing the bulls' confidence remains unshaken. The S&P fell 0.11% at 7,723 points, just one percentage point away from the all-time high of 7,816, but trading volume clearly shrank, and no one wanted to bet heavily before Wash's announcement. All three asset classes simultaneously entered a wait-and-see phase, signaling that tomorrow's Jackson Hole is not an ordinary central bank annual meeting. Why do I think Walsh's debut this time is more worth watching than any previous Jackson Hole? Two reasons. FirstBitcoin has once again surpassed $80,000, reaching $81,300 intraday before settling back to the $79,700–$80,000 range. The increase in August is about 25%.
This round feels more like a spot market: ETFs have seen continuous net inflows, exceeding $3 billion in August; Coinbase premiums have turned positive; prices are rising while coin-margined positions are decreasing. It's not just contracts driving this.
Today's variable is Jackson Hole. Warsh's first keynote speech—markets are watching interest rates and whether he will mention stablecoins and tokenized settlements.
$80,000 is now a key level, also close to some ETF cost bases. Holding above it would clean up the structure; repeatedly failing to hold it likely means continued oscillation between $77,000 and $83,000. SOL is stronger due to Schwab's planned launch, but that doesn't confirm an altcoin season yet.
August is a recovery month, still far from last October's previous high of about $126,000. The market moves fast, and single points in the holding path won't disappear on their own.
#Bitcoin #BTC #MarketAnalysis #SelfCustody The load-bearing walls are up, but the market is now asking only one question: can each floor collect rent on time?
Nvidia and Marvell have poured the rebar and core tube to the planned elevation—Marvell's revenue is up 37% year-over-year, and next quarter's guidance is still being raised, which is the next batch of purchase orders received by structural component suppliers. But the entire construction site is shifting: from "pouring concrete" to "fire safety inspection, fine decoration delivery, and lease signing." This is the most critical phase transition in the building lifecycle and the true watershed between countless "unfinished buildings" and "award-winning projects."
CrowdStrike is the real model apartment. Net new ARR is 333 million, up 51% year-over-year, and the full-year guidance is raised by another meter—this is equivalent to the annualized rent roll of the entire building continuously thickening, and the churn rate on each floor is so low it can be ignored. The market finally understands: no matter how thick the rebar is, if it cannot be monetized, it is dead weight; software subscriptions are the net operating income allocated to every room.
Salesforce and Okta are those towers that have passed comprehensive completion inspections, obtained occupancy permits, and signed long-term leases for both retail and office floors, with cash flow visibility written into every contract clause. Synopsys's decline basically means the curtain wall design of a certain building has been revised repeatedly, and the structural engineers and MEP subcontractors have never matched the drawings, causing the market to completely lose trust in its completion date.
This paradigm shift from hardware to software monetization is essentially not about tearing down and rebuilding, but about shifting capital expenditure priorities from core tube maintenance to full-house smart systems and property operation systems. Hardware is the foundation piles and load-bearing walls, determining the theoretical maximum height of the building; but software is the elevators, fire safety, and building automation—without them, a 50-story tower is just an expensive concrete tombstone that can never pass final inspection. This handover requires the joint signing of the owner, design institute, general contractor, and operator; missing any one approval is a lifelong structural hidden danger.
Evaluating $xDELL by this standard: is its geological survey report authentic? Has the main structure been handed over to a general contractor team with verifiable completion records? More critically—are tenant pre-orders, like CrowdStrike’s, recorded in verifiable lease ledgers with quarterly net new ARR? I've seen too many such construction sites: the foundation pit hasn't even reached the bearing layer, yet they rush to erect tower cranes; the drawings are incomplete, yet they dare to pre-sell units. What $xDELL needs now is not another rendering but a structural calculation report stamped by a third-party review agency. Projects that have only shown sand tables and have wall seepage during real rainfall will have their scaffolding dismantled by the market.
The steel frame has been accepted. Now, I only check whether its pipeline shafts contain cash flow channels that can withstand twenty winters. #AIShiftsToSoftware Breaking down from the underlying logic, this round of BTC's rise is a rebound, not the start of a bull market.
Feeling sorry for Target Bro, he might get liquidated again.
Every bull market cycle is driven by massive liquidity inflows, whether it's rate cuts, grand new innovation narratives, or crypto compliance.
The underlying logic is always liquidity inflows driving the bull market.
Right now, there is clearly no new innovation, no grand narrative, no rate cuts.
This rebound is due to rising US Treasury yields, the Treasury increasing buybacks of US debt, and Trump shouting about crypto—a short-term emotional rebound.
It also seems more like a tactic by Trump to gain more support for the midterm elections.
He’s telling those politicians that if they want crypto to keep developing, they need to support him; when he shouts, the market goes up.
There are two very clear upcoming bearish factors to watch out for:
1. Claude's parent company plans to announce its IPO on September 7 and list in October.
At that time, liquidity in the crypto space will be drained.
2. The midterm elections are in November. During the election, Trump might stir things up to gain more support, but after the election, it will be bearish.
So remember, don’t blindly chase the highs.
$BTC #BTC冲高回落，期权到期放大关口博弈 #财报观察员：AI demand spreading from hardware to software
I am Mid-term Intelligence Bro.
This earnings season I am watching closely: In the past two years, the market focused heavily on Nvidia, optical modules, storage, and other hardware. Now the trend has changed—Snowflake, Mongo, Okta, plus Microsoft's Copilot, Salesforce Agentforce, all show AI-related subscriptions and token consumption booming in their earnings reports, indicating AI demand is shifting from "buying shovels" to "using shovels to mine" at the software layer.
The mid-term logic is straightforward: hardware capital expenditure is still rising, but monetization depends on application-side ROI.
Enterprise agents are running, and data governance, permissions, workflow orchestration are all rigid demands. Software companies have transformed from "being devoured by AI" to "selling shovel people plus."
Software valuations in this position are not as crowded as hardware; the expectation gap lies in "AI revenue" moving from PPT slides to financial statements.
My mid-term focus is on product software that occupies core processes, subscription models, and AI-driven customer unit price, not chasing pure concepts.
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$MSFT 🔥 📊 Context: Over the past seven trading days, US spot BTC ETFs saw net inflows of about $2.5 billion, marking one of the strongest phases since last October; BTC has climbed back above $80,000, driven by factors such as a weaker dollar and improved liquidity expectations. 🧠 My View: I focus more on "whether spot funds are sustaining" rather than the price itself. Sustained net ETF inflows indicate institutional demand is re-emerging. If the capital structure continues to improve, this round of rally may not just be a rally in sentiment, but rather a repricing of market risk appetite. ⚖️ Other Side: But another explanation also holds true: part of the rally may come from short covering and macro liquidity expectations, rather than genuine long-term allocation. If ETF inflows slow, prices may once again demonstrate their sensitivity to liquidity. 👇 Community: If you could only choose one signal to judge whether this BTC rally is sustainable, you would focus more on: A. | Sustained net ETF inflows B. | Real on-chain demand C. | Improved global liquidity #BTC #CryptoMarket #Bitcoin$TRUMP $ETH $SOL #IranOpensHormuzLane #BTCOptionsExpiryTest #GoldVsBTCETFFlows #伊朗开放临时航道，美拒恢复旧协议
The temporary corridor is just a stalling tactic; the US and Iran have not reached any real agreement.
It looks like the situation is easing, but in fact, there is no genuine reconciliation at all.
Iran has created a temporary corridor allowing commercial ships to pass, but military vessels are not permitted.
Iran's message is straightforward: to fully restore normal navigation, the US must bring back and fulfill the conditions of the previous old agreement.
But the US outright refuses, unwilling to return to the old framework, insisting that any talks must follow its new conditions. Both sides are basically talking past each other, with no real progress.
This temporary corridor is just a makeshift measure; it can be revoked anytime if talks break down.
Oil prices have briefly eased, but geopolitical risks remain. If conflicts flare up again, oil prices could spike at any time, and US stocks and the crypto market will inevitably be dragged into volatility. $CL
Don't assume all is well just because there is a corridor; the surface may seem calm, but underlying conflicts remain unresolved, and uncertainties are still very high. $XAU
#黄金ETF大额吸金，避险资金如何重配 Moonwell's Aug. 27 MAMO Core Market incident is a reminder that collateral quality depends on exit liquidity, not just an oracle print. Thin MAMO liquidity allowed its price to be inflated and used against cbBTC, USDC and other liquid assets, with estimated losses of about $8.7M.
Reducing borrowing caps to 1 wei and limiting new MAMO and WELL supply addresses immediate exposure. The deeper lesson is structural: multi-source pricing is most useful when paired with supply limits and borrowing caps calibrated to executable liquidity. An asset can appear adequately priced while remaining unsafe at collateral scale.
Not advice, just analysis.
#MoonwellCollateralRisk市场焦点集中于美联储主席沃什在杰克逊霍尔全球央行年会上的首次重磅演说。7 月 PCE 通胀同比增长 3.7%，仍明显高于 2% 的目标水平，且多位美联储官员接连强调通胀尚未得到充分控制，甚至认为当前利率限制性不足，使 9 月加息预期重新升温 在这一背景下，沃什真正需要回答的并非单纯「加息或降息」，而是美联储将如何在通胀、就业与经济增长之间建立更清晰的政策反应框架。更值得关注的是，美联储面临的压力已不仅来自通胀。美国财政部近期扩大长期美债回购，试图降低长端融资成本，但同时可能与美联储通过金融条件抑制通胀的方向产生张力；日本方面，日元再次逼近 160 关口，美日利差以及日本央行政策正常化也持续影响全球资金流向 这意味着，沃什的表态即使偏鹰，也未必会直接对应长债收益率上升，市场更需要观察的是美联储信誉能否降低期限溢价，让长端美债重新获得支撑。因此，今日稍晚市场真正关注的将是沃什能否重新建立一套可信的抗通胀逻辑 如果他明确维护 2% 通胀目标并改善政策沟通，长端收益率有机会受到压制，进而缓解高估值资产的估值压力；反之，若延续模糊表态，市场可能进一步通过长端美债定价财政与通胀风险。叠加伊朗冲突仍$ETH shows a "bullish bias signal," but it cannot yet be considered a confirmed trend.
Two previously inactive wallets each opened 8,000 ETH long positions within 16 seconds, totaling about $40 million; more importantly, the same whale had just closed a 120,000 ETH long position realizing about $61.72 million in profits, and now quickly returned to go long again, indicating that large funds have not truly exited ETH.
Moreover, this is not an isolated "whale gamble": on August 27, the US spot ETH ETF had a net inflow of $235 million, marking nine consecutive days of net inflows; Hyperliquid ETH perpetual open interest is about $1.77 billion, with funding at only -0.0005% per hour, so leverage is not crowded.
Has the market priced this in advance? Partially. ETH has recently rebounded from around $2,000 to near $2,500, but the ETF continues to attract funds and funding remains neutral, indicating the rally has not yet turned into a leveraged frenzy.
What really deserves attention is whether $2,500 can hold and continue to attract ETF capital. If it can, this $40 million looks more like a leading move; if it cannot hold, it may just be whales trading within a range.Bitcoin at $80,000: Rebound Trap or Reversal Starting Point?
Bitcoin rose 22% in a week, pulling straight from $65,000 to $80,000. Facing the same price level, the market is split into two camps.
Bullish Logic
Fiat depreciation trades ignited—U.S. Treasury debt surpasses 40 trillion, repo scale doubles, gold and Bitcoin 90-day correlation approaches historical highs. Policy signals show clear regulatory easing, with the White House urging Congress to advance the CLARITY Act. On the capital side, the U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF saw a net inflow of about $1.9 billion in one week, whales increased spot holdings by about $2.75 billion over 60 days, and over 70% of circulating supply is locked by long-term holders.
Technically, the price has reclaimed $68,500 (short-term holder cost line) and $75,800 (real market average price), and on-chain models indicate the cyclical bear market pattern has been lifted.
Bearish Logic
The most fatal signal is "futures hot, spot cold"—perpetual contract demand turns positive, but on-chain spot demand remains negative, structurally very similar to the rebound from $66,000 to $79,000 earlier this year followed by a pullback. Coinbase premium remains negative, U.S. domestic buying power is concentrated in a single ETF channel, and once inflows slow, momentum will falter.
Profit and loss clearing is insufficient; the 90-day realized profit-loss ratio is 0.75, far from breaking the 0.5 clearing threshold. Near $80,000, large whale limit sell orders accumulate, the 50-week and 100-week moving averages converge, RSI once broke above 82, indicating severe short-term overbought conditions.
Ignored Variable
2026 is a midterm election year. Historical patterns are extremely stable: Bitcoin without exception undergoes deep pullbacks 8-10 months before the election, then rebounds an average of 54% in the 12 months after, and the S&P 500 has never recorded negative returns in post-election cycles since 1939.
This year is special because the crypto industry's political capital has reached unprecedented levels—super PACs hold nearly $200 million, controlling 435 House seats and 35 Senate seats, directly determining the legislative fate of the CLARITY Act and the "National Strategic Bitcoin Reserve."
The decisive factor between bulls and bears is not on-chain indicators but Capitol Hill. The baseline scenario: a 7.4 million to even 6.85 million pullback in September-October to clear leverage, followed by clear post-election policies, with institutions pushing prices toward $95,000–$125,000. Extreme cases require caution about secondary inflation forcing rate hikes, ETF outflows breaking below $60,000, or accelerated depreciation trades directly eating through the $80,000 sell wall.
$80,000 is not the answer; it is the countdown.
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#CLARITY投票或延至9月，伦理分歧未解 NVIDIA making money is justified; the key is that the software side has also caught up.
You hit the nail on the head—NVIDIA, as the AI leader, making money is only natural. The market's valuation already includes expectations of "sustained growth," so exceeding earnings expectations is just routine, nothing surprising.
What’s truly interesting is whether other companies can keep pace. This earnings season, the software side has indeed caught up.
Marvell's revenue grew 37% year-over-year, with next quarter guidance exceeding expectations, indicating that AI network connectivity demand is still rising. CrowdStrike's new ARR surged 51%, and the full-year outlook was raised—AI commercialization in security software has finally landed. Companies like Salesforce and Okta, once doubted for having "AI stories bigger than revenue," have now received positive market feedback on both earnings and guidance.
But not all AI companies can be treated equally. Synopsys’s stock price fell after its earnings report, showing the market is becoming selective; it’s no longer a phase where "just touching AI means stock price rises."
The most valuable signal from this earnings season is that AI is spreading from hardware to software. In the long run, only companies that can continuously convert AI investments into revenue will truly develop independent momentum, whether in hardware or software.📊
#财报观察员：AI需求从硬件扩散至软件 $HYPE breaks through $85, accelerating the value reassessment from "platform token" to "ecosystem access asset."
OKX market data shows $HYPE briefly touched $84.825, setting a new all-time high. The cumulative increase this year exceeds 220%, with a market cap approaching $19.5 billion.
The core driver of this rally is Hyperliquid's evolution from a single trading platform to on-chain financial infrastructure. About 99% of platform fees are continuously used to repurchase and burn HYPE. The AQAv2 launched on August 26 further directs 90% of USDC reserve yields to programmed repurchases—over $5 billion USDC is deposited on the platform, expected to generate an additional $135 million to $160 million in repurchase funds annually.
HyperEVM and HIP-3 open new dimensions on the demand side.
On the capital side, institutional consensus is forming.
The largest holding institution, suspected to be associated with a16z, invested 36 million USDC over two days to buy 441,000 HYPE at an average price of $81.6, all of which have been staked. Regarding ETFs, yesterday's HYPE spot ETF saw a single-day net inflow of $24.421 million, with a historical cumulative net inflow reaching $340 million.
From fee repurchases to USDC yield repurchases, from platform token to staked access asset, HYPE is completing a value reassessment from "tool" to "infrastructure."Watch tonight's speech by Waller closely.
But I think what really needs to be listened to is not just whether there will be a rate cut in September.
More importantly, will he talk about:
The Fed's future policy framework, balance sheet, and the relationship between monetary policy and fiscal policy.
Currently, the U.S. fiscal side wants to lower long-term financing costs, while the Fed needs to control inflation.
One wants to bring down long-term interest rates, the other needs to prevent inflation from rising again.
There is actually a very interesting policy game here.
So if Waller only talks about September's policy tonight, the market may quickly digest it.
But if he starts discussing the long-term policy framework, then the significance is different.
Because the market is never just trading a single rate cut.
What truly affects BTC, U.S. stocks, and these risk assets is:
Whether future liquidity will become more accommodative or continue to remain tight.
$BTC $ETH $SOL $BTC is moving with $XAU, $ETH is still moving with BTC
Lately, I've been feeling more and more strongly that BTC and ETH seem to be taking two different paths.
BTC is becoming less and less related to the US stock market and more and more like gold. The 90-day correlation between BTC and the Nasdaq 100 has dropped from 60% at the beginning of the year to 33%, while the correlation with gold has risen from nearly zero to 0.53.
ETH is not following this pattern at all. The 30-day correlation between ETH and BTC remains above 0.95, basically meaning when BTC goes up, ETH goes up, and when BTC goes down, ETH goes down. The correlation between ETH and gold is only 0.23, less than half of BTC's.
In plain language: BTC is becoming "digital gold," while ETH is still acting like a "tech stock."
Grayscale research head Zach Pandl said that BTC's scarcity, monetary independence, and store of value function are being repriced. With US national debt surpassing 40 trillion and long-term Treasury yields rising, the market is looking for assets that can hedge against fiscal deterioration.
BTC is that asset. ETH is not.
I still hold long positions in ETH. When I saw this data, I felt a jolt in my heart because it means the logic driving my assets is different from BTC — ETH is following an industry narrative, not a macro narrative.
Both logics are valid, but the pace is different, and so is the risk. I set a take-profit at 2600; once it hits, I'll exit part of the position without greed. The rest will let profits run, but I'm also prepared to exit at any time.The harshest truth of a bull market: past experience is always broken by the market
The easiest way to lose money in the crypto space is by relying on historical experience as gospel. At the peak of every bull market, unprecedented new narratives emerge, convincing everyone that the rally will continue and overturning past lessons.
In March 2024, Bitcoin surged to $73,000, and no one in the market talked about a bear market anymore; the entire network unanimously expected $100,000. Based on past cycle experience, people believed that after Bitcoin hit a new high, altcoins would explode. Many users sold Bitcoin to heavily invest in altcoins, hoping for a wealth leap.
But $73,000 was the peak of that cycle. The market then turned bearish, and almost all the bull market profits in altcoins were wiped out, leaving countless people working hard for nothing. Historical patterns just failed.
Don’t trade based on subjective predictions. What really works is a trading system that doesn’t try to forecast the market. When the market consensus is highly bullish, don’t get caught up in whether the narrative is true or false; just reduce your positions in batches and mechanically follow discipline.
This logic applies equally in a bear market. In June this year, the whole network was waiting for Bitcoin to drop to $50,000 or $40,000 to buy the dip, forming a strong bearish consensus. At that point, worrying about whether the price will actually reach those levels is meaningless; the consensus itself is an important signal.
At the end of this bull market, new and strange stories will again appear to push prices higher. Remember, there’s no need to deeply analyze the logic or truthfulness; when mania arrives, prioritize locking in profits. Human nature always repeats itself; clinging to old ways will ultimately be taught a lesson by the market.
#BTC冲高回落，期权到期放大关口博弈 A notable new signal today lies not in the price of BTC but in the health of American consumers. Consumer confidence in August fell to 89.4, a 7-month low; 12-month inflation expectations rose to 5.8%. Reuters reported that consumers are increasingly pessimistic about the business and employment prospects. More notably, recent data shows that the US economy is in a divergence: GDP in the second quarter grew only 1.5%, but consumption still grew by 3.4% and business investment increased sharply thanks to AI. 🧠 Why this matters for CryEthena surged 140% in 10 days, from 0.07 to 0.17. You'll understand why it surged after reading. If you've been holding $ENA for the past two years, you probably won't laugh—it fell from 1.52 all the way to 0.07, a 95% drop, with every rebound being unlocked and knocked down. But this round is a bit different. The biggest minefield has been dismantled! ENA's biggest problem in the past wasn't that no one used the product, but that every month VC tokens were unlocked and then dumped into the market regardless of cost. This kind of continuous supply-side selling pressure can't withstand any fundamentals. This time, the foundation did four things to directly defuse this ticking time bomb: 1. Spend money to buy back all the tokens that seed investors haven't unlocked yet, and these will not enter the market again. 2. Reach an agreement with major investors to cancel all future monthly unlocks. After that, no investors' tokens will be locked up. The only tokens locked up are the team tokens, which will proceed as planned. With these two moves, the market no longer has to watch the unlock calendar every month. The biggest uncertainty on the supply side is gone. 3. Revenue is finally distributed to token holders, with protocol revenue linked to ENA. ENA used to face an awkward situation: USDe is already the third largest stablecoin, and the protocol earns tens of millions every month, but ENA holders get nothing except voting. This deadlock has now been broken. The foundation launched a proposal to use 95% of the protocol's net revenue to buy back ENA on the secondary market. When USDe supply reached 7.5 billion, buybacks started and reached 10SNDK $SNDK stock perpetual contract trading volume reached 62.4% of the US spot trading volume, the highest level in existing data According to tokenized stock data on WuBlockchain Data,
on August 19, the total trading volume of SNDK (SanDisk) stock perpetual contracts across 32 tracking platforms reached $16.291 billion, while the US spot trading volume of SNDK on the same day was about $26.1 billion
(16.28 million shares, with an average price of about $1,603). This ratio reached 62.4%, a historical record.
During three consecutive trading days from mid to late August, this ratio remained high: August 17 was 42.0% ($13.4 billion vs. $31.94 billion), August 18 ($16.19 billion vs. $30.78 billion), August 19 was 62.4%. By August 26, it dropped to 38.0% ($4.98 billion vs. $13.1 billion). Among all equity-linked perpetual bonds, SNDK ranks first in this metric, followed by CRCL (47.2% on August 5), SOXL (38.1% on August 6), MSTR (20.0%), and MU (14.6%). NVDA and Meta both have ratios below 3%.
#财报观察员：AI需求从硬件扩散至软件 $ETH Ethereum is currently in a high-level consolidation phase between $2480 and $2565.
Yesterday, short positions near the $2480 support were decisively closed when the price did not break below.
Ethereum's directional breakout depends on waiting for the key catalyst of Fed Chair Walsh's speech tonight.
Before the speech, market sentiment is cautious.
Volatility will be significant during the speech tonight, so for now, we wait and watch.
Intraday short-term support is near $2480; if broken, look for $2450-$2400 range.
The news is mostly positive; the recommendation is to wait for a pullback to go long.
1. ETF capital inflow — the core driver of this rally
The US spot Ethereum ETF saw a total net inflow of $697 million last week, one of the strongest single-week inflows since 2026. On August 19, a single-day inflow of $189 million marked the highest in nearly 10 months; August 26 saw another $192.4 million inflow; August 27 continued with $234.5 million inflow. The cumulative inflow in August has exceeded $1.2 billion, the strongest monthly performance since August 2025. BlackRock's ETHA fund is the main contributor.
2. Jackson Hole Annual Meeting — the biggest short-term variable
Tonight (August 28), Fed Chair Walsh will deliver his first major keynote speech since taking office at Jackson Hole. His remarks may impact US Treasury yields, the dollar, and the crypto market. A hawkish tone could suppress risk assets; dovish signals might boost risk appetite.
3. Macro liquidity improvement — medium-term support
The US Treasury announced it will double bond repo operations starting September, expected to inject tens of billions of dollars in liquidity into financial markets; the SEC's proposed new crypto asset framework may also provide projects with greater financing flexibility. The Crypto Fear & Greed Index has surged from "Fear" (below 40) to 80 (Extreme Greed), the highest since December 2024.
4. On-chain data — holders reluctant to sell
Santiment data shows that since early June, exchange ETH holdings have dropped from 7.69 million to 6.28 million, a decrease of about 18% (approximately 1.4 million ETH outflow), mainly moving to self-custody wallets and staking protocols. Currently, staked ETH accounts for over 35% of total supply. During the price rise, there has been no significant profit-taking flow back to exchanges, differing from typical bull cycle behavior.
The above are personal views for reference only.
#沃什今晚亮相杰克逊霍尔，能否明确政策框架？ #银行链上支付两条路线：稳定币与代币化存款 #ETH触及2500美元后震荡 #WalshPolicyFramework The Fed's biggest asset isn't lower rates. It's predictability. With inflation still above target and jobs holding up, Walsh has room to stay cautious. But if Jackson Hole fails to explain what actually triggers a policy change, markets will fill the gap themselves.
That means every PCE print, jobs report and yield spike becomes a guessing game. A vague framework doesn't preserve flexibility for free. It transfers uncertainty into the dollar, bonds, gold and BTC.$TRUMP's secondary short squeeze rebound after an oversell, but it is not yet the main trend rally.
Current price 2.69, 24H +17.5%, the previous low of $2.24 was quickly reclaimed with increased volume; previously, contract OI had clearly been cleared, and funding rates turned negative, indicating this move first killed leverage then pulled up, with short covering as the main fuel. However, the long-short liquidation in the past 24 hours has nearly balanced, and the odds of chasing higher are starting to worsen.
Operation: Do not chase at 2.69, wait for a pullback to 2.52–2.56 for support before buying; positions can be held. First resistance at 2.79, only if volume breaks and holds above this level look for 2.91–3.00; if it falls below 2.40, exit immediately, indicating the rebound is over. BTC remains near 80,000, risk appetite is intact, but TRUMP recently faces selling pressure shadows from teams transferring coins to exchanges, so don't get overexcited at resistance levels.Tonight at 10 PM! Waller's debut, the crypto world is focused on these key price levels
$BTC This is his first official statement at such a top-tier annual meeting since taking office, and also the last tone-setting before the September rate decision. The key is that he has long cut the “forward guidance,” no clear signals, all guessing, so volatility tonight will be unavoidable
$ETH Current institutional sentiment: most funds bet he will play it coy, 30% bet hawkish, very few dare to bet dovish. Interest rate futures have already priced in over 70% chance of a rate hike by year-end, US Treasuries have risen for several weeks, all the pressure is here
Three scenarios for Bitcoin:
Dovish: Admit inflation is controllable, rate hikes can stop, directly surge to 82000, altcoins broadly rise
Neutral playing coy: neither say hike nor cut, just watch data, continue sideways around 80000
Hawkish: firmly fight inflation, keep September hike, likely retest 77000-78000, if support fails beware deep correction
A heads-up: Tonight exactly $6.44 billion worth of Bitcoin options expire, 75000 and 80000 are the most concentrated strike prices, market makers’ hedging will amplify volatility, high chance of spikes up and down, don’t chase highs or buy at mid-levels
Honestly: Don’t expect him to ease to save crypto. He said in July the Fed won’t backstop crypto, fundamentally hawkish, inflation control always first
No need for nonsense tonight, just focus on one sentence: Is the rate hike option still on the table?
Heavy positions hedge in advance, light positions set conditional orders, don’t trade emotionally
#沃什今晚亮相杰克逊霍尔，能否明确政策框架？ #BTC冲高回落，期权到期放大关口博弈 📌 Tonight at 22:00, Wash will appear at Jackson Hole. The real risk is not whether to cut interest rates, but how to define inflation.
The market is betting on a rate hike or cut in September, but the key point is not here at all.
US July PCE remains at 3.7%, core PCE is still above 3%, clearly far from the 2% target; initial jobless claims continue to decline, employment has not slowed down. Persistent inflation + economic resilience put the Federal Reserve in a dilemma.
Wash is very unlikely to give a direct answer for September.
What to really watch: how the new policy framework defines the inflation tolerance boundary and how to face the high long-term US Treasury yields.
🔹 If the wording is hawkish, continuing to emphasize inflation risks:
The dollar and US Treasury yields will rebound, putting pressure on BTC and gold. BTC's rebound to 80,000 largely comes from continuous ETF net inflows of 2.8 billion; once this benefit fades, profit-taking could trigger a sell-off.
🔹 If it acknowledges inflation is high but shifts focus to economic and financial conditions
Signals of no rush to tighten will be released, and the rebound in risk assets will continue.
It's very interesting now: US stocks, BTC, and gold are all strengthening simultaneously, with completely disconnected bullish and bearish logic.
Don't get stuck on the speech wording; watch after the speech: whether the dollar, US Treasury yields, and BTC can hold 80,000. Prices are more honest than rhetoric.
Tonight is not a night to deliver a market rally, but a moment for global assets to be repriced.
$BTC $ETH $SOL
#JacksonHole #FederalReserve #沃什今晚亮相杰克逊霍尔，能否明确政策框架？ There's one data that almost the entire market is waiting for: PCE. Usually this is one of the most important data to read the direction of the Fed. PCE is hotter than expected? The Fed is hard to soften. PCE is lower than expected? The rate-cut narrative is stronger. Sounds familiar. But I think there's a big problem: The market may be focusing too much on the PCE numbers themselves... while what determines BTC's reaction lies elsewhere. Because right now the market doesn't have just one variable. We're having it at the same time: Bond yields are high. DebtBitcoin treasury companies are reaching new heights of internal competition.
American Bitcoin CEO Michael Ho has clearly explained the core logic of buying these types of stocks: it's not about buying Bitcoin itself, but betting that the management can continuously increase the "Bitcoin holdings per share." With the same amount of money, buying an ETF only allows passive holding, while buying companies like ABTC may achieve compounded growth—provided the management team can execute capital operations.
Even more aggressive is Treasury CEO Khing Oei's arbitrage approach: find treasury companies whose stock prices are below net asset value and are too small to sustain independent listings, then consolidate them. The effect is equivalent to buying Bitcoin at a discount.
This strategy advances the MicroStrategy model one step further: from "holding Bitcoin" to "optimizing Bitcoin per share," and then to "merger arbitrage." ASIC miners are also redefined—not just mining equipment, but "hard asset infrastructure" that uses Bitcoin to create more Bitcoin.
But the risks are also obvious: when treasury companies start competing on "capital allocation ability," the purity of Bitcoin gets diluted. Are you buying Bitcoin, or are you buying a leveraged Bitcoin derivative with management premium/discount?The Ministry of Finance plans to use TGA for repurchases, which sounds like a bailout for the bond market but is actually more like an admission that the bond market is already hurting.
TGA is a reservoir that can be used to provide some liquidity to the market. In the short term, repurchasing long-term bonds can help suppress interest rates and also make the market feel that the authorities are not letting the long end get out of control.
But the root problems are not that easy to solve. The deficit remains, bond issuance continues, inflation hasn't fully come down, and buyers still demand higher compensation. Using the cash account to buy some bonds solves volatility, not trust.
This matter is critical for both BTC and gold. Because when the long-term bond market starts repeatedly asking "who will take over," risk assets will also be repriced accordingly. Once the bond market loses faith in fiscal discipline, all assets must have their discount rates recalculated.
#财政部拟用TGA回购，财政压力仍待化解 #沃什今晚亮相杰克逊霍尔，能否明确政策框架？
Tonight, Wash's clear explanation of policy is more important than whether to cut interest rates or not.
Core PCE remains at 3.3%, and at the July meeting, three officials already advocated for a rate hike; the market's current pricing for a September policy adjustment is not extreme, leaving Wash room to reprice.
But funds have clearly front-run: BTC rose from about 63,500 to 81,000 in the past week, an increase of nearly 28%, with spot BTC ETF inflows of about $1.92 billion in a single week; gold is also oscillating near the high of $4,600.
So the market has already priced in part of the "dovish/liquidity improvement". If Wash only gives vague statements tonight, it may easily kill longs; if he clearly provides a reaction framework of "inflation down → rate cuts," BTC and gold could have a second wave.
Still bullish on $BTC, currently the most worth watching, but above 80,000, definitely don't take the speech as a signal to blindly chase longs. $BTC quietly climbed back above 80,000 early this morning.
Latest quote is 80,741 USD, up 2.7% intraday. This surge isn’t just retail investors rushing in blindly; it’s real money from spot ETFs buying in. The US spot Bitcoin ETF has had net inflows for eight consecutive days, accumulating about 2.8 billion USD over that period. On August 26 alone, net inflows reached 232 million USD, with BlackRock IBIT accounting for 202 million USD—over 70% of the entire net inflow streak. Institutional analysts agree that net inflows sustained for more than five days indicate genuine demand, not a one-day hype.
From a technical perspective, resistance above 80,000 is actually quite strong. The 80,000 to 82,000 range is exactly the average cost zone for many ETF holders and also coincides with the 50-week moving average at 81,081 USD. The liquidation chart is even more exciting: if BTC breaks through 82,386, short covering could reach 1.477 billion USD, likely triggering a strong accelerating bullish candle. On the downside, support is first seen at 77,000–78,000, with a firmer bottom line at 72,000.
On the sentiment side, the greed index has reached 71. After fourteen consecutive days of negative Coinbase premium, it has returned to the zero line, indicating buyers are still present but momentum has slightly cooled.
My view: don’t get ahead of yourself before 80,000 is firmly held. Only a breakout above 82,000 with volume truly opens up space. Position management is more important than guessing direction; chasing highs in this market risks being shaken out. Consider adding only after a pullback that holds above 78,000—there’s no shame in that. 现在回头看墨哥这张$BTC在65000附近的图，最值钱的并不是“猜中后来涨到了8万”，而是他没有在连续阳线里凭感觉摸顶。 日线趋势向上、价格重新站回短线支撑、箱体尝试突破、上涨K线伴随放量，这四点连起来，多头胜率确实高于空头。如今BTC一度摸到81500附近，也算是给这套判断交了成绩单。 不过我想再补三个自己最近才真正吃透的点。 第一，要看这波上涨究竟是谁在买。 如果只是合约持仓和资金费率一起猛冲，那可能是杠杆堆出来的烟花；如果ETF、现货成交也在接力，行情才更有底气。近期美国现货BTC ETF连续获得资金流入，8月累计流入已经超过30亿美元；目前永续资金费率约0.0092%，多头占优，但还没有热到特别夸张。这说明上涨里既有杠杆情绪，也确实有现货资金托着。CoinDesk的ETF资金跟踪 第二，K线从来不是活在真空里。 8月19日美国财政部宣布扩大长端美债回购，市场先交易收益率回落和金融条件放松，BTC、黄金一起被点着。但这不是QE，财政部自己也说过，回购的旧债还会被新发行替代，本质上更偏向改善债市流动性。美国财政部公告、季度融资说明 现在核心PCE仍在3.3%，说明通胀只是没有继续恶On August 28, the South Korean KOSPI index weakened, falling about 1.5% intraday, underperforming among major Asian stock indices. Previously, the market had rallied the AI sector based on Nvidia's impressive earnings report, but the Korean market saw a clear high-level profit-taking.
There are three main reasons for the decline:
First, the AI sector had accumulated significant gains earlier, and the Korean stock market has high exposure to the AI industry chain. Core stocks like Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix saw concentrated profit-taking. Although Nvidia's results exceeded expectations, investors began to worry that current valuations have already priced in future growth expectations, cooling trading sentiment.
Second, the semiconductor sector has a huge impact on the index. Samsung and SK Hynix, as core weights of the KOSPI, saw a chip sector pullback directly dragging down the broader market, amplifying the index's downward movement.
Third, there is macro-level uncertainty as the market awaits Federal Reserve official Waller's remarks at the Jackson Hole symposium. If a hawkish signal is released, high-valuation AI tech stocks will face further pressure.
However, the fundamentals of the South Korean economy have not deteriorated: exports in August remain strong, with Reuters surveys forecasting a year-on-year growth of 62.6%, driven mainly by semiconductor and AI chip demand; the Bank of Korea recently raised its 2026 GDP growth forecast to 3.3%, with semiconductor exports as a key support. $BTC $ETH $SNDK #财报观察员：AI需求从硬件扩散至软件 $ETH has spent the past several sessions doing very little. It's basically flat today, modestly green on the week, and visibly behind both $BTC and $SOL, which have been putting up the kind of candles that get screenshotted. If you're only watching price, this looks like a coin that's lost the plot. Look one layer deeper, and a very different story shows up. Who's Actually Buying While Everyone Else Watches SOL On-chain data tracked by CryptoQuant throughout 2026 has documented a persistent, unuChains compete on narratives, but the tokens with the most value on them tell the real story. We sorted the top-50 tokens by market cap on seven major chains into categories, and each one has a signature of its own. On Robinhood Chain, more than half of the top-50 tokens by market cap are memecoins, with a concentration no other chain comes close to. The category it was actually built for, tokenized assets, sits at just 12%. Leading category by chain: • $Robinhood — Meme • $HyperEVM — Tokenized The $BTC spot premium index is still steadily and slowly rising.
However, there was a quick pullback after a short-term new high breakout, with limited volatility, which can be seen as a small-scale profit-taking action by futures bulls.
Currently, another key factor to watch for short-term upward movement here is whether the net inflow of spot ETFs has declined?
After all, the market structure over the past two weeks has been: positive narrative - rapid short squeeze - sideways consolidation - waiting for spot to take over.
The first three stages are now complete, leaving only the last stage. The spot ETFs and on-exchange spot buying will determine whether this rally marks the first key turning point from bear to bull.
Finally, one more point: until the weekly left-side rebound high of 82.8k is decisively surpassed, strictly speaking, the bear market is not over. Currently, sentiment and capital flows have warmed up, but the technical aspect is still missing.
The above are all personal views, not investment advice, for reference only.#财报观察员：AI demand spreads from hardware to software
"NVIDIA pulls in 96 billion in a single quarter, but software side is still paying the electricity bill: How big is the monetization gap in AI?"
The hardware giant pulled in a massive 96 billion USD in cash in a single quarter, but downstream software companies are still struggling with the high daily electricity costs.
The entire market is undergoing a realistic aesthetic shift; people are no longer satisfied with grand narratives about how powerful computing power is.
Users are accustomed to low monthly fees of tens of yuan, but the computing power cost consumed by deep inference can instantly eat up the meager subscription fees.
Interconnect chip manufacturers are desperately customizing dedicated low-power chips for cloud providers, and software giants are also starting to shift towards revenue sharing based on business outcomes.
Tech stock valuations have clearly diverged, and the entire industry has officially moved from pure hardware capacity expansion into a new phase of commercial monetization validation. $BTC $NVDA (NVIDIA) — Closed at $227.98, up +8.74% for the day
$NVDA rose 8.74% after the earnings report, with trading volume close to 300 million shares. The market's answer is straightforward: at least for now, the demand for AI computing power has not shown the obvious cooling that many feared.
But I think the most important thing about the earnings report is not that revenue hit a new high again, but that growth is still faster than the market's original expectations.
What really needs to be observed next is whether large cloud providers, after continuing to increase capital expenditures, can generate enough revenue from AI services. As long as customers keep expanding data centers, $NVDA's order logic remains intact.
In the short term, $220.90 is the intraday support, and $230.47 is the resistance. Whether today's gap can hold is more important than how much it can rise tomorrow.
If volume shrinks on a pullback, it means the market is accepting the new valuation; if the gap is quickly filled, be cautious of profit-taking after the good news is priced in.
I am Yuvi. The earnings report answered that demand is still there; next, we need to find out how long this demand can last. Why hasn't Bitcoin broken through $82,000 yet?
The answer might lie in the $6.4 billion options contracts expiring tomorrow.
BTC rose from $62,000 to $80,000 in a week, but every attempt to break $82,000 has pulled back, possibly due to the "pinning effect" in the options market.
Current key market levels:
$82,000: resistance above
$80,000: options concentration zone
$75,000: support below
About 81,700 BTC options worth $6.44 billion expire tomorrow, with many positions near $75,000 and $80,000 expiring.
This means the forces suppressing the price may change.
If $82,000 is effectively broken, the selling pressure from market makers hedging may weaken, giving BTC a chance to push further to $85,000.
My judgment: $82,000 is the true short-term watershed; breaking it could open up more room.
This is just my personal opinion and does not constitute investment advice. $BTC $ETH #沃什今晚亮相杰克逊霍尔，能否明确政策框架？ $IREN locking in $4 billion ARR may boost market risk appetite in the short term, but the high-leverage financing structure increases sensitivity to interest rates and delivery schedules. The $2.8 billion GPU financing covers 90% of capital expenditures, making the funding position highly dependent on refinancing ability in a high-valuation environment. If macro risk appetite continues and 2026 capacity is delivered on schedule, high leverage will accelerate the transmission of returns to the trading side. If inflation expectations rise, pushing up financing costs, or if construction delays occur, deleveraging pressure will quickly transmit from the capital side to the market.
#沃什今晚亮相杰克逊霍尔，能否明确政策框架？ #OpenAI自研芯片亮相，推理成本成关键 #BTC冲高回落，期权到期放大关口博弈In October 2026, the Federal Reserve held its policy meeting, keeping the benchmark rate unchanged. Powell's press conference sent a clear hawkish signal, suggesting that high rates will persist for a longer period, and rate cut expectations for the year were completely postponed. After the news arrived, Bitcoin briefly dipped to support near $75,000 before quickly recovering, while Ethereum slightly retreated to the $2,300 mark. The market did not see extreme sell-offs, and the earlier volatility and digestion fully priced in hawkish expectations. The crypto market officially entered the second half of the fourth quarter to build up momentum. On the capital side, spot Bitcoin ETFs saw slight short-term redemptions after the rate meeting, but leading institutions did not reduce their positions on a large scale. Mainstream ETFs like BlackRock still maintained their base positions, showing a divergence of "short-term speculative funds exiting, long-term institutions holding their positions." On-chain exchanges still hold Bitcoin reserves at historic lows, whales continue to accumulate coins offline, and the long-term chip structure remains stable, confirming the effectiveness of the $74,000 bottom support. Ethereum ETF funding volatility has further amplified, incremental buying remains scarce, and although Layer 2 network activity remains stable, supply pressure from staking unlocks persists. The ETH/BTC price ratio remains under pressure, and risk aversion preferences are increasingly concentrated on Bitcoin, making it increasingly difficult for Ethereum to emerge from a strong rally. At the derivatives market level, volatility rose short-term after the interest rate event followed by a rapid decline, perpetual contract funding rates returned to near the zero axis, and long and short positions tend to balance. The Fear and Greed Index remains in a neutral range, and leveraged positions continue to be reducedThe bulls are coming from all directions, yet you are still waiting for a second dip. The Zhongyuan Festival coincides with the robot's seventh day memorial, the revival of big tech, and coal's ninth consecutive weekly gain. Electronics and communications soar together, coal aligns with agriculture and forestry, all in a dazzling array of red.
Right now, the market is a few groups each cooking their own pot—small investors are avoiding Nvidia's earnings and Walsh's speech; veteran investors are huddled in dividend and defensive sectors; macro players are buying gold to hedge against dollar credit risk; speculators are playing hot potato with short-term consecutive limit-ups. Volume wants to expand but can't, groups want to rally but can't, rotation is still fast, yet the index just won't fall.
Nvidia lived up to expectations last night and saved the tech stocks. The conference call repeatedly mentioned "supply remains a bottleneck," and unusually provided guidance for fiscal year 2028. Revenue growth guidance is +70%, or +100% without supply constraints. Based on Nvidia's usual tendency to exceed expectations, actual growth is expected to be +80%-85% year-over-year, implying fiscal 2028 revenue of about $756 billion to $777 billion, far exceeding Bloomberg's forecast of about $573 billion, beating it by nearly $200 billion.
Jensen Huang joked on the call: the best US stock trade in 2026 is to watch who he dines with; the next day, that company's stock price will double.
How big is the gap between what you think and reality? You think Walsh will hawkishly tighten or keep repeating the same old lines, but the market is already quietly pricing in macro headwinds, pushing long bond yields higher itself. You think this year's macro theme is a strong or weak dollar, or whether AI is a revenue closed loop or a bubble burst, but actually this year's macro theme is Hormuz, Jianxiawo, and Mongolian coal—who recovers first.
You think the bull market means new lows in the index and volume, letting you calmly build positions. The reality is the bull market means three consecutive up days in the index, steady big bullish candles, forcing you to chase buys while tumbling.
We are all watching for the bull market, waiting for the sheep to rise, crouching for the leopard to pull, watching who Jensen Huang dines with. You are still watching the US debt crisis, tech ARR missing expectations, still waiting for a second dip. No wonder you missed out. When it rises, it's the bull market; when it falls, it's the leopard's father. Tomorrow, will the bull still come?#Will Walsh debut at Jackson Hole tonight, can he clarify the policy framework? Good afternoon everyone!
1. Current macro prerequisites
Core PCE meets expectations, inflation stickiness remains, rate cut expectations delayed, US Treasury yields fluctuate at high levels, the market has already priced in neutral inflation results. Walsh's speech tonight is the biggest short-term macro variable. Walsh leans pragmatic and will not give aggressive forward guidance. Focus on three points: whether to keep the rate hike option, statements on the duration of high interest rates, and tolerance for financial market volatility.
2. BTC Bitcoin
BTC is the crypto asset most sensitive to Federal Reserve policy, with the highest institutional holdings.
If the speech is hawkish: emphasizing anti-inflation priority and retaining the rate hike option, US Treasury yields rise, leveraged longs at the 80,000 level will face concentrated liquidation, BTC will retest support at 76,000-78,000, spot long-term holders will not sell off significantly, resulting in a downward oscillation.
If the speech is neutral and ambiguous: continuing data-dependent rhetoric, BTC will maintain sideways trading above 80,000, with the market driven by ETF inflows and US crypto legislation events, making it difficult to actively break new highs.
If the speech is dovish: signaling rate easing, US Treasury yields decline, institutional funds return, BTC is expected to test the 82,000-84,000 resistance level.
Overall, BTC has the strongest risk resistance, with extreme market declines much smaller than the other two.
3. ETH Ethereum
Beta higher than BTC, constrained by both macro interest rates and regulation.
In a hawkish environment, high interest rates further weaken ETH staking yield attractiveness, ETH/BTC ratio remains under pressure, correction magnitude significantly larger than BTC, L2 and RWA narratives will be suppressed by macro negatives in the short term.
In a neutral environment, macro factors no longer exert additional pressure, funds will re-balance expectations on regulatory implementation and Layer 2 network value capture, following the overall market oscillation, making it difficult to form an independent trend.
In a dovish environment, risk appetite rises, ETH elasticity releases, ratio has repair opportunities, but the upside limit is still constrained by SEC securities classification tail risks.
4. SOL Solana
Highly elastic speculative asset, no institutional base holdings, fully dependent on market risk appetite.
Hawkish speech impacts SOL the most, speculative funds quickly withdraw after US Treasury yields rise, on-chain MEME heat rapidly fades, large sharp pullbacks occur, making it the most severely falling among the three.
In a neutral environment, only existing on-exchange funds compete for hotspots, market mainly shows pulse-like short-term fluctuations, lacking external incremental funds, poor upward sustainability.
In a dovish environment, risk appetite fully recovers, SOL will see a short-term violent surge, but fundamentals show no substantial improvement, market bubble characteristics strong, high risk of subsequent pullback.
Summary
Tonight's speech will determine the short-term direction of the crypto market: Hawkish → SOL sharply drops, ETH corrects, BTC bottoms out; Neutral → high-level oscillation, mainly structural market; Dovish → all three rise synchronously, SOL leads in elasticity. The current market has priced in neutral expectations in advance; once the stance turns hawkish, high-level leveraged positions will face concentrated liquidation pressure.Risk warning: This article is only an objective market review and does not constitute any investment advice. Crypto assets are highly volatile, so be sure to pay attention to risks. After the regulatory framework was established, the crypto market officially entered a new stage of deep institutional participation, but BTC and ETH faced a clear divergence in capital preferences. Traditional conservative funds prioritized Bitcoin as the ballast for major asset allocations; Institutional funds with higher risk appetite gradually laid out Ethereum and entered the market closely tied to ecosystem implementation progress. This stratification of funds means that the subsequent market trends of the two major coins are no longer synchronized, but instead follow their respective value logic to form structural movements. Bitcoin institutional funds exhibit a pattern of "long-term bottom positions + swing rebalancing." Pension funds, family offices, and listed companies have included BTC on their balance sheets, forming stable long-term buying demand, with ETFs continuously meeting this allocation demand. But institutions do not hold one-sided positions long-term; they dynamically adjust positions based on U.S. Treasury yields, inflation data, and valuation levels. Prices are at low levels, and funds flow in steadily; In the short term, rapid surges and lower risk-reward ratios will cause profit-taking orders to emerge in an orderly manner. Long-term holders' low-cost chips form bottom support, but historical trapped positions and institutional swing selling pressure still exist above, and the risk of intermediate drawdowns will not disappear due to regulatory clarity. Bitcoin's cashless nature remains unchanged; valuations are anchored to global liquidity. If macroeconomic easing expectations are delayed, valuation centers will remain under pressure. Ethereum's institutional funds remain in a state of "strategic recognition and tactical wait-and-see." Regulators have cleared out spot ETFsRegarding SanDisk
Its fundamental logic hasn't changed; the 93.9 billion long-term contract locks in revenue for the coming years, and the long-term targets given by investors are indeed solid. But in the short term, it has risen too much, profit-taking, a cooling sentiment in the tech sector, and guidance falling short of expectations—these three factors combined caused a drop.
This is a correction of the price increase, not a rejection of the fundamentals. The fundamental demand for AI storage remains, and Wall Street's major banks have an average target price of $2220. But the short-term volatility isn't over yet; wait until the shares have fully rotated and sentiment stabilizes.
Be patient, follow the trend, and it's not too late to act once the direction becomes clear.
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