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Where will this bull market be? $BTC ？ $ETH ？ $OKB ？ Or $SNDK? Or $SOL? Either way, there will no longer be a sweeping rally where everything is soaring like chickens and dogs.
The core driving force can be summed up in two words: AI. The rebound in South Korea's semiconductor sector has already revealed its trump cards—HBM storage and AI computing chips, these are capital expenditures where real money is pouring in, not themes that just go through speculation and then disappear. This wave will definitely reach the crypto world, and it's already happening.
Bitcoin is the first to bear the brunt; it is the liquidity anchor for the entire market. When institutional funds enter, the first stop is always $BTC. Ethereum, $ETF continuous inflows combined with RWA tokenization narratives, has a solid foundation. Solana's infrastructure position in AI and DePIN is becoming increasingly solid. Its high beta attributes mean its elasticity is far greater than Bitcoin's once launched.
But don't expect all knockoffs to get a taste of the soup. Funds will become extremely selective, only willing to cluster with projects tied to AI, data, and computing power, and will likely continue to be marginalized purely by storytelling. As recent market shows that strong stocks keep hitting new highs, weak coins cannot outperform even if the market rises.
So the truth behind this upcoming bull market is: structural, differentiated, and the strong get stronger. Macro liquidity is improving, crypto ETF channels keep opening, but money will only flow where the certainty is highest. Focusing on the true direction of value accumulation is far more meaningful than guessing which big bullish candlestick will come first 😏With more and more AI-generated content, BTC's value may come not only from scarcity, but also from "unforgeable costs."
AI is rapidly reducing the production costs of text, images, audio, and video.
When anyone can generate a large amount of content in seconds, an increasingly obvious problem arises in the digital world: there are more things, but it is actually harder to judge what is real and what is trustworthy.
Looking back at $BTC at this point, you may find that its rarity may carry an extra layer of meaning.
BTC is not scarce because files cannot be copied. Blockchain data can certainly be copied and viewed by anyone; its scarcity comes from a ledger rule maintained across the entire network and the real economic costs required to change this record.
In the AI world, the marginal cost of generating an image may be close to zero, but forging a transaction confirmed by the Bitcoin network is not cheap.
This makes BTC represent a digital attribute completely opposite to AI content: AI reduces the cost of generation, while Bitcoin raises the cost of modifying history.
Of course, BTC cannot directly solve all the real and fake issues.
Writing a photo's hash to the blockchain only proves that someone registered the document at a certain point in time, but cannot automatically prove that the events in the image actually happened. The blockchain can ensure that records have not been tampered with, but cannot guarantee that the original data entered is necessarily correct.
Therefore, the real possible integration of AI and blockchain is not simply putting everything "on-chain," but establishing systems of origin, signatures, and accountability.
Devices can sign original content, media organizations can record the editing process, creators can verify the publication date, and AI models can disclose how content was generated and modified.
In this process, $ETH or other smart contract networks are better suited for handling complex identities, authorizations, and content permissions; BTC is more like the ultimate timestamp and immutable value layer.
One addresses "who owns and how to use it," while the other emphasizes "once records are confirmed, they are difficult to change."
The richer the AI content, the scarcer the credible records may be; The easier virtual worlds are to replicate, the more likely the market is willing to pay for authenticity, provenance, and immutability.
This doesn't mean every AI image will generate BTC buying opportunities, nor does it mean content authentication must use a public blockchain. But it reveals a bigger trend:
AI is pushing digital production toward unlimited supply, while blockchain is trying to create limited, verifiable rights for a world of unlimited supply.
$BTC's value may not be limited in total quantity, but because it gives the digital world a public history that requires real cost to rewrite, for the first time.If I were to sum up $OKB in one sentence today, my conclusion would be: the trend is not over, but the most comfortable period of money has already been made. Now, $OKB going long, trading is no longer "cheap," but whether the market is willing to continue paying higher valuation premiums for scarce supply, X Layer growth, and OKX financial infrastructure expansion. As of August 13, $OKB was quoted at about $101.5, up 6.6% in 24 hours, up about 14% in 7 days, up over 23% in 30 days, with 24-hour turnover of about $55.91 million. More importantly, during the same period, $BTC was still fluctuating narrowly around $64,000, with the entire crypto market in relatively low volatility. In other words, this is not a Beta market, at least not recently. Funds are actively choosing $OKB. This is more important than any so-called "platform token value discovery." What I'm most concerned about now isn't how many users OKX used to have, how big the exchange was, or how many tokens it burned before. The market has long known these things. What really drives marginal buyers is the market's shift in positioning of $OKB over the past month—it's shifting from a traditional exchange equity token to X Layer native assets + gas tokens + on-chain financial infrastructure access assets. The valuation logic for these two things is completely different. The most typical change is Exchange OS. OKX launched Exchange OS this year,After SanDisk (SNDK)'s dramatic ups and downs, is now a rebound window or a brief pause?
$SNDK
In just over a month, SanDisk has completed a thrilling roller coaster ride. After surging to a historic high of $2,335 on June 25, it has pulled back nearly 47%, at one point dropping to around $1,200. Just as everyone turned pessimistic, it has started a strong rebound in recent trading days, with a cumulative increase of over 12% over two days, and the storage sector as a whole has warmed up in tandem.
Let's first clarify the complete thread behind this round of ups and downs.
The Q4 financial report released on August 5 was actually quite impressive: revenue reached $8.97 billion, a year-on-year surge of 372%. Data center segment revenue doubled quarter-on-quarter, gross margin hit a historic high of 84.6%, and a massive $14 billion buyback was issued. All the performance figures exceeded expectations. But the capital market has never been buying in on already realized results. The market is watching the next phase of earnings guidance. Even if the guidance is not bad, it cannot withstand the fact that stock prices had already surged dramatically earlier, and capital expectations have been pushed to very high levels. The guidance failed to reach the heights the market had imagined, triggering a series of sharp declines.
Just as sentiment hit rock bottom, the trend began to shift. On August 10, Argus Research upgraded its rating to buy and set a target price of $1600, signaling a bullish outlook first; Soon after, on August 12, CPI data slowed, market risk appetite rose, and the AI storage sector collectively rebounded. SanDisk posted consecutive strong bullish candles, and on August 13, it rose another 5.2% intraday.
Now, internal divisions within the institution have become fully apparent.
Jefferies and Citibank chose to lower their target prices but remained buy, believing it was just short-term sentiment disturbances and that the long-term growth cycle had just begun; Bank of America still held to the $2,500 target, firmly optimistic about the long-term dividends brought by the surge in AI storage demand; Argus felt that after a near-halved pullback, it was already a good window to build an entry. The core of the institutional disagreement essentially lies in the debate over how long the NAND flash price rally can last.
Looking at the long term, its confidence comes from solid long-term orders. The long-term contracts already signed have locked in 50% capacity for fiscal year 2027 and 67% for fiscal year 2028. Giants like Amazon and Meta continue to invest heavily in expanding AI data centers, and rigid storage demand is right in front of them. Orders can largely smooth out industry cyclical fluctuations. But risks cannot be ignored. SK Hynix's expansion of its Dalian production line is expected to increase capacity by 50% in the future, which will change the overall supply-demand landscape in the market in the long term; The storage industry is inherently highly cyclical. If AI capital expenditure falls short of expectations, the price increase logic could be interrupted at any time. Combined with macro liquidity and high inventory, a series of potential risks mean the market cannot rise unilaterally.
On the capital level, there is also a clear tug-of-war between bulls and bears. During the pullback phase, many whales with high long-term trading win rates have increased their positions against the trend, recognizing its long-term value; However, in the $1399-1400 range, tens of millions of dollars in sell orders have accumulated, creating very strong take-profit selling pressure here. If the rebound reaches this point, fierce competition is bound to occur.
Today's Investor Day is the most crucial catalyst for the upcoming short-term period. Everyone in the market is waiting for management's comments on the sustainability of NAND price increases and future profit prospects. If the speech can dispel market concerns about sustained performance, this rebound still has momentum to keep rising; Conversely, after a brief rebound, the tug-of-war will continue.
In the short term, it's sentiment recovery; in the long term, it depends on whether it can steadily convert the current high profits into sustained cash flow. This stock is now at a very delicate crossroads; behind the lively rebound, the bull-bear battle is just beginning.
Risk warning: Market views are shared only and do not constitute any investment adviceSpaceX's recent valuation surge is not short-term speculation, but rather the market's repricing of its three major strategies: AI-led, Starlink as the core network of the AI era, and jointly building the "Terafab" chip factory with Tesla for independent supply.
Why reprice?
- AI will dominate revenue and valuation: At the August 2026 all-hands meeting, Musk stated that AI revenue is expected to surpass all other businesses by September 2026, and will "significantly surpass" by year-end; He predicts that AI will account for about 99% of SpaceX's valuation in the next four to five years.
- Computing power expansion target: By the end of 2027, AI computing power is planned to reach 10 gigawatts; valued at $30–50 per watt, with annual revenue potential of about $300–$500 billion.
- Starlink's Role: Rocket and Starlink will increasingly take on the infrastructure role of AI business.
Next-generation Internet: Starlink carries traffic in the AI era
- Gen3 Constellation: SpaceX has applied to the FCC to deploy a third-generation Starlink constellation consisting of about 100,000 satellites.
- Positioning upgrade: shifting from "remote area networking" to an AI-era air-based communication foundation, providing global coverage, low latency, multi-Gbps symmetric bandwidth.
- High frequency bands and capacity: Plans to use high-frequency bands such as W/D to handle the traffic surges brought by AI.
- Traffic Share Target: Musk said Starlink could carry over 90% of global internet traffic.
- Direct Mobile Connection: The third-generation satellite supports direct mobile phone connections, with user numbers expected to jump from tens of millions to hundreds of millions.
Independent chip manufacturing: Terafab project
- Joint Advancement: SpaceX and Tesla announced the "Terafab" project in March 2026, jointly building a large chip manufacturing center.
- Site selection and investment: Located in Grimes County, Texas; Initial investment of $16.8 billion, total investment may reach $119 billion.
- Capacity target: Advanced chips with annual output of "1 terawatt computing power"; Musk claims this is about 50 times the combined annual capacity of all chip manufacturers worldwide.
- Process and Applications: Target mass production of 2nm process chips; About 80% for space computing clusters, 20% for Tesla autonomous driving and Optimus robots.
- Eliminating external dependence: Aimed at meeting the huge demand for AI chips from both companies and reducing dependence on external suppliers like TSMC.
Overall, the market is reevaluating SpaceX from a "rocket company" to a "AI + network + chip" integrated platform. If you focus on its long-term value, focus on three major milestones: AI revenue share, Starlink Gen3 deployment and capacity ramp-up, and Terafab's mass production and yield progress $SPCX The menu for the Hormuz negotiation table has been revised several times, and the ship hasn't started smoothly yet. The latest AP news is that Iran has proposed new conditions, but full opening-up has yet to materialize; Saying 'talks have completely broken down' is too much, and saying 'immediate sailing' is too early.
This is related to XAU, but geopolitical tensions are not gold's vending machines. If oil prices raise inflation expectations, real interest rates may also move, so gold collects safe-haven funds while also paying holding costs.
I would compare Brent oil prices, US real interest rates, and gold ETF net flows together. The news was bolded, funds didn't enter the market, and it looked more like a smoke machine in a studio.
Don't rush to line up; I want to see who is still lining up during pullback.
This article is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute any investment advice. Digital asset prices are highly volatile; please make independent judgments and be aware of the risks #$XAU These days, I have a strong feeling that the next big wave for Bitcoin is about to come because the price has been sideways for two months with very little volatility. Also, from the timeline perspective, we are getting closer to the bottom of this cycle, and the crypto bear market is about to end.
Next, there will either be one last panic sell-off or continued sideways consolidation to digest selling pressure, then gradually emerge from the bear market.
Currently, besides passively DCA investing in Bitcoin, I have also set up some dual currency yield finance orders for Bitcoin on OKX, preparing to buy Bitcoin at a low price. The principle is actually similar to selling puts in the options market.
My target price point is $60,000. If at expiration Bitcoin’s price is above $60,000, I get back my principal plus some extra premium income. If Bitcoin falls below $60,000, I will directly buy the corresponding amount of Bitcoin. If I don’t buy at expiration, I will set up the next dual currency yield order for the next time point.
This method of buying on dips is quite good. It’s like a traditional limit order but you can earn some extra premium income. The calculated annualized yield is several to even dozens of times that of ordinary flexible savings, depending on your expiration date, greatly improving the utilization efficiency of idle cash.
Of course, the risks behind it are similar to options. After setting a low-buy dual currency yield order, early redemption may cause losses. Also, if the market crashes sharply in a short time and Bitcoin’s price falls well below the target price, you will face significant unrealized losses. Friends familiar with options should understand this immediately.
My current approach is to use DCA investing to continuously accumulate a base position, and use low-buy dual currency yield orders to actively catch the bottom. US Stocks | Forecast for the evening opening of 8-13
$SNDK $MU $SKHYNIX Tomorrow is Friday, and tonight is very interesting.
Background: Last night's CPI was positive, and US stocks surged overnight; Tonight, SK Hynix surged violently in Korean stocks, boosting sentiment for US stocks, but in the short term, a large amount of profit-taking is likely to trigger a pullback risk.
Overall market forecast
The Nasdaq and S&P 500 opened slightly higher or flat at the open, then hit 27,000 after the open.
- Large-cap AI giants (Microsoft, Meta) were weak early but are gradually stabilizing;
- The capital focus remains on storage semiconductors; The gains in the main index will not be exaggerated, mainly structural markets.
Important validation signals on the board
Observe volume: volume increases on the rise, shrinking volume on pullbacks = strength; If the rally doesn't increase volume, be cautious of pullbacks.
#CPI与PPI同步降温, rate hike divergence widens #芯片股领涨, South Korean stocks rebounded over 22% #霍尔木兹通航谈判未果 over 10 days, with pressure from the US and Iran intensifying
Personal view: Controlling risk, technology remains the main rally, but war remains an uncontrollable risk factor. If war resumes, the U.S. will fall into stagflation and the bubble will burst prematurelyCPI and PPI cooled simultaneously, further widening the rate hike divergence
This week's data mix is actually more meaningful than just looking at CPI.
July's CPI basically met expectations, but today's July PPI was noticeably weaker: month-on-month PPI was flat, below market expectations of +0.2%; Year-on-year fell from 5.5% in June to 4.7%. 
This means a rather significant change:
Inflation has not continued to worsen for now; instead, signs of simultaneous cooling have appeared.
Against the backdrop of the previous unexpected negative nonfarm payroll turnaround, the market's pricing in a rate hike in September naturally began to loosen further.
What is the biggest conflict now?
Actually, it's no longer the case:
"Will there be another rate hike in September?"
Instead:
"After employment weakens, does the Fed still have enough reason for inflation to continue raising rates?"
At present, the answer is becoming increasingly uncertain.
Previously, the market had pushed the probability of a rate hike in September as very high, but after the CPI release, it clearly declined; After today's PPI release, it further dropped to about 31%, down from around 55% a week ago 
In other words:
Employment cooling + CPI in line with expectations + PPI below expectations
These three signals combined clearly disadvantage the logic for a rate hike in September.
But why hasn't the market fully traded in a "rate cut"?
Because inflation has not yet returned to the Fed's 2% target.
Moreover, not all sub-items within the PPI are weak; service prices still rose by 0.2%, indicating inflationary pressures have not completely disappeared 
So now, a more accurate statement should be:
The probability of rate hikes has decreased, but rate cut trades have not fully opened.
The Fed may still choose to continue monitoring the data, rather than immediately changing its policy path just because the two data sources weaken.
For BTC, this is actually a rather delicate environment
Macro pressures are easing, but a very clear easing cycle has yet to form.
Therefore, short-term trading is more likely to occur:
Interest rate expectations fell by $→, yields came under pressure→ risk appetite repaired, and BTC rebounded →
But if ETF funds cannot continue to flow back, or if BTC continues to show selling pressure at key resistance levels, then such macro positive factors may ultimately only bring a round of recovery rather than directly triggering a major trend.
Right now, I'm more focused on three signals:
(1) Whether the probability of a rate hike in September will continue to fall below 30%;
(2) Whether U.S. Treasury yields continue to decline;
(3) Whether BTC spot ETF funds can continue to see net inflows.
If all three variables move in a favorable direction, the macro environment for BTC will significantly improve.
In short:
The simultaneous cooling of CPI and PPI is undermining the policy foundation for a rate hike in September; The weakening of nonfarm payrolls further amplifies this impact. The real market disagreement now is not whether inflation has fallen, but whether the Fed is willing to believe this cooling is sustainable.
So in the short term, risk assets can recover, but it's still one step away from "broad trading relaxation." $BTC #CPI与PPI同步降温, divergence over rate hikes is widening $ETHFI Technical Analysis | 7.2x Buy Volume Real Demand or Liquidity Trap?
$ETHFI just printed a 7.2x buying-volume spike, putting the token firmly on the radar for a potential momentum continuation.
The immediate structure looks bullish, and the combination of strong volume expansion with upward price movement suggests buyers are becoming aggressive. However, after a move like this, the biggest mistake would be chasing the candle.
The next pullback will tell us much more about whether this is genuine accumulation or simply a liquidity event that traps late buyers.
🟢 Key bullish zone: 0.3899–0.3867
This is the main area I'm watching for a potential continuation setup.
If $ETHFI retraces into 0.3899–0.3867 and buyers defend the zone, the bullish structure remains attractive.
The cleanest confirmation would be:
Liquidity sweep below 0.3867
Fast reclaim back above the zone
Bullish pin bar or engulfing candle
5M/15M bullish market-structure shift
Increasing buy volume during the reversal
I don't want to buy simply because price touches the zone.
The reaction is the confirmation.
🎯 Upside roadmap
If buyers successfully defend the support area, my upside targets are:
TP1: 0.3940
TP2: 0.3965
TP3: 0.4006
The first major test is 0.3940.
If $ETHFI can break through that level and establish it as support, momentum could carry the price toward 0.3965.
A sustained breakout above 0.3965 with strong volume would then put 0.4006 into focus.
The ideal progression would be:
0.3899–0.3867 → 0.3940 → 0.3965 → 0.4006
📈 Preferred long setup
The setup I like most is a pullback rather than an immediate entry after the volume spike.
For example:
Price retraces → sweeps 0.3867 → quickly reclaims → bullish LTF structure shift → long
Another valid scenario would be price consolidating above 0.3899 and then breaking higher with increasing volume.
What I don't want to see is a vertical move directly into resistance with declining volume. That creates poor risk/reward and increases the chance of a sharp retracement. Neutrl: Does this mean to run away?
Stablecoins on the platform $sNUSD plummeted and lost their peg!
OKX wallet has also warned about risks...Russia has officially announced that $BTC, $ETH, and $USDT have been approved, but each person is capped at 300,000 rubles per year (roughly a little over $3,300), and they must pass a risk test before proceeding
My first reaction was just one word: the door was about to open
Now, let's talk about the points in the middle that made me feel the flavor:
1️⃣ $USDT Making it onto the first batch is quite intriguing. After all, it's a stablecoin issued by an American company, but when it comes to hard demand, political labels have to be sidelined. Russians want to hedge and want capital to flow out, $USDT the 'digital dollar' is an unavoidable issue. No matter how tough the policy, it must give reality a way out
2️⃣ Only approve $BTC + $ETH + $USDT — the regulatory approach is clear: mainstream major coins have measurable volatility and controllable risk, so retail investors can play around, but avoid those flashy coins. As for altcoins? The compliance market has directly welded the door shut
3️⃣ 300,000 rubles ≈ 24,000 RMB ≈ $3,300 — honestly, what is this amount for? The big players casually overdo it, but at least it's a signal of attitude: it's legal, admitted, even though they haven't really let go yet
I think this news is quite warm—not only is there no suppression, but it also provides a compliant exit
But these days, I still plan to watch more and act less, and watch my hands. Don't rush to chase or rush after this kind of news. The market never lacks opportunities; what matters is patience. If you have stock, don't panic; if you want to get on board, don't be impatient. Wait until your emotions settle downBreaking: 🇨🇭 Switzerland's largest bank UBS increases spot $BTC ETF holdings by 230% to $90 million.Just saw the news: the probability of a Fed rate hike in September has dropped to 32.1%.
Previously, everyone was worried about a September increase, but now it seems the hike is basically unlikely.
Why? CPI 3.4% matched expectations, PPI 4.7% was lower than expected, and month-on-month was zero, meaning factory prices didn't rise, upstream isn't causing inflation, so what excuse does old Deng have to raise rates?
This is certainly good news for the crypto world. Once rate hike expectations drop, money dares to rush to risk assets, $BTC Last night's small bullish candlestick came from just that.
But let's not get too excited. $BTC Still stuck between 60,000 and 65,000 yuan, the freeze period is still 53 days until October 5th. This bit of positive news is enough for institutions to flee, not enough for us to chase highs.
My plan hasn't changed: $BTC wait for around $40,000 to buy, $OKB keep my position unmoved. Don't chase $64,000, love to keep rising.
Let me just ask: if it really hits 40,000, do you still have ammunition? Inflation data is cooling down, and Fed officials are still arguing over whether to raise rates.
One data, two different interpretations.
PPI month-on-month was 0%, expected at 0.2%, CPI fell for the second consecutive month, and initial jobless claims rose to 209,000. Three overlapping signals together paint a picture of falling inflation, loosening employment, and the urgency of a rate hike in September is decreasing.
But Hamack said rate hikes must be raised, reasoning that "current policies are not restrictive." Barkin said, "Many people think current rates are already tight enough."
One called for a boost, the other said there was no rush, and the direction was completely opposite.
Traders didn't listen to them. Short-term interest rate contracts show the market no longer fully priced in Fed rate hikes this year. The S&P 500 broke above 7,800 points, a historic first. U.S. Treasury yields fell across the board, with the 30-year new bond issuance yield expected to hit its highest level since 2001. Funds are voting with real money.
Oil prices are also cooperating, falling more than 3% on Thursday. The deadlock in Hormuz remains, but oil prices have already started to give back geopolitical premiums. The easing of oil prices directly translates into inflation expectations, and the overall macro narrative is moving toward easing.
SanDisk has now broken through to 1485, and has been pushing higher since rebounding from the low. Gold is in a fluctuating state; after confirming CPI cooled, it did not continue to surge, and is consolidating sideways at a high level.
Bitcoin is still sluggish, and it has barely followed this round of macro positive news. Ethereum is also hovering around 1890.
Similarly, in the macro narrative of cooling inflation, the pricing logic between traditional and crypto assets has begun to diverge.
The S&P 500 is hitting new highs, while SanDisk is pushing upward. The direction is clear, and the pace depends on each company's fundamentals.
Whether SanDisk's rally can continue depends on the pace of capital spending in AI infrastructure; for Bitcoin to catch up, it needs to wait for its own catalyst.
$BTC $SNDK $XAU #CPI与PPI同步降温, divergences in rate hikes have widened #SpaceX99%ValueFromAI
The claim that almost all of SpaceX's value comes from AI sounds extreme.
But the underlying valuation debate is genuinely interesting.
SpaceX's 2026 IPO valued the company around $1.77T, and the company has since traded around a much larger valuation at points in the public market.
Here's the important distinction:
Revenue ≠ valuation contribution.
SpaceX's 2025 revenue was about $18.7B.
Connectivity/Starlink generated roughly $11.4B, making it by far the largest revenue contributor. Starlink subscribers reached approximately 10.3M by Q1 2026.
Yet the market is assigning enormous value to the company's AI ambitions.
One CFRA analyst estimated that 71% of SpaceX's ~$2T valuation could be attributed to xAI, despite AI being much smaller than Starlink in current revenue terms.
And this isn't just theoretical spending.
SpaceX's AI infrastructure investment has become massive.
AI capex was approximately $7.72B in Q1 2026, around three-quarters of total company capital spending at the time. Analysts expected roughly $10.2B of AI capex in Q2.
Then came the first post-IPO earnings report:
Q2 revenue: $7.8B
Net loss: $541M
Adjusted EBITDA: approximately $3.5B
AI capex: roughly $15.8B according to reports.
That's the part I find most important.
The market isn't simply valuing SpaceX for today's cash flows.
It's pricing a future where Starlink + launch infrastructure + AI compute + xAI/Grok become one integrated technology platform.
That could be enormously valuable.
But it also creates enormous execution risk.
My opinion:
I wouldn't say “99% of SpaceX's value comes from AI.”
I'd say a surprisingly large percentage of its future valuation depends on the market believing its AI ambitions will eventually produce returns that today's financial statements don't yet prove.
That's a much more interesting investment question.
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$FET $TAO APR Short: When the Rocket Starts Looking Like a Needle
🔥 Everyone wants to chase the rocket. I’d rather wait for the moment it starts falling back to Earth.
I’ve been watching $APR closely from yesterday into today, and after years of working with molds, one lesson keeps coming back to me:
When the metal is at its hottest, you don’t grab it with your bare hands. You wait for it to cool.
$APR has gone from 0.189 to 0.629 in just four days — more than a 3x move. RSI reached 99.6, while trading volume exploded to 12.6× the daily average.
Then came the first warning shot:
0.629 → 0.49 in one day, roughly a 17% drop.
That kind of parabolic move followed by a sharp rejection is exactly where I start looking for a short — not because I think the project is bad, but because price has moved far too fast, far too far.
And the positioning is interesting:
📉 24H long/short ratio: 0.77
📉 Big holders: 0.76
📉 Top traders: 0.50
Meanwhile, retail sentiment is still screaming for the “main upward wave.”
There’s also the token-unlock factor: 54.34M APR unlocked on April 23, followed by another 31.88M on July 23. Supply events like these can become important when a small-cap token has already experienced such an aggressive repricing.
So yes — I’m shorting $APR.
My position: 🎯 Average entry: 0.4986
🛑 Stop loss: 0.55
🎯 First target: 0.35
🎯 If 0.35 breaks: 0.25
Yesterday’s shorts may have been early.
Today’s short is about waiting for the blow-off to show signs of exhaustion.
I’m not saying $APR must crash. Markets can stay irrational longer than we expect.
But after a 3× move, an RSI near 100, extreme volume, and a sharp rejection from the top, I’d rather respect the risk than blindly chase the candle.
When the iron is red-hot, don’t touch it. Let it cool first.
$BTC $ETH
#7月CPI平稳落地，9月加息预期降温
#DailyOrbit 之前的公链将数据，看TVL、地址数、TPS与生态项目数量，但是有个致命的问题，当加密叙事枯竭，链上有钱并不代表链上有人愿意交易
这一轮 X Layer 突破了原本加密市场的固有印象——展示真实资产与真实交易的需求，作为一条公链，光有钱没用，要有交易需求
4.47亿，我觉得超过谁不重要，重要的是真实资产的交易量逐渐向加密公链迁徙，再一次证明了公链的需求场景
过去的公链——先造一个生态，再想办法让用户、资金、项目进来
现在的公链——寻找用户需要的交易需求，然后围绕需求建立生态
传统金融与加密市场大融合的趋势下，面对已经非常成熟的传统金融市场，需要的不只是创新，而是需求，是交易需求，交易量的迁移需求
当然对于 @OKXWallet_CN 的挑战依旧存在，4.47亿只是一个开始，只是证明了交易量可以进来，后续生态的建立依旧需要面对各种挑战！#财报观察员：AI基建财报接力登场 Puppy Manor, I caught you this round, didn't I?
Eat more meat alone
Eat more meat alone
Just checked the positions: ETH opened long from 1882.91, now marked at 1891.74, less than a 1% increase. Leverage amplified to nearly 47% unrealized gain.
📈 On the board, the middle band of the Bollinger Bands is at 1886.54. The price is currently above the middle band, approaching the upper band at 1897.07. During the day, it touched the high of 1927 and then pulled back, but the bullish structure remains intact. The lower band below at 1876 provides strong support. As long as it doesn't break the middle band, bulls still have the advantage in the short term.
💡 This order logic: 1-hour level bottom divergence + volume coordination, buy long near the middle band, stop loss below the lower band. Now holding floating profit, next look at the breakout above 1897 — if volume increases and it rises, target 1920 first; if I can't hold out, I will reduce positions to protect profits.
🚨 100x is a double-edged sword; take profit and stop losses carefully, don't be greedy. What do you think about this round? Should it keep pushing to previous highs, or pull back and then give you a chance to get in?
#CPI与PPI同步降温, the rate hike divide widened
#财报观察员: AI infrastructure earnings report debuts one after another
#马斯克称AI将占SpaceX价值99%
$ETH 美国CPI、PPI通胀数据都往下掉，说明物价涨速降温，再加失业数据抬头，9月继续加息的概率变小。
加息变少=美元吸引力变弱，资金更容易流向比特币这类风险资产，理论上利于比特币涨价。
但是美联储官员内部吵成两派：一部分官员觉得还要加息，另一部分觉得利率够高不用再加。
分歧很大，政策没有定死，市场心里没底。利好不是板上钉钉，行情长期来看不会有大的方向，震荡还是主旋律#CPI与PPI同步降温，加息分歧扩大 World Liberty Financial (WLFI) is moving from "celebrity endorsement" to "professionalized institutionalization." On August 13, WLFI announced the appointment of Ryan Ballantyne as Chief Commercial Officer. Ballantyne has over thirty years of experience in capital markets, derivatives, asset management, and digital assets. Previously, he served as Head of Enterprise Client Strategy at Coinbase Institutional, helping listed companies and institutions adopt digital asset fund management, trading, and custody solutions. Earlier, he held senior positions at Osprey Funds and Blackforce Capital, and worked at Susquehanna, Deutsche Bank, Smith Barney, and other institutions. What does this personnel appointment mean? First, WLFI is accelerating its "institutionalized" transformation. WLFI is a DeFi project endorsed by the Trump family, which previously attracted attention due to its association with the Trump family. The addition of Ryan Ballantyne—an executive with a dual background in traditional finance and crypto institutions—signals WLFI's transformation from "brand-driven" to "professionally managed" approach. This is not just about image building, but also a substantial upgrade in operations. Second, the genetic injection of Coinbase Institutional. Ballantyne on Coinbase Institut$OKB [SpaceX Team-Wide Review] Elon Musk says AI revenue in September surpasses all other businesses—does the market believe it?
Yesterday, Musk made several harsh statements at the SpaceX all-hands meeting:
· AI revenue in September surpassed the combined total of rocket + Starlink + spacecraft
· By the end of next year, computing power will reach 10 GW, corresponding to annual revenue of $300–500 billion
· Five years later, AI will account for 99% of the company's value
· "Ground training, space reasoning"—Starlink and Starship work together to help AI
In terms of data, AI revenue in Q2 was 2.6 billion, up 213% quarter-on-quarter. The growth is indeed impressive. But SpaceX's Q2 capital expenditure was $18.4 billion, of which AI-related $15.8 billion. The stock price fell from a June high of $226 to just over $130 now.
$BTC What the market is truly conflicted about: the AI story is beautiful, but the cash burn is too fierce. Investors worry about how much of this 300-500 billion yuan revenue forecast will actually be realized. After all, in the AI infrastructure sector, the market's tolerance for "high capital expenditure for high growth" has recently been rapidly declining.
Is SpaceX really an aerospace company or an AI company? The valuation logic is completely different. Currently, the price-to-sales ratio is 61 times. Whether the market values aerospace stocks or AI stocks remains to be reckoned with.
#马斯克称AI将占SpaceX价值99% $ETH $SOL ETF funds have not seen a significant withdrawal recently, but new buying has indeed slowed down.
As of August 12, cumulative net inflows were about $1.16 billion. The total net assets of ETFs were about $904 million, with SOL priced around $75.77.
1.16 billion is a historical cumulative net inflow, but that doesn't mean the current holdings are still worth 1.16 billion. When the coin price falls, the ETF's net assets also shrink.
Old capital still exists, while new funds have not accelerated for now.
$SOL Next, I'm still looking at $78–79. If the price can't rise and ETF inflows haven't expanded again, SOL will most likely continue to fluctuate. To truly get started, just "no outflows" is not enough.Storage chips soar, BTC remains unmoved—what exactly is capital buying?
Good evening, brothers. Tonight, the market is sharply divided. The memory chip sector continues to surge, but BTC is still holding flat around 63,500. Funds are clearly flowing in one direction—AI infrastructure and storage chips.
Let's start with the memory chip side—today is really wild.
On the Korean stock side, SK Hynix surged over 8% intraday, Samsung Electronics rose more than 5%, and the Korea Composite Index surged more than 4%. SK Hynix closed up 5.92%, Samsung Electronics 4.89%.
Before the US stock market opened, the storage sector continued to open higher and continue to rise. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index rose 1% to 12,543.52 points. On the stock side, Western Digital rose over 2.5%, SanDisk gained over 2%, SK Hynix gained over 2%, and Micron Technology gained 1.8%.
On the news front, Temasek plans to invest directly in Samsung and SK Hynix, believing that memory chips in the AI supply chain are undervalued. AI computing power has given rise to three highly prosperous sub-sectors—HBM, server DDR5, and enterprise-grade SSD. SK Hynix itself forecasts that DRAM demand for 2026 will grow 20% year-on-year, NAND demand will rise nearly 20%, with almost all of the growth coming from data centers. JPMorgan Chase has raised its forecast for the global storage market size from 2026 to 2028 to $970.9 billion, $1.44 trillion, and $1.82 trillion.
But BTC didn't follow suit at all.
BTC's current price near 63,500 is down about 0.3% in 24 hours. CPI data meets expectations, rate cut expectations are heating up, US stocks are also rising, but BTC remains unmoved. In the past 24 hours, $176 million was liquidated across the internet, with a fear index of 29, still in the "fear" range.
ETH is even weaker, failing to recover after falling below 1900, currently consolidating near 1880. SOL is slightly better, fluctuating around 76.
Why is the price of storage chips rising but BTC not following?
Two reasons. First, AI infrastructure and storage chips have solid fundamental support—earnings exceeded expectations, demand is strong, and institutions are investing. Second, BTC is still waiting for direction—the SEC is meeting tonight to discuss the "Regulation Crypto" draft, and the market is waiting for the results before making any moves. Funds are watching and unwilling to bet before the news comes out.
Here are a few ideas for your reference.
The logic behind the memory chip line hasn't broken yet, but if the price rises too much in the short term, be cautious chasing highs. Keep holding long positions in SKHYNIX, move stop-loss upward to lock in profits. For BTC, until the 63,000-64,500 range is broken, keep watching and moving less. Wait for SEC news to decide the direction. ETH is even weaker than BTC, so don't touch it for now.
Tonight's focus:
· The results of the SEC's "Regulation Crypto" draft vote
· After the U.S. stock market opened, can the storage sector maintain its strength?
· Can BTC hold above 63,000?
Brothers, have you benefited from this storage rally? Let's talk in the comments. 👇 #CPI与PPI同步降温, rate hike divergences widen#芯片股领涨 Korean stocks rebounded over 22% $BTC over ten days $CSCO The most noteworthy aspect of this FY2026 Q4 financial report is not just the record-breaking revenue, but also that AI infrastructure orders have evolved from concepts into quantifiable business growth, driving simultaneous acceleration in demand for networks, optical interconnects, and enterprise data centers. Let's look at the core data first: As of July 25, 2026, in FY2026 Q4, Cisco's revenue was $17.3 billion, up 18% year-on-year; Product revenue grew 24% year-over-year, and non-GAAP earnings per share increased 23% year-over-year. FY2026 full-year revenue exceeded $63 billion, up 12% year-over-year, with full-year non-GAAP earnings per share up 14%. The simultaneous acceleration of revenue and profit is the most solid foundation of this financial report. Order performance was the biggest highlight of the quarter: Q4 product orders grew 35% year-on-year, and even excluding hyperscale customers, growth still grew by 25%. Among them, orders for enterprise products grew by 21%, public sector orders by 30%, orders from service providers and cloud customers by 95%, and orders from network products by 40%. This shows that demand is not supported solely by major AI clients; enterprise renewal, operator investment, and public sector demand are also improving. AI infrastructure enters order fulfillment phase: Cisco secured $4 billion in hyperscale customer AI infrastructure orders in Q4, with total for FY2026 reaching $9.3 billion, about 4.5 times FY2025. In the order structure, about 60% comes from the Silicon One system, and about 40% from optical modules. The company expects hyperscale AI infrastructure in FY2027Vitalik’s roadmap posts in 2026 already exceed 2020, showing Ethereum’s pace of updates is accelerating.
Ethereum’s L1 is shifting from a minimalist settlement layer to active upgrades like ZK verification, privacy, and quantum resistance.
Frequent changes highlight ETH as evolving tech, not a fixed currency.
Will Ethereum’s constant evolution strengthen its role as tech or hinder its case as “money”?💀 MMT: From $6 to “Just Let Me Break Even”
Honestly, $MMT is testing my patience. I’ve held this coin for more than 10 days, watched it bleed day after day, and still haven’t seen a convincing rebound. 😭
At this point, I’m not even asking for profit. Just give me my break-even price and I’m gone. If I have to take a small loss, I’ll take it.
MMT once ran all the way to around $6, backed by strong narratives and aggressive capital inflows. But when the hype cooled and fresh money stopped coming in, the chart completely collapsed.
We’ve seen the same movie with $LAB: hype brings the money in, but when the hype disappears and nobody wants to take over, the price gets crushed.
What makes MMT even more concerning are allegations that the team moved around 38M MMT to exchanges to sell. If true, that would obviously add even more pressure.
The token’s move from $0.34 to $4.4 also looks less impressive when you consider that much of the surge was driven by a short squeeze. Once that momentum disappeared, MMT lost more than 90% within 24 hours.
And the supply situation isn’t helping either. With roughly 204M tokens circulating out of a 1B total supply, there’s still a massive amount of potential future dilution.
So the big question is:
Is there actually a recovery story left for $MMT, or are holders simply waiting for the next exit liquidity? 💀🧋
#7月CPI平稳落地，9月加息预期降温 The ETH staking ratio on Ethereum has climbed to 34.4%, setting a new all-time high. Compared to about 30% at the beginning of 2026, this is a significant increase; now, about one-third of ETH has entered the staking lock-up system.
Core impact:
🔒 Circulating tokens continue to tighten: A large amount of ETH is staked and locked, reducing the liquidity of spot supply on exchanges, which can ease long-term market selling pressure.
🛡️ On-chain security level upgraded: The proportion of staking is rising, and attacking the Ethereum consensus layer requires controlling larger assets, expanding the security buffer of the entire public chain.
📉 Short-term market momentum does not necessarily strengthen directly: a new high in pledge ratio is a supply-side benefit, but once off-exchange incremental funds fall behind, it can easily lead to a situation where fundamentals are positive but stock prices lack corresponding feedback.
💰 Staking yields face downward pressure: More tokens are entering the staking market, and the consensus rewards per ETH share are likely to decrease, which may weaken the willingness of new funds to participate in staking in the future.
Risk warning: Sharing ideas only, not investment advice, no bad guidance, compliance with community conventions! $BTC $ETH $OKB #CPI与PPI同步降温, divergence in rate hikes will widen In-depth technical and fundamental analysis:
SanDisk SNDK short position points announced
I'm Ci Ge, shorting SanDisk on 1523. This position isn't drawn lightly; both technical and fundamental evidence are clear.
Let's first look at what the 1523 level means
On August 13, SanDisk's intraday high reached $1,414.99. 1523 is far above the current price, not a direct short at the current price, but a sniper level waiting for a rebound to take place. SanDisk plunged from its historical high of $2,354, but the overall downward structure remained intact, and the price remained below the middle Bollinger band. The 50-day EMA is near $1,500, and 1523 is just above this key moving average resistance zone, representing the limit of the rebound rather than the initiation for a breakout.
Technical aspects: triple pressure resonance
First, 1523 is the key resistance above the 50-day EMA. The price rebounded from $993, releasing recovery momentum, but there is heavy resistance in the upper Bollinger middle band between 1292 and 1350, and 1523 has already far exceeded this range. After the short-term rebound at the 4-hour level, the Bollinger index begins to close, with prices near the upper band resistance level and upward momentum gradually fading. The 1-hour KDJ has entered the overbought zone, with clearly overbought market and large sell orders putting pressure on the market, with a risk of pullback at any time.
Second, from 2354 to 993, the rebound to 1523 is exactly near the 0.382 to 0.5 Fibonacci retracement level, which is a typical rebound limit zone. This level is also the consolidation zone before the previous sharp drop, with trapped positions dense.
Third, short-term overbought signals have already appeared. Since SanDisk's rebound from its August 6 earnings report at the low, the short-term gains have been too large, and technical indicators have entered overbought territory. Once the chasers exhaust, profit-taking will surge in.
Fundamentals: triple negative factors suppressed
First, the core contradiction is that the earnings guidance came in below expectations. SanDisk's Q4 revenue was $8.965 billion, up 372% year-on-year, with a non-GAAP gross margin of 84.6% and earnings per share of $39.25. But what really weighed down the stock price was the Q1 fiscal 2027 guidance, with revenue guidance of $10.3 billion to $10.8 billion, below market expectations. After the earnings release, SanDisk's stock fell over 8% in after-hours trading, dragging down Asian chip stocks across the board.
Gross margin guidance is 83% to 85%, basically flat compared to Q4's 84.6% with no further expansion. Citigroup lowered its target price from $2,500 to $2,100. Jefferies sharply lowered its target price from $3,000 to $1,750. Essentially, this is a typical manifestation of the capital market's expected tug-of-war, where market expectations have already been priced into previous stock price gains, and the financial report has effectively exhausted all the positive news.
Second, cyclical peak risk. Nvidia has sharply reduced its expectations for high-end memory demand, and signs of a downward cycle are emerging. Nvidia is weakening the HBM configuration of Rubin Ultra, and memory chip prices may peak in the coming quarters. Although NAND prices remain high, the momentum for price increases is gradually weakening. Once NAND prices stop rising and supply gradually catches up with demand, there are huge doubts about whether gross margins above 80% can be sustained.
Third, the decline in the consumer business against the trend reveals deeper concerns. Data center business revenue surged 103% quarter-on-quarter, while consumer business declined 32% against the trend. When consumer-grade NAND demand weakens while enterprise-level demand growth slows, SanDisk's revenue structure will face dual pressure.
Operating strategy for short positions at 1523
1523 is a short-selling sniper waiting for a rebound, not a direct short-selling at the current price. The total position should be controlled at 10% to 15% of total capital, with leverage not exceeding 3x. Stop loss should be set above 1570, the 50-day EMA near 1500, and once it effectively breaks through 1523 and holds steady, the bearish logic fails and you exit unconditionally.
Take profit is made in three batches. The first batch is from 1350 to 1380, down 30%, which is the Bollinger middle band resistance zone. The second batch is from 1220 to 1250, then another 30%. The third batch from 1080 to 1100 is the remaining 40% of the remaining 40%. Moving stop is followed: for every 50 points drop, the stop loss is moved down by 30 points. At 1350, the stop loss is moved down from 1570 to 1540. To 1250, from 1540 down to 1510.
If the price repeatedly fails to break below the 1350 to 1380 range, short positions will close out most of the positions there. If the price drops below 1220 with increased volume, continue holding the remaining positions at 1080.
Bottom line
Shorting 1523 is the money that confirms effective resistance after the rebound is in place, money from negative guidance that is still fermenting after the guidance is below expectations, and money from the storage cycle peaking expectations. SanDisk has pulled back about 47% from its historical high of 2354, but the recovery from 993 to 1523 has already exceeded 50%, so there is limited room for further upside. Citron publicly shorted SanDisk as early as February, directly pointing out that the NAND industry relies on supply cycles. The market is pricing SanDisk according to Nvidia's logic, but Nvidia has a moat, while SanDisk does not.
Set your stop-loss and execute it once you reach the right spot. If you go in the wrong direction, admitting defeat isn't shameful; it's shameful to hold on stubbornly.
That's all for Ci Ge. Take a closer look. #芯片股领涨, Korean stocks rebounded over 22% in ten days. #财报观察员: AI infrastructure earnings report debuts in succession. #CPI与PPI同步降温, rate hike divergence widens $OKB $SNDK $BTC PPI data is on the ground! Don't rush to celebrate; the positive news is quite exaggerated
The US July PPI data was released: month-on-month 0%, far below the market's 0.2% expectation, and core PPI also missed estimates. Many people have already started shouting that inflation is over, the Fed is about to ease the accelerator, and the crypto world is about to take off.
But looking beyond the surface, this is just a mild decline in production-side data, not a complete cessation of inflation. The PPI in June still showed negative growth, and in July it only recovered back to zero growth, without a strong crash. More importantly, the core PPI remained completely unchanged; after excluding volatility like energy, the underlying price pressure has not truly dissipated.
This data did shortly dispel the Fed's desire to raise rates further, but that doesn't mean a rate cut is imminent. Rates remain at high levels; the market shouldn't blindly go all in just because the data falls short of expectations.
Right now, the market just catches on a bit of soft data and crazily imagines a loose rally. PPI is just the appetizer; CPI and employment will be the real test. Relying on just one PPI can't sustain a sustained rally; don't let a brief emotional wave trap you at a high level.
⚠️ Risk warning: This is for personal opinion sharing only and does not constitute investment advice. The market is volatile, so be cautious about position risk control. $BTC $ETH $OKB #CPI与PPI同步降温, Divergence Between Rate Hikes Widens #财报观察员: AI Infrastructure Earnings Debut #马斯克称AI将占SpaceX价值99% This round of rebound in South Korea's semiconductor sector is indeed worth watching.
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have driven KOSPI's strength, with the core still being strong demand for AI computing power and HBM storage. The market is more inclined to believe this adjustment is merely a capital repositioning and short-term profit-taking, rather than a deterioration in AI fundamentals. Simply put, capital is redeploying, not leaving the AI sector.
So, what does this have to do with the crypto market?
The stabilization of leading semiconductor companies helps restore market confidence in the AI investment cycle and boosts overall risk appetite. When risk sentiment warms up, some funds may further shift from tech assets to highly elastic digital assets.
$BTC usually benefit first, especially when institutional funds flow back. $ETH ETF inflows and asset tokenization narratives support the $SOL, AI and DePIN infrastructure development, $OKB may regain attention as trading activity increases.
Of course, short-term capital diversion may still occur; when AI chip stocks are strong, the crypto market may be under temporary pressure. But if risk appetite continues to spread, capital may still rotate along the path of "tech stocks → BTC → mainstream assets → quality altcoins."
What is truly important in this round of South Korea's semiconductor rebound is that it reinforces a larger logic:
AI is gradually moving from market narratives to real capital expenditure cycles.
As the macro environment improves and crypto ETFs continue to provide capital inlets, the flow of funds between AI and crypto may only just begin. A notable divergence is emerging. U.S. equities are surging, with capital continuing to flow into tech and AI sectors. But $BTC remains stuck around $64,000, unable to deliver a comparable breakout. This is not necessarily a bearish signal. In many risk-on phases, capital does not move simultaneously. It typically prioritizes the most liquid assets with the strongest narratives first, before expanding into other risk assets. So the key question is not: “Why hasn’t Bitcoin gone up?” But rather: “Everyone is talking about 0% PPI. I'm looking at the 4.7%. July producer prices were still 4.7% higher year over year. So let's be careful with the conclusion. This doesn't mean inflation has disappeared. It means monthly producer-price momentum was weaker than expected. That's an important distinction. The market needs to determine whether this is: A temporary slowdown or the beginning of a sustained disinflationary trend. For BTC, that distinction matters. If inflation continues cooling, the FPPI cooled, but the core remained sticky
As of 23:04 Beijing time on August 13, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced: July PPI was flat month-on-month and up 4.7% year-on-year; Excluding food, energy, and trade, it rose 0.4% month-on-month and 4.7% year-on-year. Overall items cooled, but core pressure remained.
A weak aggregate is favorable for liquidity expectations, while a strong core may limit easing. OKX data shows BTC rose from about $63,500 before the announcement to around $63,900 but failed to hold above 64,000, indicating moderate market pricing. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OKX.
In the coming days: the benchmark is oscillating between 63,300 and 64,000; A strong trend requires BTC to hold above 64,000 and interest rate expectations to fall; A weak side is due to rising inflation concerns and a drop below 63,300. If volume surges above 64,000, the cautious judgment will fail.
Today's event risk level: Medium. It is advisable to control leverage and exposure and wait for price confirmation. Do you value overall flat or core stickiness at 0.4%?
#BTC #PPI
This article is solely a personal market observation and does not constitute investment advice.First, technically, $SPCX rose too much yesterday, and today's pullback is part of a clearance. Second, the previous positive news that supported the rise has also been diluted.
For example, Musk said Grok 4.6 was powerful, and then DeepseekV4PRO was released, but before he could even sit down, it was kicked off. This directly hurt the rental income expectations for computing power rentals.
For example, the internal speech released on August 11 claiming AI accounted for 99% of SpaceX's value was itself controversial, with some seeing it as irresponsible. It directly hit investors targeting Starship, Starlink, and defense orders.
Also, the so-called Wall Street research report about 300 billion in revenue is itself a marketing effort to promote the stock price riddled with loopholes. First, building 10GW of computing power by the end of the year is basically impossible. Second, this linearly extrapolates the premium from the current computing power scarcity period.
Moreover, cross-industry hoarding of computing power actually proves that Grok itself cannot absorb computing power. The so-called "buying second-hand Chinese power equipment" and quickly building computing power centers inevitably faces many difficulties in implementation.
139–140 hold: can still be defined as a strong turnover after a breakthrough
Recovery from 143—145: This indicates that today's main focus is on profit-taking market cleanup
Closed below 138.7–139: Yesterday's AI PR combination gains were mostly reversed, and the next step is likely to test the 135 issue price
135 also fell: returned to the 130–133 range to seek new support
Regaining 146.15: Only then does it count as regaining the qualification for attack 150 $SPCX Quick Market Reading
Bitcoin current price is $63,894.10, 24-hour +0.57%. The amplitude closed at 1.11 percentage points, showing considerable volatility.
The 24-hour high was $64,014.20, the low was $63,309.40, with a turnover of $290.86M and plenty of long-short trades.
Across the market, 67 stocks rose and 35 fell, accounting for 65.7 percentage points of gains—the sentiment is clear at a glance.
L2/sidechain sectors focus on $ARB, with relatively low turnover. Let's first see if smart money is making any moves.
GameFi sector is focusing on $AXS, with fluctuations narrowing, waiting for the right direction before making moves.
The top three gainers were $AVNT+24.91%, $ROBO+19.80%, and $RE+10.29%. Smart money had already voted for it.
The top three leading decliners were $MMT -16.33%, $BICO-15.41%, and $2Z -7.73%, with profit-taking orders directly flipping the table and fleeing.
In short: the number of rising and falling stocks sets the tone; leading the rise and falling determines the direction. Don't go against smart money.
Data comes from the public market interface and is for informational reference only, not constituting buy or sell advice.
That's all for now; the rest is left to the market.Bitcoin just received another potential macro tailwind. 📉 July U.S. PPI came in at 0.0% MoM, below the 0.2% expected. Core PPI rose 0.2%, also below the 0.3% forecast. The message is simple: Producer-price pressure isn't accelerating as quickly as markets expected. That could reduce pressure on the Fed to maintain a more hawkish stance. The potential chain: PPI ↓ → inflation pressure ↓ → Fed pressure ↓ → yields ↓ → risk appetite ↑ → BTC potentially benefits But one report doesn't create a trend然後這邊是閃迪跟海力士的部分。
比較有趣的地方是，海力士目前已經開始進入壓力區了，壓力區會一路壓到 1500。而閃迪相較而言，還有一小段的上漲空間。
短線上，我是建議大家真的要空的話再等等，不要這麼急。長線上來講，目前還是走個空頭趨勢，還沒有到反轉，所以大家還是要多加註意。
不過現在整個大型指數都在上漲，這個是利多。所以我覺得要做的話，等它再上漲一點、到壓力區塊，再考慮做短線的放空。至於長線要不要投資這兩間公司，就見仁見智了。
消息面部分，這波記憶體族群集體大漲，主要是新加坡主權基金淡馬錫計畫直接投資三星電子跟海力士的消息，加上閃迪、海力士共同發表 HBF 開放技術規格，多家外資陸續調高目標價。財報數字方面，閃迪最新一季數據中心業務營收暴增 645%，毛利率衝到 84.6%；海力士本益比目前約 19.5 倍、閃迪約 18.6 倍，相對其他 AI 相關半導體股偏低。
另外昨天上游雲端服務商 Nebius 財報營收年增高達 454%，並揭露積壓訂單達 375 億美元，市場解讀這代表雲端業者正在鎖定多年期 GPU 產能，會連帶拉動記憶體需求，是帶動整個族群昨天大漲的間接因素之一。What is truly worth discussing today is not how much gold has risen, but the Bank of Korea has entered the market.
First time in 13 years.
In the second quarter, the Bank of Korea bought nearly 680,000 shares of the SPDR Gold ETF, worth nearly $250 million. This is their first time touching gold since 2013. Why act now? Several things have piled up.
South Korea's foreign reserves are 427.3 billion won, but gold accounts for only 4.79 billion, or 1.1%. It ranks 98th globally, which is completely inconsistent with its position as the 13th largest in foreign reserves. The 104 tons of gold bought 13 years ago have never been touched, but now, with inflation, geopolitical changes, and the dollar's credit loosening, it finally can't sit still.
250 million is a drop in the bucket compared to over 400 billion in foreign reserves, but this may just be the beginning. It is telling the market that even a central bank of South Korea's level has started reallocating gold.
What does it have to do with the crypto world? In the short term, it has nothing to do with Bitcoin. The money from Korea is entering gold ETFs, not Bitcoin. Gold rose 8%, but Bitcoin is still holding sideways, with no correlation ever sibling.
But in the medium term, it's a signal. The Bank of Korea hasn't touched gold for 13 years and is now starting to buy. Sovereign-level funds are starting to reallocate non-sovereign assets, which supports the long-term narrative of Bitcoin. It's not about immediately following the rally; it's the logic moving in this direction.
Simply put, gold is pricing in rate cut expectations and risk aversion, while Bitcoin is still digesting its own business. Only when Bitcoin's own catalyst arrives will it truly resonate.
$BTC $OKB #黄金维持高位, the Bank of Korea returned to the market A Clash of Ice and Fire: The Three Musketeers of Storage Surge, Bitcoin and Ethereum Deeply Shaken
On August 13, 2026, the capital market showed that the differentiation has not narrowed; instead, it has intensified. The "Three Musketeers" of storage chips continue to surge, while Bitcoin and Ethereum are repeatedly tug-of-war within a dull narrow range, with unclear directions.
Storage sector: The upward momentum continues, unstoppable
On August 13, the U.S. storage sector opened high and continued to rise, with Western Digital up over 2.5%, SanDisk$SNDK up over 2%, SK Hynix up over 2%, and Micron $MU Technology up 1.8%. In the previous trading day, the storage sector surged across the board—SK Hynix ADR surged 9.01% to $154.41, SanDisk rose 5.76%, Micron Technology rose 4.92%, Seagate Technology rose 7.03%, and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index closed up 2.49%.
The core logic behind this sustained rally remains solid. Micron's Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer clearly stated that the AI wave continues to drive up demand, capacity expansion is hard to keep up, supply tightness is expected to persist beyond 2027, and the supply-demand pattern in 2027 will be even tighter than in 2026. Morgan Stanley called the surge in memory prices "chip inflation," believing that high prices will not end anytime soon. On the news front, Temasek is reportedly planning to directly invest in Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, believing that memory chips in the AI supply chain are still undervalued. Counterpoint data also shows that in Q2 2026, enterprise-grade SSDs accounted for 48% of total bit shipments. Storage chips have completely upgraded from supporting products for consumer electronics to core strategic assets for AI infrastructure.
Crypto Market: Shrinking Volume and Sideways Trading, Stuck Between Upper and Lower
In stark contrast to the hot market in the storage sector, the cryptocurrency market continues to struggle in a sluggish state. On August 13, Bitcoin opened at $63,410, down 0.2% from the previous day, fluctuating narrowly throughout the day around $63,600, with a 24-hour fluctuation of only 0.24%. Ethereum$ETH was also consolidating around $1,880, showing weak short-term performance.
Bitcoin's daily, weekly, monthly, and annual trends have all turned negative. Although the US July CPI fell to 3.4% in line with expectations and inflation eased to boost US stocks, Bitcoin did not follow the rebound. Crypto traders are still weighing two major constraints: first, ongoing uncertainty in the Middle East, with the Strait of Hormuz still closed; Second, whether the Fed will raise rates in September remains undecided, with the market pricing in only a 60% probability that rates will remain unchanged.
Market data shows that sellers clearly outweigh the bid, with a buy-to-sell depth ratio of only 0.12. Small miners and crypto companies continue to sell off assets, further intensifying supply pressure. Bitcoin has fallen 6.5% from a month ago and 47.2% from a year ago; Ethereum has dropped as much as 59.1% compared to a year ago.
The Source of Differentiation: Industrial Transformation vs. Geopolitical Macroeconomics
The stark contrast between memory chips and the crypto market reflects completely different driving logics. The rise in the storage sector is supported by solid industry fundamentals—structural demand changes brought by AI computing power, combined with rigid capacity supply, forming a sustainable supply-demand mismatch. Bitcoin's volatility, on the other hand, reflects the dual suppression of geopolitical tensions and macro policy uncertainty—even if inflation data cools, risk assets struggle to hold their positions in the face of geopolitical conflicts.
On one side is the certainty premium driven by AI industry transformation; on the other, direction is lost amid geopolitical and macro games—this may be the truest reflection of today's capital market.
#CPI与PPI同步降温, the rate hike divide widened
#财报观察员: AI infrastructure earnings report debuts one after another
#芯片股领涨, Korean stocks rebound over 22% in ten days #CPI与PPI同步降温, rate hike divides widen. Everyone, the latest inflation data is out, I'll be straightforward. This time, not only did CPI fall, but PPI also fell, and even initial jobless claims went up—a triple blow. One-sentence conclusion:
The probability of holding steady in September is more solid, but internal disputes within the Fed are fierce, so pricing will still fluctuate. Don't blindly rush at the sight of rate cuts. How much do you think a triple strike really is?
· July CPI year-on-year fell from 3.5% to 3.4%, and core CPI fell from 2.6% to 2.5%, all within expectations.
· In July, PPI fell year-on-year from 5.5% to 4.7%, and core PPI dropped from 4.7% to 4.2%, with both production and consumption confirming cooling.
· Initial jobless claims rose to 209,000, higher than expected, indicating that employment is starting to cool at the margin. Looking at CPI alone, it's just that people are buying cheaper goods. Adding PPI and initial demand, both consumption and production sides are cool. Coupled with loosening of employment, what we previously bet on is now solidified. But the most critical conflict arose
The data is so dovey, yet the Fed is fighting on its own. Hamack said further increases are needed, Barkin said current rates are enough, and last month the FOMC even raised three objections to a 25 basis point hike. Chairman Washes also said that you can't declare the task complete just because the monthly data is good. Personally, I think the Fed is focusing on trends, not just this month. They fear three things: cooling of energyThe Russian central bank has recently shifted its policy significantly, planning to allow unrestricted trading of BTC, ETH, and USDT tokens on exchanges. Among them, BTC and ETH, thanks to their on-chain consensus mechanism, achieve no backdoor and anti-freeze resistance at the protocol layer; USDT, which had previously been repeatedly warned by Russia and classified as a high-risk tool due to "blacklist and long-arm jurisdiction risks," has now been re-included in the licensing system.
Behind this subtle shift lies an indescribable strategic understanding between Tether and Russia's top leadership: on the surface, Tether demonstrates compliance to the U.S. OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) by precisely freezing edge addresses, maintaining its role as a "controlled issuer"; while secretly maintaining selective silence on the flow of underlying strategic funds such as energy and military. By doing so, Tether naturally injects dollar liquidity into Russia's economic lifeblood while avoiding triggering the risk of comprehensive U.S. sanctions.
Meanwhile, the U.S. maintains a tacit "strategic tolerance" toward this. Previous severe financial blockades have forced Russia to accelerate the development of ruble stablecoins and decentralized clearing networks; completely cutting off the USDT pipeline would be tantamount to actively cutting off Russia's control over its cross-border capital map. For the U.S., compared to forcing Russia into an uncontrollable dark web and self-developed system, which traps it in an "asymmetric dependence" on USDT, is clearly more strategic—maintaining deterrence through occasional freezes in normal times and retaining the "ultimate circuit breaker" power to cut liquidity at critical moments.
Essentially, USDT has evolved into a "Trojan horse" in the US-Russia financial war, with the US surrendering, Russia compromised, and Tether taking advantage of the situation to seek rent #$Trump is betting on AI, quantum, and crypto simultaneously; what the U.S. is truly fighting for may not be a single currency, but the next generation of financial rules
Recently, the Trump administration has been promoting AI innovation and security while updating its quantum strategy, accelerating the migration to post-quantum cryptography, and continuing to promote the integration of digital assets with the traditional financial system.
Looking at these policies together, it becomes clear that the U.S. is fighting not only for AI models to lead, but also for driving up $BTC prices.
What it truly aims to compete for is the standards of the next-generation digital economy.
AI determines who has productivity and decision-making capabilities; quantum technology determines who masters new computing and security advantages; blockchain and stablecoins determine the system through which machines and institutions ultimately complete payments and asset settlements.
If global AI services are charged in US dollar stablecoins in the future, and agents transact through wallets and payment rules provided by US companies, even if the underlying layer uses open blockchain, the dollar may continue to expand its influence in the digital world.
This also explains why stablecoins may hold greater strategic value for the U.S. than most altcoins.
BTC provides a non-sovereign scarce asset, while dollar stablecoins provide a distribution channel for dollars on-chain. Although these two seem to compete, they can actually be exploited by the U.S. financial system: allowing the market to hold BTC while keeping on-chain transactions and AI payments still priced in dollars.
$ETH and $SOL are competing for the underlying network where these transactions occur.
ETH is better suited for institutional assets, complex contracts, and high-value settlements; SOL is better suited for high-frequency, small-value, and consumer-facing payments. If the AI Agent economy scales, the two may no longer serve only human traders, but instead compete for hundreds of millions or billions of payments generated by machines.
However, having transaction volume on a public chain does not mean gaining rule-making rights.
Who issues stablecoins, what compliance requirements wallets follow, how AI agents obtain identities, and who is responsible for erroneous payments—these issues may ultimately still be decided by governments, banks, and major payment companies.
Therefore, "decentralized networks + USD stablecoins + regulated gateways" may become a more realistic combination than completely detaching from traditional finance.
Trump's support for cryptocurrencies is not necessarily to weaken the dollar; It is more likely an attempt to make the dollar and U.S. companies the default gateway for on-chain finance and AI business.
$BTC competes for reserve asset status, $ETH and $SOL compete for settlement networks, while dollar stablecoins compete for pricing rights.
The real grand strategy has never been about how much a coin rises in a single day, but who decides in what form money exists in the AI era and through whose trajectory.📉 AI infrastructure financial report relay: explosive growth, but is the market retreating? #财报观察员: AI infrastructure financial reports take the stage
Everyone, AI infrastructure earnings have been delivered intensively this week, each data showing stronger than the last, but guess what? The stock price is not buying it. This is so interesting, I'll get straight to the point.
One-sentence conclusion:
Growth is undeniable, but the blind surge phase is over. Now the market is testing who can turn revenue into profit and cash.
The most painful contradiction: With such rapid growth, the stock price still dares to fall
· Coherent's revenue surpassed 2 billion, up 34% year-on-year, with guidance exceeding expectations, but it plunged after hours. The performance was fine; the drop was because expectations had already been priced in.
· Cisco's Q4 revenue rose 18%, profit increased 51%, impressive enough, right? Full-year AI revenue guidance was 7.5 billion, far below 9.3 billion orders, with the opening down 7%.
· Lumentum, our top student, saw profits rise 228% and cash flow turn positive, but July alone fell 17%. Even the cleanest volumes saw valuations dropped.
So the truth is, the market has shifted from focusing on growth rate to focusing on tolerance, profit, and cash flow. In the past, revenue would spike quickly; now, exceeding expectations is just the passing line and is simply not enough reason for a price increase.
Capital expenditure is a repeat of SpaceX's template
Previously, we talked about SpaceX's script: top-level narrative exploded, but cash flow at the bottom was criticized. Now, the AI infrastructure that rents computing power is exactly the same.
· CoreWeave's revenue rose 112%, but it was still losing money, with quarterly free cash flow down to 5.7 billion yuan, and for every dollar earned, it cost 2.5 yuan to build capacity.
· Nebius's revenue rose 454% year-on-year—a staggering figure—but quarterly capital expenditure was 5.86 billion and free cash flow was negative 3.5 billion, earning less than the measure.
The story is telling the story so fast, money is truly burning. Once the financing environment tightens, companies with negative cash flow and massive expenses are the first to be slashed.
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🔹 Optical Communications, LITE, and COHR are the most stable competitors, but their price-to-earnings ratio of 119 times has also been hurt. The past year has risen too much, and trading is too crowded.
🔹 Computing Cloud, CRWV, and NBIS are halfway up the mountain, steep in slope, have the weakest margin for error, and are the most vulnerable when growth slows or cash flow is questioned.
🔹 Equipment, AMAT, is handing over today. The focus is on two things: whether equipment demand is truly sustained and whether the money from expansion can be converted into profit. Its free cash flow just dropped from 1.06 billion to 210 million, and this divergence is widening.
🔹 Network, CSCO, is the most stable but least elastic, with annual revenue only up 5%. It's hard to rely on it to make big profits.
Give fans an honest answer: what to watch next
1. Profit margin and cash flow are ten times more important than revenue growth. For companies like NBIS and CRWV, no matter how much revenue explodes, if cash flow doesn't turn positive, it's a sword hanging in the bucket.
2 AMAT reports today, watch whether the free cash flow divergence has widened.
3. Be alert to data drops, earnings beating expectations and falling again—this is solid evidence of narrowing tolerance for error. Don't take the knife head-on.
4. Where are the risks? Valuations are generally not cheap, transactions are crowded, cash flow is negative. Once macro conditions tighten, the story of negative cash flow is the hardest to tell.
In summary: Optical communications are currently leading, computing cloud is still on the rise, equipment is set today, network stability but slow. SpaceX's template is being repeated on the computing cloud chain. Don't just look at whether revenue explodes; focus more on free cash flow and capital expenditure ratio—this is the turning point this round.Bitcoin ETF net inflows exceed 10 billion, but why is the price still consolidating? Unveiling the hidden pressure CME spot and futures arbitrage has on spot markets
Every day when I read crypto news, I always see headlines like Bitcoin spot ETFs recording another net inflow of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Many retail investors looking at these glamorous inflow data must be puzzled: since institutions spend real money every day, why is Bitcoin's price stuck in the $62,000 to $66,000 range, repeatedly dragging people down, even ruthlessly crashing back to square one after a slight spike?
Could it be that all these daily ETF buy data reports are fake?
The data is certainly not fake, but most people only see the surface of spot inflows and overlook institutional funds hedging in the derivatives market. The vast majority of incremental institutional funds in today's market buy Bitcoin ETFs not for one-sided bullish longing, but to run an extremely stable CME futures and spot arbitrage process.
This mechanism is known in institutional circles as Cash and Carry cash arbitrage trading.
Simply put, when CME Bitcoin futures prices are at a premium due to market sentiment or high-leverage contracts, hedge funds make a standard move. They buy Bitcoin ETFs in the spot market and open an equal short contract in the CME futures market. In this way, they hold a delta-neutral, risk-free portfolio, locking in the basis returns between spot and futures.
Of those hundreds of millions of dollars in ETF net inflows that dominate the news every day, a significant portion is just an arbitrage mix of buying spot and shorting futures.
As this wave of arbitrage buying flooded the spot market, futures short positions of similar size also weighed down on the market like a gravity shackle. This perfectly explains why spot data looks very good, but Bitcoin's price simply can't rise, because all the spot buying momentum is instantly offset by derivatives hedging short positions.
For ordinary traders, understanding this microstructure is crucial.
If you blindly chase highs based only on the media-promoted single-day ETF inflow data, you are very likely to fall into a liquidity trap woven by institutions using hedging funds. Only when the basis of CME futures narrows to the point of losing arbitrage appeal, or when institutional funds begin to show genuine one-sided net spot buying willingness, will the market emerge from a truly explosive main rally.
Finally, here's a question for friends: do you use the daily capital inflows of ETFs as your basis for trading when trading? After seeing the hidden cards of institutional spot and futures arbitrage, how long do you think the upcoming volatile market will last?
#现货ETF资金分化, BTC selling pressure remains $BEAT Don't think that after such a big drop, it won't fall anymore—on the contrary, BEATUSDT is still far from the true bottom.
From $11 to $0.89, has it fallen in place?
Core contradiction: unlocking is real supply shock, burning is fake deflation
Supply side: Nearly 70% of tokens are still locked, and the bomb is not yet fully defected
The total supply of BEAT is 1 billion, with about 310 to 330 million currently in circulation. On August 1, 21.25 million BEAT tokens (worth about $67.8 million) were unlocked, while since launch, the project has burned only 17 million tokens — a single unlock exceeding the historical total burn.
More importantly: nearly 70% of the supply remains locked. The current circulating supply is just the tip of the iceberg.
All moving averages act as resistance, and the current structure clearly forms lower highs, more like distribution and panic selling rather than a healthy pullback. True bottom support may be at $0.75-$0.80; if it falls below it, $0.60-$0.65 will soon become a target.
Panic trading is not genuine buying
The so-called "rebound" after BEAT's recent decline is more like a panic reaction after a crash, rather than due to stable buying interest. Traders mostly bet on short-term fluctuations and rebounds, rather than truly believing the project will recover.
Don't be fooled by the illusion of "dropping 90%" and trying to bottom-fish. Stories of a 90% drop followed by another 90% drop are not uncommon in the cryptocurrency market. The story of AI infrastructure is shifting from a "money-burning race" to "profit-making verification."
In the past two years, the most debated question in the market was: With such massive AI investment, will there really be returns? The latest round of earnings reports has given an increasingly clear answer—demand hasn't cooled, but funds are shifting from purely talking about concepts to seeking companies that can truly turn computing power into revenue.
The most obvious change in this round is that different segments of the AI industry chain have begun to signal performance simultaneously.
Nebius and CoreWeave, which focus on AI cloud computing power, saw strong growth. Nebius's Q2 revenue surged year-on-year, and adjusted EBITDA exceeded market expectations; CoreWeave's revenue continued to expand, proving that enterprises' demand for GPU cloud computing resources remains strong.
Meanwhile, the "shovel-selling" companies behind AI infrastructure have also begun to benefit.
Optical communication companies like Lumentum and Coherent are becoming key players in expanding AI data centers. As individual AI clusters grow larger, traditional network connections can no longer meet demand, and the importance of high-speed optical modules and optical communication equipment continues to rise. Coherent previously stated that growth in data centers and communication businesses is being driven by the expansion of AI infrastructure.
But there is a change worth noting here.
AI infrastructure is no longer just a simple logic of "buying equipment to make money." In the past, the market focused more on the scale of capital investment; now it is focusing on whether cash flow can be generated after investment.
For example, although Nebius is growing rapidly, large-scale AI computing platform construction means huge capital expenditures; CoreWeave also faces financing costs and asset depreciation pressures. Behind rapid growth, profitability quality, customer contract cycles, and computing power utilization will become key metrics for the next stage of valuation.
I believe the AI industry has now entered its second phase.
The first stage is to seize the entry point—whoever owns the GPU, data center, and power resources owns the story.
The second stage is efficiency competition: whoever can provide stable computing power at lower costs and convert that power into long-term orders is the true winner.
In the coming years, AI will not belong solely to model companies. The real big opportunities may be distributed across the entire infrastructure chain: chips, advanced packaging, optical communications, power supply, data center operations, and AI cloud services.
But risks are also emerging.
When all companies start talking about AI, when capital rushes into infrastructure, the industry will inevitably undergo selection. Expansion without order support will be eliminated; only companies with real demand and business closed loops will remain.
Therefore, when focusing on AI going forward, we shouldn't just look at whose story is the most significant, but whose revenue growth is most genuine and whose investment yields returns.
The AI wave is not over; it has entered a harsher phase: from imagination competition to execution competition.
$OKB $DOS $GRVT
#财报观察员: AI infrastructure earnings report debuts one after another $APR This CS dealer keeps me stuck all night. Every time I get exhausted, it's this CS dealer, $LAB $RIVER $RAVE it's the same broker. The image shows the wallet link for this 🐶 thing In January 2025, Bitcoin broke through 109588, marking the end of the phase bull market and falling until bottoming out in April
During the same period, Ethereum fell from 4100 to a staggering 1385
From the current perspective, you should clear your positions promptly before January
But in real conditions, selling is a very difficult event—harder than bottom-fishing in a bear market.
Let's look at what happened at that time
Institutions unanimously expect $200,000: Bernstein, Standard Chartered, ARK, and Deutsche Bank have released reports almost simultaneously, setting a target price of $200,000 for Bitcoin in 2025, citing triple drivers such as pension fund entry, deepening institutional allocation, and favorable policies
Trump's policies have only just begun: the market generally believes that taking office is just the beginning, with a series of policy dividends such as the stablecoin bill, the introduction of 401k pension funds, and the Bitcoin strategic reserve, making the narrative far from being realized.
ETF funds continue to flow in: for the entire month of January, spot ETFs saw a net inflow of $5.3 billion, while BlackRock alone saw $3.2 billion in inflows, indicating a steady stream of institutional buying
The four-year cycle model says the top is still early. : The halving is in April 2024. According to historical patterns, the top is 12–18 months after the halving, that is, from mid to the end of 2025, with January only being the ninth month. According to this model, at that time it was not just a top but was halfway up the mountain
These views weren't made up afterward; they were publicly available information you could see every day at the time. When you're in the midst of them, you naturally feel the bull market is still early, and now it's only halfway up, making it hard to actively think the market is ending.
This is the first hurdle: the whole world is full of good news, and there's no reason to sell
More importantly, the mainstream interpretation of the January decline at the time was "reversing the car to catch the driver" and deleveraging to lighten the car and pave the way for a rise
Because every bull market main upward wave goes through two or three sideways consolidations, and each consolidation is considered bearish. In reality, the price is just a temporary adjustment, but after many times, it creates a wolf effect. When the real bear market declines, people think it's a correction, which creates a kind of mindset.
This is the second hurdle: ignoring risk, all declines are an ingrained belief in shakeouts
We all know that the bear market decline before April 2025 was due to Trump's tariff policies
However, at the beginning of 2025, almost no one regarded tariffs as a core variable accelerating the bear market
It wasn't until February 2025, when the market saw its first large-scale crash and crashed, that the market truly began to take it seriously; By April, when global reciprocal tariffs were fully implemented, Bitcoin bottomed out, and during the same period, altcoins fell for a full four months, even dropping as much as 80%.
This is the third hurdle. You can't know the real bad news in a bear market, but it will definitely appear
So in a bull market, relying on so-called news and analysis is extremely difficult. When it's time to sell, the whole world is good news. By the time bad news comes, the bear market is already halfway over, and selling at that point will be even harder, since everyone loses and dislikes it
So don't spend too much energy on external factors like narrative and news aspects
What's truly useful is paying attention to the chip structure, which brings us back to our old viewpoint
The fundamental reason for the end of a bull market is the drying up of buying demand,
The fundamental factor behind the sluggish buying is "price consensus"
In 2025, Ethereum consolidated sideways at 3800. When it broke below the consolidation, most started to panic, but then recovered the next day and never looked back, breaking through 4700.
The critical moment came. After the 3800 wave ended, good news kept coming, especially Tome Lee, who kept saying Ethereum would break 10,000 by year-end. Everyone knows he's boasting. Most people think 6000-8000 is a reasonable target, and then an anchor point forms: Ethereum is about to reach 6000. News keeps spreading, more and more people believe in this price, buying keeps coming, and the bull market ends
So, when a price consensus is reached, it's time to start reducing positions—selling more as prices rise, selling regularly, just like regular investing, just selling off
Because you have a position, you are part of this market, and your ideas can represent the public's perspective. So you will have the same price anchor as the masses, but our actions will become selling, rather than continuing to believe like the masses
So I have summarized several more detailed points below
1. Everyone firmly believes the bull market is coming
2. Volkswagen began to agree on a higher price anchor
3. No longer fearing a downturn; thinking it is just a pullback to clear leverage
When these signals appear, don't worry about any positive news. Sell firmly, don't be afraid to sell early. Selling early still keeps your rationality. What's truly scary is the top. Selling feels like betrayal, as if you were wrong, and you might even buy back uncontrollably, causing even greater losses
I believe these words more: Sell for profit, escape the top is a disaster. Now that the bear market is in August, the bull market will definitely come. The purpose of writing this article is to prepare for the next bull market
We hope to stay clear-headed at the end of the bull market and secure profits in time
In cryptocurrency, compound interest comes from realizing the money, not necessarily long-term holdingLet me say upfront: excitement is fine, but memory loss is not. Goldman Sachs' acquisition of NEOS is easily packaged as "traditional funds eyeing ETH returns," meaning that more money is not the same as earning more.
NEOS's official website at the end of June showed NEHI's distribution rate was 30.91%, while the 30-day SEC yield was 2.65%; The recent distribution estimated at about 95% is capital returns. This gap cannot be covered by posters.
It relies on Ethereum ETP plus options for monthly distribution, which may give way when prices rise. A bullish candlestick is like an elevator door opening, but it doesn't mean it will only go upward.
This is related to ETH and is not necessarily a good thing. I will look at net asset value, distribution composition, and the gap relative to the Ethereum index. If the three tables don't match, please quiet down the applause.
This article is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute any investment advice. Digital asset prices are highly volatile; please make independent judgments and be aware of the risks #$ETH