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Bitcoin treasury company Strive resumes increasing Bitcoin holdings after a pause of over two months
Publicly listed Bitcoin treasury Strive has ended its suspension of more than two months and restarted BTC accumulation, rejoining the ranks of corporate coin hoarders.
The market bulls view this move as a positive signal. The treasury's renewed buying indicates restored institutional confidence, combined with the current warming regulatory expectations, reinforcing the narrative of publicly listed companies allocating BTC. After a slight reduction by Strategy, Strive's return to buying partially offsets concerns about treasury companies turning into sellers.
However, this increase should be viewed rationally. The scale of this round of buying is not large and is more symbolic, unlikely to directly trigger a sharp short-term rally. Treasury companies rely on capital market financing, so if the market corrects, the ability to continue accumulating remains uncertain.
Personal view: This is a medium-to-long-term positive sentiment, not a short-term catalyst for a spike. Corporate treasury buying is a slow variable; the market's strength still depends on ETF funds and macro liquidity. Do not chase high prices based solely on this news.
In practice, spot trading should follow the major trend; contracts still require caution against pullbacks caused by profit-taking after rallies. Follow two points continuously: Strive's subsequent accumulation strength and the buying and selling trends of other treasury companies.$BTC Although Bitcoin's price is skyrocketing, the risk behind this indicator is significant!
Bitcoin has risen more than 6% for two consecutive days. For me, who started gradually building a position at 63000, this is great news.
However, during these two days of Bitcoin's big surge, the open interest (OI) has been declining since the market started.
In other words, the number of open positions has been decreasing.
This indicates that contract funds are flowing out.
But the price keeps rising.
This situation usually indicates a liquidation-driven market.
The main reason is that during the sideways market in the past two weeks, a large number of positions with similar cost bases accumulated within a very narrow fluctuation range, meaning the liquidation prices are also very close.
Once liquidation occurs, it easily triggers a stampede-like market.
This round of market funds is weak and there is no positive catalyst, so it can be judged that it is most likely driven by liquidation deleveraging.
Such markets are often unstable, so rationally, it is advisable to reduce some positions appropriately.
Support levels below.
First support: 71000.
Second support: 68000.
Third support: 64000. Trump stated that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is pushing Hyperliquid to enter the U.S. market in a compliant manner. After the news broke, the HYPE token quickly surged from about $62 to $72, an increase of over 15%. 📈 However, it should be clarified that this is currently only a policy signal, not an official approval. The CFTC's regulatory path has yet to materialize, and whether Hyperliquid can truly enter the U.S. market still depends on subsequent compliance reviews and legal frameworks. If successful, Hyperliquid will become an important precedent for US perpetual contract DEXs, opening new possibilities for decentralized derivatives trading platforms to operate compliantly in the US. This development is a barometer for the DeFi sector, especially for projects focused on on-chain perpetual contracts. In terms of market reaction, after HYPE's short-term surge, volatility intensified, and investors need to be wary of the gap between policy expectations and actual implementation. Any regulatory statement could trigger sharp price fluctuations, and the risks of chasing at higher prices cannot be ignored. From a broader perspective, the Trump administration has recently softened its stance on crypto regulation, and the boundaries of responsibilities between the CFTC and the SEC are being redefined. If the CFTC gains greater regulatory authority over digital commodity spot and derivatives, DEX platforms may have clearer compliance paths but will also face stricter KYC/AML requirements. For traders, such news-driven rallies often have uncertain sustainability. It is recommended to closely monitor the CFTC's official statement and Hyperliquid's dealings8/21 Review: After the short squeeze, leverage is re-accumulating
1. Market Overview: Real money short squeeze
Price and Open Interest: $BTC BTC current price $72,658.29 (+4.96%), open interest simultaneously increased to $7.781 billion (+4.4%).
Key Signal: The increase in open interest (4.4%) is almost in sync with the price increase (4.96%), indicating that new leverage is entering the market; this rally is not just a "false fire" from short covering.
2. Capital Game: Buyers chasing prices but uncertain
Buy-Sell Ratio: Aggressive buying is 1.28 times the selling volume, showing strong chasing willingness.
Account Structure: Long positions account for only 49%; buyers are desperately chasing, but the account structure has not yet tilted towards longs—a typical hesitant rally, not yet at an emotional peak.
3. Micro Movements and Macro Catalysts
On-chain Liquidations: In the past 30 minutes, two wallets liquidated a total of $45.77 million (521 BTC + 3,738 $ETH), short sellers were forced out in the short term.
· Technical: BTC has crossed above the 200-day moving average for the first time since last November, mid-term trend repair.
· Macro: Treasury expanded buybacks, adding fuel to risk assets and providing emotional support.
4. Leverage Health: Not overheated yet, but needs close monitoring
Funding Rates: BTC +0.0031% (mild), $BNB BNB +0.0157% (relatively high).#BTC突破72000美元，本轮上涨能否延续？
I think this time it's not just a single positive factor, but a combination of regulation, macro conditions, and market dynamics igniting together.
First, the Ministry of Finance expanded the scale of long-term government bond repos, significantly improving market expectations for liquidity; second, BTC lingered around 64000–65000 for a long time, and the delay in breaking 65000 made shorts relax their guard, triggering a chain of stop-losses and liquidations once the breakout happened.
More importantly, regulatory expectations are starting to warm up. Trump summoned the SEC and CFTC chairmen, and the market began to reprice the expectations for the implementation of subsequent crypto regulatory frameworks.
So the real fuel for this rally is actually "spot buying + short liquidations." Institutional funds are actively entering, and short leverage is continuously being cleared, naturally causing the price to rise faster and faster.
Adding to this is the market's optimistic expectations for the Fed's upcoming interest rate decisions, along with Trump's ongoing release of crypto-friendly signals, finally igniting bullish sentiment.
But what I care more about is: after the short squeeze ends, will spot funds continue to take over?
If they can hold the line, this might just be the first leg of the rally; if not, the sharper the rise, the harsher the pullback will be. $BTC What is really driving this surge?
I think this rise is not due to a single positive factor, but a combination of short squeeze + liquidity expectations + policy sentiment.
Previously, BTC's long-term decline led the market to develop a habitual mindset of "short on every rebound," causing short positions to become increasingly crowded. When the price broke through key resistance, shorts were forced to stop losses, creating a squeeze cycle of rise → liquidation → forced buying → continued rise.
At the same time, increased liquidity support in the US Treasury market and eased pressure on long-term rates have also given risk assets some breathing room. Coupled with the US's continuously friendly regulatory attitude toward Crypto, market risk appetite has further recovered.
So this rally may seem sudden, but it is actually triggered by technical factors, boosted by capital flows, and amplified by policy sentiment.
However, I would not directly conclude that a bull market has started just because of these positives. The biggest characteristic of a short squeeze rally is rapid gains with high volatility.
Short-term trend following is fine, but don’t chase highs out of fear of missing out, and definitely don’t use high leverage to bet on direction. The real trend depends on whether it can hold after the breakout.
$BTC #BTC突破72000美元，本轮上涨能否延续？ #美联储7月FOMC纪要9比3，官员加息分歧仍在 #美联储7月FOMC纪要9比3，官员加息分歧仍在
The July FOMC minutes were hawkish — a 9:3 vote to keep rates unchanged, with three dissenters calling for a hike. "Many" officials believe tightening is necessary if inflation doesn't fall, with nearly half the participants on the hawkish side. The minutes also embedded AI into the inflation framework for the first time, with some officials thinking AI investment has pushed up overall demand.
But the market wasn’t convinced. July CPI year-over-year at 3.4%, nonfarm payrolls down by 23,000, retail sales down 0.6% month-over-month — this data combo shows the growth cost of rate hikes is too high. The probability of a September hike dropped from 35% to around 30%.
$BTC surged 11% in a day to surpass $72,000, showing the market is voting with its feet. The Treasury doubled the long-term bond buyback limit, the SEC released crypto regulatory proposals, and $3 billion in shorts were liquidated — liquidity easing + regulatory breakthroughs + short squeeze, a triple resonance amplified a single expectation adjustment into a short squeeze rally.
But don’t rush to optimism. ETF investors’ average cost is $82,465, still underwater by 15%. The rebound is driven by short covering; bulls haven’t truly entered. Short-term holders have taken significant profits near $72,000. Shorts are washed out, bulls haven’t arrived yet.
The real decisive moment is August 28 at Jackson Hole — Waller’s first keynote as Fed Chair, just 18 days before the September FOMC. Three possibilities:
Dovish framework (35%): No talk of rate path, focus on AI productivity effects and a "benign interpretation" of long-end yields. BTC tests $75,000; if ETF inflows turn positive within 48 hours, $75,000-$80,000 is possible.
Strategic ambiguity (40%): Reaffirm 2% target, emphasize data dependence, no direction given. BTC oscillates between $68,000-$74,000 awaiting data.
Hawkish surprise (25%): Direct rate hike signal. September hike probability rebounds above 55%, BTC pulls back to $65,000-$68,000; if ETF outflows continue, it may test $60,000.
There’s also a subtle undercurrent often overlooked: the Treasury is suppressing long-end yields while the Fed maintains hawkishness — two giants in a tug of war. Waller controls the short-end narrative, Basset controls the long-end reality — BTC ultimately follows reality.
Watch five signals closely: ETF fund flow direction, perpetual contract open interest, 30-year Treasury yield (bullish below 5.1% / bearish above 5.3%), CME rate hike probabilities, and liquidation structure.
The minutes write the script, data changes the ending, BTC only recognizes the ending.
#BTC突破72000美元，本轮上涨能否延续？ $ETH The US dollar has firmed up just a bit, risk assets are all playing dead, yet $BTC is up +5.57%, this defensive move is somewhat fragmented.
Looking at the numbers
$BTC 73,234 +5.57% $ETH 2,332 +3.48%
$QQQ -0.72% $SPY -0.84% $IBIT +6.24%
$DXY +0.07% $GLD +0.34%
In terms of the situation, crude oil and the Strait of Hormuz are still fueling inflation expectations, US Treasuries and Fed expectations continue to suppress valuations, AI/semiconductors remain the sentiment switch for US stocks, when $QQQ catches a breath, the whole market wobbles.
Looking closer, funds are not making a choice. $BTC is clearly stronger than $ETH, $ETH +3.48% can’t keep up, funds only hold the strong; $QQQ -0.72%, $SPY -0.84% are weak, $IBIT +6.24% is not diverging from $BTC, ETFs are receiving inflows; $DXY is just +0.07%, risk assets can’t lift their heads, $GLD +0.34% is still holding, haven’t fully withdrawn from safe havens. $XRP +15.2%, $DOGE +7.6% are still jumping around, more like emotions with nowhere to go.
After all this fierce analysis, the rise and fall still depends on Trump, I don’t dare to jump the gun, whoever shows weakness first will set the direction.
#BTC突破72000美元，本轮上涨能否延续？美国初请降到20.6万，降息又要往后推？先别只看一个数字 刚公布的美国初请失业金人数降至 20.6万，低于市场预期约21万，前值则从20.9万上修至21.2万。 第一眼看： 美国人没怎么失业，就业市场还挺硬。 这通常意味着美联储没必要急着降息，对BTC、黄金这类依赖流动性的资产不算直接利好。 但另一组数据很有意思： 续请失业金人数反而升到179.9万。 换成更直白的说法就是： 企业不愿意裁人，但已经失业的人，重新找到工作的速度也不快。 这也是现在美国就业最特殊的地方—— 不是“就业火爆”，而是越来越像 不招人，也不裁人。 所以这组数据存在两个剧本： 如果初请继续维持20万附近： 衰退风险下降，但美联储更有理由维持高利率。 如果续请继续上升： 说明找工作越来越困难，劳动力市场仍可能慢慢转弱。 对Crypto来说，现在最舒服的并不是就业突然崩掉。 而是： 经济没有衰退，但就业和通胀又足够温和，让利率有下降空间。 20.6万这个数字告诉市场： 美国就业还没坏到需要美联储出手救。 $BTC $ETH #美联储7月FOMC纪要9比3，官员加息分歧仍在 #闪迪高位波动，存储股估值分歧加剧 $BTC $ETH #美联储7月FOMC纪要9比3, officials remain divided over rate hikes. As of 7:28 a.m. on August 21, after two consecutive days of strong counterattacks, the crypto market remained elevated. BTC is currently fluctuating around $72,100, with an intraday high of $72,900, marking a two-month high; ETH is trading around the $2300 level, reaching a high of $2340. ETH's resilience in this rebound is significantly stronger than BTC's, and bullish sentiment continues to rise. The core driver of this round of rally comes from favorable U.S. Treasury policies, which announced a normalized increase in long-term U.S. Treasury buybacks, directly lowering long-term U.S. Treasury yields. This weakened the U.S. dollar index, improved market liquidity expectations, and boosted risk assets collectively. Coupled with friendly signals from U.S. regulators, senior officials meeting with crypto industry representatives, promoting digital asset legislation, and eliminating uncertainties in some sectors, spot ETFs have seen large capital inflows back and institutional funds have re-entered and re-entered the market. Short squeeze in the derivatives market further amplified the gains, with a large number of previously short positions being concentrated and forced liquidation, and passive buying orders driving prices up rapidly. After a continuous rally, a large number of short-term profit-taking positions accumulated in the market, increasing the risk of a volatile correction. At key levels, BTC faces strong resistance at $74,000, with key short-term support at $68,800; ETH resistance is at $2420, with support at $2150. Going forward, the focus will be on changes in U.S. Treasury yields and whether ETF inflows can continue. If incremental funds can't keep up, it's easy for a sharp pullback and shakeout at high levels,On-chain live streaming + real-time tipping: How does ACO build a Web3 version of an interactive entertainment ecosystem? 🎥
Traditional Web3 products are often too "financialized," lacking daily high-frequency entertainment stickiness. ACO directly brings decentralized social interaction and real-time audio-video live streaming on-chain:
🎤 On-chain HD live streaming & voice rooms: Supports hosts to start broadcasts, share content, and enable real-time voice interaction within the community, with data and relationship chains fully owned by DID identities.
🎁 Peer-to-peer real-time tipping: Fans' tips are instantly credited to the host's wallet via smart contracts, eliminating the high fees of up to 50% charged by Web2 platforms.
⚡ Interaction as mining: Users accumulate social computing power by interacting, tipping, and sharing in the live room, sharing rewards from the entire network's ecological mining pool.
Shifting from pure "speculative trading" to "play-to-earn," will entertainment scenarios be the next entry point for tens of millions of users?
#OnChainLiveStreaming #Web3Entertainment #ACOEcosystem #CreatorEconomy #DecentralizedSocial Why has $ETH clearly outperformed $BTC recently?
This round of ETH strength, I prefer to understand it as an oversold recovery + capital rotation + short covering, rather than a sudden qualitative change in ETH.
ETH fell more deeply earlier, so its current position inherently has greater room for recovery; at the same time, ETH's market cap is smaller relative to BTC, so once capital starts rotating from BTC to high Beta assets, price elasticity naturally becomes greater. Additionally, with marginal improvements in ETF capital, staking yields, and ecosystem upgrade expectations, short covering further amplifies the speed of the rise.
So it’s actually not surprising that ETH is rising faster than BTC this round.
But it’s also important to note that **high elasticity is always two-way.** When the market is good, ETH may outperform BTC, but once BTC weakens again, ETH often falls faster as well.
Therefore, I wouldn’t directly convert all BTC to ETH just because of short-term ETH strength.
BTC is more like a core asset, while ETH is more like a high Beta offensive asset.
What’s really worth observing is whether ETH can maintain relative strength when BTC is sideways or even pulling back. If this strength can persist, then ETH’s future trend space is more worth paying attention to.
$ETH #美联储7月FOMC纪要9比3，官员加息分歧仍在 #OKX预言家第二季：电竞西甲赛果揭晓，英超法甲接棒 $BTC macro tug-of-war! US Treasury bond repurchase benefits realized, BTC faces reality test after rallying
The US Treasury has expanded long-term bond repurchases, combined with multiple positive factors such as Trump pushing the Clarity Act and the White House crypto meeting, causing BTC to break through the 70,000 mark within just two days, reaching a high of 71,000–73,000, with the entire market's risk assets collectively warming up.
The core trading logic behind this rally is clear: the Treasury's intervention in long-term US bonds improves market financial conditions marginally, coupled with the sentiment premium from a shift in crypto regulatory policies, the dual forces rapidly push Bitcoin upward.
However, the market has shown notable divergence: last night, the 30-year US Treasury yield rebounded again to around 5.25%, indicating the bond market does not fully accept the Treasury's repurchase plan. Many institutions have raised doubts, stating that expanding repurchases only alleviates liquidity but does not address the root cause of the US's high fiscal deficit, and may not sustainably suppress long-term interest rates.
In other words, the positive expectations are fully priced in, but the macro fundamentals are not yet fully stable.
If the bond market loses control again, the recent rebound driven by liquidity expectations could face pressure to give back gains at any time. Policy benefits are expectations, but US Treasury yields are the real benchmark hanging over the market.
Market insights:
1. Short-term sentiment has been fully vented; do not mistake the impulsive rally for a main uptrend without corrections. After the benefits materialize, it is easy to enter a "buy the rumor, sell the fact" phase.
2. Focus on two key indicators going forward: whether the 30-year US Treasury yield can stabilize downward, and whether BTC can hold the critical 70,000 support. If yields repeatedly rise, valuation pressure on risk assets will return.
3. The policy bill is still in the congressional promotion stage and has not been officially implemented; it remains a forward-looking narrative, so do not rely entirely on policy news for heavy speculative positions. The U.S. Treasury has stepped up its buyback of long-dated government bonds, and while the surface read is positive, the real story is more nuanced. Long-term yields had climbed too high, prompting the Treasury to intervene directly, pushing the 30-year yield down from around 5.3%. As bonds stabilized, the dollar softened, gold rallied, and U.S. equities breathed a sigh of relief. 📉 But this isn’t a simple case of "Treasury acts, everything flies." The core issue is that lowering long-term yielAugust 21 Jinman Gold Morning Review: Support at 4500 Holds Steady, Gold Targets 4560!
After bottoming out and rebounding overnight, gold continued a strong oscillation, with a low of 4517.14 before gradually rising. The early session quoted 4529.56, a slight intraday increase of 0.23%, maintaining a narrow range at a high level, with the bullish pattern remaining solid.
On the 1-hour chart, prices steadily rise supported by short-term moving averages, currently in a high-level consolidation phase; the 4-hour larger timeframe bullish trend remains unchanged, with limited pullback quickly recovered, indicating strong support below and the bulls still in control.
The short-term resistance above is first seen at the previous high of 4540.88; breaking through this may extend upward toward the 4560 area; support below is focused on the 4500-4530 range.
For intraday operations, prioritize waiting for a pullback to stabilize in the 4500-4530 range before going long, targeting 4540 and 4560. Remember to set stop losses and manage position size to handle market volatility.
$BTC $ETH $SOL 一、市场全景概览 隔夜全球加密市场延续逼空式上涨行情，比特币强势突破72000美元关口，最高触及73000美元一线，创6月以来新高，主流币种全线普涨，XRP迎来超跌补涨单日涨幅超15%。本轮行情由多重利好共振驱动：特朗普公开敦促国会通过《数字资产市场清晰法案》，监管明朗化预期大幅升温；美国财政部扩大长期美债回购规模推动长端收益率回落、美元指数创三个月新低；叠加拥挤的空头头寸集中平仓，24小时全网爆仓总金额超33亿美元，空单爆仓占比超90%，形成典型的轧空行情。 资金面同步验证机构进场，美国比特币现货ETF单日净流入5.17亿美元，创下5月初以来最大单日流入规模，本周累计流入超10亿美元，机构资金与散户情绪形成共振。 盘面极致分化特征延续：头部主流币种量价齐升，资金抱团效应愈发显著；小盘山寨币遭遇严重抽血，BEAT等标的逆势刷新阶段新低，HOME、APR等品种几乎无人问津，BTC市值占比持续抬升，“弃小抱大”的市场风格达到近期极致。 二、主流币种实时行情（当前现货报价） BTC 比特币：72926 USDT 隔夜放量单边上行，连续突破70000、72000两道整数关口，多头趋势极强，市场This meeting (August 21, 01:00–04:00 Beijing time) has concluded. The conclusion is that this is a major positive for crypto exchanges:
1. The CFTC has begun preparing its own Crypto Market Structure Rules:
If Congress's CLARITY Act remains stuck, the CFTC is prepared to push the rules forward.
This is actually much more valuable than simply saying, "I support crypto."
Because this means that the U.S. crypto market regulatory framework doesn't necessarily have to wait for Congress.
2. The CFTC will study allowing currently registered and some unregistered crypto exchanges to offer leveraged/margined crypto trading under the CFTC framework:
This closely overlaps with Hyperliquid's core business.
What is the core of Hyperliquid?
On-chain perpetual contracts + leveraged trading
So this is not just a general crypto boost.
Instead: the regulatory framework the CFTC is designing that theoretically covers Hyperliquid's business model.
3. Selig also spoke about on-chain finance, having asked CFTC staff to contact developers of on-chain finance protocols to study how to make it🟢Today‖Hot List‖Complete List (As of today, August 21, 7:21)
#Morning Hot List Review and Analysis
Brothers, it's really lively these days
🟢Today's Hot List (Mainstream coins prioritized)
$BTC Bitcoin｜+0.54%, Trading Volume 10.627 billion
Analysis: The market is oscillating with a slight upward trend, overall sentiment is cautious, large funds are rotating back and forth, supporting the range-bound market
$ETH Ethereum｜-0.27%, Trading Volume 11.993 billion
Analysis: Following Bitcoin's sideways oscillation, performance weaker than Bitcoin, bulls and bears in stalemate, no clear direction yet
$SOL Solana Public Chain｜+0.06%, Trading Volume 931 million
Analysis: Public chain sector oscillating and consolidating, trading volume remains average, no large funds actively pushing up in short term
$XRPUSDT Ripple｜+0.36%, Trading Volume 1.159 billion
Analysis: Mainstream old coins slightly rebound, limited volatility, existing funds rotating for swing trading
$DOGEUSDT Dogecoin｜-0.67%, Trading Volume 517 million
Analysis: MEME sector weakening, short-term funds flowing out, slight pullback following the market
$HYPEUSDT Hyperliquid｜+1.29%, Trading Volume 711 million
Analysis: Exchange sector slightly strengthening, contract heat remains high, short-term funds continuously competing
$BEATUSDT Audiera｜+5.59%, Trading Volume 106 million
Analysis: Small-cap hot coin, short-term speculative funds entering to push price up, large chip volatility, high risk chasing highs
$ZEUSDT Zcash Privacy Coin｜+0.53%, Trading Volume 330 million
Analysis: Privacy sector slightly warming up, stable trading, part of sector rotation with mild recovery
$PEPEUSDT PEPE｜+0.25%, Trading Volume 275 million
Analysis: MEME leader consolidating sideways, heat fading, no incremental funds entering to drive a big rise
$BOMEUSDT BOME｜-0.23%, Trading Volume 248 million
Analysis: MEME coin maintaining weak sideways, balanced bulls and bears, lacking short-term catalysts
$TRUMPUSDT Trump Concept｜-2.58%, Trading Volume 213 million
Analysis: Concept coin funds taking profits and exiting, rapid short-term pullback, narrative-driven market with large volatility
$PUMPUSDT PUMP｜+4.54%, Trading Volume 305 million
Analysis: Small-cap hot coin short-term breakout, speculative funds rapidly trading, intense high-level chip competition
$REUSDT Re｜-1.95%, Trading Volume 75.7576 million
Analysis: Small-cap coin pullback, short-term funds exiting, weak support
$LABUSDT LAB｜+4.40%, Trading Volume 10.2591 million
Analysis: Small-cap coin short-term pulse rise, small market cap with sharp volatility, high risk level
Overall Market Personal Summary💡:
BTC and ETH remain sideways oscillating, mainstream coins show very small volatility; market opportunities concentrate in small-cap hot coins, with significantly amplified price swings.
All small-cap coins are short-term speculative plays by hot money, chips are unstable, not suitable for high leverage heavy positions. BTC Breaks Through 72,000, Short Sellers Liquidated at a Two-Year High
Those watching the market last night probably didn’t sleep well. BTC surged from around 69,000 all the way up, breaking through 72,000 USD at 5:20 PM today, rising 11.8% in 24 hours. This is no small rebound; Coinglass data shows this is the largest short squeeze in the crypto market in nearly two years.
Let’s look at the numbers. In the past 24 hours, total liquidations across the network reached 3.024 billion USD, with short liquidations at 2.77 billion and long liquidations only 252 million. A total of 171,000 people worldwide were swept up by the market. The largest single position was on Hyperliquid—a BTC short worth 48.8 million USD was completely wiped out. The 2.77 billion figure surpasses all previous single-day short liquidation records. Glassnode’s stats are even more dramatic, stating that the daily closing gain corresponds to 5.8 standard deviations, marking the largest upward volatility since October 2023. In plain terms, such a single-day surge has only happened once in three years.
Why such a sudden surge? Several factors combined. The US Treasury announced it would at least double its long-term bond repurchase scale to 4 billion USD each time, starting September 9, pushing down long-term yields and loosening risk assets collectively. At a White House crypto meeting, Trump said the US is considering buying a substantial amount of BTC and urged Congress to pass the CLARITY Act, specifically mentioning bringing Hyperliquid into compliance in the US, even claiming the US has completely ended its war on the crypto industry. HYPE surged over 20% following this, and the White House meeting effectively ignited market sentiment. Capital flows were also active: BTC spot ETFs saw net inflows for three consecutive days, with 517 million USD flowing in yesterday alone, and ETH spot ETFs also gained 189 million. ETH was even more aggressive, rising over 18% in 24 hours, leaving many waiting for a pullback to buy completely stunned.
But don’t just watch the excitement. On-chain data is also warning of risks. Short-term holders sent 44,000 BTC to exchanges yesterday to take profits, setting a single-day record for the year. These holders bought around 67,100 USD, sitting on significant unrealized gains, which could quickly turn into selling pressure. After liquidating 2.77 billion in shorts, the opposing side of the market has thinned, so volatility is likely to increase.
Pay attention to the contract side as well. After the short squeeze, funding rates flipped from negative to positive, meaning longs now have to pay shorts, raising the cost of chasing longs—a short-term warning sign. Open interest remains high, indicating leveraged funds haven’t exited, so the long-short battle will only intensify.
This kind of market is most dangerous for chasing at the peak. It’s normal for prices to break integer levels and then pull back for confirmation. Short-term traders should watch if volume remains during pullbacks and avoid catching the last wave when sentiment is hottest. The long-term view is simpler: continuous net inflows into ETFs show institutions are buying with real money, so holding is better than frequent trading as long as the trend remains intact.
At the 72,000 level, will shorts dare to return? Is this a trend reversal or just a one-night news-driven spike? Share your thoughts in the comments.兄弟们，猜到了会涨，但真没想到这么猛！先冷静，咱们把BTC突破70,000、ETH触及2,300这波行情背后的真实逻辑捋清楚👇 1️⃣ 美元走弱是根源：美国财政部扩大长期国债回购规模，30年期收益率从5.33%高位大幅回落，美元指数同步跳水。流动性闸门松动，机构资金最先感知到信号。 2️⃣ ETF持续吸筹：现货ETF连续多日录得大额净流入，贝莱德IBIT两天内贡献近5亿美元。聪明钱在68,000上方还在买，这种量级不是散户能撑起来的。 3️⃣ 消息面引爆情绪：白宫加密货币峰会、SEC新规、CLARITY法案重审预期，三件事叠加，市场开始交易“美国加密战略储备”叙事，空头被直接打爆。 4️⃣ 空头挤压加剧：24小时爆仓达16亿美元，其中空头占14亿。价格突破关键位后连环爆仓，形成典型逼空结构，涨到让你怀疑人生。 友好提醒：这种“拔地而起”的急拉行情往往难持续。短期别追高也别恐慌抛售，盯紧关键位——BTC站稳68,000才有机会冲75,000，守不住则回踩65,000。ETH的2,000-2,080区间是生命线，这是本轮突破的启动平台，跌破要小心。 以上仅为个人观点，不构成投资建议，请理Closed on August 20 Eastern Time (morning of August 21 Beijing time), with a full focus on the storage industry chain analysis. 1. Overnight U.S. Stock Market Overview All three major indexes plunged on heavy volume, with the Dow leading the decline with its largest single-day drop in nearly two months. There are two core factors holding back the market: first, the Fed's July meeting minutes continue to signal a hawkish tone, causing the market to reprice the probability of a rate hike this year, and US Treasury yields to rebound across the board; Second, international oil prices continued to rise, breaking through $87, reigniting concerns about sticky inflation. Coupled with weak guidance from leading retail earnings, market risk appetite has broadly declined. • Dow Jones Industrial Average: -1.32%, closed at 52,758.12, down 704.93 points for the day • S&P 500: -0.87%, closed at 7,641.16; among the eleven major sectors, only the energy sector closed higher against the trend, led by industrials, financials, and discretionary consumer discretionary sectors • Nasdaq Composite Index: -1.00%, closed at 26,067.78, down 263.31 points for the day; tech stocks mostly pulled back, but the storage sector resisted the trend and hedged some losses • Fear Index VIX: jumped to 18.2, with significant heightened risk aversion • Trading characteristics: Market volume increased by 15% week-on-week, with funds fleeing from cyclical, financial, and consumer sectors; Growth technology stocks have seen relatively narrowing declines, while the storage sector has seen counter-trend capital inflows, showing clear structural resilience. Core Market Features: Value stocks are catching up more than growth stocks, and market styles are shifting rapidly. The energy sector has become the only safe haven due to rising oil prices; The storage sector is driven by fundamental price increasesBTC/ETH 8.21 Market Analysis
Rebound Driving Forces
Macro liquidity improvement (US repo expansion suppressing long bond yields) + rising regulatory expectations (Trump pushing the "Clear Act"), resonance triggered a violent surge of $BTC from 64,000 to 73,000. Essentially expectation-driven, not a fundamental reversal.
On-chain and Market Structure
Whales have net increased holdings by 43,000 BTC in the past 60 days, providing a capital base
Spot trading volume hits a three-year low, retail investors absent, liquidity thin
Perpetual funding rate soars to a 20-month high, long-short ratio 2.23 hits a yearly high
Sentiment jumps from extreme fear (25) to greed (62), short-term pullback pressure accumulates
ETH/BTC exchange rate continues to hit new lows, capital highly concentrated in Bitcoin, altcoins drained
Risks and Strategy
Real risk lies in September:
Clear Act passage success rate less than 20%
FOMC meeting also scheduled
Current premium supported by policy expectations; if disappointed or Fed turns hawkish, pullback may exceed technical expectations.
Short-term strategy: buy on dips with strict stop-loss.
Deeper question: after expectations are realized, what will drive the market to continue rising?
---#BTC突破72000美元，本轮上涨能否延续？
$ETH $SNDK The president's mouth, the market's legs—but Congress is clutching the wallet. Trump casually stated on X that "the U.S. government is discussing expanding Bitcoin and crypto asset holdings," and Bitcoin immediately broke through $71,500. The market votes with real money—after all, the U.S. government is already the world's largest holder of sovereign Bitcoin, with about 328,000 BTC worth over $21 billion. But look closely at Trump's exact words: no implementation details, no funding sources, no timeline. Why? Because the president doesn't hold the money bag. The strategic Bitcoin reserve executive order signed by Trump in March 2025 only allows Bitcoin to be acquired through "budget-neutral" channels such as forfeiture, forfeiture, and donations. To conduct large-scale open market purchases, Congress must legislate to approve. Bills like the BITCOIN Act, which purchases 200,000 coins annually, have yet to become law. The trick of this play is actually quite familiar: the White House sends signals to raise expectations, but the actual implementation is stuck in Congress. The president can make empty promises, but the money is always the Congress. Next time you hear "the government wants to buy coins," why not ask—where does the money come from? $BTC $ETH #BTC突破72000美元, can this round of gains continue? Based on the historical pattern of the U.S. midterm elections
BTC's optimal positioning window falls in October,
with a high probability of starting an upward trend from early October
The average maximum market drawdown before the November 3 election is about 16%
Looking at the extended period since 1950,
the Nasdaq has closed higher 12 months after every election day with a 100% win rate
There has been no exception
If you buy the S&P 500 on election day,
the following year is almost guaranteed to be profitable
with an average return of 18.6%
This multi-decade cyclical pattern still holds strong reference value today
So what we need to do now is wait for the market's final dip $CORE has experienced a short-term oversold rebound breaking through the extremely low range, but on-chain daily active users have recovered to 9,000 while TVL has dropped by 24%, creating a divergence. The trading momentum is still mainly driven by short-term speculative funds on exchanges rather than large institutional positions.
On-chain details confirm the limitations of the chip structure. Although the network's average daily transactions recently remained between 48,000 and 54,000, the 30-day base layer gas revenue of the public chain is only $274, while ecosystem application fees reached $59,000. The 215-fold fee disparity reflects that transactions are overly concentrated on existing staking, lacking support from new external funds and high-frequency transfers.
The driving forces behind this rally are, in order: oversold existing funds speculation, BTCFi sector premium transmission, and short-term speculative capital pushing prices up. The roadmap's plan to rely on ecosystem revenue for secondary market buybacks remains a mid-term goal, and unresolved token inflation pressure limits the upward price potential.
The bullish scenario triggers if the price breaks through key resistance with sustained volume turnover and does not fall below the consolidation range during pullbacks. If protocol revenue continues to rise alongside cross-chain BTC capital inflows, the market will gradually absorb the historical overhead supply pressure above.
The bearish scenario triggers if a volume surge with a long upper shadow appears at a high point or if volume rapidly shrinks. Given that the overall network TVL has not yet bottomed and buybacks have not been implemented, once chips are cashed out at highs, the price is prone to evolve into a downward continuation pattern within the main trend and refresh stage lows.
Invalidation conditions depend on capital and fundamental anomalies. If the adjustment breaks below the previous bottom line directly, the oversold rebound logic fails; if on-chain transaction fees and actual cross-chain assets show exponential growth, the short-term speculative capital-driven logic will be reshaped.
The key variables to watch over the next 7 days are the degree of volume cooperation at the breakout point, whether TVL can stabilize, and the target's resilience during BTC market pullbacks.
#迈威尔获Google芯片协议，财报前AI订单受关注 #BTC突破72000美元，本轮上涨能否延续？$CORE CORE Experiences a Bottom Movement: Is It an Oversold Recovery or a BTCFi Narrative Restart?
After a long period of silence, CORE's market finally shows a rare upward movement. Many long-term holders have finally seen a bullish candle, the community is cheering, and some have even started celebrating the rebound with beer. However, on-chain data, token economics, and competitive landscape paint a very contradictory reality: users are returning, but TVL is declining; trading activity is warming up, yet fundamentals still face heavy burdens.
Many tend to equate a bottom rebound directly with a trend reversal. For CORE, we need to separate market action from the underlying narrative.
Contradictory on-chain data: Alive but not prosperous
Recent on-chain statistics show that CORE network daily active users have gradually recovered from previous lows, reaching around 9,000 in mid-August, with a stable daily average of 48,000–54,000 transactions over 10 days, indicating on-chain interactions have not completely stopped.
On the other hand, total locked value (TVL) has dropped about 24% from previous highs, showing a split scenario of rising users but shrinking locked assets.
More intriguingly, the revenue structure: in 30 days, DeFi application fees in the ecosystem approached $59,000, while the underlying public chain's gas fees were only $274, meaning application layer fees are 215 times that of the base chain.
This indicates real activity is concentrated in staking and DeFi applications, with few ordinary transfer transactions; the network has users but remains small in scale, protocol revenue is still limited, and it is far from supporting large-scale token buybacks.
The project's 2026 roadmap has clearly shifted: no longer relying on block reward burns, it hopes to use real revenue generated by the BTCFi ecosystem to repurchase CORE on the secondary market, thereby alleviating token selling pressure. This concept is logical but depends on sustained ecosystem revenue growth, serving as a mid-term catalyst rather than an immediate benefit.
Where does the current rally's driving force come from?
1. Oversold chip recovery
CORE has retraced significantly from its historical highs, with prolonged decline accumulating many trapped holders, and the price is at historically low levels. As overall market risk appetite warms, existing funds choose oversold tokens to gamble on rebounds, a common oversold recovery pattern near bear market end.
2. Residual heat from BTCFi narrative
CORE's core positioning is a Bitcoin sidechain, featuring Satoshi Plus hybrid consensus, combining Bitcoin hash power with EVM compatibility. The narrative centers on BTCFi decentralized finance on Bitcoin.
When the market re-hypes Bitcoin staking and liquid staking, the sector's heat transmits, giving CORE emotional premium. However, competition within the sector is fierce, with peers like Stacks and Babylon rapidly iterating, so it's not a monopoly.
3. Short-term speculative capital inflow, not large institutional accumulation
From trading volume, this rally is mainly driven by short-term exchange funds, with no clear signs of large institutional addresses continuously accumulating. Speculative-driven rallies tend to rise fast and cash out quickly.
Several harsh realities to face
First, massive trapped holder pressure. Past declines have piled up layers of trapped chips above; rebounds to key levels trigger selling pressure release, with significant resistance at every step up.
Second, token inflation pressure remains; the buyback mechanism is still at the roadmap stage, not yet widely implemented, so selling pressure is not fundamentally relieved.
Third, the ecosystem lacks blockbuster applications. Although there are many DApps, none have yet attracted large-scale new BTC inflows; many interactions come from existing users repeatedly operating, with limited new external capital.
Fourth, as a thematic token, it is highly dependent on the overall market. When BTC corrects, these high-volatility small-cap tokens often experience much larger pullbacks than mainstream coins.
Two scenarios: Pulse rebound vs. trend reversal, watch three confirmation signals
Many confuse whether this is a rebound within a downtrend or a true reversal. Focus on three objective signals rather than emotional judgment.
1. Volume confirmation: Uptrend must sustain volume expansion; if volume shrinks during rise, it is likely a battle among existing holders with doubtful sustainability; a high-volume long upper shadow after a spike often means funds are exiting on the rebound.
2. Key resistance holds: After breaking resistance in a short-term rebound, price should not quickly fall back to the previous range; during pullback, it should not create new lows. A new low after rebound is a typical downtrend continuation pattern.
3. Fundamental follow-through: On-chain protocol revenue steadily rises, BTC assets continuously cross-chain into the ecosystem, and buyback mechanisms are truly implemented. Price can lead fundamentals temporarily but cannot detach forever.
Realistic thoughts for holders
- For current holders: The rebound is welcome, but don't treat unrealized gains as realized profits. Set partial take-profit points; don't add heavy positions just because of one bullish candle to average down. The biggest mistake in oversold token rebounds is to see red and fantasize about a big bull market after being deeply trapped for a long time.
- For those not yet in: Don't get swept up by community euphoria chasing highs. For small-cap tokens, it's better to miss out than make mistakes. If you want to participate, wait for pullback confirmation before evaluating.
BTCFi is a sector worth long-term observation, but no matter how good the narrative, it requires product, revenue, and user growth to materialize. Celebrate the bullish candle, but keep wallet positions calm. The rebound is just the beginning, not the end.$ETH spot has pulled in 1 billion U in funds, leveraging about 25 billion U in contract funds, indicating that basically no one is selling spot. Unless the main force stops buying themselves, a pullback will occur. The premise for this pullback is that the main force has almost withdrawn their long positions in contracts or has started to take on most of the contract short positions. Otherwise, why would they stop buying spot? Just purely to support the shorts? As shorts, they don't even have enough spot holdings but still want to dump the market—it's simply a dream.X Layer's Exchange OS requires deployers to stake OKB in order to create trading venues or list trading products.
This is a demand logic more valuable than "total scarcity." What needs to be observed next is not slogans, but the actual number of deployments and staking requirements. A factory worker's CORE gamble: a 6800 yuan salary, 200,000 trapped tokens, and a high-stakes bet on turning things around
Yesterday, the factory paid wages, and I received 6800 yuan.
Every worker knows that every penny is hard-earned from 12-hour shifts on the assembly line. After deducting money for cigarettes, meals with coworkers, and daily small expenses, there’s not much left. Thanks to the factory providing food and accommodation, I managed to save 800 dollars and bought 26,000 CORE tokens through C2C, staking them all on-chain as locked tokens, turning them into chips.
I set a rule for myself: from now on, every month when I get paid, I will consistently invest 800 dollars in CORE.
Most coworkers and strangers online don’t understand and mock me relentlessly. The market keeps bottoming out, the coin’s trend is weak, many have already exited, and they laugh at me for foolishly adding positions, saying I’m just catching a falling knife and wasting my effort.
Only I understand my situation. I hold 200,000 CORE tokens bought at a high price early on, deeply trapped, numb to the floating losses. Since I’m already stuck, I might as well not cut losses and give up. Instead of crying and selling my hard-earned tokens at a loss, I prefer to dollar-cost average monthly to reduce my cost basis, slowly accumulate, patiently wait for a market cycle reversal, and gamble on an ordinary person’s chance to turn things around.
Sometimes I feel wronged.
I’m simply sharing my holdings and honest thoughts, but the comment section is full of doubts, accusing me of brainwashing and luring others to enter the market. But I myself am a victim standing guard at a high price, anxious and sleepless, bearing huge floating losses. I have never encouraged anyone to chase highs, only recorded my persistence, yet I receive cold sarcasm, which is disheartening.
Many people dismiss CORE outright without spending time to understand its underlying narrative. As a key infrastructure in the BTCFi sector, it inherits Bitcoin’s security system while being compatible with EVM. SatPay is about to launch, the buyback and burn mechanism is ongoing, and institutions and whales are quietly accumulating tokens at low prices. The current long-term sideways consolidation feels more like a brutal shakeout, washing out weak floating tokens to prepare for the next rally.
I have no background, no shortcuts, just daily labor in the workshop, with thick calluses on my hands from hard work. CORE is almost the only chance I have to make a big move.
Others advise me to cut losses and leave, online sentiment keeps bearish, all hoping I’ll give up my low-price tokens. But I know that once I cut losses, all past losses, persistence, and monthly invested hard-earned money will truly be gone.
I don’t chase short-term fluctuations, blocking out noisy external voices.
It’s already tough for ordinary people to break through; since I’m in the game, I choose to fight to the end.
Low-price dollar-cost averaging, locked staking, quietly building strength, patiently waiting for the bloom.
I’m betting once, hoping that all the night shifts endured and sweat shed will one day pay off with principal and interest, completely breaking free from the assembly line cycle.
⚠️ Risk reminder: This is only a personal experience sharing and does not constitute investment advice
$CORE #BTCFi 📊 $KAITO Contract Liquidation Express (August 21)
After a nuclear explosion start by the bulls, momentum sharply collapsed, with 24-hour liquidations exceeding $260,000. The direction is clear but the strength has significantly narrowed...
Time Total Liquidations Long Liquidations Short Liquidations
1 hour $16,200 $16,000 $225.78
4 hours $57,300 $57,100 $262.49
12 hours $148,800 $88,900 $59,900
24 hours $262,600 $168,600 $94,100
From the KAITO liquidation data: in 1 hour, bulls monopolized the market, with long liquidations 70.9 times that of shorts, amounting to $16,000. Bulls tentatively controlled the market with nuclear explosion intensity; in 4 hours, the bull multiple further soared, long liquidations crushed shorts with a ratio soaring to 217.5 times ($57,100 vs. $262.49), liquidation volume jumped to $57,100, bulls took over the game with an extreme posture; in 12 hours, bull momentum collapsed, long liquidations were only 1.48 times shorts, volume rose to $88,900. Although bulls still dominated, the ratio sharply dropped, approaching balance between longs and shorts; in 24 hours, bull momentum slightly rebounded, long liquidations at $168,600 vs. shorts at $94,100, bulls retained only a 1.79 times advantage, with total liquidations exceeding $260,000. The 12-hour liquidations accounted for 56.6% of the 24-hour total, indicating a moderately high concentration, mainly concentrated in the first 12 hours. The bull dominance ratio surged from 70.9 times at 1 hour to an extreme 217.5 times at 4 hours, then collapsed to 1.48 times at 12 hours, and slightly rose to 1.79 times at 24 hours. Bull momentum followed an "inverted V-shaped reversal" trajectory—after a nuclear explosion start, it completely collapsed. Long and short forces returned from extreme tilt to near balance within 24 hours, signaling the squeeze rally is nearing its end. Leverage is recommended to be compressed to within 3x; although the direction still favors bulls, the strength has severely weakened, avoid blindly chasing longs.
🔥 Market Indicator | August 21
Three hot topics today point to the same theme: liquidity valve loosening, policy signal divergence, and consumer IP iteration—three forces resonating on the same trading day.
₿ BTC Breaks $72,000: Record Short Squeeze, but "Fake Breakout" Controversy Remains
On August 20, Bitcoin continued its rally, breaking $72,000, reaching an intraday high of $72,830, the highest since June. In the past 24 hours, approximately $2.75 billion in short positions across the crypto market were liquidated, with Bitcoin accounting for about $1.7 billion—this is the largest full-market short squeeze recorded by CoinGlass since 2021. Total network liquidations reached $3.34 billion, with shorts accounting for $3 billion.
However, there is intense debate over the sustainability of the rally. Peter Schiff, a long-time Bitcoin critic, called it a "fake breakout," attributing it to a one-time operation by the U.S. Treasury doubling long-term bond repurchases. Bulls argue that demand in spot and perpetual futures markets simultaneously turned positive for the first time since the historical peak in October 2025—if this can be maintained for another month, it would justify the start of a new bull market. Spot ETFs attracted over $1 billion inflows from Monday to Wednesday, completely reversing last week's nearly $390 million outflows. Short covering accelerated the breakout, but whether Bitcoin can hold above $70,000 increasingly depends on the sustainability of spot and ETF demand.
🏛️ Fed July Minutes: Hawkish Votes Outnumbered, Market Prices in the Opposite
The Fed's July meeting minutes released on August 19 showed the FOMC voted 9-3 to keep rates unchanged at 3.50%-3.75%. However, the hawkish forces far exceeded the three official dissenters—the minutes revealed several participants supported a 25 basis point hike at this meeting; many believed further tightening might be necessary if inflation does not decline.
Yet, the market is pricing in a rate cut. After the minutes, the market assigned an 81.2% probability of a 25 basis point Fed cut in September. The minutes did not mention any support for rate cuts—the more hawkish the minutes, the more dovish the market, because the market prices not "who voted no," but the fact that the economy is slowing.
🎨 Pop Mart Half-Year Report: LABUBU Slows, Star People Surges 580% to Take Over
On August 20, Pop Mart released its 2026 half-year report: revenue of 17.17 billion yuan, up 23.8% year-on-year; adjusted net profit of 5.16 billion yuan. Revenue in China surged 47.3% year-on-year to 12.2 billion yuan.
The IP landscape is undergoing drastic restructuring. THE MONSTERS series, featuring LABUBU, generated 4.45 billion yuan, still the top, but down 7.5% year-on-year, with revenue share dropping from 34.7% to 26%. The new IP "Star People" generated 2.65 billion yuan, surging 580.6% year-on-year, becoming the second largest IP. LABUBU slows down, Star People takes over—Pop Mart's IP lifecycle management is facing its toughest test. Plush product line has become the largest growth engine, with revenue up 60% year-on-year to 9.82 billion yuan, accounting for 57.2% of total revenue. The board announced a share repurchase plan of 2 to 5 billion yuan.
💎 Summary
Three events paint the same picture: Bitcoin broke $72,000 with a record $2.75 billion short squeeze, but the "fake breakout" controversy remains—the key is whether spot buying can continue; KAITO contract market bull dominance ratio crashed from an extreme 217.5 times to 1.79 times, squeeze momentum collapsed sharply, total liquidations exceeded $260,000, long and short forces returned from extreme tilt to near balance within 24 hours; the more hawkish the Fed minutes, the more dovish the market, as economic slowdown signals outweigh inflation concerns; Pop Mart's LABUBU slows while Star People surges 580%, the IP landscape is undergoing a brutal old-to-new transition. When liquidity, policy, and consumption forces resonate simultaneously—the market is aggressively repricing the second half of 2026. #BTC突破72000美元，本轮上涨能否延续？
#美联储7月FOMC纪要9比3，官员加息分歧仍在
#财报观察员：泡泡玛特增长换挡，多IP能否接力？ 8.21 Gold Morning Review
Overnight gold tested the bottom and stabilized, closing with a high-level oscillation pattern, currently quoted around 4521.
From the cycle structure perspective, the 4-hour moving averages maintain a strong bullish arrangement, with the price holding steady within the recent upward range. The major bullish trend structure remains intact; after a round of rise in the 1-hour cycle, it entered a sideways consolidation. The MACD indicator lines are gradually converging, with bullish and bearish momentum temporarily balanced. There is no clear short-term direction, so focus on range breakout choices during the day.
Resistance levels: 4540-4545
Support levels: 4500, 4485
Trading strategy
Prioritize buying on dips; if the price stabilizes after pulling back to 4500-4485, consider long positions targeting 4535-4545. A breakout could lead to new highs.
Note: Silk Road is for reference only, market conditions may change at any time, please manage risk carefully $XAU For every $1 fee Hyperliquid charges, about 70 cents are directly converted into protocol revenue; while Uniswap, the leading fee provider in the sector, has only about 7%. Here are the top ten DEXs ranked by "fee-to-income conversion rate" (data source: DefiLlama, real-time data as of August 2026): - $DYDX: 100% ($327,000 → $327,000) - $AERO: 75% ($4.59 million → $3.45 million) - $HYPE: 70% ($43.13 million → $30.07 million) - $GMX: 37% ($3.12 million → $1.15 million) - $CAKE: 34% ($24.79 million → $8.41 million) - $CRV: 33% ($2.66 million → $875,000) - $JUP: 24% ($58.11 million → $13.93 million) - $RAY: 16% ($5.69 million → $887,000) - $MET: 14% ($11.11 million → $1.51 million) - $UNI: 7% ($81.2 million → $5.75 million) This ranking reveals a often overlooked differentiation in the DEX sector: Uniswap still leads by a wide margin in absolute fee scale, but its conversion rate is the weakest among the top ten. Most of the fees paid by users flow to liquidity providers, while the protocol itself is retainedThe phrase "wallet got hacked" is almost always inaccurate; the wallet app itself is rarely the target of an attack. There are actually four scenarios:
1. Key leakage. The mnemonic phrase is screenshotted, stored in the cloud, entered into a phishing page, or the device is infected with a trojan. Characteristic: all assets on all chains are emptied at once.
2. Authorization abuse. Your key hasn't leaked; you yourself signed a transaction giving a contract unlimited allowance. Characteristic: only that specific token disappears, the rest remain intact, and it often happens weeks later.
3. Using a fake client. Fake official website or counterfeit app. A sign to identify this: the app suddenly restarts by itself and asks you to enter your mnemonic phrase—that's fake.
4. The key generation itself is flawed. You did nothing wrong, but the seed can be derived from the start. Even cold storage, never connected to the internet, can be emptied.
Only in scenarios one and three is the key actually taken. In the second, the key is still safely in your hands; in the fourth, the key was never really secret.
Distinguishing these has practical significance: if you mistakenly revoke authorization, switching wallets is useless—you must revoke on-chain; if the generation is flawed, switching devices is useless—you must change the seed. Misjudging leads to wasted remedies.
Which one have you encountered?
#walletsecurity #privatekey #authorization #mnemonicphrase 宏观与市场： • 财政部托底之后，市场开始验证效果 美国财政部扩大长期国债回购规模后，BTC两天内突破7万美元，风险资产整体回暖。市场交易的核心逻辑仍然是：财政部开始干预长端利率，金融条件边际改善。特朗普推动Clarity Act以及白宫Crypto会议则进一步强化了风险偏好。BTC一度冲上7.1万—7.3万美元区间。但需要注意的是，昨晚30年期美债收益率重新回升至5.25%附近，说明债券市场并没有完全相信财政部的方案。部分机构已经开始质疑，扩大回购是否真的能够压制长期利率。 • 美联储纪要没有市场想象中鸽派 最新FOMC纪要显示，部分官员依然担心通胀风险，甚至存在支持进一步加息的声音。换句话说，目前市场获得的是财政部托底，而不是美联储正式转向宽松。因此今天最重要的问题只有一个：BTC站上7万后，现货资金是否继续接力。 • 昨天上涨很强，但仍然存在明显的空头逼空成分 昨日加密市场出现了自2021年以来罕见的大规模空头清算，市场统计显示被清算的空头规模达到约30亿美元。所以昨天的上涨不能简单理解成“机构全面回归”。需要观察的是，空头被迫买回之后，现货资金是否愿意继续在7万美元上方承接。The latest July Federal Reserve FOMC minutes have been released. The voting result was 9 votes in favor of keeping the current interest rate unchanged, while three members—Logan, Harker, and Kashkari—voted against, all proposing a 25 basis point hike.
The minutes reveal that most attending officials agree on pausing rate hikes, but several members expressed a tendency toward tightening. If subsequent inflation indicators fail to continue their downward trend, the Federal Reserve does not rule out further monetary policy tightening.
This is also the most internally divided minutes since 2026, with the number of dissenting votes reaching a new high in recent years. After this meeting, the CPI and employment-related data released have generally been weak. As a result, market expectations for a rate hike in September have dropped from over 70% to around 36%; the probability of maintaining the current rate has risen to 67%, with some discrepancies in pricing data from different market instruments.
Another noteworthy new signal in these minutes is the official emphasis on AI infrastructure financing, AI sector stock valuations, and financial risks arising from U.S. Treasury market volatility—expressions rarely seen in past meeting records.
Looking at the $BTC market: the tone of the minutes is hawkish, but the subsequent economic data released sent dovish signals, and the market clearly prefers to trust the direction indicated by the data. Bitcoin surged above $72,000, a direct response to improved liquidity expectations.
Actually, the disagreement among officials is not the main point; the real core is to see which direction the market ultimately chooses to price in. I've said enough; the rest is for everyone to ponder.
#美联储7月FOMC纪要9比3，官员加息分歧仍在
$BTC $ETH $SNDK What’s on the White House desk isn’t policy, but a midgame chess score; Trump just pushed a visible pawn, but the real killer move is hidden in his yet-to-be-played right wing.
When he said "substantial amount," the vague tone in his mouth was like a grandmaster deliberately reserving a variation after the opening. Purchase size, timetable, formal authorization—none of these three were given. It’s not that the government forgot to write them down; they are waiting for the opponent to reveal their formation first. Chess theory says that pulling the queen out to the front line too early will get you killed on the longest diagonal; only by placing the CLARITY Act on the congressional chessboard does this long diagonal truly connect the king’s wing. And the so-called prediction markets and emerging technologies are just backup clocks on the side of the board: they don’t directly participate in this game but change how the players judge the timing.
BTC piercing 69,000 roughly equals a rook finally occupying an open file in the midgame. The five-month downtrend line is trampled underfoot, sounding like a "check," but it’s only the beginning of spatial advantage. ETH rising in sync is just bishops on the same color squares forming a firepower line—important, but far from a checkmate structure. True players don’t cheer at this moment; they shift their gaze to the yet unopened squares on the rear wing.
What is the real move order? First, push the "strategic reserve" pawn two squares, then play a seemingly bland move with "stablecoin legislation," and finally enclose the rear wing with a "central bank digital currency ban"—these three moves together form a sacrifice setup: you can’t see who pays the price now, but after these three steps, you’ll see the opponent’s king has no escape. Policy signals are never news; the news is the quietly advanced variation line behind the signal.
Players all understand: the most costly thing isn’t the sacrifice, but the ambiguous threat. Trump left "substantial amount" hanging in midair like a bishop suspended awkwardly in the opponent’s half. Bears fixate on this hanging piece and must constantly reinforce their pawn structure; bulls treat it as the initiative, preemptively mobilizing their peripheral forces. The game hasn’t reached the endgame, but the clocks have already tilted because of this one phrase—not the time numbers changing, but the rhythm being controlled by him.
However, the White House summit was just a "finger tap on the table" before the match, not a move. No size, no deadline, no authorization—this means the situation remains in the commentator’s calculation grid: if Congress doesn’t confirm on the CLARITY main variation, then the so-called strategic reserve is ultimately a soft move. A soft move doesn’t lose the game immediately but exposes tiny cracks in the previous setup; masters are the species that dig out victory inch by inch along these cracks.
I’m not looking at this move. I’m looking at the endgame twenty years from now: once the government becomes a giant elephant, who can still trade pieces with it on the open file? #trumpeyesmorebtc $ETH ⚠️This article is only a market information review and does not serve as any trading guidance. Cryptocurrency assets are highly volatile, and leveraged trading can amplify losses, so strict risk control is essential. After a rapid surge, Ethereum has completely broken free from the sideways consolidation range that lasted for weeks. The short-term rally is not driven by a single positive factor gradually pushing prices up, but rather a confluence of macro expectations, spot buying, and derivatives short covering that together fuel the market movement. Let's first outline the underlying drivers of this rally. Liquidity expectations are the foundation for the market's initiation. News of overseas expansion in long-term bond repurchase programs was interpreted by the market as a sign of potential future liquidity easing. The US dollar index weakened, and risk assets collectively rebounded, with ETH strengthening in tandem with gold and Bitcoin. After the market started moving, the derivatives market experienced a large-scale short squeeze, with many short positions triggering forced liquidations consecutively. Passive buying further accelerated price increases, amplifying the single-day gains. Institutional funds have shown a clear wavering attitude. Spot ETFs sometimes see large net inflows, and at other times face capital outflows, without a sustained uninterrupted inflow trend. Leading asset management institutions are still pushing for ETF applications to increase staking yields. Once approved, this will enhance institutional appeal for Ethereum allocation, but there remain many uncertainties on the regulatory front, and approval timelines could be delayed at any time. On-chain staking volume remains high, with a large amount of tokens locked in staking contracts, and exchange circulating supply continues to shrink. The tightening of circulating supply supports price increases during upward phases, but if the market collectively sells off, insufficient liquidity will amplify the impact.Steel piled on the dock has rusted, the scaffolding hasn't been dismantled yet, but the "financial pillar" on the blueprint has quietly had its load-bearing specifications changed. On August 19, the U.S. Treasury raised the liquidity repo cap on 10- to 30-year Treasury bonds from $2 billion to $4 billion, like temporarily reinforcing a sinking tower with a steel hoop — it looks stable on the surface, with the 30-year yield sliding from 5.29% to 5.18%, but that doesn't mean the foundation has hardened; it's just that you've stepped twice more on the pouring layer.
Don't fool yourself into thinking this is a rate cut or quantitative easing. Repo is about clearing the pipeline, not changing the water pressure. Have you ever seen an architect replace a concrete strength report with a plumbing repair order in structural calculations? The "repo scaffolding" in the Treasury market only addresses the current wobble; what truly determines whether the tower can be topped off are the three piles in the foundation: deficit size, new debt supply, and inflation expectations. No one dares to change the load-bearing reports of these three piles—they're still buried at the bottom of the drawer.
The current yield decline is just the exterior paint shining briefly in the sunset. When the October construction season begins, the tower crane for new debt issuance will lift heavy steel again, and yields will rise again at that point. What suppresses stocks, gold, and Bitcoin is not a day's volatility but the long-term settlement curve of the entire financial building—that's structural, and no temporary reinforcement can change its slope.
As for XAVGO, this kind of token asset is more like a concept building with a highly refined blueprint. The renderings are full of glass curtain walls, sky gardens, and parametric facades, but what you need to ask is how deep the foundation piles are driven, how many waterproof layers the basement has, and whether it has passed wind tunnel tests. In the current market environment, it has bounced a few centimeters along with the temporary scaffolding of Treasury yields, but this is not structural safety; it's just that when the wind blows across the floor, all hanging objects will sway.
Don't mistake scaffolding for load-bearing walls, don't mistake temporary pumping for structural topping out. I'm staring at the blueprint marked "construction node until 2026," the concrete is still curing, and anyone who now beats their chest claiming the load-bearing capacity is sufficient is substituting renderings for structural calculations. #treasuryupsbuybacksThe spot price of the memory sector has corrected, showing a deep divergence from ETF capital flows, with derivatives leverage and spot support intertwined. The core market contradiction lies in whether the downward price can complete liquidity clearing under strong capital support.
$DRAM spot prices have corrected by 28% over the past two months, pushing short-term chips into the liquidation range. However, the ETF's AUM has counter-trended, growing 20% to reach $28 billion, absorbing $12 billion in net inflows over 8 consecutive weeks, changing the previous market judgment of liquidity exhaustion in the downtrend.
Liquidity injection from derivatives and leverage tools has become the primary driving force in the current market. The 2x long tool $RAM has attracted a cumulative net inflow of $893 million since its launch on June 24, with continuous high-leverage capital entry suppressing the destructive power of spot selling pressure on prices.
In the bullish scenario, if spot buying continues to absorb selling pressure and $RAM leverage capital does not experience large-scale redemptions, capital stacking will push prices higher. This scenario requires monitoring whether $DRAM can maintain a weekly net inflow level of $1.5 billion; a failure signal would be a rapid withdrawal of $RAM liquidity causing a break in the leverage chain.
In the bearish scenario, if end-user recovery falls short of expectations or overall market liquidity contracts, high-leverage bottom-fishing capital will face a risk of long squeeze. The trigger condition for this scenario is a concentrated stampede of the $893 million cumulative inflow in $RAM, with the ETF discount/premium indicator as a variable to watch. The failure signal is spot prices stabilizing accompanied by accelerated $DRAM capital inflows.
The overall failure signal of this projection lies in a trend decline in $DRAM's $28 billion AUM scale. As long as the $12 billion level of sedimented capital does not withdraw, downward prices will find it difficult to break through the liquidity defense line formed by capital bottoming.
The key variables to observe in the next 7 days are whether the net inflow trend of $RAM capital slows down and whether the weekly data of continuous net inflows in $DRAM is interrupted.
#海力士40万亿回购，扩产与回报如何平衡 #银行业支持CLARITY，稳定币奖励成争议 Ethereum's Comeback Journey: 4 Lessons for Ordinary People
⚠️Content is only a historical review of the sector and does not constitute any investment advice
Many only know that ETH is the second largest by market cap, but few realize it has faced multiple near-collapse moments. From a whitepaper written by a teenager, it has stumbled and grown into the foundational base of the entire Web3. Understanding its ups and downs is more important than simply betting on price movements.
1. Germination: An Undervalued Experimental Project
In 2013, 19-year-old Vitalik wrote the Ethereum whitepaper, proposing the concept of a world computer: Bitcoin could only transfer value, while Ethereum could run smart contracts, enabling blockchain to support various applications.
In 2014, a crowdfunding campaign exchanged Bitcoin for ETH. Most of the Bitcoin community was skeptical, thinking the new project was too abstract and overly ambitious.
In July 2015, the mainnet launched with very few early developers. It was just a niche technical experiment without large-scale applications, prices were low, and few recognized its future potential.
2. Life-or-Death Crisis: Hacker Theft in the First Year Nearly Ended It
In 2016, the major security incident with The DAO occurred, where hackers exploited contract vulnerabilities to steal 3.6 million ETH, worth tens of millions of dollars at the time.
The market panicked, and the coin price was halved. The community erupted in debate: since blockchain pursues immutability, should there be a hard fork to roll back transactions and recover losses?
After debate, the vast majority chose a hard fork to retrieve the stolen assets, which also led to the split creating Ethereum Classic (ETC).
This was Ethereum's darkest hour, with widespread skepticism and many declaring the project dead, but the community survived the governance crisis and lived on.
3. First Boom: ICO Bubble, Instant Fame (2017)
The ERC-20 token standard was born, and countless new projects issued tokens on Ethereum. The ICO wave swept the entire crypto market.
ETH surged from single digits, firmly establishing itself as the second largest cryptocurrency.
But the bubble burst quickly. The 2018 bear market arrived, many ICO projects went to zero, ETH plummeted 90% from its peak, network congestion and high gas fees were magnified, and criticism flooded back.
4. Bear Market Consolidation: Bubble Fades, Real Ecosystem Growth (2018-2020)
With the bull market bubble gone and speculative funds leaving, developers stayed to focus on building.
DeFi began to sprout, with lending and decentralized exchanges launching; NFT standards took shape.
Though outsiders still complained about Ethereum's slowness and high fees, the underlying infrastructure quietly iterated, preparing for the next big market cycle.
5. Two Major Narratives Ignite, Leading to Historic Highlights (2020-2021)
1. DeFi Summer: lending, swaps, and liquidity mining exploded, with massive capital flowing on-chain;
2. NFT wave: CryptoKitties and profile picture NFTs went viral, bringing Ethereum into the public eye.
EIP-1559 launched, implementing a fee burn mechanism, giving ETH deflationary properties, and the price hit an all-time high of $4,878.
6. Epic Upgrade: The Merge, Completing the Shift from Mining to Staking (2022)
After years of work, The Merge was completed, fully ending GPU mining and switching to PoS staking consensus, reducing energy consumption by 99%, sharply cutting ETH issuance, and solidifying the deflation narrative.
The upgrade process was not smooth, with multiple delays and strong miner opposition, but it was implemented under great pressure. Subsequent Cancun upgrades pushed Layer 2 scaling solutions, addressing the long-standing high fee issue.
7. Review: Ethereum's Comeback and Lessons for Ordinary People
1. No one is invincible; even great projects face multiple near-death experiences. ETH endured hacker attacks, bear market crashes, and upgrade delays, not rising steadily but surviving crisis after crisis.
2. True value comes from the ecosystem, not mere hype. Its strength lies in DeFi, NFT, stablecoins, Layer 2, and thousands of developers continuously building together, not a single concept.
3. Bull markets are results, not starting points. The surges in 2017 and 2021 came from years of technical consolidation during bear markets. Many only see the later glory and overlook the long, unnoticed early struggles.
4. Technical roadmaps are never smooth; upgrades will be delayed and controversial. Focus on long-term implementation results, don’t be scared off by short-term negatives or blindly swayed by hype.
ETH’s current status did not come out of nowhere. It shows us: sector narratives matter, but the underlying logic of long-term comeback is surviving crises, continuous iteration, and ecosystem growth.
$ETH #Ethereum #Web3 Bitcoin surged 15% in four days, and Ethereum was even more aggressive, shooting up 22%. Damn, the group chat went wild again, shouting loudly about a bull market comeback.
Technically, there's really no room for criticism; the daily MA200, RSI, and MACD all look good. The macro environment is strangely favorable too: inflation is down, ISM is up, and the Russell 2000 hit new highs. Short-term bullish, I agree.
But I just feel something's off.
In July and August 2022, it was exactly the same. A 40% rally with everyone shouting bull market, but then in November it dropped 22% in one week. The FTX crash was an excuse, but even before that, the confirmed reversal in Q4 was brutal and unchanged. In this space, when everyone is collectively bullish, it's often when the knives are being sharpened.
Right now, I only hold a position in $OKB. It's not that I don't like $BTC, but I'm afraid of being spun around by a fake breakout. 67K (the top of the August sideways box, now considered a retest level) is the key: if it holds above, this rally can keep going with the music and dance; if it breaks, no excuses, it's a false signal, and you need to run faster than anyone else.
The four-year cycle thing, Bitcoin has never broken it. Conclusion? Cautiously bullish. I also want it to fly straight to 1 million, but after several bull and bear cycles, impulsiveness basically equals suicide.
I'm lightly holding for now, waiting for stability before adding more. If you want to rush in, remember the 67K hurdle—if it breaks, don't be stubborn, don't say I didn't warn you.
(PS: The above is all my personal speculation and does not constitute investment advice)
#BTC突破72000美元，本轮上涨能否延续？ #ETH强势拉升，空头清算超11亿美元 #美联储7月FOMC纪要9比3，官员加息分歧仍在 #BTC突破72000美元，本轮上涨能否延续？ This round of BTC, ETH, SOL collectively forced a violent short squeeze, with mainstream coins rising in turn and altcoins broadly increasing.
But $CORE, which focuses on the BTCFi Bitcoin ecosystem narrative, completely missed the rally and seriously lagged behind.
Clearly the sector that benefits most from the Bitcoin bull market, why doesn't it rise when the market comes?
It's not that the market hasn't arrived, but the chip distribution, model, ecosystem, competition, and capital logic are all constrained.
1. Extremely poor chip structure: trapped positions + continuous inflation, unable to rise and afraid to rise
The biggest fatal flaw of CORE is that selling pressure is always greater than buying pressure.
- Total supply 2.1 billion, currently only 60% circulating, the remaining shares continuously mined, team linear unlocking, inflation constantly outputting new chips.
- Historical high of 6.47 USD, down over 99%, with a massive amount of heavily trapped positions piled up above. Any slight rebound triggers mass unlocking and dumping, every rally is crushed back to the original state.
- Small market cap and low liquidity, large funds dare not enter: if they get in, they can't get out. Institutions and quant funds basically avoid it, no incremental funds to support.
2. Top-tier narrative, but on-chain data completely lags behind
CORE's story is very perfect: Bitcoin Layer 2, BTC staking, lending, liquid staking, SatPay payments, solid BTCFi underlying infrastructure.
But the market now doesn't speculate on expectations, only on actual implementation:
- On-chain native TVL is weak, most assets are cross-chain migrations, no real ecological sedimentation.
- Lacks phenomenally popular applications, user base, retention, and activity are all weak.
- Protocol buybacks just starting, volume too small, cannot offset unlocking selling pressure at all.
In short: the story is fully told, data hasn't caught up, sentiment is overextended, value vacuum.
3. Intense competition within the BTCFi sector, CORE is no longer the only choice
After BTC became the absolute main line this round, the sector is fully competitive.
Stacks, Babylon, Rootstock all divert funds:
- Stacks: native BTC staking, direct BTC rewards, highest recognition in the native Bitcoin community.
- Babylon: focuses on Bitcoin Restaking narrative, very strong capital preference.
- CORE's dual staking mechanism requires locking tokens to earn yields, less attractive to retail and native BTC users compared to competitors.
Sector dividends are divided, funds no longer cluster solely around CORE.
4. Bull market is not universal rise, but extreme siphoning
This rally is driven by policy + ETF + short liquidation forced short squeeze.
Incremental funds in the market are limited, prioritizing BTC, ETH, SOL with high consensus, high liquidity, and strongest certainty.
Coins with small narratives, weak ecosystems, and poor chips are directly drained by the market.
Bull markets also have an 80/20 split: the strong get stronger, the weak continue sideways.
When will CORE have a turnaround rally?
Only waiting for three signals, all indispensable:
1. Overall rotation and inflow in the BTCFi sector, collective sector activation;
2. Real explosive growth in TVL, protocol revenue, user data, buyback strength sufficient to offset selling pressure;
3. Fully digesting high-level trapped positions, unlocking selling pressure slows down.
Risk reminder
Sector logic is fine, but token model, chip structure, and ecosystem shortcomings are hard flaws.
Missing out in a bull market and underperforming the market is normal, do not heavily bet solely on narrative, wait for dual confirmation of data and capital before looking for opportunities.
$CORE $BTC $ETH#财报观察员：泡泡玛特增长换挡，多IP能否接力？
The earnings season continues to bring highlights. Recently, Xiaomi's full ecosystem performance for people, cars, and homes just concluded, and now POPMART's half-year report has officially been released. Next week, the market will await Nvidia's results to see if the AI sector can continue to burn money for expansion.
At first glance, POPMART's half-year report data looks decent, but a closer breakdown makes it hard to confidently take a bullish stance.
In the first half of the year, total revenue was ¥17.17 billion, up 23.8% year-on-year, but net profit attributable to the parent company only grew by 10.1%. Revenue is still pushing forward, but profitability is clearly lagging behind. Evaluating this company requires more than just focusing on blind box sales volume; profit margin levels, inventory turnover efficiency, and overseas market expansion effectiveness all need to be considered.
The IP landscape is undergoing a clear shift. The once extremely popular LABUBU has cooled off, while Star People has surged nearly sixfold year-on-year.
On the positive side, the company has not placed all its bets on a single hit product; six IPs have already surpassed ¥1 billion in revenue, proving the internal IP incubation system has solid capabilities. However, risks are also prominent, as revenue from the Asia-Pacific and Americas overseas segments has declined, and current growth is almost solely supported by the domestic market.
Star People taking over the traffic baton does not mean it can replicate the LABUBU miracle, nor will overseas business naturally return to a high-growth trajectory. $POPMART Political statements combined with the CFTC roadmap have raised compliance expectations for $HYPE, but the trading focus is shifting from risk appetite-driven to position battles based on the implementation of detailed rules.
Currently, the market has undergone continuous stimulation from political statements and regulatory roadmaps, and is re-evaluating the compliance space for on-chain derivatives protocols.
In terms of driving factors, the effectiveness of specific regulatory implementation clauses outweighs earlier political attention, while the short-term release of risk appetite depends on the speed of digesting high-leverage positions.
From the event risk transmission mechanism perspective, the CFTC's plan to study including unregistered exchanges under regulation and allowing compliant leveraged trading has increased market risk appetite in the short term; however, if the detailed rules lack progress, the high-level accumulated leveraged positions are prone to liquidation and drawdowns amid liquidity changes.
Upside scenario: If the CFTC further issues specific registration processes and margin trading rules for on-chain protocols and unregistered exchanges, the realization of compliance expectations will attract medium- to long-term capital to build positions, driving sustained risk appetite growth. The trigger for this scenario is the announcement of specific compliance details, and the invalidation signal is policy stagnation causing profit-taking exits.
Downside scenario: If regulators only maintain framework research without substantive clauses, the previously policy-driven high positions will face compression, and risk appetite will quickly cool down. The trigger for this scenario is no new rules implemented during the regulatory window, and the invalidation signal is an unexpected breakthrough in compliance pilot programs.
When compliance costs are too high or regulatory authority divisions conflict, the market's pricing logic for compliance premiums will become invalid.
The most important observation variable in the next 7 days is whether the CFTC will release specific registration and margin rules for unregistered exchanges and on-chain protocols.
#迈威尔获Google芯片协议，财报前AI订单受关注 #宇树科技科创板首日开盘暴涨629%，高估值如何兑现？ #成品油价差破百，能源通胀会否回升In the past 24 hours, about $366 million worth of ETH short positions were liquidated.
This big bullish candle on ETH was driven both by capital inflow and obvious short squeezes. It's best to wait for the forced liquidation buying pressure to subside before building a position, and observe whether the spot market continues to support, rather than just looking at the one-day price increase. The market in the past two days superficially shows altcoins and DOGE both rising, but the core is still Bitcoin.
When BTC moves, the market's risk appetite returns. It's not just a simple rise in one candlestick; it's signaling to capital: mainstream assets have buyers, and shorts are starting to cover. So capital spills over from BTC to ETH, then spreads to more elastic coins, and DOGE naturally becomes the most sentiment-sensitive group.
DOGE has risen well this round, but I don't think it suddenly has a much stronger fundamental basis. It's more that the market has entered a phase willing to pay for high volatility, high sentiment, and high propagation. BTC stabilizes, and DOGE has room to perform; once BTC weakens, DOGE usually falls faster than the broader market.
So don't view DOGE's rise alone as a new cycle signal. It's more like a mirror of sentiment: when everyone starts chasing DOGE, it means the market is no longer satisfied with earning certainty but is seeking higher odds.
The market can be optimistic, but don't get carried away with the pace. What really matters to watch is whether Bitcoin can hold steady and whether capital continues to flow from BTC to a broader range of altcoins $BTC $DOGE
(This is only a personal market analysis and does not constitute investment advice)🚨 REMINDER: Prior $BTC cycles bottomed 364–406 days after the cycle high.
We’re only around day 318, with Bitcoin still down far less than at previous cycle bottoms.
If the 4-year cycle continues to rhyme, history suggests the final bottom could still be 7–13 weeks away.
With retail now flipping bullish after this pump, one more major flush could still be incoming.
$BTC Yesterday Trump specifically mentioned HYPE, and today the CFTC Chairman has really started to pave the way.
CFTC Chairman Michael Selig recently announced the "New Frontier of Finance" roadmap, explicitly instructing staff to study: using existing authority to establish a new market structure for crypto assets, allowing existing institutions, and even currently unregistered crypto exchanges, the opportunity to be brought under CFTC regulation in the future, providing compliant leverage and margin trading.
What’s even more noteworthy is that the CFTC is preparing to communicate directly with on-chain finance protocol developers to study how these protocols can operate legally in the U.S.
I think this news is especially worth paying attention to for $HYPE.
The reason is simple: yesterday the market was trading on Trump’s statement that they are "studying how to make Hyperliquid legal and compliant in the U.S."; today it has progressed to the CFTC Chairman publicly giving regulatory implementation directions.
Put simply: yesterday was a political statement, today a regulatory implementation path is emerging.
Of course, this does not mean Hyperliquid has been approved to enter the U.S., nor does it guarantee that HYPE will continue to rise. But if the CFTC later announces specific registration, compliant trading, and on-chain protocol regulatory rules, HYPE’s narrative could shift from mere "policy hype" to genuine U.S. compliance expectations.
I’m not in a rush to chase daily price fluctuations now; the most important thing going forward is to watch whether the CFTC continues to provide specific rules.
$HYPE $BTC #$SPCX $ETH $SNDK have been holding for almost four months, and today I looked in the mirror and noticed another patch of hair missing. I'm not here to complain, but to clearly explain how this trade turned from a “buying the dip” into a “giving away money” situation, leaving a mark for myself.
First, $SPCX: The initial logic was simple—Elon Musk said rockets are great, space narrative + launch orders, so I thought a dip was just a pullback to buy more. But the daily chart formed a classic descending channel, with lower highs and lower lows all the way down. Every 4-hour rebound to the descending trendline + 20EMA got pushed down. The weekly chart looks more like a bearish continuation, with increasing trapped positions above, resistance near the previous high/neckline XX area. Unless it breaks through there, the bearish structure remains. Plus, with US Treasury yields repeatedly high, stocks relying on narratives to support valuation are the easiest to get valuation-killed.
$ETH: I was betting on rate cut expectations + upgrade rally, but the July FOMC minutes came out 9-3, showing officials still divided on rate hikes; the US Treasury expanded long-term bond repos, 30-year Treasury yields fell from highs, and risk assets got drained together. After ETH broke key moving averages on the daily, every rebound to previous low conversion points/midline XX met resistance. The 4-hour chart shows a weak consolidation structure; once support below breaks, leveraged positions are on liquidation countdown.
$SNDK: The storage price hike cycle isn’t over, but SanDisk is volatile at highs, valuation divergence intensifies. I chased the “breakout” after earnings, but it turned into a high-volume long upper shadow, daily bearish engulfing pattern, breaking previous highs then pulling back—according to the 2B rule, this is a false breakout/reversal signal. Resistance is right at the previous high’s huge volume candle area XX.
Bottom line, it’s not that I can’t read the structure, it’s that I don’t execute. I set stop losses but then cancel them, always thinking “just hold a bit longer and it’ll come back,” but days turn into weeks, weeks into months, almost four months. The first rule of trading: cut losses, let profits run. I did the exact opposite—held losses stubbornly, ran from profits at the slightest gain, even borrowed money and took loans to hold positions, with interest hurting more than losses.
Now my head hurts badly, I can’t sleep, and my hair is almost gone. It’s not that I don’t know my mistakes, it’s that I know but can’t fix them—that’s the most rookie mistake.
I’m not posting this to suggest anyone copy my trades, but to remind myself: if you can’t even hit your stop loss, don’t talk about having a plan. Don’t be like me. 📊 $HYPE Contract Liquidation Update (August 21)
Bears gradually dominate the market, nearly balanced at 12 hours, a second surge at 24 hours, with cumulative liquidations surpassing $8.37 million...
Time Total Liquidations Long Liquidations Short Liquidations
1 hour $332,300 $104,000 $321,900
4 hours $641,300 $229,000 $412,200
12 hours $2,584,200 $1,161,300 $1,422,900
24 hours $8,371,300 $2,354,000 $6,017,300
From the HYPE liquidation data: at 1 hour, bears crushed bulls with a ratio of 30.9 times, volume at $321,900, showing strong bear control; at 4 hours, bear momentum collapsed, bears were only 1.8 times the bulls, liquidation volume rose to $412,200, bear advantage sharply shrank, bulls and bears nearly balanced; at 12 hours, bear advantage almost disappeared, bears were only 1.2 times bulls, liquidation volume surged to $1,422,900, bulls and bears nearly tied; at 24 hours, bears surged again with $6,017,300 in liquidations versus bulls' $2,354,000, bears 2.6 times bulls, cumulative liquidations exceeded $8.37 million. The 12-hour liquidations accounted for only 30.9% of the 24-hour total, indicating low concentration—new liquidations in the last 12 hours reached $5,787,100, with bears regaining strength in the latter half of 24 hours to trigger a second surge. The bear crush ratio dropped from 30.9 times at 1 hour to 1.8 times at 4 hours, then 1.2 times at 12 hours, before rebounding to 2.6 times at 24 hours, forming a "V-shaped reversal" trajectory—bears regained power after nearly losing advantage, but the second surge was much weaker than the initial peak. Leverage is recommended to be compressed to within 3x; although the direction returns to bearish, the strength is limited, so avoid blindly shorting.
🔥 Market Barometer | August 21
Today's three hot topics point to the same theme: liquidity valve loosening, policy signal divergence, and consumer IP iteration—three forces resonating on the same trading day.
₿ BTC Breaks $72,000: Record Bear Squeeze, but "Fake Breakout" Debate Persists
On August 20, Bitcoin continued its rally, breaking $72,000 with an intraday high of $72,830, the highest since June. In the past 24 hours, approximately $2.75 billion in short positions across the crypto market were liquidated, with Bitcoin accounting for about $1.7 billion—this is the largest full-market short squeeze recorded by CoinGlass since 2021. Total network liquidations reached $3.34 billion, with shorts accounting for $3 billion.
However, there is intense debate over the sustainability of the rally. Longtime Bitcoin critic Peter Schiff called it a "fake breakout," attributing it to a one-time operation by the U.S. Treasury doubling long-term bond repurchases. Bulls argue that demand in spot and perpetual futures markets turned positive simultaneously for the first time since the October 2025 historical peak—if maintained for another month, it would justify the start of a new bull market. Spot ETFs attracted over $1 billion inflows from Monday to Wednesday, completely reversing last week's nearly $390 million outflow. Short covering accelerated the breakout, but whether Bitcoin can hold above $70,000 increasingly depends on sustained spot and ETF demand.
🏛️ Fed July Minutes: Hawkish Votes Outnumber, Market Prices Opposite
The Fed's July meeting minutes released on August 19 showed the FOMC voted 9-3 to keep rates at 3.50%-3.75%. However, the number of officials supporting a rate hike far exceeded the three dissenters—the minutes revealed several participants favored a 25 basis point hike at this meeting; many believed further tightening might be necessary if inflation does not decline.
Yet, the market is pricing in a rate cut. After the minutes, the market assigned an 81.2% probability of a 25 basis point cut in September. The minutes mentioned no support for rate cuts—the more hawkish the minutes, the more dovish the market, because the market prices not "who dissented," but the fact that "the economy is slowing."
🎨 Pop Mart Half-Year Report: LABUBU Slows, Star People Surges 580% to Take Over
On August 20, Pop Mart released its 2026 half-year report: revenue of 17.17 billion yuan, up 23.8% year-on-year; adjusted net profit of 5.16 billion yuan. Revenue in China surged 47.3% year-on-year to 12.2 billion yuan.
The IP landscape is undergoing drastic restructuring. THE MONSTERS series, featuring LABUBU, generated 4.45 billion yuan, still the top, but down 7.5% year-on-year, with revenue share dropping from 34.7% to 26%. The new IP "Star People" earned 2.65 billion yuan, soaring 580.6% year-on-year, becoming the second largest IP. LABUBU slows down, Star People takes over—Pop Mart's IP lifecycle management is facing its toughest test. Plush product line has become the largest growth engine, with revenue up 60% year-on-year to 9.82 billion yuan, accounting for 57.2% of total revenue. The board announced a share repurchase plan of 2 to 5 billion yuan, the company's first such plan.
💎 Summary
Three events paint the same picture: Bitcoin broke $72,000 with a record $2.75 billion short squeeze, but the "fake breakout" debate remains—the key is whether spot buying can continue; HYPE contract market bear crush ratio dropped from 30.9 times to near parity at 1.2 times before rebounding to 2.6 times, completing a full V-shaped reversal, with cumulative liquidations exceeding $8.37 million, bears surged again but with less intensity than the peak; the more hawkish the Fed minutes, the more dovish the market, as economic slowdown signals outweigh inflation concerns; Pop Mart's LABUBU slows while Star People surges 580%, the IP landscape is undergoing a brutal old-to-new transition. When liquidity, policy, and consumption forces resonate simultaneously—the market is aggressively repricing the second half of 2026. #BTC突破72000美元，本轮上涨能否延续？
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