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Ethereum is not rushing to shorten block times; this restraint is more important than speeding up.
In the Hegotá candidate proposal ratings announced on September 7, the Quick Slots proposal to shorten Slot time only received a B grade, and the engineering team responsible for actual delivery even gave a lower evaluation. The controversy is not that people don't want faster confirmations, but that Slot time affects network propagation, validator responsiveness, MEV, client performance, and the timing assumptions of many applications. Changing one part to be faster requires recalibrating the entire system.
The upgrade thresholds listed by the Foundation are very clear: a complete specification, a prototype covering the specification, an in-depth assessment of downstream impacts, and confirmation that it will not hinder subsequent consensus restructuring. In other words, "pressing the button to speed up by a few seconds" is easy to understand, but proving that the entire network can still collaborate stably within a tighter time window is the difficult part.
The market often directly translates shorter block times into a positive for $ETH, but if acceleration causes weak network nodes to frequently fall behind or gives professional infrastructure a greater advantage, speed could come at the cost of decentralization.
I support faster ETH, but I also support it being a bit slower when evidence is insufficient. A public chain is not a phone benchmark; a failed upgrade affects the assets of the entire network. Being able to say "the conditions are not yet sufficient" for popular features is more responsible than prematurely pushing them into the mainnet just to look good on the roadmap. Central banks of the US, Japan, and Europe jointly "pump" liquidity! Japan 97% chance of rate hike, Europe has already acted, BTC support at 76000 and CPI verdict
Brothers, global central banks are starting to tighten simultaneously, and this time it's really serious.
Japan: Highly likely to raise rates next week, swap contracts show a 97% probability, interest rates to rise from 1.0% to 1.25%, hitting a 31-year high. Yen carry trades face forced liquidation.
Europe: Raised rates for the second time last night, deposit rates increased to 2.5%, openly stating "inflation will remain well above target for a long time." Middle East oil prices push inflation up, forcing Europe to act.
USA: PPI just released, overall high, core slightly low, mixed signals. But the market is directly betting on a rate hike in October; tonight's CPI is the real make-or-break moment.
My judgment: The three central banks are pumping liquidity together, and the biggest risk is the yen carry trade stampede. Once the carry trades worth hundreds of billions of dollars are liquidated, all risk assets will be hit. This already happened once in August 2024, with BTC dropping over 20% in a week, and this time the positions are even more crowded.
$BTC $ETH $SOL
Ergou only makes a few bucks a day delivering food, so he won't catch a falling knife at this position again. Before tomorrow night's CPI release, watch more and act less, wait for the trump card to come out before making moves.
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#BTC与黄金90日相关性升至+0.50 The total supply of 2.1 billion is just a cover-up! The biggest risk of CORE has never been over-issuance
Risk warning: This is only a market logic review and does not constitute investment advice
Veteran players in the crypto circle have a piercing comment: the manipulation style of CORE is almost identical to that of Radar Coin back in the day.
Many newcomers don’t understand this statement, only focusing on the flashy narratives like “2.1 billion total supply, Bitcoin hashrate endorsement, BTCFi leader,” thinking it’s a legitimate public chain and a long-term value asset. But those who have experienced early Ponzi schemes can immediately see: the real hidden danger of CORE is not in the technology, but in the entire operation, incentive, and token release logic, which is full of "tricks."
Many people think there is only one type of token risk: the project team printing unlimited tokens and breaking the total supply cap.
But the CORE 8.31 vulnerability taught the entire market the most expensive lesson: more terrifying than over-issuance is overdraft issuance.
The scariest part of this vulnerability is not that extra tokens were minted, but that node rewards meant to be slowly released over the next several decades were maliciously mined in bulk by malicious nodes ahead of schedule.
Simply put: the total salary hasn’t changed, but the money for the next several decades was cashed out all at once and dumped into the market.
This is invisible inflation, and it’s the core reason why veteran players associate it with Radar Coin.
Radar Coin’s biggest feature back then was: unlimited staking interest, continuous token release, relying on new funds to absorb old selling pressure, a hidden team, and grand narratives.
Today’s CORE almost replicates this set of tricks:
1. Top-tier narrative packaging, benchmarking Bitcoin’s scarcity to create faith;
2. High-intensity staking mining, users lock tokens long-term, seemingly locked but actually continuously producing new tokens;
3. Core team extremely secretive, very little public information;
4. Maintaining hype through community preaching and consensus brainwashing;
5. Major vulnerabilities in the underlying reward mechanism, making token release completely uncontrollable.
Of course, objectively speaking, CORE is not Radar Coin.
It is an open-source public chain, with transparent ledgers, no multi-level referral rewards, and listed on legitimate exchanges, fundamentally different from pure closed Ponzi schemes.
But! Just because it’s not a Ponzi scheme in form doesn’t mean it’s free of Ponzi risks.
The biggest confidence of a public chain lies in code security, transparent governance, and controllable mechanisms.
This CORE explosion has shattered the most fundamental trust in public chains:
Consensus layer can be breached, reward mechanisms can be overdrafted, node malicious behavior costs are extremely low, and official information disclosure is extremely vague.
The hard fork destroying 150 million tokens seems like a perfect fix to the vulnerability and maintaining the 2.1 billion total supply, but in reality, it only fixes the ledger data.
The real mess remains unresolved:
The vulnerability’s latent period is unknown, malicious nodes are not disclosed, the destination of prematurely released tokens is a mystery, and whether black market whales cashed out early is unknown.
Exchanges have already responded with actions: delisting on-chain earning tokens, tightening risk controls, and downgrading project ratings.
This is the most genuine market attitude.
Many retail investors still blindly believe in the “2.1 billion scarcity” but don’t understand a core logic:
The value of crypto assets lies not in total supply, but in whether the release schedule is controllable.
No matter how scarce the total supply is, if the mechanism allows arbitrary early dumping, it is infinite inflation.
Today’s CORE is stuck in a very awkward situation:
The on-paper consensus fix is complete, but market consensus is thoroughly damaged.
The biggest suppression for future market performance is not technological backwardness or weak ecology, but the fracture of trust.
After this overdraft issuance, large holders’ trust collapsed, institutional risk controls blacklisted it, and retail investor faith wavered.
Although the bull market is generally rising, tokens with historical scars, governance defects, and mechanism vulnerabilities will never outperform clean assets.
Finally, a word for all investors holding or following CORE:
Total supply can be fixed, code can be upgraded, but broken consensus requires years to rebuild.
This 8.31 vulnerability is destined to become CORE’s lifetime ceiling.$BTC is very likely to experience a weak oscillating market in September, with an overall trading range of 72000-82000. The market rhythm tends to first test support downward, then move to a corrective rebound. Currently, conditions for a direct major upward surge have not yet been met.
After rebounding from 57800 to 82300, the upward momentum has clearly cooled down.
The daily MACD has formed a death cross, bearish forces are increasing, and KDJ continues downward; however, RSI6 has dropped to around 35, nearing the short-term oversold zone. This position is not suitable for directly chasing bearish moves; be cautious of a rebound correction.
The futures market is clearing leverage, with open interest for Bitcoin futures dropping from 112,700 on September 4 to 105,100. However, the funding rate remains positive, and the long-short ratio is 1.27, indicating that long positions have not been fully released.
The ETF side is also weakening: institutions are not exiting en masse but are unwilling to chase higher prices. A key point to note is that overall ETF funds are still flowing in, but Bitcoin cannot hold above the 80,000 level, meaning new buying pressure is continuously absorbed by selling pressure above.
On the macro level, the outlook is generally bearish: oil prices have broken 100, PPI year-on-year is at 5.4%, US Treasury yields are rising, and the probability of a rate hike in September is about 70%. High interest rates, a strong dollar, and pressure on US stocks make it difficult for Bitcoin to have an independent upward trend.$SOL Is it getting ready to take off?🤔️
The US spot ETF had a net purchase of about $11.73 million in just one day on September 9.😱
Bitwise's staked BSOL saw an inflow of $11.18 million, with cumulative net inflows exceeding $1.03 billion; Morgan Stanley's MSOL added $560,000.
Also, new coin issuance will slow down in the future. Over the next six years, about 19 million fewer SOL will be minted.
Two other technical upgrades are also underway: one called Firedancer, a new validation software, which is like adding another engine to the network to prevent the entire network from stalling if the original program has issues.
There is also a consensus upgrade planned to make transaction confirmations faster and more stable.
Tens of millions in capital are flowing in, and BSOL has surpassed the $1 billion scale, signaling a big market move brewing!🧐
However, the inflow to SOL dropped from over ten million to just tens of thousands, indicating it's not the whole market buying in, but a few major products carrying the load!?
The fundamentals look quite encouraging, but the price still hasn't responded!
About $11.18 million was added in a single day, but it seems to be just one day's volume. It's not enough to single-handedly drive the market.😓
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#OKX预言家：来星球玩预测 The most important thing about short selling is timing; if the timing is wrong, shorting too early is just courting death.
Don't think about gradually adding to your short position; that's the most foolish behavior, as funding fees will only drain you to death.Tonight, the Market Direction May Not Be Decided by BTC
Today, everyone is watching BTC.
But I think there’s something more important tonight:
U.S. CPI.
BTC is around $78,000, well below its recent $82,000 high.
What’s interesting is that we haven’t seen a real flight of capital.
U.S. spot BTC ETFs saw about $1.01B in net inflows over three trading days. (The Wall Street Journal)
Yet at the same time:
Oil is back above $100,
10-year Treasury yields are near 5%,
and rate-hike expectations are rising. (Financial Times)
So here’s the strange part:
Institutions are buying BTC, while the macro environment is getting worse.
That’s what matters.
If CPI comes in hotter than expected:
Inflation fears ↑
Rate-hike expectations ↑
Bond yields ↑
Risk assets under pressure ↑
But if CPI is cooler:
Markets may start pricing in:
Rate cuts, liquidity, and risk assets.
So tonight’s real battle isn’t bulls vs. bears.
It’s:
Inflation vs. Liquidity.
Most people ask:
“Will BTC go up or down?”
I’d rather ask:
If BTC falls, did capital actually leave?
If BTC rises, is spot demand buying—or leverage pushing?
Are ETF inflows continuing?
Is stablecoin supply still growing?
Are whales selling into exchanges or accumulating?
Because:
Price is only the surface.
Capital is what drives the trend.
Maybe BTC will explode higher after CPI.
Maybe it will suddenly drop.
Either way, the first candle isn’t the most important thing.
What matters is:
Where does the money go after that first candle?
If you’ve ever experienced:
News → chasing
Drop → panic
Rebound → regret
Then you know:
The real battle may never have been against the market.
It was against your emotions.
Prices can mislead.
News can mislead.
Even the market can sometimes mislead.
But capital flows are worth tracking.
I don’t make calls.
I focus on one thing:
# Where is the money actually going?
$BTC CORE is not dead, it has been forgotten by the market: BTCFi narrative, revenue model, and liquidity trap
Risk warning: This article is only a review of track events and does not constitute any investment advice
In the early days of the BTCFi track, CORE was a star project attracting widespread attention. With Satoshi Plus hybrid consensus, a total supply benchmarked against Bitcoin's 2.1 billion, BTC staking for yield, and SatPay payments, it had a grand narrative that attracted a large number of retail and institutional investors. Many regarded it as the main BTCFi leader in this bull market. However, after the August 31 validator node vulnerability incident, CORE did not collapse to zero immediately but fell into a more agonizing state: not dead, but forgotten by the market.
First, let's look at the cracks in the BTCFi narrative. The core story of BTCFi is to unlock liquidity from dormant Bitcoin assets and build a native Bitcoin financial system. CORE focused on leveraging Bitcoin miners' computing power to secure the network while also supporting the development convenience of the EVM ecosystem, once becoming a top TVL project on the BTC sidechain. But the consensus layer vulnerability directly shattered the narrative foundation: the public chain claimed to be protected by BTC computing power had its underlying reward code exploited by malicious nodes, prematurely overdrawing token rewards for decades to come.
A hard fork destroyed 150 million tokens, bringing the total supply back to 2.1 billion on paper, and the technical fault seemed fixed. But the market no longer believed in the narrative that "BTC computing power = absolute security." Competitors MERL, STX, and BABY continued to compete for funds, causing capital to divert. Capital is the most pragmatic factor; when a project has a fundamental security stain, institutions and whales will remove it from their watchlists. The track remains hot, but funds no longer prioritize CORE.
Next, consider the ideal versus reality of the revenue model. The 2026 roadmap proposes a transition to a revenue-driven model relying on LST liquid staking, SatPay payments, and AMP asset management protocol to generate real protocol income, then using that income to repurchase CORE on the secondary market, creating a positive revenue-to-buyback flywheel. This business model aligns well with BTCFi's long-term logic and is the market's expected value capture method.
But the biggest problem: this is still a future expectation, not a stable current cash flow. Currently, ecosystem fees and asset management income are very small, far from supporting large-scale buybacks or offsetting token release selling pressure. What has supported the market so far is not real business profit but continuous token staking incentives. Once staking faith wavers, this incentive flywheel can easily slow down. The project’s shift from "subsidizing users by issuing tokens" to "buying back with business income" is a long transition cycle and hard to realize in the short term.
The hardest to overcome is the liquidity trap.
The meaning of liquidity trap: many holders and huge staked chips, but no new off-exchange funds willing to enter. When good news appears, a small amount of selling pressure can suppress the price rise; when prices fall, holders want to exit but there is insufficient buy support.
After the August 31 incident, exchanges tightened risk control, OKEx delisted CORE on-chain earning tokens, and platform fund entry willingness declined. Many early locked and staked users have now become potential selling pressure. Any slight market rebound will prompt some stakers to exit to break even.
There is a harsh market rule: capital fears uncertainty more than project failure. How long the vulnerability has lurked, the list of involved nodes, and the full flow of excess tokens have not been fully disclosed. Without eliminating uncertainty, new funds will wait and hesitate to enter. Old believers are trapped inside, while outside capital chooses to bypass, thus forming a liquidity trap.
Many are still waiting for CORE to replicate a bull market surge. But in a bull market, capital always prioritizes projects without historical scars, with transparent governance and thoroughly stress-tested code. CORE’s total supply on paper is intact, the hard fork completed, but the narrative is damaged, revenue realization is far off, and liquidity is deadlocked.
CORE is not dead; the chain is still running, and ecosystem products are still advancing. It has just shifted from the track’s focus to a marginalized alternative. To escape the liquidity trap, it cannot rely solely on grand narratives but must deliver sustained verifiable protocol income, a complete security review report, and transparent node governance reforms.
The market’s forgetting of crypto is far more silent and prolonged than a crashTonight, the market direction might not be decided by BTC
Today, many people are focused on BTC.
But I actually think:
What’s really worth watching tonight is an economic data sheet.
The US CPI.
BTC is still around $78,000 now, having clearly fallen from the $82,000 high a few days ago.
The most interesting thing is:
The market hasn’t seen a real capital flight.
Previously, the US spot BTC ETF had net inflows of about $1.01 billion over 3 consecutive trading days. (The Wall Street Journal)
But on the other side:
Oil prices have broken through $100 again,
The US 10-year Treasury yield is close to 5%,
And market expectations for Fed rate hikes are heating up. (Financial Times)
You’ll notice a very strange phenomenon:
Institutions are buying BTC.
But the macro environment is becoming increasingly unfriendly.
This is the most important area to study in the market right now.
Because if tonight’s CPI exceeds expectations:
Inflation worries ↑
Rate hike expectations ↑
Bond yields ↑
Pressure on risk assets ↑
But if CPI is below expectations:
The market might start trading again:
Rate cuts, liquidity, risk assets.
So the real battle tonight
is not bulls vs bears.
It’s:
Inflation vs liquidity.
Many people study every day:
Will BTC go up?
I want to study more:
If BTC falls, has the capital really left?
If BTC rises, is it spot buying or leverage pushing?
Is the ETF still buying?
Are stablecoins still growing?
Are whales selling on exchanges or continuing to accumulate?
Because:
Price is just the surface.
What really determines the trend is capital.
Maybe after the CPI comes out tonight,
BTC will suddenly surge.
Or it might suddenly plunge.
But whichever happens,
The real importance is not the first candlestick.
It’s:
Where the money goes after the first candlestick.
If you’ve ever experienced:
News comes out → chasing the rise
Market falls → panic
Rebound → regret not buying
Then you should understand:
What we really need to overcome might never be the market.
But our own emotions.
Price can deceive.
News can deceive.
Sometimes, even the market can deceive.
But capital flow is worth tracking continuously.
No calls here.
Just studying one thing:
# Where exactly did the money go? $BTC 🔴 First impression is a hoax: 960 million tokens opened may seem like an earthquake that will shake the market, but the truth is that their total value is only $2.75 million! 🔴 The full picture of the market: The total opening volume in the crypto market this week (September 7-13) is around $326 million. But the irony is that the three biggest transactions mentioned here are worth only $12 million combined. 🔴 Common mistake in opening season: Everyone falls into the same trap by staring at the "volume size", while the real secret lies in the answer to one question: who receives these tokensCORE is not dead, it’s just forgotten by the market: BTCFi narrative, revenue model, and liquidity trap
On the OKX Planet, posts about $CORE come in only two types:
One says "15U in 8 months," the other says "countdown to zero."
But the truly valuable perspective lies in the middle—neither blindly believing the narrative nor being trapped by emotional losses.
1. CORE originally told a good story
The underlying logic of Core DAO is not primitive:
EVM-compatible L1
Satoshi Plus consensus: Bitcoin hashrate + CORE staking + non-custodial BTC staking
Focus on BTCFi: making BTC not just a store of value, but an asset that generates yield
Total supply of 2.1 billion tokens, mirroring BTC’s 21 million narrative
This framework was very attractive in 2023–2024:
"Bitcoin’s security, Ethereum’s contracts, DeFi’s yields."
2. But the secondary market is disconnected from fundamentals
It surged to $4–6 at launch, then dropped over 90%, not because no one knew Core, but because:
Early airdrops, node rewards, and ecosystem incentives created continuous selling pressure
Circulation rate is less than half, and unlocks are still being released
Actual revenue is too small: Gas fees, lending spreads, SatPay, lstBTC fees are all still in early stages
Shallow liquidity, flash crashes at midnight, and contract stop-loss sweeps have become retail investors’ worst PTSD
So the current state of $CORE is not "the project is dead," but:
The narrative remains, cash flow hasn’t caught up; the ecosystem is building, but the price crashed first.
3. The key turning point in 2026: from "token incentives" to "revenue buybacks"
What Core should focus on is not the K-line, but this line:
BTC staking fees → DEX fees → lending spreads → SatPay payment income → treasury → CORE buyback/burn/redistribution
The direction is correct:
From an inflationary public chain toward "protocol revenue supporting the token."
But the problem is:
Monthly revenue is still at the hundred-thousand-dollar level
Daily new unlock selling pressure is at a different scale
Whether the buyback ledger is transparent and sustainable has yet to be verified by the market
So Core’s inflection point is not "when will it rise," but "can revenue cover unlocks."
4. The CORE sentiment on OKX Planet is itself an indicator
Three common types of people on the planet:
Deep holders: comfort themselves with "Bitcoin ecosystem’s ultimate winner"
Pumpers: attract new funds with "5U/15U/1000x"
Bears: call Core a pure controlled manipulation with no value
But the truth usually lies in the middle:
Technology is not garbage
Ecosystem is not empty
Revenue is not zero
But token structure, liquidity, and trust costs are already very high
5. How to view CORE without cognitive loss
Don’t ask "Will CORE break even?" Ask these four questions first:
When the BTCFi narrative rises again, will Core still be a leader?
Do SatPay / lstBTC / Dual Staking have real users, not just TVL numbers?
Can buyback revenue outpace node and unlock selling pressure?
Has liquidity depth returned? Are flash crashes at midnight still happening?
Only if you can answer these four questions can you talk about valuation.
6. In one sentence to conclude
CORE doesn’t lack a story,
It’s just that the story was told too early, revenue came too late, and retail investors got hurt too deeply.
The Bitcoin ecosystem will keep evolving, and BTCFi won’t disappear.
But for $CORE to regain market respect,
It’s not about releasing another piece of good news, but about generating real revenue.
CORE #BTCFi #OKXPlanet #CryptoReview #Don’tBeLedByPumpers $BTC Bitcoin Real-Time Market (Anchor $77,300)
Current Price: $77,300 (BitInfo 77413 / TokenInsight 77132 / CoinGecko 77300 / Wallstreetcn 77248; 24h -1.2% to -1.3%)
24h Range: $76,454–$79,179 (CoinGecko); Night Low 76,803 (Binance Pin); Yesterday High 79,745
Market Cap: ~ $1.553T, Dominance ~57.6%
Volume: 24h Spot ~$30.1B; Total Network 24h Liquidations ~$409M (Long 328M / Short 80M)
Sentiment: Fear & Greed 69–70 but price holds 77K; Daily RSI ~55; 4H Supertrend turned bearish (<78,204), 1H compressed at 76.9–77.4K
Technical Structure (78K breach confirmed / 76.35K ETF cost base / 76.4K old support / 74.8K strong support)
Funds and Macro
ETF Flows Finalized:
9/8 -46.65M
9/9 -120.24M (ARKB -77.98 / GBTC -27.22 / IBIT -19.53)
Two-day total -166.89M, ending 8 days of outflows with "two consecutive outflows"
But 30-day net inflow still +21.9B, ETF queue cost 72–73K → Not a crash-style redemption, but "profit-taking/rebalancing after rate hike pricing rise"
Macro: PPI YoY 5.4% (hot) / Core PPI 4.6% (highest since June); Rate hike 25bp ~60%; 10Y 4.85%+, 30Y 5.35%, WTI breaks 100
Tonight: 20:30 CPI (Core MoM 0.2 threshold, Waller rule ≥0.3 → rate hike pricing jump)
Same frame: ETH 2,467 / ZEC 1,131 (CoinGecko 04:15, -9.93%, privacy coins shake first in night session)
Asia session → 20:30 CPI scenario
Baseline: 76,800–77,800 friction, no short chasing or bottom fishing
Rebound: 1H close above 77,800 → 78,000 (resistance turn) → 78,800; daily close 79,200 to consider retesting 79,745
Pullback: 4H close below 76,800 → 76,350–76,400 (ETF cost base + old support); daily close below targets 74,788
Spot: 77,300 no kill, wait for 76,350–76,800 stabilization to add ≤5% per trade or confirm reclaim at 78,000 close; old positions take profit raised from 74.8–75.6K to 76,350
Futures: 77,800–78,800 stagnation with light short (stop loss 79,350, target 76,400) ≤2x leverage; below 76,350 no short chasing (ETF cost base buy + pin reversal)
CPI (20:30) Discipline: clear naked orders 30 minutes before and after, wait for 1H candle; hot CPI → watch if 76,350 breaks; cold CPI → close 78,800 then push 79,200
Key Observations
Can 78,000 reclaim during daytime (failure = data week defense confirmed)
Will 76,800 / 76,350–76,400 be retested (ETF cost base first defense)
Will 76,454 24h low / 76,803 pin be pierced (pierce → 74,788)
20:30 CPI core MoM 0.2 / 0.3 boundary
10Y 4.85% / 30Y 5.35% / WTI 100+ continue dual pressure?
After BTC ETF two-day -166.89M, will tonight's US session be a third consecutive outflow (three consecutive outflows = true demand signal turns negative)
ETH 2,467 / ZEC 1,131 similar drop (ZEC from 1,300 down to 1,131 = high beta shake first, if BTC breaks 76.35K altcoins follow kill)
⚠️ Objective market info, not investment advice. 77,300 is BitInfo 77413 + TokenInsight 77132 + CoinGecko 77300 same frame cluster, representing PPI hot aftermath night sideways price; no new breakout, just time passed midnight. No single-sided bets before CPI.
Quick Summary: BTC 76.35 / 77.30 / 78.00 / 79.20 | $77,300 (BitInfo 77413/TokenInsight 77132/CoinGecko 77300 same frame) | PPI hot (5.4%) → 78K breach → night sideways 76.9–77.4K; 78K resistance turn, 76.35K ETF cost base hard judge; ETF 9/8 -46.65M → 9/9 -120.24M (two days -166.89M, but 30-day still +21.9B); 10Y 4.85% / WTI 100; tonight 20:30 CPI last strike before FOMC. $BTC BTC is getting hit, ZEC is getting criticized
PPI is out. August year-on-year rose 5.4%, 0.1 points higher than expected.
Just this 0.1 caused BTC to break through 77000. It dropped 1200 USD in one hour, hitting a low of 76651. $190 million long positions were liquidated within 60 minutes.
The probability of a rate hike jumped from 61% to 69.8%. The 30-year US Treasury yield reached 5.353%, the highest since 2007.
Tonight is CPI. If it also exceeds expectations, the 70% rate hike probability will be locked in.
The logic chain is not complicated: PPI exceeds expectations → inflation not cooling down → rate hike probability soars → US Treasury yields surge → risk assets get hit. BTC stands at the forefront, the first to take the hit.
But ZEC did not fall.
ZEC is still around 1290. Up 57% in a week, 154% in a month, and over 2300% in a year. Grayscale ZCSH ETF has been listed for two weeks, with assets exceeding 500 million, holding 550,000 coins. DCG itself invested 100 million.
BTC is being ground down, while ZEC stands aside, not even glancing over.
But on the ZEC side, arguments have started.
JAN3's CEO Samson Mow directly fired: "ZEC is obviously being pumped to dump." His original words were harsher, saying "AI needs privacy coins like it needs rubber tires."
He has reasons to say this. ZEC contract open interest rose to a record high of $2.4 billion, shorts were squeezed for 34 million. Nearly 72% of top traders on Binance are shorting ZEC.
Seventy percent short, yet the price keeps rising. Either shorts die or longs die.
But ZEC does have substance. Grayscale ETF is buying real money, shielded transactions continue to rise, and the privacy narrative is being repriced in the AI era. Mow says this is pump and dump, but he himself is a Bitcoin maximalist, so take half of what he says with a grain of salt.
Putting the two pictures together, they actually tell the same story.
PPI crushes BTC, ZEC holds firm. Not because ZEC is stronger than BTC, but because ZEC's capital structure differs from BTC's. BTC prices macro, ZEC prices narrative.
When macro can't suppress narrative, capital will seek narrative.
ZEC's 1200 is a key level. If it holds, the story continues. If it doesn't, profit-taking and shorts will crush it together, and a drop back to 900 is possible.
I haven't moved. Didn't bottom-fish BTC below 77000, nor chase ZEC at 1290.
Tonight's CPI is the real watershed. Before the data comes out, all judgments are guesses.
Let the data speak first
$BTC $ETH $ZEC
#PPI、CPI接连公布，美联储迎关键两日 Ethereum does not run on a single codebase. The execution layer includes Geth, Nethermind, Besu, Reth, and Erigon; currently, Geth accounts for about 50%, Nethermind about 25%, and the remaining clients share the rest of the market. The consensus layer also has multiple implementations such as Lighthouse, Prysm, Nimbus, and Teku. Different statistical methods may cause discrepancies, but at least no single client controls the entire chain's state.
The 2016 Shanghai DoS attack exploited a vulnerability in Geth, but other clients did not have the same issue, and Ethereum was ultimately able to continue operating. This is the significance of multiple clients: a bug in one codebase does not mean the entire chain stops.
When I look at public chains now, TPS, Gas, and ecosystem scale are all important, but whether the underlying system has a single point of failure is also crucial. With hundreds of billions of dollars in assets running long-term on-chain, the biggest fear is not a few seconds of delay, but a software issue causing all nodes to fail simultaneously.
One thing Ethereum has been slow to do over the years is to continuously break down this risk. Geth still holds about 50%, so there is room for improvement toward the ideal state, but compared to the previous stage of a single dominant client, it has improved a lot.
This kind of factor won't make ETH surge 10% tomorrow, but I am willing to hold ETH long-term because my focus is not just on tomorrow.This time BTC, ETH, and the US stock market are all going down together. I really don't find it surprising; this drop makes a lot of sense.
The most eye-catching thing right now is the US 10-year Treasury yield, which is approaching 5% again.
When this goes up, BTC is the first to suffer. After all, Bitcoin is no longer just a "crypto asset"; more and more funds treat it as a global risk asset for trading. With Treasury yields rising so high, capital naturally recalculates: should it bet on BTC or just hold onto Treasuries?
So with BTC dropping, I'm actually not that panicked. It surged earlier, and now with pressure from the dollar and Treasury yields, a correction is quite normal.
ETH is even more volatile than BTC, so when risk appetite drops, it naturally falls faster.
The US stock market is the same; the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 are both down, especially tech stocks which are most sensitive to valuations. People were willing to pay high valuations before because interest rates were low; now that the 10-year Treasury yield is nearly 5%, who dares to blindly push valuations higher?
So I see this wave as a normal pullback caused by rising rates, not a sudden bear market.
Next, keep a close eye on the 10-year Treasury: if it can be pushed back down, BTC still has a chance; if it really stabilizes at 5%, risk assets will continue to struggle. $BTC $ETH $ZEC
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#布油重返100美元，特朗普称选后将下跌 In the future, whether the recipient address has been used before may affect the Gas cost when transferring ETH.
Many people have already taken "a regular ETH transfer equals 21,000 Gas" as common knowledge. The Glamsterdam test environment is breaking this oversimplified answer: transferring to an existing account still maintains 21,000 Gas; but if the recipient address is a new account that did not exist before, creating a new state may require additional fees calculated per state byte.
This is not intended to deliberately make transfers more expensive, but to make fees closer to the long-term costs borne by nodes. Transferring to an existing account mainly involves verifying signatures and updating balances; creating an account for the first time causes the network database to permanently add a new state. These two operations impact hardware differently, and charging the same price long-term will ultimately shift the bill to all node operators.
Problems arise accordingly. Wallets must determine the target account status before sending, Gas estimators need to understand the new fee dimensions, and exchange aggregation and batch payment processes must also be adjusted. If any one of these steps still assumes 21,000 is always sufficient, it may result in incorrect quotes or transaction failures.
For $ETH, such changes are unlikely to create a day's market movement, but they determine whether the network can remain operational after scaling. Cheapness should not come from pretending storage has no cost; more reasonable fees are the only chance to keep it affordable sustainably. Inflation without minting new coins? CORE demonstrated what "overdraft issuance" means through a single vulnerability
⚠️ Risk Warning: This article is only a review of industry events and does not constitute any investment advice
In the crypto market, many investors blindly trust the hard cap on total supply written in the whitepaper, believing that as long as the cap is fixed, the token will not experience inflation. However, CORE's validator reward vulnerability on 8.31 delivered a harsh lesson to the market: even without minting new coins out of thin air, protocol vulnerabilities can still cause disguised overdraft issuance, resulting in real inflationary impact.
CORE's narrative foundation is benchmarked against Bitcoin's 2.1 billion hard cap total supply, relying on Satoshi Plus hybrid consensus to replicate Bitcoin's hash power security into the public chain ecosystem. The project's token distribution plan spans 81 years, with most rewards gradually released over a long future period. In theory, as long as the protocol rules are strictly followed, the token supply will not exceed the 2.1 billion cap. But after the vulnerability surfaced, the fragility of this supply model was fully exposed.
The root cause of the vulnerability lies in a defect in the validator reward calculation logic. A few malicious validators exploited the bug to repeatedly calculate block rewards, releasing a large amount of tokens that were supposed to be distributed over many years into the market prematurely. Strictly speaking, this incident did not break the 2.1 billion total supply ceiling and did not mint tokens outside the protocol. But it realized another form of inflation: overdrafting future issuance quotas, pushing long-term tokens into circulation ahead of schedule.
Simply put, tokens that were supposed to be released slowly over ten years were mined out in just a few days. Although the final total supply remains locked at 2.1 billion, the short-term circulating supply suddenly expanded sharply, equivalent to disguised inflation. This is the so-called "overdraft issuance," which differs from direct unlimited minting but has an equally significant impact on the secondary market.
After the crisis broke out, the project launched v1.0.26 forward hard fork without rolling back historical ledgers, destroying 150 million abnormal tokens at the protocol level in an attempt to offset the supply shock caused by the overdraft. It is important to clarify a key understanding: this destruction is a protocol-level fix for the vulnerability, not a secondary market buyback and burn. It only removes the prematurely released abnormal tokens and does not bring sustained deflationary buying pressure.
However, the hidden risks have not been completely eliminated. During the vulnerability period, some excess tokens had already flowed out of the reward pool into external addresses. These tokens cannot be directly recovered through the hard fork and remain potential selling pressure on the market. Meanwhile, the official side has yet to fully disclose the vulnerability's duration, the complete list of involved nodes, and the full flow trajectory of all excess tokens. Much key information remains a black box, and community suspicion cannot be fully dispelled.
This incident also exposed a misconception in the BTCFi sector: a total supply cap does not equal absolute supply security. Even if the whitepaper fixes the maximum supply, as long as there is a flaw in the consensus layer reward distribution logic, short-term inflation can be created by overdrafting future release quotas. Bitcoin's hash power can only guarantee security at the hash layer but cannot cover code defects in upper-layer protocols.
After the incident, multiple exchanges tightened risk controls. OKX delisted CORE's on-chain earning function, reflecting the platform's caution toward such supply risks. For investors, the "hard cap" should not be regarded as a safety talisman alone. Public chain supply security is not just a numeric cap but requires rigorous code audits, real-time node monitoring, and comprehensive governance and penalty mechanisms.
The hard fork preserved the ledger's total supply at 2.1 billion but cannot solve the aftereffects left by overdraft issuance. Future token supply pressure and community trust fractures will require the project team to slowly repair through comprehensive technical reviews, new rounds of security audits, and node governance reforms.
In the crypto world, true supply security is not just a hard cap in black and white but the protocol's ability to resist vulnerabilities and prevent overdraft issuance. CORE's incident is worth deep reflection for all BTCFi participants.Doubled in a week, dropped 11% in a day, are ARB tokens undergoing a shakeout or hitting a peak?
On the eve of the CPI release, the market volume shrank, and the previously hottest Robinhood Chain sector led the crash, falling nearly 9.5% in 24 hours. ARB plunged 11% to 0.151, UNI dropped 10% to 6 dollars. Let's break it down today: is this sharp decline after a surge a golden opportunity or a distribution top?
The big picture is that $BTC is consolidating narrowly around 77,000, with funds waiting for tonight's CPI, so risk appetite is weak; combined with escalating US-Iran conflicts and US debt repo underperformance, the previously hottest sectors are naturally the first to be profit-taken—a typical "paying debts after a big rise."
Looking closely at $ARB, it has surged 120% since the low at the end of August, with over 50% just last week, driven by expectations that Robinhood Chain will return 10% of net income to the Arbitrum ecosystem. The problem is that expectations ran too fast, prematurely priced in the good news, while 24h volume hit an extremely high level—this huge volume with a long bearish candle indicates massive divergence at the top, with some funds distributing while riding the hype. 0.15 is the first support; a volume contraction and stabilization would indicate a shakeout; continued high-volume selling would mean a narrative reassessment, so don't rush to buy.
$UNI is similar, retreating 10% along with the DeFi sector, with a 24h volatility as high as 17%, showing fierce battle between bulls and bears. Fortunately, Uniswap is the leading DEX with real fee support, making it more resilient than pure concept tokens, but if 6 dollars doesn't hold, further support levels need to be found below.Considering yesterday's initial drop and the recovery in the early morning, I think today looks more like a consolidation waiting for news rather than a direct one-sided move.
Yesterday, PPI rose year-over-year to 5.4%, reigniting inflationary pressure. Coupled with high oil prices and U.S. Treasury yields, both U.S. stocks and crypto came under pressure; $BTC dropped to around 76000, and $ETH pulled back to 2400 before finding support.
The most critical unreleased data today are CPI and core CPI. The market expects core CPI to rise 0.2% month-over-month and CPI 0.4% month-over-month. These figures will directly impact expectations for the Fed next week.
So, to be realistic: there may still be some choppy recovery before the data, but it won’t be very smooth. The early morning rebound indicates buying interest at low levels, but yesterday’s macro bearish factors haven’t been fully digested.
Don’t rush to chase gains or cut losses today; expect consolidation before the data, and wait for the real direction after the CPI release. If inflation is moderate, yesterday’s decline may continue to recover; if the data is hotter than expected, the logic behind yesterday’s drop will likely return.
#PPI、CPI接连公布，美联储迎关键两日 #BTC现货ETF大额流入后转负 #伊朗允许BTC与USDT外贸结算 No rate cut signals came overnight; instead, global central banks collectively tightened liquidity.
Woke up startled at 6 AM by the news! Reflecting on last night's PPI year-on-year at 5.4%, a three-month high, core month-on-month at 0.2% showing no cooling, the ECB raised rates by 25bp the same day, the dollar surged to its biggest gain in half a month, and the probability of a rate hike reached 70%.
$BTC 78,205 is deadlocked between 77,770-79,760, not touching 80,000 for two weeks;
$ETH 2,467 is weaker than BTC, down 4% in seven days, with ETFs still seeing outflows;
$SOL 101.36 is the most dangerous, with the 100 lifeline underfoot, ETF weekly inflows plummeting from 154 million to 6.18 million, a 96% drop, and profit-taking after a 35% 30-day rise ready to crash anytime!
So when will it crash?
Tonight at 20:30, CPI is the last puzzle piece before the FOMC, likely to be mixed data: oil prices pushing nominal month-on-month rebound to 0.36%, used cars suppressing core to 0.18%, bulls and bears each taking what they need. My judgment: the decision lies with the 9/16 FOMC; CPI is just adjusting the probability.
BTC holding above the 72,000 average cost still has play; ETH breaking below 2,442 eyes the 2,400 level; SOL losing 100 should exit first. Transaction v1 plus deflation doubling is the trump card; after a deep drop, bend down and pick it up again!
#PPI、CPI接连公布，美联储迎关键两日 CPI Night Showdown! Memorize Three Scenarios in Advance, Don't Bet on a One-Sided Move
Last night, core PPI was below the expected 0.3%; but the year-on-year 5.4% hit the highest since 2026
September rate hike probability rose from 60% to 70%
Tonight, only core CPI month-on-month matters, deciding whether rate hike pricing pushes to 80% or retreats to 50%
A｜Core MoM ≤ 0.1%
Rate hike expectations fall back
$BTC first holds 78,500–79,000, then targets 80,500
$ETH targets 2,525–2,560
$SOL targets 107–110
You can buy the dip but don’t chase the highs
B｜Core MoM 0.2% (most likely)
Overall CPI high was already previewed by PPI, core side not fully heating up, pricing likely stays at 70%, expect a wick then close
BTC stuck between 76,300–79,500
ETH between 2,435–2,500
SOL between 97–107 with easy stop-loss sweeps up and down, position size should be lighter than in A/C.
C｜Core MoM ≥ 0.3%
Rate hike pricing moves toward 80%–90%. Last night’s drop to 7.66 was a preview
If BTC can’t hold 7.63, look down to 7.4–7.3
ETH targets 2,360
SOL losing 97 means short-term longs should exit first (only if core clearly exceeds 0.3%, rate hike lift will cause a sharp drop)
Deleverage before 20:20, don’t bet on a one-sided move. If you really want to enter, wait for prices after B or A land. FOMC is next Wednesday; tonight won’t decide the trend, only whether you survive until next Wednesday. #PPI、CPI接连公布，美联储迎关键两日 Altcoin perpetual open interest surpasses BTC for the first time in 21 months, leverage accumulation, beware of cascading liquidations
Coinalyze data: On September 6, altcoin perpetual contract open interest exceeded BTC for the first time in 21 months. BTC perpetual contracts stand at about $23.9 billion, accounting for approximately 37% of the market, with the remainder held by ETH, SOL, XRP, ZEC, and others combined. ZEC open interest has ballooned to about $2.4 billion; when the price broke $1,000, about $34 million in shorts were liquidated.
The last time this structure appeared was December 2024, after which several mid-cap tokens plunged sharply while BTC remained relatively stable. Rising open interest indicates increased leverage and participation but does not distinguish between long or short positions.
Market: $BTC currently around $77,174, down 1.4%, holding the 77,000 level. $ETH around $2,437, with 2,400 as a short-term key support. $SOL around $99.98, down 1.56%, but yesterday on-chain application revenue was $5.09 million, ranking first among public chains, showing a divergence between fundamentals and price. ZEC around $1,218, with TD9 sell signals and four-hour bearish divergence intensifying the risk of a pullback.
Oil prices surged past $108, with high inflation expectations suppressing risk assets. Altcoins carry more leverage, signaling either a new round of risk appetite returning or greater liquidation risk?
#山寨永续未平仓量21个月来首次超过BTC 13F Filing Reveals a Contradiction: ETFs Continue to Redeem, but Wall Street Private Equity Quietly Increases BTC Holdings Off-Exchange
The entire network is focused on the daily fund flows of BTC spot ETFs, and whenever there is a net outflow from ETFs, people shout that institutions are fleeing. However, few look at the SEC's 13F holdings report, which hides a completely opposite truth.
In Q2, BTC spot ETFs continued large-scale redemptions, with many funds withdrawing from ETF products. But during the same period, private equity institutions such as hedge funds and family offices bought BTC counter-trend in the OTC market off-exchange, resulting in a 7.5% quarter-over-quarter increase in total institutional holdings.
These represent two completely different groups of capital:
ETF funds are mostly trend-following funds and allocation-type pensions that redeem and exit when the market fluctuates;
while the private equity funds disclosed in 13F are long-term contrarian funds that accumulate coins in cold wallets off-exchange during price pullbacks, bypassing the ETF channel, so they are not reflected in ETF fund data.
Applying this to $ETH, the logic is different. In Q2, the growth rate of private equity exposure to ETH clearly exceeded that of BTC. Institutions buying ETH partly use it for staking to earn on-chain yields; whereas BTC does not generate yield, so private equity purchases are purely asset allocation to hedge against USD and US Treasury risks.
Market Insight: Short-term ETF redemptions only represent one type of capital exiting and do not mean all institutions are bearish. If US Treasury yields fall later, both types of capital entering simultaneously will lead to a stronger upward trend. Conversely, if macro conditions remain hawkish, even if private equity quietly accumulates coins, it will be difficult to drive a sustained rally.After the $CORE deposit and withdrawal channels were reopened, a large amount of on-chain staked tokens were transferred to exchanges, and many holders took the opportunity to exit, resulting in concentrated selling pressure on the market.
Coupled with the rapid dip of $BTC in the evening, small-cap coins struggled to remain unaffected, further driving CORE under pressure and downward.
Currently, exchanges show polarized responses: some have resumed normal deposit and withdrawal operations, while others have officially announced the start of delisting procedures, intensifying market uncertainty.
The unresolved doubts from the vulnerability remain, creating significant resistance to short-term rebounds, and market volatility is expected to continue increasing. Holders must closely monitor announcements and timelines from their respective platforms and plan their assets in advance. $CORE Today at 20:30 Beijing time, US CPI data will be released, market forecast overview
Overall CPI: Expected to rise 0.4% month-over-month, 3.4% year-over-year (steady or slightly higher than July's 3.4%) Core CPI: Expected to rise 0.2% month-over-month, 2.4% year-over-year (continuing to decline from July's 2.5%)
The core divergence lies in:
BofA Securities forecasts core CPI month-over-month +0.22%, believing the data is strong enough to support a 25bp rate hike in September
Citibank forecasts core CPI month-over-month only +0.18%, considering inflation moderate and the Fed should hold steady
Morgan Stanley forecasts +0.23%, but believes the Fed will not raise rates
The key variable is oil prices — Brent crude rose from about $84 to about $91 in August, gasoline prices increased significantly, which will push up the overall CPI reading. But the Fed focuses more on the core CPI excluding energy and food, which is the core anchor for policy decisions.
🔥 Why this CPI is extremely critical
The FOMC meeting on September 17 is imminent, this is the last major inflation data before the meeting
August nonfarm payrolls greatly exceeded expectations (added 162,000 jobs, nearly 3 times the forecast), pushing rate hike expectations to about 60%
New Chair Wash has canceled forward guidance, policy fully depends on data, a single data point can significantly change pricing
There is a clear hawk-dove split within the Fed — at the July meeting, 3 members dissented advocating a rate hike, the most since 2016; Governor Waller is seen as a key swing vote, with an implied threshold of core PCE month-over-month exceeding 0.30%
📈 Three scenario simulations
Scenario Core CPI MoM Market Reaction
Above expectations and hot >0.3% Rate hike expectations soar, US Treasury yields spike, USD strengthens, cryptocurrencies and US stocks under pressure, especially tech stocks see valuation cuts
In line with expectations 0.2%-0.25% Volatile pattern, no one-sided market, market awaits FOMC meeting guidance
Below expectations <0.15% Rate hike expectations drop sharply, US Treasury yields decline, USD weakens, cryptocurrencies and growth stocks rebound Why can IOST still surge to fourth place on the hot list despite a sharp plunge?
✅ Key Points
The exchange hot list ≠ market cap list, and does not equal value list. The hot list mainly counts: 24-hour trading volume, search clicks, watchlist additions, number of trading users, and volatility heat, not the coin price level or fundamental achievements.
A sharp plunge in coin price actually amplifies the heat. IOST reaching fourth on the hot list is the result of capital games, news stimulation, and panic trading combined.
1. Why does it remain fourth on the hot list despite a big drop?
1. Explosive trading volume, extremely high turnover rate
After a bullish rally, a deep plunge occurs with massive capital battles: short-term profit-taking, retail stop-loss selling, bottom-fishing funds entering to play rebounds, intense long-short battles, 24-hour trading volume far exceeding its circulating market cap.
In the hot list algorithm, trading volume has the highest weight; both sharp rises and sharp falls bring huge volume, directly boosting heat ranking. It’s not only price increases that make a coin hot; big drops and crashes can also push it onto the hot list.
2. News brings huge market attention
Inventory burn, IOST 3.0 L2 transformation to RWA, PayFi narrative have already attracted many users to add it to their watchlists;
After a rapid surge, a deep plunge further stimulates network-wide searches, market watching, and discussions, causing clicks, watchlist additions, and comments to soar, directly pushing up heat ranking. Many are not bullish but are watching losses or speculating on rebounds.
3. Small market cap coins inherently attract traffic through volatility
With a small market cap, a small amount of capital can cause sharp surges or deep plunges. Big swings naturally generate buzz, attracting short-term speculators.
The hot list captures current trading sentiment, not recognition that the project has fully realized its value.
4. Many speculative traders are inside seeking rebound opportunities
Some investors see this as a correction and want to bottom-fish for rebounds; some trapped users keep watching; bears short sell. Whether bullish or bearish, as long as many participate in trading and market watching, heat remains high.
2. Must distinguish: High heat ≠ value realization
1. Being fourth on the hot list means current trading heat and attention are high, but does not mean fundamentals have successfully materialized.
RWA and PayFi businesses are still in planning stages, with no large-scale revenue yet; only one inventory burn has occurred; staking and ecosystem incentives continue to issue tokens.
2. Heat is an emotional indicator, not a value indicator. Heat can spike overnight and quickly drop after news fades.
3. Large market swings reflect a high proportion of speculative funds and no consensus from institutional long-term investors yet.The biggest challenge for Glamsterdam might not be the nodes, but wallets with hardcoded parameters.
When the Ethereum Foundation launched the Platåberget testnet, they specifically warned wallets, indexers, and Gas estimation tools: any product that hardcodes the maximum Gas limit in its code may encounter issues in the Glamsterdam environment. The reason is straightforward—this upgrade is preparing for higher block capacity and a new Gas pricing method. Old tools that continue to assume the world never changes will fall behind the protocol itself.
This matter is more practical for $ETH than just "Gas limit will increase." Users do not interact directly with protocol specifications; what they see is whether wallets can quote correctly, transactions can be sent normally, and browsers can display fully. If the underlying upgrade succeeds but commonly used tools still estimate according to old rules, the user experience will still fail.
The value of Platåberget lies in exposing these compatibility issues early. It is not a demonstration network for celebration but a testing ground that allows developers to break things and then fix them. There is still time before the planned Sepolia fork; the earlier hardcoding and boundary conditions are discovered, the fewer real funds will bear the cost of the mainnet upgrade.
I am optimistic about $ETH scaling, but scaling has never been just about a group of core developers changing code. Wallets, nodes, indexers, and applications must upgrade together for capacity to truly be delivered to users.Woke up in the middle of the night to check the market, now I can't sleep
$BTC and $ETH have almost recovered the losses from the daytime, especially ETH, which is only about 2% away from my entry price. I feel like my profits could vanish at any moment, and suddenly I'm wide awake
Looking at the perennial third place $SOL, it has climbed back above the $100 mark, and now I'm completely unsettled
I've held this short position for so long, thinking I was about to get a big payoff, but reality hit me hard. Being bearish in a bull market without shorting might be right—not only because it's easy to lose money, but it also greatly affects your mindset and life
The two events coming up in September are crucial: the vote on the CLARITY Act and the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision. For now, there’s still a chance for the short position. If luck runs out, I’ll consider closing at the entry price.
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#OKX预言家：来星球玩预测 $xAAPL U.S. stock market performance (China time September 11, 2026, corresponding to the U.S. trading session on September 10):
1. U.S. Treasury yields surged sharply: The 10-year Treasury yield rose to 4.9565%, approaching the key psychological threshold of 5%; the 30-year Treasury yield climbed to 5.3706%, hitting a historic high since June 2007. The rise in the global asset pricing benchmark directly suppressed overall stock market valuations, with high-valuation tech stocks taking the brunt.
2. Profit-taking concentrated in popular sectors: The previously soaring storage and semiconductor sectors accumulated substantial profits, and as market sentiment weakened, funds were concentratedly cashed out. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index plunged over 3%, Intel and Lam Research fell over 5%, and storage leaders like SK Hynix and Micron Technology dropped more than 4%.
3. Apple surged 3.56% against the trend, driven by its differentiated product—the first foldable iPhone—and a restrained pricing strategy, becoming one of the few among the “Big Seven Tech” to close higher, providing localized support to the consumer electronics supply chain.
4. Crude oil and oil & gas-related energy sectors directly benefited from the oil price surge, becoming one of the few sectors to strengthen against the trend, partially offsetting some market selling pressure.
At market close, the Dow Jones fell 0.60% to 52,064.10 points, the S&P 500 dropped 0.58% to 7,591.70 points, and the Nasdaq declined 0.65% to 26,081.73 points. How CORE borrows BTC hashrate and exploits the market damage and deception brought by the BTC halo!
1. Technically, how CORE leverages Bitcoin hashrate (Satoshi-Plus's DPoW mechanism)
CORE itself is not a Bitcoin fork chain and does not copy Bitcoin's code. It is a brand new independent L1 public chain that borrows Bitcoin miners' hashrate through delegated proof of work (DPoW), rather than directly using Bitcoin's hashrate to package CORE transactions.
1. When Bitcoin miners mine Bitcoin blocks, they write a special piece of metadata in the OP_RETURN field of the Coinbase transaction to vote for CORE's validator nodes; miners still fully mine Bitcoin, with 100% of hashrate used for Bitcoin block production, consuming no extra electricity, only casting an additional "vote" to CORE validators in exchange for CORE token rewards.
2. Relay nodes on the CORE network continuously scan the Bitcoin chain to capture miners' votes and tally how much hashrate each validator node receives;
3. Combining two weights: miners' delegated hashrate and users staking CORE tokens, a composite score is calculated to select CORE network validator nodes to produce CORE chain blocks;
4. Additionally, Bitcoin users can time-lock stake BTC on the Bitcoin chain to participate in CORE validator node election voting; the BTC assets remain on the Bitcoin chain and are not cross-chain transferred.
Key points:
- Bitcoin hashrate is only used to select validator nodes and does not directly secure CORE chain transactions; CORE chain block production and transaction verification still rely on its own validator nodes;
- The Bitcoin network itself is completely unaffected by CORE; Bitcoin does not provide any guarantee or endorsement for CORE's security, token value, or vulnerabilities.
2. How the project amplifies the narrative to borrow the BTC halo to attract investors
Technically, miners can only "cast votes," but early market promotion seriously exaggerated the narrative:
1. Marketed as "having Bitcoin-level security, Bitcoin's own son, BTC bloodline derivative chain," twisting the concept of miners' voting rights to portray inheriting Bitcoin's security and faith halo;
2. Token total supply set at 2.1 billion, mirroring Bitcoin's 21 million, with release cycles mimicking Bitcoin's halving rhythm to strengthen the impression of deep binding with Bitcoin;
3. The predecessor BTCs had free mining, with many Bitcoin community users participating, further deepening the public misconception of "originating from Bitcoin";
4. Promoting the BTCFi concept, depicting massive Bitcoin assets flowing into the ecosystem, replicating Bitcoin's wealth effect, attracting many ordinary investors who believe in the Bitcoin narrative.
Objective facts: Only at the business level can Bitcoin miners' votes be called upon; there is no code lineage, and the Bitcoin community does not recognize this public chain.
3. The real damage caused by borrowing the BTC halo
Many investors entered attracted by the story of "Bitcoin bloodline, Bitcoin-level security," but the project subsequently experienced contract vulnerabilities that should not have occurred, unexpected token circulation anomalies, and multiple urgent hard forks for fixes; several exchanges, for risk control, suspended deposits and withdrawals or evaluated delisting.
1. Many Bitcoin believers mistakenly regarded CORE as a direct part of the Bitcoin ecosystem, ignoring operational and code audit risks, entering at high prices and getting deeply trapped;
2. The "Bitcoin-backed" narrative raised public psychological expectations, and frequent project issues caused huge psychological gaps leading to significant investor losses;
3. Repeatedly tying marketing to Bitcoin also brought negative associations to the Bitcoin ecosystem, with the Bitcoin community gradually distancing itself from the project;
4. After the narrative bonus fades, the market finally distinguishes: borrowing miners' votes ≠ inheriting Bitcoin's security; narrative does not equal real technical strength.How CORE borrows BTC hash power and the market damage and deception caused by the BTC halo
1. Technically, how does CORE hook onto Bitcoin's hash power (Satoshi-Plus's DPoW mechanism)
CORE itself is not a Bitcoin fork chain and does not copy Bitcoin's code. It is a brand new independent L1 public chain that borrows Bitcoin miners' hash power through delegated proof of work (DPoW). It does not directly appropriate Bitcoin's hash power to package CORE transactions.
1. When Bitcoin miners mine a Bitcoin block, they write a special piece of metadata in the OP_RETURN field of the Coinbase transaction to vote for CORE's validator nodes; miners still fully mine Bitcoin, with 100% of hash power used for Bitcoin block production, consuming no extra electricity, just casting an additional "vote" to CORE validators in exchange for CORE token rewards.
2. CORE network relay nodes continuously scan the Bitcoin chain, capturing miners' votes and tallying how much miner hash power each validator node receives;
3. Combining two weights: miner delegated hash power and user-staked CORE tokens, a composite score is calculated to select CORE network validator nodes to produce CORE chain blocks;
4. Additionally, Bitcoin users can time-lock stake BTC on the Bitcoin chain to participate in CORE validator node election voting. The BTC assets remain on the Bitcoin chain and are not cross-chain transferred.
Key points:
- Bitcoin hash power is only used to select validator nodes and does not directly secure CORE chain transactions; CORE chain block production and transaction verification still rely on its own validator nodes;
- The Bitcoin network itself is completely unaffected by CORE; Bitcoin does not provide any guarantee or endorsement for CORE's security, token value, or vulnerabilities.
2. How the project amplifies the narrative to borrow the BTC halo to attract investors
Technically, miners can only "cast votes," but early market promotion seriously exaggerated the narrative:
1. Marketed as "having Bitcoin-level security, Bitcoin's own son, BTC bloodline derivative chain," twisting the concept of miner voting rights to imply inheriting Bitcoin's security and faith halo;
2. Token total supply set at 2.1 billion, mirroring Bitcoin's 21 million, with release cycles mimicking Bitcoin's halving rhythm to reinforce the deep binding impression with Bitcoin;
3. The predecessor BTCs had free mining, with many Bitcoin community users participating, further deepening the public misconception of "originating from Bitcoin";
4. Promoting the BTCFi concept, depicting massive Bitcoin assets flowing into the ecosystem, replicating Bitcoin's wealth effect, attracting many ordinary investors who believe in the Bitcoin narrative.
Objective facts: Only at the business level can Bitcoin miners' votes be called upon; there is no code lineage, and the Bitcoin community does not recognize this public chain.
3. The real damage caused by borrowing the BTC halo
Many investors entered attracted by the story of "Bitcoin lineage, Bitcoin-level security," but subsequently the project repeatedly experienced contract vulnerabilities that should not have occurred, unexpected token circulation anomalies, and multiple urgent hard forks for fixes; several exchanges, for risk control, suspended deposits and withdrawals and considered delisting.
1. Many Bitcoin believers mistakenly regarded CORE as a direct part of the Bitcoin ecosystem, ignoring operational and code audit risks, entering at high prices and becoming deeply trapped;
2. The "Bitcoin endorsement" narrative raised public psychological expectations, and frequent project issues caused huge psychological gaps leading to significant investor losses;
3. Repeated marketing tied to Bitcoin also brought negative associations to the Bitcoin ecosystem, causing the Bitcoin community to gradually distance itself from the project;
4. After the narrative bonus fades, the market realizes: borrowing miner votes ≠ inheriting Bitcoin security, and narrative does not equal real technical strength.VTHO current price is 0.00061800, with thin buy orders on the order book. There is a layer of sell orders at 0.00063500 above, and no signs of active accumulation from capital. Large on-chain transfers are silent, whales are inactive, and retail investors are just messing around. This position is neither up nor down; a strong pull lacks fuel, and a dump has no volume—a typical stalemate.
Just finished my shift, and two visitors were recorded in the logbook. I put my thermos on the windowsill, and it cooled down.
The deduction is simple. 0.00061800 is the short-term pivot; after moving sideways for too long, a direction must be chosen. A breakout above 0.00063500 with volume can target 0.00066000. A drop below 0.00060500 will directly look for 0.00058000 below.
In terms of operation, do not chase. Light short positions at the current price; enter between 0.00061800 and 0.00062500, set stop loss at 0.00063800, take profit first target at 0.00060000, second target at 0.00058500. If volume pushes above 0.00063800, reverse to long, targeting 0.00066000.
Keep position size light; this market depth cannot withstand large orders. I will continue monitoring the screen and act if there is any movement.
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@OKX星球 $100 is not the end; even Trump's threats cannot suppress oil prices
Brent crude climbed back above $100, and Trump immediately stated: after the midterm elections, oil prices would plummet, and gasoline could even fall below $2. But will the market really follow this script?
This rally is not sentiment idle: tensions in the Middle East, disruptions to shipping in the Red Sea and Hormuz, rising supply worries, and natural risk premiums covering risks. The war will not end on voting day, nor will crude oil production increase over a single promise.
More importantly, the U.S. strategic reserves are already at low levels, and the buffer cushion is thinning. If the conflict continues, $100 may only be the starting point of a new round of pricing, not the end. If oil prices surge further, inflationary pressures will return.
Trump's statements can influence short-term sentiment but cannot change the supply-demand gap. Oil prices may pull back, but fundamentals do not improve; the correction is just a mid-level pause.
There are two key issues to watch behind: whether the fighting has stopped and whether supply is returning. The competitor to oil prices is not elections, but logistics and capacity recovery.
#布油重返100美元, Trump said he would drop $CL $BZ after the election #OKX Prophet: Come to the Planet to Play Prediction
OKX Prophet is launched, and the exchange begins turning "opinions" themselves into tradable assets.
The prediction market has rapidly heated up over the past two years, essentially turning news, sports, macro, and crypto events directly into binary trades: users no longer just discuss whether something will happen, but price probabilities with capital. After OKX launched "Prophet," this gameplay further entered mainstream crypto trading scenarios. Compared to traditional contracts that only trade price direction, prediction markets can cover events like "$BTC breaking through a certain price level," "whether the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates," or "whether a certain bill will pass," allowing information and sentiment to directly form market prices.
The significance for $OKB is not just an additional product entry point. If the prediction market can generate sustained trading volume, it may increase user activity and allow OKX to expand from a pure coin price trading platform to a broader event trading scenario. For $BTC and $ETH, such products can even become new tools to observe market expectations: contracts show long and short positions, options show implied volatility, and prediction markets directly provide event probabilities. However, these markets are also easily influenced by liquidity and sentiment, and odds do not equal facts. What is truly worth observing is whether transaction depth, number of participants, and market coverage can continue to grow after launch; if there is only a brief surge during hot events, the imagination space is limited, but if a stable trading habit forms, prediction markets may become the exchange's next incremental business.$BTC 📊 Market Chatter｜BTC
Disclaimer: Just casual chart talk, not trading advice!
Bitcoin surged to 78552.6 on the hourly chart before dropping steadily, hitting a low of 76680. After the big drop, it’s stuck at a low level, slowly consolidating.
Current price is 77238.9, just below the 5-day moving average, clearly not recovered in the short term.
Resistance at 77250.5, support at 77220.4.
In plain terms:
To reverse the downtrend, it needs to break above 77250.5; if it can’t hold 77220.4, it will likely test lower lows again.
This kind of sideways action at a low after a big drop is mentally taxing—neither up nor down, just hanging there.
Some think it should bounce back after the drop, others fear it will continue down. Both bulls and bears are watching and waiting.
Instead of rushing in guessing the direction, it’s better to wait quietly for it to choose a path before acting, don’t let the volatility throw off your rhythm 😂Last night, the U.S. Treasury personally stepped in.
They repurchased up to $6 billion in long-term U.S. Treasuries, trying to suppress the rising borrowing costs.
But the market simply didn’t cooperate.
After the announcement, U.S. Treasuries kept falling, and yields remained high. Last week, the 10-year yield hit a new high for 2023, and now with $6 billion poured in, it’s really hard to make a splash in the massive U.S. Treasury market.
To put it plainly:
The dam is leaking, and the Treasury is scooping water out with a dipper.
The real problem isn’t the $6 billion, but the unresolved U.S. fiscal deficit, debt scale, and future bond issuance pressure.
The 10-year Treasury yield is the "gravity" for global assets.
If yields can’t be pushed down, U.S. stocks will be under pressure, gold will need to be repriced, and BTC and ETH will also struggle to stay unaffected.
Now BTC has climbed back above $80,000, and ETH is around $2,500. If Treasury yields continue rising, the crypto market’s rebound potential will be suppressed by liquidity.
Conversely, once long-term yields truly turn downward, $BTC and $ETH could enjoy a more comfortable funding environment.
So don’t just focus on the $6 billion.
What really matters is the 10-year Treasury yield.Couldn't sleep at 5 a.m., kept thinking about how everyone was shouting about the sharp rise a couple of days ago, and the big brothers in the group were all showing off their token profits, but the price was halved just a couple of days after the rise and kept falling!
At one point, I thought the rise meant I had reached enlightenment, but the fall made me think my account was hacked.
$IOST burned 70 million tokens, surged 163%, then retraced 26% in three days! $PUMP pushed Custom Pairs to 0.0049, now at 0.004, down 8.8%! $CP hit an ATH of 0.0397 a week ago, today at 0.0159, down 76%. DASH rose 85% in three weeks to 71, then reversed and dropped 12% to 56 on the golden cross day.
Four coins, four stories, one script: news-driven → short squeeze rally → profit-taking and airdrop holders fleeing collectively → free fall.
IOST's burn accounts for 0.2% of circulation, a drop in the bucket, with 7% annual inflation unchanged; PUMP's issuance monopoly is overtaken by Pons and Fomo's daily income, buybacks can't keep up, competition worsens; CP's airdrop zero-cost chips are dumped upon listing, causing structural selling pressure, not panic selling; DASH's privacy sector ZEC has ETF institutional funds, but DASH doesn't, so its decline is faster than the main player.
The rise relied entirely on news, not fundamentals; the fall exposed the fundamentals. When the tide recedes, you see who's swimming naked, and these four all had no pants on…ETHB discount of 0.53%, this small gap precisely indicates that the ETF is not on-chain spot
As of September 9, BlackRock's ETHB closing price was $31.69, with a fund net asset value of $31.86, a discount of about 0.53%; the median 30-day bid-ask spread is only 0.06%. Liquidity seems adequate, but the discount still reminds investors: holding ETH in a securities account is not the same as holding ETH on-chain yourself.
ETF holders receive tradable shares, custody convenience, and staking reward distributions, not native assets that can be transferred to a wallet at any time. Trading hours, market-making depth, fund fees, and subscription/redemption mechanisms all leave slight deviations between price and net asset value. Most of the time these frictions are inconspicuous, but they can be amplified during periods of market volatility.
This does not mean ETFs are bad. On the contrary, the 0.06% median spread indicates the product already has good trading efficiency. The issue is that familiarity with the packaging should not make one forget the underlying risks. Securitization solves access and operational complexity but does not eliminate ETH's inherent price volatility nor convert staking liquidity into instant cash.
For $ETH, the greatest value of the ETF is that it provides an additional capital channel; for investors, the channel itself also has costs. Institutionalization does not turn on-chain assets into risk-free assets but places them into a more familiar yet more complex financial pipeline.Interest rate hike expectations return to 66%: ETH's valuation anchor is loosening
CME FedWatch shows the probability of a 25 basis point rate hike in September has risen to 66.4%, with UBS expecting one hike each in September and December. For Ethereum, the real pressure is not on-chain but in the discount rate.
ETH has no cash flow, so its valuation relies more on liquidity premium and risk appetite. With U.S. Treasury yields approaching 5%, the opportunity cost of holding high-volatility, non-yielding assets is amplified. High Beta narratives like DeFi, NFT, and L2 will be the first to feel the chill of capital withdrawal. Unlike BTC, which has a "digital gold" moat, ETH acts more like an amplifier of risk appetite.
September also happens to be ETH's traditional weak month, making it difficult for bulls to launch a trend attack before the FOMC. The market is now trading not on upgrade benefits but on "whether there will be another rate hike." If the hike happens, ETH may first see valuation cuts and then test support; if expectations cool down, the rebound will be equally rapid. In the short term, watch sentiment; in the medium term, watch whether real interest rates and on-chain demand can regain the upper hand.
$ETH $BTC $ZEC #加密财库分化：买币还是回购？ #CLARITY法案9月15日闯关，60票成关键 #ZEC跻身前十，机构化进程提速 Money hasn't stopped coming in, but ETH is like someone who won't get out of bed; the alarm has rung eight times, yet it just turns over and keeps dozing.
#ETH现货ETF连续三周净流入
ETF has had net inflows for three consecutive weeks, with $218 million last week, which feels like a warm sign. But the week before that saw $824 million, so the inflow rate suddenly dropped by more than 70%. The faucet isn't off, it's just turned down.
What's more subtle is that some institutions keep buying spot while shorting contracts. You might think they're supporting the price, but actually they're playing the basis and arbitrage; spot is the base position, shorts are insurance, so they can earn rent whether prices go up or down.
So the market looks like this: ETFs are slow money, building the wall brick by brick; contracts are fast money, slapping each other back and forth. Slow money just finished laying the floor, and fast money's liquidation kicks the price back to where it started.
Continuous inflows are certainly good, but don't rush to think the train has left the station. The real things to watch are: whether inflows can continue, whether the hedging shorts will withdraw, and whether on-chain demand will wake up accordingly.
Money coming in is just the beginning; whether it stays is the moment ETH truly opens its eyes. $BTC $ETH $ZEC SanDisk Today's Trend: High-Level Tug-of-War Between Bulls and Bears
$SNDK closed higher today, continuing its strong performance over the past month. It surged intraday before retreating somewhat, reflecting intense competition between bulls and bears.
The core logic behind the rise remains solid. The demand for storage chips from AI data centers continues to be booming. SanDisk's data center business has become the main growth engine, and long-term agreements signed with multiple clients provide strong revenue certainty for the future. Institutions generally have a positive outlook, with some analysts believing the current valuation does not fully reflect the long-term growth potential.
However, concerns cannot be ignored. Kioxia's CEO clearly stated today that "memory prices have risen enough" and indicated they will no longer actively push for significant price increases, becoming the first major manufacturer in this storage cycle to proactively "hit the brakes" on price hikes. This signal directly challenges the core pricing logic behind SanDisk's rise and represents the biggest short-term variable.
Looking ahead, SanDisk's fundamentals remain supportive, but the stock price has already factored in optimistic expectations. If signals of a peak in the price increase cycle strengthen, the risk of a high-level pullback will significantly rise. At this stage, chasing gains requires caution. Nearly $1 billion was continuously absorbed for 3 weeks, but on 9/8 it suddenly turned negative, and about $120 million flowed out again on 9/9.🚨
Seeing this data, many people's first reaction might be:
"Are institutions starting to run away?"
But I think it's not necessary to be so pessimistic yet.
The outflow scale in the past two days is actually not large, structurally it looks more like GBTC continues to drag, and IBIT has not fully withdrawn. Also, BTC previously falling below 79,000 indicates one thing:
ETF buying ≠ price must rise.
Profit-taking, macro pressure, and interest rate expectations can completely offset this part of the buying.
So currently, I tend to see it as normal capital fluctuation rather than a confirmation signal of trend reversal. The market itself has also been repricing around interest rate expectations recently.
What’s really worth watching is not this $46.6 million outflow, but:
👉 Will IBIT start continuous net outflows?
👉 After CPI is released, will the expectations for rate cuts/hikes continue to worsen?
👉 Can BTC stand back above 80,000?
A single outflow is not enough to define the situation. Continuous outflows are what deserve caution.
#DailyOrbit BlackRock's ETHB is close to $1 billion, and institutions are finally buying more than just the price
According to BlackRock's official website data as of September 9, the net assets of the staked Ethereum product ETHB are about $988 million, just a step away from $1 billion; the product was established on February 18, with a 30-day staking reward rate of 1.55%, distributed monthly. This scale indicates that institutional accounts indeed have demand for the combination of “ETH price plus on-chain yield.”
In the past, when institutions bought ETH, the most awkward part was that they could only bear price volatility but could not receive staking returns generated by the protocol itself. ETHB fills part of this gap and also advances the institutionalization of $ETH from pure directional trading to a yield-generating asset.
But 1.55% is not a magical number. It has to be compared collectively with management fees, liquidity arrangements, staking ratios, and U.S. Treasury yields. BlackRock's current base fee rate is 0.25%, with a partial reduction to 0.12% for the first 12 months and the first $2.5 billion in assets. For large funds, what ultimately matters is not the “yield” advertised on the brochure, but how much remains after deducting various costs, and whether unstaked and staked assets can be smoothly handled under redemption pressure.
I see the nearly $1 billion as an entry ticket, not a final proof. If ETHB continues to expand and maintains stable subscriptions, redemptions, and distributions over the long term, $ETH can truly be considered a yield asset on the traditional account shelf.Brothers, looking at the segment just before the US stock market closes today, overall it is still weak and volatile, but there is no panic selling; it feels more like a preemptive risk aversion before important data.
The core pressures remain oil prices, inflation expectations, and US Treasury yields. The earlier high PPI has made the market a bit worried about inflation again, naturally putting pressure on high-valuation tech stocks and risk assets.
However, the market did not continue to plunge near the close, which also indicates that the market is unwilling to overly bet on direction before the key data release. The previous round of decline has already released some risk, and funds are starting to wait and see, so both US stocks and crypto have some support at low levels.
Regarding crypto, $BTC remains weak, while $ETH recovered faster in the early morning, indicating there is indeed buying around 2400 for ETH. But as long as oil prices and yields remain high, it won't be easy for risk assets to turn fully strong directly.
My judgment is: after tonight's close, it will most likely remain volatile and cautious. The most important thing now is not to guess the rise or fall, but to wait for the upcoming key inflation data. If the data is moderate, today's adjustment may turn into a recovery after releasing bad news; if it continues to be hot, US stocks and BTC, ETH may face another round of pressure.
#财报观察员：甲骨文与Adobe今晚交卷 #PPI、CPI接连公布，美联储迎关键两日 #BTC现货ETF大额流入后转负 🚨 78,000 is not the bottom, at most it can be considered a "left-side probing zone"! Bottom fishing now is really not that simple.
Currently (9/10) on the market, BTC is around 78,200, ETH 2465, but 80,000 has been repeatedly unable to break through.
More importantly, before PPI and CPI data are released, funds are clearly in a wait-and-see mode. On 9/8, BTC ETF saw a net outflow of about 46.65 million USD, combined with oil prices breaking 100, 10Y US Treasury yields reaching 4.84%, and rate cut expectations being postponed, macro pressure has not eased at all.
So my approach is very simple:
👉 Stay out: don’t chase.
👉 When BTC returns to 76,000–77,500, try going long lightly in two batches, with single position ≤5%.
👉 Stop loss if BTC falls below 77,500; consider adding on the right side again after firmly reclaiming 80,000.
👉 Focus on ETH in the 2300–2400 range.
👉 HYPE at 85–86 is still high; it just broke a new high at 89.6, and the unlocked selling pressure hasn’t been fully absorbed, so don’t rush to buy, patiently wait for 78–82.
Now it’s not about who dares to bottom fish, but who can survive to wait for certainty.
📌 Make money on the pullback, don’t gamble on the candle after the data release.
#DailyOrbit Buy US tech stocks because you are optimistic about AI; Buy Hong Kong internet stocks because you believe valuations have room to recover; Buy Bitcoin because you trust institutional allocation. All three reasons hold true. But I will first check one thing: if funds don't cheapen for a long time, how much justification do these positions still have to rise? Many portfolios look fragmented in code, but their buying logic relies on falling interest rates and rising risk appetite. You don't feel it when the environment is good, but when facing pressure, you realize several positions may need to be reduced together. I currently don't think all three markets should be universally bearish. What's more worthwhile is to clearly distinguish the opportunities: which have operating growth, which are still waiting for repricing, and which mainly rely on new buying. At this stage, I prefer to take risks based on evidence that has already appeared. US stocks look at operating realization, Hong Kong stocks on investment returns, BTC on capital absorption. 1. First, remove "easing will come" from the default option. The US August PPI rose 0.4% month-on-month and 5.4% year-on-year. Among them, energy prices rose 4.2% month-on-month, contributing more than three-quarters of the goods price increase; while service prices rose by 0.1%. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics This data raises my concern about cost pressures. Energy-driven price increases do not necessarily improve in tandem with end-demand improvements. How much companies can pass on and bear it themselves ultimately comes down to profit margins. Energy producers, transportation companies, and software companies are clearly affected differently. Therefore, I won't decide to reduce risk across the board based on a single PPI figure. But it is enough to make me reconsider: what I assumed when buying. Iran allowing the use of $BTC and USDT for foreign trade settlements carries a much deeper significance than just a "country buying Bitcoin." With escalating sanctions and increasing restrictions on dealing in dollars and the traditional banking system, cross-border money transfers have become a major challenge. Iran is not the first on this path, nor will it be the last. What does this mean for the future of the market? If countries facing sanctions or crises in exchange rates and local currency depreciation turn to using $BTC and stablecoins in their trade, digital assets will no longer be just "high-risk assets," but🍎 Apple finally stopped holding back! The first foldable screen phone is officially released
This is the first major challenge for John Ternus as CEO and Apple's first hardware answer. This is not just a phone; it sends two key signals
🔥 First, the AI hardware implementation battle is fully underway. The larger foldable screen is naturally designed to support multitasking for Apple Intelligence. Apple is behind in AI software and now aims to overtake by innovating hardware form factors
🔥 Second, supply chain cost pressures are fully passed on. Currently, storage chip prices are at a "once-in-a-century" level, and HBM capacity is fully snapped up by AI giants. The foldable screen itself has very high hinge and screen costs, combined with rising storage prices, this device's pricing will likely be extremely high, and Apple's battle to protect its gross margin is just beginning
📊 What this means for our crypto circle
Don't think this has nothing to do with crypto. Consumer electronics are a thermometer for tech stock sentiment. If foldable screens trigger a buying frenzy, tech stock risk appetite will warm up, and BTC can catch a short-term breather. But if pricing is too high causing poor sales, combined with the current Middle East situation, oil prices breaking $100, and rising interest rate expectations, pessimism in tech stocks may accelerate transmission to the crypto market
💡 Operationally: Don't chase Apple concept coins (if any), focus on the supply chain reactions from Samsung and TSMC next. The real beneficiaries are always those selling the shovels behind the scenes
Whether foldable screens sell explosively will directly determine the market's first impression of the "Ternus era"🚨 BTC has 14 minutes left, and the PPI is about to be revealed like a blind box! Tonight could be the starting gun for the next big wave of volatility.
Don’t rush to guess the rise or fall yet; first, look at the "trump cards" the market has already laid out:
Core PPI expected +0.3%, previous +0.2%;
Overall PPI expected +0.4%, previous still 0%.
In plain language: the market has already accepted that inflation will rise, now it’s just waiting to see—how high will it go?
Even more striking, the probability of a rate hike has surged to 62%, up from about 30% a month ago.
Today Brent crude broke through $102 again, and gold fell below 4400.
With oil prices so high, it’s not easy for the PPI to "surprise" the market.
But what really gives me a headache isn’t tonight’s PPI, it’s:
If PPI is hot, can CPI still look good tomorrow night?
The September 15 rate decision meeting is approaching, with PPI and CPI released consecutively—these are basically the last two trailers before the Fed’s move.
Now whales seem to be lying low too, with 5.23 million BTC barely moving in a week.
Yet the Fear & Greed Index is still at 66—greedy.
I’m actually most afraid of this state:
When everyone thinks "it should be fine," that’s often when the market is most likely to break.
#DailyOrbit A day swings from +8% down to -8%, can this speculative coin really be touched?
The market broke down overnight, and ZEC gave everyone a risk lesson: it was still rallying 8.5% to 1269 in the early morning, but followed the market's counterattack at night, dropping to 1173, down 8.5% in 24 hours. After a day of rollercoaster rides, let's talk about the temperament of this speculative coin, and compare it with Ethereum.
First, $ZEC has some real fundamentals recently: Grayscale's ZEC spot ETF was listed on the NYSE at the end of August, already holding over 400,000 coins. The SEC investigation that had entangled it for years ended with zero fines. Coupled with the halving at the end of 2024 reducing inflation, it is the only privacy coin to have obtained a "compliance entry ticket". There is logic behind the funds willing to speculate on it. But the problem is, privacy coins have small market caps and inherently high volatility. After the positive news is priced in, when many chase the highs, a cold market wind can trigger a mass sell-off, with swings from +8% to -8% in a day. High-leverage contracts can blow up twice in one day.
Looking at Ethereum $ETH, it only fell less than 1% overnight, holding at 2437. It’s not as exciting as ZEC, but with 35.9% staked and locked, and exchange balances at new lows, it has a floor when it falls. It’s the kind of asset that lets you sleep well at night.
The conclusion is straightforward: with ZEC, whether you bet on the right direction or the wrong one, it moves about 10% a day. It’s only suitable for very small positions for speculation. Ordinary investors chasing highs and selling lows are just giving money to the market. If you really want to speculate on the privacy sector’s volatility, wait for this volume contraction and stabilization; if you want to hold steadily and wait for the CPI-driven market, Ethereum is a much more reliable ballast. Don’t just see the thief eating the meat and ignore the thief getting beaten.