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What the heck is going on? This can actually happen? An old coin launched back in 2018, $HOT, nearly doubled in 5 days 😂
I found it while browsing the contract rankings. On October 30th, its lowest price was still 0.000304, and yesterday it peaked at 0.000598, which is about a 97% increase. Now it has pulled back to around 0.00052, still up over 70% from the low point.
The trading volume is even crazier. On October 26th, its perpetual contracts only traded about $700,000 all day, but yesterday it surged to $327 million, a more than 400-fold increase. Open interest also rose from $970,000 to about $9.2 million now, more than 9 times in a week.
The reason is that the project launched the HoloFuel network on November 1st, and holders of HOT can swap 1:1 for HoloFuel. Once swapped, it can't be exchanged back. The official team is reminding everyone not to rush, as HOT still has better liquidity on exchanges.
Twitter is already split into two camps; some are shouting that the old coin is revived, while others are cursing that it's just another pump by the project team. The funding rate is currently negative, and many betting on its drop are also jumping in.
It reached a peak of 0.0313 in April 2021, so the current price is still 98% below that. Those who held at the peak back then must have mixed feelings seeing this big bullish candle.
For beginners, it's recommended to watch more and trade less; when buying coins, only buy $BTC The original post records a group of whale perpetual contract positions, all biased short, with a total position value of 660 million U. The three positions have consistent directions, but unrealized P&L shows divergence, and funding fees have become another highlight of this data set. The BTC short uses 5X cross margin, with a position size of -2350.25 BTC, position value of 180 million U, margin of 36.6286 million U, and an average open price of 76383.0 U. The unrealized P&L is -3.6239 million U, funding fee is +3.5912 million U, and liquidation price is 137256.15 U. The two amounts are close, but funding fees cannot be directly equated to realized profits, nor can unrealized losses be considered fully covered. The ETH short also uses 5X cross margin, with a position size of -92,500 ETH, position value of 210 million U, margin of 42.4841 million U, and an average open price of 2322.71 U; unrealized P&L is +2.3505 million U, funding fee +4.5647 million U, liquidation price 3793.19 U. The SOL short uses 7X cross margin, with a position size of -684,800 SOL, position value of 64.2548 million U, margin of 9.1793 million U, and an average open price of 94.3346 U. This position's unrealized P&L is +345,600 U, funding fee +3.9632 million U, liquidation price 292.81 U. 💡 My view. This group of positions is more suitable for observing how shorts endure price fluctuations rather than directly serving as a signal for future market direction. BTC has already shown unrealized losses, ETH and SO $BTC
48,900 units. Mining companies listed in the first half of this year sold this much BTC, according to Needham's statistics, a new record for half-year sell-offs. During the same period, the CoinShares Mining ETF dropped 23%, and companies like Keel have already shifted to AI data centers.
VanEck calculates that miners need an average price of 100,000 to break even. Now it's 77,074, with a 24h high of 78,066. There's a 23,000 gap with nothing to fill in between.
I don't think this is a signal for takeoff. On the contrary, when miners' cash flow is tight, they will keep selling, the lower the price falls, the more they have to sell. At 8 o'clock, that 1H candle released 552 units, smashing 1.2%, with holdings dropping from 2.582 billion to 2.506 billion — it's the bulls running, not the bears smashing.
The miners' ledger and the market ledger are indeed two different books. This machine still needs to be polished for a while.
#美国中期选举在即，哪些结果值得关注？ #对冲基金首次低配AI，科技巨头资金压力升温
The US stock AI bubble has already burst
The Nasdaq 100 index has retreated more than 10% from its October 6 peak, officially entering a technical correction. Even more striking is the scale of market value evaporation: in October alone, AI-related stocks lost about $5 trillion in market value.
The cracks in the bubble first appeared in cash flow. Google, Amazon, and Meta all recorded negative free cash flow simultaneously in Q3 2026, with Meta turning negative for the first time since 2012. The four major tech giants' combined capital expenditure in 2026 exceeds $740 billion, but Nvidia's Q3 guidance failed to meet the market's most optimistic expectations and was sold off after hours. Investors are no longer paying for "announcing AI investments" but are instead asking when returns will be realized.
Capital votes with its feet: hedge funds sold AI concept stocks for five consecutive trading days in October, fully reversing AI purchases since early 2025; Morgan Stanley data shows hedge fund AI holdings have dropped to their lowest allocation since early 2023. Meanwhile, the 10-year US Treasury yield fell below 5% for the first time in a month, signaling a full return to safe-haven trading.
What has broken is not the AI technology itself, but the valuation logic of "paying for the narrative." The market has switched to a profit verification mode, which is far harsher than the story. $ETH $ZEC $SNDK #苹果Q4营收超预期，下季度毛利率指引承压
It's simply banditry.
Is Wall Street failing? Pre-IPO on-chain rush, epic divergence appears among the first, second, and third largest coins.
Before Anthropic's IPO lands, the on-chain ANT contract dropped 21% in three hours, valuation surged to 1.9 trillion then retreated. Although revenue surged and IPO expectations were high, funds have already cashed out early.
$BTC 76980, under pressure but holding above the 50-week moving average, sovereign institution funds are supporting; $ETH 2261, L2 upgrade launched, ETF continues large outflows; $SOL 91.99, ecosystem data is impressive, bulls concentrated in liquidations.
The commonality is clear: the underlying ecosystem steadily advances, holders remain under pressure, currently in a bottoming cycle. Compared to candlesticks, capital turnover is the core signal.#美国中期选举在即，哪些结果值得关注？
Two possible election outcomes will reshape the macro narrative for BTC and ETH.
Different midterm election results correspond to two completely different trading logics.
If the congressional landscape changes leading to expectations of fiscal tightening and easing inflation pressure, it will provide breathing room for BTC and ETH; if the current pattern continues with hawkish policy expectations persisting, risk assets will remain under pressure.
The market has already priced in some uncertainties in advance, but vote counts and subsequent official statements will still cause significant volatility. Macro news takes priority over technical signals.
$BTC $ETH $TSLA
Today is Thursday, the midterm election voting has started, and it's almost the time close to Friday, with various major volatility news and policy events all concentrated in one week, just thinking about it is terrifying.
Tech stocks with actual business support, relatively speaking, basically haven't dropped much during this round of US stock market pullback, and have even performed quite well.
From the weekly level, we can see Tesla fluctuating between 410.74 and 347.49, about 20%, which is relatively large, suitable for both large and small scale trading.
On the upside: 407.79
On the downside: 388.81 (must not break below)$BTC touched 78,063 at 5 AM Beijing time, just hit 78,000 and then reversed. From 7 AM it started to decline continuously, hitting 76,816 on this hourly candle at 9 AM, now around 76,900, a 1.5% retracement from the high, 24h -0.4%.
Liqwall reports $50.3 million BTC liquidations on November 3rd, with $30.2 million longs and $20.1 million shorts, significantly less than the previous day's $85.7 million, indicating leverage hasn't been heavily flushed.
$ETH is steadier than BTC, holding around 2,263, with fees dropping to +0.0075%, while BTC fees remain at +0.01%.
Binance BTC long-short ratio dropped from 2.65 last night to 2.35, contract open interest over 24 hours moved slightly from $7.63 billion to $7.66 billion, basically unchanged.
My view is that 78,000 didn't hold; MMTC estimates about $30 million long liquidations near 75,900 and 75,100 each. If it breaks below yesterday's low of 76,388, it will likely sweep down further.The stablecoin liquidity pool has recently seen a drop in water level. Matthew Sigel, Head of Digital Assets Research at VanEck, stated that the total stablecoin supply decreased by $11.5 billion over 30 days, falling to $291.2 billion, with Tether and Circle accounting for about three-quarters of the decline. At this point in the story, the pool has shrunk, but it doesn't directly mean the coin prices will fall.
I would treat this as a cautious signal rather than a forecast of a downturn: fewer stablecoins mean potential buying power might be contracting; the decline is mainly concentrated in two issuers, so it can't be simply interpreted as all issuers retreating; and the supply numbers themselves don't explain where the funds have gone.
What this story reminds me is that the water level is related to the market but they are not the same ledger. My speculation is that if the supply continues to shrink, the recovery of risk appetite might be more difficult. What do you think? Will the liquidity pool refill next, or will the retreat continue? "Two wallets opening short positions in the same direction"—my first reaction isn't that a bearish signal has arrived, but rather: does this really count as two independent votes? In the material, two traders established $BTC short positions within a short time, with a combined nominal value of about $1,108,800 and leverage between 20 and 24 times. After learning quantitative methods, I have a habit of checking the sample whenever I see "multiple people in agreement." 🤖
If I were to write this as a strategy, I would say: if at least two wallets open positions in the same direction within five minutes, add them to the watchlist, but do not trigger a trade directly. Five minutes is a tentative parameter I set, not the exact interval given by the material. My judgment is that same-direction openings are suitable as a filter but not enough to confirm direction.
The advantage of this rule is that it turns the "feeling that someone is shorting" into a recordable and backtestable condition. The loophole is also straightforward: two addresses do not equal two independent decisions; the material does not prove they are related, nor does it prove they are independent; if they belong to the same decision set, then counting votes repeatedly will amplify the signal.
I would also set an upper limit on the signal weight of a single wallet to avoid large positions "voting" for others. As for whether it is effective, it depends on subsequent sample verification; we cannot take this opening as the answer. If you were to write this condition, would you require at least three wallets, or keep two but add an independence filter?A friend recently told me that Bitcoin has historically declined after US midterm elections, suggesting this isn't the right time for leverage or futures trading. But is that really the full picture? Let's compare November 2014, 2018, 2022, and 2026. 2014: The 200-day moving average was trending downward, and $BTC remained below it. The price was also trapped beneath a clear downtrend line. This was simply a bear market. What did it have to do with midterm elections? 2018: The situation was almoThe liquidation distributions of XRP, HYPE, and ZEC have not formed a one-sided structure. The original author judges that the short-term price may oscillate within a range, and when breaking upward or downward, it may encounter orders waiting to be triggered. XRP's current price is 1.28. The largest pain point for shorts above is at 1.30, with a volume of 1,550,700, a distance of +1.32%; the largest pain point for longs below is at 1.24, with a volume of 5,751,300, a distance of -3.42%. The upper position is closer, while the long liquidation funds below are larger, so the impact of fluctuations in the two directions is not symmetrical. HYPE's current price is 85.74. The largest pain point for shorts is at 88.56, with a volume of 905,700, a distance of +3.29%; the largest pain point for longs is at 82.52, with a volume of 1,564,900, a distance of -3.76%. There are liquidation funds on both sides, so the direction cannot be judged based on only one side for now. ZEC's current price is 1224.37. The largest pain point for shorts above is at 1250.44, with a volume of 1,667,300, a distance of +2.13%; the largest pain point for longs below is at 1170.88, with a volume of 2,439,400, a distance of -4.37%. Compared to the other two, ZEC's long pain point below is farther away, and the retracement path is not close to the current price. 💡 My view. This set of data is suitable for observing potential volatility paths and should not treat liquidation pain points as inevitable targets. For XRP, attention should be paid to whether the short positions near 1.30 are triggered first, as well as the long pressure corresponding to 1.24 below; for HYPE, watch both sidesTonight, the real market action is not on the K-line chart, but at the vote counting stations.
Several Republican participants in the House elections have expressed concerns about the preliminary results, fearing that the Democrats might achieve a landslide victory. An official in Georgia said multiple campaign teams worry that the voter turnout in the state may not be enough to defeat the Democrats; several officials in Texas also warned that if Republican voter turnout is low today, tonight will be very tough.
Note the wording: it’s not "we lost," but "voter turnout may not be sufficient." The former is a result, the latter is a process. The process still has variables, and with variables, prices will fluctuate repeatedly throughout the night.
This is why $BTC is performing poorly on event nights. It’s not that someone is betting on who will win, but that some don’t know who will win, so they reduce their positions first. Liquidity is already thin, market makers quote prices further away, slippage increases, and the probability of stop-losses being triggered rises. This is even more evident with $ETH and $SOL—not driven by fundamentals, but by position adjustments.
Another detail: the term "voter turnout" repeatedly appears in the news. Voter turnout can be counted in real time and broadcast live. Therefore, prices react to scattered, not necessarily accurate, vote counting data rather than waiting for a definitive result. The market overreacts, then corrects, then reacts again.
Conclusion: nights like this don’t produce trends, only volatility. Those who want to profit from trends should wait; those who want to profit from volatility must reduce leverage—your opponent is not the market, but data delay.
The market actually doesn’t care who takes office; it only cares about "when it no longer has to guess."Current BTC holdings are 33,700 coins, with a nominal value of 2.599 billion USDT.📊
Overall, from October 4th to now, holdings increased from 28,000 to 33,700, a rise of about 20%. However, during the same period, BTC price dropped from 84,000 to 77,000, showing a divergence of "price down, positions up."📉📈
This usually means: funds did not withdraw during the decline but kept accumulating. Considering that previously 67% of retail accounts were bullish, I tend to believe retail investors have been continuously bottom-fishing during the drop, with long positions growing thicker.🧐
Looking at the nominal value: at the end of October, it once surged to a high of 35,700, then after a sharp drop yesterday, it only slightly retreated, and now it’s back to 33,700. This indicates that this round of sell-off has not completed the cleanup, and leveraged funds are still in the market.💥
The real bottom is often accompanied by a significant shrinkage in holdings, leverage clearing out, and a quiet market. Currently, positions remain high, chips are not cleaned out, and there will likely be further repeated fluctuations, even a second dip, forcing some long positions out.⚠️What I'm focusing on is the detail of "packaging multisignatures into compact proofs" 👀. Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake announced that the minimalist zkVM leanVM has completed end-to-end formal verification and can process over 1000 leanXMSS aggregations per second; Ethereum's full post-quantum security transition target is set for December 2028.
This is quite interesting, but I think for smaller coins it's more like a technical differentiation question rather than a universal positive. If Ethereum's progress heats up the post-quantum topic, related high-volatility assets might gain attention; however, if mainstream networks push their own solutions, it will make it harder for small projects relying solely on the "post-quantum resistant" label to articulate unique value. Sentiment can spill over, but demand may not necessarily follow.
I will observe whether the discussion heat translates into actual integration, and what additional problems small projects actually solve, rather than using the target date as a market alarm. Among the security-related sectors people have been focusing on recently, are they more concerned about post-quantum signatures or the engineering progress of zero-knowledge proofs?Midterm Election Voting Day: The "Post-Election Discount" for Bitcoin May Just Be Beginning
Conclusion first: Don’t rush to bottom-fish. It’s highly likely the Democrats will retake the House, and the Senate also leans blue. Historically, Bitcoin has dropped for a period in the weeks following three midterm elections, so this time may be no exception. The real risk isn’t who wins, but that after the "boot drops," capital realizes the regulatory deadlock hasn’t been broken and may even worsen.
On the election front, NBC’s final poll shows Democrats leading 52% to 45%, Trump’s disapproval rising to 60%, and the Republican defense in the House weakening. With Democrats controlling Congress, advancing the CLARITY Act will only become harder, further narrowing the window for crypto legislation, naturally biasing short-term sentiment bearish.
Capital is voting with its feet as well. BlackRock’s IBIT saw a single-day outflow of $405 million, and Bitcoin spot ETFs have had a cumulative net outflow of about $859 million over nearly six trading days. Institutions clearly intend to reduce positions ahead of the macro event window. Although whales are increasing holdings on-chain, the marginal pricing power on the ETF side remains with sellers in the short term, so the two rhythms are not aligned.
The market structure is also bearish: daily volume is shrinking, MACD death cross remains unchanged, and rebounds lack volume support. #美国中期选举在即，哪些结果值得关注？ #苹果Q4营收超预期，下季度毛利率指引承压 #PalantirQ3营收增长96%，股价不涨反跌 Tether's CEO said at the Bitcoin conference in Lugano, Switzerland, that the company itself holds about 150,000 bitcoins, valued at approximately $11.5 billion.
But in its latest reserve report, the bitcoins only amount to about 100,000.
Tether is the company issuing the USDT stablecoin, and that report only lists the "assets backing USDT." The extra approximately 50,000 bitcoins, worth about $3.8 billion, were not disclosed by the CEO regarding where or when they were purchased.
Tether's previous statement was that self-owned investments are funded by profits and kept separate from USDT reserves, so they do not appear in the report.
Only one side can be verified: the 100,000 bitcoins are audited by accountants, while the 150,000 figure is just a verbal number.
Do you think Tether should disclose the addresses of these 50,000 bitcoins? Should / Should not
#Strategy回购规模超购币三倍，财库策略转向？ #苹果Q4营收超预期，下季度毛利率指引承压 This earnings report proves that Apple's fundamentals are still very strong — even though the whole industry has fallen so much, it can still hold up by raising prices on its high-end line. The further drop after hours is more about "valuation too high, fault tolerance too low": the stock price has increased market value by over one trillion dollars in four months; the market demands not just meeting expectations, but perfection. What’s really worth watching is the memory cost line, which is squeezing not only Apple but the entire consumer electronics sector, as AI is competing for production capacity and storage. Also, on November 4 (today), Apple’s smart features open testing in China, and the Qianwen function in cooperation with Alibaba is about to launch — this is the next variable to watch in the Chinese market Analyzed a set of capital flow data, the signals are very interesting!
BTC, ETH, and SOL all show synchronized net inflows, but prices collectively weaken, a typical case of capital inflow with a falling market.
$BTC: Net inflow of 1363.03 BTC
$ETH: Net inflow of 15,300 ETH
$SOL: Net inflow of 94,600 SOL
The three major mainstream assets see synchronized capital inflows, yet the market faces pressure and pulls back, indicating increased crowding among bulls and intensified shakeout forces.
Capital entering the market does not mean an immediate rally; when consensus is bullish, it is more likely to experience volatile digestion.
This is purely market data observation and does not constitute any investment advice.
#美国中期选举在即，哪些结果值得关注？ The "ATM" for whales is not the unrealized profit of BTC, but the daily funding fees ringing in the account.
BTC short position unrealized profit is 3.54 million, ETH unrealized loss is 69,000, SOL unrealized profit is 148,900 — based on these figures, it indeed looks like "BTC is carrying two burdens." But when adding the funding fees from the three positions, the picture changes: BTC collected 348,300, ETH collected 2,290, SOL collected 8,385, totaling about 360,000 USDT, which more than covers ETH's unrealized loss by over five times. Another set of on-chain data is even more direct: the combined short positions of four coins under the same strategy have net funding fee income exceeding 12 million USD, which not only covers the unrealized losses of BTC and SOL but still leaves a large surplus.
This explains why ETH's unrealized loss of 69,000 doesn't faze the whale at all. Its liquidation price is 9,614, current price is 2,249, leaving a fourfold buffer; BTC's liquidation price is 88,415, with 25x leverage but full margin coverage, also enough to endure. What is truly "being cashed out" is not any single unrealized profit, but the negative funding fee structure where shorts are so crowded that longs continue to pay — the whale profits from this cash flow, not directional bets.
However, funding fees are not stable income. A decent rebound is all it takes for the rate to reverse, and ETH's unrealized loss precisely indicates that in this three-line portfolio, ETH is the only position without profit buffer protection. SOL is slightly profitable, BTC is highly profitable, both essentially have moved out of the danger zone, while ETH is still stuck near the entry price, making it the weakest link in the entire structure.Midterm elections are here, what’s next for BTC/ETH?
On November 3rd, the midterm election voting takes place, with Democrats having about a 93% chance to take the House and also favored in the Senate race. Interestingly, the more "as expected" the results are, the less surprise the market experiences—the probabilities were already priced in a month before the election, making the voting day more of a time marker than a market turning point.
BTC is currently around $77,800, with the implied volatility curve showing a "bulge," indicating traders are betting on short-term volatility rather than sustained turmoil. Even a $6 billion hack on Binance didn’t crash the market; BTC held near $78,000, viewed by the market as an "operational shock" rather than a systemic event.
ETH is about $2,290, but ETFs saw over $1.2 billion net outflows in October, with the largest spot buyers stepping back. The ETH/BTC ratio slid to 0.029, approaching a three-month low.
Conclusion: In the short term, watch volatility; in the medium term, watch congressional control—if Republicans hold both chambers, the CLARITY Act could advance, potentially causing mainstream coins to surge; otherwise, crypto-related stocks may face pressure. Historically, after 19 midterm elections, the S&P 500 rose every time in the following year, but BTC in three cycles first fell then rose, so don’t rush to catch the rebound.Circle's earnings report will be released in 12 hours.
But the market is already divided.
29 analysts have price targets ranging from $34 to $243, a 7-fold difference.
Morgan Stanley downgraded to $34 on November 2, citing slow USDC growth.
Citibank's target is $243.
The disagreement lies in profit, not revenue.
Full-year revenue is expected to be $3.03 billion, a 10% increase from last year.
But EPS is expected at 1.15, down from 2.35 last year, cut in half.
Circle's income mainly comes from reserve interest = USDC supply × interest rate.
At first glance, USDC is 71.28 billion.
Down 4% from a month ago, down 5.4% from a year ago.
The scale isn't growing; money in different channels is rising, squeezing from both ends.
There is also support: the federal funds rate is 3.75–4.00%, so interest per unit of reserve is higher than during rate cuts.
The stock closed today at 75.22, up 4.36%, then fell back to 74.26 after hours.
The 52-week high was 140, now down about half.
I won't guess on the beat; revenue might beat slightly, EPS might miss slightly.
If you really want to watch, focus on whether USDC supply growth turns positive month-over-month.
If this number doesn't turn positive, even if revenue beats, the valuation won't hold.
Do you think tomorrow we should watch USDC scale or that EPS?
#Circle财报在即，稳定币增长能否兑现收益？ 🔥 Friday's Nonfarm Payrolls are coming! BTC faces another major macro test, beware of hawkish data shocks! 😯
🔵 Data aspect: On November 6 at 21:30, the US will release October's Nonfarm Payrolls. September added only 29,000 jobs, the market expects a rebound to about 60,000–65,000 this time, with unemployment steady at 4.2%.
🔴 Strong employment: If job additions significantly exceed expectations, especially with higher wage growth, the market may reprice higher interest rate expectations, strengthening the dollar and US Treasury yields, putting pressure on BTC and other risk assets.
🟡 Weak employment: If data falls short of expectations, rate cut expectations may rise, but if unemployment rises significantly, recession fears will suppress risk appetite, which is not necessarily positive for the crypto space.
🟢 My judgment: Currently, I am more focused on the hawkish shock from Nonfarm Payrolls exceeding expectations. On Friday, pay close attention to job additions, unemployment rate, and average hourly earnings; do not focus on just one figure.
⚠️ Risk reminder: Sharp volatility and two-way stop losses are likely before and after data release. It is not recommended to heavily bet on direction in advance; wait for the market to digest the data and BTC to form a clear structure before considering entry.
#美国中期选举在即，哪些结果值得关注？ $BTC $ETH $SOL I saw this message and first did a financial calculation: having investment permission does not mean money has already entered the market. The material did not provide an investment quota, nor did it say when execution would happen. I temporarily do not count this potential demand as real money.
The King of Bhutan has granted the Gelephu Financial Services Office the central bank functions, including the power to invest in digital assets and cryptocurrencies, and also provided a path to launch the national currency. I think this is a positive development at the institutional level, but it cannot be directly regarded as a market bullish signal: authorization provides a basis for participation, but specific investments have not yet been disclosed; what can be invested in and how much risk one is willing to bear are not the same thing.
For ordinary users, I am more concerned about whether there will be clear investment scope and risk control arrangements later. If these become clearer step by step, I will see it as a more solid signal. Between the excitement of chasing news and the steadiness of waiting for implementation, I choose the latter—first watch the execution, and don’t add extra storylines to the news.Gold fell below 3920 tonight, but more worth looking at than the price is its demand structure.
A rare set of divergent data: global central banks' quarterly gold purchases have surged unusually, while private consumption has directly frozen at a high level. To translate—it's the central banks buying gold, making long-term de-dollarization allocations measured in years; meanwhile, ordinary people have already stopped buying.
What does this mean? Don't mistake the central banks' slow play as your starting gun for short-term gold longs. In the short term, the price still follows real interest rates and the dollar; the central banks' move is a structural force, not a reason for you to enter the market tomorrow.
When you buy gold, are you playing the long game with central banks, or are you gambling on a safe haven?PUMP's trading volume increased by nearly 70% in this hour, but the closing price was lower than the previous hour.
OKEx spot trading from 08:00 to 09:00 was about $390,000, and from 07:00 to 08:00 about $232,800; the closing price fell from $0.004328 to $0.004306. The nominal contract open interest in the same hour dropped from about $27.443 million to $27.197 million. At 09:05, spot price was about $0.004249, with 1% buy and sell depth around $211,000 and $163,000 respectively.
My judgment is that the increased trading volume has not yet stabilized the price. The slight decrease in nominal open interest also shows no obvious expansion in contract positions for now. It's easy here to mistake volume increase as confirmation of buying, but neither trading volume nor nominal open interest tells us who is actively selling.
I am more focused on the closing from 09:00 to 10:00. If it closes back above $0.004328 and open interest rises, this judgment needs to be revised; if it closes below the previous hour's low of $0.004240, then continue to watch if trading volume expands accordingly.
$PUMP On the surface, everything is lying low, but once you flip through the derivatives ledger, the three cards are completely different. Do you think that just because the price has dropped quite a bit, it means a reversal is near? Recently, revisiting AKE, LAB, and BEAT, their prices quietly lie in the low range, but the more you look, the more it feels like the activity is just a facade; the real rhythm is determined by the contract-side holding costs. Low price doesn't mean light burden; some coins are just hiding their baggage within the derivatives structure. Let's start with AKE. The most striking thing is not the current price, but the thick historical long position trap above, so dense that if the main force wants to make a decent upward repair, they must first pay a very high funding cost. This kind of market is prone to a fake move: a slight pull-up to make those chasing the rebound think the bottom has arrived, then gradually unloading in batches, slowly exchanging the positions. So in the short term, it looks more like buying time rather than brewing a trend-level reversal. Of course, there is a bullish path, provided that the trapped chips are truly digested; but if it's just a volume-shrinking price lift, be cautious of a secondary drop. LAB's problem is more straightforward: millions worth of historical positions are pressing at the high level, and the cleanup is insufficient. Under this structure, the rebound after overselling is often limited in strength, and a second dip may follow. It's not that it won't rise, but each recovery feels more like handing an exit to trapped positions rather than the start of a new cycle. Without a complete turnover of holdings, a stable market is hard to truly grow. BEAT is the relatively clean one among the three. There are fewer historical traps above, light selling pressure, and the prior shakeout was relatively thorough; its fundamentals look the best among the three. But it has a very realistic shortcoming: lackingAt 1:30 PM, the Asian session continues to fluctuate, with $BTC stuck in a weak range around 77800, while the truly alarming signals lie beyond the order book: market depth suddenly halved by 50%, and $ETH was sold off by a major asset management giant by over 580,000 coins (about $1.3 billion) within a month, indicating institutions are voting with their feet. This is not an ordinary pullback but a value reassessment amid liquidity withdrawal. First, looking at $BTC. The previous level of 81500 is now history; spot buying has broken down thoroughly, and 78500 has flipped from support to heavy resistance. 77800 repeatedly holds as a floor, but a large amount of liquidation chips accumulate around 76000. Once 78200 is breached, a wick triggering long liquidations is almost inevitable. The bearish logic currently dominates, with clear trigger conditions: if it stabilizes below 78200, the next target is the 76000 liquidation zone. The situation for $ETH is even more delicate. The previous level of 2450 corresponds to the current weak consolidation around 2240. The $1.3 billion institutional outflow has directly drained the confidence base, and the $ETH/$BTC rate is approaching the bottom. It is currently retesting 2240; if 2200 breaks, an accelerated slide toward 2100 may soon follow. This is not panic but a chain reaction after large funds actively reduce risk. $SOL has not been spared either. It fell from 105, lost the 100 support, and then retreated to around 94. Under the market-wide deleveraging transmission, support depth has sharply thinned, the floating chip structure is loose, and any rebound is prone to trigger secondary selling. Putting these three lines together, the logic is clear: institutions are massively withdrawing capital, market depth is reduced$AMD surged about 7%–8% after hours, with data center revenue doubling to about $8.55 billion, observing without chasing
Closed around 483.9 (+about 3.7%), after-hours posted around 507–520.
Q3 revenue about $13.38 billion/+45%, adjusted EPS about 2.09, both exceeding expectations.
Data center about $8.55 billion, year-on-year about +97%; Q4 revenue guidance about $17 billion ±3%, higher than consensus about $16.2 billion.
Gross margin guidance about 55% slightly soft, client + gaming down about -8% year-on-year.
My view: This is a strong rebuttal to the "AI spending peak" narrative, but after-hours gap up does not equal a trend reversal to bullish — gross margin hasn't improved, PC is still shrinking, sentiment recovery does not mean chasing higher.
Observe without chasing, do not catch the falling knife; watch if regular trading on Wednesday can hold around 500, breaking below about 480 or guidance falsification means failure.
Do you trust the data center doubling to support valuation more, or are you more worried about gross margin and PC dragging behind?
$AMD $NVDA $SMCI
#USStocks #AMDearnings 48Kchunbai said that his trading conditions are set too strictly, causing him to miss many opportunities frequently.
He gave an example with Bitcoin ($BTC) on November 3: the purchase quantity is the same, but the pre-set sell stop-loss prices differ, and the losses he is prepared to bear also differ. Therefore, he believes that the trading rules should clearly state how much to buy and when to exit.
However, he also thinks that continuous losses cannot be entirely explained by "sticking to discipline"; when the market changes, the rules themselves need to be reviewed. There is also a pitfall on the other side: excluding conditions based on past losses; adding conditions to recapture missed profit opportunities. In the end, the rules can explain every segment of history but fail to perform well when encountering new market conditions.Today, the A-shares market split in two.
The STAR 50 index closed down 3.81%, the ChiNext index fell 2.73%, with growth stocks being crushed; meanwhile, looking at the Hong Kong stocks, the Hang Seng Tech index actually rose 0.74%. The same "AI + semiconductor" story received completely opposite reactions from the two markets.
More worth watching than the indexes is another figure: the margin financing balance of the two markets shrank by 32 billion yuan in one day, with leveraged funds withdrawing. The narrative is still being talked about, but the money has already left first.
When a sector relies on different markets to take turns supporting it and on leverage to prop it up, the foundation underneath is actually weakening. For this wave of growth stocks, I tend to see it as a retreat, not just a shakeout. When I look at prediction markets, I always pay extra attention to the question: Can big money only change the odds, or can it also push the actual outcome?
For example, if guessing whether Bitcoin can hit a certain price, if the money really goes to buy the spot, it's more than just signaling. But some things, no matter how much you buy, you can't change the result.
This feels different from the usual experience of buying coins; you have to consider whether the participants can actually influence the event. The odds look like everyone's judgment, but when the market is thin, it might just be whoever has more money and a louder voice. I'm quite curious whether the person heavily betting on "yes" is actually preparing to take action themselves...Dogecoin (DOGE) Whale (Mega Whale) Classification Standards (Market Common Criteria) - 🐬 Dolphin: 1 million to 10 million DOGE - 🦈 Shark: 10 million to 100 million DOGE - 🐳 Whale: ≥100 million DOGE (can significantly influence the market) - 🦑 Super Mega Whale: ≥1 billion DOGE (institutional/exchange level) Quantity and Chip Situation According to Santiment statistics: there are about 140 wallets holding ≥100 million DOGE, these addresses collectively hold over 108 billion DOGE, with chip concentration far higher than BTC and ETH. Key Big Pitfall: The top on-chain rich list is not a single whale, but Robinhood's custody cold wallet (about 27.2 billion DOGE, nearly 17.5% of circulating supply), which contains coins from hundreds of thousands of retail investors, not one person; second is Upbit, third is Binance, both are exchange custody wallets, representing user asset custody, not private mega whales. The legendary super address that once held nearly 30% of DOGE was split by the end of 2021 and is no longer a single large holder. Characteristics (Compared to BTC/ETH Whales) 1. DOGE is a meme coin with thinner liquidity; a large private whale's big transfer or dump causes much more violent market fluctuations than BTC or ETH, easily triggering panic and chain liquidations. 2. High chip concentration: the top 10 addresses together account for the circulating supply#Circle财报在即，稳定币增长能否兑现收益？
Circle (CRCL) is about to release its Q3 earnings report, with the core focus on whether the growth in its stablecoin USDC can truly translate into substantial profits.
With the increase in USDC circulation and the expansion of payment scenarios, Circle's revenue prospects are highly anticipated, with market forecasts even showing an upside surprise probability as high as 67%.
However, the market still needs to remain cautious. Stablecoin profits are highly tied to US dollar interest rates; if macro interest rates decline, even with scale expansion, the yield on reserve assets may shrink. Additionally, high distribution and operating costs directly challenge net profits.
This earnings report is not only Circle's "report card" but also a critical touchstone to test whether the stablecoin business model can achieve both "high scale" and "high profit" realization in a complex environment.CORE is a small-cap altcoin without an industry-standard whale threshold (unlike BTC which is fixed at ≥1000 BTC, or ETH commonly at ≥10000 ETH). Generally, within the community, there are two commonly used thresholds for tracking CORE whales (Nansen / Lookonchain): 1. CORE Mega Whales (capable of impacting the market): ≥1,000,000 CORE 2. Large holders/Shark tier: 100,000 to 1,000,000 CORE Core characteristics (the biggest difference from BTC and ETH) 1. Extremely high concentration of holdings The top wallets include: Core DAO treasury, team/investor lockup contracts, staking contracts, and exchange cold wallets. The top 10 addresses hold a very high proportion of the circulating supply, which is the fundamental reason why CORE’s volatility is much greater than BTC/ETH. 2. No fixed official number - The ≥1,000,000 CORE tier: the real-time number of addresses is usually in the dozens (dynamic, changing with unlocking, staking, and transfers) - The ≥100,000 CORE (large holders): a few hundred addresses Many addresses are staking contracts, foundation treasury, or exchange reserves, not individual large holders. The number of independent mega whales who can freely sell and actively trade is much smaller than the number of addresses. 3. Data pain points: CORE’s on-chain statistics are not as mature as BTC or ETH. Santiment and Glassnode do not provide stable whale-specific statistics like they do for Bitcoin and Ethereum; data can only be found on Core ScanThe chairman of Changxin Technology just increased the buyback quota from the maximum 2 billion to 5 billion.
In the same week, Hynix and Samsung's financial reports were both explosive, South Korea's chip exports surged, and memory is said to be in shortage until 2028. The fundamentals are really strong, I don't deny that.
But you have to distinguish one thing: my bearish view on storage has never been a bet that memory won't sell, but a bet against the part of the valuation inflated by the "super cycle" narrative and financing chain. When an industry needs its leaders to line up to increase buybacks to support stock prices while shouting shortage slogans everywhere, it's often not the safest time, but the hottest time.
Is it a real shortage, or just a narrative first? I bet on the latter.$BNB Binance has just released more details about this hacking attack.
The attack method originated from some quite common strategies: fake job interviews and malware.
According to Binance, two engineers were targeted:
Engineer A was attacked through tampered homemade software.
Engineer B was tricked into attending a fake interview. The hacker also used AI tools on Engineer B's computer to contact Engineer A.
After the hacker stole Engineer A's deployment token, they used this access to launch an attack on the wallet.
This may not sound particularly complex, but these are very effective attack methods that have been used for a long time.
Cryptocurrency investors managing assets on computers should also remain cautious. Avoid installing software from unknown sources, opening files, or accepting interviews.
Sometimes, hackers don’t need to breach the entire system; they only need to find one weak point or vulnerability to cripple the whole system, but the cost is too high.#With the US midterm elections approaching, which results are worth watching?
Don't focus on the White House; the White House isn't changing hands. What the crypto community should really watch is who controls Congress and who chairs key committees. This will determine whether crypto regulatory bills can be scheduled next year and who can block whom.
First, keep in mind two result windows.
One is who controls the House of Representatives. The House controls the money and many legislative entry points. If the pro-crypto side retains key seats, the market structure bill Clarity (which clarifies which coins fall under the SEC and which under the CFTC) still has a chance to be rescheduled. If control changes hands and the opposition takes financial-related committees, bills like Clarity are more likely to be left on the shelf, delaying institutional compliance timelines.
The second is the Ohio Senate race. The industry super PAC Fairshake (funded by Coinbase, Ripple, etc., heavily advertising to support pro-crypto candidates) has spent about fifty to sixty million dollars on this race alone, backing Republican Jon Husted against Democrat Sherrod Brown (former Banking Committee chair who has often blocked crypto bills). The winner will influence whether there is someone in the Senate specifically blocking market structure legislation.
The stablecoin law is already in place; what's still stuck is Clarity. Price swings on election night are mostly emotional reactions. Real regulatory shifts will depend on committee personnel changes in the weeks to months after the vote count. For trading, just manage positions during the volatility that night; don't treat election night as a directional signal.When I see "reboot," the first thing that comes to mind is a teaching point: the platform being lively before and whether it can successfully complete transactions today are two different things. I'm more concerned about whether liquidity can return; a change in leadership alone is not enough for me to judge that the positive outlook has been realized.
Clanker appointed Toady Hawk as CEO, planning to collaborate with the engineering team to reboot. It was born on Farcaster about two years ago and was once one of the token issuance platforms with the highest trading volume on Base. After multiple changes, it is currently taken over by Mask Network.
📌 Here's an example for newcomers: a track record of about two years cannot be taken as today's market depth. Trading volume is how much has been traded in the past; depth is how many buy and sell orders are currently available to absorb trades. If the reboot only brings spectators without sustained order placement, then placing orders may still experience significant slippage, which is my speculation. Beginners often mistake historical rankings for guaranteed trading volume. I will wait for the features to be implemented and then see if the order book is solid.ETH does not have a unified “whale standard”; thresholds vary across different platforms, and it is distinguished from BTC (≥1000 BTC) criteria: The two most commonly used classifications in the community (Santiment / Glassnode) 1. Super Whales: ≥100,000 ETH Very few addresses, ranging from several dozen to over sixty. ⚠️ The majority here are: Beacon Chain staking contracts, exchange custody wallets, ETF custody addresses; genuine individual whales are very rare. 2. Standard Whales: ≥10,000 ETH (the tier most closely watched) Approximately 800 to 1100 addresses; this tier represents the whales commonly referred to who actively trade and influence the market, including funds, large holders, and institutional self-custody wallets. 3. Large Holders/Sharks: ≥1,000 ETH This tier has many more addresses, numbering in the thousands, including many mid-sized funds, staking service providers, and DeFi treasuries. The most important misconception (same as BTC) Address ≠ real independent person - Beacon Chain deposit contracts, Lido, Coinbase staking pools, and major exchange cold wallets are all counted as whale addresses; - One whale can split assets into dozens of wallets; one wallet can hold tens of thousands of retail investors’ funds (custody). Therefore, on-chain data can only count wallet addresses and cannot accurately determine how many real independent “people” are whales. A simple comparison with the BTC you just asked about - BTC whale standard: ≥1000 BTC,#索尼财报前瞻：游戏与音乐业务表现如何？ Online Games and Network Services Business (G&NS)
Positive Points
1. PS5 console has entered the late stage of its lifecycle, but the console price has been raised against the trend, breaking the historical pattern of price cuts for previous generations, significantly increasing per-unit hardware profit and strengthening hardware profitability.
2. PS Plus subscription structure continues to upgrade, with a large number of users shifting to higher-tier Extra/Premium memberships, ensuring stable and sustained subscription revenue; PS platform monthly active users remain high.
3. Sufficient reserves of major titles for the second half of the year support game software, DLC, and in-game purchase revenues.
Risks
1. The shipment ceiling for PS5 consoles is becoming apparent, making it difficult for console sales to grow significantly; hardware revenue growth mainly depends on price increases rather than selling more units.
2. Fluctuations in the release schedule of first-party major titles, pressure on sales of non-first-party third-party games; cross-platform strategy (some games launching on PC/Xbox) may short-term divert exclusive console revenue.⚠️ Attention! Since 2014, $BTC has experienced significant pullbacks after every US midterm election:
📉 2014: -58%
📉 2018: -52%
📉 2022: -26%
Interestingly, after each major drop, the market hit a temporary bottom, followed by a strong rebound in Bitcoin.
Will history repeat itself again? 👀I've always been puzzled by one thing: with the coin price dropping so much, how come the project team is still issuing new coins every day?
NEAR has provided an explanation this time. The community voted, with 99.96% approval, to lower the annual issuance cap from 2.5% down to 1.6% over 24 months.
Sounds pretty firm, but when you look at the details, it's not that satisfying: currently, 89,500 coins are issued daily; after the change, it's still 57,300 coins per day. That's only a one-third reduction.
In plain terms, they stepped on the brake, not turned off the engine. The steering wheel is still in the project team's hands, and when they ease off the pedal depends on the approval behind the scenes.#Circle财报在即，稳定币增长能否兑现收益？
Direct conclusion: leaning towards No
Core reasons
1. Last quarter, Circle's EPS was below analyst expectations, already showing a history of underperformance. The ongoing interest rate cuts continue to eat into reserve interest, which is a hard flaw: even if USDC circulation is increasing, the decline in reserve yield will directly erode profits. Growth in circulation scale is unlikely to fully offset the income reduction caused by falling interest rates.
2. On the market, the probability of Yes has dropped from 74% to 64%, with funds shifting from Yes to No, indicating that the market has begun to worry about the difficulty of achieving performance.
3. Arc's new business is still in the early stages, and short-term financial reports are unlikely to contribute enough income to offset the pressure on interest income.
The only opportunity for Yes
If USDC's on-chain transaction volume and institutional cooperation continue to expand, and if USDC circulation volume surges beyond expectations this quarter, it may drive overall revenue to exceed expectations, but this is not easy.A governance proposal for NEAR received 99.96% support. 3.29 million veNEAR were cast, with almost no opposition votes. In a community where even adjusting fees by a few basis points can cause months of debate, this number itself is more noteworthy than the proposal content.
The proposal aims to adjust issuance. The current annual issuance cap is 2.5%, planned to gradually decrease to 1.6% over 24 months. The model calculates that in the first two years, about 11.8 million fewer NEAR will be issued, and over six years, about 66.1 million fewer NEAR in total. On a daily basis, issuance will drop from approximately 89,500 to about 57,300.
This means daily new NEAR issuance is reduced by one-third. It’s not a burn or buyback, but simply turning the faucet down a bit. For holders, dilution slows, and staking yields will also decrease slightly—two sides of the same coin.
There are still two hurdles in the mechanism: approval from the House of Stake’s security council and completion of the protocol upgrade. Proposal approval does not equal code deployment; during this interim, the market can easily trade expectations as facts.
The gradual 24-month reduction rather than a one-time cut indicates the designers do not want to cause supply shocks. Such slow-moving variables have never been driven by a single bullish candle. The valuation of infrastructure tokens like $NEAR has always been stuck between narrative and cash flow; less issuance makes the story easier to tell, but story and buying pressure are two different things.9x leverage, let me first pour some cold water: this is not evidence of bullishness in my eyes, it only shows that this long position has a relatively narrow margin for error. In the material, Core Trader 14 opened a new long position of 3,333 SOL, with a nominal value of about $307,300, reference price $92.2104. Don't get excited too quickly; a large position expresses intent, not the answer.
I am cautious for two reasons. First, roughly calculating with 9x leverage, if SOL moves 1% against the position, the loss relative to the initial margin is about 9%, not counting fees and margin adjustments; even if the direction is ultimately correct, the volatility might be unbearable at first. Second, the material does not provide stop-loss or other account positions, so I cannot judge whether this is a one-sided bet or a hedged portfolio. Taking it directly as a bullish signal is like relying on risk controls others haven't disclosed to boost your confidence. If the price drops, the worst off are those who have no exit plan and chase this leverage blindly.
Of course, the other side might be right; I won't nitpick just to be bearish. If the price can consistently stay above this reference price and recover after a pullback, I will reduce my doubts about the timing of entry; but that still doesn't mean 9x leverage is suitable to copy blindly. What I will watch next is whether the price can validate the judgment, not whether the wallet name sounds impressive.$DOOD DOOD spot buying has gotten a bit excessive.
A net inflow in one month directly consumed 64% of the market cap, and the circulating supply on the exchange is almost emptied.
The contract fee rate is actually negative, with shorts paying interest daily to hold their positions.
The sell orders above have already broken the gap; if the main force kicks back, these shorts will all become fuel for pumping the price.
#DOOD
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👇The long-term bullish view on $COIN has not changed for now!
The weekly structure remains bullish, key support has not been broken, and a reverse head and shoulders pattern may be forming.
My target ranges:
🎯 Short term: $220 (next 60–90 days)
🎯 Long term: $444 (next 18–24 months)
🎯 Long-range target: $480 by November 2028
If the weekly close falls below $120, the entire bullish thesis needs to be reassessed.
The original post estimated a short-term risk-reward ratio of about 2:1, and a long-term ratio of about 10:1.
I am currently still holding a long position.
$COIN $BTC $OKB OKB didn't drop even after two consecutive hits at $106; the daily double bottom is confirmed.
Bears continuing to push down at this level is truly futile.
The chips are clearly laid out. The total supply is capped at 21 million, with no unlocking pressure, and the X Layer network will continue to burn Gas.
This isn't about being bullish on a single candlestick; it's purely a matter of the numbers adding up, with downward space basically sealed off.
Now the 4-hour MACD is almost a straight line, volume is shrinking, and the sideways movement is very clean.
It's just a matter of when the big players wake up and start working.
#OKB
$OKB
👇$XPL Negative News: After a flash crash last week, it dropped another 7%, with 228 million tokens unlocking on November 25
XPL is currently priced at $0.06212, down 7.05% in 24 hours, with OKEx spot trading volume around $4.2 million
Around 12:30 PM Beijing time on November 1, XPL fell from 0.0857 to 0.0711 within one minute. Hyperliquid saw about $24.49 million liquidated in the past hour, almost all long positions, with the HLP treasury losing about $556,000
On-chain tracking links the funds of these liquidated addresses to the trading group involved in the April pump and dump. The controller is unconfirmed, but it at least shows this coin is easily manipulated by concentrated positions, causing large dips when liquidity is thin
Supply-side pressure remains, with about 228 million tokens scheduled to unlock on November 25, accounting for about 4.78% of the circulating supply. This monthly unlocking will continue until September 2028
It has dropped about 96% from the all-time high of $1.68. Derivatives positions are also shrinking. Without new demand to absorb, each unlocking event adds to the selling pressure.