Why Is Bitcoin Rising While Altcoins May Continue to Fall?

In the cryptocurrency market, one phenomenon confuses many investors:

Bitcoin keeps rising, and overall market sentiment also seems to be improving, but the altcoins they hold are not following suit—and some are even still falling.

Why might your portfolio perform poorly when the broader market is doing well?

The key is that the crypto market is not a single whole in which all assets rise in sync.

Different assets can vary significantly in funding demand, liquidity, risk levels, and the composition of market participants.

First,

Digital Asset Security: Why You Shouldn’t Rely on Just One Wallet—Building a Truly Effective Risk Defense

When people talk about crypto asset security, they often think first of choosing a reliable wallet, setting a strong password, or keeping their seed phrase safe.

All of these are important, but they only address part of the problem.

Real asset security doesn’t depend on a single tool. It comes from having different safeguards complement one another.

You can understand this through five layers.

1. Key security: Protect control over your assets

Your seed phrase and private key are at t

Why Do Cross-Chain Bridges So Often Become Attack Targets? The Trust Boundaries Behind Cross-Chain Assets

In the Web3 world, different blockchains are like independently operating systems.

Assets on Ethereum cannot become native assets on another blockchain through an ordinary transfer alone. To let users move assets between different networks, use DeFi applications, or participate in other on-chain activities, cross-chain bridges have gradually become important infrastructure.

But cross-chain bridges also raise a question worth serious consideration:

When assets move from one chain to ano

💰 Where does DeFi yield actually come from?

Liquidity mining, crypto lending, and staking all seem to generate yield, but the mechanisms behind them are completely different.

🔹 Liquidity mining: Yield may come from trading fees and protocol rewards.

🔹 Lending: Yield is usually tied to borrowing demand and interest rate mechanisms.

🔹 Staking: Rewards are usually tied to a blockchain’s validation and consensus mechanisms.

⚠️ A high annual percentage yield does not mean high returns, much less low risk. Smart contract vulnerabilities, falling token prices, and insufficient liquidity can

Why Do Spot and Futures Prices Trade at a Premium or Discount?

When you open a cryptocurrency trading platform, you may notice that even for the same asset, such as BTC, the spot price and futures price are not exactly the same.

Why does this difference occur? Does it mean there is an arbitrage opportunity?

To understand this, we first need to clarify how the spot and futures markets work.

I. What Are Premiums and Discounts?

When the futures price is higher than the spot price, it is generally called a futures premium; when the futures price is lower than the spot price, it is generally c

BTC Retests a Key Support Level: When Is It Worth Entering?

In BTC trading, many people see the price break above resistance and immediately think of chasing the rally. But experienced traders often wait one more step: they watch to see whether the price retests a key support zone and whether buying support returns after the retest.

Why are retests so important?

First, watch whether the former resistance turns into support. After BTC breaks above an important resistance zone, if the price pulls back without clearly falling below that zone, it may mean the market is reassessing its role. But

Damn, I’ve been trading crypto and U.S. stocks for around 10 years, and I never expected the black swan to come from here.

Settle up on last night’s three bars, and the ledger is short.
22:00: 58,000; 23:00: 79,000; 00:00: 61,000—199,000 contracts across the three bars.
$MSFT From 537.70 to 518.99, down 18.71, or 3.48%.
The next 14 bars totaled 179,000 contracts, with the high reaching only 523.95.
That’s 4.29 short of the 528.24 pit.
The chart closed at 521.97; it’s now at 522.12, with the 524.00 moving average sitting two bucks overhead.
24-hour trading volume: $2.619 million; fee rate: 0.
The three bars fought for real; no one stepped in during the remaining 14 hours.
Before 22:30, 522.11 can only be considered

Why Is Bitcoin Rising While Altcoins Could Keep Falling?

In the cryptocurrency market, one phenomenon confuses many investors:

Bitcoin keeps rising, and overall market sentiment seems to be improving, but the altcoins they hold are not following suit and may even continue to fall.

Why might your portfolio underperform when the market as a whole is doing well?

The key is that the crypto market is not a single market where all assets rise in sync.

Different assets can have significant differences in funding demand, liquidity, risk levels, and market participant composition.

First, Bitcoin

I know this looks super bad.
But when in doubt, zoom out (check next pics).
I like to believe we already hit the bottom at sub-70K. It looks pretty similar to the bottom we had last summer, and if you look closely, we formed that same bottom again this summer.
And if history likes to repeat itself, we're only going up from here.
A bit of a bull post from my end, but TBH, this is buying szn.

11/12 Intraday Price Levels Update
BTC / ETH / SOL / Gold / U.S. Stocks
Overall view: The market is in a highly challenging phase, with bottoming consolidation as the main theme. Guard against one final sell-off.
Be alert for a strong rebound driven by data over the next two days. Position in advance at extreme levels and wait patiently.
Not looking for an immediate reversal for now; continue waiting and don't chase longs at highs.
🪙 BTC｜Bitcoin
🔴 Short
74500｜Stop loss 300, take profit 800 points
Extreme 76100｜Ideal top-picking level; stop loss 400, try to hold for the long term
🟢 Long
7320

This is an extremely hard line to draw—it would completely shut down the “overseas computing arbitrage” that has been an open secret in the industry for the past two years!

According to The Information, the U.S. Department of Commerce is moving forward with a new export control rule that would add Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Brazil, Norway, and South Africa to its export licensing list.

The goal is clear: not only to prohibit direct sales of chips into these countries, but also to completely block domestic AI teams from “remotely renting” NVIDIA Blackwell and newer-generation c

$INTCB Currently at 60.77, up 0.98% over 24H. The 1H structure is weak, with an RSI of just 26.76 and the price slightly below the EMA20. The 4H structure is stronger, with the price still above the EMA20, showing a clear divergence between the two timeframes. Current 1H volume is only 0.02 times the average of the past 20 candles, indicating low participation. If the price can subsequently break above and hold the resistance at 64.05, watch for the strength of the recovery. If it falls below the support at 59.84 and fails to reclaim it, short-term pressure may continue. In the next review, fo

#美国就业数据今晚公布
Yes. In fact, a stronger U.S. economy could have a bearish impact on both BTC and U.S. stocks in the short term. This is one of the most intriguing macroeconomic paradoxes in today’s markets.

The key point here is not necessarily whether the employment data is strong or weak, but rather how this data shifts expectations regarding the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) interest rate policy.

Three possible scenarios

Unemployment claims Potential market reaction
Below 194,000 Strong labor market; higher likelihood that interest rates will remain elevated for longer. Downside risk for BTC and

Why can frequent trading actually make your account smaller and smaller?

In BTC trading, many people watch the market every day, afraid of missing any rise or fall. When the price rises, they want to go long; when it falls, they want to go short; when they see an indicator signal, they can't help opening a position. They trade more than a dozen times a day, which looks like a lot of effort, but when they look back at the end of the month, their account balance may have shrunk.

So where exactly is the problem?

First, trading costs keep adding up. Every time you open and close a position, you

What Is Wallet Approval, and Why Should You Check and Revoke It Regularly?

In the Web3 world, connecting a wallet, using a DApp, and trading tokens are all common activities.

But many users may overlook one detail: when you click Confirm, what exactly are you approving?

An action that seems routine may give a smart contract permission to access or use specific assets. If you don’t understand the scope of the approval, or don’t check previously granted permissions for a long time, your assets could be exposed to risk.

1. What Is Wallet Approval?

Simply put, wallet approval allows a smart c