Who exactly is selling the precious $BTC ?
It turns out miners are contributing to the selling pressure too.
According to data from blockwaresolutions, publicly listed mining companies sold 28,000 coins this year, worth approximately $1.78 billion. Riot sold 4,300 coins in the second quarter alone, reducing its holdings from 15,680 to 11,380.
The industry’s average mining cost is $74,300, while the coin price is only slightly above $63,000. In other words, they’re losing money on every coin they mine.
What about you—would you sell?🥹

🚨 Bitcoin futures open interest has surged over daily trading volume, raising eyebrows with a staggering count of outstanding contracts! What could this mean for market volatility? $BTC #CryptoTrading

On August 18, 2026, ETH futures continued to consolidate around $1,900, with prices fluctuating narrowly within the $1,898-$1,916 range. Overall, the market remains in a wait-and-see pattern, “building momentum before a change.”
📊 Key Long-Short Battle Levels
· Current price: Approximately $1,905-$1,910. After rising intraday to around $1,916, the price came under pressure and pulled back, with the trading range narrowing slightly.
· Strong resistance above: $1,915-$1,930 is the first core resistance zone, including the 1-hour Bollinger upper band and MA120; $1,945-$1,955 is the medium-term “

8.18 Gold Midday Review
The early low-level long setup matched price action perfectly. After gold retested support, it rebounded slightly, with the range-bound move unfolding as expected.
Technical analysis: The 30-minute and 1-hour Bollinger Bands continue to narrow and flatten, while gold consolidates around the middle band; RSI keeps moving within the neutral zone, the overall bullish trend remains intact, and there is no strong short-term directional bias as sideways consolidation continues.
Resistance: 4428 and 4440; support: 4395 and 4385.
Coco’s Recommendation: Favor trend-following l

The crypto industry is evolving beyond trading.
Users are accessing broader markets, using stablecoins as financial infrastructure, and increasingly spending crypto in everyday life.
Innovation matters most when it gives people practical, secure, and meaningful access to opportunity.
#GateRecordsOver273MIn7-DayNetInflows #crypto $XAUUSD

The Blockchain Association submitted a comment letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), urging it to repeal outdated Rules 611 and 610(e) to enable market structure to adapt to the development of tokenization. The association noted that the current rules no longer align with the technological realities of blockchain and tokenized securities, and called for timely updates to the regulatory framework to foster compliant innovation and improve market efficiency.

In this market, you can earn $USDC 15+% APY with almost no risk
Feels great 😁

🐋 WHALE WATCH : U.S. STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE DROPS TO 40 YEAR LOW
The SPR has crashed to -293.4M barrels just 41M barrels above its absolute legal minimum.
With Washington projecting drawdowns down to 243M barrels to suppress Middle East supply shocks the U.S. is essentially running its emergency national security buffer on pure fumes.
No insurance policy left for the next real shock.

8.18 SOL Analysis
Analysis: Short near the rebound around 75.8–76.4, stop at 76.9, first target 74.8, second target 74.2
On the SOL 1H timeframe, the price came under pressure and pulled back after rising to the session high of 76.20, forming a candlestick with a long upper shadow. It is currently undergoing a pullback from the high. After the hourly surge, upward momentum weakened, and the current slight consolidation is a brief recovery during the pullback. #Gate事件积分系统上线 $SOL ‌

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The domestic hard-tech sector has once again told the market in the most direct way: scarce domestic substitutes can still make investors rich overnight through IPOs.
On August 18, STAR Market IPO Pinzhun Laser (N-Pinzhun) officially began trading.
With an offering price of ¥186.88 per share, it directly set a new record for the funds required to subscribe to an A-share IPO in 2026; winning one lot required ¥93.4k.
As a result, the stock surged nearly 600% at its peak after opening, touching ¥1,300 per share. Based on one winning lot (500 shares), the maximum unrealized gain was ¥556.6k, setti

Exchanges are opening “mega-supermarkets”: Buy BTC today, look at Moutai tomorrow, and investors will finally have to learn to keep their hands off
If past crypto trading platforms were more like boutiques specializing in digital assets, Gate’s continued expansion into innovative A-share listings is clearly moving toward becoming a “global asset supermarket.”
According to the latest public information, Gate’s innovative listings section has launched 40 popular stocks, including ChangXin Memory Technologies, Unitree Robotics, and CATL, while its stock business covers multiple major markets. Thi

So don’t be afraid of being ignorant, and don’t be afraid of being naïve. Don’t be afraid of any of that. You’ll learn what you need to learn along the way. If you’re truly passionate, go do it.
People are never truly ready. He started anyway.
For $200, I bought 20% of NVIDIA. In 1993, three friends and one townhouse. No one teaches you how to start a company, so I went to a bookstore and bought a book titled How to Start a Company.
That book was so thick. If I had read the whole thing, I’d be dead by now. I read the first three or four chapters and thought, “All right, I need to get to work.”

#GateEventPointsSystemLaunched
Gate Event Market just got more exciting! 🎯
The new Event Points (PTS) system lets eligible traders earn points, compete on a weekly leaderboard, and share rewards among the Top 100 users. 🏆
🎫 Scratch cards can bring:
💰 USDT
🎯 Event Points
🎟️ Trial Vouchers
🔥 Up to 88,888 PTS
Football fans also have the Top Five Leagues Kickoff Celebration, running Aug 12–31, with a 200,000 USDT prize pool. ⚽🏆
And crypto traders can now explore SOL & XRP price-direction markets across:
⏱️ 5M | 15M | 1H | 4H
The biggest takeaway? Gate Event Market is becoming more diverse

Sandisk: I shared my views in the livestream last night. It first broke above yesterday’s high and then fell back, in line with expectations. In the livestream last night, I also helped everyone profit over 100 points on a long position. My view remains unchanged: I’m not shorting or trading the left side for now, and will wait for the price action to unfold. I’m currently watching the support level around 1675. If 1675 holds, it will continue surging, or range within 1657–1900. Wait patiently—don’t rush to open a position. For Micron, watch the 965 support level.$MU $SNDK

August 18 Wanxin Midday Analysis:
Several overseas investment banks have lowered their gold price forecasts, and the market is once again taking a wait-and-see stance on the future interest-rate path. The U.S. Dollar Index stabilized and rebounded slightly. With few strong short-term bullish catalysts, bullish momentum has slowed, and the market has entered a period of pullback and consolidation.

Hourly highs are gradually moving lower, with clear short-term pressure. After breaking below the key intraday support zone, prices continued to weaken, consolidating slightly at low levels with a w

#GateRecordsOver273MIn7-DayNetInflows
Gate’s latest 7-day net inflow figure of more than $273 million is a major market signal, and in my view, it deserves attention beyond the headline number.
A large net inflow means that significantly more capital entered the platform than left it during the measured period. For me, this is particularly interesting because exchange flows can provide an additional perspective on market confidence, liquidity and user activity. One number alone cannot predict whether BTC or altcoins will move higher, but sustained capital movement can help us understand how t

#GateEventPointsSystemLaunched
Gate Event Points System Launched: Trade, Earn, and Climb the Leaderboard
Gate has officially unveiled its Event Points System, a gamified rewards layer designed to make event trading more engaging, more rewarding, and more fun. The new system, which kicked off in its first phase on August 17, introduces a "trade to earn cards, scratch to claim rewards, climb the points leaderboard, weekly settlement" loop that rewards participation at every step. Alongside it, Gate has launched a dedicated esports zone and a major football campaign turning the event market into