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The largest short positions currently on-chain are held by market makers’ hedging accounts, while whales appear to have been liquidated during this price surge. Abraxas Capital, Fasanara Capital, and Wintertermute collectively hold short positions of 138,569 ETH (worth $338 million) and 3,425 BTC (worth $265 million).

The bears have set their sights on 80600—will it be a waterfall by the time you wake up?

$BTC /USDT - SHORT

Trading Plan:
Entry: 80450.1 – 80812.9
SL: 82895.8
TP1: 78933.3
TP2: 77801.1
TP3: 76102.9

Why pay attention to this setup?
- Bearish signal on the 4-hour timeframe, with 77.4 confidence—this is no joke
- 15-minute RSI at 68.6, short-term overbought, with a clear need for a pullback
- Entry at 80631, TP1 at 78933 (-2.1%), TP2 at 77801 (-3.5%), SL at 82895 (+2.8%)
- The 1D trend is ranging, but the 4h structure is breaking down—this is the eve of the bears' launch
- ATR at 725, with

XAU Gold
Press Enter to end; short at 4700, take 60 points.
Press Enter to continue looking upward,
Go long at 4640~4620, target 4700~4720.

JUST IN: Two whales are positioned to short around $42.2M in HYPE, with large limit sell orders at elevated levels and rapid order placement. If liquidations or continued pressure materialize, expect potential near-term downside pressure for $HYPE .

BTC Trade Update :- So far we have captured a move of up to 27.20% in BTC. How many of you took a trade and made a profit after the update? Please let us know in the comment section.
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8.25 ETH Market Analysis

Direction: Rebound again after pulling back to support, rising to test the previous high resistance at 2531.79. The bullish trend continues; prioritize entering long positions on short-term pullbacks.
Long: Around 2475‑2490, stop-loss below 2455, targets 2520/2550

ETH stabilized and rebounded from the lows, launching another rally and gradually challenging the previous high of 2531.79. The current price is 2491.71. In this rebound, the short-term moving averages have turned upward again to support the price. The limited pullback is merely a consolidation phase duri

Will BTC continue the frenzy this week, or be brought back down to reality?
Bitcoin breaks above $81,000.
“Bulls are back—let’s go!” “$80k is finally back!”
U.S. spot BTC ETFs saw net inflows of $1.92 billion last week, the largest weekly inflow in 10 months. More than $4 billion in shorts were liquidated over the past two days. Bitcoin rose approximately 23% last week, its biggest weekly gain in more than three years. Escalating sanctions on Iran boosted safe-haven demand. Bridgewater’s Ray Dalio called for “a moderate allocation to Bitcoin.”
The entire market is in FOMO.
But this week’s thre

#BTCBreaks80k
BTC MARKET STRUCTURE: THE $80K TEST IS NOW REAL
Bitcoin has moved into a completely different short-term structure. BTC is trading around $80,800, up roughly 4.9% over the last 24 hours and 25.7% over the past seven days, with around $57 billion in 24-hour spot volume. The important part is not simply the size of the rally; it is the sequence. BTC reclaimed the mid-$70Ks, pushed through $77K, challenged $80K, and is now trading around the psychological barrier that previously rejected price. That makes the current area a decision zone rather than a level to chase blindly.
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1 BITCOIN = 81,000 UNITED STATES DOLLARS

According to Ai Yi’s monitoring, address 0xa69…49eAd accumulated 4,000 ETH over the past week and is now sitting on an unrealized profit of $166k. The average withdrawal price for this $9.596 million worth of ETH was $2,399, making it the only asset in which this address has ever opened a position.

JUST IN: Korea’s Jeonbuk Bank taps Ripple for cross-border payments as Pakistan opens crypto licensing; Asia’s tax-cut arms race highlights growing institutional crypto adoption across the region. $XRP (implies cross-border efficiency)

Bitcoin real-time outlook
The moving averages on the one-hour and four-hour timeframes show bullish resonance, and the upward trend structure remains intact. After breaking above the 80000 level on heavy volume and surging to 81270.5, the market encountered resistance and pulled back. This is a profit-taking retracement and consolidation following the breakout of a key level, with no top reversal signal appearing yet.
Key range
Upper resistance: 81000‑81270.5, the resistance zone around the intraday high; the upward move can continue only after holding firmly above this zone on heavy volume.
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Kaguabooom!
Bitcoin finally breaks through 80k with impressive force!
Trend confirmed, fasten your seat belts, we're taking off✈️

Slow and steady
we're destined for millions
$polycat

Tong Ge's 8.25 BTC strategy
$BTC On a pullback to around 79,000–78,500, open a light long position; stop-loss at 78,000, first target 80,500, second target 81,500.
Current price: 79,718. It touched 79,974 last night, leaving only a thin layer of paper between it and 80,000, but it still failed to break through and pulled back. Tong Ge has said that key levels are not pushed through by shouting, but by real money.
But don't rush to call for a short. The bulls managed to push the price to the doorstep of 80,000, showing that their momentum is still there. This pullback looks less like a reversa

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While everyone else was running, $ETH consolidated near the bottom around 2111.16, with volume contracting cleanly and never breaking down. I felt then that this was deliberately meant to scare people—the funds hadn’t left at all. I told everyone: hold on, don’t get shaken out. Now it has rallied to 2494.9; 80% has been secured as profit, and those still on board should be grinning ear to ear.

Experts die trying to catch bottoms, retail investors perish chasing orders, and smart peop