Crypto KOL Community & Market Trends

1, Weekly chart: The ETH/BTC exchange rate is hovering near the trendline resistance formed by the 2017 and 2022 highs; 2, On the daily chart: This is a pattern building up strength for a breakout.

The longer you trade, the more you realize that trading really does require a certain amount of natural talent. Just like R, the God of our community, who was a beginner with only 2–3 months of trading experience when he first joined. At first, he may have wanted to learn my trading approach, but after studying it for a while, he probably realized that my approach was SHIT and went on to figure things out for himself.

The XRPL integration is the part of this update that truly reshapes Sl8 The platform was originally built on Stellar. Integrating the XRP Ledger first, followed by other networks, means more than simply “adding another chain for transfers.” The wallet will evolve from a single-ecosystem tool into a multichain product that lets users switch networks, deposit funds, and collaborate through the same entry point. Users will no longer need to switch wallets and tools repeatedly for different networks

Great beginner friendly breakdown 👏

Navigating Identity Verification (KYC)
The Essentials: Once registered, you must complete identity verification. This unlocks full platform access and ensures account safety.
Clarity is Key: Make sure the identification documents you submit are completely valid, clear, and belong strictly to you.
Avoiding Common Verification Pitfalls
Lighting & Angles: Many users get stuck here due to simple errors. Avoid blurry photos, camera glare, or mismatched personal details.
Best Practice: Take your pho check every piece of information before hitting submit. Remember that specific requirements and available features can vary depending on your location.

Looking back at this post now, when an easy market setup comes along, why not trade aggressively? Are you supposed to wait until the market starts ranging before loading up and going all in? Still ETH $ETH , still Doge $DOGE —with one, you enter and leave it alone, adding on dips; with the other, you trade it in stages and chase again after a breakout. This is the difference in approach between altcoins and leading altcoins.

Looks like Bitcoin’s lower-timeframe Wave 4 pullback is probably over, and the next move will be a Wave 5 rally; what does “lower timeframe” mean? It means you shouldn’t expect the pullback to go deep enough to give you a chance to load up; when will there be a relatively deep pullback? It will come precisely when you think there probably won’t be a deep pullback.

Honestly, trading altcoins is nowhere near as scary as trading crypto stocks. It’s fucking terrifying. Unfortunately, I went way too heavy on my spot position in $CRCL —I’m fully invested and even used some margin; I just couldn’t put my tactical position into $CRCL too, because the risk concentration would’ve been way too high. Now I’m holding ETH and altcoin futures in my tactical position, enviously watching the gains on my CRCL spot position. Does this count as fighting myself on both sides too?

The most comfortable way to use Robinhood: use Fomo to scroll the feed, combined with deBridge for on-chain trading. Robinhood’s daily DEX trading volume on September 1 was 1.6 billion dollars. Two months ago, this chain’s TVL was 4 million dollars.
In just 60 days since launch, its cumulative trading volume reached 47 billion dollars. Its 30-day trading volume ranked fifth among all chains, behind only Solana, BNB Chain, Ethereum, and Base. An L2 built by a brokerage has outperformed 99% of established public chains.

I just said it, and it’s pretty glaring. That goes to show that the damage only becomes apparent through comparison: storage and encryption have become the two ends of a seesaw😂. I’m sure there’s some genius kid who got trapped in encryption, painfully cut their losses, and then got trapped in storage.

1. I thought about it all day today. As for the tactical position, I’m going to stay away from the hardware sector for now. At its current level, it can only be considered mediocre, and no matter how I look at the chart, the pattern fucking looks like a continuation of the downtrend. Considering its volatility, maybe I’ll wait for a screamingly asymmetric risk-reward opportunity (similar to late July) before taking a spot position or trying it with low leverage; (Figure 1)

Why do people say you can’t make money beyond your level of understanding? Yesterday, after reading Teacher Gongyue’s post, I thought I’d slowly build a position in marscoin-4:native. If the bull market came, I could make nearly 3x. So if I operated based on the mental framework that they’re all part of the same account, the profit cushion would actually be very substantial, and it wouldn’t matter even if it went to zero. But the result was that I had just opened a 5000U position, and only 2 minutes had passed. After thinking it over, I decided to forget it.

October 2026 Bitcoin $145.000 ? I hope

After Robinhood Chain reignited long-lost enthusiasm on quiet blockchains, Circle’s chain Arc is also on the way, with its mainnet launching on 9/16—just two weeks from now. Can Robinhood and Circle create a new wave of DeFi Summer momentum?
New chains bring new opportunities, and Robinhood Chain has just set an example. It remains to be seen what viral Meme will emerge onchain, but the ones selling water (trading platforms)

Gold at $4,480—are you chasing it?
Look at the surface first: a V-shaped recovery, with the bulls charging aggressively.
Gold briefly plunged to around $4,280-$4,350 over the past two days, leaving the market in despair. But today it surged straight back to $4,480, rebounding by more than $100, with a huge 24-hour range. A weaker dollar and falling U.S. Treasury yields gave gold another breath.
First: Gold is extremely "torn" right now, with two directions fighting
On the bullish side:
The dollar fell, and U.S. Treasury yields fell. The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield pulled back from its highs, and the U.S. Dollar Index also declined, lowering the cost of holding gold—this was the direct fuel for today's rebound.
Geopolitical risks are still burning. U.S.-Iran tensions remain high, and oil prices have returned to $95. Safe-haven funds buying gold makes perfect sense.
But on the bearish side:
Oil prices rise → inflation expectations increase → the Fed turns more hawkish → gold comes under pressure. The geopolitical fire is boosting gold's short-term safe-haven demand, but it is also igniting medium-term inflation concerns.
More importantly: Expectations for a Fed rate hike in September once approached 60%. Although today's remarks from Waller and Williams were not as hawkish, causing the probability to retreat somewhat, the market is still on edge.
Second: The real drama is not today, but Friday
Everything mentioned above is just the appetizer. Friday's U.S. nonfarm payrolls data is the main course.
Weak nonfarm payrolls → rate-hike expectations decline → dollar falls → gold rises → $4,500 could break directly
Strong nonfarm payrolls → rate-hike expectations heat up → dollar rises → gold plunges again → $4,280 may not hold
What is the market trading now? Expectations.
Third: The candlestick structure tells me that $4,480 is a "stress-test zone"
The price is now at $4,480, just $20 away from the $4,500 "line between life and death."
If it holds above $4,500, turning resistance into support, gold will reenter a short-term bullish attack phase.
If it cannot break higher and repeatedly gets pushed back from $4,480-$4,500, that would be a typical "rally followed by a pullback" structure.
The key question now is not "Can $4,480 rise?" but "Can $4,500 break?"
Bull-bear showdown—see for yourself
Bullish camp:
The dollar and U.S. Treasury yields have pulled back, a short-term positive
Geopolitical risks are boosting safe-haven demand
If nonfarm payrolls are weak, the bulls will be ignited directly
$4,280-$4,350 has already proven to be strong support
Bearish camp:
September rate-hike expectations remain high, and the Fed is hawkish
Rising oil prices are driving up inflation, a medium-term negative for gold
$4,480-$4,500 is an obvious resistance zone
Strong nonfarm payrolls could send it straight back to where it started
Trading strategies
🟢 Scenario A: Break above $4,500, then go long after a retest
If a 4H candlestick body holds above $4,500, then retests $4,480-$4,500 without breaking below, go long.
Targets: $4,520 → $4,550 → $4,600 Stop-loss: below $4,450
🟡 Scenario B: Failure to break $4,480-$4,500, short-term short
If the price repeatedly tests $4,500 but gets pushed back each time, and a high-volume long upper wick + bearish MACD divergence appears on the 1H chart—go short.
Targets: $4,460 → $4,420 → $4,380 Stop-loss: above $4,520
🔴 Scenario C: Break below $4,380 after nonfarm payrolls, turn fully bearish
If the break above $4,500 fails → $4,460 is lost → $4,420 is lost → $4,380 breaks, then the earlier rebound was merely a "technical rebound." Do not try to catch the bottom then. Watch $4,350 → $4,300 → $4,280 step by step.
Short term: Range-bound with a bullish bias (weak dollar + geopolitical support)
Medium term: Correction risks have not been eliminated (rate-hike expectations + nonfarm payrolls uncertainty)
There are only two truly comfortable trades:
① Break above $4,500, then go long after a confirmed retest. Make a little less, but sleep soundly.
② Failure to break higher at $4,500, then go short after a clear reversal signal appears. Don't bet on direction in the middle. #Gate用户突破6000万 #Kimi秘密交表启动港股IPO #Gate7天净流入全球第一 $BTC $ETH $XAU

Crypto market is getting interesting 👀
BTC is holding around $77K, with $80K to $82.8K acting as the key breakout zone.
BTC ETF flows remain positive, while ETH just saw its first ETF outflow after 12 straight sessions of inflows.
Meanwhile, macro is the real catalyst.
Weak jobs data could revive rate-cut hopes and push liquidity back into risk assets.
Strong data + higher yields could trigger another pullback.
For me, the setup is simple:
BTC above $82.8K = momentum expansion.
BTC below $75.7K = caution.
Until then, patience > leverage.

Tonight I invited a few girls to dinner and showed them Kim’s tweet explaining options. They had never traded crypto or stocks before, but they understood it immediately after reading it😄😄

ARB at $0.135—are you buying the dip or chasing?
Look at the surface first: three big bullish candles, with retail traders shouting, “The bull market is back!”
On August 31, ARB surged from 0.084 to 0.109 in a single huge move, gaining over 30% in one day. On September 1, it continued climbing to 0.119. On September 3, ARB skyrocketed 18.5% in a single day to $0.14, becoming the biggest gainer among major tokens. In three days, it went from being ignored to the most eye-catching token in the entire market.
The candlestick chart tells you: all moving averages have been trampled underfoot. Severely overbought—watch out for a pullback.
First: Robinhood Chain is backed by real money, not an empty narrative
This surge has nothing to do with BTC—BTC is still moving sideways around $77,000-$78,000. ARB is following an independent trend, with one core catalyst: Robinhood Chain.
The thing went live on mainnet on July 1, built on Arbitrum Orbit technology. After two months online, under the partnership agreement, Robinhood Chain must return 10% of the protocol’s net revenue to the Arbitrum ecosystem—8% goes to the DAO treasury and 2% to the developer guild. So far, it has contributed approximately $1.3 million in real money to Arbitrum.
Second: But don’t celebrate too soon—the technical indicators are already severely overbought
The daily RSI has surged above 80, while the 4-hour RSI is at 70-78
The 14-period RSI is 73.57, and the stochastic indicator %K has exceeded 91
The price is pressing against the upper Bollinger Band, with the %B reading above 1.0—indicating that ARB has already exceeded its statistically derived price boundary
The upper Bollinger Band is at 0.13, and ARB has already pierced through it
Third: A sword hanging over the market in mid-to-late September
On September 16, approximately 92.63 million ARB will be unlocked, accounting for 0.93% of the total supply.
On September 23, another approximately 139.2 million ARB will be unlocked, worth approximately $15.2 million and accounting for 1.4% of the total supply.
Together, the two unlocks exceed 230 million ARB.
An unlock does not mean an immediate sell-off, but—in a market that has just surged over 50% and is severely overbought, with massive new supply and profit-taking hitting the market, does this recipe look familiar?
Resistance above: 0.141 (intraday high) → 0.148-0.150 → 0.163-0.180
Support below: 0.122-0.125 → 0.110-0.115 → 0.100
For short-term traders:
Wait for a pullback to 0.122-0.125 before entering, with a stop-loss at 0.112. Alternatively, wait for the daily chart to hold above 0.141 before chasing on the right side, with a stop-loss at 0.130.
For swing traders:
Wait for a pullback to the 0.110-0.115 range and build a position in batches. This is the breakout zone from the previous move and also the pullback target indicated by technical analysis. Stop-loss at 0.100. Target 0.148-0.152, with a second target of 0.163-0.180.
Risk management rules:
Keep your ARB position below 5-8% of your total capital
Stay away from leverage—even 3x leverage cannot withstand this volatility
Watch the September 15-16 FOMC meeting and the unlock window in mid-to-late September
If BTC falls below $76,000, ARB will be the first to kneel
Every time you lose money, it’s because you don’t dare buy at the bottom and can’t bear to sell at the top.
ARB rose from 0.08 to 0.14, gaining 50% in three days. You missed the ride and are panicking. Now you want to chase—but the moment you chase in, you become someone else’s profit.
ARB at 0.135—are you waiting for a pullback or rushing in to become exit liquidity?
What is your ARB cost basis? Did you make money on this move or miss it? #Gate用户突破6000万 #Kimi秘密交表启动港股IPO #Kimi秘密交表启动港股IPO $BTC $ETH $ARB

$6 UNI: Are you on board or under the wheels?
Look past the surface first: a barrage of bullish news, prices skyrocketing, and retail investors frantically chasing the rally.
It rose 38% over the past 7 days, doubling directly from around $3 at the August low. On September 2, it briefly broke above $6.30, hitting an eight-month high. 24-hour trading volume exceeded $1 billion, and market capitalization surged to $3.7 billion. All moving averages are below the price. It has risen too much and needs a breather.
First: Robinhood Chain is the real driver behind this surge
Robinhood Chain, launched in July, saw $17.99 billion in trading volume in August, up 26% from July. On September 1, daily trading volume reached $1.95 billion, of which $1.75 billion went through Uniswap pools—nearly every dollar on-chain generated fees for Uniswap.
Uniswap collected $9.24 million in fees on Robinhood Chain over 24 hours, accounting for the vast majority of the network's total fees.
Robinhood Chain now generates two-thirds of Uniswap's total revenue.
Uniswap used to earn fees from DeFi users. Now it is starting to earn RWA fees from Wall Street.
Second: The Fee Switch is turning UNI from a “voting token” into a “deflationary asset”
The UNIfication proposal passed in December 2025, officially activating protocol fees. In January 2026, 100 million UNI were burned at once, accounting for approximately 16% of the total supply. Burns have continued since then—more than $300,000 worth of UNI burned in ten days, at an annualized rate approaching $160 million. Standard Chartered estimates that, based on the burn rate in mid-August, the annualized burn amount is approximately equivalent to 4% of the circulating supply.
On July 27, 2026, the Fee Switch was officially activated on V4, with average daily revenue surging from $118,000 in early July to $318,000.
UNI now has a dual engine of cash flow and deflation.
Third: Technical indicators are overheated, but what are the whales doing?
The daily RSI is at 78-81, severely overbought. MACD momentum is weakening. The price is far above all moving averages.
Whales are aggressively selling—the selling pressure is 71%, while buying pressure is only 20%. Exchange inflows are rising, holdings have fallen 5.7%, and funds are flowing out.
The funding rate is -1%, and the long-short ratio is 0.56—shorts are paying longs, and the market is extremely bearish.
Resistance above: 6.20-6.37 → 7.00 → 7.81 (200-week EMA)
Support below: 5.84-5.78 → 5.54-5.59 → 4.62 (EMA20)
You decide who wins the bulls-versus-bears battle
On one side:
Robinhood Chain is bringing real RWA trading volume, and protocol revenue is surging
The Fee Switch continues to burn UNI, with an annualized burn rate of approximately 4% of the circulating supply
It has doubled from $3 to $6, and the trend is now established
Standard Chartered has set a $100 price target for 2030
On the other side:
Daily RSI at 78-81, severely overbought
Whales account for 71% of selling pressure, and funds are flowing out
At the September 15-16 FOMC meeting, the probability of a rate hike is 66%
If BTC pulls back, high-beta coins like UNI will bear the brunt
Short-term traders:
Don't chase the rally. Wait for a pullback to 5.84-5.78—ideally on declining volume with a hammer candlestick—before entering, with a stop-loss at 5.54. Take half off at the 6.32-6.50 target range, and if it breaks above 6.50, look for 7+.
Swing traders:
Wait for a daily close to hold above 6.0 before entering on the right side, with a stop-loss at 5.54 and a target of 7-8. If it breaks below 5.78, exit and wait on the sidelines; don't hold through it.
Long-term believers:
Accumulate in batches below 5.5. UNI's fundamentals have already changed—from a governance token into a deflationary asset plus a cash-flow-generating asset. The target for the end of 2026 is 10+, betting on the continued explosion of the RWA sector and the Fee Switch continuing to burn tokens.
Short sellers:
If you really want to short, wait for resistance above 6.50 before trying with a small position, with a stop-loss at 6.60.
UNI's logic now is already similar to that of BTC in 2023—
Going from “no one cares” to “everyone wants it” requires only one fundamental inflection point.
The Fee Switch is that inflection point.
UNI rose from 3 to 6, and you hesitated for a month. When it really holds above 10, will you still say, “If only I had known”?
What is your UNI cost basis?
At the 6-dollar level, are you willing to get on board?#Gate用户突破6000万 #Gate7天净流入全球第一 #Kimi秘密交表启动港股IPO $BTC $ETH $UNI

What are U.S. Treasury yields? Beginners only need to remember one thing:
They are the market’s pricing of “interest rates and funding costs.”
The two most commonly watched:
2-year U.S. Treasury yield: reflects expectations for Fed policy
Rising = the market expects rates to be higher for longer
Falling = expectations for rate cuts are increasing
10-year U.S. Treasury yield: reflects long-term funding costs
A rapid rise = increased pressure on high-valuation tech stocks
A fall = more favorable for growth-stock valuation recovery
But don’t look at Treasuries alone; combine them with:
CPI + nonfarm payrolls + U.S. Dollar Index + Nasdaq
Simple guide:
Hotter-than-expected CPI + Treasury yields rising → generally bearish for tech stocks
Cooling CPI + Treasury yields falling → generally bullish for tech stocks
Strong employment + Treasury yields rising → rate-cut expectations decline
Treasury yields rising + dollar rising → financial conditions tighten
Treasury yields falling + dollar falling → the environment for risk assets improves
In one sentence:
The higher Treasury yields are, the more expensive money is; the lower yields are, the cheaper money is.
So when trading U.S. stocks, especially tech stocks, Treasury yields are one of the indicators I check every day.