Crypto KOL Community & Market Trends

Watching a $53.4M $ETH short, 20x leverage, entry at $1,804. Liq at $1,926... 8% of room left. Already up $684K plus $5.1K in funding.
Smart or reckless?

BTC’s drawdown from its highest price to its lowest price is -55%.
BNB’s drawdown from its highest price to its lowest price is -60%.
OKB’s drawdown from its highest price to its lowest price is -77%.
The most likely to bottom early at the lowest price is still OKB. Sometimes, even if it’s affected by a major market-wide selloff, it can quickly recover the losses. In the second half of the year, it will mainly be range-bound with slight upward moves.
BNB and BTC’s declines are still some distance from their historical extreme values. The weekly key focus in the bigger picture remains biased downward, until reaching the historical extreme of -65% to -70%.

Ethereum is seeing fresh institutional demand.

Reportedly:

• Two institutions bought $30M worth of $ETH
• Buying comes as market sentiment begins to improve
• Large investors continue accumulating during volatility

Institutional flows don't guarantee higher prices, but they can be an important signal to watch as the market evolves.

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Would you dare to bottom-fish ZEC worth $512?

First, look at the surface: after crawling back from hell, the market panicked.

On June 3, the vulnerability was disclosed. ZEC plunged more than 40% in two days—from 830 to breaking through 500. The whole internet was in panic; retail investors cut their losses. Some even said, “Privacy coins are over.”

So what happened? Three weeks later, ZEC bounced from 299 back to 550. Up 11% in a week, up 25% in a month. Over the past 24 hours, trading volume was $2.1 billion, up 37%—a 37% increase. The $500 level was tested again and again; the RSI returned to around 55. The bad news is over—short sellers are out of ammo, and the bulls are brewing the next move.

First: the vulnerability that nearly killed ZEC turned out to be the biggest positive.

On May 29, a “limitless minting” vulnerability was found in Zcash’s Orchard privacy pool—theoretically, attackers could print unlimited money.

After the news broke, ZEC dumped from 830 to below 500 within two days.

But pay attention to three key details:

The vulnerability was never exploited—there’s no evidence that fake coins were minted

The team urgently patched it within 72 hours—on June 3, the NU6.2 hard fork went live

The Ironwood upgrade was officially activated on July 28—completely shutting down the old Orchard pool, introducing a brand-new privacy pool plus a “transfer gate” accounting checkpoint mechanism

Second: Forbes + ETF + supply tightening—three arrows fired at once.

Forbes endorsement: On July 10, Zcash was selected for Forbes 2026 Top 10 Best Crypto list, landing in the TOP 10 alongside Bitcoin and Ethereum. After the news, ZEC jumped 5% to $531.

ETF on the way: Grayscale has submitted the first privacy-coin spot ETF application (code ZCSH). Analysts expect that, if approved, potential capital inflows could reach $2 billion. In January 2026, the SEC ended its two-year investigation into Zcash and took no enforcement action.

Supply tightening: More than 80% of ZEC has been issued. Shielded addresses hold about 5.1 million ZEC—close to one-third of the total supply. These coins do not participate in liquid market trading. After the halving in November 2024, block rewards fell from 3.125 to 1.5625 ZEC.

Third: the technical picture has reached a node you must take seriously.

ZEC is currently testing the $490–$500 key resistance zone—where the upper boundary of the descending channel intersects the horizontal supply area.

Strong support: $480–$500 (the recent bulls’ defense zone), $455 (50-day EMA)

Key resistance: $520–$550 (the current pressure zone), $547 (recent high)

Breakout targets: if it holds above $520–$550 with increased volume, the next target directly points to $595–$700+

Bulls vs. bears—you decide.

On one side is:

The SEC investigation has ended; the biggest regulatory landmine has been cleared

Grayscale’s privacy-coin ETF is on the way, with $2 billion potential funds

Forbes TOP 10 endorsement—mainstream recognition surges

Supply tightening: 80% issued + halving + shielded-address lockups

Ironwood upgrade activates on July 28—security and transparency both improve

On the other side is:

The shadow of the June vulnerability hasn’t fully faded; market confidence needs time to repair

The EU MiCA law takes effect in 2027, and privacy coins face potential delisting risk

The $520–$550 pressure zone is heavy; it failed to break through three times

Bitcoin is down 2% today; the broader market drags risk

For short-term traders:

Wait for a pullback to $500–$507, then enter long in batches, with a stop-loss below $490. Take profit first at $520–$550—sell half first. If it breaks $550 with increased volume, chase the long, stop-loss at $520, then target $595–$700.

For swing traders:

Wait for the daily close to hold above $520 before getting in, targeting $700+. The Ironwood upgrade (July 28) is the core catalyst—buy the expectation, sell the fact. Volatility will be big before and after the upgrade.

For long-term believers:

DCA in batches below $500. You’re betting on the ETF landing + a privacy narrative breakout + supply tightening. Target $1,000–$1,500+.

ZEC now is like SOL in 2021—

Everyone keeps yelling “there are technical problems,” and after the upgrade it instantly flips into a 10x.

On the day $520 breaks, you’ll realize:

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Chads know how much bullish it could be

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Hynix’s drop from its peak market capitalization has already reached 30%. I was planning to buy some a while back. One day, I went to the supermarket and saw a few elderly men playing cards. I overheard them chatting about the South Korean stock market, and they were really talking up Hynix—saying Hynix is going to rise more. I thought, oh no, I’m done for—I can’t buy this; Hynix is about to crash. Sure enough…

After you’ve scanned the chain and feel bored watching the charts, go play in Delta. Go do this ultra-secret space operation—use whatever crappy gear you’ve got ➕, and set up by repairing-foot using a repair gun. No matter where you land at the start, drop prone first and stay there for 20 minutes. In the last 10 minutes, check which absolute hangar gate is lit, and go there to stay prone. When someone comes, you fix their foot—right from birth. When you’re on-chain, you’re born; even when you play games, you still act like you’re born. We’re basically committing to a whole “born” kind of life. In the end, last night I was busy fixing feet, and didn’t even know.

Thanks to the seniors for the recommendations:
230 $SPCX
180 of Hynix, $SKHY
80 of $DRAM
2300 of $SNDK
1255 of $MU
240 of $NVDA
270 of $GLW
190 of double Hynix
300 of triple-and-a-half semiconductor
110 of silver
5600 of gold
Thank you all for accompanying me in the first half of 2026. If you hadn’t helped me invest, I might now have a little savings.

Do you want to buy the dip on LAB at $0.35?

Look at the surface first: from heaven to hell, in just 30 days.

It surged to $27 in early June, with a market cap of $0.8 billion, and the community went wild cheering for the “next 100x coin.” Then it collapsed vertically, crashing all the way down to $0.35—market cap left with only $110 million. The 24-hour swings are ±20–30%, trading volume is $70 million, and turnover is extremely high.

A string of consecutive long red candles + massive sell pressure—classic “the whales finished distributing, and retail is waving flags on poles.” RSI is in oversold territory, but there’s no bullish divergence at all. This isn’t a pullback; it’s a crash.

First thing: ZachXBT has confirmed it—the team is selling.

On-chain sleuths exposed that team-linked wallets have offloaded about 18.4 million LAB tokens, worth $18.3 million. These tokens came from the 196 million tokens transferred by the team in April—meaning the whale’s cost basis is 0.

You paid $27 for the coin. The team’s holders got it for free, and they crushed it down to $0.35 to sell it to you.

Second thing: On July 14, a bigger bomb is coming.

Tomorrow: the airdrop + investor unlocks.

What does that mean? More tokens—tens of millions, possibly even at near-zero cost—can be sold. At the current price of $0.35, will the unlock recipients sell? As long as there’s profit, they’ll dump.

Some in the community are already discussing $0.1 or even lower.

Third thing: Fundamentally, it’s actually not bad, but trust has hit zero.

LAB Trade’s product really can be used—multi-chain trading terminal, an AI research engine, and low fees. It’s listed on the App Store, and the Telegram Bot is running too. The issue is: no matter how good the product is, if the team is selling tokens, who would dare to trust it?

In tokenomics: total supply is 1 billion, circulating supply is only 310 million, and 70% of the tokens are still not unlocked. FDV is $350 million, market cap is $110 million—there’s still a lot of upside premium room—an “upward” (downward) pricing premium.

Long vs short—you decide.

One side says:

From $27 to $0.35, a 98.7% drop—sell pressure may be nearing exhaustion
Massive trading volume,充分換手, potential for a short-term oversold rebound
Product keeps iterating; not a total empty shell

The other side says:

ZachXBT confirmed team sell-off—trust collapses
A huge unlock on July 14 brings heavy supply pressure
70% of tokens are not yet circulating; the FDV/MC ratio is absurd
BTC is ranging around 62,000, and alts are generally under pressure

Key levels

Resistance overhead: $0.45–0.60 → $1.0
Support below: $0.30 → $0.20 → $0.10

This isn’t investing; it’s gambling. A 98.7% drawdown doesn’t mean it won’t drop another 99.9%. If you’re not a professional short-term trader, never buy the dip.

For short-term gamblers:

Around $0.35, try a small long position. Stop-loss at $0.30. Target $0.45–$0.60. Keep position size within 1% of total funds. Don’t get greedy—if there’s profit, get out. Clean out and watch before the July 14 unlock hits.

Perps:

For dip-believers:

Wait for the July 14 unlock to land, wait for the on-chain sell pressure to digest, and only consider entering in batches after the daily chart shows a high-volume bullish candle + bullish divergence. Jumping in now is catching a knife that’s still falling.

A coin down 98% can still drop another 98%.

You think you’re buying the dip, but you’re really sending the whale the final road fee.

LAB at $0.35—do you dare to buy?

I’m just—waiting until tomorrow’s unlock lands to talk. #PreIPOs第二期OpenAI认购 #LAB两日腰斩53% #世界杯冠军预测 $BTC $ETH $LAB

$65 HYPE—would you dare to bottom-fish?

First, look at the surface: explosive revenue, but the price has pulled back 15% from its ATH.

A month ago it surged to a 76.9 ATH, then drifted lower all the way to around 65 where it stabilized. Market cap $16.5 billion, rank #9; $270 million in 24-hour volume. Weekly active users exceed 200k, and market share hits a record high. The 62–65 strong support zone has been defended multiple times, forming a tightening triangle consolidation. RSI is neutral, MACD is ranging with no divergence.

First thing: this thing is different from other altcoins.

Cumulative protocol revenue exceeds $1 billion. Monthly revenue has been consistently in the tens of millions. Over 90% of trading fees are used to buy back HYPE on the open market, and it has already repurchased more than $2 billion.

Most altcoins fall and the project team can only talk and shout about buys. When HYPE falls, the protocol directly uses its revenue to step in and buy. That’s the difference.

Second thing: why is it down? Because it needs to shake out.

When it ran up to 76.9 in June, how many people chased? Now that it’s back to 65, are those people cursing or cutting losses? What the “whales” want is exactly this effect.

It’s the same script as ETH shaking out around $2,000, ZEC around $530, and BNB around $590:

Pump it up → get retail to chase
Dump it down → get retail to panic-sell
Absorb enough supply → start the next major upswing

Third thing: a signal has appeared on the technicals that must be taken seriously.

The 62–65 zone has bounced off four times already, forming a clear “higher-lows” structure. On the daily timeframe, it shows an ascending triangle consolidation: the upper line at 68–70, the lower line at 62–65.

The triangle is reaching the end of its run.

After this, there are only two paths:

Break upward above 68.6 → target 78–80, even 100+
Break downward below 62 → test 55–60

Long vs short—look for yourself.

One side:

Cumulative protocol revenue tops $1 billion; monthly earnings at the ten-million level
Buyback mechanism has already bought over $2 billion worth of HYPE; deflation pressure is significant
ETF cumulative net inflows of $170 million; Bitwise included in Top 10
Grayscale endorsement; active regulatory engagement on CFTC
Weekly active users exceed 200k; market share hits a new high

The other side:

Down 15% from ATH; short-term trend is weak
Weekly chart was overbought and needs time to digest
Macro uncertainty, with BTC ranging between 62–64K
Large amounts of unlocked tokens still exist (but have already been absorbed by the buyback mechanism)

Key levels

Resistance overhead: 68–70 → 72–76.9 (ATH) → 80–100
Support below: 62–65 (strong support) → 55–60 (hard floor)

Conservative observers:

Wait for the daily close to hold above 68.6 before entering; target 78–80, stop loss below 65.

Short-term traders:

Go long in batches at 62–65, stop loss below 60; target 68–72 (take partial profits). After confirming a break above 68.6, add more, targeting 78–80.

Medium-to-long-term DCA investors:

Build positions in batches below 65 and hold for 1–2 years. The logic is simple: a project with annual revenue in the hundreds of millions of dollars and that still uses money to buy back its own token—its market cap is $16.5 billion now. Is it expensive? Compare it with those meme coins with market caps in the hundreds of billions and zero revenue—you’ll know the answer.

Optimistic scenario: after breaking ATH, it enters a new phase; targets of 100+ aren’t a dream. Pessimistic scenario: a BTC crash drags all alts down; break below 60 and exit with a stop.

You think a token down 15% is trash, but you haven’t seen that its protocol is making tens of millions of dollars every month—then using that money to buy its own token in the market.

By the day it breaks ATH, you’ll realize:

Turns out it’s not that HYPE is bad—it’s that you always die before dawn. #PreIPOs第二期OpenAI认购 #LAB两日腰斩53% #伊朗宣布关闭霍尔木兹海峡 $BTC $ETH $HYPE

SK Hynix crashes hard, and US stocks have started to pull back too. In a situation like this, I’m not going to chase some “Storage Light”—there are too many people, expectations are too high, and the value for money isn’t good. What I really want to wait for is Bitcoin. If $BTC can return to around $60,000, I’ll buy in with half a position. Because I’m a devout crypto believer. The money you make should be spent back where you earned it.

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If Earth didn’t have the sun, it would be an iceball right now.
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Why is everything dumping ?
Over $1.5T has been wiped from global markets in just 10 hours.
📉 BTC -2.47%
🥇 Gold -1.62%
🥈 Silver -3.4%
🇰🇷 KOSPI -8.95%
🇯🇵 Nikkei -2.7%
🇨🇳 Shanghai -2.3%
🇹🇼 Taiwan -3.1%
Main reasons:
• Rising geopolitical tensions after fresh US strikes on Iran.
• Expectations of possible BOJ intervention.
• Higher bond yields putting pressure on risk assets.
Volatility is back. Keep an eye on the macro.

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Uniswap makes $5.2 million in a day, and UNI holders get nothing—

This may be the most ridiculous “money-printing machine and beggars” story in crypto

Uniswap earns $5.2 million a day, but UNI holders are left with nothing but the cold wind.

This isn’t a joke—this is happening on July 12, 2026.

Uniswap’s founder tweeted: In the past 24 hours, Uniswap generated about $5.2 million in transaction fees.

Across all crypto protocols, fee revenue ranks only behind the two stablecoin issuers, USDT and USDC.

Even more explosive—Robinhood Chain has only been live for two weeks, and in a single day it already contributed $4.38 million in fees to Uniswap, exceeding Ethereum and Base combined.

Uniswap has been live on Robinhood Chain for 9 days—cumulative trading volume has surpassed $1 billion, and daily active traders are 220k.

A $5.2 million-per-day money-printing machine is running at full speed.

But what about UNI’s price?

$3.62.

From the all-time high of $44.92, it’s down 93.8%. Year-to-date, it’s down more than 60%.

A protocol that earns $5.2 million every day, with its token hovering near historical lows.

Why? Because UNI holders don’t get a penny of the trading fees.

Every cent Uniswap earns goes into the pockets of liquidity providers. UNI tokens? Just a governance credential with no economic rights.

A Grayscale report for June listed UNI as one of 2026’s “most undervalued crypto assets.” AMBCrypto also said it plainly: UNI’s market cap versus the protocol’s real revenue is indeed undervalued.

But “undervalued” and “will go up” are two different things. As long as the fee switch isn’t turned on, UNI is just a nice-looking prop.

Things may be starting to change.

In December 2025, the Uniswap DAO already activated the “fee switch,” allowing the protocol to collect transaction fees and use them to buy back and burn UNI.

On July 7, Uniswap Labs just launched a new proposal: expand protocol fees to v4 pools, covering 11 chains.

Once the proposal passes, UNI will turn from a governance token into an “asset with cash flow.”

More importantly, once the CLARITY bill passes, the regulatory framework for digital assets will be fully clarified, removing legal obstacles to the fee switch.

So the current question isn’t whether Uniswap is making money—it’s making too much.

The question is: when will this money flow to UNI holders?

It’s true that UNI is undervalued, but the catalyst hasn’t arrived yet.

The v4 fee-switch proposal is still in the “temperature check” stage. The CLARITY bill is still being debated in the Senate. Either one landing will completely rewrite the valuation logic for UNI.

But before that—UNI is still the “beggar next to the money-printing machine.”

Last line, for all trapped UNI holders:

“The protocol is making money, but you’re losing money—this isn’t the market getting it wrong, it’s the tokenomics getting it wrong.” #PreIPOs第二期OpenAI认购 #LAB两日腰斩53% #伊朗宣布关闭霍尔木兹海峡 $BTC $ETH $UNI

0% of miners support—these people still want to hard fork Bitcoin? Wake up. This isn’t an upgrade; it’s a coup.

Bitcoin is being hijacked by a small group of people.

As August approaches, a proposal called BIP-110 is about to enter a mandatory signaling window.

What does this proposal want to do?—limit non-financial on-chain data such as Ordinals and Runes, push the OP_RETURN data capacity back down, and ban writing any arbitrary data longer than 256 bytes.

Sounds pretty reasonable? Clean up junk data and make Bitcoin “cleaner”?

But here’s the problem: almost nobody on the entire Bitcoin network supports it.

As of July 12, the miner signaling support rate is—0%.

You read that right. Zero.

Since it was proposed in December 2025, the historical peak has never exceeded 0.79%. The share of nodes running the BIP-110 software is only in the single digits. No mainstream mining pool has announced support.

It requires 55% miner signaling to activate. And now it’s still not even 1%.

With a 0% support rate, what gives it the audacity to force its way through at the beginning of August?

Even more surreal: the people opposing it are precisely the most heavyweight figures in Bitcoin.

Strategy founder Michael Saylor directly goes in: “There are 110 things more dangerous to Bitcoin than junk data.”

He says BIP-110 turns an argument over junk information into a consensus change that can directly render certain currently valid, fee-paid transactions invalid.

Blockstream CEO Adam Back—cited by Satoshi in the Bitcoin whitepaper—put it even more sharply: “Bitcoin will politely tell you ‘no’.” If supporters insist on doing this, then they can fork on their own—“but Bitcoin won’t join.”

Bitcoin’s richest holders and Bitcoin’s most core developers speak with one voice: get lost.

So who are the supporters?

Ocean Protocol founder Luke Dashjr. What’s this person’s background? In 2014, in the Gentoo Linux Bitcoin software package he maintained, he quietly added an address blacklist that automatically blocked transfers to gambling services. Node operators only realized something had been tampered with when transactions started failing.

Later he apologized and withdrew it. But in 2014 he already wanted to make decisions for the whole network—and in 2026 he’s still doing the same thing.

Someone who once unilaterally made decisions for the entire network now wants to decide for everyone what can be on-chain and what cannot be on-chain.

History never repeats itself, but it always rhymes.

What does this “civil war” mean for Bitcoin?

First, in the short term: uncertainty is a downside.

Bitcoin’s current price is trading around $63,000. ETF outflows are ongoing, the Iran–U.S. conflict is escalating, and the market is already under pressure. Now there’s also the added risk that the chain could split at the start of August.

Once a small number of nodes really form a separate chain, what will exchanges do? Which chain will CME’s Bitcoin futures settle to? The UTXOs of 1,700,000 BTC (about $10.7B) could become “unspendable” under the new rules.

This isn’t a technical discussion—this is a real, ticking financial bomb.

Second, in the long term: what’s truly dangerous isn’t junk data—it’s the precedent itself.

Saylor said it plainly: “This precedent is the real danger.”

Today, they can restrict Ordinals because there’s “too much junk data.” Tomorrow, they can block transactions because “a certain address is too active.” The day after tomorrow, they can review/censor blocks because they “don’t align with certain values.”

The most precious thing about Bitcoin isn’t “fast,” isn’t “cheap”—it’s that nobody can change the rules.

Once you open this door—by a small group of people, with 0% miner support, bypassing consensus, and pushing it through by force—is Bitcoin still Bitcoin?

Let’s say something that cuts deep:

“Ordinals aren’t a threat to Bitcoin.

The ones who think Ordinals are a threat—and want to make decisions for everyone—are the real threat.”

After more than ten years, Bitcoin has gone through the block size wars, through SegWit, and through countless rounds of FUD. Every time, the market chose not to split.

This time won’t be an exception either.

But the mere existence of this proposal already sounds the alarm:

Bitcoin’s governance model is being tested at the boundaries by a small group of “ambitious schemers.” #PreIPOs第二期OpenAI认购 #LAB两日腰斩53% #世界杯冠军预测 $BTC $ORDI $SATS