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Turn years of trading experience into verifiable data
I’ve been doing one thing recently: recording certain special events in the market over the long term, then analyzing how the market actually moves 30 minutes, 1 hour, and 4 hours after these events occur.
BTC and gold are now being tracked continuously. But the longer I do this, the more I realize one problem:
I can build the systems and collect the data, but I can’t truly understand every coin.
Some people may have been trading SOL for 5 years, while others have focused exclusively on ETH or XRP for years, spending thousands of hours watc

The Coldcard theft case sees a breakthrough: the hacker may have exposed their identity through a “paid account”
The first wave of the Coldcard attack drained approximately 1,082.65 BTC in total, involving 1,196 addresses, and the entire process took only about 41 minutes. Investigators have now discovered that during the fund-sweeping process, the attacker used a paid account from a well-known blockchain data service provider to query the target addresses.
More importantly, the provider’s internal logs closely match the number, timing, and sequence of requests in the attack process. Clay Garr

One of the most important macro events tonight is the Fed's release of the minutes from the July 28–29 FOMC meeting.
Let's start with one figure: The July meeting ultimately voted 9 to 3 to keep rates at 3.50%–3.75%, but three officials—Hammack, Kashkari, and Logan—directly called for a 25-basis-point rate hike.
In one sentence:
The Fed ultimately did not raise rates, but some officials already believe that “if rates aren’t raised now, inflation could be harder to suppress later.”
The minutes tonight will really come down to three questions:
How many officials are worried about inflation? How

The U.S. is preparing to put stablecoins in the “cash” category, which may be more important than how much stablecoin market capitalization grows
The U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) recently proposed that stablecoins meeting certain conditions could be classified by companies as “cash equivalents.”
In one sentence: In the future, companies holding a portion of qualified stablecoins on their balance sheets may no longer be viewed as holding a special Crypto asset, but rather as holding a cash instrument that can be converted back into U.S. dollars at any time.
This is not a gre

In the future, issuing tokens in the US may not require full securities registration for amounts up to $5 million? The SEC is really starting to pave the way for Crypto this time
The SEC has just proposed a new framework, “Regulation Crypto Assets”: Startups raising no more than $5 million within four years could use a dedicated Startup Exemption; another financing exemption is larger, allowing up to $75 million every 12 months.
In one sentence: The US is not announcing that “tokens can be issued freely,” but is preparing a legal fundraising channel for Crypto projects—the biggest fear for man

OpenAI’s Q2 revenue reached $6.7 billion, but its operating loss expanded to $12.3 billion—the most expensive AI problem is finally on the table
According to the latest disclosure, OpenAI’s Q2 revenue grew from $5.7 billion in Q1 to approximately $6.7 billion, up 18% quarter over quarter; but its operating loss also expanded from $9.3 billion to $12.3 billion.
In one sentence: For every $1 of revenue OpenAI brings in, the underlying costs of computing, R&D, talent, and expansion are still burning through even more money.
What matters most is not the $12.3 billion loss itself, but that the pace

Unitree Technology surges 629% on its first day of trading—how much are humanoid robots really worth?
Today, Unitree Technology officially listed on the STAR Market, with an offering price of 150.8 yuan. It surged straight to 1,100 yuan at the open, gaining as much as 629% and briefly exceeding a market capitalization of 400 billion yuan.
In one sentence: The market is not valuing a company that “sells robots”; it is scrambling for one of the scarcest tickets to list China’s humanoid-robot champion.
Unitree is not purely selling a story. Its 2025 revenue was approximately 1.7 billion yuan, wit

South Korean stocks plunge over 6% intraday, even algorithmic selling is suspended for 5 minutes—this time, it may not be just South Korea's stock market that is blowing up
The KOSPI opened down nearly 5% today and at one point widened its losses to over 6%. At 9:06, the Korea Exchange triggered a sell-side Sidecar, suspending algorithmic sell orders for 5 minutes. To be clear: this is not a market-wide circuit breaker or trading halt, but rather a measure to hold back algorithmic sell orders after futures fell beyond the required threshold.
In one sentence: U.S. AI stocks were hit by valuatio

#USD1合约挂单0手续费
Gate has slashed the USD1 contract maker fee to zero—this time, it may not be chasing trading volume, but “the next USDT”
Gate has just launched 9 USD1-margined perpetuals. Besides BTC, ETH, and SOL, gold, silver, SpaceX, MU, SNDK, and SK hynix can all be traded with USD1 as margin. Even more aggressively, Maker fees are 0 for all VIP tiers from VIP0 to VIP16, while Taker fees are just 25% of the previous rate.
In one sentence: as long as you place a limit order and wait for someone else to take it, the trading fee becomes 0; but market orders are not fee-free—ordinary BTC/USD1

Japan’s 5-year government bond yield hits a record high—is the world’s cheapest money getting more expensive?
Japan’s 5-year government bond yield surged to 2.18% intraday today, hitting a record high; the 10-year yield briefly reached 2.945%, returning to levels last seen 30 years ago, while even the 2-year yield rose to 1.70%.
In one sentence: Japan’s biggest label over the past several decades has been “cheap money,” but now even lending to the Japanese government for 5 years can yield more than 2%, meaning the pricing of capital is changing across the board.
Why is this worth watching? Bec

SK Hynix rose over 8% in one day—is AI’s real shortage no longer just GPUs?
South Korean memory stocks surged across the board today, with SK Hynix rising over 8% intraday and Samsung also gaining over 4%. In one sentence: the market has begun trading a more direct logic again—the more AI servers are built, the more the biggest shortage is shifting from “whether there are enough GPUs” to “whether there is enough HBM, DRAM, and storage alongside the GPUs.”
This move is not because SK Hynix suddenly received another order. The South Korean market was closed yesterday, while Japan’s Kioxia surged

12GW of computing capacity and up to $105 billion in guarantees—is NVIDIA no longer satisfied with just “selling GPUs”?
NVIDIA’s latest disclosure shows that OpenAI’s existing and planned NVIDIA computing deployments will reach approximately 12GW by 2030. If the Ohio PORTS-Pike project is fully expanded later, this could rise further to around 16GW. NVIDIA estimates that the corresponding computing business is worth approximately $600 billion.
In one sentence: NVIDIA used to sell the shovels, but now it is even helping customers secure the land, power, and data centers for the mining operation

Anthropic’s annualized revenue surpasses $65 billion; the craziest AI story may no longer be models, but the speed of monetization
As of the end of July, Anthropic’s annualized revenue run rate had exceeded $65 billion, compared with just $47 billion in May and approximately $9 billion at the end of 2025. In other words, in seven months, it increased its revenue run rate to more than seven times its original level.
In a word: Claude is no longer just a “chatbot that many people find useful”; it is becoming a productivity tool that enterprises are genuinely willing to keep paying for. Anthropic

Vitalik Is “Borrowing Homework” from Bitcoin: Why Is Ethereum’s Scaling Suddenly Focusing on UTXOs?
Vitalik’s latest proposal would give Ethereum UTXO-style state, its existing dynamic state, and a hybrid form combining the two.
In a nutshell: simple transfers and token payments would no longer need to be crammed into the current “can do everything but is relatively heavy” account system. They could use a lighter, more scalable channel, while complex DeFi remains in the existing dynamic state.
The most striking figure is Ethereum Research’s estimate for a native UTXO solution: in one-time paym

319 million shares are about to be unlocked, yet SpaceX has climbed back above its IPO price—what exactly is the market betting on? SpaceX closed around $146 on August 17, while approximately 319 million shares held by early investors and insiders will become tradable on August 20.
In one sentence: The market knows a large batch of potential sell-side supply may soon emerge, but money is still flowing in ahead of time.
More interestingly, approximately 911.5 million shares were already unlocked on August 6. Many people expected to see a stampede, but SpaceX did not collapse that day and instea

The U.S. saying “Apple, don’t buy Chinese memory” sent MU and SNDK soaring as funds rushed in.
Latest news: The U.S. government has made clear that it does not want Apple to turn to Chinese memory suppliers. Previously, as AI data centers aggressively consumed memory capacity and prices continued to rise, Apple had been seeking more sources of supply, and Chinese companies such as ChangXin Memory Technologies had also entered the discussion.
In one sentence: AI has driven up memory prices, and Apple wants to find cheaper supplies in China, but the U.S. government does not want it to do so.
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Gate has started adding a points system to its “prediction markets,” and I think this is more worth watching than how many rewards it gives away.
Today, Gate Event Market officially launched a new event points leaderboard: participating in event market trading earns scratch cards and event points, and users can then enter the weekly leaderboard. For regular events, every cumulative 20 USDT traded earns one scratch card, while some 2x crypto up/down events award one for every 10 USDT traded.
In one sentence: Previously, you were simply betting on whether “BTC will rise tonight” or “a certain ev

Almost no one dared pass through the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, yet BTC is still stubbornly holding 63K.
The latest shipping data is striking: only 5 bulk commodity vessels passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, and the number dropped directly to 0 on Sunday; the previous weekend, it was still 31. Meanwhile, Brent crude climbed back above $88, while WTI was around $82.
In one sentence: Middle East risks have not disappeared, and oil prices could reignite global inflation at any time.
Why does this matter for BTC? Because after CPI and PPI cooled, the market had just lowered expectat

The four largest U.S. banks have begun working together to put “bank deposits” on-chain.
JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo are building a shared tokenized deposit network, planned to launch in the first half of 2027, enabling bank funds to be transferred and settled on the blockchain 24/7. Wells Fargo recently announced that it will first launch its own corporate tokenized deposit service this fall.
In one sentence: banks are not preparing to issue another BTC—they want the dollars in your bank account to have the same around-the-clock transfer capability as USDT.
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