Solana just processed 171.9M daily transactions.
And this time, validator votes aren’t inflating the number.
> 171,912,655 transactions on Aug. 10
> Excludes validator vote transactions
> New daily record
That’s a useful distinction.
Solana has produced huge transaction counts before, but vote transactions have historically made raw throughput figures harder to interpret.
Removing them gives a cleaner view of actual network activity.
The bigger question now is what is driving the volume.
Trading?
DeFi?
Payments?
Consumer applications?
Because 171.9M non-vote transactions is impressive on its o

JUST IN: A strong bull market is nudging retirement—the labor force participation for 55+ dropped to 36.9% in July as rising wealth and bigger 401(k) balances fuel early exits. No crypto angle here.

ELON MUSK:
"Memory is AI's biggest bottleneck right now."
Micron and SanDisk just became the most important companies in the AI supply chain.

JUST IN: Bitcoin slips to a one-week low ahead of US CPI data as retail piles into gold ETFs, pushing XAU/USD to nine-week highs. Implication: risk-on assets may pause until inflation cues clear. $BTC $XAUUSD

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Friendship is the rainbow
between Two hearts sharing
seven colours:
Feeling, love, sadness,
happiness, truth, faith, secrets &
respect.

$TUT I shorted at the highest price. If he hadn't been liquidated, I wouldn't have gone long. I would have won at least a few thousand U, but instead I lost a few thousand U on one entry and exit. This has wrecked my mindset these past two days, and I've also lost a lot of money.

#ETHFocusesOnQuantumPrivacyAI
Ethereum’s next phase may be about much more than simply processing more transactions.
Vitalik Buterin’s latest roadmap direction puts three themes much closer to the center of Ethereum’s future: quantum safety, native privacy and AI-assisted formal verification. At the same time, the scaling strategy is evolving toward more specialized infrastructure and deeper support for high-load applications.
That is a significant change in perspective.
For years, much of the Ethereum scaling conversation was dominated by one question:
How do we make Ethereum process more tr

#BIP110SoftForkFails BIP-110 Soft Fork Fails: What Happened to Bitcoin’s Controversial Reduced-Data Upgrade?
The Bitcoin ecosystem has once again witnessed a major governance debate after the controversial BIP-110 soft fork failed to gain sufficient miner support and split away from the main Bitcoin chain. The episode highlights one of the most important characteristics of Bitcoin: no single developer, company, miner, or group can unilaterally change the network’s consensus rules.
BIP-110, officially titled “Reduced Data Temporary Softfork,” was designed to temporarily restrict certain forms o

🟡 XAUUSD — What We Learned Today
Gold gave traders an important lesson today: strong momentum doesn't mean you should chase the move.
XAU/USD pushed above $4,400 and reached around $4,435 before pulling back. The market is now trading around the high-$4,300s, with traders watching the upcoming U.S. inflation data closely. �
Reuters +1
📚 Today's lessons:
🔹 Momentum can be powerful — but buying after an extended move carries more risk.
🔹 Key levels matter — the $4,400–$4,435 area is an important zone to watch. �
🔹 Wait for confirmation — a breakout is more meaningful if price can hold above

My friend's ETF made a fortune 😔😔😔, but unfortunately this loser couldn't hold on.

#GoldBreaks4400USD
Gold Market Analysis: XAU/USD Decisive Breakout Above $4,400 Per Ounce
Gold has delivered one of the most powerful moves of this cycle, decisively breaking above the psychologically and technically critical $4,400 per ounce level. The precious metal touched an intraday high of $4,432, near the $4,432.3 intraday peak registered on COMEX gold futures, before easing back to trade around $4,364 at the time of this analysis. This breakout is not a random spike; it is the culmination of sustained bullish pressure that built up over many weeks of consolidation.
The Technical Break

$FIL (Filecoin) – Persistent Weakness, Avoiding
I'm staying far away from FIL because it is hovering at $0.6981 (+0.23%) but showing persistent downward pressure. The EMAs are bearishly aligned: EMA5 at $0.6984, EMA10 at $0.7000, and EMA30 at $0.7020, all capping the price. The 24h low is $0.6875, and MACD is negative and drifting lower. **I am completely out** and will wait for a clear recovery above $0.7100 to consider a reversal play.

Russia’s central bank is proposing regulated crypto trading for BTC, ETH, and USDT

My DTT analysis suggest bitcoin will likely fall back to $62800 soon

【$INX Signal】Long + 1H breakout/short squeeze
$INX 1H RSI 82.37, MACD lines widening upward, 4H Bollinger Bands expanding, with price breaking above the upper band. Bid/Ask order book depth is 1.53, with buyers dominating. Trading volume continues to expand, with 1H volume surging from 16M to 566M, clearly indicating aggressive fund accumulation.
🎯Direction: Long
⚡Entry/Limit order: 0.01098893 - 0.01102200
🛑Stop-loss: 0.01091178
🚀Target 1: 0.01118733
🚀Target 2: 0.01126999
🛡️Trade Management:
- Execution strategy: After reaching Target 1, reduce the position by 50% and move the stop-loss u

ETH’s resistance zone worked perfectly
The price surged to 1896.95, encountered resistance and reversed, then continued downward to 1852.58, exceeding expectations
We correctly anticipated in advance that the rebound would not be sustainable, refused to let short-term red and green lines sway our thinking, and the entire move stayed within the projected framework$ETH #股票交易分享挑战

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I used to think privacy in Web3 was mostly about hiding transactions.
Then I looked deeper into Beldex.
BChat for conversations.
BelNet for private connectivity.
Beldex Browser for browsing.
BNS for readable blockchain identities.
That changed how I look at the ecosystem.
It’s not just about making one transaction private.
It’s about asking a bigger question:
How much of your everyday digital life should actually belong to you?
That’s the Beldex rabbit hole I’m exploring.

JUST IN: Coldcard wallet exploit triggers a spike in new Bitcoin ($BTC ) addresses, jumping from 260,000 to 330,000 as users rush to move funds.
Sharpest break from the year's downtrend in address creation.