Let’s talk about something many people may not have noticed but that has a major impact on the crypto industry’s cost structure: DRAM (memory chip) prices are continuing to surge. Traditional DRAM contract prices rose 90-95% quarter-on-quarter in Q1, then another 58-63% in Q2. Server DRAM prices rose even more sharply, with Samsung and SK Hynix directly raising prices for Microsoft and Google by 60-70%.
There are several reasons: China’s main manufacturer CXMT has reached the limits of its capacity, and due to export controls on advanced equipment, its earliest expansion will not come until 20

Doesn’t look like a coincidence to me... $BTC
147, 147.

#GateFuturesRegistersWithCFTCJoinsNFA
A Major Regulatory Milestone for Gate
Gate is taking another important step forward in the United States, strengthening its regulatory foundation and expanding its presence within the regulated derivatives ecosystem.
Gate Futures LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gate US, has completed its registration with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as an Independent Introducing Broker and has officially become a member of the National Futures Association (NFA).
This is more than simply another registration announcement. It represents an importa

$GT is sitting at an interesting decision point.
After pushing into $8.12, price faced a sharp rejection and pulled back fast. Now $GT is trying to stabilize around the $7.87–$7.90 area.
The key here is whether buyers can reclaim the short-term moving averages.
If this zone holds, the rejection could simply become a healthy reset before another attempt higher.
For now, volatility is expanding.
Watch the reaction — the next move should reveal the real direction.
#web3 #crypto

⚽🔥 MEZASIL vs DODIPOL — WHO TAKES THE WIN?
Mezasil looks strong at home, but Dodipol can be dangerous on the counter. 👀
🎯 My pick: Mezasil to win 2–1
What’s your prediction? Drop it below! 👇
‍#Mezasil #Dodipol #Football #EventMarket #AlphaAsh

I don’t even know why—the signal suddenly looked like it was about to change. That’s why I say short-term moves are very difficult to predict. In my eyes, short-term trading is gambling, guessing whether prices will go up or down, and often there’s simply no logic to it. Rather than focusing on these chaotic and confusing factors, it’s better to hold long term in a direction with greater certainty.
If you’re bullish on storage, hold it. It will eventually reach new highs, and eventually double, then double again. Why worry about the hardships right in front of you?🤦
Buy the dip, hold long

$SOL
Solana starting to develop a new trend on HTFs. After the Monthly close, we received a bottom signal confirmation as it retests the 50MMA (notice the change from red dots back to neutral at the same time).
The Weekly has a death cross in progress, and we're beginning to test this resistance area from the previous lows. But what do we have on the Weekly again? Another double bottom. It could continue to consolidate around here before further breakout, but the main thing to realize is that the lows appear to already be in.
And this is why timeframes matter: even though we have a Weekly d

Once the direction is clear, just short. After the U.S. stock market opened, a slight rebound emerged; if it rebounds into the 78,300–78,700 range, short directly! The entry zone was spot-on, and a 500-point short move played out! Watch for the right opportunity to exit! $BTC #GateFutures完成CFTC注册并加入NFA

$XRP — the price pulled back, but something underneath it is getting harder to ignore
XRP pushed close to $1.70 in August before dropping back toward $1.35–$1.40.
That looks like a failed breakout on the chart.
But then you look at the money moving underneath it.
U.S. spot XRP ETFs brought in roughly $153.5M during August, with $110.5M arriving in the final week alone. Cumulative ETF inflows have now reached around $1.67B, while the funds hold roughly 1.1B XRP.
So while price was giving back gains…
ETF demand was doing the opposite.
That’s the divergence I’m watching.
Now comes the supply sid

This drop from 79,100 to 77,700 today? Don’t panic—it only took three things to smash the market: Warsh’s hawkish rhetoric, the fire in the Middle East, and those ETF deadbeats pulling up their pants and running.
First, Warsh went more hawkish than a pharaoh’s mummy is rigid.
Last Friday, he said, “Inflation is too high to tolerate.” After hearing that, the market sent the probability of a September rate hike straight from 35% to over 60%, sending 2-year U.S. Treasury yields soaring. The dollar turned as hard as a scepter atop a mountain, and risk assets all had to kneel.
Second, the Middle Ea

#晒出我的合约收益 Damn 🌿, what a narrow-minded old market maker, a wick—fortunately, I only had 4u

Ethereum’s one-hour price action continues to oscillate downward, with high-volume declines and high-volume wick recoveries. It is heavily affected by external markets and geopolitics, showing no independent trend in the short term. Overall, it is weak intraday and likely to remain range-bound; sell high and buy low.#Gate用户突破6000万

Congratulations to everyone following the Snowfield livestream: the BTC long position at the current price was successfully secured. After pocketing today's short-position profits, the livestream waited for an entry throughout the evening and decisively told everyone to go long at 77500, securing several hundred points in just minutes#BTC #ETH #BTC走势分析

You are not ready… 👀🤫

July job openings increased to 7.271M vs. 7.313M est. & 7.182M prior (rev down from 7.359M)

It’s been a long time since I properly sat down to chat with everyone about the market. This period happened to coincide with the tail end of the summer vacation, so I took some time to take my two children out. Reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles; it was also a chance to broaden the kids’ horizons during the holiday. Looking back over the past year, I’ve spent too much time burying my head in the charts and too little time properly accompanying my family, so I took this opportunity to relax and reset myself.
Today is September 1. Both little ones have bee

To be honest: I made several event-contract trades today, all of them lost money, and I don't have a habit of taking screenshots either—I close the page right after placing an order.
But since the campaign says that “publishing market views” also counts as a valid trade-sharing post, I’ll write about why I got it wrong. That should count, right?
Today I looked at the BTC 5-minute chart and thought that, after dropping for a while, it should rebound. Instead, it continued crashing downward, and two positions went straight to zero.
In hindsight, I was too impatient and entered before waiting for

Final August @SPGlobalPMI U.S. Manufacturing came in at 53.9, above 53.2 flash reading, and has remained in expansion territory for more than a year