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STORJ jumps to 0.0395, up 36% in 24 hours—top of today’s gainers list. With a market cap of only $16.7 million and trading volume of $1.72 million.
What it does is decentralized cloud storage—turning idle hard drives into a cloud drive, in the same vein as Filecoin.
With 36% on the board, it’s hard not to be tempted. But with $1.72 million in volume staring at you, the kind of price move that this volume can support—I don’t dare to take it. The rally is beautiful, but the float is real and very thin.

September 11 Market View: BTC 77,100 down 1.7%. Take a look at the count of gainers and losers for a clearer picture: 178 up and 1,037 down—more than five times the gap. Those few bits of red are all squeezed into small-cap coins. On the gains board, top spot RAY is up 28%, yet its trading volume is only 1.38 million. In a market cap of over 400 million, the amount of money that moved in a single day is just this much.

On the other side, among US stock tokens, the one that really holds up is SOXS, which is a triple short on semiconductors—it’s up 8.6% while the chip stocks are falling. The image shows a quick snapshot of the market I just scanned.

RAY surged 28.1%, with a price of 1.72 and a market cap of 460 million. The upside looks great, but the trading value is only 1.38 million, and turnover is under 0.3%. This is a multi-hundred-million (over 400 million) float that moved only this little money in a single day—once you put the numbers on the table, it doesn’t look that attractive anymore.
RAY is an established old-school DEX on Solana, not a newcomer that just appeared on the scene. When an older coin suddenly pumps like this, and volume is still being kept at such a low level, it feels more like there isn’t enough liquidity on the order book—just a few buy orders are enough to push the price up, with not much real money actually flowing in.
This kind of market looks exhilarating, but once you truly go in and try to buy, you’ll find it’s easy to get in, and when it comes time to exit, that thin depth might not be able to support your sell. If the trading value remains at the million level over the next few days, it’s anyone’s guess who ends up holding the bag after that 28%.

Oracle shares fell 5.38% in the U.S. stock market last night; the company’s market cap shrank by $25 billion in a single day. After the earnings report came out after the close, the stock surged more than 8% in after-hours trading. This old-line giant that started out making databases now mainly earns money by renting computing power to AI companies. Q1 revenue was $19.3 billion, up 30% year over year; cloud infrastructure revenue more than doubled to $7.4 billion. The value of signed but unexecuted contracts (RPO) has climbed to $66.4 billion.

The broader market looked completely different that day. Oil prices jumped more than 8% overnight and reclaimed the $100 mark. The yield on 30-year U.S. Treasuries rose to 5.347%, the highest level since June 2007. U.S. stocks suffered a four-day losing streak, and storage chips collectively crashed. Only Oracle bucked the trend.

Down 5% during the day and up 8% at night—if it were me, I definitely wouldn’t be able to hold on through that roller coaster. The real test will be tonight: once the U.S. August CPI is released, the market’s odds of the Federal Reserve raising rates next week have already exceeded 70%. If the data comes in even hotter, Oracle’s relatively modest positives won’t be able to support the whole market.

ETH is still falling, while ETHFI is rising against the broader market by a little over 8%. With a market cap of $64 million, it’s the largest market cap among this evening’s top gainers; most of the rest are smaller caps.

It’s the token of ether.fi. In simple terms, after staking ETH, you can also receive a certificate/token that you can keep using in DeFi—so your position doesn’t get locked up.

Trading volume is $8.4 million spread across a $640 million float, so turnover is only a bit over 1%. The volume looks a little questionable. Yes, it’s going up, but there isn’t much real money backing it. In cases like this, I generally don’t dare to chase.

META token rises 4.6%, with $9.41 million in trading volume over the past 24 hours—it's the most active one among this batch of US stock tokens. While the entire market is down today for 1,145 coins, it just happens to go up. META is the company that renamed to Facebook; after the stock moved onto the chain, you can buy it from crypto exchange accounts too, without opening a separate US stock brokerage account.

I don’t have this kind of token in my account, so I can only watch. In the crypto market, when it’s down, it rises—watching it feels pretty comfortable. But it has to take both sides of the market in. If the US stock market truly corrects that day, I guess I wouldn’t be able to hold through the drop.

NES jumped 34.8% in a day. Price is 0.1652, but the trading volume is only $1.17 million, and the market cap is just $23.58 million.

This is the kind of coin where the percentage gain looks great, but the “board size” is basically paper-thin. With a trading volume of $1.17 million, if you put in even a moderately sized order, once you try to get out you’ll have to slide a long way. With a market cap of only a few tens of millions, a decent-looking buy order can send it soaring, and a sell order can just as easily smash it down.

I don’t have this coin in my wallet, so I’ll just watch. I haven’t never chased small-cap “meme/monster” coins before—getting in is easy, but when you want to run, you find out there’s really nobody on the other side willing to take the bag. Numbers like those in the top ranks of the gainers’ list are exciting and lively, but I just can’t bring myself to actually pull the trigger.

Apple held a launch event at 1 a.m., unveiling its first foldable iPhone, the iPhone Duo. This was also the first big show since the new CEO, Ternus, took over from Cook. Prices start at 15,999 yuan, with the top configuration at 26,499 yuan; the record for the most expensive iPhone in the company’s history was broken on the spot. The Android camp has been competing with foldables for several generations, and Apple is only now entering the game—yet it comes out swinging with this kind of price.

Even more intense is the stock price. The event was held during U.S. trading hours, and Apple rode a full roller coaster that day, once dropping nearly 2%. I almost thought it might spell disaster—until the close, when it managed to pull back, ending down just 0.28%. Counterpoint estimates Apple will ship up to 6 million units this year, capturing about 25% of the global foldable market. iPhone 18 Pro also saw price increases across the lineup: the standard model was pushed all the way to next spring, basically going all-in on the high end.

For the new boss’s first assignment, the market’s response was lukewarm at best. With the starting price of 15,999 yuan sitting right there, someone like me—an ordinary user—won’t rush to buy the launch model. I’ll wait and see the unboxing and review first.

IOST This wave is really strong—over the past 24 hours it’s surged 121%. The current price is $0.0019. The market cap is only $67 million, and daily trading volume is over $12 million—basically swapping out nearly 20% of the float.
The float is this small. Pulling it up is fast, but if real people start selling, this depth can’t hold even a few orders.
Last year I chased a top-bidder ticket like this that doubled. The next day it immediately got cut in half, and I’ve been hurting ever since. If I get itchy again, I still have to hold myself back.

ATOM is up 17.8% today, quickly nearing back toward $2. Long-time players are no stranger to this name—back when it was a blockchain mainstay, its price slid from a peak of over $40 all the way down to below $2. Today, it suddenly bounces like this; among the market-cap tier of $1B+, it’s the most eye-catching one.

But in the past 24 hours, trading volume is only $3.9 million. For a float worth just over $1B, that turnover is painfully thin. It can be lifted quickly on light volume, but after a stock has been falling for so long, a single bullish candle doesn’t mean much—I’ve seen too many cases where it jumps and then turns bearish again. If you ask me to chase it now, I can’t bring myself to do it. I’ll first see whether it can hold steady for a few days.

DOT rises 14.6% to $1.22, with $15.67 million in 24-hour trading volume, leaving the other coins on the list far behind. Polkadot, the elder statesman of the cross-chain track—these past couple of years have basically meant a slow, downtrend. Today it was suddenly pulled up, and my first reaction was to look for news, but I couldn’t find anything.

When an old coin sees volume pick up, there are only two explanations: either someone knew something in advance, or after hot money sweeps the new tickets, they circle back to pick up the old low-lying spots. The first one is always the one I’m last to hear about. The second one—by the time I see the leaderboard, they’ve already reached halfway up the hill. Whether 1.2 can hold is more worth watching than how much it’s up today. I’ll add it to my watchlist first and observe for the next two days.

Last night, U.S. stocks were broadly green; the Dow fell by more than 600 points, and Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia all dropped along with it. Intel, however, bucked the trend and surged by just over 9%. The news was straightforward: starting October 5, it plans to raise the price of PC processors by about 10%. Including this round, it will be the third price increase this year. AMD then rose by 5.9%, and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index also flipped positive.

I’ve been mulling over this logic for a while and can’t quite figure it out. Everyone knows what the PC chip market has been like these past two years—AMD has been taking market share, sales haven’t been great, and yet now the company is pushing the stock higher round after round by raising prices. And the market is actually buying it. In other industries, if products aren’t selling, raising prices first would have people raging about it.

I’m someone who got burned by chips a couple of years ago, so I’ll just take a look at this situation. What I’m curious about is this: when the price increase day actually arrives in October, will people who are planning to build or buy PCs end up complaining about Intel on one hand, and then immediately turn around to place orders for AMD on the other?

The top of the gainers list isn’t some well-known familiar face—it’s a little “OL” ticket. Market cap is $5.5 million, and in the last 24 hours it’s surged 44.5%. Daily trading volume is $1.15 million, which means about 20% of the float has turned over.

With a size like this, it doesn’t take much money to push it up—tens of thousands of dollars can paint a big bullish candle. But when you’re ready to exit, the counterparty order book is thin too. I’ve been burned on stocks like this before: I chased the price and went in at the top, and the very next day it got cut in half. Now that the #1 spot is this kind of thing, I’ll first check the market cap and trading volume, and treat the percentage gain as something to watch for fun.

Coins, coins—lost all your money

On the gainers leaderboard, the leading positions are mostly made up of small- and mid-cap stocks, and DOT, with a market cap of $1.8 billion, stands out sharply among them. In the last 24 hours it surged 10.8%, and its current price is just over $52. While BTC is still falling at the moment, it’s moving against the overall market on its own.

DOT is Polkadot—the big name from the last cycle. This recent rally hasn’t seen many people participate; in the past 24 hours, turnover is under 0.2%, and the price is basically drifting up on its own. I’ve been burned before in the last cycle when an old coin suddenly launched like this—when I chased in, I ended up giving it all back the very next day. This time I’ll first see whether the volume can keep up; if it can’t, I’ll just pretend I never saw it.

On the biggest-percentage-gainers list, CP is up 13%%—not the most ferocious. What’s really wild is the trading volume: in the past 24 hours it churned through $80 million, but the market cap is only $32 million. That’s like changing hands almost two and a half times in a single day.

With turnover that fast, either something big is really going on—or the chips are being flipped back and forth. I still don’t really understand what this coin is specifically for. Anyway, it’s the most aggressively traded coin on today’s percentage-gainers list.

It makes my fingers itch. I thought it over for a while, but I decided against it. In a setup like this, profits and losses come with quick in-and-out trading—if I’m late to react and jump in, then I’m just handing over food to be served to others.

On Monday night, the copper market touched $14,533 per ton, a historic high. This year it has risen by more than 16% so far. The moment the Houthi armed group fired missiles, Brent crude jumped again, climbing to above $97. It’s just one step away from $100. Since U.S. stocks were closed for the Labor Day holiday, commodities managed to dodge this night.

The logic for copper is straightforward: AI data centers, power grids, and electric vehicles are all competing for copper. On the mine side, supply remains tight; winter in South America disrupts shipping schedules, and the arrival of concentrates is slow. Oil is simply driven by geopolitical moods. When both of them go on a rampage, someone like me with no commodity positions can only watch.

I previously thought it was too expensive and didn’t get in. Now I’m even less willing to chase. Watching it climb all the way, I’ve got zero temper about it.

Today, the spotlight shifts to U.S. stocks. First, U.S. stock index futures signaled: the Dow fell 0.62%, while the Nasdaq rose instead by 1.0—so stocks and commodities are moving on their own tracks. Who leads whom will be clear when the markets open tonight.

The big coin is still green, but WLD turns red first—up 14.6% in 24 hours. Current price: $23. This coin is the Worldcoin project made by that OpenAI guy—using your iris to get a digital ID. In plain terms: trade your eyeballs for your identity, with a market cap of $1.7 billion.

But the volume behind this pump looks a bit shaky. In the last 24 hours, only a little over $8 million in trading—turnover is under 1%. Are people quietly accumulating in bulk, or is it just that nobody’s selling? I can’t tell which. With a move like this backed by that kind of volume, I just feel something doesn’t add up.

WLD today saw a nearly 11% surge, with a large-cap stock worth $1.6 billion. Normally, a daily move of just two or three percent already counts as a decent momentum—this kind of price action is a bit unusual.

As for Worldcoin, Altman’s project that scans the iris to verify real humans has been controversial ever since it launched. Trading volume in the past 24 hours was only $4.8 million—thin for a company of this size. With such low volume, it still managed to push up 11%, and most of the shares basically stayed put rather than changing hands. I wouldn’t dare chase a chart like this. No matter how happy the rally looks, if the volume can’t keep up, I don’t really believe it.

GPT-6 Astra was released last Thursday. What really lit the market was Huang Renxun’s remark over the weekend: the model was trained on 100,000 Grace Blackwell cards, and the next batch of 400,000 is already on the way. Today, A-shares responded immediately—Chinext jumped more than 3%, compute hardware surged to the daily limit, and the optical module leaders’ market caps rushed back above 1 trillion.

What does 100,000 cards mean? An “optical GPU” deal alone is worth tens of billions of dollars—and that’s just for training a single model. OpenAI releases models, but the people who get most excited are never the ones using the models—they’re the ones selling optical modules, copper cables, and electricity. The stronger the model, the less compute is available; the shovel gets more expensive. This chain is bluntly obvious.

Most interestingly, their own chief scientist turned around and urged everyone to slow down, saying that models can evade monitoring and still “escape” even without network access. The company officially claims AGI is here, but insiders are calling for the brakes. Orders are being ramped up, while internal debate first erupts—this storyline is more entertaining than the model itself.