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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.

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.

NEAR is up 10% today, with the current price at around $2.40 and a market cap just over $3 billion. It ranks among the major public chains, and most seasoned players know it well. This coin has an interesting backstory: its founder worked at Google and was one of the authors of the Transformer paper that changed the AI industry. So this chain has carried an AI label from the very beginning, and whenever the AI narrative heats up, it’s always one of the first names people think of.

Today it feels like the same script again: U.S. semiconductor stocks moved first, AI-related chains woke up with them, while Bitcoin barely moved and this one pulled up 10% on its own. But trading volume is a bit lacking, under 3 million. The gain is decent, but the volume is just average, so it feels like something is still missing.

It’s tempting to jump in, but at a price of a little over two dollars, it’s not exactly cheap, yet not really expensive either. Chasing it here doesn’t feel very reassuring. I’ll just keep it on the radar for now and wait until it shows a clearer pattern before saying more.

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra last Thursday, and President Brockman directly announced that we are entering the AGI era. But the results don't hold up under scrutiny: ARC-AGI-3 hit a high of 99.9%, but that was run in a special framework with a tailored setup; when switched to a unified test environment, it dropped to just 62.7%. Even more ironic, the company's own CEO said just two days earlier that AGI is merely a marketing term.

NVIDIA's Jensen Huang also jumped on stage and said, with confidence, that it was built on the company's own GPUs, AGI is already here, and I couldn't help but laugh. The company's chief scientist Pachocki then posted "An Alien Mind," saying that everyone is building an alien brain that nobody can understand and that nobody is ready for it. The company says AGI has arrived, while the chief scientist says to slow down—who are we supposed to believe? I'm confused too.

The market was equally awkward. Mainland China's A-shares' computing hardware sector plunged hard last Friday, with Inspur Information hitting limit down. All three major U.S. stock indexes fell, yet the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index rose more than 3% against the trend, and memory stocks went crazy. U.S. markets are closed today for Labor Day, so there's not even a chance to see how NVIDIA responds. Watching this kind of rally makes my hands itch, but in a market like this I usually only dare to watch from the sidelines.

Wow, RAY pulled 42% in a single day, with the price still under $1.3 and a market cap of only $350 million, making it the top gainer today. It’s the platform token of Raydium, the long-established decentralized exchange on Solana—basically the Uniswap of that chain, where on-chain token swaps mostly go through pools like this. Bitcoin hasn’t moved much, yet it dared to pump this hard; it’s hard not to notice.

The gains are truly fierce, but the more I look at it, the more uneasy I feel. The order book is so thin you can see every layer of bids and asks, and it feels like there aren’t many big-money whales actually stepping in. With a setup like this, it’s easy to push the price up, but when it’s time to exit, the door gets shut and everyone gets trapped inside. It’s tempting, and my hands are itching, but I still wouldn’t dare touch it—I don’t even hold this coin, so I’m just watching the show.

Anyway, I really don’t understand a 42% move in one day. A rally like this always reminds me of the old script where people are first coaxed into getting on the bus; as for what it really is, you’ll know once it comes out for a walk.

RAY has risen 37.8%, with the current price at $1.14 and a market cap of $310 million. It is the platform token of Raydium, a leading DEX in the Solana ecosystem, and many mainstream on-chain trading pairs are swapped in its pools. Today, several tokens in the Solana ecosystem are crowded near the top of the gainers list, and RAY is the one surging the hardest.

When the ecosystem heats up, platform tokens usually run the fastest — I understand that logic. But by the time I saw RAY on the list, the 37.8% move was already history. Every time a moonshot coin takes off, I’m the one who always notices late. By the time I get the urge to jump in, most of the meat is already gone, and entering then just means helping others carry the bags.

A $310 million float isn’t exactly tiny, but it can still be dragged down by one big bearish candle. I don’t have this coin in my wallet. I may be tempted, but for a setup like this I usually only dare to watch. Chasing moonshot coins usually ends with me getting trapped every time. I’ve learned my lesson.

A Goldman Sachs trading desk head sent out a research note over the weekend, and the whole thing boiled down to one point: GPT-6 Astra is the one the AI bull market has been waiting for. Just two days after its release, OpenAI called itself the world’s smartest, President Brockman announced, “Welcome to the AGI era,” ARC-AGI-3 self-testing came in at 99.9%, and on Friday Oracle and SoftBank were the first to rally in salute.

Looking closer, it’s all pretty awkward. That 99.9% score came from OpenAI’s own testing framework, basically like getting special treatment; put it in a unified neutral testing room and it drops straight to 62.7%. Two days earlier, Altman had just said AGI is at most a marketing term, only for his own president to turn around and declare that AGI has arrived. The rollout was also staggered in stages, with paying subscribers left waiting for days, so frustrated users got an apology after he went online and said the whole process was too chaotic.

Anthropic on the other side is even more subtle, with valuation expectations at $2 trillion and ambitions to stage the biggest IPO in history, but its prospectus was pushed from as early as next week to late September. Whether that was to avoid the heat is hard to say. OpenAI isn’t public, so retail investors like me are left with nothing but watching the show. Anyway, whose test room it is, whose questions they write, 99.9 or 62.7 — I can’t tell the difference.

GoPro, which sells action cameras, rose 12.6% in 24 hours to $1.7. This rally began when the company announced it was being sold: a $285 million all-cash deal, with optical module maker Starman Optical taking over. In the days after the news came out, the stock doubled.

The company was once truly glorious. At its peak, its market value reached $12 billion, and more than 80% of the world's action cameras were its own. Now its market share has fallen to the single digits, squeezed hard by DJI and Insta360. From $12 billion to $285 million, that kind of gap would leave anyone needing a moment to recover.

Some people in the group said that GoPro, once owned by everyone, had ended up being sold off. Others guessed the optical module maker was after its U.S.-listed status and wanted to avoid the hassle of an IPO. A $1.7 stock that can still jump 12% in a day? If it were me, I definitely wouldn't be able to hold it—I’d honestly just sit back and watch.

On Saturday morning, I woke up and the whole screen was buzzing with last night’s nonfarm payroll drama. August added 162,000 jobs, while the market had only expected 56,000—almost three times as much. The data was so strong that the mood flipped immediately. People had originally been betting on a rate cut, but now they’re betting on a rate hike in September instead, with the odds jumping to nearly 60%. Trump was so anxious he kept shouting for a rate cut, but even that couldn’t stop it. The three major U.S. stock indexes all closed in the red, with Tesla hit the hardest, falling nearly 6%, and the $360 level breaking without hesitation.

The storage sector was a completely different world. SanDisk surged 11.9%, while SK Hynix, Micron, and Western Digital were all up, and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index was also pulled up more than 3%. Adding fuel to the fire, Micron said its HBM monthly production capacity will double by the end of next year. Rate-hike expectations are weighing on the broader market, but money is pouring into AI hardware even harder.

Watching this market makes my hands itch, but it also makes me uneasy. On one side everyone is talking about rate hikes, while on the other side they’re chasing storage stocks. At this level, I really can’t bring myself to jump in. For someone like me who can’t hold onto positions, it’s better just to watch from the sidelines.