🔥 5 coins I’ll be watching over the next few months
I’m not calling this a forecast. This is my personal list of projects that I currently find interesting in terms of fundamentals and potential. 🥇 ETH — Ethereum For me, this is one of the top candidates. DeFi, stablecoins, tokenization, and a huge ecosystem make ETH the market’s baseline altcoin. 🥈 SOL — Solana A strong ecosystem and high network activity. If interest in altcoins picks up, SOL could end up among the main beneficiaries.
🏦 $80 billion evaporated: has the Bitcoin Treasury model cracked?
Companies began mass-buying Bitcoin for their balance sheets. The idea seemed simple: buy BTC → increase reserves → achieve stock growth → attract even more capital → buy even more BTC. But now this scheme has run into a serious problem. According to the Financial Times, the combined market capitalization of the 50 largest publicly traded companies that hold Bitcoin fell from about $150 billion in July 2025 to $67 billion in August 2026.
💰 $640 million to buy back their own tokens. Crypto projects started saving prices?
The crypto market has come up with a new way to support its tokens. To buy them back. According to Allium Labs, crypto projects have already spent about $640 million on buyback programs in 2026. For comparison: in 2025 it was about $545 million, and in 2024—only $366 thousand. And this is already becoming a serious trend. 🏦 What is a buyback?
When you hold BTC or ETH on Binance, the coins are not “sitting inside the app.”
Assets are recorded on the blockchain, and Binance controls the keys to the wallets where the corresponding funds are kept.
Several types of wallets are used for storage:
🧊 Cold Wallet — offline storage, more protected from online attacks.
🔥 Hot Wallet — connected to the network and used for operations, for example user withdrawals.
In addition, Binance publishes Proof of Reserves (PoR) — a mechanism that allows you to verify that the exchange’s reserves cover users’ balances. Binance also uses cryptographic methods, including Merkle Trees and zero-knowledge proofs.
And for emergencies, there is a separate SAFU fund.
🧠 Key takeaway:
You don’t store crypto “in the Binance app.” You trust Binance with the storage and key management of assets that are recorded on the blockchain.
💬 What matters most to you when choosing an exchange: security, fees, or convenience?
⚠️ Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only. Always verify up-to-date data yourself using official sources.
You can lose crypto not only due to a market drop. Sometimes one mistake is enough. 1️⃣ Don't tell anyone the seed phrase Real support should not ask you for it. 2️⃣ Don't store the seed phrase in screenshots Your phone or cloud storage can be hacked. 3️⃣ Enable 2FA It's better to use a separate authentication app.
Imagine a huge electronic book, a copy of which exists on thousands of computers all over the world.
You send BTC to another person.
What happens next?
1️⃣ The transaction is sent into the network. 2️⃣ Computers in the network verify it. 3️⃣ Confirmed transactions are collected into a block. 4️⃣ The block is added to the previous blocks. 5️⃣ The information becomes part of the blockchain’s shared history.
The main feature: there is no single computer that alone stores and controls the entire network.
That’s why changing an old record retroactively is extremely difficult — you would have to disrupt the work of a huge number of network participants.
🧠 If even simpler:
Blockchain = a shared record history that the network verifies and stores according to rules.
And an important nuance: different blockchains work differently. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana use different mechanisms and architecture.
💬 What topic should we cover next: how a transaction is verified or how a block is created?
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🔐 Seed phrase: 12 words that can cost you all your money
A seed phrase is a set of 12, 18, or 24 words that can be used to restore a crypto wallet.
Most important:
❌ Never send it to anyone. ❌ Don’t enter it on unknown websites. ❌ Don’t store it in screenshots or in the cloud. ❌ Don’t trust those who present themselves as “support” and ask for a seed.
If someone gets your seed phrase, they can gain control of the wallet funds.
And one more important point: crypto isn’t stored inside the wallet. Assets are recorded on the blockchain, and the seed phrase helps restore access to the keys.
🧠 Remember this simple rule:
Seed phrase = access to the wallet.
💬 Do you store the seed phrase on paper or use another method?
⚠️ Disclaimer: The information provided is for informational purposes only. Always verify current data yourself using official sources.
🇪🇺 Europe is revising crypto rules. What could change?
MiCA — the EU’s main crypto regulation — is again in the spotlight. On May 20, 2026, the European Commission began a consultation to revise MiCA. Its goal is to determine how well the current rules match today’s crypto market and what changes they may need.
🏦 Wall Street is going after altcoins: why Schwab is adding SOL, AVAX, and LINK?
Crypto is gradually ceasing to be a separate world. First, major financial companies started giving clients access to Bitcoin. Then — to Ethereum. And now the next step is taking place. Charles Schwab plans to add Solana, Avalanche, and Chainlink to its Schwab Crypto platform. Launch is expected in the coming months.
🐋 $110 million for the week: big money is back in XRP?
While XRP was losing value, institutional money was doing something completely different. The US spot XRP ETFs for the week that ended August 28 received $110.49 million in net inflows. This is the best weekly result for the XRP ETF throughout all of 2026. The previous record high was around $60.5 million. But the most interesting part starts next.
10 years of silence — and suddenly $40 million in motion. Who woke up?
Sometimes Bitcoin reminds us that the blockchain truly has a long memory. From August 16 to 26, six Bitcoin wallets that last showed activity in 2011–2014 transferred a total of 553.59 BTC — about $40 million. One of the wallets hadn’t moved coins for more than 15 years. For the market, this immediately became a reason to ask questions:
Listing on Binance — the beginning of success or its end?
The same thing happens to many traders. The coin gets listed on a major exchange. 🔥 The price rises sharply. 📈 Hundreds of posts appear in the feed. And then they think: “That’s it—this token is definitely going to skyrocket.” But this is exactly where many make the mistake. Listing ≠ guaranteed growth The mere fact that a coin appears on a major exchange gives it access to a huge audience and liquidity.
$29.7M in SOL was withdrawn from Binance. What’s going on?
A major move happened in the Solana market. From a single address, 281,446 SOL were withdrawn from Binance — that’s about $29.68 million. And almost immediately, a question arises: 🐋 Is the whale preparing for SOL to rise? Don’t jump to conclusions. The very fact that coins were withdrawn from an exchange does not automatically mean a purchase or a bet on the upside. SOL could have been moved for long-term storage, staking, DeFi, or simply transferred to another wallet.
USDC is becoming more popular. But ETH and SOL are definitely winners?
Here’s an interesting paradox. Today, a person can send USDC via Ethereum or Solana and not even hold ETH or SOL. For the user, everything looks simple: sent USDC → paid USDC fee → received USDC. But under the hood, everything is more complex. Ethereum still requires ETH to pay transaction fees, while Solana requires SOL. Now the user may not have to do this themselves at all.
Stablecoins like USDT and USDC have already become an important part of the crypto market. But now another question is arising more and more often: which digital money will be used in the future — stablecoins or bank deposits on the blockchain? And on August 28, this dispute reached a new level. 📅 August 28 — what BIS said
LayerZero is winding down support for a number of networks
Today, August 28, support for off-chain services is being discontinued for some networks from the updated LayerZero list. What does this mean? LayerZero stops providing its DVNs and Executor for affected networks. Important: this does not mean that the blockchains themselves are being shut down. This also applies separately to Stargate V2. LayerZero states that Stargate will no longer support certain networks by the specified deadlines. Users are advised to withdraw their USDC.e, wETH, and USDT assets from the affected networks in advance.