🚨✨️💫 XRP whales are growing while the price keeps falling
While retail sentiment stays weak - large XRP wallets are quietly increasing. XRP is down more than 70% from its 2025 high, while BTC still drives the broader market mood, and yet million-XRP wallets just climbed again.
The number of wallets holding at least 1M XRP rose from about 2,006 to 2,038 in three months. At roughly $1 per XRP, that means more addresses are now sitting on $1M+ balances.
And it’s not just wallet growth. XRP Ledger activity also jumped, with more than 2.8M transactions processed on August 5 - around 86% higher than the previous week.
Price is falling, but large balances and network activity are still growing. That doesn’t guarantee whales are buying - custody changes and internal transfers can also create new wallets.
So is XRP quietly being accumulated near $1, or are the rich-list numbers telling a much less bullish story?
primarily see the stock in a downward move, with the low expected within the blue Long-Term Entry Range ($31.00-$22.15). Once the correction low is set in this area, a sustained upward move is likely to follow.
Alternative Scenario
Alternatively, it's possible the price has already established its correction low, and a move above resistance at $56.99 and $68.49 could happen soon (probability: 32%).
Long-Term Outlook
On the daily chart, after the ongoing correction wraps up within our blue Long-Term Entry Range ($31.00-$22.15), we expect a sustained upward phase. This should gradually push the stock to new highs above resistance at $179.10.
✨️💫 Sandisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) is a global leader in NAND flash memory and data-storage technology, with exposure to consumer devices, enterprise infrastructure and the rapidly expanding data-center market.
From a fundamental perspective, SNDK is benefiting from strong demand for high-performance storage, particularly from Al and data-center infrastructure. In fiscal Q3 2026, Sandisk reported $5.95B in revenue, up 97% quarter-over-quarter, while Datacenter revenue increased 233% QoQ. The company also highlighted a zero-debt balance sheet, strong cash generation and a shift toward higher-value, multi-year customer relationships.
Technical Outlook
SNDK remains an interesting chart to monitor as price develops around important technical zones.
The current structure suggests that the next directional move could depend heavily on how price reacts around the highlighted support, resistance and trend levels shown on the chart.
A confirmed breakout above the main resistance structure could strengthen bullish momentum and open the way toward the next technical targets.
On the other hand, rejection from resistance or a breakdown below key support would weaken the current structure and could trigger a deeper corrective move.
Rather than anticipating the breakout, am watching for confirmation through price action, momentum and market structure.
What I'm Watching
• Reaction at the major resistance zone
• Ability of buyers to defend key support
Breakout confirmation versus rejection
Volume and momentum during any breakout attempt
Higher highs and higher lows for bullish continuation
Loss of structure as an early warning of weakness
With Al infrastructure driving increasing demand for high-performance storage, SNDK combines an interesting fundamental backdrop with a technical structure worth monitoring closely.
Bitcoin ETFs recorded net outflows of 917 BTC, worth roughly $57.6M. The report says funds including those managed by BlackRock and Fidelity contributed to the selling. BTC was trading near $62,980 at the time.
• Chainlink: ETF flows moved in the opposite direction. Funds reportedly acquired 163,280 LINK, worth about $1.47M, pointing to fresh institutional interest in Chainlink.
The contrast is what makes this interesting: capital is leaving Bitcoin ETFs at the same time LINK products are seeing inflows.
It's still a huge difference in absolute scale, but the rotation is worth tracking -especially if LINK inflows continue while BTC ETF positioning remains cautious.
🚨✨️ OIS is trading in a major uptrend, and the recent decline from 14.50 appears to be a medium-term correction, as the stock rebounded after testing 61.80% Fibonacci retracement
The stock is currently testing the 9.00 short-term resistance level, and a breakout above this level would confirm the end of the correction, targeting 10.00 - 10.90, then 11.75 in the short term
A breakout above 11.75 would support further rises near 13.00 - 14.50, where the major peak lies. A decisive breakout above 14.50 would confirm the continuation of the major uptrend in the medium and long-term, targeting 16.40, 17.50 then 19.00
This analysis is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial, investment, or commercial advice or recommendations.
✨️✨️ KAITO game is clearly being played by insiders. Price is back to where it was at the beginning of the year,
Current level: $0.35. Now all that’s left is to wait for the August 20 unlock worth ~$12M (although I doubt it hasn’t been hedged already).
Funny how this entire round trip was driven by announcements of announcements. So far, nothing concrete has actually been announced, apart from some vague partnership with X with zero details.
If you’re buying KAITO here, probably not the worst idea to park it in Pendle LP at ~75% APY
US JULY PPI LOWER THAN EXPECTED: 0% MONTH-OVER-MONTH, 4.7% YEAR-OVER-YEAR 📊🇺🇸
Headline PPI: Rose 0% month-over-month (vs +0.2% expected), up 4.7% year-over-year (vs 4.9% forecast).
Core PPI: Increased 0.2% month-over-month (vs 0.3% expected), up 4.2% year-over-year (in line with forecast).
Jobless Claims: Initial claims for the week ending August 8 rose to 209,000, higher than the 202,000 expected and the highest since mid-July.
PPI data came in softer than expected, indicating cooling producer price pressures, while jobless claims were slightly weaker than forecast.
Subdued producer inflation data coupled with rising initial jobless claims point to further economic cooling, reinforcing market expectations that the Federal Reserve will pivot toward monetary policy easing
💥💥 I anchored both tools at the late November 2021 low. That anchor is not a technical choice. IBM completed the Kyndryl spin off on 3 November 2021, so the IBM before that date and the IBM after it are not the same company. A channel drawn from earlier than that mixes two different businesses into one line.
In July 2026 IBM fell to 199.19 after the company cut its full year forecast. The 0.618 line sits at 198.40. IBM tested the golden ratio level within half a percent and turned there.
IBM has recovered to around 236, which puts IBM between the 0.5 line at 224 and the 0.382 line at 250.
The channel lower band runs close to the 0.5 line in this area. Two tools that share no input arrived at the same zone.
So the 224 area is the level I watch. IBM holding above that zone keeps the July low as the low of this trend. A weekly close below the 0.618 line, around 198, would mean the July test failed on the second attempt, and the anchor itself would come into question.
✨️🚨💫 NTRS is seeing strong buying interest, with the stock continuing to make higher highs and higher lows while trading above its 20-day and 50-day moving averages, confirming the prevailing uptrend.
Northern Trust Corp. is a $35 billion
market-cap financial holding company that provides asset servicing, fund administration, asset management, fiduciary, and banking solutions to corporations, institutions, families, and individuals. The company operates through two primary segments: Asset Servicing and Wealth Management. Its Asset Servicing segment provides custody, fund administration, brokerage, banking, and related services to institutional clients, while its Wealth Management segment offers trust, investment management, custody, financial consulting, estate administration, brokerage, and private and business banking services.
NTRS is classified as a wide-moat company, supported by its scale, established institutional relationships, and high switching costs. The company has achieved year-over-year revenue and EPS growth in each of the last three quarters. Operating and net margins stand at 39% and 29%, respectively, while ROE and ROIC are 17% and 12%. Its current ratio is 1.6x, while debt-to-equity
stands at 1.2x.
Looking ahead, NTRS is forecast to grow both revenue and EPS year over year over the next three quarters, providing a positive fundamental backdrop. However, the average analyst price target of approximately $187 suggests that investors should also consider the stock's current valuation and potential upside relative to expectations.
💫✨️ Standard Chartered just raised its long-term price target for $LINK to $200.
That’s roughly 25× its current level near $8.
Why the bullish outlook? Chainlink’s growing role as critical infrastructure for tokenized assets, connecting DeFi and traditional finance across the full asset lifecycle.
If tokenization keeps expanding, LINK could be one of the biggest beneficiaries.
#ETHUSDT The latest sell-off stopped around $1,850–$1,860, right at the lower boundary of the new formation, and 📈buyers have already pushed ETH back toward $1,890. On the 4H chart, the compression is getting tighter: reclaiming $1,925–$1,940 would put the upper trendline and psychological $2,000 area back in focus.
🧠 What caught my attention today? • U.S. spot ETH ETFs recorded only -$1.7M net flow on Aug. 11 — a sharp slowdown from -$14.6M the previous session. • BlackRock’s ETH fund itself stayed slightly positive at +$0.6M, while Fidelity accounted for -$2.3M. • That leaves cumulative U.S. ETH ETF net inflows at roughly $11.45B — institutional exposure remains substantial despite the latest cooling in flows.
⭐️Price is holding $1,850 even while ETF flows remain weak. If fresh demand returns, this technical compression could become much more important.
Wallets holding more than 10,000 BTC have added 46,420 BTC over the past 2 months - the strongest accumulation from this group since mid-March. That really stands out because almost everyone else is doing the opposite; the contrast is pretty clear:
10,000+ BTC wallets → +46,420 BTC
0.1-1 BTC wallets → -9,700 BTC
In fact, the 10,000+ BTC caste is currently the only major wallet group showing net accumulation. Of course, these giants can be to institutions, ETFs, companies or individual whales - so we don’t know exactly who is buying.
But we do know one thing: if these large wallets keep absorbing supply while BTC holds around $65K, they could become one of the strongest sources of spot demand in the market.
✨️✨️ Whales just quietly stacked 20K BTC ($ 1.2B) in the last 8 days alone, per Santiment mid-tier wallets (10-10K BTC) loading up while retail keeps dumping into weakness
Meanwhile spot ETFs pulled in $754M this week, their strongest showing since April, so smart money's clearly not waiting for permission.
BTC's still coiled below $65K resistance though, and analysts say we need a clean close above that level before the pump narrative gets real legs 📊
CryptoQuant's entity-adjusted data backs this up too total whale balances have climbed from 2.9M to over 3M BTC this year even as price slid from six figures into the low $60Ks.
Historically this kind of accumulation-into-weakness pattern shows up near cycle bottoms, not tops but "historically" isn't a guarantee, so don't confuse quiet buying with an imminent moonshot 🚀
Bottom line: supply's tightening in strong hands, the setup's bullish on paper, but $65K is the line in the sand until it breaks, this is accumulation, not liftoff.