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HYPE Nears $86 as Buyback Dynamics Reshape Token Valuation
Hyperliquid’s recent performance makes it easy to revisit a question:
Can a token associated with a trading platform command a higher valuation on the strength of real revenue and a buyback mechanism?
HYPE is currently trading at around $85.93, up about 2.17% over the past 24 hours, with a market cap approaching $19.1 billion and 24-hour trading volume exceeding $570 million. That’s already a substantial scale, yet market interest in the token remains high.
The latest market data shows that Hyperliquid has generated more than $1.4 billion in cumulative revenue, of which over $1.26 billion has been used to buy back HYPE. It also accounts for more than 56% of the on-chain perpetual futures market.
Why does this matter?
Because many tokens rise on the back of a story, while HYPE’s story includes revenue, trading volume, and buybacks—factors the market can more readily price in. As long as platform trading remains active and revenue continues to flow, buybacks could provide potential support for the price.
But there is a key risk here.
Buybacks don’t mean the price can only go up. Platform revenue and trading volume are both cyclical. If market interest wanes, trading volume may fall, and the pace of buybacks could change accordingly. More importantly, HYPE’s valuation is already high, and the market has lofty expectations for future revenue growth.
Derivatives data shows that HYPE’s long-to-short ratio is slightly above 1 and its funding rate is positive, indicating that longs have the upper hand, though the market is not yet extremely crowded. If the price can hold above $84 and continue to test $88, the trend remains bullish.
But if the price falls below $82 while trading volume picks up, watch out for concentrated profit-taking at these elevated levels.
HYPE’s appeal lies in its relatively clear value-capture mechanism; its risk is that the price has already priced in a lot of good news.
For traders, HYPE isn’t the kind of asset to chase after hearing the news. A more sensible approach is to wait for a pullback and confirmation, and watch whether the market continues to believe in the buyback outlook.
A truly healthy rally is one where the price rises as the platform’s fundamentals continue to improve. A rising chart without revenue growth is just sentiment. A buyback narrative without real usage is just a story.
Whether HYPE can continue climbing will ultimately depend on whether platform trading volume and buybacks can keep delivering.

Solana is producing blocks twice as fast, but the price is still stuck at 110. Interesting.
Yesterday, Solana’s mainnet pulled off a major upgrade: it cut the block interval from 400 milliseconds to 200 milliseconds, doubling the block production rate. Next up is the Alpenglow upgrade, which aims for 150-millisecond finality. Once that’s in place, using the chain should feel pretty much like browsing the web.
The tech is impressive. But what about the price? SOL is at 109.7 now, down 7.8% this week. A month ago, it peaked at 124 and bottomed out at 96.
Why hasn’t the good news pushed the price up? I see two reasons.
First, a SOL treasury company transferred 468,000 SOL in a single day, worth more than $51 million. Some of it went straight to exchanges. The market is very sensitive to this kind of selling pressure, so after the news broke, nobody dared to chase the price. Second, the whole market has been de-risking this week. ETF outflows and cooling sentiment mean high-beta assets like SOL naturally fall harder than Bitcoin.
But look at it another way: the treasury company’s sell-off is a one-off. Once those tokens are sold, that’s it. The tech upgrade, on the other hand, has lasting impact. The Alpenglow narrative will keep coming back into focus until it goes live. Funding rates in the futures market are very low, and the long/short ratio is 0.99, with slightly more shorts. If there’s a rebound, there’s fuel for a short squeeze.
My plan: 100 to 96 is last month’s bottom range. If the price returns to that area, I’ll buy in gradually. 115 is the first hurdle above. If it breaks through, then I’ll watch 124. I wouldn’t go all in right now. Let the treasury’s tokens get absorbed first, and then the price will tell the truth.
When fundamentals and price diverge, it’s often a moment when both opportunities and traps appear. The key is whether you have the patience.

ETH is back above 2,500, but I’m not sure I trust this level
ETH climbed back above 2,500 today, and plenty of people are starting to call a reversal. Let me pour a little cold water on that.

First, some background: ETH fell nearly 10% this week. It was pushed back down from the 2,680–2,770 area, with a low of 2,409. In this wave of 100 billion in liquidations, ETH alone accounted for $310 million—more than BTC.

But here’s the interesting part.

Open interest in ETH futures across the market fell 5.18% over the past 24 hours, and now stands at around $32.1 billion. Leverage is voluntarily exiting the market. That’s actually healthy: the bubble is deflating.

At the same time, a smart-money address with a strong historical win rate and $9.26 million in cumulative profits opened a 20x long position of 12,000 ETH at 2,438. It’s now sitting on unrealized gains of over $600,000. Someone willing to go 20x at this level must be seeing something.

But the order book doesn’t exactly support an immediate takeoff. On Binance, ETH perpetuals have $57.24 million in nearby sell orders—$8.18 million more than the buy orders. The selling pressure overhead is real.

My take: 2,360–2,420 is the line that keeps this move alive. Smart money’s entry is around there too. As long as that level holds, there’s room for a short-term bounce. The first target is still 2,680.

But if ETH breaks below 2,360 on heavy volume, don’t try to outlast smart money. They can afford to hold a 20x position; you might not be able to.

ETH doesn’t lack a story right now. What it lacks is a reason for money to come back. Be patient.

Meteora Surges 45% in a Day as the Solana Ecosystem Heats Up Again
One of the market’s strongest performers today is Meteora.
The price of MET briefly approached $0.46, up more than 45% in 24 hours, while trading volume climbed to nearly $200 million.
That kind of gain stands out in the current market environment.
More importantly, this rally isn’t driven by sentiment alone. The project has launched DLMM Pro and further integrated modules such as liquidity market-making and Bonding Curve.
Put simply, it’s aiming to be more than just another Solana ecosystem protocol. It’s looking to expand its presence in liquidity and trading infrastructure.
Why is the market responding positively?
When major coins move sideways, capital often looks for niche sectors with products, compelling narratives, and trading volume.
Meteora checks several boxes at once: the Solana ecosystem, liquidity infrastructure, a new product launch, and rising trading activity.
Together, these factors can easily draw a surge of short-term capital.
But there’s an obvious risk.
After MET’s gain of more than 45% in a single day, short-term profit-taking is bound to increase. If trading volume continues to rise and the price holds steady, that may indicate investors remain interested. But if the price quickly falls back to where it was before the breakout, this may have been nothing more than a burst of sentiment.
For everyday traders, chasing a rally often happens after much of the move is already over.
A project having a product doesn’t mean its token can only go up, and a hot ecosystem doesn’t mean valuations have no ceiling.
The Solana sector has picked up again recently, but the projects that ultimately endure will need sustained users, usage, and cash flow.
So, don’t judge whether MET can keep rising by looking only at how much it gained today.
Watch whether it can turn market attention into lasting liquidity.
In the short term, watch volume; in the medium term, watch the product; in the long term, watch the ecosystem.
That’s the basic framework for judging whether this rally has staying power.

NEAR is talking about AI again, but this time the focus may be less on the concept and more on the user entry point
NEAR has recently attracted renewed attention thanks to the narratives around AI agents and intelligent trading
The latest market data shows that NEAR rose by more than 180% at one point in September and is currently trading around $5. Wallets in its ecosystem have also announced plans for upcoming migrations
When many people see the words “AI,” they worry that another wave of hype is on the way
That concern is not unfounded
In the past, many projects could quickly attract market attention simply by adding “AI” to their names, but few products saw sustained use
What makes NEAR worth watching this time is its attempt to combine AI agents with on-chain payments, account management, and automated trading
Put simply, users may not need to carry out every step themselves in the future. Instead, AI agents could follow their instructions to check assets, execute trades, and access services
If this vision becomes reality, the way users access blockchain services could change
In the past, users first had to understand wallets, private keys, gas fees, and all kinds of complex operations
In the future, users may only need to tell an AI what they want to do, and an agent could handle the rest on-chain
Of course, this places extremely high demands on infrastructure security
Once AI has permission to manage assets, issues such as the scope of authorization, transaction confirmation, risk controls, and accountability must be addressed
If anything goes wrong at any stage, users could suffer losses more serious than those associated with ordinary apps
So the real question for NEAR is not whether it can keep rising on the AI narrative
It is whether it can deliver a product that ordinary users genuinely want to use
The AI narrative can attract attention
But only real users can turn that attention into long-term value
If NEAR can make AI agents the gateway to using the blockchain world, its potential is indeed considerable
But if it is only changing its marketing pitch, the market will soon make that clear

Ethereum is preparing to raise block capacity to 200 million gas. This upgrade is more than just tech news.
There’s recent Ethereum news that many people have overlooked.
The network is testing a higher block gas limit, with the goal of increasing capacity to around 200 million gas—more than three times the scale of previous tests.
Put simply, Ethereum is trying to fit more transactions and computational tasks into each block.
For everyday users, this could mean less congestion during future periods of peak network activity.
For developers, greater block capacity could support more complex applications.
But the real significance lies in the question Ethereum is answering anew:
Will it serve only as a settlement layer, or will it continue competing to keep more applications and users within its own ecosystem?
Over the past few years, Ethereum has eased pressure on the network through various scaling networks. This has helped address some cost issues, but it has also fragmented liquidity, users, and value capture.
If the mainnet can increase its own throughput, Ethereum may once again become more attractive for high-value settlements, institutional use, and large-scale application deployments.
Of course, faster upgrades aren’t always better.
Larger blocks place greater demands on validator hardware, network bandwidth, and synchronization capabilities. If not handled carefully, they could affect the network’s degree of decentralization.
So the key question isn’t just whether Ethereum can reach 200 million gas.
It’s also whether the upgrade tests are stable, whether validators can handle the demands, and whether developers will actually bring more applications back to the network.
ETH is currently trading around $2,700, with a slight decline over the past 24 hours.
The market has yet to react strongly to the technical upgrade.
That’s normal.
Truly valuable upgrades are rarely fully priced in on the day the news breaks.
If testing goes smoothly and network activity also picks up, that could lay the groundwork for Ethereum’s next valuation reappraisal.

HYPE is rising again—and this time, it’s not driven by hype, but by a real burn.
Today, HYPE is clearly outperforming most major assets.
Its current price is around $94, up more than 3% over the past 24 hours.
There’s a clear catalyst behind this rally.
The platform completed a HYPE burn worth approximately $10.15 million, removing more than 112,000 tokens from circulation.
For everyday investors, the word “burn” can easily spark excitement.
But what really matters isn’t the burn itself—it’s where the funds for it came from.
If the project team simply puts up a one-off sum of money to generate publicity, the effect is unlikely to last.
But if the burn is funded by real trading revenue, the logic is completely different.
It means that the more active the platform’s business becomes, the more tokens it can buy back and burn.
The link between the token’s value and platform usage also becomes more direct.
That’s why HYPE has been a frequent topic of market discussion lately.
It’s no longer just a token for a trading platform.
The market is starting to view it as an asset that can share in the platform’s revenue and growth potential.
Still, the current market picture is not without risks.
Data shows that large traders on Hyperliquid hold nearly $9.84 billion in total positions.
Long positions account for about $4.628 billion, while short positions total around $5.212 billion.
Short positions have a slight edge.
This suggests that large investors are not uniformly bullish.
Instead, both sides are waiting for the market to choose its next direction.
If HYPE stays above $90 and trading volume continues to rise, the token-burn narrative could remain a driving force.
But if the rally is driven only by the news, the price could fall just as quickly once investor interest fades.
For platform tokens like this, the most important thing is not the story—it’s revenue growth, user activity, trading volume, and whether token burns can be sustained.
A one-off burn can boost sentiment.
Sustained revenue is what can support a valuation.

$STRK Single-day gains exceed 27% — privacy narratives are heating up again
Today, $STRK’s performance is truly eye-catching
The single-day increase is over 27%
Trading volume has also surged noticeably
When many people see this kind of trend,
their first reaction is to chase the rally
But I’d rather talk about why it has suddenly returned to the market’s spotlight
Recently, the market’s attention to privacy computing,
zero-knowledge proofs,
and on-chain data protection has increased significantly
This kind of narrative was previously often seen as too far from ordinary users
The technology sounds complicated
And the use cases didn’t feel intuitive enough
But as on-chain finance and artificial intelligence applications continue to develop,
privacy is no longer just a niche concept
Users don’t want their assets,
transaction habits,
and fund flows to be completely exposed on-chain
Project teams also need to reduce unnecessary data disclosure
while still ensuring verification efficiency
That’s also why, once capital flows into the privacy and zero-knowledge sector,
price elasticity often ends up being greater than that of more mature assets
Of course, $STRK is rising quickly today
In the short term, sentiment is already moving ahead of fundamentals
If the price continues to surge later but trading volume shrinks rapidly,
you should be careful about profit-taking
For assets that are rebounding strongly,
a truly healthy move isn’t that it climbs by more than ten percentage points every day
Instead, after a rise, it can move sideways to digest,
allowing short-term capital to rotate out and back in,
so the market can rebuild a shared price consensus
Whether $STRK can keep strengthening
will depend next on whether it can hold the breakout area
Hot themes can bring the first wave of gains,
but only real demand and ecosystem progress
can support the second wave of the market move

BTC just delivered its best Q3 since 2017, but it seems retail investors don’t feel it
First, look at a set of numbers: BTC rose 42.9% in Q3—its best Q3 performance since 2017. In the same period, gold was up 8.7%, and US stocks were only up 2%. Who is the strongest asset this year is already clear.
It’s also clear where the money came from: in Q3, spot ETF net inflows were about $6.3 billion. On October 1 alone, another $102 million flowed in—directly reversing the previous day’s $148 million outflow.
What’s even more interesting is what the “big whales” have been doing. Over the past 30 days, large holders have accumulated roughly 75,000 BTC. The price has been moving sideways around above $80k, and they’ve been buying underneath it continuously.
But on the retail side, it’s a completely different picture. BTC social buzz is down more than 30%. The Fear & Greed Index has gradually fallen from 74 from a week ago to 68—still in the greed zone, but clearly less euphoric.
Big money is buying, retail is staying calm, and overall heat is cooling. Historically, this combination usually isn’t a top signal. A real top is usually when everyone on the street is talking about it—when even your mom comes to ask you how to buy crypto.
Of course, I’m not blindly bullish either. The range from 88,000 to 95,000 is a dense resistance area. There are plenty of trapped positions from earlier, and leverage has been piling up. More and more people are betting on options—those risking 100k are increasing. Once sentiment gets overextended too early, it’s easier to get hit with a sell-off.
So does “Uptober” actually work or not? My view is that the bias is generally bullish, but the pace will be very grindy. If you want to trade swings, watch two signals: first, whether the ETF has had net inflows for several consecutive days; second, whether 86,500 can stand firm with increased volume.
If both are met, I’ll add to my position. If only one is met, I’ll keep holding my core position and wait.

$ETH rose 70% in the third quarter—has Ethereum finally returned to the spotlight?
Ethereum’s presence has clearly come back recently.
In Q3 2026, $ETH climbed about 70.8%, delivering the strongest Q3 performance since 2016.
This gain stands out across the entire crypto market.
More importantly, Ethereum isn’t just slightly rising in tandem with Bitcoin.
In the third quarter, it charted a relatively independent period of strength.
So now the market is starting to revisit a question:
Will Ethereum become the next main storyline again?
Judging by price action, $ETH is currently around $2,715, up about 1.45% over the past 24 hours, with a market cap exceeding $330 billion.
This level isn’t low anymore.
But compared with Bitcoin, Ethereum’s market sentiment hasn’t fully reached peak euphoria yet.
That’s what makes it particularly interesting.
Bitcoin largely carries the narrative of macro assets and capital as a safe haven.
Ethereum’s rise, however, still depends on ecosystem activity, capital staying on-chain, and app expectations.
If it’s driven only by attractive quarterly data, the market may most likely range and consolidate at high levels.
But if on-chain capital becomes active again and DeFi and stablecoin demand continues to expand, then Ethereum’s valuation logic would be more solid.
Worth noting is that Ethereum’s October performance historically isn’t always especially strong.
Since 2016, Ethereum has had 6 up months and 4 down months in October, with an average increase of about 3.29% and a median of only 0.36%.
This points to one fact:
Bitcoin’s October patterns can’t simply be copied over to Ethereum.
$ETH will need its own catalysts.
The market won’t automatically reward it with further upside just because it surged a lot in the third quarter.
Especially after a 70% quarterly rally, profit-taking positions are likely to become more sensitive.
Looking ahead, if Ethereum can hold steady near $2,700, and trading activity and capital continue to expand, it has a chance to become one of the core assets in Q4.
But if the rebound lacks sustained capital support, it may also lead to high-level consolidation and even a pullback in a given phase.
Ethereum has indeed returned to the main stage.
But the contest in the next phase won’t be about the “rally story” alone.
It’s about whether the ecosystem can bring back genuine demand.

Solana is once again grabbing the narrative around real-world assets—but this time the focus isn’t on hype
Recently, the Solana ecosystem has seen a development worth paying attention to
Metaplex has introduced a new MPL-3643 standard, aiming to support permissioned real-world asset and securities tokenization on-chain
A lot of people, the moment they hear “RWA,” assume it’s just another new concept
But this time, it’s not exactly the same
In the past, many projects that talked about RWAs focused on wrapping things like government bonds, funds, and stocks into on-chain tokens. But when it comes to actually deploying them, a whole set of problems crops up
Who is allowed to hold them?
Who is allowed to transfer them?
Can the asset issuer freeze them?
How do we handle regulatory requirements across different regions?
Without standards to address these issues, asset tokenization is easily stuck at the marketing stage
The value of MPL-3643 is that it tries to bake compliance restrictions directly into the token standard
In other words, these kinds of assets aren’t something everyone can buy freely, and not every address can transfer freely. Instead, access and transfer permissions can be configured according to the issuer and regulatory requirements
That may sound less “free” than ordinary tokens, but for institutions, it’s actually necessary
Banks, securities firms, and asset management institutions can’t put real financial assets into an environment with completely unmanaged permissions
Solana has already shown clear advantages in low cost and high speed recently. If standardized asset issuance is added on top, it could become important infrastructure for institutions to build on-chain securities in the future
That said, we also need to keep things in perspective
Launching a standard doesn’t mean assets will be tokenized on a large scale immediately
The real key is whether there are issuers, real assets, and sustained demand for trading
So this news is more like a signal of infrastructure building—not a reason to “pump” right away
If, later on, large institutions adopt MPL-3643, its significance will be amplified clearly
The real competition in RWAs isn’t about who can shout the loudest anymore, but about who can truly connect compliance, issuance, and liquidity $SOL

SOL spot ETF sees $12.7 million net inflow in a single day — is this money truly entering long-term, or just a short-term bet?
Solana today has a data point worth paying close attention to.
U.S. SOL spot ETFs recorded a net inflow of about $12.7 million yesterday. Total cumulative net inflows have now reached roughly $1.618 billion, with total assets under management close to $1.925 billion.
This number isn’t particularly extraordinary across the broader crypto market, but for SOL it’s still meaningful.
It suggests that traditional capital’s interest in Solana hasn’t gone away.
In the past, whenever people discussed SOL, the focus was often on on-chain activity, ecosystem projects, and high-frequency trading. But now ETF inflows are adding a new channel of capital.
The key difference between this type of money and ordinary short-term funds is that they usually don’t fully exit just because of day-to-day or even day-after-day price fluctuations. ETF capital tends to emphasize allocation logic and long-term exposure.
Of course, you also can’t simply infer that SOL is about to surge based on net inflows alone. Yesterday, clear divergence appeared across different ETF products: some saw inflows nearing $10 million, while others showed net outflows.
This indicates the market’s stance on SOL isn’t uniformly bullish; instead, capital is being reallocated among different participants.
Now look at price. SOL is currently around $116, and the drop over the past 24 hours exceeds 3%. Here’s the interesting part:
ETF inflows are happening, yet the price isn’t rising in sync.
That usually implies that short-term selling pressure is still present—some funds may be buying via the ETF channel, while profit-taking positions are exiting in both the spot and derivatives markets.
Next, two signals are worth watching.
First, whether ETFs can sustain net inflows for multiple consecutive days.
Second, whether SOL can reclaim the $120 level and do so with increased volume.
If capital keeps flowing in and, after pullbacks, the price gradually stabilizes, this could indicate mid-term accumulation rather than short-term hype.
But if ETF inflows happen only occasionally—then quickly flip to outflows—it looks more like capital positioning and trading rather than a structural trend of allocation.
For SOL, the most important thing right now isn’t whether it’s up or down in a single day, but whether institutional capital can turn short-term attention into sustained allocation.

Greed Index surges to 75: short-term holders’ average profit hits 15%. Are you still daring to go all-in?
Today’s Fear & Greed Index is 75—Extreme Greed. Not long ago it was around 30. In just a few short weeks, sentiment has flipped completely.
More noteworthy is another indicator: the MVRV of short-term holders is at 1.15, the highest since last November. That means the batch of people who entered in recent months are, on average, up 15% on their books.
What does a 15% gain mean? It means many positions are already in profit, and people start thinking about locking it in. Even a slight shake in price can trigger some selling. This week, BTC fell from 87,000 to 0.7—part of that is profit-taking like this.
The cost basis line for short-term holders is around 73,100. This line is crucial. In a bull market, every time a pullback touches this area, funds usually come in. Only if it breaks below clearly does it mean short-term capital has truly exited.
There’s another change: BTC’s market dominance has dropped to 53.8%. This usually suggests money is starting to flow out from BTC (the “big pie”) into other coins, so alt-coin rotation may become more active. But it also means volatility may be higher.
My own approach, shared for reference: when Greed is above 75, I don’t chase. I only reduce positions, not add. When the market pulls back to the cost-basis line, I buy in batches. For alt-coins, I only hold those with solid fundamentals—I don’t touch pure emotion-driven coins.
In plain terms: you should use sentiment in reverse. When everyone is shouting “go up,” stay calm. When everyone is panicking and cutting losses, be a bit bolder. Everyone knows this line—but few people can actually do it.

$SUI jumps 16% in a day — the real highlight isn’t just the price
One of the strongest mainstream L1 chains in the market today is $SUI.
Data shows that over the past 24 hours, $SUI is up more than 16%, trading volume is nearly $1.7 billion, and the network has recorded 41.44 million transactions. Active addresses are around 125,000, and the amount locked on-chain is also near $550 million.
When you look at these figures together, they’re more convincing than a price increase alone.
Because if a token suddenly surges, it might be driven only by short-term capital.
But if price, trading volume, active addresses, and on-chain capital all improve at the same time, it indicates that market attention toward this ecosystem is heating up rapidly.
$SUI previously went through a period of consolidation, with its price long suppressed by a downward trend.
Now that it breaks out on increased volume, it suggests that short-term capital has started repricing.
The target zone the market is currently discussing is around $2.
But one point needs to be reminded here:
After a quick rise from around $1, $SUI has already accumulated a lot of profit-taking positions in the short term.
The faster the price shoots up, the easier it is to see a spike followed by a pullback—especially when market sentiment becomes concentrated on a single token. Chasing buyers often arrive sooner than you’d expect.
So next, we should watch three signals:
First, whether trading volume can keep holding up. If price rises but trading volume clearly shrinks, the market may enter short-term fatigue.
Second, whether active addresses can continue growing. A true ecosystem-led trend shouldn’t be just derivatives and short-term capital excitement—on-chain users also need to keep up.
Third, whether the breakout zone can be defended during the pullback. If, after breaking out, the retest holds and doesn’t fail, it means capital is willing to stage the next round of support at higher levels.
I won’t conclude that $SUI will keep doubling just because it rose 16% in a single day.
But what can be confirmed is that $SUI has returned to the market’s mainstream focus.
Next, if public chain data keeps growing and ecosystem projects continue to increase, then $SUI’s momentum may be more than just a one-off short-term rebound—it could be the start of a new round of capital rotation.

Ethereum has been stuck for a year and finally broke out to a higher high point. But I suggest you don’t rush to go all-in.

$ETH this week did something it hasn’t managed in over a year. The price touched 2807—this is the first time a higher high has appeared since last August’s peak. The previous resistance at 2438 has now flipped and turned into support. From a technical perspective, the trend really is turning around.

The funding also cooperates. Spot ETFs have recorded net inflows for 5 straight days: $144M, $270M, $162M, $105M, and $39.3M. There’s also a more interesting data point: among the bank’s held crypto assets, BTC’s share has dropped from 75.8% to 44.2%, while ETH has risen to 38.5%. Institutional money is quietly shifting toward ETH.

But… I have reasons to be cautious.

First, on the daily chart, RSI has already formed a bearish divergence at the top. Price made a new high, but momentum didn’t keep up.

Second, ETF inflows are shrinking day by day—just like with BTC.

Third, on-chain data shows a whale distributing (selling). One address sold $110M worth of ETH in one go, and someone even split 6,000 ETH and sent it to multiple exchanges.

Fourth, in that previous crypto theft incident, the hacker still holds around 68,000 ETH. That’s like a sword hanging over everyone’s head.

So my view is: 2920 is the key level. If it can stand above it with increased volume, the next stop could be 3400. Before that, around 2690 looks more like a pullback/confirmation after the breakout. 2438 is the line in the sand—if it holds, the uptrend is still intact. If it breaks down below, then the breakout achieved this year would have been for nothing.

If you want to get in, scaling in is much more comfortable than going all-in at once.

In a single month, RWA perpetual contracts traded $117.3 billion—real-world assets are finally entering the main battlefield

Until now, most discussions about RWA have focused on topics like U.S. Treasuries, stablecoins, and on-chain funds.
But the direction that’s actually seeing a real breakout may be RWA perpetual contracts.
In the latest data, RWA perpetual contracts recorded $117.3 billion in trading volume in August—up 44x year over year. Open interest reached $4.8 billion. And on-chain platforms accounted for roughly 86% of trading share.

Why is this number worth paying attention to?
Because it shows that RWA is no longer just about moving real-world assets onto the chain in a simple way. The market is now bringing stocks, gold, foreign exchange, and other traditional assets into an around-the-clock open trading environment.

Traditional markets have trading hours, geographic limitations, and account barriers. But on-chain perpetual contracts allow users worldwide to trade in the same market. That’s a major shift for both capital efficiency and trading experience.

Currently, stock-related assets make up nearly half of RWA perpetual contract trading volume. This suggests that traders’ first acceptance isn’t complex bond products, but the stocks and indexes they already understand.

Of course, there are risks.
Rising trading volume doesn’t mean every project has real demand. Some markets may rely on high leverage and short-term speculation. Once liquidity declines, liquidations can quickly amplify volatility.

But based on industry trends, RWA has started moving from concept storytelling into the phase of trading infrastructure.
The projects that are truly valuable aren’t necessarily the loudest ones. They’re the protocols that can genuinely deliver liquidity, risk controls, clearing, and asset pricing.

If, in the future, stocks, gold, and other traditional assets can form deep on-chain markets, then the boundaries of the crypto industry will be redefined.
This may be more important than simply issuing a few more tokens.

SOL at $118 on the platform — the real highlights aren’t just the price
SOL’s performance today isn’t particularly extraordinary. The price is hovering around $118, with a 24-hour gain of about 0.6%.
But if we rewind to yesterday, SOL once broke above $115 and the 24-hour rise at one point exceeded 4%.
This suggests market attention to SOL is still there, and funds have not fully left the L1/L2 blockchain track.
More notably, Solana’s recent technical progress is advancing in parallel.
The network’s target block time has been shortened from 300 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds. Block production speed has increased from roughly 3.3 blocks per second to around 4.
Here’s an important point: faster block production doesn’t automatically mean network capacity doubles. This upgrade is more about tightening the confirmation rhythm—making transaction apps, wallets, and on-chain trading experiences smoother.
In addition, institutional fund activity within the Solana ecosystem has been fairly evident.
Last week, DeFi Development Corp added more than 100,000 SOL, bringing its total holdings to about 2.49 million SOL.
These actions don’t mean SOL is guaranteed to rise immediately, but at least they indicate that some capital is still willing to allocate SOL as a long-term ecosystem asset.
The key levels for SOL are quite clear right now.
If it can hold steadily above $115, the bullish structure remains intact.
If it breaks back above $120, market sentiment could heat up further.
But if it falls back below $110, you’ll need to watch out for the profit-taking of buyers who chased the rally earlier.
SOL’s biggest advantage now is its activity level and ecosystem narrative.
The biggest risk is that the price isn’t exactly low anymore—chasing higher still needs to be cautious.
If you’re bullish, consider scaling in. If you’re not, don’t rush to short. Markets never change direction because of one person’s emotions.

Someone made 8.38 million RMB and immediately flipped to short. The smart money is already fighting from within.
Today, the most interesting on-chain thing isn’t the price—it’s what two addresses did.
The first is a giant whale associated with Garrett Jin. He had a BTC long position worth $112 million. He closed it all at 84,455, locking in a profit of $8.38 million—an impressive move. But the story isn’t over. He turned around and opened a short position of 500 BTC at 85,994, with a notional value of $43.23 million and 3x leverage. That’s like directly, from this level, shouting, “I think this is the top.”
The second is address 0xc3ed. It made four BTC long trades—four wins in a row—netting a total profit of $9.26 million. This person is still standing on the side of the longs.
Same market, same data set—top players made completely opposite decisions. That’s what the real market looks like.
Many people like to “follow smart money,” but this example shows where the problem is: there’s no consensus between smart money at all. You follow which one?
And the whale’s cost structure is completely different from yours. That $112 million long—its unrealized profit of $8.38 million—translates to a return rate of only a bit over 7%. What he’s doing is a short-cycle, high-frequency business focused on capital efficiency, not a “belief” position.
Even more important, the act of flipping to a short carries huge informational value. It suggests that, in the eyes of this professional player, the quality of the rally near 86,000 is problematic. Spot buy pressure can’t hold; it’s the shorts covering that are pushing the price. Once the squeeze ends, the price lacks natural follow-through.
I won’t copy his playbook, but I will treat his judgment as a risk warning. When someone who just made money on the long side chooses to switch immediately, it’s usually not just because they got emotional—it’s because they noticed something off in the order book.
Watch the turnover in the 85,000 to 86,000 area. This is where the real battle between longs and shorts is fought.

ETH above $2,560: this time the key isn’t just breaking out—it’s whether it can hold
Ethereum’s price action today is clearly stronger than in the past few days.
Data shows ETH is trading around $2,659, with a 24-hour gain of over 3%. Meanwhile, around the $2,560 level on the order book, what used to be a resistance zone is gradually turning into a short-term support.
This change is important.
Because a truly effective breakout has never meant “cross a price and that’s it.”
Pushing higher is only the first step; confirmation comes only when a pullback fails to break.
In many past setups, the breakout looked great—then the very next day price dropped straight back into the original range. Traders who chased ended up trapped at the highs and eventually had to cut losses.
For ETH to keep strengthening this time, I think it depends on three things.
First, whether the $2,560 area can be held.
Second, whether trading volume can continue to stay strong.
Third, whether ETH’s relative strength versus BTC can improve.
If BTC keeps moving steadily upward while ETH is able to run faster, that suggests the market is starting to assign Ethereum a higher risk premium—one that benefits not only ETH, but also the broader ecosystem.
That would likely drive ARB, UNI, AAVE, and a batch of Ethereum-related assets.
But if ETH is merely following the market’s general rebound, without showing relative strength, then this rally is more likely tied to an overall improvement in risk appetite.
Right now, market sentiment toward ETH is changing.
Previously, people mainly discussed why Ethereum couldn’t outperform other L1/L2 chains.
Now, more people are starting to revisit Ethereum’s ecosystem valuation and the value of mainstream capital allocation.
This shift in expectations is often more important than a simple price increase.
Of course, $2,650 isn’t a no-brainer reason to go all-in bullish.
If afterward the price falls back below $2,560 and volume expands, then the breakout could turn out to be a false one.
For short-term traders, don’t just stare at the target level.
What you should really watch is whether the support can hold.
Once it holds, there’s a chance to look at higher levels.
If it can’t hold, be wary that this upmove may be nothing more than a sentiment-driven repair rally.

UNI was bought at a high level by big funds, after a 145% monthly jump—how much room is left?
UNI is once again at the center of market discussion today.
A new address reportedly bought 1,000,000 UNI at once. Based on a price of $9.05, the capital involved exceeds $9 million. At the same time, an early holder sold 500,000 UNI, realizing a profit of about $1.5 million.
One side is large-scale buying, the other is early holders cashing out.
This is actually more worth analyzing than just seeing a single whale buy in.
Over the past month, UNI has already surged more than 145%, indicating that market expectations for decentralized exchange and protocol value capture are clearly heating up. Some policy changes related to certain trading platforms, along with community governance expectations, are also helping UNI regain attention.
But the faster the price rises, the more likely the market will split.
Early holders choosing to sell doesn’t necessarily mean they’re bearish. In many cases, it’s simply normal profit-taking.
What really needs to be watched is whether new buying capital can continue to enter the market, and whether spot trading volume can keep up.
If only one or two large addresses buy in, market sentiment can easily blow this up into a so-called institutional accumulation. But if more addresses follow afterward, and UNI can still maintain liquidity at high levels, then this leg is more likely to be trend capital being reallocated.
From a trading perspective, UNI is no longer in the early low-entry phase.
The risk of chasing is significantly higher than in the earlier stage. A quick pullback after a fast run is not unexpected for the short term.
A truly healthy move should consolidate to digest profit-taking after rising, and then attempt a breakout.
UNI’s fundamental story hasn’t disappeared, but the market won’t always reward stories.
Next, the most important thing isn’t who bought 1,000,000 UNI—it’s whether the price can hold up even after the funding enthusiasm fades.