Daily Highlights Recap - August 27

BitLayer (BTR) surged more than 60% in 24 hours, with short sellers getting liquidated for over $5.7 million. It’s rumored that BTR’s same active market maker is involved with妖币 SIREN, AKE, and XPIN.

▰ Today, everyone on X (Twitter) is talking about Evelyn Chen’s drama: born in 2008, she started trading crypto in middle school. But she later claimed the Meme coins from the “community,” transferred all the fees into OKX for selling, and after being exposed, she said she didn’t understand Web3…

▰ Former co-founder of the BitMEX exchange and well-known trader Arthur Hayes (in Chinese communities often called “Old Hei”). The project he’s now involved with, Flop, has released tokenomics: the airdrop allocation ratio is 20.4%. The testnet is expected to launch and run for 90 days in Q4 2026, while the mainnet is expected in Q1 2027. The allocation for testnet miners and Agents is relatively high—so you can wait for the testnet to come out and see how to play.

▰ Binance launched the Bubblemaps (BMT) spot trading contest. Trade over 500u to get basic protection/coverage. Both buying and selling count toward trading volume. One buy-sell cycle is 251u, with losses kept within 0.5u.

▰ Nvidia disclosed its Q2 earnings: revenue was $96.2 billion, and it’s expected to exceed $100 billion in the third quarter.

To wrap things up, wishing everyone huge profits!