But this time, what Wall Street really wants to know might not be how much the EPS beat is.
Instead, it’s a question worth tens of trillions of dollars:
With all that money being burned by AI—are they actually starting to make profits yet?
In the past few years, tech giants have been疯狂 buying GPUs, building data centers, and racing for power and compute capacity.
Now the pressure is starting to show:
🤖 AI demand is still exploding 💰 Cloud providers’ capital expenditures continue to expand 🔥 Orders for AI chips and memory remain tight ⚠️ But the market is starting to ask: how long before the spending turns into profits?
Micron’s latest earnings report has already sent a signal—demand for AI infrastructure remains strong, and customers’ long-term purchasing commitments continue to increase.
But the real test is still ahead.
If the next round of tech giant earnings proves that:
AI revenue growth > AI spending growth
the market may once again price in the “AI productivity revolution.”
On the other hand, if profits can’t keep up with capital expenditures—
then these currently expensive AI valuations will, for the first time, truly face scrutiny.
And it’s not just about the US stock market.
Once tech-sector risk appetite changes, BTC and the entire crypto market could be repriced as well.
So for this earnings season, I’m only watching one question:
Is AI starting to print money—or still burning it?
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BTC has just finished one of its strongest quarters in nearly two years, yet it pulled back repeatedly at the end of the quarter.
In Q3, it rose by more than 40%, and ETF flows returned on a large scale.
But in the last few days:
📉 BTC has been weakening continuously 💰 ETFs are still flowing in, but the pace has clearly cooled 📈 U.S. Treasury yields continue to suppress risk assets 🔥 Yet market sentiment remains high
This is exactly what’s worth being wary of—and what’s worth looking forward to:
Prices are cooling off, but the market hasn’t fully flipped into panic.
The biggest question now isn’t how much Q3 rose.
It’s—
At the start of Q4, will the profit-taking continue, or will a new round of capital take over again?
If BTC can hold steady after the consecutive pullbacks, the market may quickly start trading the “Q4 play.”
If it can’t, the large profits accumulated in Q3 may turn into fresh selling pressure.
🚨 Anthropic’s IPO filing—possibly the craziest document in the AI industry this year.
Anthropic, the company behind Claude, saw 2025 revenue of about $4.6 billion, up roughly 12-fold.
But what really sets the market on fire is another number:
The IPO valuation could exceed $2 trillion.
Meanwhile:
🚀 Revenue is growing about 12x year over year 💸 Operating losses still exceed $8 billion 🧠 Compute power and infrastructure spending keep skyrocketing ☁️ The scale of future cloud and infrastructure commitments is enormous 🏦 But Wall Street may still hand out a $2 trillion-level valuation
This means the capital markets aren’t really betting on how much Anthropic makes today.
They’re betting on—
Whether AI will ultimately become core infrastructure, just like the internet and electricity.
If Claude and AI Agents truly enter enterprise workflows, a $2 trillion deal could be trading the productivity revolution of the next decade.
But if AI revenue growth can’t keep up with compute costs, this could also become one of the most expensive growth stories in history.
So the real question isn’t:
“Is Anthropic too expensive?”
It’s:
Does AI really deserve to be a new $2 trillion giant?
🚨 BTC is seeing a continuous pullback, but there’s one signal that may be more important than price:
Leverage is cooling off fast.
Over the past week, BTC open interest has fallen noticeably, as a large number of highly leveraged positions are being flushed out by the market.
What does that mean?
📉 Price pullback, short-term sentiment cools down 💥 Long leverage continues to get cleared 🧹 Crowded positions begin to shrink 🔄 BTC’s market share dips, while capital is still looking for other opportunities
So this drop can be interpreted in two completely different ways:
🔴 The trend is weakening 🟢 The market is actively deleveraging to clear the way for the next move
The real key isn’t how much BTC drops today.
It’s this—after leverage comes down, will spot buying step back in?
If the price holds and open interest is no longer crazily piling up, this structure could actually be healthier than a “high-leverage blow-off.”
Do you think right now is:
🟢 A healthy shakeout / 🔴 A shift to a weakening trend?
🚨 BTC is showing a very interesting contradiction right now:
Last week, US spot BTC ETFs saw about $2.4 billion in net inflows, setting a new record for the strongest capital week so far this year.
But BTC didn’t continue to accelerate—instead, it has slipped back into consolidation.
Why?
Because the market is simultaneously pricing in two forces that are completely opposite:
💰 ETF money continues to pour in 📈 US Treasury yields are moving higher again 🛢️ Oil prices are rising, and inflation pressure is returning 🔥 Leverage from earlier longs is starting to get flushed out
This means that BTC is no longer as simple as: “capital inflows = price up.”
Institutional demand is propping up the downside, but macro pressure is weighing on the upside.
So what’s really worth watching next is which side breaks first:
Will ETFs keep absorbing more and more, or will high interest rates continue to suppress risk assets?
If BTC can still hold up under this kind of macro environment, then it’s actually worth paying attention.
🟢 Institutional capital wins 🔴 Macro pressure wins
About $83 million worth of XRP has left the original attacker’s wallet address and has been further dispersed.
But what’s really worth paying attention to isn’t the “hacker transfer” itself.
It’s—where do these XRP go next?
🔴 Into exchanges → may create potential sell pressure and platforms can intercept it more easily 🔄 Into cross-chain protocols → tracking and recovery become even more difficult 🟠 Continue splitting into wallets → increases the complexity of tracing the funds ⚠️ XRP itself → Ripple can’t directly freeze XRP the way the issuers of USDT or USDC can
Here’s what must be noted:
On-chain transfer ≠ already sold.
There’s currently no evidence showing that all $83 million worth of XRP has entered the market for liquidation.
So the most important thing going forward isn’t watching whether the wallets “moved,” but watching:
Attacker address → exchange / cross-chain → whether it’s exchanged for other assets.
Only when a large amount of the stolen funds truly enters liquidity outflows might this turn from a “security incident” into more of a “market event.”
What do you think the next step will be:
🔴 Centralized cash-out / 🟠 continue dispersing for money laundering?
🚨 A subtle change that’s easy to overlook is happening:
BTC is still stable, but capital is no longer focused only on BTC.
This quarter, BTC has been strong, and ETH has even more “elasticity.” Over the weekend, the number of rising coins also began to exceed the number of falling ones.
This is usually a signal worth watching when the market enters its next phase:
🟠 BTC keeps the market stable 🔵 ETH starts to amplify its volatility 🟢 More altcoins begin to rotate 💰 Capital shifts from “single-point bets” to looking for opportunities
The real key isn’t how much any one altcoin suddenly pumps.
It’s whether the breadth of the market’s gains can continue to expand.
If BTC holds steady, and ETH, BNB, and more assets keep strengthening, the rotation of capital may not be over yet.
But if BTC breaks down, the high elasticity of altcoins could quickly turn into high volatility.