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This time, the Bank of Japan kept its interest rate at 1% unchanged. The result had already been priced in by the market in advance. What is truly worth watching—and worrying about—in the crypto space is that internal disagreements over potential rate hikes have already emerged. One board member voted against a rate hike, arguing for it and even pointing out that a weaker yen could push up inflation. The market has started to bet that there may be further tightening again in October.

Many people think Japan’s interest rates have nothing to do with $BTC at all, but that’s not the case. The yen is a very important carry-trade currency globally. Simply put, institutions borrow yen at low cost, convert it into dollars, and use it to buy US stocks and even crypto assets to profit from the spread. If Japan continues to raise rates later, borrowing costs will rise. This leveraged capital will then tend to choose to close positions and repay debts. High-volatility assets like BTC and ETH are often the first to be sold off.

This time, there was no immediate rate hike, but the overall stance is hawkish: they raised economic expectations and also warned about the risk of inflation breaking above 2%. It’s essentially a preemptive warning to the market: the rate-hike channel hasn’t been closed—it's just been paused for now. In addition, Japan also appears to have taken action to intervene in the exchange rate. If the yen later rebounds sharply and carry trades rush to exit, the crypto market could easily be hit by a forced selloff. Historically, after Japan raised rates, BTC has also experienced a noticeable pullback.

That said, there’s no need to panic too much in the short term. This is still only about expectations, not an outcome that has actually materialized. The USD/JPY is still above 160, and the interest-rate spread between the US and Japan remains large, so carry trades won’t collapse all at once. The real risk point is in October: if Ueda and the other official remain hawkish in their remarks and rate-hike expectations get fully priced in, then it’s worth being careful about the kind of market turbulence caused by liquidity contraction.

Looking at the trading screen, this situation won’t immediately trigger an explosive surge or crash. More often, it’s like a sword hanging over your head. Friends trading futures in particular should stay alert: macro uncertainties can quickly amplify pinpricks and liquidation moves. Going forward, focus on two key signals—Ueda’s phrasing in his speech, and any sharp fluctuations in the USD/JPY exchange rate.

Risk warning: This is only a macro logic recap and does not constitute investment advice.

TBV, the more I look at it, the more it feels stubborn.

Everyone else is trying to move BTC out—bridges, wrapping, custody arrangements—endless variations. @BabylonLabs_io won’t do that. BTC stays on the Bitcoin chain, nowhere else.

That sounds like stubbornness. Think it through, though: every “move it out” plan is, in essence, a bet on trusting someone. TBV turns ownership transfer into something programmable. SNARKs verify state; obfuscation compresses complex proofs into a string that humans can read; Lamport signatures handle disputes. It’s a bit roundabout, but the outcome is straightforward: the coins are locked inside your own script. On the DeFi chain, the contract governs who can withdraw, when they can withdraw, and how much they can withdraw.

No one can touch your stake. No liquidity pool, no commingling. Each vault is independent.

The trade-off is speed. Claims have to wait for hours, even up to two days. Predetermined participants have their liquidity locked. The team isn’t hiding anything—it's all plainly documented. This kind of candor is oddly reassuring.

$BABY isn’t just there to look pretty in this kind of architecture. BTC staking backs the finality provider, and $BABY staking secures the genesis chain itself. Double staking is tightened into a single force. Inflation is capped at 5.5%, and联合质押 (combined staking) comes with extra sweeteners. It doesn’t feel like storytelling—it feels like tightening bolts.

If Aave V4 really gets integrated, TBV will move from the lab to the jobsite. Lock BTC to borrow stablecoins, and just like that, the institutional playbook gets transported over. GoMining is also in talks—this 1,000 BTC pilot isn’t small.

But the Cantina audit uncovered high-severity vulnerabilities; even after patching them, it still keeps me up at night. Bitcoin scripts don’t have an upgrade-contract escape hatch—one mistake can mean real money lost. Lamport signatures are one-time, and the time-lock window is tightly constrained. Every step is a contest with time.

$BABY ’s price is up nearly a full doubling from the March lows, yet its market cap is still nowhere close to even a fraction of TVL. Either the staked capital still has water in it, or the market simply hasn’t understood what this protocol is actually fixing. I lean toward the latter. But I can’t be too certain.

After all, in this industry, understanding and making money have always been two different things. #baby

Take a look at the data of $SPCX —I'm literally laughing out loud. The long/short ratio has both reached 5.08; 83.55% of people are going long, and only 16.45% are shorts. This isn’t trading crypto at all—this is clearly longs throwing a party… and it’s the kind of end-of-the-world celebration nobody wants to leave.

The price has already dropped like this, and it’s still showing -4.31%. Yet these people are still stubbornly holding on—they refuse to cut their losses. Tell me, what are you all even hoping for? Musk posts a tweet and draws a little fantasy, and you actually treat it like it’s dinner? Come on—that’s a PPT, not USDT. It can’t be cashed out!

The funding rate was positive for a long time, which means the longs were basically giving “rent” to the shorts. Now that things finally quiet down, you still think you can hold out all the way to a big rally? The scariest thing in trading isn’t losing money—it’s when the trend is right there, crystal clear, yet you still insist on fighting the market. What is that? It’s trading with emotion, holding positions with faith. The market will educate every stubborn mouth, and usually it does so very, very harshly. Now this long/short ratio is basically writing “I’m about to get liquidated” right on your face.

Wake up. Musk draws Mars fantasies, and you’re on Earth getting liquidated. When the trend is wrong, cutting and accepting it isn’t shameful. What’s truly “throwing away everything” is holding on to the bitter end. This market never believes tears, and it definitely doesn’t believe in the Mars dreams from X.

When you were once full of spirit, you said you were the first in your family to come into contact with candlesticks, and getting to where you are now wasn’t easy.
After being beaten by the market, you said you wished you were the last in your family to come into contact with candlesticks, and you regretted getting this far.
$BTC

Bad news: In an internal poll of 12 Federal Reserve officials, 3 voted against keeping interest rates unchanged—so these three dissenting votes are, in plain terms, a warning bell for the market. Think about it: out of 12 people, 3 believe hikes are needed right now. That’s not a small proportion. This suggests the Fed’s internal concern about inflation can no longer be suppressed. Even though, on the surface, it’s still holding rates steady, the “hawkish” voices have grown loud enough to be impossible to hide.

For the market, the most immediate negative signal is that rate-hike expectations are likely to resurface. Previously, people may have still been hoping for rate cuts this year—or at least assumed the Fed would keep not raising rates. But once these three votes come out, traders have to re-do their calculations: will the next meeting really take action? If the market starts expecting rates to move higher, bond yields will likely jump. Growth stocks and tech stocks will be hit first, and valuation pressure will rise quickly.

What’s even more troublesome is that this reveals the Fed’s internal divisions are widening. Previously, investors were used to focusing on what the Chair says. But now, “Waller” isn’t providing forward guidance. What he says at press conferences represents only his personal view, not the entire committee. So investors have to decide who to trust—meaning they can only guess whether those three voters will continue opposing, and whether more people will move toward their side. This kind of uncertainty is itself negative for the market. What the market fears most is not hikes—it’s not knowing whether you’ll hike at all, and when.

Also, these three votes imply that the tightening cycle may not be over yet. Bob Michele put it plainly: this is a signal of “moving toward a tightening policy.” If upcoming economic data runs even slightly hot, these three votes can easily turn into five or six. Then an interest-rate hike would become inevitable. For businesses, borrowing costs may continue to rise. For consumers, the pressure from mortgages and auto loans won’t really ease. The economy’s “tightening spell” can’t be loosened, so risk appetite naturally falls.

So don’t be fooled: even though rates were left unchanged this time, these three dissenting votes are like dark clouds before a storm—warning the market that the policy direction may be shifting. Investors will need to keep the stakes tighter going forward, because the Fed’s “patience” may be running out. #美联储何时降息？ $BTC

Preparing to write a book called “My Contract Insights”—Who’s in favor and who’s against? $BTC

After the Fed kept interest rates unchanged, the market reaction was quite interesting—Treasury yields plunged, gold surged by 1.2%, yet the internal performance of U.S. stocks was severely split: the Nasdaq turned green, while the Dow still keeps falling.

For U.S. equities, this suggests capital is being pulled back and forth between “seeking safety” and “buying the dip in tech.” As the 10-year Treasury yield drops, it implies the market believes the Fed can’t stay tough later on, and rate-cut expectations are quietly heating up. That’s a tangible positive for tech stock valuations, which is why the Nasdaq can flip to gains. But the Dow remains green-in-name only (still down), indicating traditional sectors still don’t have full confidence in the economic fundamentals. After all, high interest rates have been maintained for so long that the pressure on businesses is real. Going forward, if Treasury yields continue to move lower, growth stocks may see another round of repairs. However, value stocks and cyclical stocks will likely need more time to grind.

For the crypto market, this reaction is overall more positive. Gold jumped 1.2%, which provides sentiment-driven momentum for the “digital gold” concepts tied to <0>$BTC </0> and <0>$ETH </0>; plus, with Treasury yields falling, market expectations for liquidity improve. In a market like crypto—an asset class most sensitive to the cost of capital—there’s a high chance that, in the short term, it can follow along and catch some of the upside. That said, note that crypto’s correlation with the Nasdaq is still fairly high. If later the S&P and Dow drag down overall market sentiment, or if Fed officials come out hawkish and crush rate-cut expectations, then crypto’s rebound could easily fizzle mid-way.

In short, after this decision, the market’s core logic has shifted from “fearing more hikes” to “betting on rate cuts,” while concerns about the economic fundamentals are rising in parallel. U.S. stocks will likely continue to trade in a split, with tech relatively stronger. Crypto, meanwhile, looks like a choppy-to-slightly-bullish setup: you can be optimistic in the short term, but don’t get carried away—whether there’s a true trend will depend on whether the later inflation data cooperates.

This circle has achieved many people and ruined many people too; even worse, some have experienced both.$MU

Brothers, this ETH dip is probably a solid bottom that’s built to last!

You can tell from the chart: earlier the low was pushed down to around 1883, but it just couldn’t get any lower. Then a big bullish candle immediately pulled it up—there’s a very strong “V-shaped reversal” vibe. Now the price is holding around 1915. The 5-day, 10-day, and 20-day lines have already formed a textbook bullish alignment—MA5 at 1916, MA10 at 1915, MA20 at 1908. The short-term moving averages are all spreading upward, which means the bulls are gradually taking over the tempo.

What’s most important is that the 1880 level shows clear volume-based support. That indicates large funds are stepping in to buy the dip right here and won’t let it fall further. The 24-hour low was 1855, but during the second intraday test it only dipped back to 1883 before rebounding, with the lows continually getting higher—this is exactly what a bottom looks like. Think about it: if there really were a big selloff coming, it would have broken down already. How could it keep ranging like this?

Looking at the broader trend, over the past 30 days it’s up 21%, which shows the underlying logic for ETH is still strong. It’s just that in the short term, the profit-taking crowd is getting shaken out. Today it’s down only 0.34%, and over 7 days it’s down just 1.4%—that hardly counts as “selling off.” This is more like high-level consolidation digesting liquidity. Over 180 days it’s down nearly 30%, but that’s already in the past— the market is actively climbing out of the bottom now.

Bottom line: the 1880–1900 range is a hard floor, and the space to go lower is extremely limited. If you don’t get in now, are you going to wait until it pumps above 2000 and then chase it? Futures traders can try a small long position here with low leverage; spot holders can even accumulate with their eyes closed. Set your stop-loss below 1850—risk/reward is extremely attractive. Don’t wait until it rises and then slap your thigh. This is the final chance to board!$ETH

Meeting to stabilize the market? Just listen to it and move on. If you really think that by holding a meeting you can “open” the stock crash back to normal, you’re only kidding yourself.

How bad is Korea’s decline this time? The KOSPI has already cut nearly 40% from its June peak. On July 29, it plunged more than 12% at one point during the trading session, triggering a circuit breaker. Even worse, more than 1.2 million leveraged accounts were forced to repay margin calls; over 320,000 accounts were directly liquidated. Retirement savings and down payments for marriage homes went down the drain. This isn’t a normal correction—it’s a textbook case of leveraged stampede and “kill to kill.”

Where’s the root cause? In May this year, Korean regulators approved single-stock leveraged ETFs, and retail investors rushed in. Just two stocks—Samsung and SK Hynix—already accounted for half of the index. Leveraged ETFs have a death spiral: when the stock price falls, the fund is forced to reduce holdings. As it sells off, the stock price keeps dropping; the more it drops, the more it sells; the more it sells, the more it drops—like rolling a snowball that never stops. In that situation, can a meeting and a couple of lines about “closely monitoring” halt the stampede? No, it can’t.

Once market sentiment breaks, confidence is worth more than gold—but also worth less than paper. After more than 320,000 people get forcibly liquidated, those individuals truly lose real money. Will they dare come back in the short term? They won’t. When people watching from outside see this scene, they’re trying to avoid it altogether—who would dare rush in to catch the falling knife? Can a meeting conjure up money? It can’t. Can it erase the losses of those leveraged accounts? Also no.

History has proven this countless times: the bottom of a stock crash is never made by policy talk. It’s made when leverage has been wiped out, positions are fully rotated, valuations have fallen to the right level, and the market has bled all the way through itself. Even if the Korean finance minister apologizes, the market still has to fall. This is a chart that can’t be pulled back just by holding a meeting. $SKHYNIX

A trading blunder involving SK Hynix shares led to the forced liquidation of a $60 million cryptocurrency derivatives contract

A painful lesson for the crypto industry was delivered this week after the stock price of a South Korean chipmaker suddenly plunged. On July 28, before the Seoul stock market opened, SK Hynix’s share price briefly crashed about 30% from the close of the previous trading day. The cause was that, during the pre-market session, a share was traded at an abnormal price with unusual turnover. Although the transaction price later recovered noticeably, it was too late for a group of traders who executed trades in a sector outside the public market. According to the blockchain data platform Allium, the price of derivatives contracts tied to SK Hynix traded on the crypto exchange Hyperliquid fell by roughly 20%, forcing the long positions holding the contract to be liquidated within two minutes for nearly $60 million. Allium estimates that the incident resulted in real losses for more than 900 users totaling $17.4 million. $BTC

Are we posting in the trading contest too now 😐 Is there anyone who can let me get some service-fee discount coupons 😍#TradFi $SPCX

The days of freedom with no restrictions are always so brief; on the other end of high leverage lies the scythe of Death. The shelf life of the golden age doesn’t seem to last as long as pickles—let’s go back to crypto instead.$BTC

Due to the performance of $ETH being better than Bitcoin, Bitmine continues to buy ETH

The company added nearly 10,000 ETH over the past week, bringing its holdings to 5.79 million ETH, of which about 85% is staked through its validator operations.

Arthur Hayes again spent 6.32 million USDC in OTC trades to buy 3,298 ETH $ETH

PANews July 28日消息, according to on-chain analyst Yu Jin, after Arthur Hayes shut down BitMEX, his trading frequency increased. Two hours ago, he spent 6.32 million USDC via FalconX and Galaxy Digital to buy 3,298 ETH OTC. Since July 15, he has cumulatively spent 13.82 million USDC to buy 7,212.6 ETH at an average price of $1,916.

More than $1.2 trillion wiped off SpaceX’s market value, already “dropped” a Tesla

PANews July 28, citing CNBC, reported that since its June peak of $225.64, SpaceX’s market value has already fallen by more than $1.2 trillion—nearly matching the market value of Tesla, another company under its founder Elon Musk. On Monday, SpaceX notched its 13th decline in 16 straight trading sessions, closing at $113.50, down more than 1%. In the options market, retail investors are still heavily buying call options that are virtually impossible to exercise, betting on a rapid rebound in the stock. SpaceX’s first earnings report will be released next week. Starting August 6, the lock-up period for about 911.5 million shares of internal holdings will begin to expire, accounting for roughly 20% of the total shares outstanding. Traders believe the end of the lock-up may not be as severe as the market fears, but it will not provide support for the stock price.$SPCX

Franklin Templeton supports the Clarity Act and calls for regulatory clarity for the industry

PANews July 28 report: Franklin Templeton posted on the X platform stating that it publicly supports the Clarity Act, saying the bill will clarify the regulatory framework for crypto assets. It would help investors understand what protections apply and help companies determine which regulator they fall under. It’s time to provide the industry with the regulatory clarity it needs.$BTC