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ChainCatcher message: the encryption analyst AI posted on the X platform saying that multiple technical indicators at the monthly chart level for Bitcoin are releasing bullish signals, suggesting that the current market may already have formed a macro bottom. Data shows that the TD Sequential indicator triggered a buy signal on Bitcoin’s monthly chart last month. This indicator previously successfully identified the bear market bottom in 2022, and similar signals are appearing again now. In addition, Bitcoin’s current price is approaching the 50-month simple moving average (SMA). Historical data shows that since 2014, this long-term moving average has repeatedly become an important support zone for Bitcoin and has corresponded with multiple market bottoms.

ChainCatcher report: Aave founder Stani Kulechov recently said that SharpLink Gaming opposes the Ethereum improvement proposal EIP-8363, and claimed that SharpLink is one of the largest supporters and funding contributors in the Ethereum ecosystem. Stani said that SharpLink executive Joseph Chalom raised some reasonable points regarding the feasibility of the proposal and its implementation timeline.
He also called on the community to “protect ETH staking,” emphasizing that when advancing Ethereum protocol improvements, it is necessary to fully consider the interests of staking ecosystem participants and the long-term impact. EIP-8363 has recently sparked debate in the Ethereum community; the main controversies revolve around its potential effects on ETH staking mechanisms, validators’ economic models, and ecosystem security. Community members are currently assessing the necessity of the proposal, the implementation timeline, and the possible consequences it may bring.

Author: Wall Street News

A sharp cooling signal emerged in the U.S. labor market, prompting the market to quickly reprice its expectations for the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy trajectory.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday that July’s nonfarm payroll employment fell by 23,000, far below the market’s expectation of an increase of 80,000. Moreover, data for the prior two months was also revised downward by more than 103,000. This marks a clear sign of weakening in the labor market after it had continued to run above expectations earlier this year.
After the data release, U.S. stock index futures surged rapidly. Traders scaled back their bets on the Fed raising rates in 2026, and implied rate-cut expectations in turn warmed up.

ChainCatcher: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted that Signal recently announced it is exploring letting users register accounts without a phone number. He welcomed the move and believes it will help reduce reliance on phone numbers, a highly oligopolistic system, lower identity security risks stemming from SIM card swapping, and make it harder for governments in different countries to pressure Signal to ban local users based on nationality.
Vitalik also noted that while the initiative is better than the current state of affairs in terms of privacy protection, it only achieves “confidentiality” and has not yet reached true anonymity, because metadata such as message sending time, frequency, and recipients can still be used to piece together identity associations. He believes that with advances in AI technology, long-lasting, persistent anonymous accounts are becoming obsolete; the only privacy form that is defensible is “no one can link messages, even one-by-one,” meaning no one except the sender and recipient knows the identities of the communication parties. This direction is currently being explored and advanced by new communication tools such as Session and SimpleX, as well as by projects focused on mixnet networks. In addition, defenses against spam and denial-of-service attacks will also become key issues to address next.

ChainCatcher message: Renowned trader Killa posted that when Bitcoin breaks through the current long-term descending trendline, you should under no circumstances short it. “In the last cycle, many people overly complicated what should have been a simple trend shift, and the weekly chart is the best confirmation signal.”
His accompanying chart shows weekly Bitcoin charts for 2026, 2022, and 2018. All three display a similar descending channel pattern after forming local highs, used to draw an analogy to the current market structure.
As a BTC-focused quantitative trader, Killa predicted the top of this bull cycle in May 2025. On the X platform, he has over 200,000 followers. In mid-April, he shorted Bitcoin at $74,688, and during the market-wide downturn on June 5, he switched to going long.

ChainCatcher news: In the U.S., employment unexpectedly dropped by 23,000 jobs in July, far below expectations of an increase of 80,000. The June gain was also revised down to just 20,000. Despite softness in the jobs market, the unemployment rate unexpectedly fell from 4.2% to 4.1%. In comments reported by the Fed’s “whisperer” Nick Timiraos, the U.S. unemployment rate fell to 4.09% in July because both the number of people seeking jobs and the number of people counted as unemployed declined; this data pushed the unemployment rate to its lowest level in two years.
The analysis points out that this disappointing report has again raised concerns about the labor market and may make the Federal Reserve’s rate decisions more complicated, as policymakers need to strike a balance between weak employment and persistent inflation. As a result, market expectations for rate hikes quickly fell.

ChainCatcher message: Starknet announced that it has completed post-quantum signature transfer testing. A wallet account using a post-quantum signature mechanism completed a real transfer on the Starknet mainnet. The transaction fee was about 6 cents, and the transaction can be queried via a block explorer. The account is currently an experimental, unaudited version, mainly used for research and testing. StarkWare said that this transfer was made possible thanks to the design of the Starknet account model.
Unlike most blockchains that hardcode the signature algorithm at the protocol layer, each Starknet account is a smart contract that can independently define which signing schemes it accepts. Therefore, users can upgrade a wallet from traditional elliptic-curve signatures to post-quantum signatures without a hard fork, without migrating assets, and without changing addresses. StarkWare noted that most blockchains face quantum computing risks because both wallet signing and the underlying verification systems rely on elliptic-curve cryptography. Once large-scale quantum computers appear, running Shor’s algorithm could break the corresponding cryptographic systems. Currently, the Starknet ecosystem has already supported a post-quantum signature scheme based on Falcon-512. This scheme is part of the NIST post-quantum cryptography standardization process, and relevant implementations have been promoted by ecosystem teams and organizations such as OpenZeppelin.