Around $730B has been wiped from gold and silver in the last 150 minutes. Good data or bad data, precious metals are taking a serious hit right now. I’m watching to see where the selling pressure settles from here. $ZEC
$LIT has been catching my attention lately. I’ve been watching the DEX for a while now, and the growing volume and attention around it are starting to make the chart more interesting. There’s even talk of LIT potentially taking a page from $HYPE , but I’m more interested in seeing whether the volume and activity can actually keep building. It honestly reminds me a bit of Ston and @ston_fi . stonfi has also had a pretty active year so far, especially with cross-chain becoming a bigger part of the platform. What I find interesting is how DEXs are slowly becoming more than just places to swap tokens. When liquidity, volume and cross-chain access start coming together, the whole ecosystem becomes a lot more interesting to watch. LIT is on my radar for now. And I’ll definitely keep watching what STON and build next.
$ASTER is back on top of my watchlist and starting to show some movement. Could we see it head back toward $0.20? I’m watching the chart closely. The recent CZ tweet might have something to do with the renewed attention, but I’d still like to see how the price behaves from here before getting too excited. $SOON is also up today, so that’s another chart I’ve got my eyes on. Meanwhile, there’s a small but useful update from @ston_fi s Flight Deals campaign. The SafePal X1 reward just got easier to unlock. The previous $200 cross-chain swap volume requirement has been removed. Now, you only need to: * Complete the SafePal crew mission * Make at least one eligible cross-chain swap * Hold 2,000 miles The SafePal X1 is shipped after the campaign ends, and the Flight Deals refresh every Tuesday. Honestly, I like this kind of update. Less friction, fewer requirements, and it gives people a simpler way to actually explore cross-chain swaps while earning miles. Now back to the charts.
$SOL whales are making some serious moves. Bitfinex whale long positions have gone vertical, while Solana ETFs bought 2.32M SOL, worth around $278M, over the past two weeks. Total ETF AUM is now around $2.28B. With whales stacking and ETF demand picking up, is Solana setting up for another meme season? $XRP
So this week feels like $NEAR season onchain. And honestly, that’s one thing about being a trencher you have to be quick to notice when attention starts moving somewhere else. The $SOL trenches are still active, but I think it’s easy to get too comfortable watching just one chain. Sometimes the next interesting move is happening somewhere you weren’t even looking. That’s also why I’ve been paying more attention to cross-chain activity lately. **Omniston just crossed $7.5M in all-time cross-chain swap volume**, more than double the $3M mark it hit earlier this month. That kind of growth is interesting because it shows liquidity isn’t staying in one ecosystem. People are moving between chains, and the infrastructure connecting those ecosystems becomes more important as activity grows. So yeah, keep an eye on the SOL trenches. But don’t forget to look around. #Altcoin Season#
$GRAM is pushing toward $1.69 If the momentum holds, I’d love to see it test $2 next week, but for now I’m just watching how price reacts around these levels. A strong GRAM move is also interesting for the @ston_fi ecosystem because more activity can mean more attention and liquidity around the TON DeFi side. I’ve got my eyes on STON too. Let’s see how it reacts if GRAM keeps moving. $ZEC #Altcoin Season#
$BNB Chain is seeing a noticeable jump in stablecoin adoption. Around 985K new stablecoin holders joined the chain over the past 7 days. That’s almost 5x more than the next chain during the same period. Interesting to see where this new #StableCoin activity starts flowing next.
$QNT is the token behind Quant, a project focused on blockchain interoperability. Its Overledger technology is designed to connect different blockchains with existing financial systems. Quant is also involved in The Clearing House’s On-Chain Money Initiative, which explores tokenized deposits and onchain settlement. So the main story around $QNT is simple: connecting traditional finance with different blockchain networks.
$ZEC is on its way to $2K and honestly, this move has been crazy. $HYPE isn’t looking too far behind either. Looking back at how some of these coins have moved this year, damn… what a year. And while everyone is watching the charts, I’ve also been paying attention to some of the activity happening underneath. Omniston has been processing more cross-chain swaps between TON and other networks, with BNB Chain → TON becoming one of the busiest routes recently. I find that part interesting because price is only one side of the market. There’s also the infrastructure quietly moving liquidity around while all these charts are going crazy. What a year for crypto. And we’re not even done yet.
$BTC is giving all green signs right now. I see it, I accept it. $XRP looks ready to follow too. $5 soon? Meanwhile, @ston_fi cross-chain swaps have never felt this simple. You connect your TON and TRON wallets, choose what you want to swap, check the amount you’ll receive, confirm, and let the app handle the rest. No traditional bridge. No CEX in the middle. Just: **Connect → Choose → Confirm → Receive. That’s the kind of cross-chain experience I like. Simple enough that you don't need to think about what's happening behind the scenes. #Altcoin Season#
$PROVE is back active and pumping again. $LSK has been hot too, so I’m starting to feel like the market might be picking up some momentum again. Still not rushing anything though. I’m just watching how these moves develop and where the liquidity starts flowing. On the @ston_fi side, I’ve been putting my GEMSTON to use and upgrading my Stonkbots. Honestly, it’s pretty funny watching the bots change as you upgrade them But at the same time, it feels like a nice way to get more familiar with the NFT side of Stonfi instead of just swapping and farming. I came for the DeFi side. Now I’m somehow upgrading little NFT bots. #Altcoin Season#
The stablecoin market could be heading in two different directions. $USDT and $USDC are already huge, with around $255B combined, but the GENIUS Act limits yield payments on these traditional stablecoins. Then you have “productive” stablecoins, which are designed to give users a return on the assets backing them. That’s the space RealFi is building in. Interesting to see stablecoins evolving from simply holding value to potentially putting that value to work.
$ZEC is standing out among altcoins right now. Since $BTC hit its all-time high, only 9 of the top 50 altcoins have managed to outperform Bitcoin. ZEC is leading by a huge margin, with its return coming in around 14x Bitcoin’s over that period. HYPE , XMR and NEAR are also among the few that have outperformed. What’s interesting to me is the lack of broad altcoin strength. A few names are doing very well, but most of the market is still trailing BTC. So I’m keeping ZEC on the watchlist and paying more attention to relative strength than simply chasing whatever is moving. #Altcoin Season#
The big names are buying the dips. #BlackRock ’s IBIT reportedly accumulated and withdrew around 3.75K $BTC, worth roughly $316M, from Coinbase Prime over the past hour. While the market is busy watching the dip, some serious BTC buying is happening in the background. Meanwhile, there’s something happening on the @ston_fi side today. The “Inside the Cross-Chain Flight: Your Questions, Our Answers” AMA starts at 15:00 UTC. The Stonfi team will be answering community questions around the **One Swap. Across Chains campaign and how cross-chain swaps actually work. And there’s a little extra incentive too: 3 of the best questions get 50 STON each 150 STON in total. Plus, stay until the end for a secret word that gives you extra campaign points. $BTC buying in the background, cross-chain talk on the other side. Interesting day in crypto. $UNI