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😦😧😮😲 🧤 August 14: ❕$BTC < $62,950 📉 #macro US retail sales fell 0.6% in July, following a 0.9% increase in the previous month. ❗️The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index declined to a preliminary 51 in August, below the 54.4 forecast and the previous reading of 55.2. ❗️US consumer inflation expectations: 1-year expectations rose to 4.3% from 4.2%. 5-year expectations remained unchanged at 3.3%. ❕$RDDT = +13% Reddit shares will join the S&P 500 on August 18. ❕#RWA The number of tokenized stock holders has surpassed 1 million. The figure increased by approximately 10% over the past week alone. ❕#BTC CryptoQuant: approximately 48.6% of the total BTC supply is currently underwater. Historically, a reading near 50% has signaled a transition from euphoria toward capitulation. Short-term holders who bought near the cycle high are facing significant unrealized losses. Meanwhile, long-term investors and “smart money” typically begin accumulating again when the share of BTC supply in profit falls below 55%. ❕Santiment: claims that “crypto is dead” are once again gaining traction across X, Reddit, and Telegram. This rhetoric typically intensifies when retail traders lose patience and begin viewing temporary market weakness as a permanent collapse. However, crypto markets often move against the prevailing crowd sentiment. ❕$SPCX The merger between SpaceX and Cursor’s developer takes effect on August 14. SpaceX acquired Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, in June. The $60 billion all-stock deal will be completed through a merger between SpaceX subsidiary X67 Inc. and Anysphere. 🍏 Download on the App Store 😚🫡🤫🤗 Go to wallet SOCIAL | SUPPORT | #DIGEST

🥶😶‍🌫️😱😨 🧤 August 14: ❕$BTC < $62,900 📉 #macro US: ❗️ Producer Price Index (PPI; July): m/m: 0% (previous: -0.3%) y/y: 4.7% (previous: 5.5%) ❗️ Core PPI: 4.2% y/y (previous: 4.7%) ❗️ Initial Jobless Claims: 209K (previous: 199K) ❕#copper Bloomberg Intelligence expects a major copper shortage over the next 15 years. ❕#bonds The yield on 30-year US Treasuries exceeded 5.2% at the latest auction, reaching its highest level in 25 years. ❕#OpenAI is targeting more than $40 billion in annual revenue, roughly double its 2025 figure. The company is preparing for an IPO and remains locked in fierce competition with Anthropic. ❕#Anthropic Anthropic’s IPO could become the largest in history. The startup may seek a valuation of around $2 trillion in the offering. ❕#BTC #ETH #ETF Spot BTC ETFs recorded total net outflows of approximately $131.1 million yesterday. Spot ETH ETFs posted total net inflows of approximately $5.9 million. 🍏 Download on the App Store 😚🫡🤫🤗 Go to wallet SOCIAL | SUPPORT | #NEWS

😦😧😮😲 🧤 August 13: ❕$BTC < $63,100 ❕S&P 500 > 7,800 new all-time high ❕#USDT Tether announced the completion of its first-ever full financial audit. The audit was conducted by KPMG, one of the Big Four accounting firms. Market participants had been waiting for this milestone for years. ❕$IBM = +1% IBM announced a partnership with OpenAI. ❕#RWA Trading in traditional assets, including stocks, oil, and gold, is rapidly gaining momentum on decentralized exchanges. ❕Michael Burry has fully closed his short positions in $TSLA and $AMAT. ❕$AMD plans to issue $5 billion in bonds to fund capital expenditures on AI infrastructure. The offering may be increased. ❕$PSQH = +6% Trump-affiliated entities invested in PSQ Holdings. 🍏 Download on the App Store 😚🫡🤫🤗 Go to wallet SOCIAL | SUPPORT | #DIGEST

🥶😶‍🌫️😱😨 🧤 August 13: ❕$BTC > $63,700 ❕$HYPE > $56.90 ❕#BTC Glassnode: BTC is trading between the median realized price at $63.0K and the short-term holder cost basis near $68.7K. At the same time, spot trading volume has fallen to its lowest level since 2019. Selling pressure is weakening, but there is still little active demand from buyers. Leveraged traders are betting on a market recovery, although current data does not yet support that scenario. ❕#HYPE Hyperion DeFi reported a record quarterly net profit of $31M in Q2, more than triple the previous record of $8.8M. The value of the company’s HYPE holdings increased from $71M to $133M over the quarter. ❕Goldman is expanding its presence in the crypto ETF market through the acquisition of Neos Investments for $2.25B. ❕Uranium futures reached a seven-month high. AI is becoming one of the key drivers of demand, as more technology companies turn to nuclear power to supply electricity for AI infrastructure and data centers. ❕Speculative USD long positions have reached their highest level in 10 years — JPMorgan. ❕#BTC #ETH #ETF Yesterday, spot BTC ETFs recorded total net outflows of approximately $61.1M. Spot ETH ETFs, meanwhile, posted net inflows of approximately $7.4M. 🍏 Download on the App Store 😚🫡🤫🤗 Go to wallet SOCIAL | SUPPORT | #NEWS

😦😧😮😲 🧤 August 12: ❕$BTC < $63,499 ❕$SPCX > $145 📉 #macro US — July CPI: – MoM: +0.1% (forecast: +0.1%; previous: -0.4%) – YoY: +3.4% (forecast: +3.4%; previous: +3.5%) – Core CPI YoY: +2.5% (forecast: +2.5%; previous: +2.6%) ❕$SPCX Morgan views the expiration of SpaceX’s lock-up period as a buying opportunity. Price target: $300 in the base case and $600 in the bull case. ❕#HYPE Hyperliquid is exploring ways to enter the US market with its perpetual futures products. ❕#ETH #ETF Fidelity plans to add staking to the Fidelity Ethereum Fund (FETH), one of the largest ETH ETFs in the US. The fund also plans to make quarterly cash distributions to investors. ❕Goldman Sachs is acquiring Neos Investments for up to $2.25 billion. The deal will give Goldman three crypto-exposed income ETFs: Bitcoin High Income ETF, Boosted Bitcoin High Income ETF, and Ethereum High Income ETF. The deal is expected to close in Q1 2027. 🍏 Download on the App Store 😚🫡🤫🤗 Go to wallet SOCIAL | SUPPORT | #DIGEST

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🥶😶‍🌫️😱😨 🧤 August 12: ❕$BTC < $63,750 ❕#GOLD < $4,384 ❕The SEC is preparing to unveil a broad package of crypto initiatives as progress on the Clarity Act remains stalled — Bloomberg. ❕#OIL — API inventories: CRUDE = +9.072M barrels (expected: -0.5M / previous: +2.690M) ❕#BTC Bollinger Bands compression points to the potential for a major BTC move. Supporters of the indicator compare the current setup to October 2023, which was followed by a sharp rally. If BTC’s classic 4-year cycle remains intact, some analysts expect a new 3-year bull cycle could begin between October and December 2026. ❕#005930KR = +6% #000660KR = +5% Asia Business Daily: Singapore’s Temasek Holdings plans to invest in Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. ❕#RWA Brazil’s largest bank, Itaú Unibanco, has joined a tokenization pilot in partnership with OpenAssets. ❕#XRP Santiment: over the past three months, the number of new XRP Ledger wallets holding more than 1M XRP has increased by 32. The number of large holders is rising despite XRP’s market capitalization falling by 29%. ❕#BTC #ETH #ETF Yesterday, spot BTC ETFs recorded net inflows of approximately $7.8M, while spot ETH ETFs posted net outflows of approximately $1.7M. 🍏 Download on the App Store 😚🫡🤫🤗 Go to wallet SOCIAL | SUPPORT | #NEWS

😦😧😮😲 🧤 August 11: ❕$BTC < $63,500 ❕#GOLD < $4,365 ❕#USDT supply has declined by $4 billion over the past 60 days, including a $870 million drop in just the last 11 days — CQ. This may indicate that some capital is leaving the crypto market as investors convert stablecoins into fiat. ❕Retail investors have started actively buying gold — JPMorgan. ❕Perp DEX trading volume fell 21% in July. The decline ended a two-month market recovery that began in April. ❕Grayscale: AI adoption could drive increased demand for public blockchains. ❕Strategy plans to step up its BTC purchases again over the course of the year, CEO Phong Le said. ❕#BTC BTC reserves on Binance have reached a six-month high — CQ. 🍏 Download on the App Store 😚🫡🤫🤗 Go to wallet SOCIAL | SUPPORT | #DIGEST

🥶😶‍🌫️😱😨 🧤 August 11: ❕$BTC > $64,000 ❕BRENT > $90 ❕Trump Media purchased 4,597 BTC in Q2 2026. The company now holds 14,139 BTC on its balance sheet. ❕BitMart is facing solvency issues, according to the CEO of OpenGradient. The market maker’s funds are stuck on the exchange and are currently unavailable for withdrawal. ❕A historical pattern is being discussed on X: in 2014, 2018, and 2022, the U.S. midterm elections coincided with the formation of a final BTC “bear trap,” followed by a strong bull cycle lasting roughly 994 days, or 142 weeks. The next U.S. midterm elections will take place in November 2026. ❕#AI Anthropic has signed a $9.1 billion deal with Riot for computing capacity. ❕On August 14, the SEC is expected to unveil its first formal proposal introducing updated rules for crypto businesses. The proposal would allow crypto companies to raise capital without registering with the SEC. ❕#SOL Spot SOL ETFs recorded their strongest daily inflow in three months. ❕#BTC #ETH #ETF Yesterday, spot BTC ETFs recorded total net outflows of approximately $144.6 million. Spot ETH ETFs saw another $14.6 million in net outflows. 🍏 Download on the App Store 😚🫡🤫🤗 Go to wallet SOCIAL | SUPPORT | #NEWS

😦😧😮😲 🧤 August 10: ❕$BTC < $63,900 ❕Gold > $4,364 ❕$TRX > $0.33 ❕#BTC CryptoQuant CEO noted that the correlation between BTC and gold has recovered. ❕#TRX Tron’s Q2 2026 performance: – total revenue +15.9%; – average daily active addresses +11.7%; – average daily transactions +8.7%. ❕#ETH Ethereum is seeing a sharp increase in active addresses, reaching a 5-month high. ❕Oil is rising for the third consecutive trading session after roughly a week and a half of declines. Last week, the Trump administration and U.S. media repeatedly reported that a deal on the Strait of Hormuz could be reached soon. These expectations pushed Brent down from around $100 to $80. By last Thursday, when Brent fell below $80, it became clear that the strait would not reopen anytime soon. Trump also said that no agreement had been reached yet. Iran remained largely silent throughout this period. Over the weekend, the IRGC said that the Strait of Hormuz would reopen only if the U.S. fully accepts Iran’s terms. ❕#gas U.S. = +5% ❕#gas Europe = +10% ❕Miner Keel Infrastructure is fully exiting the crypto mining business and shifting its focus to AI data centers. 🍏 Download on the App Store 😚🫡🤫🤗 Go to wallet SOCIAL | SUPPORT | #DIGEST

🥶😶‍🌫️😱😨 🧤 August 10: ❕$BTC > $65,200 ❕Aluminum > $3,300 ❕$PUMP = +11% (24h) ❕$HYPE = -1.5% over 60 days ❕#BTC reached block 961,632, marking the start of the controversial BIP-110 fork. Miner support was minimal: at the start of mandatory signaling, fewer than 3% of blocks supported the proposal, versus the required 55%. BIP-110 mined two blocks before halting. Ledger issued a security warning regarding BIP-110. The fork lacks built-in replay protection, meaning that claiming forked coins could put users’ BTC at risk. ❕$PUMP Pump.fun overtook Hyperliquid in revenue over the past 30 days. ❕#macro Japan’s 2-year government bond yield continues to hit levels not seen in around 30 years. ❕$HOOD Robinhood is launching crypto trading in the UK. ❕#Coinsbuy Crypto service Coinsbuy was hacked for $8 million. ❕#BTC #ETH #ETF From August 3 to 7, spot BTC ETFs recorded approximately $853.54 million in total net inflows, while spot ETH ETFs saw approximately $244.94 million in net inflows. 🍏 Download on the App Store 😚🫡🤫🤗 Go to wallet SOCIAL | SUPPORT | #NEWS

📃📄📑🧾 🧤 Upcoming Week’s Events: ❕Monday, August 10 • $RKLB — Rocket Lab will report Q2 earnings after the market close. • #OSMO — Osmosis will close the withdrawal period via the BitFrost bridge as the service shuts down. ❕Tuesday, August 11 📉 #macro U.S. Existing Home Sales for July — 14:00 UTC. • $CRWV — CoreWeave will report Q2 earnings. One of the key earnings reports of the week for the AI infrastructure sector. • #PI — deadline for Pi Mainnet node operators to upgrade to Protocol 26. ❕Wednesday, August 12 📉 #macro U.S. CPI for July — 12:30 UTC. One of the key macro releases of the week. • #macro U.S. Crude Oil Inventories — 14:30 UTC. • #macro U.S. 10-Year Treasury Note Auction — 17:00 UTC. • $NBIS — Nebius will report Q2 earnings before the U.S. market opens. Investors will focus on growth in its AI infrastructure and data center business. • $CSCO — Cisco will report quarterly earnings after the market close. AI infrastructure demand will be a key focus. • #TENCENT — Tencent will report Q2 earnings. • $PUMP unlock — 0.90% of supply, worth approximately $20.6M. ❕Thursday, August 13 📉 #macro U.S. PPI for July — 12:30 UTC. • #macro U.S. Initial Jobless Claims — 12:30 UTC. • #macro U.S. 30-Year Treasury Bond Auction — 17:00 UTC. • $JD — JD.com will report Q2 earnings. • $AMAT — Applied Materials will report fiscal Q3 earnings. One of the key reports of the week for the semiconductor and AI sectors. ❕Friday, August 14 📉 #macro U.S. Retail Sales for July — 12:30 UTC. • #macro U.S. Core Retail Sales for July — 12:30 UTC. ❕Sunday, August 16 • $STBL unlock — 3.60% of supply, worth approximately $8.8M. 🍏 Download on the App Store 😚🫡🤫🤗 Go to wallet SOCIAL | SUPPORT | #CALENDAR

😦😧😮😲 🧤 August 7: ❕$BTC > $64,700 📉 #macro US (July): Unemployment Rate: 4.1% (prev: 4.2%) Nonfarm Payrolls: -23K (prev: 57K) ❗️US one-year consumer inflation expectations from the NY Fed came in at 3.6% in July (expected: 3.8% / previous: 3.7%). ❗️The probability of a Fed rate hike in September dropped sharply after July employment data came in significantly weaker than expected, CNBC reports. Bloomberg notes that hiring slowed and previous figures were revised lower, easing pressure on the Fed to raise rates in September. At the same time, unemployment fell to a two-year low as fewer Americans looked for work, leaving the overall labor market picture mixed. ❕$CELH = +8% The founder of Rockstar Energy is increasing his stake in Celsius and wants to take over as CEO, CNBC reports. ❕Bybit has filed a lawsuit against North Korea over the $1.5 billion hack in February 2025, the largest crypto hack in history. 🍏 Download on the App Store 😚🫡🤫🤗 Go to wallet SOCIAL | SUPPORT | #DIGEST

🥶😶‍🌫️😱😨 🧤 August 7: ❕$BTC > $64,500 ❕#Copper continues to trade at record highs. The metal is up 15% year-to-date. ❕Whales continue accumulating BTC, while retail traders keep selling. ❕#SUI is integrating post-quantum cryptography approved by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Users will be able to optionally use quantum-resistant keys to sign transactions. ❕The U.S. Senate has postponed the Clarity Act vote until September. ❕Hackers have started using BNB Smart Chain to infect computers at scale. Microsoft has identified a new wave of attacks using fake CAPTCHA pages that trick users into pasting a malicious command into Windows under the guise of verifying they are human. The attack instructions are delivered via a smart contract on BNB Smart Chain, making the malicious content much harder to remove or block since only the wallet that deployed the contract can modify it. ❕#AMD is acquiring Canadian startup Taalas to develop a new generation of AI chips for the rapidly growing data center industry. ❕#BTC #ETH #ETF Spot crypto ETFs recorded net inflows yesterday: BTC ETFs saw approximately $137.6 million in net inflows, while ETH ETFs attracted approximately $92.1 million. 🍏 Download on the App Store 😚🫡🤫🤗 Go to wallet SOCIAL | SUPPORT | #NEWS

😦😧😮😲 🧤 August 6: ❕$BTC > $64,800 ❕BRENT > $82 ❕#zinc > $3,770 — highest level since August 2022. 📉 #macro Initial Jobless Claims: 199K (prev. 197K). ❕$SPCX = +5% ❕#GOOGL Demand for Alphabet’s $25B bond offering exceeded $115B. AI spending pushed Alphabet to its first-ever negative free cash flow in Q2 2026. ❕#HYPE JPMorgan analysts said Hyperliquid is facing intensifying competition from regulated U.S. trading platforms and prediction markets. They also noted that inflows into Hyperliquid ETFs stalled in July and early August after record inflows in May and June. ❕#BTC BlackRock reported daily inflows into its spot Bitcoin ETF every day this week. 🍏 Download on the App Store 😚🫡🤫🤗 Go to wallet SOCIAL | SUPPORT | #DIGEST

🥶😶‍🌫️😱😨 🧤 August 6: ❕$BTC > $64,800 ❕$SPCX < $111 SpaceX shares closed 14% lower. The post-IPO lock-up period expires today, potentially releasing up to 911.5 million shares onto the market and adding further pressure on the stock. ❕#SNDK Sandisk reported fourth-quarter revenue of $8.97 billion, above the FactSet estimate of $8.48 billion. ❕#HOOD In July, Robinhood Chain became the leading L2 network by revenue. ❕#MSTR Strategy plans to eventually acquire more than $50 billion worth of BTC and gain control of around 7.5% of Bitcoin’s total supply. “I’m buying something that is becoming exponentially more expensive.” Michael Saylor also predicted that $BTC will reach $10 million, outlining his long-term “master plan.” ❕#BTC #ETH #ETF Yesterday, spot BTC ETFs recorded total net inflows of approximately $244.4 million, while spot ETH ETFs saw net inflows of around $60.8 million. 🍏 Download on the App Store 😚🫡🤫🤗 Go to wallet SOCIAL | SUPPORT | #NEWS

😦😧😮😲 🧤 August 5: ❕$BTC > $64,700 ❕$CRCL < $64 📉 #macro U.S.: ADP private-sector employment increased by 44,000 in July, compared with 98,000 previously. ❕Fed’s Kashkari: the time has come to begin gradually raising interest rates. ❕#USDC Circle: USDC circulation reached $73.3 billion in Q2 2026, up 19% year over year. On-chain transaction volume surged 151% to $14.8 trillion, revenue and reserve income rose 7% to $701 million, while adjusted EBITDA increased 8% to $143 million. ❕Bloomberg: major hedge funds, including Citadel, Point72, and Two Sigma, have become targets of a wave of cyberattacks. ❕AWS and JPMorgan have launched a partnership focused on quantum computing research and development. ❕#USDT: according to CQ, the decline in USDT market capitalization has reached historically extreme levels. Similar periods have previously been associated with weaker demand, deeper corrections, and deteriorating market conditions. At the same time, the sharpest contractions in USDT supply have historically coincided with phases when selling pressure was close to exhaustion. 🍏 Download on the App Store 😚🫡🤫🤗 Go to wallet SOCIAL | SUPPORT | #DIGEST