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The spread is the difference between the highest price a buyer is willing to pay and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept. For example: Highest bid: $99 Lowest ask: $101 Spread: $2 A narrower spread usually indicates a more liquid market. A wider spread may increase the effective cost of entering or leaving a position.

How are you starting the crypto week? 🚀 Ready to trade 📈 Buying gradually 👀 Watching the market 🧊 Staying in stablecoins React with your plan for the week ahead.

What does HODL actually stand for? Wrong answers only 👇

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Friday check-in How closely did you follow the market this week? 📱 Every few hours 📊 Once a day 👀 A few times this week 🌴 Barely at all

Crypto Pulse | Weekly Insights That Matter Week of August 8–14, 2026 Market Snapshot 🟠 BTC: ~$64K 🔵 ETH: ~$1.9K 📈 Market Crypto markets remained relatively range-bound this week. Bitcoin traded around the $64K level, briefly moving above $65K before returning toward the $63–64K range. Softer U.S. labor data and July inflation figures helped ease concerns about an immediate Federal Reserve rate increase, providing some support for risk assets. 🏢 Industry Tokenization remained one of the strongest institutional themes in digital assets. Major financial-market players including DTCC, Nasdaq, NYSE-linked infrastructure and crypto platforms are continuing to develop systems for tokenized securities, with the industry increasingly focused on bringing traditional assets such as equities and U.S. Treasuries onto blockchain-based rails. The potential benefits include faster settlement, fractional ownership and expanded trading hours, although regulatory and investor-protection questions remain. 🛡 Security Hardware-wallet security returned to the spotlight after a data breach involving a Trezor shipping provider exposed personal information belonging to nearly 14,000 customers. The compromised data included names and contact or delivery information, potentially increasing phishing and physical-security risks even though the incident did not expose users’ private keys or wallet funds directly. The case highlights how self-custody security extends beyond the wallet itself to operational and personal-data protection. 🌍 Regulation In the U.S., the CLARITY Act suffered another delay, with the Senate postponing consideration until after its August recess. The legislation is intended to establish a clearer federal market-structure framework for digital assets, but disagreements over banking, ethics provisions and regulatory responsibilities continue to complicate its path forward. Regulators, meanwhile, are moving ahead with separate crypto initiatives even without the bill. In Europe, the European Commission’s review of MiCA remains underway. The Commission is gathering feedback on whether the framework remains fit for purpose following its initial implementation and changing global market conditions, with the review potentially leading to future amendments to the regulation. 💡 Trend of the Week TradFi infrastructure moves further onchain. This week highlighted a broader shift in the crypto market: while major asset prices remained relatively stable, development around tokenized securities, regulated infrastructure and market structure continued to advance. At the same time, the Trezor breach showed that stronger institutional infrastructure must be matched by equally strong operational and security standards. That’s this week’s #Tothemoon_Market_Update. See you next Friday! 🚀

What is “gas” on Ethereum? 🔘 A type of stablecoin 🔘 A fee paid to process network activity 🔘 A reward available only to token holders 🔘 The total amount of ETH in circulation Correct answer: A fee paid to process network activity.

Crypto myth or fact? A pending blockchain transaction means the funds have disappeared. Myth. A transaction may remain pending when the network is busy, the fee is too low or the required confirmations have not yet been completed. Before taking any action, check its status through a trusted blockchain explorer and confirm that you are viewing the correct network.

What actually happens after you press “send”? A crypto payment passes through several stages: 1️⃣ Your wallet signs the transaction 2️⃣ The transaction is broadcast to the network 3️⃣ Validators or miners verify it 4️⃣ The transfer is recorded on the blockchain 5️⃣ The recipient sees the confirmed payment Our guide explains the infrastructure behind crypto payment networks — from Layer 1 blockchains and Layer 2 networks to stablecoins and payment processors. Read the guide → https://blog.tothemoon.com/articles/crypto-payment-networks-how-they-work? Tothemoon’s article describes how wallets, blockchains, validators or miners, scaling networks and payment processors work together to execute crypto payments.

Which part of an order book do you look at first? 🔘 Best bid and ask 🔘 Available volume 🔘 Buy and sell walls 🔘 Recent trades 🔘 I rarely use the order book

Educational post What does an order book actually show? An order book displays open buy and sell orders for a trading pair. 🟢 Bids show the prices buyers are currently willing to pay. 🔴 Asks show the prices sellers are currently willing to accept. The orders closest to the current market price usually appear at the top. An order book can help you understand: • available liquidity; • the gap between buyers and sellers; • how much volume is available at each price; • how a larger order might affect execution. Do you check the order book before placing a trade?

Crypto term of the day: liquidity Liquidity describes how easily an asset can be bought or sold without causing a significant change in its market price. A more liquid market generally has: • more active buyers and sellers; • tighter spreads; • greater order-book depth; • smoother execution for larger orders. Low liquidity can make the price move more sharply when a large order is placed. What crypto term should we explain next?

How are you starting the crypto week? 🚀 Ready to trade 📈 Buying gradually 👀 Watching the market 🧊 Staying in stablecoins React with your plan for the week ahead.

Puzzle reveal Yesterday’s answer was: Cross-chain bridge 🌉 A bridge allows assets or data to move between separate blockchain networks. Did you get it right? ✅ Immediately 🤔 After a few guesses ❌ Not this time

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Market Snapshot 🟠 BTC: ~$64.4K 🔵 ETH: ~$1.9K 📈 Market Crypto markets traded within a relatively narrow range this week, with Bitcoin holding near $64K and Ethereum trading around $1.9K. Investors continued to assess liquidity conditions and the outlook for monetary policy after the U.S. Federal Reserve kept its target rate unchanged at 3.50%–3.75% at its July meeting. 🏢 Industry Institutional interest in blockchain-based financial infrastructure remained a key industry theme. Major financial institutions are continuing to develop tokenized assets, stablecoin solutions, tokenized deposits and blockchain-based settlement systems as traditional finance moves further toward onchain infrastructure. 🛡 Security Coldcard manufacturer Coinkite issued a security advisory concerning seeds generated on affected firmware versions. The vulnerability was linked to insufficient randomness during seed generation, with reported losses estimated at more than $89 million and potentially exceeding $100 million. Users of affected devices were advised to update their firmware, generate new seeds and migrate their funds. 🌍 Regulation In the U.S., the CLARITY Act continued to face political and legislative uncertainty as lawmakers debated ethics provisions, banking concerns and the future division of regulatory authority over digital assets. In Europe, MiCA continues to influence how crypto companies structure their operations, compliance frameworks and licensing strategies. The European Commission is also reviewing how the regulation is functioning and has opened consultations on possible future changes. 💡 Trend of the Week Security and infrastructure resilience. This week reinforced that mainstream adoption depends not only on regulation and institutional participation, but also on the security of the underlying infrastructure. As crypto products become more widely used, custody standards, wallet security and operational resilience are becoming increasingly important. That’s this week’s #Tothemoon_Market_Update. See you next Friday!

Friday prediction poll Where will most of your attention go this weekend? 🔘 Bitcoin 🔘 Ethereum 🔘 Altcoins 🔘 Stablecoins 🔘 No charts this weekend

What’s the difference between on-chain and off-chain transactions? Not every crypto action is recorded directly on a blockchain. ⛓️ On-chain transactions are processed and confirmed by the blockchain network. They are publicly verifiable and usually involve network fees and confirmation time. ⚡️ Off-chain transactions take place within a platform’s internal infrastructure. This allows trades and balance updates to be processed faster without recording every action as a separate blockchain transaction. On Tothemoon, trading activity is processed through the platform’s matching engine, while deposits and withdrawals involve the relevant blockchain network. Understanding the difference can help explain why a trade may execute instantly, while a crypto deposit or withdrawal may require confirmations. Read the full guide on the Tothemoon Blog → https://blog.tothemoon.com/articles/on-chain-vs-off-chain-crypto-transactions-whats-the-difference? The replacement is based on Tothemoon’s article explaining how on-chain transfers differ from activity processed through an exchange’s internal systems.

Five years ago today, Ethereum changed how transaction fees work On 5 August 2021, Ethereum activated the London upgrade. It introduced EIP-1559, which separated transaction fees into a protocol-determined base fee and an optional priority fee. The upgrade was designed to make fees more predictable and introduced the burning of the base fee. Have you ever checked how much ETH has been burned by the network? Ethereum records the London upgrade at block 12,965,000 on 5 August 2021 and identifies EIP-1559 as its major fee-market change.

A screenshot is not proof of payment Before treating a crypto payment as complete, check the transaction directly on the relevant blockchain explorer. Verify: ✅ the wallet address; ✅ token and network; ✅ transferred amount; ✅ transaction status; ✅ required confirmations. Screenshots and copied transaction references can be altered. On-chain data provides the actual record.