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#AI基建融资升温，英伟达英特尔路径分化 The AI race has entered a capital-intensive phase, and the market's focus is no longer just on chip performance but also on who has the greater ability to raise funds for expansion. NVIDIA, together with BlackRock, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and other institutions, plans to establish an AI computing power financing platform to leverage over $500 billion in third-party capital long-term, providing funding for customers to build data centers and purchase GPUs. This essentially means NVIDIA is using external capital to expand customer purchasing power: the financial pressure is mainly borne by financing institutions and customers, while NVIDIA continues to earn from GPU sales and CUDA ecosystem expansion. Intel has chosen to directly issue common stock, increasing its financing scale from $15 billion to $20 billion, with funds allocated for capital expenditures, working capital, AI chips, and advanced manufacturing. Both companies are raising money for AI infrastructure, but their positions are completely different: NVIDIA is helping customers leverage to expand market demand; Intel is supplementing capital with its own equity to buy time for building factories, expanding production, and catching up technologically, while also facing equity dilution pressure. AI infrastructure is becoming a long-term competition with massive capital scale. The next phase's winners must not only have technology and customers but also the ability to mobilize capital. NVIDIA uses its ecosystem to finance expansion, while Intel still has to pay for its own expansion. $NVDA $INTC #AI #美股 #科技股

I've always had a conflicted feeling about the CRV coin. Saying that no one uses Curve anymore isn't quite right. It still manages over a billion dollars in funds and generated about $2.06 million in fees in the last 30 days. Among a bunch of old coins left with only communities and roadmaps, this counts as a solid business. But to say CRV is severely undervalued, I don't dare to conclude that quickly. CRV is currently around $0.26, up about 27% in a week. Many people see that it used to be over ten dollars and think it's ridiculously cheap now. But a low coin price doesn't equal a low valuation. CRV currently has a circulating supply of about 1.547 billion, a total supply of about 2.409 billion, and a theoretical max supply of 3.03 billion. Comparing today's CRV price directly with historical prices under early supply conditions isn't very meaningful. I think the real problem with CRV has never been whether Curve has business. It's whether the money Curve earns can sustainably translate into CRV's value. Simply holding CRV doesn't automatically grant protocol revenue. You need to lock CRV into veCRV to gain governance rights and corresponding fees; the maximum lock period can be up to four years. The advantage of this design is that those willing to lock long-term are more tightly aligned with the protocol's interests. The downside is obvious: the mechanism is too complex, making it hard for ordinary people to have a "buy and hold" experience. Plus, CRV emissions have always existed; while the protocol generates income, it also needs to incentivize liquidity with tokens, which easily leads to a situation where the business is good but the coin price disappoints. So now when I look at CRV, I'm not too concerned about when it will return to $1. I'm more focused on three things: Whether Curve's real income can continue to grow; Whether crvUSD can become a stable source of business; Whether the growth rate of protocol income can gradually surpass token incentives and supply pressure. Also, security risks can't be ignored. In March 2026, the sDOLA/crvUSD LlamaLend market still experienced an oracle manipulation event, causing about 822,500 crvUSD borrower equity losses. My view is simple: Curve is not a dead protocol, and CRV is not a bargain you can understand at a glance. It has products, users, and income. But it also has emissions, lock-up thresholds, complex governance, and security risks. If in the future Curve can rely less on "issuing tokens for liquidity" and more on trading fees, lending, and crvUSD to sustain itself, CRV might truly see a value reappraisal. Until then, I'm willing to pay attention. But I won't automatically think that the current 26 cents is a golden opportunity just because it was over ten dollars before. The biggest fear for old projects isn't that no one remembers them. It's that everyone remembers how glorious they once were but no one seriously calculates how much they actually earn today. $CRV #Curve #DeFi #Ethereum #CryptoMarket

$OKB is really strong. Last night, $BTC dropped 2 points before the CPI data release, but OKB was basically unaffected and even rose, showing an independent trend. 1. A few days ago, after the non-farm payroll data boosted rate cut expectations, OKB surged 10%. The normal profit-taking correction from the day before yesterday has ended, and judging by the current momentum, it clearly wants to push higher again. 2. From the current perspective, as long as the price doesn't fall below 88, the overall trend remains upward. Moreover, this is an independent trend relying only on the broader market, X Layer, and the OKX ecosystem. Although it will be affected by the CPI data, it has the potential to maintain an independent trend. 3. Friends who haven't bought OKB can consider building some base positions; there will be opportunities to perform. But don't hold too heavy a position. Those who want to accumulate can choose the low points when everyone is panicking. I previously accumulated some OKB by participating in the flash earning event, so now I feel completely at ease. #财报观察员：AI基建财报接力登场

Today Samsung rose 5 points, while Hynix hasn't even gained 1 point. Recently, Hynix's performance has consistently been weaker than Samsung's, really quite a difference. In June, Hynix's market value even surpassed Samsung's, but now Samsung's market value is $1.1 trillion, and Hynix's market value is $710 billion. Hynix has dropped too much.

$DOS Short-term violent surge, single-day increase over 33%. From the market perspective, this wave of rise is a capital-driven trend. The chips near the previous bottom of 0.32 were fully washed out, and short-term incremental funds concentrated to enter, with volume expanding and continuous large bullish candlesticks. Short-term moving averages are in a bullish arrangement, and the buying sentiment is quickly ignited. Small-cap coin trends mostly do not rely on fundamental implementation but more on rotating market hotspots and concentrated speculative capital driving the price up. The characteristic of this type of trend is rapid rise, but the risk of chip realization also increases simultaneously. The short-term upper high of 0.535 becomes the first resistance level, with huge risk in chasing the high. Once funds exit, the correction speed will also be very fast. When participating in such small coins, focus closely on changes in trading volume. Volume expansion without price increase often signals a short-term peak. Do not blindly chase at high levels.

$BTC brothers and sisters, it's a long story. I am a victim of altcoins. When I first entered the crypto world, I saw people getting rich here and there, some making dozens of times their money. I heard from others that as long as it's spot trading, it's safe. I invested all my funds, credit cards, and online loans all in Dogecoin, Pepe, Inscription, Bull Head. Who knew this year they would drop hundreds of times, tens of times, almost losing everything. Currently, I'm overdue on payments, and the online loan companies are harassing my company leaders and colleagues. I might get fired. This is a painful lesson. This time, I work at the company during the day, earning about 5000 yuan a month, and at night I deliver food. I bought OKB. I can only sleep about 3 to 4 hours a day. My head hurts every day. The cars and trees on the roadside seem to be shaking. I'm really tired. This world is like this; poor people don't even have the right to complain. If I could choose again, I wouldn't touch any altcoins. The only way for poor people to turn their lives around is to not treat themselves as ordinary people. It rained today, I fell, the side mirror broke, and my hand was injured, but I still have to grit my teeth and get up to keep delivering. The platform only cares if you're late or not; it doesn't care about your life or death. If you're late, they deduct money. I'm really tired now. I don't know if I can get a case, and I don't know if this OKB can change the trajectory of my life. I have tried hard. I'm not a gambler; I just want to make money quickly to give my parents a good life. Enough said, brothers, keep delivering orders. I hope everyone learns from my lesson, a painful lesson: always only hold BTC, ETH, and OKB.

Most people say that staking 42 million ETH is a supply positive, but I don't see it that way. The staked amount has surpassed 42 million, accounting for nearly 35% of the total supply. Many accounts say: ETH is becoming increasingly scarce, supply is locked, and price pressure is reduced. I understand this logic; on the surface, it does hold true. But if you look closely at what has happened with Ethereum this year, you'll find that behind the surge in staking rate is a more complex, even somewhat ironic story. On August 4th, Justin Drake, along with five other Ethereum Foundation researchers, submitted EIP-8361. The core mechanism is "Tapered Issuance Burn": as the staking ratio rises, the proportion of validator rewards that are burned also increases, until the staked amount reaches 50% of the total supply (about 60.25 million ETH), at which point new consensus layer issuance drops to zero. This proposal made me think for a long time. On the surface, EIP-8361 addresses the problem of "over-staking leading to centralization"—indeed, when 35% of ETH is locked in staking contracts, and Lido alone accounts for over 30% of validator share, the centralization risk is real. But here’s the question: who is most disadvantaged by this proposal? The ones most disadvantaged are those currently staking. If you stake ETH today, you earn about 3.5%-4% annualized yield. Once EIP-8361 passes and staking rates continue to climb, your rewards will be automatically diluted by the system until they reach zero at the 50% threshold. In other words, the more people stake, the faster they push the critical point where their own rewards diminish. It’s a bit like the story of everyone desperately pouring water into a pool, unaware that the pool has an ever-growing leak. Now, regarding the DeFi side. Ethereum staking’s base yield has long been regarded as the "risk-free rate anchor" in the DeFi world—interest rate pricing for lending protocols like Aave and Compound is, to some extent, referenced to this anchor. If EIP-8361 pushes this base yield down or even to zero, liquid staking projects that rely on Ethereum staking yields as their product narrative (Lido, Rocket Pool) and LRT protocols (EigenLayer’s EIGEN staking logic) will face valuation shocks. Community controversy over EIP-8361 is still significant. On the Ethereum Magicians forum, some voices directly say: the proposal was submitted just before the Hegotá upgrade deadline, leaving seriously insufficient time for community discussion. This is not an ordinary parameter adjustment; it is a fundamental change to Ethereum’s monetary policy, yet it was pushed through like an emergency bill. This procedural issue alone deserves separate caution. My current judgment is: the probability of EIP-8361 being implemented in 2026 is low, but its very existence already casts a question mark over ETH’s "monetary expectations"—what exactly will Ethereum’s future issuance policy be? Who decides? This uncertainty creates friction for institutions allocating ETH. This is my understanding at this stage, but I leave myself a 30% chance to reverse because if EIP-8361 passes in a modified form with a sufficiently long transition period (the proposal mentions 18 months), the impact might be milder than I expect. For those following ETH staking mechanisms, do you think the impact on the DeFi side will be more severe than the consensus layer issuance itself, or not so much? #现货ETF资金分化，BTC卖压仍在

Zero downtime throughout, OKX "moved" its core trading system to another country! OKX founder and CEO Star announced on X that the platform completed a cross-border core trading system migration last week. During the entire process, there was no perceptible downtime on the user side; the main impact was a brief increase in trading latency, lasting about 30 to 40 minutes. This fully demonstrates the strong capabilities of the OKX team. The challenge lies in the crypto market running 24/7 without the maintenance windows available after traditional financial market closures. The exchange migration involved not only servers and related code but also order status, account balances, market data, risk control, and API connections. Any data desynchronization at any stage could cause duplicate orders, abnormal asset displays, or even trigger erroneous liquidations! From the results, the brief latency indicates the migration was not completely "invisible," but the system remained available throughout, with no interruption to data or trading, which is still a highly challenging engineering feat for a large trading platform. The team believes this might be the industry's first migration of this scale under similar business conditions. The migration did not disclose the specific countries involved nor the regulatory or business reasons behind it, so excessive speculation is unwarranted. However, this reflects OKX's efforts to strengthen cross-regional deployment, disaster recovery switching, and infrastructure resilience. For exchanges, handling traffic during market surges is just the first hurdle; the real long-term operational strength lies in the system's ability to upgrade and migrate without downtime! $OKB

🔥#PositionManagement 02 Assuming a principal of 1000u, 10x leverage full short position, how to allocate funds: 1. At least reserve 100% upside space, a 100% increase without liquidation is the bottom line; 2. Based on 100% increase, 10x leverage, the position can be up to 100u; 3. So how to allocate this 100u: a. At any position you want to buy, set 20u as the upper limit; b. At 50% increase, add 20u to lower the average price; c. If there is no rapid short-term surge, absolutely do not add more positions; 🚫 d. If there is a rapid short-term surge, add the last 60u; Use the length of the 15-minute candlestick as the judgment standard; a long candlestick is more than 3 times the length of a normal 15-minute candlestick, the longer the better, this is a signal of a downtrend, and you can heavily invest at this time. If you want to reduce risk, then invest half, with at least 200% error tolerance. ❇️No matter how much you buy, even 10u, always set a stop loss and develop good trading habits❇️ 🔴Every one of my short positions eventually falls, position reduced by 50%, this time it will definitely break 300,000, so where did I go wrong? 1. I always short on the left side, the position is always bad. 2. Overweight positions are the fundamental reason, setting the target too high; earning 800u daily, 150,000 a month, is not little. 3. Greed leads to loss of control, actually should be content and happy. ✅️Areas to improve: Be patient and short on the right side