Fed funds: 3.75%-4%. The 10-year Treasury closed at 5.05%. That's a gap of more than a full point, so the bond market is already tightening on its own. Two Fed members still voted to hike this meeting, and December is priced at ~85%. Bitcoin trades the long end of that curve, so 5.05% is the number to watch. bitcoin:native

75% of the Bitcoin liquidations in the last 24h were shorts. The push back above 80k came from shorts being forced to close. Real spot buying still has to show up, and the average US spot ETF buyer sits near 84k, still underwater. Fed today. PCE tomorrow. $11B options expiry Friday. Chop chop chop. bitcoin:native

874k $BTC were bought between 81k and 82.5k. That's the real wall today, bigger than the Fed. A pause is 95% priced. Most of those buyers just want out at break-even, so every push into that zone meets sellers. What Warsh says about December decides if we chew through it. 🤝

Zcash turns 10 today. $ZEC sits at #10 with a $22.3B market cap. That’s more than $LINK, $NEAR and $AVAX combined. I hold all three. I don’t own a single ZEC. Last 7 days: those three fell 4% to 9%. ZEC rose ~4%. Same 21M cap as Bitcoin, 81% already mined.

Standard Chartered sees Sky 5x by 2028 from the price it trades at today, and my old Maker trade sits right on the chart. Full $SKY breakdown: 0:00 A bank says 5x 1:20 DeFi's federal bank 3:00 What holders get 4:44 The bear case 5:36 Weekly + daily 6:39 My plan

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$PUMP made $44M in revenue over the last 30 days. $HYPE made $70M. That's 64% of Hyperliquid's revenue on 11% of its circulating market cap ($1.97B vs $17.4B). Pumpfun ranks 6th in revenue among 275 tracked projects, Hyperliquid 4th. Today the pumpfun app added TON support with USDC payments.

2.11 longs for every short. That's the average long/short ratio across Bitget, Binance, OKX, Gate and Bybit today, the most crowded long since July. It built up while $BTC slid all week. When the crowd leans this hard into weakness, the flush tends to come before the bounce.

Polygon now holds 37 U.S. money transmitter licenses across 48 states, its entry into the market Visa and Stripe run. Full $POL breakdown: 0:00 Licensed in 48 states 0:21 POL and Bitcoin 1:06 The Coinme deal 3:04 What reaches holders 5:14 Weekly + daily 7:16 The pool

Ethereum kept $5.45M in revenue over the last 30 days. Sky kept $28.8M. Lido kept $5.08M on a $312M market cap, as much as Ethereum on a valuation over 900x smaller. The cash is made one floor up, in the apps, and $ETH is still priced 175x above $SKY. If money rotates into DeFi, that gap is the trade.

Alt season needs Bitcoin to get boring first, and it’s nowhere near boring. Total market cap is down 3.7% today, $BTC is down 0.9%, dominance sits at 59.5%. When things get ugly, money still hides in Bitcoin. Until dominance rolls over, alt bounces get sold.