Come on—an Ethereum Memory ETF surged to a $25B AUM in just three months. The $DRAM narrative just crushed the historical record. Sure, pumps are pumps, and once the liquidity premium has been fully harvested, the real question is whether the on-chain holder distribution can actually support this valuation. Anyway, I’m not interested in chasing this wave of hype.
0x3dC has been shorting MSTR on Hyperliquid and already made $1.2 million. This guy has short positions from MSTR to almost all assets, with total unrealized profits close to $4 million. The problem is that Saylor could start a buyback at any moment, and the shorts would face a wave of forced liquidation risk. If he stubbornly holds until it goes to zero, the only thing he’s eating is time value, not fundamentals. This kind of extreme one-way bet relies more on luck than on the strategy itself, so it isn’t worth worship.
Trump’s 2025 financial disclosures show that he profited by more than $1 billion from cryptocurrency-related businesses—making it one of the most lucrative business operations of his personal career. Whether a president can earn this kind of money from the crypto industry, especially during a period when the broader market is in decline, suggests that the timing of his entry was indeed spot-on. He essentially turned political and business connections into a channel for liquidating into cash. According to on-chain data, the impact of capital flows at this level on market sentiment is far greater than changes in actual supply and demand. Retail followers are probably about to be taught another lesson.
Like the last card on the gambling table that hasn’t been flipped yet—before it even is, the dealer has already set their hand on the chips, ready to collect them. That’s how close the U.S. “Clear Act” is to clearing the Senate—investment bank Jefferies just issued a report saying that if the bill passes, institutional capital will move in at a noticeably faster pace. But resistance is still significant right now. If it gets stuck, the regulatory vacuum will have to keep lingering. The market is basically just waiting for this card to be turned over. As for whether it turns out to be up or down, positions are already out there—whatever happens, it is what it is.
Bitcoin supply held by long-term holders hits a new all-time high—this data is definitely worth pondering. Swan’s Cory Klippsten believes it could mean the market bottom may arrive earlier; the logic is sound. When long-term holdings don’t move, it effectively squeezes selling pressure, and bottom formations often develop during this kind of accumulation phase. However, using on-chain supply metrics alone to judge timing is still too rough—we need to look alongside cost basis and exchange inflows and outflows.
The bottoming flag pattern has been drawn; Bitcoin's dip over the past nearly four months has finally shown a bit of structural signal. But historically, after this kind of pattern appears, it still takes an average of another two to three weeks to truly reach the bottom. Don’t rush to call a reversal until the short positions have been cleaned up.
Lie-flat mode. Anyway, it’s just like this. Tom Lee just smashed $42 million to buy Ethereum, with an average price around 1,900. That kind of buy size isn’t small in terms of liquidity impact on ETH, but the on-chain data doesn’t show any obvious signs of increased leverage. It’s probably just a spot pile. If he wants to buy, let him. Market sentiment is cold as an ice cellar—when you drop a few tens of millions of dollars into it, it doesn’t even make a splash. Retail traders long ago stopped taking the bait, and relying on big shots to hold the fort is useless.
Where is there such a good thing? The broad market has been moving sideways all week between 59,000 and 60,000. In a low-volatility environment, what would normally be support turns into resistance. This pattern has historically appeared in downtrends, and it often isn’t setting up for a power rebound—it’s a liquidity trap. It may look tempting, but before the resistance line is broken, rushing in is more like delivering more depth to the big operators feeding the market.
This airdrop allocation structure is pretty typical. Out of the 67M $ANSEM that Ansem has, nearly 50M was stuffed into 7 addresses. Those 7 addresses then promptly dumped 38M for cashing out 1.29M in profit; the remaining 11.6M is still sitting in hand. Rather than calling it an airdrop, it’s more like a targeted placement of sell-off chips for a few big whales. The remaining 700-plus addresses only got 17.5M, and even the “change” doesn’t really count.
Citadel Securities' data is quite interesting: on their platform, nine of the historical top ten retail trading days are concentrated in the previous month. In May, the average daily options trading volume among retail investors has already hit a record high. June is still pushing higher. Yet the cash position remains at a high level. When you put these data points together, it can only mean that the market's current risk appetite is actually quite conflicted—on the one hand, chasing short-term volatility to play high-frequency games; on the other hand, not daring to truly commit the position. In essence, it's emotion hedging supported by abundant liquidity, not a trend-driven bullish view.
Two whale traders have collectively placed more than $100 million worth of short positions on BTC. One is using 40x leverage to short 900 BTC, and the other uses 20x leverage to short 800 BTC. The position structure is pretty extreme. If these high-leverage, large-size short positions aren’t liquidated in the short term, then either the traders are extremely confident in their market view, or they’re hedging. But if you’re watching this on-chain, this kind of openly declared short targeting a specific level—once it runs into a liquidity squeeze, the liquidation-driven, short-term rebound strength can be quite ugly. It’s hard to know whether to follow it, and even if you want to, that size doesn’t really feel like something retail traders would be able to try to bottom-pick.
Damn—$75 million. Ansem made serious bank on his namesake coin $ANSEM. The pumpfun account “ansemconzimp” directly received an airdrop of 65% of the supply; after cashing out, it still holds 58.7%. That kind of control over the float makes even exchanges afraid to play it this way. How high can $ANSEM still go? It likely depends on when he decides to fully clear out his position.
BLACKROCK has been selling ETH for 7 consecutive days; the last time they bought was June 16—two weeks ago. These institutions are only putting out now and not putting in. On-chain data makes it pretty clear. In the short term, it’s unlikely that ETH can be pumped just because of them. So keep watching when this thing turns back and starts picking up shares again.
Like a well-intentioned white-hat hacker who, after a wallet has been emptied, goes back and proactively rebuilds the ledgers—this vulnerability incident SecondFi carried out in the Cardano ecosystem is pretty strongly flavored with “white hat.” They completed forensics in two days, cut a snapshot, and prepared to roll back the assets; the entire response window was squeezed down to two weeks. The key is the accuracy of how they finally restore the assets—whether they revalue them using snapshot prices or return them by the original coins back along the original route. Only the latter truly tests the real capability of on-chain governance and contract upgrades.
The technical logic behind the glyphosate case is actually quite solid—EPA’s pesticide registration process includes a complete toxicology assessment workflow, including chronic carcinogenicity animal studies and human epidemiological data. They concluded that glyphosate does not pose a carcinogenic risk to humans. During Trump’s tenure, the Department of Justice defended this argument at the Supreme Court on behalf of Bayer/Monsanto. In essence, it’s an extreme application of the federal preemption principle: once federal agencies have reached a final scientific determination, states can’t use labeling disclosures to sidestep that decision and fight another round of public-opinion battles. However, that is separate from whether the EPA itself was influenced by Bayer’s lobbying—the technical argument and political motivations should be evaluated separately.
Dogecoin and HYPE are lagging this week, and the AI sector’s wealth-draining effect is obvious. After money pulled out of chip stocks, it mostly went into traditional equities. The equal-weight S&P 500 has also made new highs. Crypto hasn’t benefited at all—ETH is down 8% on the weekly chart, and meme coins are even worse. Looking at this trend, part of me is tempted to buy the dip in HYPE. The on-chain data is indeed solid, but with market sentiment like this, going in would likely mean taking a few more hits.
Oh, the bill that mentions raising the federal minimum wage to $25 has just entered the Senate. But the baseline is still $7.25—unchanged since 2009. People have been arguing for years about $15, and now they’re jumping straight to $25. Plainly put, it’s inflation that’s tugged the baseline up by a notch. But anyone who understands a bit about things on-chain knows that any forced price anchoring will ultimately find its real settlement price in the secondary market: either companies cut jobs to hedge, or black-market wages get discounted. Protocol mechanics won’t stop working just because the proposal has a certain number.
Reconstitution of the Russell 2000 index: Bloom Energy, a stock with a market cap of 85 billion, was removed—falling 18.5% in a single day. In theory, when a passive index removes a constituent, the liquidity shock is obvious, but someone insisted on holding their position and pretending nothing happened after the announcement—so this drop is the tuition. From a technical perspective, it’s purely a liquidity-driven selloff within expectations, not much to do with fundamentals. Just sit back and watch the drama.
More on time than a bricklayer, another 2,609 BTC (US$157 million) has been pushed from an anonymous wallet into Coinbase Institutional. Same old script—but every time I see the transfer records from this address, I can’t help but laugh. This batch has been accumulated since 2018; the average cost price is only a few thousand dollars, right? Now they’re unloading it to institutions at nearly $70k a coin—real masters at timing the exit with the best liquidity.
The big BTC holders on that end have been fiddling again: 3,968 bitcoins were transferred from Coinbase Institutional to a new address, worth $239 million. With this scale of cross-platform cold transfer, it’s very likely that the custodian is swapping wallets internally or handling an OTC settlement—has nothing to do with retail investors’ sentiment at all. After looking at on-chain data for so long, that’s the feeling: when hundreds of millions of dollars are moved around, the market will still range sideways if it’s going to range sideways. Do whatever you want.