Today I saw two groups of people at once. One group was showing off: “22 years old, A9, Binance life single-trade +481%, and the mental block is broken.” The other group was admitting defeat: those beaten down by stocks, those who lost all the money inside the circle, those trying to break even in A-shares and then rushing to liquidate, and that line: “the most beautiful story hooks the most family members.” In the same market, some people feel like they’ve figured it out, while others feel like they’ve failed. The difference is often not in the technicals—it’s in position sizing and timing. To be honest: when other people are bragging about profits, it’s easiest to get carried away and chase the highs; when you’re the one losing, it’s easiest to stubbornly hold on and wait to break even. Both extremes hurt people. Money can never be made without limit, but it can definitely be lost all. Keeping your principal matters more than proving you’re smart. #加密 #交易 #risk
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See a set of data from LAB: cumulative fees break through $12 million.
Honestly, it’s more solid for the protocol to continuously generate real costs than for a bunch of “roadmap by hype” to talk big. Fees equal real users paying through trading and paying fees—these are hard metrics.
LAB’s approach is to cram trading tools and proxy tools into a single entry point, aiming to become the “starting point for everything on-chain.” The direction is right: traders hate it when tools are scattered everywhere. A home that can connect charting, placing orders, and strategy is naturally sticky.
But high fees don’t necessarily mean token stability. Revenue is on the project side—whether it can be used to benefit token holders, and what mechanisms are designed, is another matter. When evaluating a project, don’t just watch the excitement—look more at the cash flow.
A screenshot of an open position makes the two-sided nature of the futures market very clear: within the same account, some trades are floating with gains of dozens of times, while others are floating losses approaching the liquidation threshold. Leverage ranges from 2x to 40x.
High leverage can amplify profits, but it can also—at the same speed—consume your principal. What truly determines long-term survivability isn’t a single streak of extraordinary gains, but this: whether each position can be controlled, whether there’s room left in the margin, and whether stop-loss discipline has been clearly defined in advance.
The market doesn’t only reward people who are right about direction—it rewards those who can control risk.
60-minute value investing classics, condensed into this one sentence you should remember in these 6 minutes: first protect your principal, then talk about making money.
Graham divides people into two types—"investors" and "speculators." The difference is simple: if the exchange closes tomorrow, can your position still be redeemed for your principal? If you can’t answer that, then you’re speculating. He said that 90% of speculators eventually become “chives.”
The same applies to the crypto market. Full leverage, chasing hot spots, and entering/exiting based on news are essentially speculation rather than investing. The discipline from the book still holds today: ① Protect principal before chasing returns; ② Only use money that won’t affect your life, and manage position sizing—if you can accept a loss of 100,000, then invest only 200,000; ③ Barbell strategy: most capital seeks stability, and a smaller portion is used to chase higher returns; even if it fails, it won’t harm the whole.
In the end, what matters in investing is never predicting the market—it’s keeping yourself under control.
Tesla announced this week: the global production of its 10 millionth vehicle rolled off the line at the Fremont factory. And just 6 years ago, this same factory produced its 1 millionth vehicle.
Ten times in six years. In any industry, this is a rare industrial scaling speed.
Look at it from another on-chain perspective: when traditional giants at the scale of Apple and Tesla can have their equity and assets tokenized, traded, and circulated on-chain, the RWA narrative is no longer just a niche experiment—it directly connects on-chain capital with real-world industrial production capacity, cash flows, and brand value.
Tokenized stocks don’t add another speculative asset to the chain; instead, they make it possible— for the first time— for on-chain capital to reach, at scale, the growth curve of traditional giants. Until this path is opened, there’s still a wall between on-chain and TradFi; once it’s opened, the boundary begins to blur.
The last stretch took only 9 months. From $0 to $1 trillion took more than four decades, but the final $1 trillion happened in less than a year—this kind of acceleration, behind it, is the re-expansion of global liquidity, not just the business performance of any single company.
Consider it from a different angle: when a $5 trillion giant like Apple can be discussed in terms of "on-chain trading" and "tokenization," the interface between traditional assets and the on-chain world is no longer a niche experiment. Narratives like RWA and tokenized stocks, at their core, move real-world cash flows and equity exposure onto the target chain, allowing on-chain capital to directly touch the growth of traditional giants.
When macro liquidity is loose, traditional assets and crypto assets often stand on the same side. The difference is that on the on-chain side, volatility moves faster and exposure is more flexible.
A real screenshot of a contract position: $SNDK perpetual, 10X cross all-in, entry price 1274.6, mark price 1096.0, and the floating loss is already at -161.09%.
The liquidation price is 811.98, which is roughly about 26% of room away from the then-current price. In the screenshot, "Unrealized P&L -275 USDT" may not look too big, but the margin is only a little over 170 USDT—which shows that high leverage amplifies volatility by nearly 17 times.
It also makes one thing clear again: in contract trading, judging direction is only half of it—the other half is position sizing and stop-loss discipline. With 10X leverage, a 10% adverse move can wipe out the principal; if you don’t set a stop-loss, when the floating loss turns into something you can only wait to bounce back from, emotions have already taken over the decision-making.
Not promoting it, not mocking it—just a reminder: before entering, think clearly about how much loss you can tolerate, not just how much you could potentially make.
Babylon’s TBV (Trustless Bitcoin Vaults) is still in the testnet phase, but the ecosystem behind it is already very strong.
Early investments are backed by a16z Crypto; signature-layer security is handled by Ledger—that is, the cold-signing hardware layer; and GoMining can even directly inject real hashpower assets worth up to 1000 BTC into the vault.
Why is this combo worth watching? Because it brings together “self-custody + cryptographic proofs + institutional-grade security”: native BTC is locked on-chain in Taproot scripts—no cross-chain, no wrapping. When using Aave v4 to borrow stablecoins, the funds remain in your own UTXO at all times. Each vault is independent—not pooled, not re-collateralized, with clean risk isolation.
Building long-term infrastructure, not a toy that just rides the hype. Follow @BabylonLabs_io; the ecosystem core is $BABY #baby
Binance’s tokenized stock product bStocks launched 7 weeks ago, with AUM growing from $5.6 million on its first day June 11 to over $500 million on July 28.
The slope of the funding curve indicates that participants are not simply engaging in short-term trading, but are using it as a channel to hold real equity exposure. Tokenized stocks are becoming a new interface between traditional equity markets and on-chain assets.
Regulators send clear signals to the crypto market: the SEC Chair makes public remarks, saying they are ready to roll out a rules framework that will bring clarity to the crypto market.
For the industry, regulatory certainty has always been a hard prerequisite for long-term capital to move in. The clearer the rules, the bolder institutions are in allocating capital, and the market is more likely to shift from “policy games” to “value pricing.”
Of course, the legislative and implementation timeline remains full of variables, and this path can only be assessed as it unfolds. But the bigger direction—mainstream markets bringing crypto under a framework that can be regulated—is becoming increasingly clear.
The forward P/E spread across the semiconductor sector is very wide: for storage-type leaders, valuations are squeezed into single digits, while design- and IP-related names still get priced at several tens of times.
This actually highlights one thing: low valuation doesn’t necessarily mean cheap, and high valuation doesn’t necessarily mean expensive. The key is where you are in the cycle, the business model, and the sustainability of earnings.
Crypto assets are the same: different sectors and different narrative stages are priced using completely different logic. Instead of judging “expensive vs. cheap” by a single number, it’s better to go back to cash flow, network effects, and the cycle position itself.
Legendary investor Nick Sleep’s four investment pillars of the NOMAD Fund—still works word for word in the crypto market:
① Focus on the destination, ignore short-term noise. He believes that the vast majority of same-day information is “trash with a very short shelf life that rots quickly,” and that Wall Street has massively overhyped it. In the crypto market, the noise can only get denser—block the signal shouts, check fewer order books, and keep your eyes on what matters ten years from now.
② Share economies of scale. Great companies share profits with users, continuously cut costs, and create a “the cheaper it is → the more people use it → the cheaper it gets” flywheel. In crypto, this maps to infrastructure with stronger network effects, lower transaction fees, and stickier users.
③ Less is more. Later on, he only holds a concentrated position in a few companies he truly understands. In crypto, it’s better to hold two or three assets you genuinely understand than to randomly buy.
④ Can hold it. He says what often causes returns to leak away isn’t buying the wrong thing—it’s selling too early. Keeping good assets steady is often more astute than constantly fiddling.
Every day there are stories in the market, but the logic that’s actually valuable never changes. 📌 The above content is shared as investment thinking only and does not constitute any investment advice.
Some analysis compares this round of downturn in the South Korean stock market with the 2008 financial crisis: it is claimed that the KOSPI fell by about 41% in just 40 days (the 2008 drop was 57% in one year). Approximately 2.5 quadrillion won has been wiped out from its peak. It once fell more than 10% in a single day, triggering a circuit breaker. This year, circuit breakers have been triggered nine times (the index’s 26-year history has seen only 15 triggers in total). Its ranking has also slipped from sixth globally to eleventh.
These kinds of extreme fluctuations are a reminder of one thing: when panic sentiment or liquidity tightening kicks in, risky assets such as stocks and crypto often come under pressure in the same direction. Managing position sizes, keeping ammunition, and not letting fear set the pace is more important than trying to guess the bottom. The market is always short of opportunities; what it lacks is people who can survive until the opportunities appear.
The above is only an observation of market phenomena and does not constitute any investment advice.
Korean retail investors are truly banding together this time—In July, the forced liquidation amount reached 344.2 billion KRW, with more than 300,000 accounts being fully closed out by brokers. Some people even ended up owing money to their brokers, so they collectively took to filing complaints.
In the crypto market, stories of leveraged liquidations are essentially replayed every day: amid extreme volatility, accounts using high leverage are often wiped out within minutes. Managing position size, keeping enough margin, and using leverage that stays within your ability to withstand losses are the prerequisites for making it to the next round.
Market conditions can be reset, but if your principal goes to zero, there won’t be a next time. The above is only an observation of market phenomena and does not constitute any investment advice.
In the stories of the Three Kingdoms, the people who truly achieve great things are often not the ones who act in a rush, but those who can maintain their tempo amid chaos—see the bigger picture clearly, then move. The same is true in the market: the most expensive costs are, more often than not, caused by being driven around by emotions. Strategic patience isn’t about giving up—it’s about holding your framework when you should wait, and then decisively getting out once the situation becomes clear. Do one less step, and you may end up going much farther.
In the crypto market, the prerequisite for making money is often to first quiet yourself down. There’s no shortage of noise to filter out: offhand calls in groups, pointless comparisons of other people’s returns, and the trivial fuss on the chart that causes sudden panic and hype. Keeping your own trading framework and rhythm intact is more important than chasing every hot trend. Redirect your attention back to your own positions and logic—look at the commotion one less time and stay a little more clear-headed.
Projecting historical cycle lengths using an analytical framework: bear markets last about 365 days, bull markets about 1,064 days. Based on this model, the bottom of the current cycle and the starting point of the next cycle point to around October 2026. This kind of “cycle clock” idea has been circulating in the crypto community for a long time, but historical patterns do not necessarily mean they will repeat—macroeconomic conditions, liquidity, and regulatory variables differ every time. Treat it as a perspective for observation only; the specific timing still needs the market to play out, and it does not constitute any investment advice.
A trust assumption that can’t be avoided when it comes to traditional BTC lending is: either you hand the coins to a centralized custodian, or you swap them for wrapped cross-chain tokens. In essence, you’re betting that “some institution will not do evil.” What Babylon’s Trustless Bitcoin Vaults (TBV) aims to do is to replace that “trust in a person” with “trust in mathematics.” In principle, BTC would no longer be transferred to any custodian; instead, it would be locked into Taproot scripts on the Bitcoin mainnet. Whether it can be lent out as stablecoins on Aave v4 would no longer depend on manual approvals by a platform, but on verification by a cryptographic proof system like BABE: if the on-chain state matches, it goes through; if it doesn’t, it’s rejected. Trust shifts from “do you trust this company?” to “do you accept this zero-knowledge proof system?” For holders, the significance isn’t merely having another lending route—it’s finally being able to generate liquidity from dormant BTC without giving up self-custody, with the entire process auditable and tamper-proof. This is also the direction that @BabylonLabs_io is pushing forward with $BABY . #baby