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XRP is currently trading in a narrow range above $1.10. The bulls are holding this key support, but upside movement is being capped by the pressure zone above $1.15.

The technical structure is very clear: $1.10 is short-term support, and $1.15 to $1.28 is a dense supply zone. An effective breakout above $1.28 is needed to open up room for moves above $1.35.

But the biggest variable for XRP right now isn’t the technicals—it’s the CLARITY Act. After the SEC dropped its appeal, legal uncertainty around XRP has been significantly reduced. Multiple markets worldwide have approved XRP ETFs in succession, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore is testing the XRP Ledger for cross-border settlement—these are real fundamental improvements.

The issue is: even if fundamentals are improving, as long as the CLARITY Act remains unresolved, the ceiling for institutional large-scale allocations is limited. Without a clear regulatory framework, compliant institutions can’t place XRP into major allocation pools.

The revised text was released on July 22, indicating that the legislative process is moving forward. The remaining window is the next three to four weeks. After the August recess, this matter will most likely be pushed to 2027.

If the bill passes, XRP’s rebound will be the strongest among major coins, because the factors suppressing its valuation would be removed most completely. If it’s delayed, the difficulty of holding $1.10 will increase over time.

Do you currently hold XRP? Are you waiting, or have you already reduced your position? Share your view.
$XRP

#xrp

Honestly, there hasn’t been much going on in the market lately. While I was idle, I ended up organizing my hardware wallet backups and pulled out a piece of BTC I bought back in 2023 that I haven’t touched since. For these three years, I’ve done nothing—I just watched it go up and down. A few times I thought about moving it into some kind of financial product, but I backed out—not because I thought the returns were low, but because I didn’t dare hand over control of the private keys.
After I once fell into a trap involving a centralized platform, my mental line in the sand became: I’d rather not make money than let my coins leave my own hands. This is probably a common state for many long-term coin holders. You may not lose on paper, but the opportunity cost is paid for in a very real way.
So the “Trustless Bitcoin Vaults” that Babylon is pushing right now hits exactly that point. Native BTC is locked on the Bitcoin blockchain—no wrapping, no cross-chain, no addresses going to any custodian. Then it’s used by taking out stablecoins from Aave. Recently, Ledger also integrated native signing so that signature authorization is completed directly on the hardware device.
In plain terms, what it’s trying to solve isn’t the old question of “Can BTC earn interest?” It’s “Can I make it work without giving up control?”
I understand the logic, but understanding it doesn’t mean I’m about to jump in immediately. The mechanism is only just now up and running; large-scale adversarial scenarios haven’t been tested, and regulatory classification is still unclear. My BTC position will still stay put for now—but this time it’s a conscious choice to keep it lying there, different from the earlier kind of not daring to move it. The nature of it isn’t quite the same.
@BabylonLabs_io $BABY
#baby

July 22: XRP jumps 4% to $1.13, and the daily chart is currently testing the upper trendline of a symmetrical triangle that has been building for weeks.
Two signals—technical and fundamental—appeared on the same day, which deserves serious attention.
Technical: XRP has been trading in a range of $1.05 to $1.24 for about three weeks, with the triangle converging. The breakout above the upper trendline on July 22 with increased volume is the first technical confirmation. But confirmation still requires a daily close above the $1.24 to $1.28 supply-dense zone—where pressure from early buyers’ break-even/exit orders sits. A sustained breakout needs ongoing buy support and isn’t something that can be completed in just one or two days.
Fundamental: This year, the CLARITY Act’s probability jumped from a historical low to 43%. The catalyst is market chatter that Trump has agreed to the ethical terms—an ongoing key dispute. If the bill is truly advanced before the August recess, XRP is one of the most directly benefited assets. Years of SEC legal uncertainty have been the core factor suppressing XRP’s valuation; passage of the bill would effectively remove that overhang.
Target levels: A valid breakout above $1.28. The next resistance is at $1.35; if $1.35 is also absorbed, it opens up room toward $1.50 and above.
Risks: There is currently no official text confirmed for the CLARITY Act news. If it turns out to be rumor or the bill is delayed again, the technical pattern could quickly retrace without fundamental support.
Are you seeing XRP as part of this breakout confirmation? Share your view.
$XRP

#xrp

Early this morning, another incident occurred in the Gulf of Oman.
The M/T Lavine tanker made four attempts to break through the port blockade line. On its fourth attempt, the U.S. military fired into its engine room and struck it. This is the second merchant vessel hit this month—the previous one was the Belma, on July 15, which attempted to sail toward Halk Island in Hormozgan province.
One figure shows the true state of affairs in the Strait of Hormuz: on July 21, only three ships passed all day—about 150 per day in the pre-war period.
At the same time, U.S. embassies across the Middle East began issuing reminders to American citizens in the area: options for leaving may start to be restricted. This wording is the standard diplomatic signal issued before an escalation.
The most direct implications for markets today:
Brent fell today from a high of $100.88 to $96.78—down about 4% for the week, and the first time oil prices have fallen this week. The market believes today’s pullback is more of a technical correction and weekend risk-aversion liquidation, not a real sign that the situation is easing.
Blockade enforcement is tightening, but the diplomatic backchannels are still active—Oman is still mediating, Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs remains engaged, and whether the Islamabad dialogue window will reopen on July 23 has not yet been confirmed.
For BTC: oil prices falling to $96.78 → inflation expectations cool in the short term → macro pressure before the July 29 FOMC eases slightly → BTC may have some room for technical breathing space over the weekend. But the situation hasn’t fundamentally changed; any unexpected weekend development could push oil prices back above $100. #美军向闯伊朗封锁油轮开火
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Two weeks ago, the market was saying July would be the best month for BTC in four years, and the Nasdaq has risen by nearly 50% this year.
Today, the Nasdaq 100 recorded its first back-to-back weeks of declines since March.
The S&P 500 also closed down for a second consecutive week—the last time this happened was in March of this year.
Let’s lay out this week’s numbers:
The Nasdaq fell again today, with a weekly drop of about 2.9%. Intel’s earnings revenue beat expectations by a wide margin, yet its stock is still down nearly 8%. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOX) fell another 3.1% today, and since the June 22 peak, it has dropped 22%.
Last week’s stars were Alphabet and Tesla—$797 billion in market value vanished in a single day; this week’s star is Intel—good earnings can’t save it.
This is the most direct signal from today’s market: when stocks keep falling even on earnings that beat expectations, the selling pressure isn’t coming from the results—it’s coming from valuation and a renewed macro re-pricing.
There’s a small turn for the better today: Brent has pulled back from $100.88 to $96.78, marking its first decline this week. The fall in oil has eased worries about inflation expectations, giving BTC a bit of breathing room going into Monday.
Monday, July 29, the FOMC—rates will almost certainly stay unchanged, but Waller’s statement will determine the direction of the Nasdaq and BTC over the next two weeks. #纳斯达克100录得三月来首次连周下跌
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Fundstrat digital asset strategist Sean Farrell said something on July 16 that I think is worth taking seriously—"In history, when ETH outperforms, it’s a signal of a broader crypto market recovery."
The evidence he cited: during the 2022 bear market, ETH began outperforming BTC months before BTC reached its final bottom. This time, since the beginning of July, ETH’s gains have already outpaced BTC; if the historical pattern repeats, it could mean a broader market recovery may show up within 6 to 8 weeks.
But a pattern isn’t the same as destiny—there are a few variables that all need to hold at the same time for this historical pattern to be meaningful. First, ETH’s outperformance needs to have fundamental support, not just a technical rebound—currently, the Glamsterdam upgrade Devnet-5 test is underway, institutions’ ETF rotations are showing buy-ins, and the fundamentals aren’t empty. Second, ETH must hold its relative strength versus BTC; if BTC starts accelerating higher and ETH can’t keep up, then this outperformance signal fails. Third, macro variables (the FOMC, tensions in the Middle East/Iran) can’t produce major negative surprises.
On July 22, ETH was around $1,920, with a 7-day gain of about 8% versus BTC’s 5%. That gap is continuing.
$1,850 is the key support level for determining whether ETH relative strength can be maintained—if this level holds, the logic behind the historical pattern is still intact.
Have you revisited your position allocation because of this ETH outperformance signal? Share your thoughts.
$ETH

#ETH

Stayed working until the early morning, dragging my almost-shattered body and scrolling on the subway, and then saw a screenshot of TVL breaking 5 billion USD. I personally took out my phone, opened the app, and cross-checked it several times before I dared to believe it was real.
On the evening of July 23, after work, I squeezed onto the subway. In the group chat, someone posted a screenshot saying Babylon’s staked/locked amount had surpassed 5 billion USD. Those kinds of numbers I usually don’t trust—there are too many people in the group hyping tickets, and it’s always “epic-level” and “100x” for everything. After seeing too much, you get immune.
When I got off the subway, I didn’t rush to leave. I stood by the exit, pulled out my phone, and checked it myself. The locked amount was indeed real—over 56,000 BTC. In terms of volume, it ranks first among similar staking protocols. But even so, just looking at that one number, I still felt uneasy in my gut. Digging further down, I realized the real point wasn’t simply “how much is locked.” It’s this set of things Babylon is currently pushing: Trustless Bitcoin Vaults. The native BTC doesn’t need to be wrapped into some derivative asset, nor does it need to go through a cross-chain bridge. Instead, it’s locked directly on the Bitcoin network as collateral. Then you go to Aave V4 to borrow stablecoins, repay the loan, and unlock it yourself.
This is completely different from the wrapped BTC playbook from a few years ago. I’ve stepped into the trap of wrapped assets, and I’m especially afraid that the middle custody layer—some intermediary—might run away, or that the peg breaks. If Babylon’s approach really works, it effectively removes that middle layer entirely. Also, hardware and mining companies like Ledger and GoMining have been brought in to collaborate—not just hype assembled by ticket-calling.
But screenshots you see on the subway can never be the basis for a decision. When I got home, I went back through the whitepaper and found that the current verification mechanism is still built on the assumption that “participants are honest.” If you truly face malicious scenarios, the security hasn’t yet been validated at large scale. As for regulation—whether native BTC collateralized lending counts as a securitized product—there’s no clear answer.
The numbers are real, but so is the risk. These two things aren’t contradictory. I plan to keep watching until the end of the activity cycle on August 5—whether the locked amount and the number of real borrowing transactions keep growing—rather than taking it that I “understand it” just because a screenshot got posted once.
@BabylonLabs_io $BABY
#baby

Futu Moomoo can now trade BNB.
This is more worth mentioning than “there’s another trading platform added.”
Futu Moomoo is a licensed brokerage with operations across more than 30 markets and 30 million users—it's not a crypto-native platform, but a place where traditional stock and ETF investors gather. Previously, these users’ crypto route involved either opening another exchange account or simply not participating at all.
Now they can manage U.S. stocks, Hong Kong stocks, and funds within the same app, while also directly buying BNB.
Among BNB’s several expansions into traditional financial channels this year, this is one of the most noteworthy—Coinbase listing, Grayscale and VanEck filing ETF applications, and now Futu Moomoo. With each additional traditional financial channel, BNB’s potential user pool expands by another circle.

$BNB #BNB上线富途牛牛

SOL has fallen from a historical high of $294 to the current $78—down nearly 74%.
My position is also green, not great to look at.
But lately I’ve been watching a number instead of the price—on-chain active addresses are climbing toward 7 million, nearing this year’s high. This number is growing naturally against the backdrop of the meme-coin frenzy fading and overall market sentiment staying low; it isn’t being manufactured through incentives or wash trading.
Real users are still here—that’s the core reason I’m holding.
Alpenglow’s upgrade compresses transaction confirmations from 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds. With speed at this level, it unlocks scenarios that previously couldn’t be done on-chain—on-chain high-frequency trading, real-time payments, and in-game asset handling.
On the institutional side, cumulative inflows into the SOL ETF have already exceeded $1.1 billion, and company treasuries hold 530,000 SOL. This money isn’t here for short-term speculation.
The price may be down, but the fundamentals haven’t collapsed. Structurally, this setup is usually not a signal to exit.
How many people on here are still holding SOL and waiting for Alpenglow? Tell me what you’re thinking.
$SOL
#sol

On Deribit there is a set of numbers you absolutely need to pay attention to!!!
Call options with strike prices of $70,000 and $72,000 have total open interest of nearly $5 billion—about 18% of Deribit’s total $28 billion BTC options open interest across the whole platform. The number of call options is far greater than put options, with 65.88% calls versus 34.12% puts.
This isn’t small retail-random betting—there is big institutional trading driving it. Deribit’s Chief Business Officer confirmed that one of the trades was a single institution buying 20,000 contracts of the July 31 call with a $70,000 strike, while simultaneously selling the same number of calls with a $72,000 strike—forming a bull call spread combination with a notional value of $2.5 billion.
The timing window is very precise: the contracts expire on July 31, and the FOMC decision day is July 29—two days after the Fed announcement relative to option expiry.
This spread is saying something very clear: institutions are betting that after the FOMC, BTC will rise, with an upside target in the $70,000–$72,000 range.
But there is one practical gap that needs to be addressed: BTC is about $65,400 today, leaving an 8.9% distance to $70,000—and it needs to be covered within 7 days.
The experimental results of the “most painful theory” have historically looked less than pretty. Before the June $10 billion options expiry, the “most painful” point was $72,000, and BTC at one point fell below $60,000.
Concentration in options doesn’t guarantee the price will go there, but it does represent the densest set of institutional expectations currently in the derivatives market.
Tomorrow’s FOMC statement (the “wash” statement) will determine whether these $5 billion of options can actually be realized.
✨ Strike Price / Exercise Price is the fixed price specified in an options contract. It is the price at which, in the future, the option buyer has the right to buy or sell the underlying asset.
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My logic with XRP has always been simple: once the SEC lawsuit ends, the compliance path is clearest. Cross-border payment use cases are real too—I'm just waiting for the right time for a regulatory framework to take shape.
Waiting is hard.
It dropped from its previous all-time high of $3.65, down nearly 70%. People around me sold it when it was at $1.50 and said, "There’s no story left in this." I didn’t sell—not because I’m sure my judgment is correct, but because the core logic that has been suppressing it—regulatory uncertainty—hasn’t disappeared yet. I don’t want to move until that uncertainty is gone.
Recently, the probability of the CLARITY Act passing jumped from a historic low to 43%. It hasn’t passed yet, but the direction has changed. The Monetary Authority of Singapore has also been continuing to test the XRP Ledger for cross-border settlement. This is a real application scenario, not a hypothetical from a whitepaper.
XRP’s price is testing a key resistance zone, and the technical setup is an attempt at an upside breakout from a converging triangle. I’m waiting for this—the moment when the regulatory narrative and a technical breakout show up at the same time.
How many longtime XRP holders are still out there in the plaza? Was your buying logic the same as mine back then? Tell me.
$XRP
#xrp

I usually don’t pay much attention to AAVE because my position isn’t large, so I don’t watch it closely.
Recently I took a quick look at the market—AAVE is up 7.68%, making it one of the top mainstream DeFi gainers today.
I went back and looked into it, and the underlying logic makes sense: the DTCC has tokenized a batch of stocks and treasury bonds into live, on-chain trading, and the trend of large-scale RWA assets moving on-chain is accelerating. And AAVE is currently the deepest-liquidity lending protocol on-chain—so the most natural way to use these RWA assets is to deposit them as collateral in AAVE to borrow stablecoins. BlackRock’s BUIDL fund has already reached over $2 billion in on-chain AUM, and this batch of assets will sooner or later need a lending market that can actually accommodate them.
To put it simply, AAVE is the biggest beneficiary of the RWA sector’s incoming flow—not because its narrative is the loudest, but because it has the deepest liquidity, the longest track record, and is the most familiar to institutions.
I added a bit of exposure—not much—because I think this thesis is fine for now.
Are there any people in the plaza who are holding AAVE? Tell us your entry logic.
$AAVE
#AAVE

After finishing a cross-department meeting about RWA regulation, I went ahead and looked into Babylon’s recent moves and found a shocking secret...
Yesterday afternoon, after a cross-department meeting discussing the regulatory boundary of RWA, my brain still hadn’t caught up as I walked out of the room, so I grabbed my phone and checked Babylon’s latest updates for something to pass the time. The more I looked, the more I felt this timeline was interesting.
On June 25, Babylon and Aegis officially announced a partnership for fixed-rate lending. My first reaction was that this timing was pretty deliberate—market sensitivity to floating/variable interest rates has been clearly rising lately. Going further back, there’s the Ledger integration in March, and in May the GoMining collaboration that could activate thousands of BTC. Tie these actions together and it doesn’t read like scattered public-relations releases; it looks like a complete chain of “can we borrow?” to “are we willing to borrow?” to “how much can we borrow?”
Following this trail, I also took a look at the underlying mechanism. The core bottleneck of the Trustless Bitcoin Vaults setup has never been “whether to move BTC out for use.” It’s “how to make the Bitcoin blockchain believe what happened on another chain,” which is essentially a problem of verification cost. In the technical paper Babylon proposed this time, the on-chain verification cost is reduced from the usual range of tens of thousands of dollars to a scale of a few tens of dollars. Off-chain storage costs are also cut by three orders of magnitude. When this cost structure changes, the economic basis for the partnerships mentioned earlier actually becomes viable—otherwise, if there’s only willingness but no feasible costs, then even if you talk about it, it’s just talk.
As for risk, I’m not planning to avoid it either. This verification mechanism currently rests on the assumption that “participants are honest.” In malicious-adversary scenarios, full security is being filled in gradually with methods like cut-and-choose—basically, the theoretical loop is closed, but it hasn’t been tested via large-scale attacks. Add to that the regulatory classification of native BTC-collateralized lending, which is still unclear—these two are the variables I think are most worth watching.
My current judgment is that the stop-loss condition is set before the end of the activity cycle on August 5. If TBV’s locked-in amount and the actual number of borrowing transactions don’t keep up with the rollout pace of these partnership counterparties, it means the market hasn’t truly bought in yet.
@BabylonLabs_io $BABY
#baby

A major event has occurred in tech stocks: Mag7 (the seven largest tech giants) saw a single-day market value plunge by $797 billion, the biggest one-day drop since April 2025.
The Dow fell by 507 points, the S&P 500 dropped 1.2%, and the Nasdaq declined 2.2%.
Alphabet fell 7.5% ($205 billion in capital expenditure came in above expectations), Tesla slid 14% (profits missed expectations). With them, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Oracle all fell in sync, down 3%-5%.
In Asia today, trading continues the slide: Japan, South Korea, and Australian stock index futures all opened lower across the board. With Brent breaking above $100 and tech earnings adding further pressure, there’s no buffer.
The logic behind this tech-stock selloff is now clear: it isn’t one reason—it’s three happening at the same time:
First, fear that capital spending is overheating. This year, the total AI capital expenditures of mega-cap tech companies are expected to exceed $500 billion. The market is starting to ask: when will the returns arrive after this money is put to work?
Second, oil-price inflation pressure. Brent above $100 means the Federal Reserve’s rate-cut timeline is pushed back, and the high-rate environment directly weighs on high-valuation tech stocks.
Third, doubts are growing about the credibility of the AI demand story. Slowing Netflix revenue growth and the release of the open-source weights for Kimi K3 are both prompting the market to reassess “how long the AI supercycle can last.”
The judgment from Morningstar strategist is worth quoting most: “This is more likely a reset to expectations for higher interest rates, not a sign that AI trading is completely over.”
Tomorrow, July 29th’s FOMC is the most critical milestone of the year—if the statement from the Fed chair does not hint at a September rate hike, this selloff could reverse quickly; if it does, tech stocks may still have room to fall.
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