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STORJ surges 14% in 24 hours; current price is 0.0348. In one day, trading volume hits $3.04 million, while the total market cap is only $14.88 million. Based on turnover, it’s over 20%—the circulating supply has basically been turned over about once.

For an old project doing decentralized cloud storage, it usually stays quiet. The sudden spike in volume likely means small capital is igniting and pushing it upward. The advantage of a shallow order book is that it can be pumped fast; the downside is that when it dumps, it drops just as quickly. I can’t hold a coin like this. A turnover of 20% means the money that entered today could turn around and fall tomorrow at any time. With a market cap of just $14.88 million, a few large orders can easily knock the price back to how it was.

Philadelphia semiconductor index falls 5.86%, its largest drop since July 1. Nvidia closes at $210.96, down 3.36%. For those so-called cutting-edge model companies—some are talking about slowing down. Anthropic has also changed its data retention policy again. Nvidia and Palantir have both tightened the use of their flagship models. Along the same lines, expectations for AI compute spending have been downgraded by one tier.

On the other side of the market, someone was snatching up shares. CrowdStrike jumps 13.85% to close at $235.38, setting a new all-time closing high. Zscaler rises 16.5%, and the cybersecurity ETF also posts its biggest single-day gain in history. The market’s worries flipped—after being disrupted by AI for a whole year, the software security stocks that were hit hardest suddenly caught their breath. I stared at Zscaler’s big bullish candle for a long time and didn’t dare move. With the whole sector gapping up together, chasing in is easy to end up standing watch.

The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury touched 5% during the day. Oil prices move above $105. The CME’s September rate-hike probability prints 94.5%. Before the Fed speaks on Wednesday, this chip move—has it been continued liquidation, or will someone come back overnight to pick it up? Hard to say.

XLM rises 8.5% in 24 hours, with the price just over 0.19 and a market cap of about six to seven billion USD. On the gainers list, the 8.5% increase isn’t the most eye-catching, but its trading volume of over 12 million USD is the highest on the list—nearly ten times more than first-place T.

A coin with a market cap of sixty to seventy billion needs real money to push it like that. It doesn’t feel like small coins that can produce a double-digit surge with just a few million USD. With this kind of volume, I’m willing to look twice.

I’ve taken losses like this too. In the last cycle, I chased a small “妖币” that was pumping a few million in trading volume and topping the list—and the very next day it got trapped in the dump, and I was forced to cut out. Now when I look at the rankings, I check the trading volume column first, then how much it rose. More than 12 million USD piled into the 0.19 range contains more information than the rank itself.

Turnover is less than 3%. SNT is up 17.6%. The price is $0.0086. Market cap is $41.7 million. Total trading volume for the day is only $1.17 million. This kind of small-cap gets pulled up so much, but the volume simply hasn’t kept up. I’ve seen this kind of move a few times—it surges quickly, then it drops even faster. With only a few orders stacked on top, it can punch right through. The order book is so thin that the gain shown on the board and the gains you can actually get your hands on aren’t the same thing.

LIT is up 10.1% over 24 hours; the price is $4.61, with trading volume of $10.24 million and a market cap of $1.15 billion. Looking at these figures on the gainers list, they seem a bit out of place. Most on the list are small-cap stocks with market caps in the tens of millions, trading volumes in the millions—yet they’re pumped hard, and as soon as you sell, the price slides. LIT is one of the few coins I came across today with a market cap in the billions that can still rise by more than a dozen percentage points with volume. The last time I chased a small-cap “monster” coin, it spiked impressively during the day—once I got in, the order book got slammed and I was immediately cut in half. Since then, when looking at the gainers list, I’ve prioritized trading volume first. With this kind of size, even if someone wants to exit, it shouldn’t be able to smash through the chart with a single line.

This morning, the Korean and Japanese stock markets opened lower across the board. In South Korea, the KOSPI composite index opened down more than 3%; Japan’s Nikkei 225 widened its decline from being down 0.55% at the open to as much as down 2%; and SoftBank Group fell 10% in the early session. The spark was a long post that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote on Saturday. He urged the industry to slow down the pace of capabilities improvement for frontier models. Musk then replied with a line saying Ray Dalio was right, and Altman also said he agreed.

The funny part is that the same group is both calling for “slowing down” and stepping on the gas. Anthropic plans to list on Nasdaq in October, aiming to raise up to $100 billion, valuing it at around $2 trillion. Nvidia is already in talks about investing up to $10 billion. On Altman’s side, he said that OpenAI will not go public this year and will first focus on solving safety issues.

Trump’s stance was even more straightforward: whoever wins the AI race wins the world—fences and guardrails can wait.

I really can’t make sense of this kind of market action. A few bosses are all shouting “slow down,” yet what gets hit first at the open is semiconductors and storage—the very area where the $10 billion or $10 billion-plus investment is still something they have to pay. SoftBank’s 10% drop is still just the early-session number; the Nikkei’s decline is still widening. When the U.S. stock market opens tonight, how the AI supply chain will connect is when the truth will be seen.

FIL rises 19%, at $0.95, with its market cap left at $788 million and $26.5 million traded in the past 24 hours.

This kind of volume is uncommon on the gainers list. Most entries there are usually small caps with market caps of only a few tens of millions. If you spread $26.5 million across a $788 million market cap, the turnover rate is still not even 4%, which suggests the amount of money pulling it up isn’t much—more like shorts letting go after it’s dropped too long. It was the storage sector leader from the previous cycle, reaching over $200 at its peak, and the people caught in it were holding for years. Seeing it fall from that level to the $0.9 range, I honestly never thought it could jump out with a move like today. It feels a bit surreal, and I don’t think this spike alone can dig out the trapped positions above.

Seeing that 18% surge, my first reaction was which small-cap is self-hyping again—I checked the trading volume and it was only 1.1 million. Sure enough. ILV is one of the old faces from the batch of game tokens from 2021: market cap is just over 30 million, and over the past 24 hours the entire market only swapped hands about 3%. The bid-ask spread on the order book is wide enough to really draw attention—if you actually drop in a chunk of orders, you’re likely to slip by several percentage points. On top, it’s all stuck with chips trapped for three or four years. Pull up a green candle isn’t hard; but if you can’t catch the volume, it’s all for nothing.

LRC reports 0.0095, up 10.3% in a day; trading volume is $1.83 million, and its market cap is only $13 million left. The figure for market cap is far more eye-catching than the percentage increase. Loopring was a well-known project back when it was expanding on Layer 2; now the whole market is just this big, and over the past few years it has been ground down mercilessly.

Based on this market cap, the turnover rate is 14%, which means real money is coming in and out—it's not fake volume propped up by just a few orders. The old coins on the floor still have elasticity; a day with 10% upside looks effortless. But last time I chased one of these old coins after a single big bullish candle, the volume dried up and it got pushed back down. I still remember how much I lost on that trade.

Next, we’ll see whether the $1.83 million in volume can hold. If the volume breaks off, the price at 0.0095 will be in jeopardy.

Anthropic is preparing what could be the biggest IPO in tech history: it plans to raise as much as $100 billion, targeting a valuation of about $2 trillion. Nvidia intends to contribute up to $10 billion as a cornerstone investor. The listing could be scheduled before mid-November’s elections. This May, it only raised about $65 billion; its post-money valuation was $965 billion. In just a few months, it has more than doubled.

On the same day, Altman said that OpenAI will not go public this year and should first address safety issues. Both companies are on the public record saying they want to slow down AI—yet this one is already lined up to ring the bell.

Nvidia’s money ends up looping back into its own pocket: it invests in Anthropic, which then turns around to buy compute power, signing agreements worth several tens of billions of dollars with several cloud providers in which Nvidia has stakes. And what it buys are Nvidia’s chips. Frankly, I can’t make sense of who is paying whom on this ledger. The only thing I know is that as valuations rise, it collects money on both ends.

By the end of July, Anthropic’s annualized revenue already exceeded $65 billion, compared with roughly $9 billion at the end of last year. In this IPO round, retail investors basically won’t get any allocation; all they can do is wait for the day it opens for trading.

LSK up 122% in 24 hours—$0.30. Doubling in a single day. Market cap is only a little over $70 million, with volume of 6.5 million and turnover under 10%.

It doubled for real, but the float is small. With a market cap of tens of millions, just a few hundred thousand in trading can pull out a chart like this. The order book is thin—once it’s pulled up, it’s only a few big orders that can knock it back down. This is what I’m most afraid of: it surges hard, but when it’s actually time to distribute, that depth can’t catch it.

ETHFI jumps 21% in a day, quoted at $0.75, with trading volume of over 6.5 million, and a market cap of just over $700 million—it's the most obvious one showing a volume surge on today's gainers list.

ether.fi does Ethereum restaking: take the staked ETH, then pledge it again to earn interest. This track has been hot and then cooled down.

With it running up this fast, I really didn’t dare to move. The volume is there, but a single big bullish candle doesn’t mean much. I’ve learned the hard way—I've been burned multiple times by chasing the price. This kind of rapid rally with quick turnover leaves you waiting by half a step, and you end up stuck at the top. Can it hold above $0.75? Let’s see whether tomorrow morning’s volume can pick up and follow through.

LSK rises 51% in one day, current price $0.187, market cap $45 million. In the past 24 hours, trading volume is only $1.99 million, and the turnover rate is less than 5%. With an order book this thin, just a couple million dollars can push the price up. This kind of sudden spike on an old project is usually not because the fundamentals suddenly changed—more often, it’s a thin-share market where there aren’t many holders and someone lights the fuse. I’ve seen this pull-up style a few times: it’s easy to jump in, but when you try to get out, you find there basically aren’t many people willing to take orders from the order book. With $1.99 million in daily trading propping up a $45 million market cap, that’s just how little supply there is being rotated.

Dell, which makes PCs and servers, saw its stock rise nearly 12% last night, closing at an all-time high. Its market value surged to $360 billion in a single day. The earnings report covers the quarter ended at the end of July: revenue was $47 billion, up nearly 60% year over year. Full-year revenue guidance also mentioned more than $190 billion. Both revenue and EPS far exceeded expectations.

Almost all of this rally was driven by AI servers. In that quarter, revenue from this segment more than doubled year over year. Backlogged orders piled up to $95 billion. Customers expanded from cloud providers to sovereign countries and traditional enterprises. The same night, the storage segment collectively dropped: Western Digital, Seagate, and SanDisk all fell more than 3%. With the same AI narrative—one side racking up orders while the other keeps dropping with nobody paying attention—this contrast is something I really don’t get.

There’s another layer, too: insiders. A company related to Silver Lake and a top executive issued sell-down (reduction of holdings) announcements on the same day. The market is pricing in a near 90% chance of a rate hike by the Federal Reserve next week. For the first time in three years, on the day it hit a new high, the first move was by the people selling tickets.

STORJ rose 121% in 24 hours, quoted at $0.061—the only one on the whole board to double. What stands out is the volume: $10.5 million in daily成交, yet the market cap is only a little over $8.7 million. Turnover is driven to more than 100%. It’s a long-established decentralized cloud storage coin, with a small float. With this kind of structure, just a few big orders can push the price up. The last time I chased a small-cap “mystery coin” and it got cut in half—I still remember it. Seeing this kind of candlestick chart, I’m not too keen on touching it. The others are all below 20 percentage points, far behind it. This kind of gap—either there’s news that hasn’t been released yet, or it’s purely capital changing hands inside the market.

STORJ jumps to 0.0395, up 36% in 24 hours—top of today’s gainers list. With a market cap of only $16.7 million and trading volume of $1.72 million.
What it does is decentralized cloud storage—turning idle hard drives into a cloud drive, in the same vein as Filecoin.
With 36% on the board, it’s hard not to be tempted. But with $1.72 million in volume staring at you, the kind of price move that this volume can support—I don’t dare to take it. The rally is beautiful, but the float is real and very thin.

September 11 Market View: BTC 77,100 down 1.7%. Take a look at the count of gainers and losers for a clearer picture: 178 up and 1,037 down—more than five times the gap. Those few bits of red are all squeezed into small-cap coins. On the gains board, top spot RAY is up 28%, yet its trading volume is only 1.38 million. In a market cap of over 400 million, the amount of money that moved in a single day is just this much.

On the other side, among US stock tokens, the one that really holds up is SOXS, which is a triple short on semiconductors—it’s up 8.6% while the chip stocks are falling. The image shows a quick snapshot of the market I just scanned.

RAY surged 28.1%, with a price of 1.72 and a market cap of 460 million. The upside looks great, but the trading value is only 1.38 million, and turnover is under 0.3%. This is a multi-hundred-million (over 400 million) float that moved only this little money in a single day—once you put the numbers on the table, it doesn’t look that attractive anymore.
RAY is an established old-school DEX on Solana, not a newcomer that just appeared on the scene. When an older coin suddenly pumps like this, and volume is still being kept at such a low level, it feels more like there isn’t enough liquidity on the order book—just a few buy orders are enough to push the price up, with not much real money actually flowing in.
This kind of market looks exhilarating, but once you truly go in and try to buy, you’ll find it’s easy to get in, and when it comes time to exit, that thin depth might not be able to support your sell. If the trading value remains at the million level over the next few days, it’s anyone’s guess who ends up holding the bag after that 28%.

Oracle shares fell 5.38% in the U.S. stock market last night; the company’s market cap shrank by $25 billion in a single day. After the earnings report came out after the close, the stock surged more than 8% in after-hours trading. This old-line giant that started out making databases now mainly earns money by renting computing power to AI companies. Q1 revenue was $19.3 billion, up 30% year over year; cloud infrastructure revenue more than doubled to $7.4 billion. The value of signed but unexecuted contracts (RPO) has climbed to $66.4 billion.

The broader market looked completely different that day. Oil prices jumped more than 8% overnight and reclaimed the $100 mark. The yield on 30-year U.S. Treasuries rose to 5.347%, the highest level since June 2007. U.S. stocks suffered a four-day losing streak, and storage chips collectively crashed. Only Oracle bucked the trend.

Down 5% during the day and up 8% at night—if it were me, I definitely wouldn’t be able to hold on through that roller coaster. The real test will be tonight: once the U.S. August CPI is released, the market’s odds of the Federal Reserve raising rates next week have already exceeded 70%. If the data comes in even hotter, Oracle’s relatively modest positives won’t be able to support the whole market.

ETH is still falling, while ETHFI is rising against the broader market by a little over 8%. With a market cap of $64 million, it’s the largest market cap among this evening’s top gainers; most of the rest are smaller caps.

It’s the token of ether.fi. In simple terms, after staking ETH, you can also receive a certificate/token that you can keep using in DeFi—so your position doesn’t get locked up.

Trading volume is $8.4 million spread across a $640 million float, so turnover is only a bit over 1%. The volume looks a little questionable. Yes, it’s going up, but there isn’t much real money backing it. In cases like this, I generally don’t dare to chase.