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#AI基建融资升温，英伟达英特尔路径分化 The AI race has entered a capital-intensive phase, and the market's focus is no longer just on chip performance but also on who has the greater ability to raise funds for expansion. NVIDIA, together with BlackRock, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and other institutions, plans to establish an AI computing power financing platform to leverage over $500 billion in third-party capital long-term, providing funding for customers to build data centers and purchase GPUs. This essentially means NVIDIA is using external capital to expand customer purchasing power: the financial pressure is mainly borne by financing institutions and customers, while NVIDIA continues to earn from GPU sales and CUDA ecosystem expansion. Intel has chosen to directly issue common stock, increasing its financing scale from $15 billion to $20 billion, with funds allocated for capital expenditures, working capital, AI chips, and advanced manufacturing. Both companies are raising money for AI infrastructure, but their positions are completely different: NVIDIA is helping customers leverage to expand market demand; Intel is supplementing capital with its own equity to buy time for building factories, expanding production, and catching up technologically, while also facing equity dilution pressure. AI infrastructure is becoming a long-term competition with massive capital scale. The next phase's winners must not only have technology and customers but also the ability to mobilize capital. NVIDIA uses its ecosystem to finance expansion, while Intel still has to pay for its own expansion. $NVDA $INTC #AI #美股 #科技股

Just took a glance at the overall market. Then looked at CORE. Still the same familiar feeling. Now I'm too lazy to argue with it. It will naturally rise when it's supposed to. When it doesn't rise. No matter how much I say, it's useless. I'll focus on handling my own matters first. $CORE

Most people say that staking 42 million ETH is a supply positive, but I don't see it that way. The staked amount has surpassed 42 million, accounting for nearly 35% of the total supply. Many accounts say: ETH is becoming increasingly scarce, supply is locked, and price pressure is reduced. I understand this logic; on the surface, it does hold true. But if you look closely at what has happened with Ethereum this year, you'll find that behind the surge in staking rate is a more complex, even somewhat ironic story. On August 4th, Justin Drake, along with five other Ethereum Foundation researchers, submitted EIP-8361. The core mechanism is "Tapered Issuance Burn": as the staking ratio rises, the proportion of validator rewards that are burned also increases, until the staked amount reaches 50% of the total supply (about 60.25 million ETH), at which point new consensus layer issuance drops to zero. This proposal made me think for a long time. On the surface, EIP-8361 addresses the problem of "over-staking leading to centralization"—indeed, when 35% of ETH is locked in staking contracts, and Lido alone accounts for over 30% of validator share, the centralization risk is real. But here’s the question: who is most disadvantaged by this proposal? The ones most disadvantaged are those currently staking. If you stake ETH today, you earn about 3.5%-4% annualized yield. Once EIP-8361 passes and staking rates continue to climb, your rewards will be automatically diluted by the system until they reach zero at the 50% threshold. In other words, the more people stake, the faster they push the critical point where their own rewards diminish. It’s a bit like the story of everyone desperately pouring water into a pool, unaware that the pool has an ever-growing leak. Now, regarding the DeFi side. Ethereum staking’s base yield has long been regarded as the "risk-free rate anchor" in the DeFi world—interest rate pricing for lending protocols like Aave and Compound is, to some extent, referenced to this anchor. If EIP-8361 pushes this base yield down or even to zero, liquid staking projects that rely on Ethereum staking yields as their product narrative (Lido, Rocket Pool) and LRT protocols (EigenLayer’s EIGEN staking logic) will face valuation shocks. Community controversy over EIP-8361 is still significant. On the Ethereum Magicians forum, some voices directly say: the proposal was submitted just before the Hegotá upgrade deadline, leaving seriously insufficient time for community discussion. This is not an ordinary parameter adjustment; it is a fundamental change to Ethereum’s monetary policy, yet it was pushed through like an emergency bill. This procedural issue alone deserves separate caution. My current judgment is: the probability of EIP-8361 being implemented in 2026 is low, but its very existence already casts a question mark over ETH’s "monetary expectations"—what exactly will Ethereum’s future issuance policy be? Who decides? This uncertainty creates friction for institutions allocating ETH. This is my understanding at this stage, but I leave myself a 30% chance to reverse because if EIP-8361 passes in a modified form with a sufficiently long transition period (the proposal mentions 18 months), the impact might be milder than I expect. For those following ETH staking mechanisms, do you think the impact on the DeFi side will be more severe than the consensus layer issuance itself, or not so much? #现货ETF资金分化，BTC卖压仍在

The market is overly focused on US-Iran headlines, but the real factors to watch are: 📌 Hormuz 📌 Brent crude prices 📌 US CPI 📌 US bond yields A rise in oil prices does not necessarily mean $BTC will fall. The key question is whether high oil prices will drive up inflation and prompt the Fed to maintain a more hawkish stance. For now, CPI and the reaction of US bond yields remain more influential for crypto than any geopolitical news. #CPIToResetFedBets #HormuzDealUnresolved

Zero downtime throughout, OKX "moved" its core trading system to another country! OKX founder and CEO Star announced on X that the platform completed a cross-border core trading system migration last week. During the entire process, there was no perceptible downtime on the user side; the main impact was a brief increase in trading latency, lasting about 30 to 40 minutes. This fully demonstrates the strong capabilities of the OKX team. The challenge lies in the crypto market running 24/7 without the maintenance windows available after traditional financial market closures. The exchange migration involved not only servers and related code but also order status, account balances, market data, risk control, and API connections. Any data desynchronization at any stage could cause duplicate orders, abnormal asset displays, or even trigger erroneous liquidations! From the results, the brief latency indicates the migration was not completely "invisible," but the system remained available throughout, with no interruption to data or trading, which is still a highly challenging engineering feat for a large trading platform. The team believes this might be the industry's first migration of this scale under similar business conditions. The migration did not disclose the specific countries involved nor the regulatory or business reasons behind it, so excessive speculation is unwarranted. However, this reflects OKX's efforts to strengthen cross-regional deployment, disaster recovery switching, and infrastructure resilience. For exchanges, handling traffic during market surges is just the first hurdle; the real long-term operational strength lies in the system's ability to upgrade and migrate without downtime! $OKB

$ETH short position giant profit of 23,667 USD! Finally waited for this pullback 😭 Just glanced at the account, almost shouted out loud — holding for 8 days, currently partial take profit close to 24,000 USD, finally catching a breath. Entry average price 1915, partial take profit around 1908, the largest position once reached 4.21 million USD, this single trade contributed 23,667.23 USDT profit. The doubts and anxiety during the pullback have been answered at this moment. The trend hasn't changed, the money wasn't lost in vain. The direction was right, no matter how tough the process was, it was worth it. I won't close this position all at once, will keep the remaining position and wait for the next take profit point. 📊 The hardest part in trading is not judging the direction, but holding the position after the direction is right. This trade is the best proof that patience and faith really pay off. #ETH #ShortPositionHarvest #TrendTrade #LargePosition #23667USDProfitTaken

$BTC oil prices rebound, institutional ETF funds outflow 160 million in a single day It is expected to start consolidating again, CPI data is very unlikely to be much higher than expected, the probability of rate cuts increases, no major negative news in the short term, BTC won't return to the 60,000 price, if expectations are low, the probability rises, then this wave of BTC will definitely break new highs! In the short term, don't think too big, take profits as much as you can and run, any profit is a profit $TIA The only time I was stuck with coin-based margin was 3 points, the v9 upgrade has also been successful, but the market is still weak, very likely to dip near .28 XRP successfully trapped me, if it can recover, it will, if not, I'll just give it to you. Consider it fuel 😭

🚨 @Pumpfun MAY BE LOCKING UP $SOL FASTER THAN SOLANA IS BURNING IT. The numbers are pretty interesting: • 🪦 Dead pools hold roughly 19 $SOL each • 📊 Around 26,467 graduations since March • 💰 That represents roughly 511K $SOL , or about $39M • 📅 At the current pace, that’s approximately 1.23M $SOL per year • 🔥 Solana’s actual burn rate is only around 237K $SOL annually And here’s the important distinction: This $SOL hasn’t been permanently removed from supply. It’s still circulating — it’s simply sitting inside roughly 414,055 pools that are effectively inactive. That adds up to around 4.7M $SOL, or approximately 0.81% of total supply, sitting idle. That’s potentially 5x Solana’s annual burn rate. So while Solana’s burn mechanism gets attention, another form of supply absorption is happening quietly through inactive liquidity pools. 👀 Not burned. Not gone. Just sitting there. $SOL #AIInfraEarningsWatch #CPIToResetFedBets

$SNDK Current price, short immediately, no need to wait. The market is very clear: early session surged to 1278 leaving a long upper shadow, it looks like a strong rise but is actually a pump-and-dump. After the surge, it fell all the way down, volume shrinks on the rise and expands on the fall, bulls have no strength to push higher. The play for these US stock tokens has always been to buy the dip and sell on the rise. From 1190 to 1278, nearly 90 points of rebound have mostly been realized. The 1270-1280 area above is all previous trapped positions; the first time it hits, it simply can’t break through, so pressure and pullback are inevitable. Operation: short directly at the current price of 1252, add positions on a rebound to 1258-1260, stop loss uniformly set above 1280. The first target is 1230; if broken, look down to 1200-1210, hold the position and wait for profit realization. The above is only a personal operation sharing and does not constitute any investment advice. The market is highly volatile, please manage risk carefully and bear the risk yourself. #财报观察员：AI基建财报接力登场 #本周三CPI公布，9月加息定价会改写吗？ #AI基建融资升温，英伟达英特尔路径分化 $BTC $ETH