The information flow moves too quickly, causing in-depth analytical articles to get drowned out by trending topics. The "Weekly Editor’s Picks" section curates these valuable insights from the flood of news, helping you filter out the noise and focus on meaningful perspectives and inspiration.
Macroeconomic situation
Wash Jackson Hole debut: Bidding farewell to "forward guidance," reshaping Fed discipline amid AI and inflation
At 10 PM Beijing time on August 28, Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh delivered a speech at the Jackson Hole Global Central Bank Symposium, marking his first address at this major central bank conference since assuming the role of Fed Chair.
In his speech, Kevin Warsh stated that the "forward guidance" tool, used during extraordinary times, has fulfilled its purpose in normal economic conditions and should be retired; monetary policy must return to data dependence and decision discipline.
In the face of artificial intelligence as a transformative force, he acknowledged that its profound impacts on productivity, labor markets, and the structure of capital returns remain uncertain, and the Federal Reserve must maintain a cautious, watchful stance. At the same time, he clearly outlined seven guiding principles for policy implementation: anchoring to a 2% inflation target, balancing the employment mandate, using the short-term interest rate as the primary tool, monitoring monetary aggregates, and maintaining communication that is restrained and purposeful. These principles outline a governance approach that returns to orthodoxy and avoids policy overreach.
In his assessment of economic conditions, he noted that the labor market is broadly consistent with full employment, but inflation remains significantly above target—PCE inflation stands at 3.7% year-over-year, with more than half of the components rising by more than 3%. He pledged not to pre-determine a policy path but made clear that the Fed "has more work to do" unless it is confident that inflation is moving clearly and steadily toward its target.
$10.5 trillion in debt looming—can the Fed keep interest rates under control with just rhetoric?
Although Fed Chair Walsh insisted on "not providing forward guidance" in his Jackson Hole speech, he triggered market upheaval by sending strong signals. However, long-term yields fully reversed their earlier declines before close, as bond markets recognized that the real pressure stemmed from the supply side.
Current market volatility is primarily driven by "interest rate concerns" (responses to the Fed), while the long-term challenge is the "supply issue"—something that won't disappear with a few statements. Investors should distinguish between the two and monitor developments following the September Fed meeting, the Bank of Japan’s decision, and the Treasury’s buyback window.
Oil prices return to $90—why is the global market re-pricing "stagflation"?
Energy shocks are reshaping market views on inflation and interest rate trajectories. While weak job openings, construction spending, and manufacturing data initially pointed to an economic slowdown, rising prices for oil, diesel, and natural gas could push overall inflation higher. This presents the Fed with a more challenging combination: weakening growth alongside persistent price pressures.
Energy prices, interest rate markets, and risk assets have become increasingly difficult to price separately; if refined oil prices remain persistently high, the Federal Reserve’s policy space may further narrow, and long-term U.S. Treasuries will also face pressure from inflation, fiscal deficits, and AI-related financing demands.
Bets on tail risk for interest rates in the options market have clearly intensified, but this reflects investors’ precaution against extreme scenarios rather than a definitive signal that rates have entered an accelerated upward phase.
Japan's government bond yields hit a 30-year high, exposing global markets to the risk of unwinding yen carry trades.
Japan's 10-year government bond yield broke 3% this week, reaching its highest level in nearly 30 years, triggering ripple effects that are spreading globally.
The breakthrough of this critical threshold, combined with the yen’s prolonged weakness and rising expectations of interest rate hikes by the Bank of Japan, has sharply heightened market concerns about a large-scale unwinding of yen carry trades. U.S. Treasury Secretary Bentsen has publicly warned that disorderly movements in the yen market could trigger forced liquidations, disrupting global markets and ultimately raising borrowing costs for American households and businesses.
The market has fully priced in a 25-basis-point interest rate hike by the Bank of Japan in September—a pace significantly more aggressive than initially suggested by the central bank at the start of the year.
Also recommended: “The Fed’s Quiet Balance Sheet Expansion: You Think It’s Quantitative Tightening, But It’s Actually Buying Treasuries Wildly?”
Investment and Entrepreneurship
Robinhood Chain didn't launch a token— which altcoins benefited from the growth红利?
Uniswap dominates the primary trading volume on Robinhood Chain, with protocol fees driving token burns; Lighter serves as the perpetual contracts gateway for Robinhood Wallet; Morpho provides the lending infrastructure behind Robinhood Earn; and 10% of Robinhood Chain’s revenue flows to the Arbitrum ecosystem.
UNI is the biggest beneficiary, followed by LIT, while MORPHO and ARB are weaker.
Eight-layer assets, two logics: A complete breakdown of the wealth effect of Robinhood Chain
Also recommended: “Made $10 Million in 10 Months: The Arbitrage Master Reveals a New Strategy” “Mate Brother’s Token Launch Fails; Veteran Traders Struggle in the New Battlefield.”
CeFi & DeFi
The biggest risk with Bitcoin has been eliminated.
A series of recent trades by Strategy appeared to involve "selling low and buying high," but they temporarily alleviated STRC's depegging and the cash reserve issues it exposed. This signals that the market's most feared hidden risk has been partially mitigated.
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Meme
Robinhood Chain sees a meme coin with a market cap exceeding $100 million; coin-stock paired memes feed back into RWA.
AI is the leading meme coin in the crypto-stock pairing section, paired with the NVIDIA stock token NVDA on Robinhood Chain. Over the past month, the community has established the AI Community Treasury, which allocates creator fees and 50% of transaction fees toward repurchasing and burning tokens, resulting in the destruction of 0.82% of the total token supply to date.
The surge in popularity of the Meme coin AI was also fueled by the support of its underlying token issuance platform, LONG. In its early stages, LONG even airdropped stock tokens NVDA to AI holders. LONG is a Meme coin issuance platform within the Robinhood Chain ecosystem, and through its innovative "token-stock pairing" Meme issuance model, it has become the leading Meme issuance platform on Robinhood Chain.
Buying a meme coin paired with a stock is essentially placing a double bet: you're wagering that the meme coin will outperform the stock, while also betting on the dollar price volatility of that stock. The meme coin and its associated stock token do not have a 1:1 redemption relationship; the stock token serves only as a quote asset in the liquidity pool, not as collateral for the meme coin, and the stock-meme pairing provides no underlying value support for the issued meme coin.
The pairing of meme coins with stock tokens is another significant way to expand the use cases of stock tokens. Meme coin trading driving volume in stock tokens is exactly the development Robinhood hopes to see.
3 ways to access Robinhood's on-chain meme coin tokens
Alternative assets on the Robinhood chain: stock tokens, stock meme coins, launchpad platform tokens, lending assets; LP categories: meme coin liquidity pools, stock token liquidity pools, leveraged stock liquidity pools; stock-meme联动 categories: meme coin short squeezes, underlying stocks driving meme coin prices.
The Short Squeeze Myth of Stock-Paired Meme Coins: Why It’s Doomed to Fail
The core issue with short squeeze strategies is the disparity in scale, and holding stock tokens does not equate to controlling the actual stocks.
When token scarcity pushes the on-chain HIMS price significantly above the real-world stock price, Robinhood’s authorized participants can mint new stock tokens to arbitrage the price differential. Minting new tokens does require purchasing additional actual shares as underlying collateral, so the increased supply creates slight buying pressure on the underlying stock. However, hoarding existing tokens does not force the purchase of an equivalent amount of HIMS common stock. The primary effect is that it incentivizes the platform to mint more stock tokens, increasing token supply and bringing the on-chain token price back in line with the real-world stock price.
To achieve the legendary short squeeze, more refined tokenized equities (TEQ) are required.
It’s fascinating to witness the birth of an entirely new narrative. While there are certainly opportunities for speculation and profit, what’s more significant is that countless unprecedented financial mechanism designs will emerge in the future.
Read alongside: “JINQIAN: 80 Million Vanishes in Two Hours—‘Crypto-Stock Pairing’ Becomes a Customized Pig Butchering Scam”
Where to find stock token LP? Quick overview of the five emerging AMMs on Robinhood Chain.
Up.: Protocol revenue 100% returned to token holders; Fables: Points program launched, TGE in October; RAMSES: Popular AMM on Arbitrum launches; Delta: Automatically converts protocol fees into liquidity; Ekubo: Starknet’s legacy project fails to “gold-plate.”
Eight meme coins rapidly reach billion-dollar market caps—what do Robinhood’s on-chain golden dogs have in common?
A new narrative emerges from the interweaving of tech trends, celebrity updates, corporate memes, and market sentiment.
Don’t just sit idle on-chain—what assets on Robinhood Chain offer a second chance to get in?
PONS: Platform daily revenue approaches $1 million; HMM: Turn traders' hesitation into a "thinking cat"; DELTA: Provide liquidity management tools for Robinhood Chain; microduck: Link open-source machine ducks with NVIDIA stock narratives; YOLO: Bring WallStreetBets' "all-in" culture to Robinhood Chain; AI: A meme coin paired with NVIDIA stock; BONER: Turn male health stocks into the most direct adult meme; SPACEHOOD: A meme coin betting on SpaceX's popularity.
With daily earnings nearing a million dollars and a fivefold increase in one week, how much longer can PONS keep rising?
Interest in meme coins on Robinhood Chain remains strong, and PONS, the platform token of Pons, has experienced another surge in price, driven by rapid growth in the volume of token issuances and trading share on Robinhood Chain.
Pons has established a positive flywheel: more token issuance leads to higher revenue and stronger buybacks.
To determine whether PONS can continue to rise and for how long, focus on these three key points: How long will the current Meme hype on Robinhood Chain last? Can Pons maintain its position as the leading token launch platform? For PONS’s market cap to rise further to $500 million or $1 billion, a truly breakout Meme coin may be required.
Bought a Nasdaq-listed company for $1.8 million, then engineered a short squeeze using a meme coin.
If on-chain demand can truly be translated into underlying stock purchases through the minting and collateralization mechanism of stock tokens, then what emerges on Robinhood Chain will be more than just a new wave of meme coins—it could be an entirely new capital machine connecting crypto attention with Nasdaq small-cap stocks.
Also recommended: "The Practical Guide to FOMO: From Finding People to Finding Coins—How to Play Social Trading?"
Ethereum and Scaling
ETFs and staking are jointly reducing supply—could ETH be brewing a new rally?
The U.S. spot Ethereum ETF recorded nearly $700 million in net inflows over the past week, with approximately 42 million ETH entering staking. Exchange balances have declined by about 15% since early June, and corporate treasuries continue to accumulate ETH. Multiple forces are converging to reduce the amount of ETH available for immediate sale.
ETH's circulating supply has significantly tightened since June, and new capital entering this thinner market could lead to greater price elasticity.
The market next needs to confirm: whether institutional funds can continue flowing in, whether ETH/BTC can hold onto their rebound gains, and whether staking and corporate holdings will continue to absorb new supply.
New ecosystem
HIP-4 has begun, who will become the new trade.xyz?
The launch of Outcome, a prediction market project within the Hyperliquid ecosystem, marks Hyperliquid’s official first step in permissionless deployment under HIP-4 and signals the official entry of Hyperliquid into the Builder era for prediction markets.
Teams such as Unit, Skew, and trade.xyz have also expressed support or begun positioning themselves for HIP-4, sparking a competition for access to, liquidity, and users in Hyperliquid’s prediction market.
Also recommended: "A New Era of On-Chain Governance on Solana: Deflationary Pressure Significantly Increased, Burn Proposal Unexpectedly Stalled."
Weekly Hot Topics Crash Course
Policies and Macroeconomic Markets
Resumption of U.S.-Iran tensions (causes and impacts);
Trump again calls on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, claiming U.S. GDP could rise by 20%;
Former Fed Vice Chair: The default choice now is to raise rates; Walsh’s remarks reverse the Fed’s previous logic;
Opinions and Voices
Jensen Huang: AI is driving manufacturing back to the U.S.; AI startups have received $400 billion in investment over the past six months;
“White-Haired God of Stocks” Serenity: NVIDIA’s bet on MediaTek could signal the selection of the next ASIC champion;
Musk: Google and Anthropic are leasing AI computing power from SpaceX;
Arthur Hayes: The euro/japanese yen is on the verge of a collapse—this is the final piece needed to restart the crypto bull market;
Jiang Zhuo'er: Bitcoin will face its first test since August 19; 50% of ETH spot position has been sold; all BTC positions have been sold at $82,050; next focus is on the $70,000 to $72,000 range.
Bitcoin may drop to $50,000 this fall, under dual pressure from rising interest rate expectations and the stagnation of the CLARITY Act;
Crypto trader Rune posted again to clarify that the tweet about acquiring a U.S. public company was generated by Claude, and the figures mentioned were fabricated and exaggerated;
Institutions, large corporations, and top projects
OpenAI releases the GPT-6 Astra model, claiming it may be close to achieving AGI;
Kimi's parent company, Moonshot AI, has launched a Hong Kong IPO, aiming to raise funds at a $50 billion valuation;
Nearly 30% of assets among South Korea’s top five exchanges are tradable on only one platform, revealing risks of “exit difficulties”;
The Bitcoin kimchi premium in the Korean market has reappeared, marking its longest streak of positive values since May.
Data
Meme coin trading takes center stage; Robinhood Chain generates more daily revenue than Ethereum.
Pons plans to expand its stock tokens, with cumulative creator trading fees exceeding $25 million;
Security
An abnormal password reset email affected thousands of X users, with multiple cryptocurrency industry accounts receiving requests;
After Tectonic, the largest lending protocol within the Cronos ecosystem, was hacked, Cronos's rollback operation has once again drawn criticism and skepticism.
Suffering a loss of approximately $455,000, the Sui ecosystem DeFi protocol Full Sail has decided to gradually shut down operations...
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