The Next Leg Up Starts Now? Consolidation is painful until it isn’t. After the August rip, Bitcoin spent the better part of a week doing nothing: a $76,000 to $79,000 range from Thursday through Wednesday. Tuesday in particular featured multiple macro scares (Fed hike chatter, oil, another round in the Middle East) which shook bulls to the bottom of the range. Then, the clouds broke. $BTC ripped more than 5% in a day, breaking out to a high of $82,179 before settling above $81,000, its best close since the August run began. Bitcoin is now up roughly 28% over 30 days. The rest of the market followed. ETH is back above $2,500 (up 35% on the month), $SOL pushed through $105 with a 6% day, and the memecoin complex woke up hard, which is exactly what the biggest traders on @jtx_trade were positioned for. How hard? Weekly volume across on-chain trading and terminals just printed close to $3.8 billion nearly 10x off the spring lows and already about 40% of the Trump-launch-week peak, the single biggest week in the history of the category. The trenches are open again.