Earlier this month, more than 100,000 traders were liquidated in a single day. I’d bet most of them had a decent read on the market. Bitcoin had been stuck in a range for a week, and plenty of people expected a breakout. What wiped them out was size. When a position is big enough, a normal pullback becomes fatal. You never get to find out whether you were right because the market takes you out first. This is the least exciting part of trading, but the one that matters most. Before any entry, ask how much you lose if your stop gets hit, and whether you’d shrug that off or lose sleep over it. If one bad trade can ruin your month, the trade is too big.

In a space where hacks are rife and scammers outnumber actual crypto traders, why would you buy a Ledger from a third party company? The biggest flaw in security measures are humans. Why add a clear security risk by involving an additional layer that doesn't need to be involved?

The growth continues. VERDICT markets are now live. Much more to come covering finance, politics, geopolitics, technology and more. VERDICT will also provide a great hedging opportunity for those VDEX positions. Pay attention, VERDICT and Avalanche are making moves 🤝

My whole timeline is full of BTC maxis telling me $100k is happening before $50k. See you at $50k. When CT is calling for higher when there is literally nothing going on, my gut says we're about to get swept out.

🚨 Fraudsters target grieving Wales family with fake £300K crypto inheritance - Family recently lost a relative - Scammers claimed relative held £300K in crypto - Said the money could be passed to the family - Callers persuaded them to hand over bank details - Victim was told to open a new online account - Scammers then tried withdrawing from that account - Police call this a "recovery scam" tactic - Common target: families right after a death Never share bank details with unexpected callers...

🚨 Strategy holds BTC steady, no fresh BUYS - No Bitcoin bought or sold last week - Raised fresh cash by selling common stock - Used proceeds to buy back preferred shares and pay dividends - Also added meaningfully to its dollar reserve - Reserve now covers nearly 3 years of obligations - Big chunks of both buyback programs still untapped - Both MSTR stock and BTC ticked up on the news

🚨 SharpLink to stake $200M ETH through Lido - Nasdaq-listed SharpLink (SBET) will stake $200M in ETH via Lido, receiving wstETH in return - Assets held in custody by Anchorage Digital, a regulated institutional custodian - Move avoids the complexity of running validators while keeping liquidity through the wrapped staking token - CEO frames it as putting idle ETH holdings to more productive use while meeting institutional risk standards

🚨 Curve DAO (CRV) rallies even as DEX fees crash 73.5% - CRV trades at $0.25, pinned right against its 200-day EMA, the key level for a long-term trend flip - Daily chart leans bullish (RSI 66, positive MACD), but the 1-hour chart shows momentum cooling - Curve's own DEX fees fell 38.5% in 24h and 73.5% over 30 days, far steeper than rival DEXs - Fear & Greed Index sits at 29, and Bitcoin dominance at 56.3%, offering little tailwind for altcoins generally

🚨 PeckShield: fresh $25.6M crypto theft, 2026 losses hit $1.65B - Stolen assets included $6.3M aWBTC, $5.1M DAI, $4.7M WBTC, and $2.6M ETH - Attacker converted much of it into 20M DAI and 3,000 ETH, split across four wallets - July alone saw $242M lost across 28 hacks, with the Coldcard firmware flaw accounting for $116M of that 2026 total now stands at $1.65B, with April the worst month ($606.7M) driven by Kelp DAO ($293M) and Drift Protocol ($285M) exploits

🚨 Bitwise CIO: revenue-driven altcoins mark a "new era" for crypto - Matt Hougan argues tokens will start being valued like stocks, on income-generating capacity - Cites HYPE, UNI, AAVE, and PumpDotFun as projects already using fees for buybacks or burns - Says this shift extends beyond DeFi to layer-1s like Aptos and Solana - Claims the market hasn't priced this in yet, despite billions in economic activity already flowing through these networks - Predicts revenue linked tokens could double or more if investors catch on over the next 12-24 months This isn't a new narrative though, and these tokens still need adoption and real long term use case.