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Markets blow up, so ‘the best prep is to have a plan to buy fear and sell euphoria’ — Veteran trader

Pear Protocol founder HUF says “a limited pool of capital constantly rotating between narratives” is a clear sign of “late cycle behavior.”

Global markets blew up over the weekend, and the onslaught carried on throughout the trading day on Aug. 5 as the DOW and S&P 500 dropped by more than 1,000 points and Bitcoin (BTC) price fell below $49,000. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index saw its worst one-day correction since October 1987, and the sell-off in Taiwan’s benchmark stock index was the worst trading day in 57 years. 

Nearly all markets closed Aug.5 in the red, and while it seems too early to conclude that the selling is over, traders are likely wondering whether or not it’s time to start thinking like a contrarian and handpicking assets at a discount?

To discuss what’s happening in this week’s volatile market, Cointelegraph spoke to Huf, the founder of Pear Protocol, a decentralized exchange that allows traders to engage in trending narratives via pair trading.

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TON Network TVL surpasses $760M — Is this bullish for TON price?

Investors’ excitement over airdrops and other incentives fueled TON Network’s TVL, but how sustainable is this strategy?

Toncoin (TON) is the native coin of The Open Network, a layer-1 blockchain initially developed by the Telegram messaging app. The TON ecosystem is largely driven by Telegram’s 900 million active users. 

Despite being relatively new to the decentralized applications (DApps) ecosystem, the TON Network has surpassed Optimism to become the tenth largest blockchain in terms of total value locked (TVL).

On June 26, Bitget crypto exchange and Singapore-based investment firm Foresight Ventures announced a $20 million TON ecosystem fund to support early-stage projects and TON-based applications. Previously, the exchange had launched an official Telegram signal trading recommendation bot, enabling group owners to integrate this functionality at no cost.

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Solana traders chase $180 target after SOL gains 13% in 2-days

A surge in Solana network activity, memecoin prices and optimistic derivatives markets could be a sign that SOL is aiming for $180.

Solana's native token SOL (SOL) rallied 13% between July 14 and July 16, breaking above the $160 resistance level for the first time in five weeks. However, SOL's price remains 24% lower from its $209 peak in March, leaving little room for celebration among bulls. Traders now question the sustainability of the uptrend and the odds of retesting the $180 level in the near term.

The recent excitement around SOL can be partially attributed to the final phase of Ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) approval. According to Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has reportedly delivered final instructions to asset managers as it prepares to launch on July 23. VanEck and 21Shares filed for a similar Solana ETF application on July 8, although a final decision from the SEC is expected by March 2025.

A significant part of Solana's ecosystem consists of memecoins, thanks to the network's low fees for launching and trading. This has led to the success of memecoins like BONK and DogwifHat (WIF), which achieved peak market capitalizations of $2.8 billion and $4.8 billion, respectively. More importantly, Solana has been able to build an active and engaged community, which is not easily replicable.

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Institutional Crypto Products See $2,200,000,000 in Weekly Flows Setting Year-to-Date Record: CoinShares

Florida Man Convicted for Violent Kidnapping, Assault and Crypto-Stealing Scheme

Florida Man Convicted for Violent Kidnapping, Assault and Crypto-Stealing Scheme

A 24-year-old man from Florida has been convicted of running a crypto-stealing scheme that also included kidnapping and assault. In a new press release, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) says that Remy St. Felix, from West Palm Beach, was the mastermind of a burglary crew that targeted crypto owners from September 2022 to July […]

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Institutional Crypto Products See $2,200,000,000 in Weekly Flows Setting Year-to-Date Record: CoinShares

Hackers Take Over Rapper 50 Cent’s X Account To Steal Over $3,000,000 in Crypto: Report

Hackers Take Over Rapper 50 Cent’s X Account To Steal Over ,000,000 in Crypto: Report

A bad actor has reportedly hacked into rapper 50 Cent’s X account and stolen millions of dollars worth of crypto after promoting a pump-and-dump scheme. According to a new report by Fox Business, the rap artist says that his social media account was hacked by a scammer who made away with $3 million in under […]

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Institutional Crypto Products See $2,200,000,000 in Weekly Flows Setting Year-to-Date Record: CoinShares

Binance Labs Announces Investment in New Cross-Chain DEX and Bridging Aggregator

Binance Labs Announces Investment in New Cross-Chain DEX and Bridging Aggregator

Binance’s venture capital arm is announcing an investment into a new cross-chain decentralized exchange (DEX) and bridging aggregator. In a new blog post, the world’s largest crypto exchange by volume says that it is investing an unspecified amount of money into interoperability DEX Rango. Rango is a cross-chain exchange that aggregates sources and connects traders […]

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Institutional Crypto Products See $2,200,000,000 in Weekly Flows Setting Year-to-Date Record: CoinShares

Uniswap Foundation Reveals Unaudited Summary Financials As Vote for New Fee Mechanism Approaches

Uniswap Foundation Reveals Unaudited Summary Financials As Vote for New Fee Mechanism Approaches

The foundation behind crypto’s leading decentralized exchange (DEX) is disclosing its crypto assets as a governance vote for a new fee mechanism approaches. In a new blog post, the Uniswap Foundation has shared its 2024 first-quarter financials in a show of transparency with the Uniswap (UNI) token-holding community. “On March 31, 2024 we had $41.41 million […]

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Institutional Crypto Products See $2,200,000,000 in Weekly Flows Setting Year-to-Date Record: CoinShares

Solana (SOL) price encounters resistance near $190 — Here is why

SOL price rallied 5% today, but on-chain data raises doubts about whether Solana can overcome the barrier at $190.

Solana's native token, SOL (SOL), experienced a 5% increase on May 27, trading up from $161 on May 26 to $171. This rise fueled investors' hopes for continued growth, especially since SOL had reached $188.90 on May 21, just days earlier. A significant factor in SOL’s upward movement is a proposal designed to increase yields for validators rather than burning tokens, though network activity remains unchanged.

On May 27, Solana's validators approved the SIMD-0096 proposal, which eliminates the 50% burn rate on priority transactions and sets it to 0%. Consequently, from epoch 621 onward, all transaction fees will be allocated to block producers. This shift aims to ensure validators are motivated to prioritize network security and efficiency over engaging in arbitrage strategies that involve transaction reordering or exclusion.

Maximal extractable value (MEV) refers to profits block producers make by determining the order of transaction processing on the blockchain. With each block containing a limited number of transactions, validators can choose which pending transactions to include, often to the detriment of regular users who might face poorer execution prices in decentralized finance (DeFi) applications.

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Ethereum’s lackluster performance has little to do with spot ETH ETF approval

Ether’s price performance is hindered by stagnant network use, high fees and regulatory uncertainty.

The Ethereum spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) was approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on May 23. Despite this long-awaited decision, the price of Ether (ETH) failed to hold above $3,800 on May 24, which was surprising given that ETH was trading at $3,943 just two days earlier. The market had been uncertain about the approval odds, so the decision, particularly its timing, caught many off guard.

Some market participants quickly pointed out that the SEC has not yet approved the individual S-1 statements from each issuer, a process that could take weeks or months. This delay, among other factors, is hindering Ether’s performance, including the network's stagnant growth, relatively high transaction fees, and regulatory uncertainty in the U.S.

Some of the recent profit-taking likely resulted from the anticipation of the spot ETF's approval, which triggered a 23% rally on May 20, an event often termed "sell the news." Traders bought ETH expecting the official announcement, especially after the SEC reportedly urged exchanges like the NYSE and Nasdaq to expedite their 19b-4 filings on May 20.

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Shibaswap Migrates to Shibarium Network, Expanding Access to 2 Chains

Shibaswap Migrates to Shibarium Network, Expanding Access to 2 ChainsOn May 15, the development team for the meme token project SHIB announced that the decentralized exchange (dex) Shibaswap has been ported to the Shibarium blockchain. SHIB’s lead developer detailed that Shibaswap’s trading platform is now accessible to users of both the Ethereum and Shibarium networks. Shiba Inu Devs Port Shibaswap Over to Shibarium According […]

Institutional Crypto Products See $2,200,000,000 in Weekly Flows Setting Year-to-Date Record: CoinShares