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📊 ETH options whipsaw Last week showed how quickly sentiment can swing in derivatives. ➡️ Aug 22: upside bias as calls got bid, with 1w skew at -7% ➡️ Aug 25: shift into defense as puts gained demand, with 1w skew at +4% ➡️ Aug 28: back to neutral, with skews flattening across tenors In plain terms, traders flipped ETH risk pricing from bullish to bearish and then to balanced in less than a week. That speed highlights how fragile conviction is right now. In this kind of environment, option markets are a compass, they show you not where price is, but where traders are afraid it might go next. 🫡Powered by Venture Capital

JUST IN: Bitcoin rises above $111,000.

JUST IN: SharpLink has acquired 39,008 ETH, increasing its total holdings to 837,230 ETH, which are valued at $3.6 billion.

‼️$27M lost in Venus Protocol phishing attack A VenusProtocol ($XVS) user fell victim to a phishing scam, approving a malicious transaction that drained around $27M in crypto. This involves: ➡️ ~$19.8M $vUSDT ➡️ ~$7.1M $vUSDC ➡️ ~$147.1K $XRP ➡️ ~$22.5K $ETH Attacker gained token approvals from the victim’s wallet Phishing remains one of the most effective attack vectors in crypto, one wrong click can wipe out years of gains. 🫡Powered by Venture Capital

🔍Crypto influencers caught in stealth shilling Big names in trading and crypto Twitter are pushing projects for cash while pretending it’s “just their opinion.” ZachXBT dropped a new investigation, publishing a price list of 200+ influencers and the wallets tied to paid promo offers. ➡️ Over 160 accounts accepted deals. ➡️ Fewer than 5 labeled their posts as ads. The line between “alpha” and undisclosed marketing has never been thinner. 🫡Powered by Venture Capital

🔽One trader’s $WLFI FOMO spiral This wallet closed its $WLFI long with a $915K profit. A clean exit. Then FOMO hit. He jumped back in with 3x leverage. Now he’s sitting on a $930K unrealized loss. In bull markets, the hardest trade is often to do nothing. 🫡Powered by Venture Capital

JUST IN: Today, Trump's cryptocurrency advisor David Bailey claimed that the current BTC value isn't at $150,000 due to two major investors. He mentioned that after both are dealt with (one is already down, and the other is halfway), the value will only increase.

Trading crypto is easy. You only have to endure extreme volatility, survive scams, protect the downside, take profits, but let winners run, work around the clock, do the opposite of what your emotions tell you to do, withstand enormous pain, and explain to your wife why you’re betting your savings on a dog coin. 🫡Powered by Venture Capital

$WLFI launch World Liberty Financial went live today with claim open for public sale participants. 20% of allocations are available. The market cap looks extreme at first glance. FDV sits around 32B, more than 11 times the actual supply of USD1 stablecoins…

$WLFI launch WorldLibertyFinancial went live today with claim open for public sale participants. 20% of allocations are available. The market cap looks extreme at first glance. FDV sits around 32B, more than 11 times the actual supply of USD1 stablecoins in circulation. By comparison, Circle and Ethena both traded at valuations below their stablecoin float. WLFI trades at a premium that no one else in the sector commands. The circulating supply is about 24.7B tokens. Most of the emission remains locked across treasury, team, and partners. Binance is backing the project heavily, with large reserves and clear political links through the Trump family. This support gives WLFI an aura of strength and legitimacy, even if the fundamentals are unusual. Flows on chain are mixed. One large player opened a 10M short, another opened a 2M long. The team already started buybacks, purchasing 6.5M WLFI for 2M USD1. Official voices add fuel: Eric and Donald Trump Jr both called the token a new standard for American finance. The business model raises questions. Early revenue is being routed toward entities tied to the founders. Organic adoption of USD1 is still limited, with most liquidity concentrated around Binance deals. That makes the token speculative and narrative-driven more than utility-backed. From a trading perspective, this leaves WLFI in a tricky spot. Buying feels expensive with such a stretched FDV. Shorting is even riskier given the political premium and the backing from Binance. For now, the stance is simple: no rush to long, and no interest in shorting at all. Watching from the sidelines until the chart offers a clear setup.

📈Gold vs Bitcoin divergence Gold and Bitcoin have been moving almost tick for tick for the past three years. Both seen as hedges against fiat debasement, both reacting to liquidity. Now the correlation has broken. Gold is making new highs while Bitcoin is dumping. ➡️ Historically, such divergences don’t last long ➡️ Either Gold is leading a macro bid, or Bitcoin is flashing a warning ➡️ The odds favor Gold - it rarely “lies” in these setups A resolution is coming. When it snaps back, it won’t be quiet. 🫡Powered by Venture Capital

💶Scramble makes investing in consumer brands simple Scramble is a Europeanplatform that lets anyone back fast-growing consumer companies and earn from it - without the noise of stocks or daily market tracking. Each month, users get a curated batch of companies, and investments are automatically diversified. ➡️ Founder-backed loans, disbursed in stages to reduce risk ➡️ Group A: monthly repayments, up to 12.4% annually ➡️ Group B: higher risk, up to 25% returns ➡️ Scramble co-invests up to 20% in every batch ✨New users get €10 for signing up, plus €5 bonus for every €100 invested. Positioned as a hands-off, lower-volatility way to grow capital, Scramble is betting on the appeal of consumer brands as a stable entry point for retail investors.