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Oil is the true protagonist of this war.
"BTC OG Insider Whale" agent Garrett Jin published a lengthy article with a core point: oil is not a byproduct of the US-Iran war, but the driving force behind the war itself. The stock market, bonds, cryptocurrencies, Federal Reserve policies, food prices—all of these are downstream results of oil prices. Understanding oil is key to understanding the entire market.
His assessment is more pessimistic and more specific than mainstream market views.
The Strait of Hormuz has been closed for over five weeks, U.S. ground forces are gathering, with no clear p

Cross-border payment startup Latitude recently successfully raised $8 million. The funding round was led by well-known venture capital firm NEA, with a prestigious lineup of participants including Lightspeed Faction, Coinbase, Paxos, and the Solana Foundation.
Latitude's core business focuses on global payment solutions. The platform uses stablecoins as an intermediary to help U.S. companies initiate transfers to payees in over 50 countries worldwide. The system automatically handles the conversion process from USD to stablecoins and then to local fiat currencies.
The founding team has a s

Lido plans to use its own funds to buy back its tokens.
Recently, the Lido ecosystem operations team posted a proposal on the community forum, seeking authorization from the Growth Committee to use up to 10,000 stETH from the treasury to repurchase LDO tokens.
The reasoning is straightforward: the current LDO/ETH exchange rate is approximately 0.00016, at a historic low, about 63% below the two-year median, and seriously disconnected from the protocol's fundamentals.
The execution will be cautious—conducted in batches through the Easy Track mechanism, with each batch capped at 1,000 stET

A certain PUMP private whale sold over half of their position, with a total loss of approximately $10.3 million.
Seeing this resonated with me.
Last year, I also invested in a private fund, and once the lock-up period was over, I absolutely refused to sell.
Every day I told myself "wait until I break even before selling."
The more I waited, the deeper I got, and in the end, I cut at the bottom.
This PUMP whale is similar.
Not moving for 8 months shows they truly believe.
But the market doesn't give face, and in the end, they still cut.
A loss of $10.3 million sounds exaggerated,
but essentiall

Last night I saw a piece of news that made my heart skip a beat. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has dropped out of the top 500 richest people in the world. A while ago, his peak net worth was around 17 billion USD, and now he's down to about 7.5 billion USD. To be honest, 7.5 billion still sounds like an astronomical number, but compared to the "crypto new riches" halo before, the gap is really huge. The key reason is that the stock price has crashed too hard. COIN's stock has plummeted from its high of $419 in July, down more than 60%. Coupled with the chain reaction in October, even Bitcoin wa

Kevin Wash, who was nominated by Trump to serve as the next Federal Reserve Chair, stated in a 2025 interview that Bitcoin is a highly disruptive new technology, an important asset, and a "health report" for decision-makers. "Whether we are doing right or wrong can be seen from its price, so it’s more like an inspector of monetary policy." Wash's statement is actually very informative. He is not talking about price, but about feedback mechanisms. The existence of Bitcoin has given monetary policy, for the first time, an uncontrollable and unmanipulable market signal. If you do the right thing,