Author: Cryptobull Trading
In 1956, at an exhibition hall in Tokyo, a Japanese artist named Saburō Murakami ran through a row of paper screens, leaving a torn, human-shaped hole in each one. The audience heard the rip in the moment but likely didn’t understand it. Murakami belonged to Gutai, the radical postwar avant-garde collective whose members painted with their feet and fought with mud, and his gesture made an argument the art world is still digesting, but ultimately the tearing and the wreckage after were the actual artwork. Seventy years later, the ripping hasn’t stopped. Trading card livestreams, Discord server groups, collector markets…
Three feature gated upgrades began activating on Solana mainnet the week of August 17. A 90% reduction in on chain storage rent, a 3.3 fold increase in maximum transaction size, and a staged slot time reduction from 400ms toward 200ms represent Solana’s most significant infrastructure change since Firedancer reached mainnet. Summary Solana’s Agave 4.2 client began mainnet feature activation the week of August 17, delivering three independent upgrades: a 90% rent reduction, 3.3 times larger transactions, and a staged slot time cut from 400ms toward 200ms. SIMD-0437 cuts the lamports per byte constant from 6,960 to 696, reducing the rent…
The Aussie Dollar extends its multi-week recovery, finally reclaiming the key 0.7100 hurdle and beyond against the US Dollar. Indeed, AUD/USD is gaining momentum and appears to be heading higher, with the 0.7200 barrier ahead of yearly peaks. In the meantime, the RBA’s cautious stance and still sticky domestic inflation are likely to underpin the Aussie during occasional bouts of weakness.The Australian Dollar (AUD) extends Friday’s marked advance vs. the US Dollar (USD) in quite a promising start to the new trading week, prompting AUD/USD to reclaim the area above 0.7100 the figure for the first time since early June.Indeed,…
A stock can beat Wall Street’s earnings estimates and still fall sharply. Another company can miss an estimate and rally. This is not necessarily irrational. Stock prices respond to how results compare with the expectations already reflected in the price, not simply whether the headline says “beat” or “miss.”Key takeaways for stock investorsAn earnings beat is not automatically bullish. A small beat may have been widely expected and already priced into the stock.Published consensus is not the market’s full expectation. Investors may also be considering unofficial “whisper numbers,” valuation, positioning, guidance and industry trends.The size of the reaction needs context.…
All news is rigorously fact-checked and reviewed by leading blockchain experts and seasoned industry insiders. Ripple and XRP are often used interchangeably in the crypto space, but they are not similar in terms of their applications in digital payments and blockchain technology. This article describes the distinction between Ripple and XRP and how these two aim to make cross-border transactions modern. Network XRP Ledger (XRPL), a public, open-source ledger Asset XRP (pre-minted supply at inception) Speed (typical) Finality in seconds Fees (typical) Tiny fractions of 1 XRP per transaction (anti-spam, not revenue) Core idea Fast, low-cost settlement for value transfers;…
Newmont stock has suddenly become one of the more interesting large-cap mining charts I am watching.NEM closed Friday at $112.98 after gaining more than 20% on the weekly candle, following an aggressive reversal from the lower boundary of a descending channel that has contained the stock since its early-2026 peak.My read is bullish, but with an important qualification: the potential weekly bull flag has not broken out yet.If Newmont can eventually clear and hold above roughly $118-$120, the technical picture changes substantially. That could put $124-$126 back in play first, followed by a challenge of the $131-$135 all-time-high area.Patience matters…
Most traders assume depegs are slow. They are not. Inside the 30 second window where arbitrage bots, liquidation cascades, and oracle lag collide to turn a minor price slip into a systemic event. Summary A stablecoin depeg lasting fewer than 60 seconds can trigger hundreds of millions of dollars in DeFi liquidations because lending protocols rely on price oracles that update on fixed intervals, not in real time, creating windows where collateral ratios become stale. Arbitrage bots can detect and exploit a depeg within two to three blocks on Ethereum, roughly 24 to 36 seconds, buying discounted stablecoins on one…
Mon: BoJ Summary of OpinionsTue: RBA AnnouncementWed: German Final Inflation (Jul), IEA OMR, OPEC MOMR, US CPI (Jul)Thu: Norges Bank Announcement, UK GDP (Q2), US PPI (Jul)Fri: EZ Employment (Q2) and GDP 2nd Estimate (Q2), US Retail Sales (Jul), US University of Michigan Prelim (Aug)BoJ Summary of Opinions (Mon):The BoJ will release the Summary of Opinions from its July 31st meeting, where the central bank kept rates unchanged at 1.00%, as widely expected, after raising rates at its previous meeting in June. The decision was made by an 8-1 vote, with board member Takata dissenting and proposing a 25bps hike.…
Smart accounts replace seed phrases with passkeys, social recovery, and gas sponsorship, making self-custody usable without memorizing 12 words. Summary Account abstraction (AA) upgrades Ethereum wallets from fixed key pairs to programmable smart contracts that define their own validation rules. ERC-4337, live on mainnet since March 2023, introduced AA without changing Ethereum’s core protocol by routing transactions through an alternative mempool of UserOperations. Passkey wallets such as Coinbase Smart Wallet and Safe replace seed phrases with biometric authentication tied to the device’s secure enclave. Gas sponsorship (paymasters) lets applications pay transaction fees on behalf of users, removing the requirement to…
Intent-based protocols separate what a user wants from how it gets done, outsourcing execution to competitive solvers who find the best price across fragmented liquidity. Summary An intent is a signed message describing a desired outcome (for example, “swap 1 ETH for at least 3,200 USDC”) rather than a specific execution path. Solvers are specialized agents that compete to fill intents, searching across DEXs, CEXs, private inventory, and cross-chain liquidity to find the optimal route. CoW Protocol, UniswapX, and Across are the three largest intent-based systems, collectively processing billions in monthly volume by mid-2026. Intent architectures protect users from MEV…