📊 How to actually use Open Interest

Most traders stop at the chart. But OI tells you who's really active behind the move.

➡️ Rising OI often signals trend continuation — not reversal
➡️ Falling OI shows exit pressure — look for traps and squeezes
➡️ Combine OI with liquidations and funding to spot real conviction

OI ≠ magic. But when it aligns with structure and positioning, it sharpens your edge.

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🧠 You’re the average of the 5 people you follow

The old Jim Rohn quote says:

You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with.

In 2025, that means:
You’re the average of the 5 influencers you consume the most.

➡️Content shapes perspective
If you spend 5 hours a week watching airdrop threads, you’ll start thinking like airdrop hunters.
If your feed is full of BTC maxis, you’ll start questioning every alt.
Even entertainment matters — binge Seinfeld? You’re funnier. Rewatch Breaking Bad? You’re darker.

➡️It happens subconsciously
You don’t “decide” to change your view.
The algorithm slowly rotates your lens — until one day you wake up wondering how you got here.

➡️Trading is especially vulnerable
Your trades reflect your attention.
Memecoins, DeFi rotations, Bitcoin only — your feed can tilt your whole system without you realizing it.

➡️ So what can you do?
✔️Audit your input flow — who shows up most on your screen
✔️Check for alignment — are these people doing what you want to be doing?
✔️Course-correct consciously — not by muting everyone, but by curating better signal

You don’t need to overthink it.
But every now and then, ask:
Is my feed helping me think clearly — or just keeping me reactive?

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😌 Life when you forget the charts exist

Just you, a sunset, and zero thoughts about your PnL

➡️ Your coins will still be there after a walk
➡️ Most “urgent” updates aren’t
➡️ Logging off is bullish for mental capital

You don’t have to earn every pump.

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Charts vs chill

Chill wins

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📄 Latest Crypto Projects Updates!

➡️ Somnia — new quest available in collaboration with Rarible. Deadline August 3.

➡️ OpenSea — reports of another wave of bans in the project’s Discord. Check your wallets for any red flags.

➡️ Hyperlane — register for the second drop if you bridged from March 1 to June 30. Deadline August 11.

➡️ Meteora — point checker for Season 1 is now live. Drop likely coming this quarter.

➡️ Linea — tokenomics revealed and already broken down in our recent post.

➡️ Ink — time to verify if you want your future airdrop.

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📄 Crypto Watchlist for this week:

➡️ AI coins – ChatGPT-5 is expected to launch in early August

➡️ $S – Sonic's first major governance vote on institutional expansion will go live soon

➡️ $AERO – Coinbase will integrate Base DEXs into its app next week

➡️ $SILO – Silo Finance will launch auto-leverage in August, enabling one-click access to leveraged yield strategies

➡️ $HOME – Voting for DeFi App's proposal to buy back 1.8% of HOME token supply ends on Aug. 4

➡️ $SOL – Solana's new web3 smartphone called Seeker will start shipping on Aug. 4

➡️ $BTC – US will raise tariffs on almost all countries on Aug. 7

➡️ $ENA – $99M worth of ENA will be unlocked on Aug. 5

➡️ $PTB – Portal to Bitcoin announced plans to launch its token PTB in August

Good week to observe which names hold strength through noise.

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👆 Someone launched a coin called $ALPHA and literally wrote “Alpha” with the price action.

Still a better roadmap than half of CT.

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📉 Crypto dips $110B as recognition accelerates

Markets bled $110B and saw $800M in liquidations after tariff and rate news.
But crypto adoption? Still marching forward.

➡️ White House released a 166-page report Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Finance — CBDCs no, stablecoins yes, dollar everywhere.

➡️ SEC Chair Paul Atkins launched Project Crypto, calling crypto a “once-in-a-generation opportunity.”

➡️ Sygnum report claims U.S. is using stablecoins to fight de-dollarization.

➡️ Jito Labs, VanEck, and Bitwise ask SEC to allow liquid staking in Solana ETFs.

➡️ Visa adds support for USDG, PYUSD, and EURC.

Wet crypto dreams turning real — adoption, integration, and big money.

Now we wait for someone to finally pump our bags.

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🪙 How Figma’s CEO made $9M flipping CryptoPunks

Before the IPO headlines, Dylan Field was already making waves — as one of the earliest Punk collectors in crypto history.

➡️ In Dec 2017, he bought his first Punk (#2466) for just 0.12 ETH ($94)
➡️ On Jan 1, 2018, he went on a buying spree: 8 Punks in a day, including a zombie and an ape
➡️ His biggest move: Alien Punk #7804 for 12 ETH — later sold for 4,200 ETH ($7.7M)
➡️ In Feb 2021, sold Ape Punk for 800 ETH ($1.5M+)
➡️ Reinvested in Wild Hair Punks during the 2021 bull run
➡️ Today, he still holds 14 Punks and hasn’t sold since

One of the rare NFT collectors who made it… and then IPO’d for dessert.

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