The Chinese and U.S. leaders put Iran’s nuclear commitment and the tolls for international waterways into the same agreement. The pressure-release valve for the situation in the Middle East was turned on accordingly, and the pricing logic for risk assets was rewritten. The weight of this agreement lies in its dual safeguards: Iran will not develop nuclear weapons, cutting off the fuses of nuclear proliferation; no country may charge fees for international waterways, which amounts to locking up navigation through the Strait of Hormuz. Since one-fifth of global oil and gas transport passes through this strait, the risk of blockade recedes, and the risk premium on crude oil can only unwind. As oil prices fall, imported inflation cools; the Federal Reserve’s room to cut interest rates opens up, and liquidity expectations shift toward a more accommodative stance.
Huang Mao is speaking with that Biden senior dementia vibe too 😂 If you’ve already completely controlled it, what are you even talking to Iran about? $CL
As soon as the market drops, there are teachers who dig up posts from some unknown time ago that were calling for bearish positions. Even if they were shouting about many long positions recently, as long as it drops, they’re still firmly bearish. I really want to live my whole life like that—adapting randomly 😂$BTC
The next step in Bitcoin finance may not be on yet another L2. Teams that once helped build Bitcoin L2 with Stacks are now taking a different path: keeping BTC on the Bitcoin network and having capital flow around it. Zest calls it the Bitcoin Capital Layer. The founders have been involved in sBTC and the Nakamoto upgrade, and have operated real Bitcoin lending markets; the project raised a $3.5 million seed round led by Tim Draper’s Draper Associates, with YZi Labs participating—Draper’s portfolio includes Tesla, SpaceX, Robinhood, and Coinbase. The story starts with the business: Zest’s Stacks lending market deposit peak has exceeded $100 million, with borrowings of about $10 million, stablecoin liquidity of over $9 million, completing more than 1,500 liquidations with zero bad debt; the protocol generates revenue by sharing borrower interest. Its new product, Bitcoin Collateral Vaults, brings this logic out of L2: users lock BTC in a self-custody vault on Bitcoin L1, then borrow stablecoins on an EVM chain—without wrapping or bridging—while the BTC remains in the vault throughout the life of the loan. Lending is the first application, not the boundary of the capital layer. ZEST has a relatively small circulating market cap but already has access via Binance Alpha spot and Binance Futures. It isn’t another Bitcoin L2 token; it’s the answer from Stacks builders to the programmable Bitcoin’s next stage—an extension of the STX investment thesis.
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Bitcoin Collateral Vaults demo is now on mainnet.
Deposit native BTC into a self-custodial vault on Bitcoin L1. Borrow Ethereum USDC against it. The capital layer for Bitcoin.
Open a demo vault on: https://btc-collateral-vaults.zestprotocol.com/
#币安夏令营 On Binance, you’ll see the “Traditional Finance (TradFi)” sector—what is it? It’s where traditional assets like gold and US stocks are listed on the Binance app.
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When you reach the fourth stage, your level is really chubby 😄
👹 Day 4 brings our first Boss battle: learning traditional finance (TradFi)
Cross-domain exploration isn’t that easy—点击开始闯关
🔥 Join the community challenge to win 5,000 USDC! Finish the Day 4 game, and get your “Leaderboard” points to 640 points, then take a screenshot.
Post it on Binance Square with #币安夏令营 , and reply briefly: “Through today’s challenge, what new knowledge have I learned about traditional finance (TradFi)?” and 👉点击提交表单
#币安安全星期四 I choose C. “Let me research it first” — then quietly open the official channels Even though I only have a few coins in my wallet right now, I’ll get rich one day. That’s what scammers think too.
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😈 Friend: “Bro, help me out—sign up for the internal private placement test”
What would you do❓ A. Sign! Absolutely sign! For a friend, I’ll go ‘sign’ 🥹 B. First check the wallet link—if I don’t transfer, it should be fine, right 🤔 C. “Let me research first”—then quietly open the official channels 🫡
⬇️ RT + leave your choice and reasons to be entered; 3 people will be selected, each getting 20U #币安安全星期四
Based on what I know about Sun Ge, he probably took an advertising fee from OpenAI. For this batch of dumplings made with a little vinegar, he found a math problem that OpenAI could solve, and handed out a special prize. He could also, conveniently, ride some extra heat by using the sponsor’s money for himself.
The shoes have hit the ground. The Federal Reserve announced a 25-basis-point rate hike, bringing the federal funds rate into the 3.75%–4% range—its first hike in three years. After the news was released, there was no panic on the trading screen; instead, prices slowly rebounded. This detail is more worth pondering than the hike itself.
The answer is hidden in expectations. As early as before the meeting, the interest rate swap market had already priced in this hike with more than a 90% probability—meaning roughly 23 basis points of tightening had been reflected in prices in advance. Step by step, Wach’s hawkish remarks at Jackson Hole, the strong employment data in August, and the oil price rise driven by the situation in the Middle East all helped set up market psychology. Traders spent weeks adjusting their positioning for defense: shorts that should have been built were built, and leverage that should have been reduced was reduced. By the time the decision was announced, the bad news no longer had any fresh impact—there were even signs of excessive bearish positioning.
This is the classic reverse version of “buy the expectation, sell the fact.” The negative news was already over-allocated during the pricing stage; once it landed, it actually became the removal of uncertainty. The sword hanging over investors’ heads has come down, and the worst-case scenario now has defined boundaries. Naturally, waiting capital is willing to re-enter, and the rebound is a direct expression of this mindset.
Going forward, the key is not the 25 basis points this time, but the path. How the dot plot is drawn, how Waller speaks about subsequent hikes, and whether inflation can hold steady under energy shocks—these determine how long capital is willing to stay. For investors, digesting a single rate hike doesn’t equal an end to the tightening cycle. An environment in which the interest-rate center of gravity moves higher may persist through 2027. For now, the comfortable entry is about sentiment repair; later positioning still needs to follow the data. Don’t take the idea that one piece of negative news has been fully “priced out” as the whole reason to believe in a trend reversal. $ZEC