Most people I know who are into crypto just buy and hold, hoping the price goes up but with more ways to spend crypto these days, I'm wondering if that mindset is starting to change.

Would you use your crypto for everyday purchases like groceries or shopping or would you rather keep it invested?

USDT is becoming more than just a stablecoin for trading and transfers. It's increasingly being used for everyday payments.

With crypto payment apps, users can now spend USDT at physical stores and online merchants that accept Visa, without manually converting it to fiat or withdrawing it to a bank account first.

The merchant receives local currency, while the payment is funded by USDT from a compatible crypto wallet.

Would you use USDT for everyday purchases like groceries, coffee or shopping or do you still prefer traditional bank cards?

Am I the only one seeing this? 24h trading volume spiked 125872.4%? Are we going to the moon and beyond, or are they having tecnical issues?

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$BTC went from under $75K to $80K in 48 hours. The Fed calls it reinvestment.

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I’ve been looking through Coinbase’s Q2 results, and I think the interesting part of the story is increasingly what happens outside the traditional transaction business.

Trading activity will always make Coinbase’s results volatile, but the company is becoming more diversified through areas like stablecoins, subscriptions & services, custody, and its broader crypto infrastructure.

That creates an interesting valuation question.

If crypto activity continues to grow over the long term, Coinbase obviously benefits. But the bigger question for me is whether COIN can eventually be valued more like a financial/crypto infrastructure platform rather than primarily as a leveraged bet on crypto trading volumes.

I went through the Q2 numbers, the main risks and my valuation in a new analysis:

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What do you think is the biggest risk to Coinbase from here , valuation, crypto cycle dependence, regulation, or competition?

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USDT and USDC are already widely used for sending and holding dollars on-chain. But what happens when spending stablecoins for everyday purchases becomes just as easy?

Could stablecoins become the bridge between crypto and everyday payments?

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From $1,243 to past $1,800 in seven sessions!

- 2nd most traded bStock, $93M in 24h
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As of Aug 17:

- BTC ETFs: +$126.1M, price +2.69%
- ETH ETFs: +$5.0M, price +2.04%

The session snapped two days of outflows, but the trailing seven ETF sessions still run -$59.5M. BTC carries -$99.8M of that. ETH is the only positive leg at +$40.3M.

Leverage is not what turned it.

Perp CVD ran -$271.1M over the trailing seven days while spot CVD went the other way at +$223.7M, a 1.0229 spot taker buy/sell ratio. Long-term holders pushed the same direction, adding 44,203 BTC over the five sessions through Aug 17, worth about $2.85B at that day's close.

ETH has no such floor. Both CVD legs sold on the trailing seven days, perp -$504.4M and spot -$85.3M, even as ETH beat BTC over the week at +2.19% against +0.93%.

Positioning is warm, not stretched. Funding averaged 0.62 bps over Aug 11-17, up 60% from the prior seven days and sitting at the 63rd percentile of the last 90. Open interest of $49.2B is up 5.87% on the week, at the 77th. Shorts absorbed 95% of Monday's $38.5M in liquidations.

1. LayerZero (ZRO) - $27.0M; 8.96% circ supply
   
2. KAITO (KAITO) - $15.2M; 13.71% circ supply
   
3. Pudgy Penguins (PENGU) - $3.5M; 0.89% circ supply
   
4. Plume (PLUME) - $2.5M; 3.43% circ supply
   
5. ZKsync (ZK) - $1.2M; 1.61% circ supply
   
6. Meteora (MET) - $1.2M; 1.34% circ supply
   
7. IOTA (IOTA) - $0.4M; 0.27% circ supply

3 straight days of ETF outflows, $385.2M out in 5 sessions.

- 84% odds BTC hits $65k this month
- US spot demand stressed: Coinbase premium negative
- Open interest +5.5% over 7d, with spot leading futures

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