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Alpha isn't just the first letter of the Greek alphabet. It's a mindset. It's seeing opportunity where others see chaos.
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Spartan group bought 249 $MKR tokens ~ $300k worth today, and overall SM wallets are unloading it. gud coin But into dips.
CPI Day YoY est 3.3%
1 hour before the bell

Estimates:
avg: 3.24%
Binance Labs Invests $5M in Curve DAO Token (CRV) and Supports Curve Deployment to BNB Chain :BLOG
Banking Regulators Just Issued a Stern Warning to Any Bank Doing Business with PayPal, Continuing An Unprecedented Financial Regulatory Onslaught Against All Things Crypto. https://www.federalreserve.gov/supervisionreg/srletters/SR2308.htm
The SEC has to make a decision on ARKInvest's Bitcoin Spot ETF by Sunday.

Because the weekend, expect an announcement today.

The SEC can either postpone its decision, approve the ETF, or deny it.
SEC solicits comments on proposal to list ARK spot bitcoin ETF
COINDESK: Ark 21Shares Bitcoin ETF Application Decision Pushed by SEC
Sept. 2 is the deadline for the next ETF
SAND is undergoing a significant unlock of 280.74 million tokens by Monday, representing 9.36% of the total supply and 16% of the circulating supply. This unlock amounts to approx. $332.69 million, which is equivalent to 13.6% of the market cap.
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The IEO for SAND, held on Binance from August 6th to 13th, 2020, raised $3 million and yielded a 48.1x return, reaching an all-time high of 1001.22x. The private sale, with tokens priced at $0.005, achieved an 80.17x return and an all-time high of 1668.63x, raising $600,000. The pre-sale, at a price of $0.0036 per token, yielded a 111.35x return, hitting an all-time high of 2317.55x, and raised $1,855,440. with means Early Investors are already Up huge, And these are the last Unlocks for seed Investors.
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In 2020, SAND's first unlock caused a 41% drop in price Unlocked 18% of the circulating supply. But in 2021, during a strong market, the next two unlocks boosted returns by over 200%. Later, as the market weakened, two more unlocks led to losses of 40% and 30%. So, unlocks did well in a good market but struggled when the market turned sour.
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Upbit is one of the main exchange for SAND token trading, Coinstore leads with a 12.07% share of trading volume. Upbit follows with 6.27%, and Bitrue, Binance, and Huobi each have around 5% to 6%. Other exchanges like Bitforex and Toobit hold smaller shares, around 2.5%.
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1/4 Upbit is one of the main exchange for SAND token trading, Coinstore leads with a 12.07% share of trading volume. Upbit follows with 6.27%, and Bitrue, Binance, and Huobi each have around 5% to 6%. Other exchanges like Bitforex and Toobit hold smaller…
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deposits on exchanges have risen above 20% and are now sitting at 24%. Binance is receiving the top deposits, with the overall volume on exchanges reaching $720 million. This marks an increase from $620 million just a week ago. Binance is leading the way, having received $75 million in deposits within the last 7 days. This level of activity is the highest it's been in a year in 2022.
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In this situation, the holding pattern of smart money isn't a significant factor, since 80% of those funds are simply waiting for a spike to sell into. This includes some OTC wallets and Sandbox NFT royalties wallets that are poised to cash out.
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Additionally, SAND faced scrutiny from the SEC last month, along with a few other gaming tokens. Despite the passage of time, SAND has not yet recovered from the dip in value that followed the SEC news.

Animoca Brands holds 14,148 tokens, with recent increases of $5,682. (They will sell asap) been selling since last Year.
Hashed controls 35.6 million tokens, 1kx has 9.5 million, and Genesis Trading's OTC holds 5.8 million, all with no recent changes.
Alameda Research has 805,598 tokens, with a 30-day increase of $26,727.
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Seeing this as a slow trade, taking 15 to 30 days to reveal the real volatility, trading into the unlock day is mostly characterized by pump-and-dump (PND) spikes that wreck both sides. This is due to extreme open interest (OI) and futures trades, which create some shorter-term volatility. The real moves typically start in a week or two.
A few Events for Week Ahead Aug14/Aug20 | 2023

The opBNB testnet has scheduled a PreContract hard fork for August 14th at 14:00.

Kraken plans to list
$SEI during the next week.

KuCoin
will suspend its mining pool services starting from August 16th.

Binance will delist the ADA/BUSD
and MATIC/BUSD perpetual contracts on August 17th.

Acara's Web3 prediction platform will host its first round ID0 at 10:00 on August 19th.

Parallax
IDO (Next Week)

The FOMC Meeting Minutes are scheduled for Wednesday, August 16th.

Unlocks Week Ahead:
Curve DAO ($CRV) will unlock $261.48k in 1 hour.
Sweatcoin ($SWEAT) will unlock $18.08k in 3 hours.
The Sandbox $(SAND) will unlock $131.89m in 11 hours.
Flow ($FLOW) will unlock $4.12m in 2 days.
Pendle ($PENDLE) will unlock $42.92k in 2 days.
Euler ($EUL) will unlock $411.37k in 2 days.
ApeCoin ($APE) will unlock $31.51m in 3 days.
Oasis Network ($ROSE) will unlock $8.14m in 4 days.
Injective (INJ) will unlock $22.11m in 7 days.
Alpha pinned «A few Events for Week Ahead Aug14/Aug20 | 2023 The opBNB testnet has scheduled a PreContract hard fork for August 14th at 14:00. Kraken plans to list $SEI during the next week. KuCoin will suspend its mining pool services starting from August 16th. Binance…»
Machi bought into $APE again after making profits last year. He cleared his recent $APE positions at the end of February:

Now He took out 1.14 million $APE, worth $2.5 million, from Binance about 3 hours ago, and most of it is now staked. Right now, Machi has 1.20 million $APE in Ape Staking.

From the end of last year, Machi bought and sold a lot of $APE and made good money. (Into different Unlocks events)

Note: ApeCoin $APE will Unlock $31.51 million worth of tokens in 3 days.
The Sandbox is currently distributing $SAND via the Unlocks address 0x73b:
29.52 million SAND ($11.7M) have been distributed to 12 addresses within 2 hours.

Within 4 days, The Sandbox has distributed and transferred 120 million SAND ($47.62M) through address 0x73b, of which more than 86 million SAND have been transferred to CEX. (Karken, Binance etc)