OVERVIEW

Like A Drunk In A Trust Fall, BTC Dominance Dives 🍻

Before we dive in, here’s today’s crypto market heatmap:

Source: finviz

And here’s a look at crypto’s total market and altcoin market cap charts:

Source: TradingView

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Charts Worth Taking A Look At 👀 

There’s a few charts worth looking at as this week comes to an end. 🗓️ 

Bitcoin Dominance Chart

BTC Dominance Daily Chart – Click to enlarge.

Bitcoin’s dominance continues to slide – that’s one of the things needed for altseason.

Also, it’s on track for it’s lowest daily close since January 15, 2025. 😱 

Dogecoin $DOGE.X ( ▲ 10.56% )

DOGEUSD Daily Chart – Click to enlarge.

From the low of September 1, 2025, DOGE is up +32%.

But it looks a little overdone here. That shaded represents a series of large gaps between the Tenkan-Sen and the candlestick bodies.

Remember: the candlestick body and the Tenkan-Sen are like an unhealthy co-dependent couple. They get into a big tiffy, yell ‘i hate you’ and ‘i never want to see you again’ before storming off into opposite directions only to remember that they’re less miserable when they’re miserable together.

TL;DR: gaps between the Tenkan-Sen and candlestick bodies don’t last that long, and most often return to equilibrium with the candlestick returning to the Tenkan-Sen. The least likely scenario is a time based return to equilibrium.

That’s when the candlestick acts like a stubborn ass and says ‘no, I’m not gonna move, I’m staying here’ and it just sits in the same price range for a while until the Tenkan-Sen moves back to it. 📉 

Silver $XAGUSD ( 0.0% )

XAGUSD Weekly Chart – Click to enlarge.

Silver just hit a new 14-year high this week, and is on track for the highest weekly close since August 20, 2011 – Obama was still in his first term.

If you’re new to the Litepaper, you’re probably thinking, ‘but silver isn’t a crypto, lol, noob, ST crypto guy is dumb’. Well no shite it’s not a crypto Sherlock, but precious traders/investors go hand in hand with crypto.

And a 14-year high in anything is, well, pretty damn cool.

Cool fact: precious metal bullion dealers were some of the first to adopt the use of crypto for buying and selling. 🧠 

Altcoin Market Cap

Altcoin Market Cap Daily Chart – Click to enlarge.

Last but not least, the Altcoin Market Cap is a hair away from breaching it’s all-time high.

Which was last made on November 12, 2021. 🦳 

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CHAINLINK
Add Another Win To Chainlink’s Tally ⛓️ 

Prediction markets live and die on how fast and how cleanly outcomes are resolved. Polymarket just upgraded its referee crew by bringing in $LINK.X ( ▲ 4.21% )’s oracle stack. 👍️ 

The deal pipes Chainlink Data Streams and Automation into Polymarket’s settlement flow, making asset-pricing markets snap shut with verifiable, tamper-resistant data instead of human judgment calls.

• Asset-pricing prediction markets (think BTC/Eth price calls) are now settled on Polygon mainnet in near-real time.

• Deterministic questions with a clear scoreboard get quick, automated finishes.

• The two are testing how to handle “squishier” markets that don’t resolve cleanly, cutting down reliance on social voting and the resolution risk that comes with it.

Chainlink isn’t new to flexing its oracle dominance. The have a stupidly high 62%(ish) market share in the oracle space and nearly $100B in DeFi secured, the network’s been busy turning feeds into infrastructure no one else can touch.

For Polymarket, that means it can tell traders “you’ll get an outcome you can trust” instead of “hope the mob gets it right.” Sergey Nazarov (LINK’s big wig and also the guy who seems to be at every damn Trump/D.C./Senate/House/White House event) called it a “pivotal milestone.” 🏘️ 

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NEWS IN THREE SENTENCES
Real World Asset Tokenization (RWA) News 🪙

💧 Liquid Lockers Keep Curve Yields Accessible For The Masses

Locking CRV for four years to boost rewards is a whale game, so Convex, Yearn, and StakeDAO pooled up veCRV into liquid lockers. Users deposit LP tokens and ride the communal boost without burning four years of optionality, paying a cut in fees instead. Imagine Costco membership perks, but instead of bulk groceries you’re buying boosted APRs. Curve Finance.

₿ Plume’s “Real-World Bitcoin” Report Shows BTC Finally Clocking In

Bitcoin’s $2.2T market cap mostly sits idle, but Plume surveyed 15 projects proving BTC can work. From stablecoin collateral (Yala, Avalon) to restaking security layers (Babylon, Pell) and asset wrappers (Lorenzo, exSat), BTC is evolving into yield-bearing, institution-ready collateral. Call it Bitcoin with a day job – no longer just gold in a vault, but capital in circulation. Plume Network.

NEWS IN THREE SENTENCES
Metaverse, NFT, & Gaming News 🎮️

⚽ Chiliz Gets MiCA Licence, SportFi Goes Regulated

Socios Europe Services just became the first sports-focused platform approved under the EU’s MiCA rules, with rights to operate across all 27 member states. Chiliz also dropped a MiCA-compliant whitepaper for CHZ, locking in transparency and credibility with ESMA. Translation: 400M football fans in Europe now have a fully regulated way to buy and trade fan tokens – welcome to SportFi’s compliance era. Chiliz.

NEWS IN THREE SENTENCES
DeFi, DEX, & Lending News 🏦

⚡ Starknet Hits Decentralization Speed Bump, Eats Two Reorgs

Ah, the growing pains of decentralization – kind of like giving the car keys to triplets who all think they’re the driver.Right after upgrading to 0.14.0 and spreading sequencer duties to three nodes, Starknet froze for 9 hours and had to roll back 1.5ish hours of activity. Ethereum RPC hiccups, skipped manual checks, and a blockifier bug ganged up to halt progress until fixes and two reorgs reset the chain. Starknet.

🕶️ Fairblock Wants Confidential DeFi Without The Trust Games

Fairblock is building an execution layer on Arbitrum that hides trades and transfers until they’re finalized, killing frontrunning and info leaks. Its auction engine, DeBid, encrypts bids with MPC so no one peeks early, then decrypts after close – like sealed envelopes opened together. Let institutions play DeFi without broadcasting their strategies to every bot with an internet connection. Aribtrum.

NEWS IN THREE SENTENCES
Protocol News 🏦

📦 FortStock Uses XRPL MPT To Turn Dusty Warehouses Into Collateral

Global trade is a $25T machine, but most of that cargo sits idle financially – dead weight on balance sheets. FortStock is using XRP Ledger’s Multi-Purpose Token (MPT) to wrap warehouse receipts as programmable assets, complete with metadata like warrant numbers and expiry dates. This is basically turning “boxes in storage” into Lego bricks of credit that can actually unlock loans. XRP.

☁️ Storj Rolls Out Production Cloud, Goes After AWS On Media Workflows

Storj bundled distributed storage, Object Mount, and new compute into one package designed for high-speed media teams. The kicker: no surprise egress fees, global collaboration tiers, and SOC 2 Type 2 certification, all priced to undercut hyperscalers. If AWS is the cable bundle, Storj is the scrappy streaming service that just works on any device. Storj.

LINKS
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🌊 Hyperliquid tops Nasdaq’s 2024 net income, beats Robinhood’s trading volume 4 months in a row

🇨🇳 The rich of China are exiting Singapore as wealth regulations tighten

👬 Winklevoss Twins call for $1 million Bitcoin price as Gemini goes public

🤖 Tesla’s Optimus AI bet: Is the robot future worth 80% of its valuation?

🍄 Mario turns 40.

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