🥛 ETH about to trigger an alt rally? 📈

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✍️ ETH-led altcoin breakout?
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WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR THIS WEEK 📆

Flip your calendar pages. Ready your sharpies. Don your reading glasses.

Here’s what could move markets and asset prices this week:

1/ Macro 🌎

This week’s macro theme? An all-time classic: “Inflation: how bad is it (and how is it affecting consumers)?” 👇

July CPI Inflation data – Tue – did the cost of consumer goods go up or down in July, and at what rate?
July PPI Inflation data – Thu – did the cost of wholesale goods go up or down in July, and at what rate?
July Retail Sales data – Fri – Are consumers spending? Healthy retail sales numbers signal a healthy economy.
MI Consumer Sentiment data – Fri – a survey that asks consumers: “...and how does that make you feel?” (Happy consumers spend more, so the metric holds weight.)

(Btw, you can get focused macro breakdowns from our Milk Road Macro newsletter and podcast.)

2/ Earnings 💰

*sniffles* they grow up so fast…

Circle ($CRCL) is releasing its first-ever quarterly earnings as a public company this week – the numbers drop first thing tomorrow. 👇

Source: @eWhispers

3/ Price action 📈

(Woah. Ok!)

This morning, the total crypto market cap breached $4 trillion for the first time ever! 👇

Source: TradingView

The driving force behind this push? The alt market – specifically, Ethereum.

We’ll be watching $ETH’s funding rates to gauge if there’s enough gas left in the tank to close the week out above $4T and confirm this newfound price territory beyond just a daily spike.

Remember: the higher Funding Rates climb above 0.05%, the greater the likelihood of a pullback.

…good news is – we’re not yet in that territory, so there could be juice left to squeeze!

Source: Coinglass

Speaking of alts…

They’re on the verge of breaking a multi-year resistance level, which could see a bunch of altcoins hit new all-time highs!

Keep scrolling to the next article and we’ll lay it all out for you. 👇

CHAINLINK UNVEILS STRATEGIC LINK RESERVE

Ever wonder how Chainlink will accelerate its dominance across DeFi and TradFi?

With trillions in tokenized assets set to come onchain, the answer is no longer a mystery.

Introducing the Chainlink Reserve: a strategic reserve of LINK tokens.

Here’s how it works:

Funded by onchain and offchain revenue from large enterprises adopting Chainlink
Accumulates LINK over time
Built to support the long-term growth of the Chainlink Network

Demand for Chainlink has already created hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.

With Chainlink being uniquely positioned to power and benefit from the accelerating tokenization wave, the strategic LINK reserve is the jet fuel that propels Chainlink’s journey there.

AN $ETH-LED ALTCOIN BREAKOUT 4-YEARS IN THE MAKING 📈

Alright, lemme set the scene here:

Over the past ~4 years, the total altcoin market cap (aka: the total value of the crypto market, excluding Bitcoin) has tried – and failed – to confirm a monthly break above $1.51T a total of six times…

And right now, it’s in the midst of its 7th attempt. 👇

Source: TradingView

But to confirm the break of this 4-year resistance level – we’ll need to see the altcoin market cap finish August above $1.51T.

So what’s going to get us there?

From where we’re standing – the best bet right now is continued buying pressure from public Ethereum treasury companies.

$BMNR just bought 317k $ETH, bringing their total holdings up to 1.15M Ethereum tokens (~$4.9B) – which is nuts!

They only started buying this time last month, but already own close to 1% of the total $ETH supply. 👇

Source: StrategicETHreserve

…and this is just the beginning – $BMNR’s end goal is to own 5% of $ETH’s total supply. 😧

Meanwhile, $SBET just raised an additional $400M from institutional investors, bringing their total cash reserves (aka: $ETH spending money) up to ~$600M…

(Btw – huge congrats to our PRO members who heeded our team’s call to buy $SBET at $10.10, and $BMNR at $29 – each up 157% and 135% since!)

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Ok. Cool. So say these treasury companies help push the alt market up enough to confirm a break in resistance…

Then what?

As we mentioned in last Friday’s article on $BTC’s 8-year resistance line – once broken, this price level will likely flip into support.

Meaning, instead of the price struggling to break above the line, it will struggle to break below it.

The REAL kicker?

The longer the buildup, the bigger the breakout typically is – and the alt market has been butting its head up against this resistance level since May of 2021.

Mark your calendars for potential confirmation (and celebratory beers):

Monday, September 1.