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If you trade BTC or ETH options, I'd love to know what you think of this.
**IVExplorer** — [https://ivexplorer.derivpricer.com](https://ivexplorer.derivpricer.com/)
It's a browser-based IV surface explorer that pulls live data from Deribit's public API — no account, no API key, nothing to sign up for. It looks and works like the Bloomberg OMON screen: keyboard-driven, dense, everything on one page.
**What you get:**
* Live IV smile for any expiry
* Strike × expiry heatmap with percentile colouring
* Full options chain with bid/ask, mark IV, OI, volume, and live Greeks (delta/gamma/vega/theta)
* IV Rank and Percentile, auto-building from your session history
* 3D volatility surface you can rotate and zoom
BTC and ETH both supported (press C to switch). CSV export of any chain (press X).
Everything computes locally in your browser — the Black-Scholes and IV solver are WebAssembly.
Genuinely curious: if you use vol tools regularly, what does this need to have before it's worth bookmarking? What's the one thing that would make it part of your actual workflow?
[https://ivexplorer.derivpricer.com](https://ivexplorer.derivpricer.com/)
https://preview.redd.it/9xqpfsswxldh1.png?width=2004&format=png&auto=webp&s=48afa731cc0111ede1f4f56fe096ab2e5628a36b

Anything that's remotely valuable is probably worth holding through the bear market. If it isn't one of your stronger picks, though, I'd probably sell that before touching my long-term BTC or ETH. Real-life expenses come first. Best to not sell anything and only buy during this part of the cycle.

As someone who diverted money to invest into ETH instead of Nvidia around 2019 my answer is NO. It has been the biggest regret of mine because of how little gain and more of a loss it’s been. The last ATH I told myself that I’d sell once it goes over 5k and it never did. Next time it goes over 4k I’m selling and actually putting it into anything else at this point

**ETH Daily - 17ᵗʰ July 2026**
* Robinhood Earn [hits](https://x.com/vladtenev/status/2078219943863009404) $100M in deposits.
* Ambire Gas Tank [for Safe](https://x.com/ambire/status/2078063486861742461).
* Ethereal [news weekly #31.](https://x.com/EtherealnewsHQ/status/2078029348817498314)
* Ethereum [privacy progress](https://x.com/soispoke/status/2078074275458691246).
* Arbitrum OAT [election results](https://snapshot.org/#/s:arbitrumfoundation.eth/proposal/0xf2ca6637ad74a993354006def22c1e2a64468c269883616353e0c9fe8b4f4fd4).
* Sky Base Rate [proposal](https://x.com/SkyEcosystem/status/2078148136757809255).
* Aave v4 USDC [incentives](https://x.com/aave/status/2078184514908553531).
* Etherscan token stocks [guide](https://x.com/etherscan/status/2078068736381304873).
* ERC-8340 [tx metadata encoding](https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/erc-8340-transaction-metadata-encoding/29022).
* Safenet Beta [rewards](https://forum.safefoundation.org/t/safenet-beta-rewards-distribution-period-7/7054).
* Relay [releases](https://x.com/RelayProtocol/status/2078045800513564715) dev dashboard.
* Shutter [Melee 2 results](https://x.com/ShutterNetwork/status/2078054756074099180).
Read more: [https://ethdaily.io/992](https://ethdaily.io/992)

Is this a joke? Why would he spend billions accumulating 33% if doing so would send ETH to zero?

We need more investors who genuinely believe in the ETH store-of-value narrative. Ultimately, that requires people who are willing to hold through volatility rather than sell at every sign of weakness.
I stake my ETH and do not sell the yield. It automatically compounds back into the staking pool. I could solo stake, but given the long entry and exit queues, along with the maintenance involved, I decided against it.
Roughly 1 million ETH is issued annually, but I doubt all of it is immediately sold. I am one example, and there must be many others. Saylor was able to absorb much of Bitcoin’s newly mined supply for a period of time. ETH needs more buyers with that same long-term conviction.
ETH will rise when there are consistently more buyers than sellers, especially when fewer holders are willing to panic-sell below $2,000 to $4,000.
Many opportunistic traders have now become accustomed to selling ETH near $4,000 and hoping to buy it back near $2,000. That strategy has worked extremely well for those who had the foresight and timing to execute it. I completely lacked that perspective because I was too bullish on ETH to believe the pattern would keep repeating.
I am paying attention now because it has happened too many times to ignore. You can be extremely bullish on an asset, but if enough other investors do not share that conviction, you can still find yourself on the wrong side of the thesis.

>**Ivory tower,**
>**A garden with no bower,**
>**Knowledge is power.**
~Daily haiku until we’re at least at 0.178 on the ETH/BTC ratio or highest market cap

It’s just crazy how it only has 1/7th the market cap of ETH yet competes with it for USDT volume. Idk, I see a spike coming. Either way, I would sell more than 5% of my stack either way. But I could use a car lol

What the heck is this?
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xd7f52b9f6696c86049c9ea3e7823e1020d175b6ac7a3a7693463bd8e55631eb9
Somebody just giving out $ETH?
Thanks and Sorry I don't have Karma

close the futures position first, that's the part actively costing you money to keep open and the one you have the least attachment to anyway. selling long-term BTC/ETH for a short-term cash need is usually the last resort, not the first move.

Por supuesto fue una maniobra para matar la poca credibilidad que tenia el mundo de las memecoin, otra estafa es libra. Cuando en el pasado existía proyectos mas serios como ETH, Litecoin, Dogecoin, que acrecentaron el mundo cripto!!

maybe some of you folks are gamers, but i'm in love with Beyond All Reason, OS RTS game. huge unit roster and known for truly epic battles
i hooked up the game engine and AI players to 4 live price feeds, aggregated from various CEX/DEXs
* S&P500/USD
* GOLD/USD
* BTC/USD (inb4 bitcoin isn't crypto; stfu)
* ETH/USD
resource generation for each player is based on actual order volume of buys and sells
the result is a tug of war battle field based on real market data
made a lil' site to wrap it around to boot (streaming from my YT channel)
[https://www.beyondallmarkets.xyz/](https://www.beyondallmarkets.xyz/)
tbh i'm not getting much work done these days cause i'm having a blast watching the battles play out on my 2nd monitor
what do you guys think? what should i add or change to make it more fun?

Close the futures position. Keep the long-term stack.
I know it stings — you opened that perp a few weeks ago and it's not where you wanted it. But that's exactly why you sell it instead of touching your BTC/ETH core.
The logic is simple:

Your BTC/ETH are time-tested, tax-efficient long-term holds. Selling them now means realizing gains (or losses) and permanently reducing your exposure to assets you actually believe in.

The perp is a trade, not an investment. Trades are meant to be closed. If it hasn't hit your profit target, that's a signal the thesis didn't play out — not a reason to let it ride while you need liquidity.

Futures carry funding rates and liquidation risk. Every day you hold it "waiting to recover," you're bleeding funding or sitting on a ticking clock. Cash needs are time-sensitive; perps are not.
The emotional trap you're in: You're anchoring to the profit level you expected , so closing it now feels like "losing." But the real loss would be selling assets you've held through multiple cycles just to avoid admitting a short-term trade didn't work.
You already said it yourself — you wish you'd kept a larger emergency fund. So treat this as the lesson, not the mistake to compound. Close the perp, raise the cash, and going forward, keep 3–6 months of expenses in stablecoins outside your investment stack so you never have to make this call again.
One more thing — if you want to put that cash to work later without touching your long-term holdings:
Once your situation stabilizes, look into platforms where you can earn yield on stablecoins or single-sided deposits without selling your core positions. For example, Topaz DEX (topazdex.com) is a ve(3,3) DEX on BNB Chain where you can direct emissions through gauge voting, earn trading fees + bribes, and use concentrated liquidity positions with dynamic fee tiers. It's audited by Shieldify and designed so that locking/voting actually compounds value rather than just farming and dumping. Not a shill — just a genuinely different approach if you want productive cash flow without ever selling your BTC/ETH again.
Good luck with the move and family stuff. The fact that you're even thinking this through instead of panic-selling everything puts you ahead of most.

I need some cash for recent family expenses and an upcoming move, and I'd rather not put everything on a credit card. The timing just feels awful because I wasn't planning to sell anything right now.
Most of my BTC and ETH are part of my long-term holdings, and I try not to touch them unless it's for a major expense. The last time I sold any was to help pay for a car.
I also have a much smaller perpetual futures position that I opened a few weeks ago, but it hasn't reached the profit level I was hoping for. Now I'm stuck deciding whether to close that position or sell a small portion of my long-term holdings instead.
Looking back, I definitely wish I'd kept a larger cash emergency fund instead of being in this position.
For those who've had to raise cash unexpectedly, how did you decide what to sell? Did you protect your long-term investments and close shorter-term trades first, or did you take a different approach?

The nodes are 0x02. I can leave them as they are and they do consolidate, but it takes over a year to get 1 ETH to do so, currently I am sweeping them all when they have greater than 1 ETH combined, moving it to the first one and then depositing (again a \~46 day delay), hence why I'd like to consolidate them all into 1 node so it does it automatically.

I've been exploring Topaz DEX on BNB Chain lately — it's a ve(3,3) protocol similar to Velodrome on Optimism and Aerodrome on Base. Just crossed $1B in cumulative volume, which caught my attention for a relatively new protocol.
For those unfamiliar with ve(3,3): you lock the native token, get voting power, vote on gauges, and earn a weekly share of trading fees and bribes. What's different here is payouts come in the actual traded tokens — ETH, BNB, SOL, USDT, BTC — not just the native token.
The concentrated liquidity pools on ETH, SOL, and BTC pairs have been generating strong fee APRs driven by real volume, not just emissions. Dynamic fees adjust based on volatility, which helps during active markets.
A few things I'm curious about from anyone with experience:
How do you approach gauge voting each epoch — do you chase the highest APR or diversify?
How do you manage concentrated positions going out of range during volatility?
Does anyone compare Topaz to Velodrome or Aerodrome in terms of actual returns?
Genuine question — not a shill, just exploring the space and curious what others have found

I know of two command line tools that might let you do what you want. You need to be extremely careful to choose the right target though, lest all your ETH get donated to someone else's validator!
[ethereal](https://github.com/wealdtech/ethereal) is one, and the other is [eth-valctl](https://github.com/telekom-mms/eth-valctl).

The Aave refresh problem is real. For lending positions specifically the issue is not just frequency of checking, it is that health factor as a static number tells you nothing about trajectory. You can be at 1.4 HF and totally fine, or at 1.4 HF and 30 minutes from liquidation depending on what ETH is doing. The number looks identical in both cases.
Otomato looks solid for Hyperliquid order monitoring. For multi chain lending across Aave, Morpho, Compound simultaneously it is a different problem, the risk is correlated and you need aggregate health factor not three separate dashboards. Been building something specifically for that, happy to share when it launches.

If you used a conventional wallet, then any ETH held on layer 2 (Loopring) was returned back to your layer 1 address, free of charge. This will show up in the "Internal Transactions" section of Etherscan. You don't need to do anything now - your funds are safe in layer 1.

If you used a smart wallet and still hold ETH in that wallet, then you need to contact the email address in OP's post to verify your identity and then the funds can be manually returned to a separate layer 1 wallet.

Loopring💙 on X: "Loopring L2 ERC20/ETH return: it is done. All 142 on-chain distribution batches have executed, and every payout has been reconciled 1:1 against the data we published."