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If you’re interested in altcoins at all, there’s still plenty that haven’t broken out yet. I think we’ll get a proper alt rally this cycle - ETH.D near range lows, BTC.D near highs. If you’re a BTC only guy, the breakout usually retests the range highs from the bottom and that would be (historically) the time to scoop a little. Each cycle is different though

I built a validation pipeline that runs strategies through 7 stages on real Binance data:
Stage 1: code safety scan, in-sample, out-of-sample, walk-forward, randomized starts, slippage stress and Stage 7: final holdout slice nothing else touches.
6 months of 5 minute candles per run on BTC/ETH/SOL domains (ran on my weak laptop so going past 6 months would take a few extra days, I'll do a VM run next with more data).

Then I made a generator with several ideas and let it auto create and run the gauntlet on them (In retrospect might have been inefficient. I should have fed previously passed strategies back in to guide generation but I was a bit paranoid about correlation and spawning 416 clones).
It took me a few days to run and the repo is almost everything that came out: 406 rejects plus 10 survivors, each with a report card showing in-sample and OOS returns, Sharpe, drawdown, trade count, the exact stage it died on and why.
[github.com/CacheCarti/Crypto-Strategies](http://github.com/CacheCarti/Crypto-Strategies)
**The interesting stuff I found:**
* The single best-looking backtest in the batch `pctb_fade_sol_v3`, **+2014bps in-sample!!! :O went -112bps** the moment it ran on unseen data.
* Literal astrology meme bots I created for fun got decently high returns in backtests but obviously failed in validation. Backtests have a big element of luck because of the smaller time frame! Unreliable!! (Please do not consider the report cards showing a strategy with high PnL as a "good" strategy. I might have been luck)
* Out of all the strategies, **only one showed an in-sample Sharpe above 1.5**. But it failed validation anyway. If you're searching for the perfect backtest in this dataset it basically doesn't exist.
* 25 strategies were profitable out-of-sample and STILL got rejected. They couldn't survive walk-forward and injected slippage. Green OOS numbers by itself is just most probably luck until proven otherwise, but they definitely might be a good place to fork and improve on in the future!
* Weirdest result: some of the 10 survivors have **negative OOS returns.** They passed because they held up under perturbation and randomized starts.
* The family that dominated was kinda bizzare: `asia_drift_btc` BTC drifts during Asian session hours, **7/9 of these variants passed!** Meanwhile the families everyone actually trades went **0/9** across the board: Donchian breakouts, bollinger squeezes, RSI reversion, orderbook imbalance. Context beat TA, so is TA dead??? Lol, my generator was probably bad at writing them, someone smart could actually build a good template for TA strategies.
* Every BTC scalping variant failed: 0/18. At \~7bps a side in fees, the edge you need on 5-minute bars is brutal. Anything thinner cannot survive. It might have been my own 5 minute time windows of evaluation though.
The code is plain Python on a simple predict-style contract, so they can drop into most backtesters. Most of the rejects failed on robustness rather than logic, so they're actually decent starting points if you want to improve them. Happy to answer questions on the methodology.
If anyone improves the strategies and gets different results I'd love to see it!

Death. Taxes. ETH crossing $2700 and dumping back below.

Bears in ETH are getting rekt as much as Bulls are.
The only winners are Crab believers that sell high and buy low, or, even better, just LP and earn 20-30% yearly.

The ETH validator exit queue has reached 850,736 ETH, which sounds enormous at first look.
But the exit queue is a built-in part of Ethereum’s staking design. It exists to control how quickly validators can leave the network, preventing a sudden wave of exits from creating unnecessary pressure on the consensus layer.
And the recent increase could be influenced by several factors, including the significant rise in ETH’s price, which may encourage some stakers to realize gains, alongside broader market and ecosystem dynamics.
The network is now handling tens of millions of staked ETH and hundreds of thousands of validators, while substantial changes in validator participation are still processed through predefined protocol limits.
In other words, Ethereum’s staking infrastructure is operating at a completely different scale than it was just a few years ago.
Full post: [https://x.com/everstake\_pool/status/2106052650542182518](https://x.com/everstake_pool/status/2106052650542182518)

higher low at least. really just need to get on with 3k and up the ratio though if ETH is to have any sort of serious unique run

another update on our Android local AI bounty (following up on [this comment from a few days ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/1wqhryb/comment/pc75isw/?context=3&utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button))
the bounty is currently at 1.139 ETH (\~$3000) following Vitalik's contribution
I'm now trying to boost it with another 2 ETH via this Nouns DAO proposal: [https://nouns.wtf/vote/999](https://nouns.wtf/vote/999)
if anyone here is a Nouns voter or has connections within the Nouns ecosystem, I'd love your support! there's \~48 hours left to cast a vote
and worth mentioning that if you like the mission of funding a 100% offline local AI for Android, you can add ETH to the pot directly via: [https://poidh.xyz/mainnet/bounty/31](https://poidh.xyz/mainnet/bounty/31)
we already have some great open source submissions if you want to take a test drive and see what your funding will be going toward

$PEP is a frog themed memeCOIN (NOT TOKEN!) with its own blockchain. It's simply better and has better use cases than all the other pepe themed tokens. A lot of people already use it as it has cheap transaction fees, it's merge mineable with DOGE and LTC, you can mint NFTs on it etc etc. It's a whole ecosystem not just a token made for pump and dump. The project has been around since January of 2024 and the devs are still working on it and delivering just like they did from day one.
It's a legit crypto project and community just like DOGE was in It's early days.
PEP has a market cap of around 10 million USD right now. For us to do a 100x we would only need 1 billion USD market cap.
Now compare that with PEPE (ETH token, not even a real coin). They are already sitting at 1 billion USD+ market cap. For them to do a 100x they would need 100 billion USD mcap which is basically impossible.
All in all PEP is a better bet if you want big gains. Buy before we take off 🐸🚀
If you want to learn more go look at r/pepecoin or pepecoin.com

ETH still holding $2.7k — next stop $2.8k or back to $2.6k?

XRP, ETH Sentiment Hits August Depths: Bullish?

Robinhood Chain launched on July 1 as an L2 blockchain built with Arbitrum's technology that settles to Ethereum. This is the optimal separation of concerns for a brokerage, with Ethereum handling global consensus and settlement and Robinhood providing an execution environment customized to the needs of its clients.
Three months after launch, Robinhood Chain already ranks fourth on L2BEAT's activity table. As of October 2, it averages about 91 user operations per second over the past day, with about $2.83 billion in total value secured ([L2BEAT](https://l2beat.com/scaling/projects/robinhood)).
An important next improvement would be allowing anyone to challenge an invalid state update, since only two approved challengers can currently do so.
Running its own execution environment lets Robinhood customize fees, product rules, account features and upgrades, while optimizing for rapid confirmations and high throughput. Its users also have dedicated block space, so their transactions don't compete directly with other applications for execution capacity on Ethereum mainnet.
Robinhood gets that control without having to build and subsidize a separate L1 validator network. It instead processes transactions on its chain, publishes their data to Ethereum and settles there, with transaction fees on Robinhood Chain denominated in ETH.
The expense of a separate validator network can be substantial. [Conduit compared](https://www.conduit.xyz/blog/l1-vs-l2-costs-validators-data-availability/) Celo's $641,540 in validator payouts during its final month as an L1 with $1,070 in data-publication costs over a later 30-day period as an L2, when it posted its data to EigenDA rather than Ethereum. Those data costs were 99.8% lower than the former validator payouts.
Ethereum has also expanded its capacity for L2 transaction data, allowing these chains to support more activity while keeping execution on their own networks. This makes Ethereum's shared consensus and settlement layer increasingly practical for companies building blockchains for large numbers of users.
The same division of labor works for other products. A payments chain needs predictable fees for stablecoin transfers, while a gaming chain needs a large number of cheap transactions. Each can customize execution for those needs without funding a separate L1 consensus network.
Coinbase made the same architectural choice with Base, its own L2 that settles to Ethereum. I expect onchain finance to increasingly follow this model, with companies running execution environments suited to their products and Ethereum serving as their shared consensus computer.

Yes, but we also have an expiry date on this earth. I’ll leave one ETH because you suggested it. The other ones will go at next ATH

>**Up for the taking,**
>**Self custody is still king,**
>**Metamask staking.**
~Daily haiku until we’re at least at 0.178 on the ETH/BTC ratio or highest market cap

BTC+ETH update 02.10.26 - 24h Market Forecast (Wavelet Decomposition)

A little late, but hopefully still useful: ran your positions our portfolio risk analysis tool at [Sentralis.io](https://sentralis.io), the portfolio risk analysis I'm building, with no price trend assumed.
In a one-year 25k path Monte-Carlo simulation on the past year's volatility and correlations, the worst 5% of outcomes lose 57% or more, and the median path passes through a 45% drawdown. About one path in six ends the year below the 1100.- paid. One path in seven doubles and one in eighteen for the same money in BTC alone.
BTC is 35% of the money but only 25% of the risk. PENDLE, AAVE and HYPE are 34% of the money and 43% of the risk, because they run at 85% to 102% annual volatility against 44% for BTC. HYPE is still your best diversifier, with a correlation of about 0.5 to the other five coins, while BTC, ETH and SOL move together at 0.87 to 0.91.
For your sell ladders, the same data puts monthly volatility at about 13% for BTC, 17% for ETH, 19% for SOL, 25% for AAVE, 28% for HYPE and 29% for PENDLE. All figures are model estimates, not predictions

I have informed myself as much as possible, and as a final step, I was curious on hearing other people's opinions who have in the market much longer.

I am thinking of starting my first investment into Crypto, specifically Solana, as it has more upside than BTC, or ETH, yet it still very reputable and not some memecoin. Only thing I am worried about, is a potential large correction, even though this remains a worry for whatever Crypto I choose to invest in. I think Crypto is here to stay long-term and I certainly don't believe it will ever go to 0 like the doomers say.
What do you guys think? Risks I should know about or other opportunities? Is going just into SOL a smart decision or not?
My investment horizon is long-term, where i plan on just adding what I can month after month

While you regards invest in Nike, BTC/ETH is in take over mode

I have informed myself as much as possible, and as a final step, I was curious on hearing other people's opinions who have in the market much longer.
I am thinking of starting my first investment into Crypto, specifically Solana, as it has more upside than BTC, or ETH, yet it still very reputable and not some memecoin. Only thing I am worried about, is a potential large correction.
What do you guys think? Risks I should know about or other opportunities?

The range is not your main problem, the rebalance-on-exit is.
When price leaves a concentrated range, you end up 100% in whichever asset just underperformed. Re-centering means swapping part of it back, which sells the laggard at its low point and turns a temporary loss into a permanent one. Do that every time the range breaks and your fees are paying for a string of realized losses.
On ETH/BTC that is expensive, because the ratio moves a lot but goes almost nowhere. Daily closes for September:
\- the ratio moved more than 0.5% day over day on 17 of 31 days (and intraday swings are bigger than close to close)
\- the median daily move was about 0.5%, so a +/-0.5% range breaks roughly every other day
\- added up, the daily moves came to about 18%, but the net change for the month was only about +1.4%
Source: Coinpaprika daily price history, which is where I work.
That last point is the key. Most of the movement reverted. A position that sat out of range and waited would have come back in range much of the time; a position that rebalanced on every break locked in each leg.
Two things I would test:
1. Stop rebalancing on the first exit. Give it a rule like "only re-center if out of range for X hours" and compare.
2. Size the range against the month, not the day. The ratio's full high-to-low span in September was about 6%, so a range of a couple of percent on each side still catches most of the chop while earning less per dollar. Whether that trade works depends on your fee tier and the pool's volume, so measure it rather than guess.
And track it the way you already started to: token amounts versus simply holding the same WETH and cbBTC, week over week. If that number is negative while fees look fine in dollars, the rebalancing is the leak.

I think ETH and SOL are great, I wouldn't venture into LTC or XRP though.