Cash markets do not share a clock and RWA perps don’t wait for them to agree. August was another record month against the previous report’s published July baseline. The tracked RWA perp market generated $751.9 billion in RWA perp volume, versus $708.3 billion in July, a 6.2% increase. The market also handled a wider range of situations. Memory equities reversed after a long run higher. Seoul paused program trading during a sharp selloff. Moderna doubled after a clinical readout. Different markets, different schedules, one place to keep trading. The month was larger AND broader: more assets, more types of event, and more reasons to trade around the clock. Yet, still a lot of market left to build. Memory Equities Traded in Both Directions July was a one-way memory trade. August brought the other side of it. The tracked memory complex — SNDK, SKHYNIX, SKHY, MU, SNXX, DRAM, and SAMSUNG — generated $327.4 billion, or 43.5% of August volume. Four of the ten most-traded assets came from the group: SNDK ranked first, SKHYNIX third, MU sixth, and SKHY tenth.
On August 4, the memory trade moved higher. SanDisk rose 8%, Micron 6%, and SK hynix 4% after the companies advanced the first Open Compute Project HBF specification. On August 18, it moved lower: Micron fell 5%, SanDisk 6%, Western Digital 7%, and SK hynix 6% as Treasury yields moved higher and investors repriced the trade. The same group drove both the rally and the selloff and kept trading through both. Korea Sold Off; Perps Kept Trading Korean exposure was not a side story. SKHYNIX ranked third, KORU ninth, and SKHY tenth. Together, they generated $117.1 billion, or 15.6% of August volume. On August 19, the KOSPI fell nearly 6% and a Korea selloff triggered a five-minute sell-side sidecar for program trading. After the close, SK hynix announced a 40 trillion won buyback plan, and the KOSPI recovered almost all of the previous session’s loss the next day. MRNA Perps Listed in Hours. Depth Did Not. On August 19, Moderna and Merck reported positive Phase 3 results for their personalised mRNA cancer vaccine in melanoma. Moderna’s stock rose 176.97% in the session. Very few venues had an MRNA market live before the result; TrueCurrent was one. A few more markets followed shortly after the news broke, including TradeXYZ. From its August 19 listing through month-end, MRNA generated $571.6 million and ranked 69th by volume. Its first two sessions produced $213.5 million combined, representing close to 40% of its total monthly volume. The point is access to the event, not the total volume. Traders already have venues for recurring events around the MAG7 and large technology and AI companies, especially earnings. MRNA showed how that can extend to a smaller public company when a one-off clinical result drives attention. With the right risk, and market-data systems, an exchange can make the event tradable quickly, while the news is still relevant and driving volatility. The 24/7 Reference-Price Problem August brought a market-structure question into focus: who produces a usable price when traditional market infrastructure is closed, paused, or has not opened yet? Douro Labs and the Hyperliquid Policy Center brought that question into the SEC’s market-structure process, arguing that the SEC should recognize qualifying independent reference prices for onchain markets where the SIP-derived NBBO is unavailable or does not reflect onchain conditions. The standard they describe rests on direct contributors, a published methodology, transparent publishers, and checks against traditional market data. A separate SEC comment from the Hyperliquid Policy Center and trade[XYZ] used IPOPs — cash-settled pre-IPO perpetuals with no shares, voting rights, or claim on the issuer — as an example of price discovery before a public listing. The CFTC comment process raises a related question for 24/7 futures and perpetuals in energy markets, where the underlying can keep moving after U.S. futures close. All point to the same shift: perps are bringing questions of data provenance, instrument classification and market access into policy discussions. That is directly relevant to RWA markets. These issues are directly relevant to Pyth, whose data infrastructure is used across much of the tracked volume. August in Numbers August closed at $751.9 billion in tracked volume, a 6.2% increase from the previous month.
Asset Class Ranking The market is very much still equity-led with $487.3 billion or 64.8% of the total volume. Commodities followed at $152.3 billion (20.3%), then indices at $103.9 billion (13.8%) and FX at $8.3 billion (1.1%).
Venue Ranking August showcased a reshuffle behind Binance which is head and shoulders above the rest and still growing ($385.6 billion to $437.4 billion). OKX took the 2nd spot as it held its volume above $100 billion and moved from third to second, while Hyperliquid dropped sharply from July’s second-place position to $84.6 billion in August. The RWA perp volume remained top-five concentrated with over 95% of it being traded on Binance, OKX, Hyperliquid, Bitget, and Bybit.
Market-Data Provider Ranking On the data provider and infrastructure front, Pyth remained the undisputed leader with over $715 billion in RWA perp volume secured, representing 96.27% of the total tracked RWA perp volume. One extra percentage point compared to July further solidifying Pyth Pro and Indices as the products powering 24/7 tradfi markets.
Methodology and Sources All volume, listing and provider figures are drawn from Refraction Research and the RWA Markets dashboard, built by @zinnresearch. Volume is notional traded volume across tracked perpetual venues. Volume priced per market data provider attributes each venue-symbol pair to its stated pricing source, weighted by volume. Pairs without a confirmed source are recorded as unverified.
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August Yielded a Record Month in RWA Perp Volume
Cash markets do not share a clock and RWA perps don’t wait for them to agree.
August was another record month against the previous report’s published July baseline. The tracked RWA perp market generated $751.9 billion in RWA perp volume, versus $708.3 billion in July, a 6.2% increase.
The market also handled a wider range of situations. Memory equities reversed after a long run higher. Seoul paused program trading during a sharp selloff. Moderna doubled after a clinical readout. Different markets, different schedules, one place to keep trading.
The month was larger AND broader: more assets, more types of event, and more reasons to trade around the clock. Yet, still a lot of market left to build.
Memory Equities Traded in Both Directions
July was a one-way memory trade. August brought the other side of it.
The tracked memory complex — SNDK, SKHYNIX, SKHY, MU, SNXX, DRAM, and SAMSUNG — generated $327.4 billion, or 43.5% of August volume. Four of the ten most-traded assets came from the group: SNDK ranked first, SKHYNIX third, MU sixth, and SKHY tenth.
On August 4, the memory trade moved higher. SanDisk rose 8%, Micron 6%, and SK hynix 4% after the companies advanced the first Open Compute Project HBF specification. On August 18, it moved lower: Micron fell 5%, SanDisk 6%, Western Digital 7%, and SK hynix 6% as Treasury yields moved higher and investors repriced the trade.
The same group drove both the rally and the selloff and kept trading through both.
Korea Sold Off; Perps Kept Trading
Korean exposure was not a side story. SKHYNIX ranked third, KORU ninth, and SKHY tenth. Together, they generated $117.1 billion, or 15.6% of August volume.
On August 19, the KOSPI fell nearly 6% and a Korea selloff triggered a five-minute sell-side sidecar for program trading. After the close, SK hynix announced a 40 trillion won buyback plan, and the KOSPI recovered almost all of the previous session’s loss the next day.
MRNA Perps Listed in Hours. Depth Did Not.
On August 19, Moderna and Merck reported positive Phase 3 results for their personalised mRNA cancer vaccine in melanoma. Moderna’s stock rose 176.97% in the session.
Very few venues had an MRNA market live before the result; TrueCurrent was one. A few more markets followed shortly after the news broke, including TradeXYZ.
From its August 19 listing through month-end, MRNA generated $571.6 million and ranked 69th by volume. Its first two sessions produced $213.5 million combined, representing close to 40% of its total monthly volume.
The point is access to the event, not the total volume. Traders already have venues for recurring events around the MAG7 and large technology and AI companies, especially earnings. MRNA showed how that can extend to a smaller public company when a one-off clinical result drives attention. With the right risk, and market-data systems, an exchange can make the event tradable quickly, while the news is still relevant and driving volatility.
The 24/7 Reference-Price Problem
August brought a market-structure question into focus: who produces a usable price when traditional market infrastructure is closed, paused, or has not opened yet?
Douro Labs and the Hyperliquid Policy Center brought that question into the SEC’s market-structure process, arguing that the SEC should recognize qualifying independent reference prices for onchain markets where the SIP-derived NBBO is unavailable or does not reflect onchain conditions. The standard they describe rests on direct contributors, a published methodology, transparent publishers, and checks against traditional market data.
A separate SEC comment from the Hyperliquid Policy Center and trade[XYZ] used IPOPs — cash-settled pre-IPO perpetuals with no shares, voting rights, or claim on the issuer — as an example of price discovery before a public listing. The CFTC comment process raises a related question for 24/7 futures and perpetuals in energy markets, where the underlying can keep moving after U.S. futures close.
All point to the same shift: perps are bringing questions of data provenance, instrument classification and market access into policy discussions. That is directly relevant to RWA markets. These issues are directly relevant to Pyth, whose data infrastructure is used across much of the tracked volume.
August in Numbers
August closed at $751.9 billion in tracked volume, a 6.2% increase from the previous month.
Asset Class Ranking
The market is very much still equity-led with $487.3 billion or 64.8% of the total volume. Commodities followed at $152.3 billion (20.3%), then indices at $103.9 billion (13.8%) and FX at $8.3 billion (1.1%).
Venue Ranking
August showcased a reshuffle behind Binance which is head and shoulders above the rest and still growing ($385.6 billion to $437.4 billion). OKX took the 2nd spot as it held its volume above $100 billion and moved from third to second, while Hyperliquid dropped sharply from July’s second-place position to $84.6 billion in August. The RWA perp volume remained top-five concentrated with over 95% of it being traded on Binance, OKX, Hyperliquid, Bitget, and Bybit.
Market-Data Provider Ranking
On the data provider and infrastructure front, Pyth remained the undisputed leader with over $715 billion in RWA perp volume secured, representing 96.27% of the total tracked RWA perp volume. One extra percentage point compared to July further solidifying Pyth Pro and Indices as the products powering 24/7 tradfi markets.
Methodology and Sources
All volume, listing and provider figures are drawn from Refraction Research and the RWA Markets dashboard, built by @zinnresearch.
Volume is notional traded volume across tracked perpetual venues.
Volume priced per market data provider attributes each venue-symbol pair to its stated pricing source, weighted by volume. Pairs without a confirmed source are recorded as unverified.
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Samsung Electronics and ASML Expand Strategic Collaboration for Next-Generation Semiconductor Manufacturing
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French AI startup Mistral has raised 3 billion euros ($3.5 billion) in fresh funding led by memory chip giant Samsung.
➡️Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch told CNBC that the funds will go toward building more infrastructure, including its own data centers.
➡️The capital raising round values the company at more than 21 billion euros ($24 billion), double the level of a year ago.
Samsung Electronics and Asml Expand Strategic Collaboration for Next-Generation Semiconductor Manufacturing
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SEMIFIVE Commences Mass Production of HyperAccel's LLM AI Inference Accelerator 'Bertha' on Samsung 4nm, Spurring Growth Momentum
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*MISTRAL RAISES €3B AT OVER €21B VALUATION IN SAMSUNG-LED ROUND
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Mistral bags $24 billion valuation as Samsung leads funding for Europe's AI champion
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*MISTRAL RAISES €3B AT OVER €21B VALUATION IN SAMSUNG-LED ROUND
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Mistral bags $24 billion valuation as Samsung leads funding for Europe's AI champion
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Mistral Says Fundraising Led by Samsung Electronics, Scaleup Europe Fund and Psg Equity
- EIP-8141 may allow Ethereum users to pay for gas with stablecoins by sometime next year (very interesting - link below)
- $QQQ at $718.96
- Oil at $92.72 and lots of attention on crack spreads
- Gold at $4,405.40
- Total crypto market cap at $2.765T
- My beloved $FXN up almost 200% from spring lows - to $28.19(!) (still insanely undervalued though!)
- Hunter Biden to apparently release a memecoin on Wednesday called $LAPTOP, with part of supply airdropped to wallets that lost money on $TRUMP and 30% of supply to be burned if Democrats win the 2028 election
- Also... odds of Democrat sweep in November have risen to 52%
- $PONS, $ZEC, and $ENA all getting lots of positive attention on the TL (link below)
- Copper hits ATH
- Variational still most anticipated airdrop (link below)
- Stacks $STX to launch self-custodial Bitcoin staking
- Biggest bond bear market in US history continues... with $TLT (long-duration US bond ETF) averaging -7.65% per year the last 5 years, while conversely $QQQ (stonks) averaged +13.82% per year during that time
- (Related) 30 year fixed rate mortgages in the US are averaging 6.71% right now, down from high of 7.79% and up from 2.65% in 2021
- Above issue (yields and thus mortgages at record highs - since mortgage rates track long-duration US bond rates) is a very bullish setup for US real estate imho, at least residential (definitely not office) and at least in states people want to move to... As a result I still have significant exposure to $JOE (FL landholding + development company with huge holdings in the Panhandle/Bend section of FL) as my main RE exposure
- Also re: the above... I think the odds on Polymarket re: the Fed raising vs cutting rates are WAY WAY off (and thus asymmetric) and therefore I am seriously considering throwing a bit of money on bets that they somehow actually cut rates by EOY. The payoffs are absolutely insane proportionally and I can still 100% see it happening depending on how things go. Consensus is the opposite though with the bond market pricing in an 88% chance they RAISE by end-of-year...
- Also re: the above... I thought Trump's post on Truth Social over the weekend was quite shocking, where he seemed to openly threaten the Fed... saying (again, directed toward the Fed): "LOWER THE RATE OR I'LL STOP TRADING WITH COUNTRIES WITH WHICH WE HAVE A DEFICIT..." - which is quite startling and perhaps blackpilling to consider the President and Fed are openly at war to this degree... but it seems like Powell and his ilk who are still on the board are refusing to lower rates as Trump (and presumably Warsh) want... very fascinating situation that really brings up a lot of questions about how much control over the Fed the Executive Branch is supposed to have in the US...
- Also lots of talk about security and OpSec after Bold losing all his on-chain funds... tbh I remain a huge fan of just having all your on-chain crypto on a dedicated $200 Chromebook (or several) with multiple handwritten seed phrases cut in half and kept in multiple secure locations. Then if you are managing a defi protocol or something and need to sign all the time create a multi-sig. Or if you're degening on-chain and doing lots of transactions just separate your long-term holdings from that wallet. And if you have serious wealth in crypto diversify between on-chain and off-chain and various chains/counterparties/etc.
Conclusion
That is everything lads!
Remember to get jacked and tan for the $ETH $10k party! 💪
-and lift weights while watching the sun set! see pic below :)
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Crypto + Macro Stuff I'm Looking At Today
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- Tradfi markets closed today for Labor Day
- CPI and PPI inflation data coming out this week
- EIP-8141 may allow Ethereum users to pay for gas with stablecoins by sometime next year (very interesting - link below)
- $QQQ at $718.96
- Oil at $92.72 and lots of attention on crack spreads
- Gold at $4,405.40
- Total crypto market cap at $2.765T
- My beloved $FXN up almost 200% from spring lows - to $28.19(!) (still insanely undervalued though!)
- Hunter Biden to apparently release a memecoin on Wednesday called $LAPTOP, with part of supply airdropped to wallets that lost money on $TRUMP and 30% of supply to be burned if Democrats win the 2028 election
- Also... odds of Democrat sweep in November have risen to 52%
- $PONS, $ZEC, and $ENA all getting lots of positive attention on the TL (link below)
- Copper hits ATH
- Variational still most anticipated airdrop (link below)
- Stacks $STX to launch self-custodial Bitcoin staking
- Biggest bond bear market in US history continues... with $TLT (long-duration US bond ETF) averaging -7.65% per year the last 5 years, while conversely $QQQ (stonks) averaged +13.82% per year during that time
- (Related) 30 year fixed rate mortgages in the US are averaging 6.71% right now, down from high of 7.79% and up from 2.65% in 2021
- Above issue (yields and thus mortgages at record highs - since mortgage rates track long-duration US bond rates) is a very bullish setup for US real estate imho, at least residential (definitely not office) and at least in states people want to move to... As a result I still have significant exposure to $JOE (FL landholding + development company with huge holdings in the Panhandle/Bend section of FL) as my main RE exposure
- Also re: the above... I think the odds on Polymarket re: the Fed raising vs cutting rates are WAY WAY off (and thus asymmetric) and therefore I am seriously considering throwing a bit of money on bets that they somehow actually cut rates by EOY. The payoffs are absolutely insane proportionally and I can still 100% see it happening depending on how things go. Consensus is the opposite though with the bond market pricing in an 88% chance they RAISE by end-of-year...
- Also re: the above... I thought Trump's post on Truth Social over the weekend was quite shocking, where he seemed to openly threaten the Fed... saying (again, directed toward the Fed): "LOWER THE RATE OR I'LL STOP TRADING WITH COUNTRIES WITH WHICH WE HAVE A DEFICIT..." - which is quite startling and perhaps blackpilling to consider the President and Fed are openly at war to this degree... but it seems like Powell and his ilk who are still on the board are refusing to lower rates as Trump (and presumably Warsh) want... very fascinating situation that really brings up a lot of questions about how much control over the Fed the Executive Branch is supposed to have in the US...
- Also lots of talk about security and OpSec after Bold losing all his on-chain funds... tbh I remain a huge fan of just having all your on-chain crypto on a dedicated $200 Chromebook (or several) with multiple handwritten seed phrases cut in half and kept in multiple secure locations. Then if you are managing a defi protocol or something and need to sign all the time create a multi-sig. Or if you're degening on-chain and doing lots of transactions just separate your long-term holdings from that wallet. And if you have serious wealth in crypto diversify between on-chain and off-chain and various chains/counterparties/etc.
Conclusion
That is everything lads!
Remember to get jacked and tan for the $ETH $10k party! 💪
-and lift weights while watching the sun set! see pic below :)
SK hynix sharply raises share of leading edge DRAM… 1c to become main process early next year
SK hynix is rapidly expanding the production share of its sixth generation 10nm class (1c) DRAM. With 1c DRAM set to serve as the core die stacked into next generation high bandwidth memory (HBM4E), the company appears to be accelerating its process transition. As demand for high value added memory for servers and artificial intelligence (AI) grows, the race with Samsung Electronics and Micron to migrate to finer process nodes is also heating up.
"1c process share expected to exceed 34% within the year"
According to industry sources on the 7th, SK hynix's 1c DRAM share rose from around 10% in the first quarter of this year to the 13% range in the second quarter. It is projected to reach the 24% range in the third quarter and the 34% range in the fourth quarter. In the first quarter of next year, the 1c share is expected to climb to the 35% range, overtaking 1b (33% range) for the first time and becoming the company's main process.
The share of 1b (fifth generation 10nm class) DRAM was found to have peaked at the 43% range in the second quarter of this year and turned downward. As the production shift to 1c gets into full swing, the share of older generation processes is shrinking in sequence. Industry estimates show that, as of the end of the second quarter, Samsung Electronics' 1c share stood in the 16% range and Micron's in the 19% range, somewhat ahead of SK hynix (13% range). However, with SK hynix stepping up the pace of its transition in the second half of this year, it is expected to overtake Samsung Electronics (31% range) on a fourth quarter basis (34% range).
On its second quarter earnings conference call last month, SK hynix said that supply of DRAM built on the sixth generation 10nm class (1c) process had begun in earnest in the second quarter. The company projected that bit growth (the rate of increase in production volume) in the second half of this year would exceed the first half, driven by expanding HBM4 (sixth generation HBM) volumes and rising shipments of 1c based commodity DRAM.
Process transition in preparation for HBM4E performance gains
The battle for HBM4 leadership between Samsung Electronics and SK hynix is also intertwined with the pace of the 1c transition. Samsung Electronics is applying 1c DRAM from the HBM4 stage onward and is touting top tier performance with operating speeds of around 11.7Gbps. SK hynix, by contrast, chose a strategy that prioritizes mass production stability, relying on its proven 1b DRAM and advanced MR-MUF packaging technology, and is applying 1c DRAM as the core HBM die for the first time starting with next generation HBM4E (seventh generation HBM).
Industry observers say this difference in strategy is being reflected in the two companies' market shares. Major research firms including Counterpoint Research project this year's HBM4 market share, on a combined basis across NVIDIA, Google, AMD and others, at the mid 50% range for SK hynix, the high 20% range for Samsung Electronics, and the high 10% range for Micron. The picture is one in which SK hynix holds its volume advantage on the strength of mass production stability, while Samsung Electronics seeks to expand share through a technical spec advantage.
Against this backdrop, analysts say SK hynix's push to speed up the 1c transition will translate into tangible benefits in cost and productivity, beyond simply shrinking the node. Since bit output per wafer rises compared with the previous generation, more bits are produced from the same wafer input, improving cost competitiveness, which is cited as a factor that will help defend DRAM segment profitability from the second half onward. With the 1c transition proceeding alongside a growing mix of high value added products for servers and HBM, analysts say productivity gains are highly likely to feed directly into margin improvement.
An official in the semiconductor industry said, "The pace of the 1c transition itself is encouraging, but it only becomes meaningful if actual production yields and customer qualification schedules back it up," adding, "Starting with HBM4E, the fine process competition between Samsung Electronics and SK hynix will intensify further."
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