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Recently, among my muscle training friends, there was a discussion about comparing EAA, so I did some research.
There are so many types of EAA supplements that it's hard to choose, but it largely depends on whether you prioritize ingredients or taste.
In terms of ingredient efficiency, Myprotein's Impact EAA is quite excellent.
The essential amino acid content is 79.6%, with zero carbohydrates and zero fats.
It has 28 kcal per serving, so you can drink it without worrying even while building your body.
However, there are reports of a bitter aftertaste, so it's suited for those who do

Recently, the topic of real-world assets, or RWA, has been rapidly gaining attention in the crypto community. In simple terms, it’s a concept that involves tokenizing real-world assets such as real estate, bonds, and stocks on the blockchain to enable trading. Commodities like gold and oil are also included.
Until now, traditional finance and crypto have been separate worlds, but RWA is likely to serve as a bridge between them. By tokenizing assets, it reduces geographical restrictions and complex procedures, providing investors worldwide with access in a liquid form. This is why it’s attracti

Seeing institutional investors flooding into Bitcoin, you can tell that the value of a single coin is steadily increasing. Currently, the BTC price is approaching around $80,000, with over 20 million BTC in circulation. Since the supply is fixed at 21 million, it seems that as demand grows, large players will dominate the market.
Interestingly, there are over 1 million addresses holding at least 1 BTC, which is roughly the same population size as Ottawa, Canada, or Abu Dhabi, UAE. The total assets in these addresses exceed $500 billion, which is more than the entire GDP of the UAE, indicating

In the world of Japanese market traders, there are legendary figures, aren't there? One is BNF, known as the god of the markets, and the other is Takashi Kotegawa, renowned as the strongest individual investor. In fact, the two have been long-time friends and share similar backgrounds. They both got involved in the markets since university, steadily building their capital from small amounts, eventually growing into traders managing hundreds of millions of yen.
The famous J-COM misorder incident was the catalyst that made them widely known. That day, Takashi Kotegawa earned 600 million yen, but

If you’re into technical analysis, you probably know that many people use indicators like RSI and MACD— but do you know what the single most important indicator is? It’s volume. And the indicator that evolved from that is VWAP.
What is VWAP? Simply put, it stands for “Volume Weighted Average Price.” In other words, it’s an indicator that calculates an average price while taking trading volume into account. And the reason it’s so powerful is that it doesn’t just average prices—it reflects where the actual trading activity is concentrated.
How do you calculate VWAP? You take each trade’s price,

It looks like target price adjustments for Amazon stock are continuing among analysts. There was news that Loop, Loss, and Bankrate have rechecked their price targets. As a benchmark, it seems they’re looking at a range of between $285 and $360.
However, since the current stock price is trading around $249, there is still room to reach the target price. According to TipRanks data, the average target among 45 analysts is around $284.65. In other words, when looking from the vicinity of $249, there’s at least more than $30 of upside potential.
In situations like this, it’s also important to see

I really think the world of YouTube is amazing. I was listening to Mr. Beast, also known as Jimmy Donaldson, and it seems his total net worth has reached $1 billion. There’s even a ranking of the eighth youngest billionaires.
Considering why Mr. Beast’s total assets have grown so much, it’s not just from YouTube channel revenue; he’s diversifying quite a bit. Of course, he has his own channel, but he also has product lines, food brands, and he’s about to sign a streaming deal with Amazon Prime Video. Having multiple income sources like this probably pushes his monthly earnings to around $50 mi

The story of Perpetual Protocol is pretty interesting. It's a derivative trading protocol, but its mechanism is quite simple and well-designed.
First, the basics. Perpetual Protocol is essentially a digital marketplace where you can bet on the price fluctuations of various assets. You can increase your positions using debt or put up your assets as collateral. In other words, leverage trading is possible.
What’s important here is the concept of "perpetual contracts." These are similar to futures contracts without an expiration date and are linked to the price of the underlying asset. You can us

SOL is currently trading around $83.79, but one concept I've been paying close attention to in recent price action is the Fair Value Gap (FVG). It's a topic that's been gaining buzz among institutional and retail traders, and it's actually pretty important for understanding market inefficiencies.
Simply put, a fair value gap is like a "hole" in the price left behind when the market moves rapidly in one direction. During news-driven events or periods of high volatility, prices can skip levels without enough buying or selling to fill the gap. This imbalance actually reflects footprints of instit

What are truly effective strategies in stock trading? Recently, I realized that rather than relying on complex indicators, reading the price movements themselves in a simple way is more effective. This is the essence of a price action strategy, as it directly reflects market psychology, allowing you to make judgments based solely on pure price fluctuations without being misled by technical indicator noise.
In practice, many traders succeed with this approach. The strength of price action is primarily its simplicity. You don’t need to check indicators constantly; decisions are made based on the

One of the biggest mysteries in the Bitcoin world is who Satoshi Nakamoto is, and what will happen to the enormous amount of BTC believed to be held by him.
Bitcoin left behind by Satoshi Nakamoto, who ceased activity around 2010. It is well known that this is considered one of the largest assets held by a single owner. But in reality, the question of what Satoshi Nakamoto actually is and the fate of his assets has long been a topic of ongoing debate in the market.
Recently, on-chain analysts have been paying renewed attention to this issue. They point out two main possibilities. The first is

Recently, I've been paying attention to Stripe's movements. Since 2026, I feel the world of digital finance is clearly reaching a turning point. It’s shifting from mere human-centered transactions to a "machine economy" where AI agents function as independent economic entities.
As co-founder John Collison of Stripe predicts, machine-to-machine (M2M) commercial transactions have far surpassed the stage of automation. A world where AI agents autonomously make complex financial decisions is already on the horizon.
What’s notable is the choice of payment infrastructure. The preference for stableco

Interesting data popped up from on-chain monitoring. The whale address "0x2D2D" has been snapping up a large amount of ASTEROID over the past 7 hours, putting in 200 ETH in total. And in Japanese yen terms, that comes to more than $460,000. If you convert it assuming roughly $3,500 per token, that works out to 1.72 billion ASTEROID.
Based on what I can see of this whale’s current position, they apparently hold a total of 8.38 billion ASTEROID. In terms of market capitalization, that’s equivalent to about $2.27 million. The fact that they’re concentrating their buys like this makes me wonder if

As the cryptocurrency industry matures in earnest, the shift from mere token speculation to substantive business is accelerating. Recently, I’ve noticed several intriguing business opportunities. If executed properly, these could grow to over a hundred million dollars in scale. Today, I want to introduce five of them.
First, the concept that catches the eye is OneKYC. Honestly, KYC verification is really tedious to repeat every time you use a crypto app. Registering for a new exchange involves uploading documents, taking selfies, and waiting for approval—repeating the same process endlessly. T

Recently, there has been attention on the news that U.S. authorities announced a large-scale crackdown on Southeast Asian scam networks. According to the announcement by federal prosecutors, the seizure of cryptocurrency assets related to this international crime network has exceeded $580 million, indicating a significant scale.
This task force, established in November 2025, is operated through cooperation among multiple agencies including the U.S. Department of Justice, FBI, and Treasury Department. The main targets are scam schemes run by organized crime groups based in Myanmar, Cambodia, La

There is a major shift happening in the Bitcoin mining industry. Once, miners were obsessed with accumulating BTC through the "HODL strategy," but now many publicly traded companies are taking the opposite approach.
Why is this happening? The reason is simple. The profitability of mining operations is rapidly declining. During the boom in 2021, Bitcoin mining profit margins reached 90%, but now, due to intensified competition, rising electricity costs, and compressed prices, it is losing its appeal. Especially with BTC prices hovering around $66,000, high profits like before are no longer expe

Citigroup is making interesting moves. It announced plans to integrate Bitcoin custody functions into its core banking operations, aiming to roll this out in the second half of 2026.
What’s notable is that this is not simply adding a virtual asset service, but embedding Bitcoin into the bank’s main systems. Citigroup currently manages about $30 trillion in assets, and it is working to create an environment in which Bitcoin can be treated in the same framework as stocks and bonds.
The head of digital asset custody development said plainly at an industry event, “Enable Bitcoin to be handled like

The recent Perp DEX market is showing some pretty interesting moves, and it feels like there’s been quite a shift in rankings as well. When I looked at the data from DefiLlama, I saw that starting from the late February period, there have been significant fluctuations in each project’s trading volume. It feels like, even in the world of cryptocurrency derivatives trading, the reshuffling at the top is getting even more intense.
Hyperliquid remains overwhelmingly dominant as ever, with about $6.37 billion in 24-hour trading volume—far ahead of everyone else. Its TVL is also $4.20 billion, and o

Even though Bitcoin has recovered to the $77,000 range, the overall market sentiment is still bearish. Looking at Coinglass data, the funding rates on major CEXs and DEXs are quite low. In other words, a funding rate below 0.005% indicates that short positions are dominant.
Funding rates are essentially the mechanism where money moves between long and short traders, but when these numbers are low, it suggests a selling trend across the market. It's interesting that Bitcoin itself is rising, yet the derivatives market shows a cautious outlook.
In such situations, there's a disconnect between ac

El Salvador has moved again. The central bank has added purchases of gold worth $50 million, and President Bukele is, as usual, still buying Bitcoin. Since he’s buying at a pace of 1 coin per day, it seems he’s already over 7,500 coins.
Gold reserves are over 67,000 troy ounces, worth approximately $360 million. Meanwhile, Bitcoin, calculated at its current price, is worth over $600 million. As a national-asset portfolio, that’s quite aggressive, right? Bukele also said he “bought at the bottom,” but it’s still ambiguous whether he meant both gold and Bitcoin or just one of them, lol.
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