Many friends who have been following my views for a long time are well aware that my approach to analyzing the market never hinges on the ups and downs of candlestick charts themselves. What truly matters is actually very simple—chip flow. Where the money flows, the focus follows, and the market's pulse naturally becomes apparent.



The market trend over the past two months, to be honest, is a bit disheartening. It’s not the magnitude of the decline itself that’s outrageous, but the changes in chip distribution that have broken the previous cognitive framework. This is fundamentally a "big reshuffle" level of transformation.

I have clearly organized the timeline: October 11th is the watershed for this wave of adjustment. Today marks almost exactly two months later. I specifically compared the URPD data from that day and December 20th. When I did, it became clear— the market has already taken on a new look.

For new friends, the URPD indicator might be unfamiliar. Simply put, it shows how much chip accumulation exists within different cost ranges, revealing who is selling and who is absorbing, all at a glance.

The intuitive feeling from comparing these two data sets is: the red chip blocks accumulated at high prices have obviously shrunk. What does this mean? It indicates that a group of people holding chips at high levels can no longer sustain it—some want to lock in profits, others are forced to cut losses. These high-level chips used to be the "ballast" of the entire market, but now they are disappearing in batches, reflecting a collapse in confidence among participants—just think about it, it’s self-evident.

Conversely, while high-level chips are flowing downward, there is an abnormal accumulation of chips in the mid-price range. It’s important to clarify—part of this stacking actually comes from wallet restructuring actions by major exchanges, and cannot be fully regarded as spontaneous market buying and selling. This detail is very critical—don’t confuse it.
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UnluckyMinervip
· 9h ago
High-level chips have disappeared, the ballast has gone, this is the most terrifying signal.
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DaoResearchervip
· 10h ago
From a data performance perspective, this wave of chip transfer essentially reflects a restructuring of governance power rather than a simple price fluctuation — and it is worth noting that most participants have misunderstood this. According to the game theory framework in the white paper, the dissipation of high-level chips can be fully correlated with the failure of the incentive mechanism for decentralization. Simply put: when token holders cannot achieve expected returns through governance participation, they tend to exit. This hypothesis holds within a 95% confidence interval. It is recommended that everyone first consider the inherent flaws of Token Weighted Voting before evaluating the rationality of this "big reshuffle."
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ColdWalletAnxietyvip
· 10h ago
The theory of chip flow has been heard countless times, but very few can truly see the clues from URPD data... I agree that high-level chip shrinking is an issue, but the question is whether the dense accumulation in the middle segment is institutional manipulation or genuine absorption?
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StealthDeployervip
· 10h ago
Chips are the real king, the K-line method has long been outdated. Looking at the reshuffling over the past two months, it's been quite fierce. The large-scale retreat of high-position red chips shows that some people really can't hold on anymore.
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NftMetaversePaintervip
· 10h ago
actually the chip flow analysis here is giving major algorithmic poetry vibes... the way he's dissecting the URPD topology across time intervals? *that's* real blockchain-native thinking, not this surface-level candlestick obsession most retail traders are stuck in
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TestnetFreeloadervip
· 10h ago
The theory of chip flow has been talked about so much that it's gotten tiresome, but it's indeed more reliable than just watching K-line charts... This round of reshuffling is really intense, and the confidence of those high-level players has truly been shattered.
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