Inner Chain: Issue 18

Lock in September, Rate Cuts, Pokemon Onchain, Troll memecoin continues to Troll

Inner Chain
September 04, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes

🚀 Editor's Note

Welcome to the 18th edition of Inner Chain Crypto your weekly no-hype, straight-talking guide to what’s really happening in Crypto and Web 3, from a passionate squad of crypto enthusiasts from Brooklyn to Accra.

The market continues to range…the key message is buy the dip. Institutional demand continues. Meanwhile India and the US Lead in crypto adoption.

Solana outperforms the majors breaking through $211, fueled by strong developer activity, RWA experiments and memecoin culture. Pokemon cards enters the tokenization boom. Major News! Polymarket is pproved to operate crypto prediction markets in the US. On the political side, California Governor Gavin Newsom teases the launch of a satirical “Trump Corruption Coin” to troll Trump’s growing crypto empire.

Meanwhile, the “lock in movement” is spreading beyond crypto Twitter and becoming a full-blown TikTok trend. What started as trader slang for securing profits and staking positions is now being used to showcase everything from saving habits to fitness challenges. For the crypto crowd, it’s a rallying cry: focus, stack, and lock in for the next few months.

The door to Altcoin season is here - Bitcoin dominance has slipped from its peak of 62% to 55% while ETH and SOL show signs of renewed interest. Market movements suggest that this may be an early sign of an altcoin rotation. Lock IN!

Don’t get sidelined. Lock In 🔒️

🔎 Market Watch

⛓️ SPOTLIGHT - PREDICTION MARKETS

A prediction market user recently turned $20,000 into $1.2 million by correctly betting that Gavin Newsom would not be Kamala Harris's running mate. This huge win is a powerful example of how these markets work. They allow people to bet on real-world events, and the odds are set by the crowd's collective intelligence.

This creates a constantly updating forecast that many argue is more accurate than traditional polls or pundits. By revealing what people truly believe when real money is on the line, prediction markets can be a valuable tool for cutting through noise and measuring the actual probability of future events.

POKEMON Moves Onchain

Pokémon cards, long confined to hobby shops and physical delivery, are becoming one of the latest real-world assets to move on-chain. Collector Crypt has emerged as a breakout player. By issuing NFTs that represent physical cards, the platform offers instant liquidity and crypto traders have taken notice.

The $CARDS token soared 10x in a week, giving the project a valuation near $500 million. Collector Crypt has emerged as a breakout player by issuing NFTs that represent physical cards.

📋️ Reader question: I have $1,000 to invest in Crypto.

A common question asked, how should I invest $1,000 into crypto? Here are 2 suggestions for a Low Risk tolerance and High Risk tolerance portfolio.

🏢 Institutional Moves

On the institutional side, Ethereum just logged a major milestone, surpassing Bitcoin spot volume for the first time in 7 years, while ETH supply on exchanges hit a 3-year low. At the same time, ONDO Finance launched over 100 tokenized U.S. stocks, pushing forward the RWA narrative and blurring the line between TradFi and DeFi. Federal Reserve to hold conference on stablecoins, tokenization and AI. Between ETH’s resurgence, Solana’s dominance, and the rise of tokenized assets, the market feels like it’s locking in its own next phase of growth

🪙 BITCOIN NEWS

CIO of Bitwise says, “Last year ETFs bought half a Million Bitcoin, it bought 3 x the total supply, corporations bought 250,000 BTC and governments around the world are buying 100,000 Bitcoins.” Supply Shock incoming…

🔥 Inner Weekly Watchlist

$SOL
$TROLL
$PUMP
$ONDO
$MORPHO
$ETH
$TAO
$CARDS

🗞️ News

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