DeFi angle: open interest quietly dominates retail participation: reading the Ends Activity tape

When books are thin, narratives look stronger than they are.

Improvements in open interest without confirmation from cycle psychology tend to fade faster.

Even when feeds obsess over “HTX Ends UK Activity as FCA Secures Court Undertakings on Crypto Promotions,” the durable question remains process versus prediction.

Meanwhile, cycle psychology can either confirm the move or expose it as temporary.

When books are thin, narratives look stronger than they are.

When order-book depth and venture funding disagree, sizing down beats inventing a clever story.

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