Counting Down the $8.19 Surge "Prophet": CZ Teased Hours Beforehand, Arthur Hayes Emerged with the Project a Day Early

BlockBeats News, August 20th. Yesterday, a series of remarks and actions by Trump triggered a sharp rise in the crypto market. These remarks have had a profound impact on the crypto market and may serve as a signal of a market bottom. It is worth noting that several well-known figures had hinted at this through their previous statements or actions.

CZ hinted at buying the dip in a post last night at 7:36 pm, "If you want your future self to be grateful for what you did today in two years, then...(I'm not predicting any bottom. No one can do that. But try to adopt a one-year time horizon.)"

Arthur Hayes, on the 18th, made a high-profile announcement that he would end his retirement, "come out of retirement," to lead the crypto AI project Flop Labs and launch the token FLOP.

In addition, Robinhood co-founder Vlad Tenev, who participated in the August 19th summit with Trump, published a lengthy article a day early expressing bullish views on the development prospects of Robinhood Chain and the stock token DeFi.

There have also been signs of insider whales accumulating positions ahead of time. According to TradingBeats monitoring, a whale (0x8447A06F34e251ABeb55A0B7d5e01554F5072E0D) started accumulating 10,657 ETH (worth a total of $20.7 million) from August 17th and directly deposited them into staking.

Former Wash, the Fed chair, Duquesne Family Office submitted its 13F holdings report for the second quarter of 2026 to the U.S. SEC for the first time. As of June 30th, it had acquired $23 million worth of shares in HYPE Treasury Company Hyperliquid Strategies Inc (Nasdaq code: PURR).