# $BONK Social Sentiment & Intelligence — 2026-07-18 02:40 UTC > **Asset:** $BONK > **Momentum Status:** Cooling Down > **Timestamp:** 2026-07-18 02:40 UTC (2026-07-18T02:40:00Z) > **Canonical URL:** https://cryptitalk.com/2026-07-18-02-40/crypto/BONK > **Overview Brief:** https://cryptitalk.com/2026-07-18-02-40/crypto.md --- ## 10-Minute Social Metrics - **Posts Analyzed:** 2 - **Total Impressions:** 5.7K - **Likes:** 114 - **Retweets:** 13 - **Comments:** 32 --- ## Momentum & Sentiment Analysis Total Engagement - Comments: 32, Retweets: 13, Likes: 114, Impressions: 5673 --- ## Cited Community Posts & Evidence ### Post #1 by @WuBlockchain > **Author:** [@WuBlockchain](https://x.com/WuBlockchain) > **Metrics:** 15 likes · 3 retweets · 6 comments · 10.4K views > **Source Link:** [https://x.com/WuBlockchain/status/2078296527592649189](https://x.com/WuBlockchain/status/2078296527592649189) > > "Tom Lee: Ethereum Will Penalize Impatient Investors On July 7, 2026, Tom Lee @fundstrat stated on the New Era Finance Podcast that the recent lag in the crypto market is primarily due to the aftermath of deleveraging, with capital flowing toward yield-bearing sectors. When [Spoken audio]: I mean, the stock market and crypto is going to penalize impatient investors. The impatient are the ones that actually lose. Why is crypto in general lagging behind with everything that's currently going up in the markets? Well, if you asked me a year ago if AI stocks were going to go up a lot and software was going to start to rise and there was like a war, I would have said those three things should have been good for crypto, right? AI is clearly good for crypto because crypto is going to be important for the agentic future and we'd say that well crypto stocks are correlated to software because it's digital money right software money and software has done well but crypto has done badly in wartime situations we should expect to see gold and bitcoin do well but instead as you point out crypto has done really badly and gold's done pretty poorly too i think it tells me a couple of things one is i think crypto still hasn't recovered from october 10th because that's really when the industry broke. And I think there was so much deleveraging that took place there that it wiped out a lot of people. I mean, I just think people lost money and they can't come back. And that takes time because people have to rebuild their savings. And I think the second is that money flows isn't explaining why stocks are going up because if that was the case, gold should be going up as people worry about war because there's all this cash on the sidelines and they should be holding stores a value. But instead, I think investors are buying whatever goes up because there's not enough yield. So AI stocks go up and memory goes up. And so it's an efficient use of money to allocate to that because you're not getting yield anywhere. How do you maintain the conviction when the markets are turning against you? Bear markets happen everywhere. I've been doing risk assets for 35 years. I've never seen equilibrium in price, right? Prices are either cheap relative to what you think or they're expensive relative to what you think. And it could happen for a long time. So I mean, just six months ago, Ethereum was almost 5,000. And now it's 1800. Has anything really changed? I mean, not really, right? What would you tell to someone that is currently like investing into those markets that is kind of in a position of losing hope? Well, you see a lot of fundamental growth. I see it as well. What would you tell to any of those investors? I mean, the stock market and crypto is going to penalize impatient investors because look at NVIDIA. I mean last year when it was stuck at 160 even early this year it was at 160 and we had a lot of clients saying wow this NVIDIA is done it's just so big it can't go up and then it was 15 times earnings and now it's at 240 it added a couple trillion dollars of market cap in three months. So the impatient are the ones that actually lose." ### Post #2 by @hianthony > **Author:** [@hianthony](https://x.com/hianthony) > **Metrics:** 21 likes · 1 retweets · 2 comments · 332 views > **Source Link:** [https://x.com/hianthony/status/2078254216133398801](https://x.com/hianthony/status/2078254216133398801) > > "GaryVee @garyvee signing @veefriendscards for kids tonight at @FanaticsFest in NYC. @veefriends" --- ## Contributing Accounts - `@grebby` (https://x.com/grebby) - `@TheFreehoff` (https://x.com/TheFreehoff)