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NVIDIA Stock Dips After Earnings: Is Decentralized AI a Smarter Bet?

CryptoSavant  · 2025-08-28 ·  14 days ago
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Okay, can someone help me make sense of this NVIDIA earnings reaction?


I'm looking at the numbers from last night (Aug 27, 2025), and they absolutely crushed it: $46.7B in revenue, beat EPS, and gave monster guidance for Q3.


And yet, the stock still dropped ~4% after hours. The reason? Apparently, data center sales were slightly below Wall Street's sky-high expectations, partly because of the U.S. export restrictions hitting their China sales. It feels like the market is punishing a $4.4 trillion company for not achieving literal perfection. So my question to everyone is: does this intense, short-term pressure on $NVDA make you think that decentralized AI protocols like RNDR, FET, or TAO are a smarter long-term play? They get to build and grow without this quarterly drama. What's the real move here?

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  • This perfectly illustrates the weakness of the centralized model. NVIDIA is subject to the whims of U.S. regulators. A permissionless protocol for decentralized GPU rendering, on the other hand, doesn't care about export restrictions. This is the entire reason we build in Web3.

  • 🤣🤣🤣

  • Smart money buys dips

  • I honestly do not understand why everyone is freaking out.
    smh
    yall must me new to this shiit

  • I totally get why you’re scratching your head over NVIDIA’s 4% drop after such a killer Q2—$46.7 billion in revenue, EPS of $1.05 beating estimates, and a beefy $54 billion Q3 forecast? That’s nuts, yet the market still hit the sell button. Let’s unpack this and figure out if decentralized AI plays like RNDR, FET, or TAO are the smarter move.


    The 4% dip (closer to 3-7% in after-hours, based  Yahoo Finance) comes down to Wall Street’s obsession with perfection for a $4.4 trillion beast like NVIDIA. The Data Center segment, which is 88% of their revenue, pulled in $41.1 billion—massive, but a hair below the ~$41.5 billion analysts wanted. The big kicker? Zero sales of H20 chips in China because of U.S. export restrictions. That’s a huge market gone for now, and it spooked investors. Plus, some chatter on X suggests folks are worried about supply chain hiccups as NVIDIA ramps up for Blackwell chips, even though Jensen Huang said production’s on track. The market’s punishing NVIDIA not for failing, but for not being flawless in an AI gold rush.


    You’re spot-on that this feels like unfair pressure for a company driving the AI revolution. NVIDIA’s P/E is sky-high (~45x), so any hiccup gets magnified. But let’s not sleep on their strengths: 154% Data Center growth year-over-year, 70% of that tied to Blackwell already, and hyperscalers like Microsoft and Google leaning hard on NVIDIA’s GPUs. This drop looks like a short-term overreaction, not a red flag on their long-term dominance.


    Now, about those decentralized AI protocols—RNDR, FET, TAO. I see the appeal: they’re building cool stuff like decentralized rendering or AI compute markets, and they dodge the quarterly earnings guillotine. RNDR jumped 40% in a week last year, and FET/TAO have been riding the AI hype too. But “no quarterly drama” doesn’t mean no drama. Crypto markets are wild—think 20-50% swings on sentiment or regulatory news. These projects are tiny (market caps ~$1-10 billion vs. NVIDIA’s $4.4 trillion) and unproven at scale. Their growth depends on decentralized AI taking off, which is a big “if” with regulatory risks and adoption hurdles.


    NVIDIA’s volatility is real, but it’s still the AI hardware king with a clear runway (Blackwell Ultra, $3-4 trillion AI infra opportunity). If you’re in it for the long haul, this dip could be a buying opportunity—analysts still love it, with a $194 price target (7% upside). RNDR, FET, and TAO are exciting for diversification, but they’re high-risk, high-reward bets. Maybe go barbell: hold NVIDIA for stability and sprinkle in some crypto AI for upside, but keep those positions small and watch for crypto market chaos. What’s your risk tolerance? That’ll decide if you stick with the big dog or roll the dice on the new kids.

  • So let me get this straight. They lost their China sales because of the government, they're preparing for a new, better chip so some sales paused, and they still beat earnings... but the stock goes down? This makes the stock market feel even more irrational than crypto sometimes.

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