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Read MoreCrypto’s newest cash printer
Kaito was the mindshare king for a long time. The whole thing ran on X’s data. Then X pulled the ladder, the way it does, and Kaito lost its crown.…
Read MoreMaking tokenholders happy (with VCs on cap table)
Crypto traders spent years telling everyone to escape the legacy financial system. Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 markets (stocks, commodities, indices) just did $3.0B in 7-day volume. Its native crypto perps did $3.1B.…
Read MoreThe chain everyone’s piling into
A trader withdrew $2M of ETH from Binance and swapped his entire stack to LIT in a single trade. He received $14.1K back. That’s not a typo. The 0x router…
Read MoreDid $VVV just rug the holders?
Creator coins are back extracting again. Someone launched $ANSEM and airdropped 65% of the supply to Ansem, a crypto-influencer. He amplified it by promising creator fees (and later tokens) back…
Read MoreThe funding crisis in Ethereum
Messi just put up five goals in two matches to become the all-time World Cup scoring leader. First man to score in five different tournaments, too. If you’ve been overtrading,…
Read MoreThe “regime change” at the Fed
Peace might actually be on the table. The US and Iran signed a memo of understanding to wind down the war. Don’t pop the champagne yet. The Lebanon front is…
Read MoreBitcoin’s token unlock
Pump.fun launched GO, a platform that lets users pay others to complete “ANY task”. And complete degeneracy followed. Bounties included tattooing words on the face, fart through a megaphone in…
Read MoreDeath of “private BTC” thesis
Strategy (Michael Saylor’s BTC Treasury company) sold 32 Bitcoin worth $2.5 million at ~$77k per BTC. The sale was to fund preferred stock obligations/dividend distributions. But anyway, this breaks with…
Read MoreThe world cup trade
CT has given up on $ETH. Even the OG bulls are publishing their “why I sold” posts. Then, Standard Chartered, an actual investment bank, reaffirmed their $40k target. Somewhere along…
Read MoreBringing TradFi liquidity onchain
Iran reportedly just launched the first state-linked maritime insurance market that settles in Bitcoin. Premiums and payouts on ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz will be paid in BTC (&…
Read MoreVVV did 8x. what’s next?
A guy locked out of his Bitcoin wallet for 11 years just uploaded his entire old college computer to Claude and asked it to figure things out. The AI parsed…
Read MoreWhat’s up with the TON narrative?
eCash is back from the dead. Paul Sztorc resurrected the name for a Bitcoin hard fork that airdrops 1:1 to BTC holders in August, complete with seven drivechains and a…
Read MoreThe $MEGA farming cheat sheet
DOJ recently arrested a soldier for insider trading. A master sergeant who helped plan the classified op to capture Maduro bet $33k on Polymarket eight days before the raid and…
Read MoreHow DeFi almost died this week
Every bad week in crypto teaches us something. This week taught us two things. One: DeFi’s cross-chain plumbing is held together with duct tape. Two: when things actually break, we…
Read MoreHyperliquid’s war on polymarket
Oops. The earlier email didn’t have the second article. So, I’m sending out this fixed version. On to this week’s email… This week, Hyperbridge was hacked. Someone minted bajillions of…
