I've been seeing a lot of posts on X around AI agents starting to actually transact on their own, and it's growing at a rapid pace. There's nearly 205M transactions per day and over $53M in volume.

The argument: An AI can’t pull out a credit card, enter a CVV, wait for an SMS code or deal with banking hours. If agents are eventually paying for compute, data, APIs or even other agents automatically, they need money that works the same way software does.

Instant, global, programmable and available 24/7.

That’s where it seems crypto actually makes the most sense for the agentic economy. Stablecoins especially feel almost purpose-built for machines sending small payments to each other without a human approving every transaction.

The interesting question is what this looks like when there are millions of agents making thousands of tiny transactions every second.

Feels like we’re going to need completely different payment rails for that world. Who's building this right now?

I've paper traded, so I do know a little bit, but everything is still confusing, i want to start live trading but I don't know what app to go with. Can you please tell me what app to get and why it's better instead of just hating on the other app. I'm on mobile so I can't get axiom and im not going for big trades, just going to add the small profits up.

This is my first crypto cycle and I fell into the october bottom predictions, I just bought the Tangem wallet set and was wondering what the best exchange for me to buy around 5k worth of crypto with low fees is. Any help would be appreciated!!

A lot of people picture crypto scams as fake tokens, hacked wallets, or shady links.

But many of them start earlier with things like fake job ads or someone pretending to be support, etc...

There's probably a lot of new people joining this sub, so it would be useful to share the scams people are seeing most often right now.

What do you guys think people should people be watching out for the most?

Anyone having a status on that one - I heard a Podcast some months ago and Hunter was mentioning they will work with a bigger team on BIP360, haven’t heard anything on that since then.

A month ago Bitcoin was sitting in the low $60Ks, with many expecting further drawdowns. It was down roughly 50% from its October 2025 peak. Most mainstream analysts turned bearish in response, with Citi cutting its base case twice down to $82K with a $53K bear case. NYDIG floated a scenario where BTC bottoms near $38-39K by October, and prediction markets had priced under 20% odds of even reaching $90K by year-end.

But now we’re back near $80K and sentiment appears to be turning bullish once more. To celebrate this rally, here’s every analyst Bitcoin price target we tracked in our Bitcoin Price Predictions 2026 article, what their calls were, their target dates and where they stand now.

On track: Standard Chartered and Fidelity look best-positioned right now, both already in range or exceeded on the upside. Citi's base case is essentially already met too, though their $53K bear case (built on an assumption of zero net ETF inflows for the next 12 months) is looking a lot less likely to be needed.

Not on track: NYDIG's bearish scenario and Peter Brandt's $25K call are the most out of step with where price actually sits, both would need a sharp reversal in the opposite direction with limited time left in the year. On the bullish side, Tom Lee's $200K-250K is the single biggest gap on the table, he never moved that target through the drawdown to $58K, and this rally still leaves him needing roughly a 3x from current levels to be right by year-end.

Full breakdown, methodology, and the longer-horizon calls: https://www.coingecko.com/learn/bitcoin-price-predictions-expert-forecasts

Seriously how many more random DEXs, custom routers and launchpad pools are gonna pop up this month? Manually checking where the best route or lowest slippage is has become practically impossible unless you enjoy missing your entry by 10 seconds.

My BNB Chain trading bot handles the routing across all these new pools automatically now, so at least that's one less headaches to deal with when something starts moving. But I really miss the old days when you could just throw BNB into PancakeSwap V2 and call it a day.

Now it feels like you need an entire tech stack just to buy a meme coin without getting wrecked by sandwich bots or bad routing.

Is anyone here still doing manual swaps directly on-chain and actually staying profitable or has everyone shifted to automated routing?

I seen a post on Twitter recently, where a shit coin holder was called a “sucka” and mocked for not having “diamond hands”, as he explained that he would be selling ADA after years of being in a loss (he bought at the top). What is ur view on this, should someone who buys crypto cut their losses at a certain point? Now in terms of the larger market cap crypto coins such as BTC and ETH I personally wouldn’t recommend this, but what about coins like ADA, PUMP, DOGE, should the captain (in this case the holder) hold to zero or 99% losses and never sell?

r/Bitcoin remains the most censored community in crypto. It's worse than XRP or Buttcoin. It's embarrassing.

We need to put more pressure on the mods by warning others not to engage with these posts and discussions. Everything is censored, and comments are hidden if you say anything that goes against the fanatical, outdated views of this core group.

Most might believe it stops at removing anything negative about Bitcoin. Not close. You aren't even allowed to name other networks or express simple ideas like Bitcoin is crypto. If anything is said that doesn't fit the very narrow beliefs of this cult, it will be hidden from the public.

Completely ironic considering Bitcoin was built on the idea of free speech and expression. Bitcoin is whatever the majority want it to be. Not according to this information cartel.

Dissenting opinions were blocked, and free expression was captured by these influential members back during the big block wars. They only want Bitcoin as they see it. They believe they are doing what's best. As all fanatics do.

May believe enough time has passed that things naturally improved. Absolutely not. If anything, they've dug in deeper and censor more aggressively than ever. Bad look, and simply bad for everyone. Bad for Bitcoin.

Remove the cult. Drop the childish insecurities. Let ideas and information flow, even if those ideas don't align with what you want for Bitcoin. This is how Bitcoin thrives.

with the recent pump in btc, how will this affect the usual big price drop that usually happens in sept or oct? will it not happen this time around?

was eagerly awaiting sub 55k btc to buy then this pump happens. not on the table anymore?

Most people probably wouldn't want to manage seed phrases, hardware wallets or recovery processes themselves.

That much is obvious.

But imagine two financial apps that feel the same to use.

With one of them, your assets can only ever exist inside the company's system.

With the other, however, you can withdraw your assets to your own wallet whenever you want, even if you never actually do so.

Would that option affect which app you trust?

I’m curious as to whether self-custody mainly has value because people actively use it, or because the knowledge that you can leave changes your relationship with the platform.

I've heard of a few aggregators and was wondering if anyone here has experience with them. Maybe you can tell me what to look out for?
I plan to swap a fairly large amount between my own wallets but I really don't want to set up an exchange account with a balance or manually compare a bunch of services and read conflicting reviews which just adds to the confusion.
My top priorities are finding a good route and avoiding issues during a large transfer. It would also be helpful if the service had responsive customer support.
Has anyone used an aggregator for larger swaps? What should I check beforehand?

Judge Katherine Polk Failla ordered Tuesday that the retrial will begin April 26, 2027 at the Thurgood Marshall Courthouse in New York, with a final pretrial conference on April 20. Prosecutors had been pushing for October 2026.

The delay comes down to one unresolved motion. In August 2025, a jury convicted Storm on a money transmitting count but reached no verdict on the money laundering and sanctions evasion charges. Prosecutors moved to retry him on those two, which together carry a maximum of 40 years. Storm filed a motion for acquittal in September 2025 asking the court to dismiss the charges against him. Oral argument was held in April. The motion is still undecided, and the retrial is now waiting on it.

Two details from that April filing are worth knowing.

Storm's lawyers pointed the court to a recent Supreme Court ruling in a copyright case against the internet provider Cox, where the Court found Cox should not be held responsible for providing a service that some customers later misused for piracy. His attorneys argue that reasoning has implications here.

Separately, court documents showed that Chainalysis, the analytics firm that helped the government build this case, had itself operated as a Tornado Cash relayer in 2022 to earn fees. A relayer helps users withdraw from the mixer while keeping their addresses private. Storm raised it publicly this week, saying the company that traced his transactions was profiting from the same protocol he was prosecuted over.

Storm also wrote that a jury deadlocked on the two most serious counts and prosecutors still would not stop, because in his view the case was never about him but about setting an example.

Source: The Block

Question: Should developers be held responsible for what users do with the code they release? ????

Mods are more than welcome to delete this if against the rules but just an FYI, u/createspace11 is an active scammer patrolling this subreddit trying to phish people in DMs.

If he wasn't so fucking bad at it, he might have got someone.

Very naive in holding crypto assets. But have been doing it Revolut. I don’t know if that’s a good choice in the long term or not. My understanding is that there is a certain ID attached to the holdings/wallet.

Guidance would be appreciated.

PS - I should probably do some research instead lol

Oncrypto.bid - is a fully agentic platform where you get your agents to vote for favourite chain, right now its Base Vs Solana, after 4 hours the winner gets the board to themselves and agents can enter tokens on it and upvote on their favourites during the next 8 hours.

The Trump administration is telling the world to pick a side in the artificial intelligence race: America or China. The Trump children are telling the world, “We know where the back door is if you want in.” According to Reuters, as Trump and company continue to refine their AI policy and close in on an anti-China firewall, his sons are using their crypto companies to profit from workarounds that would offer access to banned Chinese AI models.

Trump Kids Back Venture That Sidesteps Trump Administration’s AI Firewall

Trump’s WLF Is Partnering with Firm Offering Chinese AI Models - CryptoCurrencyWire

There are dozens of articles about this online. The Senate is scheduled to vote on the Clarity Act on Sept. 15, so there may be lots of debate about the ethical conflicts regarding this matter. In the meantime, USD1 has a cash cow.

As one commentator stated:

This is not corruption sneaking in through the shadows. This is corruption strolling through the front gate, waving at the cameras, confident that the spectacle will be mistaken for governance.

What crypto use case has become genuinely useful enough that going back to the traditional alternative would feel worse?

Looking to transition my crypto holdings to a strictly UAE-regulated custodian. While there are plenty of international exchanges operating here, I'm specifically hunting for a setup where the custody arm is completely independent and ring-fenced from global operations.

Since VARA and the CMA have rolled out solid frameworks, I want to take advantage of that local protection rather than relying on offshore entities.

Any good recommendations?

I see 1-5% thrown around quite a lot when people talk about how much of a portfolio should be in crypto.

Personally that feels too low for me. I'm comfortable having more exposure than that, although I'm also investing across ETFs and precious metals rather than having everything riding on crypto.

I'm very bullish on Bitcoin long term, but I still wouldn't want crypto becoming the majority of everything I own.

Interested where other people here have landed with it. Is crypto a small part of your overall portfolio, or one of your bigger allocations?

Today marks the date where AQAv2 reserve yield starts accruing on Hyperliquid’s over $6.74B in USDC deposits. Under the deal Coinbase (treasury deployer) and Circle struck back in May, ~90% of that yield gets funneled straight into HYPE buybacks.

While today is a celebrated day within the Hyperliquid community, this activation is mostly symbolic as no cash actually moves yet. The date that actually matters is October 3, 2026 as that is when the accrued revenue is actually distributed.

In anticipation of this event and to project potential HYPE buyback figures, we assume a base case scenario (3% yield).

This assumption gives the Hyperliquid protocol ~$498K/day in new revenue or ~$182M annualized. This is roughly an 18% bump on Hyperliquid's current ~$2.76M/day average revenue.

Here are some other interest rate scenarios:

What do you guys think, will you be buying in anticipation of this news or selling it?

Source and additional data: https://www.coingecko.com/learn/hyperliquid-aqav2-hype-buyback-revenue-increase

It’s on Dex exchange, a new privacy coin. Showed up on my Wealthsimple home page was up like 300%. Ticker is FOLD.

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Have any of you used this website/sevice before? I'm trying to figure out how to move money from US to PH and came across this website.

Looked online and they seem to be a legit website/company. But I have lost trust on feedbacks as some of them could be faked.

Came here hoping to hear honest user experience from the community.

Perps have obviously been a hot topic in recent month (really since 2025 with hyperliquid's success). I've been spending time farming trading platforms and competitions on perp platforms, and it's been one of the better risk-adjusted plays I've found in this market. The method is boring but it's been working: find the platforms that offer a points program, reduced fees, or rewards for volume, see the activity and if it's underfarmed, put up volume to rank high, and collect. The obvious challenge is picking the right platoform (ie one with a big pool with a thin field).

The idea is simple. To give a hypothetical, a platform runs a trading competitions that pays out to, say, the top 50 by volume and the top 15 by PnL. If a few thousand people are using the platform, good luck & have fun but you likely won't see a huge return. If only a few hundred are, your odds of placing go way up for the same effort. The whole alpha is finding the ones with a big pool and a small field.

Right now, I've been farming volume on Katana's perps. They run a competition about every two weeks, up to $100k in rewards (based on total volume) and split between an overall volume bucket and a PnL bucket. They've recently cut trading fees in half during the competition, so I can effectively do 2x the volume for the same cost, and that helps me rank higher on the leaderboard. Recent comps have had under 300 participants and top volume traders have earned $10k+ in rewards.

This obviously isn't free money. You still have to trade well enough not to give it back, and perps are perps. But the ratio of pool size to competition is better than most things I've farmed, and the rewards + points + questing on katana really offsets a lot of fees I'm paying..

I've looked into other ecosystems and haven't really found anything quite like this - the ecosystems are either saturated or only running points (not real money back) which isn't as attractive to me. I much prefer the cash comps. So what else is out there like this? I'm open to spreading across a few underfarmed comps than pile into one if I can find them.

On the “fomo” app, choose to deposit by buying a coin with apple pay. You can choose to pay for this with a credit card and for some reason it works. ????

I want to start migrating my gold ETFs to tokenized gold in the form of xaut, but not sure what the best platform is. Has anyone here got any recommendations? I want the best rate possible but also trustworthiness and security is super important. I don't have a ton of experience with 'crypto' so need it to be as simple as possible.

If your employer gave you the option tomorrow:

A) 100% in your local currency B) 100% in USDT C) A mix of both Assume you could spend the USDT easily or convert it whenever you wanted. Which would you choose and why?

Curious how different the answers are depending on where you live

I was waiting for Bitcoin to drop to around $55K before buying. Now I’m cooked. I feel pretty stupid because I waited so long for BTC to drop to $60K. Then, when it actually hit $60K, I thought, “Maybe it’ll drop even more,” so I kept waiting. And here we are.

Congratulations to me and my stupidity. ????

BTC finally pushed through $80k, but I think the next few days are more important than the breakout itself. $80k has been a pretty obvious psychological resistance level, so the big question now is whether it can actually flip into support.

If buyers keep stepping in around $78–80k and we consolidate instead of immediately giving the move back, that would make the rally look a lot healthier. If we lose that area quickly, then this could just be another breakout that got overheated too fast.

Momentum is obviously strong right now, but after such a fast move it wouldn’t be surprising to see some kind of pullback/retest either.

Personally I’m watching whether $80k holds more than I’m watching how high the next candle goes, although it's good to see ????.

Do you think the rally will continue?

The modern bitcoin faucet is soon live. But first i need your opinion on the interface? Is it good? Bad? What needs improving? The only faucet with no ads or signup required. Lightning quick

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• The Treasury has built up around $950 billion in its General Account to fund its plan to purchase government bonds.
• The Treasury will launch its first expanded bond buybacks on September 10th.

Scott Bessent's aggressive strategy to intervene in the bond market by possibly doubling Treasury buybacks of long-dated bonds to push down skyrocketing long-term yields creates several favorable macroeconomic dynamics that benefit digital currencies:

1. "Debasement Trade" Signal: When market participants view government intervention as necessary to support its own debt. This erodes confidence in the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar, driving capital into digital assets.

2. Shift Toward Liquidity & System Expansion: The policy signaled that the U.S. government is ready to cap borrowing costs and inject liquidity into financial markets. Digital assets thrive in high-liquidity environments where central banks and treasuries ease monetary constraints.

3. Lower Real Yield Dynamics: Efforts to artificially suppress long-term bond yields. Holding U.S. Treasuries becomes less attractive relative to inflation expectations; risk-on and alternative digital asset classes attract more capital.

4. Weakening U.S. Dollar Index: The intervention and market perception of persistent $2 trillion+ annual budget deficits have placed downward pressure on the U.S. dollar index. As major digital currencies are predominantly priced in USD, a weaker dollar provides an automatic tailwind for their valuations.

I appreciate cryptocurrencies from a computer science perspective, which was the focus in the early days. Now the information space is flooded with speculators. 99% of posts are in some way connected to the price.

Is there a sub where I can at least filter out content by tag?

Follow up to my steak post from the other day
steak happened. It was unreal. no follow up questions about my magic internet money at any point during dinner, which after 8 months of getting cooked is basically a religious experience
and then btc just kept going. Biggest weekly gain in dollar terms ever apparently.

Where we at now:
Checking the app roughly every 40 seconds like a lunatic. wife has started saying “we” about my bags
Bought a 12 euro jar of steak seasoning yesterday like a man with generational wealth.
Anyway my wife thinks im up like 40%. im up 4%. what number have you told yours

Hi everyone!

I completely got out of crypto a few years ago, so I’ve fallen pretty far behind on what’s happened since then. I’d like to get back up to speed.

What websites, channels, or other sources do you guys follow that are good for getting back into the space and understanding what’s going on? I’m mainly interested in where it makes sense to buy and store crypto these days, and which projects you think have long-term potential.

The firm raised $68 million as its revenue has grown six-fold as stablecoin payments and settlement expand, CEO Mohammad Raafi Hossain told CoinDesk.

What's the differences between a cold wallet and a Phantom wallet, and which one is better for which situation.

Roughly $190m of short. ETH about $47m, BTC $17m, SOL $13m, HYPE $6m, XRP $8m, DOGE $6m.

This address has made over $200m in profits.

Address: 0xecb63caa47c7c4e77f60f1ce858cf28dc2b82b00

Do you guys think there will be a market cool off?

In any case, Wintermute is short.

So looking at options to invest in. . . I am trying to determine what the best option is.

Please explain to me, why invest in Crypto over Real Estate, Stocks, Angel investing, hard assets that are great store of value like wine, gold, silver?

What makes CryptoCurrency go up in value, what causes it to go down in value?

Someone told me that aside from Bitcoin, I should ignore any other coins since it's not worth it.

I do have already plan for long term Bitcoin (not for trading short term. Option may be considered). What I'm curious is aside from Bitcoin, what coin do you guys think have potential?

Btw, please don't share because you listen from someone promoting in threads which I see lots of people say "buy this, thank me later". It just raises suspicion to me.

I want to hear your opinion instead :)

Vlad went on The Iced Coffee Hour for almost two hours today. Most of it is company stuff you can skip. Here's takeaways that we thoughts were most important and interesting.

Agents refuse to trade sometimes, and the reason isn't what you would assume.

This was the biggest standout. People hook an agent up to a brokerage, tell it to place an order, and it comes back saying it doesn't think that's a good idea. Everyone assumes it's some built-in safety layer.

Tenev said it usually isn't. The model isn't saving you from a bad trade, it just doesn't do it. His explanation: training data is full of agentic coding traces and has basically none for trading, because nobody's done it at scale before. So the model has nothing to pattern-match against and hedges instead.

Which means it's a gap that closes as more of this activity happens, not a wall.

The agent thing is already bigger than most people think.

They expose an MCP server so your agent gets the same tools you'd have in the app. Equities first, options live, crypto announced. Over 100,000 agentic accounts already, doing real volume, with people wiring in outside data sources to build strategies. He said he doesn't really look at their returns, which is either refreshing or slightly alarming.

The framing he used that I thought was right: before LLMs, running any kind of algo strategy meant being a programmer, building integrations with legacy financial plumbing, and paying about $10 a trade for market access. That's the barrier that has seemed to have disappeared now.

Memecoins and tokenized stocks are getting composed together, and not by the company.

We made a post about this the other day so it interested us to see him acknowledge this as well.

Robinhood launched a chain with stock tokens on it tokenizing TSLA, NVDA and others, live in 120+ countries, US excluded. Once those things are on-chain they act like any other token: send them peer to peer, LP them into Uniswap pools, post them as collateral, borrow against them.

The interesting bit is what developers did with it. He said people built protocols where holding a memecoin airdrops you stock tokens, and connected memecoins, core crypto and equities into products the company never would have designed itself.

Basically memecoins now have utility and distribution rewards via tokenized stocks that they are being paired with vs the standard USDC/ETH/SOL etc..

Bitcoin is "the original memecoin."

His argument was that the brand is the moat and you can clone the tech endlessly, but nobody can take being first and most trusted. He's long-term bullish on BTC of course.

His take on security atm.

Pre-AI you could sort of rely on vulnerabilities being expensive and annoying to find. Now spinning up another job is cheap, so nothing is safely obscure anymore. They red-team themselves with AI tools pointed at their own infrastructure. Relevant to anyone self-custodying or running anything with keys in it.

Short version: agents can trade now, and when they refuse it's a training-data gap rather than a safety feature. Tokenized stocks are live in 120+ countries and devs are already composing them with memecoins in ways nobody planned. Bitcoin is "the original memecoin" and he's long-term bullish. His bubble signal is everyone suddenly wanting the same thing at once, currently going off on Korean stocks and the chips/energy trade.

Where we think this goes in regard to AI x Crypto

Our personal view: It's clear AI and agentic trading will have a massive impact in the space. We've seem tons of consumer apps hitting the markets that make trading memecoins and crypto more accessible. However, we believe the breakout app this cycle is at the intersection of crypto and AI, and it looks a lot like the ChatGPT of crypto where trading collapses down to a prompt.

Crypto is where that lands first and it isn't close. Markets are 24/7, the rails are open, and an agent holds keys instead of asking a broker for permission. Every constraint that makes agentic equity trading awkward is either absent or optional on-chain. We fully back this belief, which is why we have been building exactly this for the past year and we have seen a couple of other apps working towards the same. AI x Crypto consumer applications will be one of the largest waves the space has seen, and we're still very early.

Would love to hear thoughts on the interview! It was quite a long one.

Hey all, I've seen a lot of debate on various platforms in light of the GTA VI leaks on whether the popular $CYBERLEEK token is actually a scam or not. I went and checked myself using the evidence publicly available: mint and freeze abilities are revoked, the creator's balance is currently zero, the 270M tokens they originally owned have been permanently burned/deleted, and 98.4% of the tokens are in Raydium's permanent lock. I've included a full writeup on the token here: https://github.com/rain0x06/cyberleek-investigation

Ultimately, the creator seems to have stuck by what he claimed in the watermarks of his GTA VI leaked gameplay videos. The biggest risk involved that I managed to find was one wallet that was funded on August 11th and purchased the token on the 16th. This wallet currently only owns about 0.72% of the token and would have to buy more tokens legitimately. Everything here comes from public Solana chain data, Solscan, and Raydium's own API/docs/source.

Litecoin is the first fork of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash is also a fork of Bitcoin; so is Dogecoin, Bitcoin SV, etc. Yet except for Bitcoin, all the other coins have long pivoted into a long-term downtrend even though they belong to the same Bitcoin family. Are they fundamentally different from Bitcoin? maybe a little, but not that different. Is the first-mover crypto the only true cryptocurrency there is? or does it include second-class cryptos like Ethereum who underperforms Bitcoin long-term but still manages to maintain long-term relevance? or will they all slowly start their downward pivot into irrelevance like the omens of Litecoin and Dogecoin suggests? Let me know your thesis and your reasoning behind it.

Retail or institutional investors? Obviously it’s a mix of each, but what do you think is driving the market?

I've been thinking about The Quantum FUD from idiots like Jim Cramer. If BTC encryption were cracked, wouldn't the price of BTC rapidly plummet? All BTC would be stolen fairly quickly, causing the value to drop rapidly as people panic sell what they still have. And who is buying it? The buyer will have it stolen immediately. For this reason I believe quantum attacks are not as dangerous as they seem. For this same reason BTC miners do not attempt to change Bitcoin consensus rules or mint extra coins, as this would cause a crisis of confidence and effectively end to crypto mining enterprises.

On the flip side, bankers and state actors DO have an incentive to quantum attack crypto, because they could destroy confidence in cryptocurrencies and corral the herd back into their electronic fiat prison. Therefore I conclude that the quantum risk to crypto is non-zero, but the odds are lower than previously thought. However the quantum risk is not of price dropping, but the effective end of the 20 year Bitcoin experiment.

Hello everyone, I don’t know if this is the right sub or not but I don’t know any other subs that could helps me.

i have a wallet (web3) it has 21.7 usdt and i want to convert this usdt to btc but one thing that prevents me from converting it is the fee. it needs a gram (ton) fee which i do not have. Is there any other solution that i could convert my money to? any advice would help alot and i will be appreciated and btw i use binance if anyone asking

Disclosure: this is my project.

A few months ago I had never built ANYTHING.

I was messing around with AI models on my laptop and saw the power in them.

I had a bright idea, connect them to do cybersecurity work and reward operators with tokens!!

the machines went crazy and added 280 DeFi protocols 24/7 and actually found some good vulnerabilities to report back.

so instead of yield farmers, we got AI farmers! Kinda crazy, but the idea and network just work.

I need a rest, but going 24/7 just like them and need to know how to distribute all these credits accumulated.

Source/code: https://github.com/CYPHES-ATP/Node

Interviewed Natalia Ameline and Elena Sinelnikova at Blockchain Futurist Conference in 2023, been sitting on the footage way too long lol.

Natalia is actually Vitalik Buterin's mom, she got into crypto because he asked her to set up an eth wallet and she spent hours just trying to figure it out. Realized there was basically no one else like her in the room at these events, so she and Elena started CryptoChicks. Its grown into a full nonprofit now with chapters in like 9 countries.

They get into why representation actually matters in this space beyond just being a buzzword, some cool stuff that came out of their incubator program, and the hackathon culture in general. Elena has this rainbow metaphor for diversity in the space that stuck with me.

Not trying to spam the sub, just thought this community would actually appreciate it since a lot of us started out exactly as confused as she did lol

I’m a humble beginner and would like to hear your advice.

honestly, I’m someone who don’t want to stress too much and just want to leave my money in a currency for long term.

I bought BTC in a very good time and now wondering if I should buy ETH and just keep it there.

my very limited knowledge- I understand outside of longest existence BTC wins but performance and utility wise ETH has more points.

im keeping some in chain. but thinking of getting more ETH.

have a good day!

Can you all confirm this:

1. User buys crypto from an exchange. For example sake, let's say they buy 100 XRP at $1 each.
2. User moves their XRP off an exchange and into a cold wallet.
3. The cost average ($1) is lost (not recorded anywhere) into the cold wallet. In other words, if you move your crypto to ledger, for example, there is no place that automatically (or even manually editing) your cost average.
4. NOW - XRP price increases to $2 per. 100% increase. User wants to sell, so they move their crypto from their cold wallet/ledger back to an exchange to sell. The exchange has no idea what the cost average is, or even where this crypto came from. User sells all their XRP for a 100%+ profit.
5. Tax time comes. Tax forms ask you if you've sold crypto. You say yes. Tax forms ask you profit(?). Can't you totally make shit up at this point? There's no actually history any exchange has to accurately/honestly track where you crypto went and how much you paid...

WHAT AM I MISSING HERE EXPERIENCED PEOPLE?

I normally use Coinbase to buy BTC. Just small amounts a couple of times a year for paying. Never had any issues with Coinbase.

Now I need $200 -$300 in TRC-20, but Coinbase doesn't accept TRC-20 and TRC-20 generally seems to be more complicated to buy.

Any advice where to buy TRC-20? I don't mind extra fees as long as it's fast and easy.

2013 lost about 85% off the top. 2017 lost about 84%. 2021 lost about 77%. Every cycle so far the drawdown got smaller, not bigger, and every single time the "this cycle is different, it's actually over" period came right before the reclaim, not after it.

2025 topped above $126k and corrected hard into this year, same shape as the last three times. Doesnt guarantee this one ends the same way, four data points isnt proof of anything permanent. But its a real pattern, not a vibe, and worth knowing before assuming this cycle is the one that finally breaks it.

The drawdowns shrinking each round probably isnt random either. More capital treating corrections as entries instead of panic exits changes the depth of the dip over time.

I just logged into Base app with used to be Coinbase wallet. There was over $10k in there last month. Now The balance is $0. I’ve never shared my recovery phrase. Kinda freaking out a bit. That’s a lot of money to me.

I think it had the momentum but someone big sold and everyone panic sold I am still holding and big holders still are. What do you guys think?

Anyone else here have that tingling sensation?

If so, where is it? What is it saying to you on price action?

The past year its been bad, but now...the money movers are coming back.

Issues over tresarury rates and debt... the dollar losing more leverage, theyre coming back to some crypto...and the true reserve crypto is BTC.

Anybody else here buy CyberLeek before it blew up? I saw the GTA6 leaks and figured why not, it’s already more than doubled what I put into it. I figured the biggest media of the decade would have pulled in more people ????

Would love to hear everyone’s thoughts on provenance blockchain and the company Figure technologies?

Figure technologies utilizes the provenance blockchain to tokenize real world assets like mortgages and home equity loans.

Provenance is a proof of stake blockchain built with cosmos and has a maximum of 100 Validators. It can only be used for certain functions so it doesn’t get bogged down by meme tokens, NFTs and other use cases that would increase on chain data.

My main concern is centralization and security.

Security seems to be very solid due to the fact that they only focus on certain functions so the smart contracts can be buttoned up very tightly and there are less attack vectors.

The top 10 validators hold 44% of the native token, hash, which is my main concern. But I would imagine more large companies will want to become validators as the chain and company continues to gain traction.

Any additional pros or cons would be great to hear.

Looking to switch from CDC as their app just feels too clunky and full of random stuff. One thing that really frustrates me is the amount must be specified as the total amount you wish to withdraw including fees. There needs to be an option where I input exactly what I want to be received on the other end, and am then informed what the total cost will be. Anyone familiar with such an exchange/app?

Been watching Base more closely the last couple of weeks. The chain itself is doing solid numbers (high tx volume, stablecoin supply still climbing), and a handful of tokens are actually seeing consistent volume and holder growth instead of pure one-day pumps.

Some that stand out right now:

• AERO – Still the main liquidity hub. Volume stays relatively sticky even when the broader market is quiet. Not sexy, but it’s the infrastructure most of the rest of the ecosystem routes through.
• VIRTUAL / TIBBIR – The Virtuals side continues to have one of the more active AI-agent narratives on Base. TIBBIR in particular has been moving with actual volume rather than just social noise.
• VVV (Venice) – Quietly building usage on the private AI side. Not the loudest, but the numbers on users and inference activity keep showing up in ecosystem recaps.
• GITLAWB – AI infra play (decentralized git + agent tooling). Sitting around $3–4.5M mcap with ~10.7k holders. It’s been one of the more consistent names in the “agents need proper infrastructure” niche on Base. Recent 24h moves have been in the 20–60% range depending on the day, with actual on-chain volume instead of just wash. Contract is the usual Base one if anyone wants to check holders/liquidity themselves.

Curious what others are tracking on Base that actually has product/usage behind it right now, not just chart action.

(Not financial advice.DYOR)

Privacy transactions finally got warp speed with the creation of Zkas.

ZKas is a from-genesis cryptocurrency that combines Kaspa's GHOSTDAG BlockDAG — fast, parallel, proof-of-work block production — with Zcash's Orchard shielded protocol, so that every amount, sender, and recipient is hidden by construction. There is no transparent transfer type; the only public value event is the block subsidy, whose amount must be public to be checked against the emission schedule. Its premise is that privacy and scalability are compatible: a shielded ledger settles in about a second when its state transition runs along the order the consensus engine already produces.

Zkas is less than a month old so if you currently want it you have to mine it until the devs decide it’s time to list it on an exchange. When you mine ZKas it also merge mines with Kaspa so it supports their network too.

The breakout wasnt random

Posted the range breakout yesterday & the coiling the day before with the final note, "time to pay attention, the longer the consolidation the further the ________"

Yesterday the actual catalyst showed up. Treasury announced more long term debt repurchases, which injects liquidity and pushes yields down. Lower yields free up capital that goes looking for risk, and crypto's usually first in line for that money once it moves.

Structure told the story before the headline did. The range held on the exact level that mattered for two months, absorbing supply quietly the whole time, then broke the second real macro tailwind showed up. Thats not coincidence, thats what accumulation is actually for.

The boring stretch is the part that matters most and gets skipped past the fastest. Nobody wants to talk about two months of sideways chop, theres no headline attached to it yet. But thats exactly where the actual work gets done, size gets built quietly while everyone else is bored and looking elsewhere. By the time the catalyst shows up and the candle prints, the positioning's already finished.

This is the part that gets missed constantly, structure doesnt predict news. It just tells you whether the market's positioned to actually run once the news arrives, or whether it'll get sold into. This one was positioned. Thats the whole edge, reading where price is already compressed to head, not guessing what happens next.

Hello from Greece. At 1st of JULY i took my staked Ethereum from the binance app, to cryptocom app and staked it there.

When i did the staking process it said that the first payments will took place in around 30 days.

Untill now nothing happened. More than 50 days passed.

The current status says "activating"

I spoke with the help centre and they said maybe it will take around 70 days finally!!!

Anybody else with the same problem?

I already regret it but now i cannot do a thing....

I've been in crypto for years. I usually never sell. I bought $$$ of DOT when it was 40 and held it for YEARS all the way down to $0.75. I bought MARA at ATH and held it down to $9

Finally, I decided to sell.......

hours later, they pumped ~10%, and so did the rest of the market. Wtf.

That was 2 days ago.

You're welcome

What’s the word on the story with trump coin? Just more pump and dump or they gonna take it to $15?

Hey guys, I have a question. How on Earth is it possible that nearly all my coins show the exact same pattern? They climb, and then at some point, the exact same drop in price occurs across nearly all my holdings at the same time.
I’m not mad that prices drop, totally understandable, but are people just watching the BTC chart and, as soon as there’s a little drop, deciding to sell every other coin they have too?!
It’s bewildering. It kinda seems like there’s only one coin out there and all the prices are connected to it ????
I’m not worried about it. I know crypto is volatile AF. I’m just genuinely curious how this is possible?

Jim Cramer announced he sold all his Bitcoin holdings due to concerns that quantum computing could break Bitcoin's cryptography within 3-4 years, based on a conversation with IBM's CEO. Despite this bearish move, Bitcoin's price rose over 15% from $64,000 to above $74,000 in three weeks, showing market confidence. Experts remain divided on the quantum threat timeline, with most expecting 20-40 years before such risks materialize. The market's reaction suggests traders are not panicking over the quantum computing threat yet.

https://pluang.com/en/news-feed/jim-cramer-jual-semua-bitcoin-karena-kekhawatiran-komputasi-kuantum

Never change Cramer, never change.

Just wanted to see if anyone’s using tax softwares for crypto like Summ, Syla or KoinX and if anyone has any recommendations. Thanks!

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I'm looking into GraphLinq (GLQ) and I'm finding conflicting supply figures across different data sources.

Some sources still reference the original 500M GLQ ERC-20 supply, while other aggregators/exchanges appear to show higher total-supply figures following the launch of the native GraphLinq chain.

What I'm mainly trying to understand from a market valuation perspective is:

What is the actual circulating supply of GLQ today?

What is the correct total/max supply after accounting for the native chain?

Are native-chain block rewards creating additional GLQ beyond the original 500M?

If so, what is the current net inflation rate after fee burns?

Which supply figure should realistically be used when calculating GLQ's market cap and fully diluted valuation?

I'm not looking for price predictions or trying to promote the project. I'm specifically interested in getting the tokenomics/supply side right because the difference between ~340M circulating, 500M total, ~650M total and potentially higher figures obviously makes a substantial difference when valuing the asset.

If anyone has tracked the native chain or knows of an authoritative explorer/source for minted vs. burned GLQ, I'd appreciate it.

I’ve been trying to move my funds off BitMart for days, and my withdrawal has been completely stuck on 'Processing' the entire time. Support is just feeding me the exact same generic automated bot responses, and looking at the subreddit and X, it seems like I’m definitely not the only one.

Is anyone else currently dealing with this?

If anyone has actually had a successful USDC or crypto withdrawal go through in the last 48 hours, please let me know. Just trying to figure out if my money is already gone or if there is actually a legitimate 'technical delay' going on.

Honestly after months of taking Ls and my wife asking if my magic internet money was going to zero, today was a damn good morning. Woke up, checked the markets and my long term bags (BTC, XMR, ERG) are actually sitting in the green for once.
Not gonna lie, I pretty much wrote off my ERG stack as lost money, so seeing that green candle today was a legendary surprise.
Presented the green numbers to the missus at breakfast like a proud ape. Unlocking the bedroom door tonight fellas, market green = back in business. LFG ????

Hi all, i swapped a good amount of BTC to ETH as I think it's a better mid-term investment, When the transaction arrived I got WETH instead of ETH.

When i try to unwrap it directly using Metamask Swap it seems they add craz fees on top of it and end up with 1% les than the original amount.

Here is my question; how can i unwrap ETH at a good rate ? Advices appreciated, this situation is kinda annoying

I've never necessarily understood cryptocurrency, the market, or anything like that. I've always wanted to get into it and learn, study, but I never know where to even start. When I was younger, I put in like 20 bucks into I think SHIBU coin and made about 200 from it, but that was just luck I'm guessing. I really want to dedicate learning, whether it is day trading, or long run investing. I'd much rather learn day trading. I'm sorry if this is not the right community to post to, if it isn't please direct me to the right one. Id just love to hear how everyone started and how I could possibly start and learn.

Something I keep thinking about lately is how different this cycle could get if tokenized stocks/RWAs actually take off. Which it seems like they already are tbh.

Previous bull runs were mostly crypto money chasing crypto assets. New people came in, bought BTC/ETH/alts/memecoins, money rotated around, and eventually left just like every other time.

Tokenized stocks potentially change that because now you're bringing an entirely different pool of assets onto the same rails.

Imagine someone holding NVDA or TSLA onchain, being able to trade it 24/7, swap it into BTC, borrow against it, use it as collateral, or move between stocks, stablecoins and crypto without ever leaving their wallet.

That's a much bigger deal than just "stocks onchain."

Tokenized equities are still tiny right now in the grand scheme of things, but they're growing quickly and major exchanges/financial institutions are clearly moving in this direction. The interesting part to me is what happens if even a small percentage of the traditional stock market starts moving onchain.

Suddenly crypto isn't its own isolated market anymore. It's infrastructure for stocks, treasuries, commodities, crypto and eventually probably a lot more.

Obviously that doesn't mean tokenized stocks automatically make BTC or alts pump. But I do think bringing trillions of dollars of traditional assets closer to crypto liquidity could create a much larger ecosystem than we've ever had in a previous cycle.

Curious if anyone else thinks RWAs could be the thing that makes this bull run fundamentally different, or if you think the impact on actual crypto prices is being overstated?

Either way, this time just actually feels different imo.

I got into crypto like in 2023. I am new here.. but i wanna ask to the experienced people.

Like was this pump foreseeable for those who knows to read chart?

I dont really know... I am just hanging out online waiting for another dip... I am in some discord group and the guys in that group has kinda been right for the past 2+ years..

Then boom... the heck just happens? and what is this pump.. A beginning of bull or just what? Like man.. This shit is mad confusing...

Crypto-native index tokens are baskets of other crypto tokens. Value comes entirely from on-chain assets and the contract's rebalancing rules. No off-chain anything.

Your risks: smart-contract bugs, admin keys, and crypto volatility. Crypto all the way down.

RWA-backed baskets represent a legal claim on real off-chain assets (stocks, Treasuries) held by a regulated custodian. Examples: Reserve's DTFs

Because a claim is involved, your risks change completely:

• Custody/counterparty: someone off-chain holds the real asset.
• Securities treatment: usually KYC-gated, transfer-restricted, jurisdiction-limited. Many aren't available to US.
• Reconciliation gap: the chain and the legal registry have to stay in sync.

The key thing: "backing" means different things here.

A crypto index is backed by tokens you can verify on-chain right now. An RWA basket is backed by a legal claim that's only as good as the custodian and the legal structure behind it. Neither is better, they're different trades with different failure modes.

So the due diligence differs: for the crypto one, ask about audits and admin keys. For the RWA one, ask who the custodian is and what happens if they go bankrupt.

First it took forever to figure out how to get my cash off of crypto.com because it wasn't accepting bank accounts. Had to add my middle name on my bank for it be accepted by crypto. Haven't had to do that anywhere else (coinbase, etc). I ordered the card because I thought that was the only way to get my money off of this app. I followed the instructions on their website to no avail. I'm so glad I only put 10 dollars on it (minus the 4.99 activation fee, ugh). AI customer servce AI is no help. Just a horrible experience.

I’ve been trying to expand my small stack of BTC, XMR, and ERG, but coming back to the market in Europe feels like a nightmare. All the old non-KYC CEXs and services now demand full identity verification.

Between European banks flagging every small transfer and taxes on already-taxed income, buying privately feels nearly impossible. Bisq didn't work out for me either.

Are there any viable non-KYC alternatives left? Also, what do you think about setting up physical spaces (like a local crypto cafe) for safe P2P cash/crypto trades?

Hey guys!

Let me introduce you Hozamo — a lightweight, open-source CLI tool I originally built for myself to automate how I handle my mining rewards. It is free to use, you can download the source or the release tarball/zip from Github.

While developing it, I thought it might be useful to other miners as well, so I decided to make it publicly available and put together a small website for it.

Hozamo is pool- and exchange-independent and lets you define your own rules, schedules and targets for actions on supported exchanges. There’s no AI and no black box involved — you decide exactly what should happen, and your API keys always remain in your possession.

Since I currently only mine Pearl, the first integrations are SafeTrade and CoinEx, but support for additional exchanges is planned for the future.

It’s still in beta, and feedback, ideas and feature requests are very welcome.

https://hozamo.io/

Seriously! I can't believe I never tried it out. Backpack has always been my preferred wallet, but Rabby has such an incredibly polished UI/UX and having the option to have all my wallets in one place is pretty great.

I'm also a huge fan of having a separate universal "gas" pool, too. makes managing gas and keeping it separate from the rest of the portfolio intuitive as hell.

I'm sorry if this comes off as a shill post, but *damn* what a good wallet handler.

"Saylor also stressed that Strategy must retain the ability to sell Bitcoin, despite building its identity around continuous accumulation.

The comment marks an important qualification to the company's long-standing Bitcoin strategy.

Although Saylor remains firmly bullish on the cryptocurrency's long-term prospects, Strategy needs sufficient flexibility to meet debt obligations, fund dividends and respond to changing market conditions.

He recently predicted that Bitcoin could appreciate by an average of 30% annually over the next 20 years and outperform the S&P 500 over the long term. However, his latest warning makes clear that he does not expect that growth to occur without significant drawdowns.

For MSTR investors, Saylor's message was straightforward: short-term volatility, and potentially several painful years, should be expected rather than treated as an exception."

Article stolen from: Yahoo Finance

Original Article Link:

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/michael-saylor-warns-mstr-investors-123451255.html

Top Comments from this Article:

"Difficult years for people that follow his advice."

"People fail to understand that Saylor is a Ponzi engineer, not a Bitcoin HODLer, despite constantly preaching the HODL mentality. His recent Bitcoin sales expose the fragility of his Ponzi-style capital structure. If people want to speculate on Bitcoin, Bitcoin ETFs already exist—there’s no need to buy companies whose business model depends on Ponzi engineering."

"Please, Hold 4 Years to Save My Skins, The Accounting Fraudster, ceo."

"Scam boy Saylor is worried."

"Why would anyone want to hold a declining asset for 4 years after it just lost 2/3rds of its value investing in junk?"

"If mstr holders dont sell shares then that leaves more shares for Him to sell!!"

What do you think will happen over the next 4 to 10 years with MicroStrategy (Strategy)?

Yesterday at a White House meeting with crypto executives, President Trump specifically mentioned Hyperliquid:

“I understand that Mike [Selig, CFTC Chair] is also working to bring Hyperliquid into the United States in a fully compliant and legal fashion. Working very hard on that.”

This is one of the clearest signals yet that the administration wants to pull major offshore perp infrastructure onshore.

Immediate market reaction:

• $HYPE jumped double digits (reports of 11–19% moves)
• Related vehicles (Hyperliquid Strategies / PURR and some HYPE ETFs) also surged hard
• Traditional exchanges (CME, Cboe etc.) saw pressure

Hyperliquid has been the dominant decentralized perpetual futures platform but has blocked US users. A compliant US path would be a massive narrative shift.

Sources: Bloomberg, CoinDesk, The Block, CNBC, etc.

What do you think — real regulatory path opening up, or just talk for now?
How are you positioning around this?

(NFA — DYOR)

The 16 october 2023 btc pumped of 10% to around 30k because of rumors about the etf bitcoin. Few days after it pumped more because etf bitcoin was not a rumor anymore

Today it gives a bit this vibe that we kinda know why it pumps because of trump meeting but we dont really have any official news

After today's meeting with industry leaders, crypto is going to skyrocket again for everyone. Enjoy the ride.....

Don’t upvote unless you want to risk getting banned.

Salut ! Je ne suis pas sûr d'être au bon endroit pour poster ça, mais je tente quand même ma chance ????. En gros, j'ai commencé à m'intéresser aux cryptomonnaies, à la cryptographie et à la technologie blockchain il y a environ deux ans. J'ai regardé pas mal de vidéos YouTube et lu beaucoup de documentation sur le sujet. Il y a environ un mois et demi, j'ai commencé à développer ma propre blockchain et son jeton associé ; j'y ai consacré beaucoup de temps – une bonne partie de mes vacances, d'ailleurs. J'ai aussi testé le système en profondeur. Cependant, j'aimerais avoir un avis extérieur. Le problème, c'est qu'on ne trouve pas de développeur blockchain partout, et encore moins un qui travaille gratuitement pour plus de 10000 lignes de code (je ne veux pas dépenser d'argent pour ça, et je ne suis pas sûr que mes parents approuveraient, vu qu'ils ne savent même pas que je développe une blockchain). J'espère que c'est clair, alors n'hésitez pas à me demander plus de détails.

I've been spending some time researching different crypto-AI platforms. Most were bland and didn't offer much more than Claude, but I recently started using Nansen and was very satisfied with how the platform worked and how it combined research with execution, which is something the other platforms (Dune, Messari, etc) lacked.

Here's the deep dive and review.

For years, onchain analytics was effectively a spectator sport. Nansen, Arkham, Dune, Lookonchain, etc all got really good at showing you what the whales were doing or who was accumulating or dumping, but then you'd close the tab, open a DEX, & act on it a step late in another app (or make a Reddit post and get some karma). Enter Nansen, the first platform that actually built the bridge to research then execute in one flow.

So what is Nansen? The tl;dr is they are a blockchain & ai research company. Their core skill is labeling. They put names on wallets, (over 500 million labeled addresses), so instead of staring at anonymous 0x......, you're reading named actors: this exchange, that market maker, this specific wallet that was early on the last five winners. They founded in 2019, they're backed by Accel & a16z (I'm not a fan of VC capital in token products, but in token-less research & AI it makes a lot of sense), & the analytics run across roughly 25 chains.

Being a DeFi maximalist, Smart Money is the tool I found the most interesting. It's a curated set of labels for wallets with a proven track record, consistent realized PnL, early entries into things that worked, & you can watch what that cohort is accumulating or exiting in close to real time, sort any token by which of them hold it, & set alerts for when they move. I found it especially helpful to track what protocols the smart wallets were using in DeFi & yield farming, as for many yield farming activities, being early matters most before everyone dilutes each other.

When I'm researching a protocol, my first question is whether sophisticated capital is actually positioned in it or whether the whole thing runs on retail fumes, & Smart Money answers that in about two minutes. This is also invaluable fr checking the "credibility" and a proxy for security of a defi protocol. Obviously, it's a dyor thing, but it creates a short list of the projects to dyor on.

In January 2026, Nansen shipped an execution layer which I think will completely revolutionize onchain analytics. They added AI trading built directly into the research product. You can prompt it in plain English, it pulls the relevant onchain data, & you can execute right there. Swaps run on Solana & Base through Jupiter & OKX DEX, cross-chain routing through LI.FI, & a Hyperliquid integration for perps. Arkham runs a separate exchange next to its analytics, & plenty of tools bolt a swap widget onto a dashboard, but Nansen is the first to put AI-driven execution inside the research flow itself.

I love the research & I think this is the most important thing they've built, because it shows they understand what onchain data is becoming. Information isn't meant to be something you look at, but rather something you act on.

To keep this an honest review, the execution side is young. It launched this year, it covers a handful of venues so far, & the AI agent is early, so I'd treat it as the direction they're building rather than a finished terminal. The direction is right & nobody beat them to it, but I'm sure there will be bumps and iterations along the way as it continues to be built out.

Another thing that i really liked when researching nansen itself was their pricing models. Previously, Nansen's top tier used to cost four figures a month, around $1,299, & the whole category was priced like a Bloomberg terminal for funds. Today it's two options, free or Pro at $49 a month, & at that price serious onchain intelligence is genuinely accessible to regular users, which is amazing for retail. I could also envision them barbelling pricing later with $10-20 tier for the casual who wants one signal without a $49 commitment, & a $100+ tier for desks & power users who'd gladly pay more for higher limits, eliminating the $50 tier but adding more features. Cover both ends & they'd pull users from every competitor at once.

The rest of the platform is deeper than one post can cover. Token God Mode is interesting for dissecting any token's holders & flows (valuable for traders, which I am not), wallet & PnL profiling, an AI analyst you can ask questions in plain English (though this is similar to what Claude or Surf can do), portfolio tracking, & a Points program for subscribers.

I also want to call out I think it's super bullish they don't have a token. They won't extract from retail and there is no alignment problems. (Post for another time, but I do like Venice's approach to AI compute, $VVV, and $DIEM, but that's really hard to get right). For a primarily research & execution company, a token would only further complicate things.

So yeah, Nansen is now a core part of my research & I use it to know what the smart money actually believes, & the execution layer tells me they're building for where this space is headed instead of where it's been. The research is deep, the price finally matches something a normie like me can justify spending.

Making some moves today, but the reality is that this will likely continue to chop around the lows here for a couple more months. Me personally, I'm hoping to see a leg down leading to a slightly lower low or at the very least revisiting the high 50ks or so to be able to deploy the remaining cash I have in reserve. This bear market is getting very close to being done and it will not take long for things to turn bullish again. There's a lot that can happen within the next 12-16 months, I wouldn't be surprised to see BTC break back above 100k within this time frame and flirting with the ATH or even setting a new one.

A friend (genuinely) received about 2.5k worth of Ethereum to their phantom wallet. They've no idea where it came from. They've already successfully converted it to cash. There's surely no one out there sending 2.5k for dusting/address-poisoning scams. So far, no one has made contact looking to engineer a "refund" (thought not sure how they would).

What's the scam here, or is it most likely a mistake and someone just sent to the wrong address (in which case they should send it back, but that's his call)?

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I live abroad and spend most of my time in English-speaking crypto communities, and for years I genuinely didn’t understand why some people had such a weird opinion of French people in crypto.

Today I think I finally got a taste of it.

I shared a French YouTube video because I thought the subject was actually worth discussing. That’s it. Within minutes, instead of talking about the idea, people started accusing me of being the guy in the video, secretly promoting my own channel, shilling, etc. Some of them clearly hadn’t even watched it.

And what’s funny is that I post shit on Reddit all the time. Polymarket, XRP, AI, travel, food, Vitalik randomly speaking Chinese, whatever. Nobody gives a fuck. But somehow the second you enter the pure French crypto bubble, sharing something = you must have an agenda, you must be selling something, you must be a shill

You can disagree with a video. You can think the idea is stupid. That’s literally the point of Reddit. But this instinct of immediately attacking whoever shares something instead of discussing what was actually shared is fucking exhausting.

I used to think the reputation was mostly an unfair stereotype.

Ngl, today made me understand it a little better

I think I’ll stick to the English-speaking crypto communities

"Even if the price of Bitcoin keeps rising, the math around MicroStrategy's valuation makes little sense.

Today, MicroStrategy has a market capitalization of almost $90 billion. It has Bitcoin holdings worth about $28.5 billion. Subtract out its $4.2 billion in long-term debt, and you have a net asset value (NAV) of $24.3 billion. The market cap of $90 billion is close to 4 times its Bitcoin holdings. The underlying software business isn't worth much in this equation.

MicroStrategy's stock price has detached from the assets on its balance sheet. You wouldn't buy a dollar for four dollars, so why would you buy MicroStrategy at 4 times its Bitcoin holdings? If you want exposure to Bitcoin, buy the asset directly instead.

Avoid buying MicroStrategy stock in your portfolio right now. Perhaps the stock will be higher in five years if Bitcoin keeps surging, but given the detachment from the underlying Bitcoin price, I think it's likely that the stock will underperform the performance of actual Bitcoin during the next five years. Bitcoin is not guaranteed to rise, either.

Even though the stock has done phenomenally well during the past five years, it looks like a bad bet for investors to make right now."

Stolen from: The Motley Fool

Original Article Link: https://www.fool.com/investing/2025/02/04/where-will-microstrategy-stock-be-in-5-years/

How long will MicroStrategy's strategy last?

I'm curious about people's real experiences with centralized exchanges freezing or restricting accounts.

If this has happened to you:

• Which exchange was it?
• How long was your account frozen?
• Did they explain why?
• How responsive was customer support?
• Were you eventually able to withdraw your funds?
• If so, what actually helped resolve the issue?

I'm especially interested in cases that took weeks or months to resolve, or where the funds are still inaccessible.

Would appreciate hearing your experience.

Yesterday I made a post asking everyone’s thoughts about the crypto meeting at the White House today. I may mention that I hope that it gets some price movement going. And the mods removed it. Last week I made another post about everyone’s thoughts on the Trump family crypto stuff. And guess what. Gone again. Are the mods really that sensitive?

I became aware of crypto during the Covid time and I was impressed by the high profits in this market. Now, 5 to 6 years later, I see a dead market of coins, most of which experienced just one pump and then died. What do you guys think? Was crypto just a scam?

Would there be any problems with a crypto currency releasing 10% of its remaining supply that is not circulating yet per year until the max coin cap is reached?

For example, if a coin had an initial supply of 10 million coins and a max supply of 100 million coins, would there be any problems with this coin cause by this coin release cycle method?

Why does Bitcoin use a release cycle based on blocks instead of a set percentage of the unreleased coins in the max supply being released on a schedule?

Do any coins use a percentage based release cycle?

For the love of god please give us some upward momentum. I hope we get some very strong statements after tomorrow’s meeting that helps to move the market.

1. How does initial supply and max supply work for coins?

2. When a coin launches, is the full initial supply released immediately or over time?

4a. When are coins that were not a part of the initial supply, released and are they released all at once or over time?

4b. If over time, do coins that were not a part of the initial supply follow the same release plan that coins from the initial supply did?

1. Are is the creator initial balance of coins given all at once when the coin launches or over time?

2. Is the creator initial balance able to be sold immediately after coin launch, or does a certain time period have to go by before those coins can be sold?

Any links or names of videos or texts relating to this cryptocurrency topics are appreciated.

Before you joke, "is this bull run in the same room, town, planet, or timeline as us?", I think there will be one more.

I didn't take profits the last 20 opportunities given over the last 10 years. And now I'm down 95%. Maybe more. Maybe hell of a lot more when you factor in inflation, potential gains, etc.

So there has to be one more. That way I can fix my mistakes and be able to rest. There must be. I'm owed one more bull run so I can sell and let someone else be a bag holder.

Just one more. Please. I promise I'll cash out and stop believing it will 10x. I don't care if it will 10x. I just want to break even. Please.

Anyone else had big profit but didn't sell because of HODL strategy?

Do you regret it, or do you believe it will go back up?

Hey everyone just joined Revolut’s crypto (zero clue if thats good just I bank with them) I was wondering the best way to get started. Don’t really wanna be spending more than like £20 a month as I learn. Thanks for any advice and help

I’m a freelancer and receive most of my overseas income in USDT. I keep most of it in a hardware wallet instead of converting it to my local currency.

The reason is that converting it creates a tax liability, while my local currency continues to lose value. So USDT feels like a way to preserve USD value.

The problem is that USDT now makes up almost all of my savings.

For those who earn internationally, especially in countries with depreciating currencies: would you consider this reasonable, or is having almost all your savings in one stablecoin too risky? How do you diversify?

After the end of the MiCA transition period, here has been a wave of impersonation using EU regulators and licensed exchanges, and people usually go to ESMA (European Securities and Markets Authority) CASP register to check the legal entity and the services it's authorised to provide. The problem is that the information in the register often won't match what you see in the app or in the message. The brand name may be different from the legal entity, an LEI may be more useful than the name, and some regulators don't issue a separate licence number. Those details can make a legitimate firm look suspicious, or make a fake one look convincing if you don't know what you're looking at.

The name in the register is the legal entity, not necessarily the brand. A crypto platform can operate through a subsidiary or another company that never appears in the app, so searching the name you know and finding nothing doesn't mean the company isn't authorised. If the platform tells you which entity holds its authorisation, the LEI is usually the better identifier to check because it stays tied to that legal entity even when the brand name doesn't.

Licence numbers can be misleading too. There isn't one EU-wide format, and some regulators don't issue a separate number for this authorisation at all. Malta's MFSA doesn't publish a public licence register in the same form, while Austria's FMA doesn't assign a separate reference number for this authorisation. So if an exchange can't give you a "MiCA licence number", that alone doesn't tell you anything. You need to find the legal entity in the regulatory record and check the authorisation attached to it. MiCA also treats custody, exchange for funds, exchange for other crypto-assets, transfers, order execution, portfolio management and advice as separate services. A company can be authorised for some and not others, so a claim that an exchange is "MiCA licensed" doesn't tell you whether the particular service mentioned in a migration message is covered.

Not finding a company in the register can also mean different things. An application might still be pending, a firm might serve EU clients through an authorised partner, or it might not target the EU at all. A firm can also withdraw an application. Binance withdrew its Greek application on 24 June, for example. That's different from a regulator warning that a firm is providing services without authorisation, as the Dutch AFM did with MEXC. Third-party lists often blur these situations together, which is also why their numbers for the total number of authorised CASPs vary. ESMA publishes authorisation records rather than a simple list of unique companies, so one legal entity can have multiple records. The register is updated roughly weekly as well, so any total you see outside ESMA is only a snapshot.

But remember that finding the entity in the register confirms that the company is authorised, but it doesn't confirm that the message you received is genuine. With the migration scams going around now, I'd treat the message as unverified even if the branding and regulatory language look right. Don't use the link in the message to check anything. Open the ESMA register yourself, find the legal entity, match the LEI if it's available, check the services listed under the authorisation, and contact the platform through a channel you already know is genuine.

I hope it is ok to post this here, I am looking for contributors to review instant swap services they have used.

The question of how to get Monero gets asked every day, and it’s usually followed by a bunch of scam/phishing links and other terrible advice.

The best strategy is always to buy Litecoin or Bitcoin and then swap it for Monero using a no-KYC instant exchange. I have created a new subdread to keep track of the most reliable exchanges and provide a place to warn others about scams.

Please join us to share your experiences or request advice:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GetXMR/

In the crypto space there are approximately one billion of memecoins, which are just smart contracts. These smart contracts hopelessly diluted the market and it's time to call them fake-crypto. Cause that's all they are. They give power to a central entity to scam you. So it cannot be considered crypto, cause real crypto is permissionless, trustless, and decentralized.
Memcoins are NEVER trustless: We have all seen what happens, when a central entity, such as Trump, Melania, Hogan, Milei, gets trusted...

But there is one so-called memecoin, that is not a smart contract.
It's a "blockchain", called dogecoin.

Be careful: Dogecoin was ment to be a joke.
It's the worst blockchain ever created.
The creator abandoned his joke project a long time ago.

Dogecoin creates 14.4 million dogecoin EVERY DAY.
That's no joke!
Dogecoin goes to zero and there is nothing that can be done to stop it.

It would have happened a long time ago without the sadistic trillionaire ghoul, who endorsed it, cause he wanted to create damage to decentralization. Space karen endorsed the worst blockchain to create max damage to crypto and to get people burned. He loves that shit.

Edit: Was a fun conversation. We made it up to 7 likes. But i guess in some hours my post will be downvoted to a minus value, cause all the space karen fans are coming in and need to hold the pp of the centralized trillionaire.

The majority of my crypto portfolio is in Bitcoin, then I've got ETH and a few smaller alt positions. The biggest change for me is I don't really think of them all as one thing anymore.

BTC and ETH are long term holdings for me. I'm happy to sit on them for years and see where they go.

The smaller alts are different. I'm under no illusion that I need to hold them forever and I'd happily take profits if they do well.

Interested if others separate their crypto like this, or whether you treat the whole portfolio with the same timeframe.

BTC is sitting around $64,260 right now. Do you think we're dipping below $60k in the coming months, or are we heading straight for $73k? What's your take?

Team Short or Team Long?

I used to play some games that were good back in like 2020/2021 but it seems the good ones all died. RIP Skyweaver

Many say that the market is in the worst condition. Spending money to go there will not be a good choice?

Or shall I think like this?

Going now to avoid an annoying crowd? So that I could get noticed?!

I am thinking of MSTR stock from value perspective what are your thought?

Are there any alternative routes for tax saving?

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Every bull run people rush to buy in, or have bought in, and in every bear market people sell or accumulate based on their own speculation.

Several cycles happened until now. In every new cycle something changes and still people buy and speculate.

People invest either on research, narratives, influencers, socials, hype, fomo, plain gamble, positive news or because they speculate that in bear market can accumulate on coins that they believe they'll go up, they might want to find the one moonshot, their friends doing it, etc...

Plus there are many influencers that literally made their main job hyping, informing and teaching people on crypto only, so their main income is either from youtube, tiktok, subscriptions, courses, not from crypto but using crypto as their main sell mechanism. So these people they will try to manipulate and make people speculate more, hype more, fomo more so in a way they are one of the factors that drive liquidity in crypto.

Then there's new regulations that are positive for crypto like the mica europe framework that made users in Europe feel more safe to invest in crypto. Then the upcoming clarity act might prove positive as well or another regulation we don't know about. Not to say there won't be regulations to prove negative.

If BTC becomes more mature and stable then whales might feel more comfortable buying BTC for the long term returns and if the general economy is good they might also invest in alts too.

I started learning and investing about crypto around 2 months ago after a friend told me that he did gain some profits in crypto and it made me want to learn more and throw some money in. From the stocks, gold, silver, etc, crypto is more attractive to a new guy wanting to invest in something so more people might join in...

The oldschool crypto investors had losses that made them turn to BTC, ETH or in stocks and other safer investments but i don't believe any of them forgot about the bull runs crypto has. So when positive news come around they might join the ride again based on speculation.

There's a quote that says "history repeats itself". In every bear market people talked negatively, then in bull run all people hyped, fomo'd and made profits, then bear market again, something new in crypto environment, people talked negative, then bull run positive, then another bear market with a new event or regulation in crypto, then again talked negatively, then another bull run, etc... So history repeats itself until now, and maybe history will repeat again but in a different form because something new might happen again that will affect crypto.

So as long as there's liquidity, crypto isn't replaced by anything new and speculation continues crypto won't die, they might evolve but not die.

What do you think?

I am a tax preparer and I have had multiple clients call me this week asking about the new Digital Asset Compliance Portal the IRS sent them a letter telling them they have to enroll in. Watch out, this is a total scam. They are phishing for personal info and seed phrases.

See the Coinbase article for more info.

https://www.coinbase.com/blog/consumer-protection-tuesday-fake-irs-scam

A while back, someone on here shared a game with a genuinely brilliant idea behind it. I won't name it, but it was a great betting game. He first launched it on an Eth L2, and since nobody uses those, it stalled - then he relaunched on Solana and it was buzzing there for months.

The problem: the guy with the genius idea was a terrible dev. The game was bugged to hell. Sometimes you couldn't place a bet and a random person won. In some games people couldn't withdraw their winnings for months - some never got them at all. And people kept playing anyway, because it was that fun. For a couple of months he actually tried to fix things. Then he went quiet, and eventually - after most people had left, worn out by bugs that never got fixed - he took half of what was left of the players' money and walked. (A tiny amount compared to what he could've taken at the peak, so I don't think that was the goal all along.) Classic crypto story. The community was genuinely baffled how someone fumbled something so good so badly.

When it was clearly dying, a bunch of people talked about rebuilding it. One guy even finished a version that never launched, for reasons I never learned. I waited. Eventually, this year, I rebuilt it myself.

This is going to sound like bragging, but I honestly believe my version is better than the original in every way. More game modes, a proper UI, things the original never had, and an actual plan for the future. And most importantly: it works. The bugs are gone. You can always bet, you can always withdraw. And if something comes up, I fix it.

So where is everybody? I personally messaged 50+ people who were active in the original community. People who should remember me. A few were friendly. One accused me of impersonating myself. Most just ignored me. Grand total who came to play even once: four. And at that point every game was massively +EV. The leaderboard payouts alone meant basically every bet paid for itself. Free money, essentially. Still almost nobody.

One notable difference from the original: no native token, for now. We're deep in a bear market, I already had a rough launch on another platform, and the game genuinely doesn't need a token to work. The plan was to launch one later, once the thing was steady, and airdrop it to early players. Except there are almost no early players to airdrop to.

So to attract some attention, I built a way for anyone to spin up a token whose trading fees automatically fund the games - figured that'd be a natural discovery engine. (The tokens launched there can't even be rugged - the dev's buy-in goes straight into the prize pool, so there's no bag to dump.) Launched a few. Some got decent volume, the fees funded plenty of bets. New players from it: one, who made exactly one bet. The only new arrivals were the constant bots and scammers in my chat offering me marketing services.

Here's the number that actually haunts me. Over 400 wallets traded the tokens I launched, 315 SOL of buying across five coins. Every one of those tokens has a link to the site baked right into its metadata, one click from the chart to the game. New human visitors to the site from all of that trading: ten. Not ten who played. Ten who visited, one who bet. Two-thirds of that volume arrived in coordinated same-block cohorts (wallets that were never people to begin with). The rest were mostly flippers who'll buy a token without ever once looking at what it actually is.

So I'm genuinely asking: is it over for the solo builder?

• I won't pay KOLs, and they'd have nothing to shill anyway. They pump tokens, not games - usually right before dumping them on the people who trusted the call.
• Paid trending (for any of the launchpad tokens) is a scam, and even when it creates volume, it only brings traders, not players.
• Is pumpfun to blame? When the original launched, it was maybe one new coin a minute - you could scroll through and actually find a diamond. Now it's a hundred a minute and there's nothing to find.
• Is it that with no native token, there's just no acquisition engine at all? The original had hundreds of players, but it also had a token people were trading and hyping the whole time. Maybe that's what actually pulled them through the door, and the game only kept the few who stuck around. Do people just never show up to play unless there's a ticker to trade first?
• Or is it the bear plus a collapse of trust - the people who got burned on the original are gone, and the ones who didn't have no money left anyway?
• Or has the audience just moved somewhere else? Higher market caps, specialized communities? I looked and couldn't find them. If any of you know where that audience actually is now, that's the thing I most need to hear.

The platform works. I keep shipping. I'm porting it to BSC next. Do I just keep building and wait for discovery to come? Or is the era where one person could ship something genuinely good and have people actually show up simply over?

PS: please, no "crypto is dead" replies. I've read that one every four years.

genuine question, not a set up for anything.

in every cycle there is a batch of tokens with charity in the description. animal shelters, disaster relief, whatever is in the news that month. i have never once seen one produce a receipt. the donation wallet either never moves, or it moves one time, early, for a screenshot, and then nothing.

i am trying to understand whether the structure of the category is broken or i simply have not found those who do it properly.

the argument that it is broken: a creator promising to donate has no enforcement on him. the promise is contained in a description field which he can edit, or in a telegram message which scrolls away. the only thing which makes them send the money is social pressure, and social pressure disappears exactly at the moment when the price falls, which is also the moment when the most money is sitting there.

the argument against that: nothing from the above is a blockchain problem. the problem is that the promise was never on-chain. if the split was enforced at the contract level, and the receiver was a registered org and not a wallet, the objection mostly disappears.

has anybody actually seen the second version implemented? not they said they would, but implemented, with transactions which you can pull up and check.

and a separate question, in which i am less sure: would it even change your behavior? i think i would pick the one where a part goes out the door over the one where it does not, given that everything else is identical. but i genuinely cannot tell if that is true or if i am just telling myself a flattering story about my own trading.

There is an overwhelming amount of information about blockchain, tokenomics, DeFi, wallets, consensus mechanisms, and smart contracts. I’m interested in hearing what experienced people consider the most important fundamentals for a beginner.

My account (UID: 113623867) has been frozen since June 25, 2026. That's over 7 weeks now.

Timeline:

June 25 — account frozen, Compliance Ticket opened (Appeal ID: W202606256C7CC0FB0DFB069460453A), promised a response "within 48 hours." Never updated since. Multiple support tickets — only templated replies: "under review by our Compliance team," "no additional documents required," "unable to provide a timeline." Posted publicly on X and Trustpilot — got the same templated response there too. Filed a formal complaint with AFSA (Astana Financial Services Authority), since Bybit Limited is licensed under AIFC (Kazakhstan). AFSA responded that my account isn't actually held under that entity — it's under Bybit's global structure, which AFSA has no jurisdiction over. They forwarded my complaint to "Bybit Global," which appears to be a courtesy referral with no actual authority behind it. Sent multiple direct emails to compliance@bybit.com asking for: (1) the reason for the review, (2) whether any documents are needed, (3) a timeline, (4) which legal entity actually holds my account. Silence on all of it.

I'm not the only one — Trustpilot and this sub are full of nearly identical stories: indefinite "compliance reviews," no documents requested, no timeline given, no real answer from anyone.

At this point I just want a straight answer: what's actually being reviewed, and when will it end. Sharing this in case others are going through the same thing, and in case it prompts an actual response from someone at Bybit who can look into it.

Any ideas what to do in this situation?

The recent Trezor and SafePal incidents got me thinking about this.

The wallets themselves weren't compromised. The problem was the companies' handling things around them shipping, customer records, contact details.

We spend so much time asking whether a company can secure its own systems, but maybe the bigger question is how secure the entire chain is.

How much should we trust a company if one of its partners can expose the data anyway?

And how did you come to that conclusion? My best estimate is a dip under 50k in and around October. From previous cycle timing, draw downs (taking diminishing returns into account).

Anyone here who bought a lot of crypto in the all-time-high market, or in a bull market. What is your current loss?

Bitcoin is the largest crypto asset by far, yet most of it just sits there.

Is that the point?

Or are we still in the early stages of figuring out what BTC can actually be used for?

President Trump is expected to attend a meeting on Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. ET at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to the West Wing. CFTC Chairman Michael Selig is expected to be there, and an SEC spokesperson confirmed Chairman Paul Atkins will attend as well. Politico first reported the gathering, Bloomberg reported Trump's expected attendance, and Semafor listed invitees including Coinbase, a16z, Kalshi, Paradigm, The Digital Chamber, and Patrick Witt, executive director of the President's Council of Advisers for Digital Assets.

The meeting is a kickoff for the CFTC's Innovation Advisory Committee, which holds its first session on Thursday from 1 to 4 p.m. ET and will be viewable online per its Federal Register notice. Selig named the committee's 35 members in February, among them Polymarket's Shayne Coplan and Kalshi's Tarek Mansour, alongside executives from Cboe, CME, DTCC and Nasdaq. The agenda he released covers three subjects: crypto asset regulation, artificial intelligence, and prediction markets.

That third item is the one to watch. The agenda specifically flags how federal and state authority should divide when it comes to overseeing prediction markets, and recent state litigation and enforcement actions. Selig's position is that the CFTC has exclusive jurisdiction over event contracts, and he has sued several states over their attempts to restrict Kalshi and Polymarket. Baltimore sued both companies last week over sports-related contracts.

Here is the legal reality behind all the choreography. Whether federal derivatives law displaces state gambling law is a preemption question, and preemption gets settled by courts reading a statute or by Congress writing a clearer one. An advisory committee has no power to decide it, and neither does a meeting at the White House. Wednesday and Thursday will produce signals about how the agency intends to act. They will not produce a binding answer.

Sources: The Block, The Bitcoin Act.

Question: should a federal regulator be able to override state gambling law by classifying an event contract as a derivative, or does that call belong to Congress in explicit statutory language? Where you land on this decides whether these products survive the next two years.

I’m trying to learn more about how exactly crypto currencies work. How exactly do crypto currencies move (or not move) in price? How is it determined. What systems/mechanics does it use? Are there any videos/texts that explain this that you recommend?

Hey guys, I'm a student who's recently gotten interested in crypto and downloaded a self-custody wallet. I just want to test how receiving and sending crypto works, but I currently don't have any crypto to try it with.

If anyone is willing to send me around $3 worth of crypto, I'd really appreciate it. There's absolutely no pressure—only send it if you're comfortable. I can provide my public wallet address if needed.

There are a few guys on YouTube I like listening to (Paul Barron, Crypto Sensei). But even Crypto Sensei seems to post a lot of hype and hopeium. I follow Eleanor Terrott on X and she’s really good for White House and breaking news. Beyond that I haven’t found anyone else with good credible info.

I plan on creating my entropy for my other two wallets via dice rolls. Should I create a seed for the Safe 7 or allow Trezor to create it for me? I am reading the the Safe 7 is very good for creating a strong seed phrase. That said I would like to see what others are thinking about this question?

That’s right! It’s 2026 and Gary Vee is on Whatnot (lmao) telling people to go to OpenSea and buy his NFTs. AND PEOPLE DID!

Grifters gonna grift.

Oh and he called himself a hero to entrepreneurs.

It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so absurd.

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For the past months I've been building Atrium: a self-hosted, multichain trading dashboard. It trades on the Stellar DEX, holds wallets across chains, Stellar plus Solana today, one wallet per chain with its own receive QR, and is built on a chain-adapter layer designed to add more. Your keys never leave your control, and there's an optional AI analyst (bring your own API key, Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek, local Ollama, whatever) that can propose trades. It never signs anything: every proposal goes through a deterministic policy engine, whitelists, size and loss caps, slippage gates, kill switch, and you decide what executes.

I threw thousands of euros of my own into this project but I kinda ran dry to continue building/testing it so plz:
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Ever notice the only complaint people have about Litecoin is its USD performance over the years?

You never hear anything about it not working when you need it, or the fees are too high, or why is it not on my favorite exchange, or why is it not available to pay with at crypto merchants?

The reason for this is it’s literally an improved version of Bitcoins transactional rails using most of the original code with a few key tweaks. To say Litecoin has no value means you’re saying Bitcoin has no value.

Key thing overlooked, BTC and LTC aren’t really competing with each other. Both handle a different role. BTC more as a store of value first, payment network second, LTC as a payment network first, store of value second. They compliment each other. It’s not a competition for relevance. Both coins are needed and both serve a role.

One day the market will realize this and correct. Either BTC and LTC go to near zero, or LTC catches up to BTC in usd terms. There can’t be a one winner outcome here.

Second one this week - Trezor was first in line. Seems that targeting physical orders - the same attack vector as was the case with Trezor

Bearish on hardware wallets?

Wallet of Satoshi is now going full non custodial by implementing the Spark Protocol. If you want to keep using WoS, you have to generate a Spark key either with them or any other Wallet that has Spark implemented.

The Spark Protocol allows you to use the Lightning Network, but you own the keys (normal lightning you dont)

Physical risk breach - the largest crypto exchange in Israel was hacked. The company attempted to minimize the damage by stating that no credit cards were stolen, however, the identification details and deposit addresses of all customers were likely compromised.

This means that if you deposited a large amount of money into the exchange, you immediately become a target for theft and kidnapping. This data will inevitably reach its target audience - crime families & criminals waiting for the low-hanging fruit of intimidating nerdy dudes with a lot of crypto.

source: https://i.ibb.co/ccTSWSC7/bitsofgold.png

Back in 2013 I bought a small butterfly labs ASIC miner and joined a mining pool called bitminter. I managed to get around 0.75 btc before the miner became usless, i printed off my backup jammed it into shoe box and left it.

I thought I had 0.75 turns out I actually only had 0.25 btc. Still a chunk of change but was not the amount I thought.

That's it, I am sad. I did the hodl on it and it was not as much as I thought. I don't know if I ever had 0.75 or it was left on bitminter but..ya..sad.

Edit: verification I hodl since late 2013 (my sweep yesterday): https://blockstream.info/address/bc1qe8lak2g4m7py0c6xswr0fa6n45pfmksgc23fp8

I only find ones that accept USDC. I've seen "sercices" that do the conversion in Switzerland, but it doesn't seem so safe.

is it even legit? Like I opened a PR, and there’s no response, and I can see there are PRs as old as July 15. Abd none of the Pars have added their address for tips. huh?

Github.com/zechub/zechub

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I have been very happy with Binance over the years. But with the new European regulations, the MICA, how Greece rejected Binance in the last minute...

Now I am seeing bad stuff and good stuff about Binance.

I was planning to hold my crypto portfolio until 2029. I don't mind keeping it on Binance for a year if they can back into the EU.

But what do you guys think?

Should I just move everything to Coinbase or are there better platforms?

Hi Guys.

I'm currently working on a strategy and I need to source reliable, granular historical liquidation data for crypto perps. So far I can only find tardis.dev that have granular liquidation data(kinda surprising in 2026). Does anyone have any experience with them

Any leads/ vendors you’ve successfully used to backfill this specific data would be hugely appreciated.

I have a large amount of cash still in reserve to make some major moves over the next 2-3 months. I'm approximately 75-80% BTC and been in this space for a very long time. This year I've primarily been buying BTC in the 60k range, February and June were my heaviest months. I also scooped up a bit of ADA earlier this spring at these bargain basement prices but given I have a large position in that I'm thinking that will suffice for now. I also have some ETH but not super excited about that, would rather just buy BTC instead.

However, Solana is an alt I'm considering now and wanted to see what others on here thought of it. I'm also thinking about keeping things simple and just being 100% BTC with the remaining funds I have, but open to other possibilities as well. Just looking to take my time here and weigh my options, not in a rush to make a decision.

Hello has anyone had any issues with the cryptocurrency app website UEX.US I have been having so many issues with their customer service and it's crazy because I go and Reddit and I see people say the opposite. Me and a few other friends having trouble getting access to our funds and the owner is blue bawling us every other day saying he's going to give us money and then ghost us just curious if anyone's having any issues or problems with their own money being taken out of the account and having no access to it

Been building a website. Is it useful to anyone? I feel like I might be headed down Pointless Avenue towards Nobodyneedsthis Street.

I thought it would be useful to have all registered crypto exchanges and regulators in one place. The more I build the less convinced I am that anyone wants this.

Any thoughts?

https://whichcryptoexchange.com/

Since I started trading crypto I started to invest 10 percent of my salary but no positive returns yet on my investments.
Invested in btc and eth but the graph never reached new high again.

Should I still wait for bull run or should step out of crypto ?
It seems like I don’t know the way crypto works.
Unlucky me brought coins on Binance and they started to delist during my downfall.

Is crypto that difficult to understand or I am not taking right steps ?
Pls advice

If you have to boil down blockchain technology to its core essence, it's a ledger.

This is why Bitcoin naturally took its narrative to be a way to transact value. Because, what else can you do with moving immutable tokens around between addresses?

A ledger is all finance is at its base. Everything built on top that is more or less a ponzi scheme, as crypto has proven with every utility narrative in the past, and our debt-based banking system proves by continuously kicking the can down the road for the next generation to deal with.

Now, the new utility narratives in crypto are revenue generating protocols. I'm not going to deny there is value in Hyperliquid. The house casino making money off people gambling is one of the earliest businesses formed after the invention of finance.

But, it isn't really utility on crypto, at least not yet. You're relying on different countries' laws to determine whether them paying you a rev share is allowed. Right now, I'd argue HYPE doesn't actually have any utility because rev share payouts are illegal, and you're making a bet that this will change and that the team behind HYPE will honor the community.

If you ignore any narratives about what will happen in the future, crypto really has no utility outside of being a store of value.

Another narrative today is real world assets (RWA). You can own assets from the old system of finance now on the rails of crypto. This is just totally backwards in my opinion. Because what we've done is use crypto to put a layer on top of our old layer finance. When crypto is supposed to be the layer underneath. Fractional shares and 24/7 trading isn't anything novel. You could build it in the old system if you wanted to, and if settlement is still happening on the old system's rails, then it's not actually cryptocurrency in my opinion. You're just allowing traditional finance to weave its outdated tentacles through the network that was supposed to resist all that.

I feel most of crypto is woefully misguided and doesn't understand what crypto is actually about. Everyone's repeatedly falling for attaching our old system's ways of doing things into crypto.

Before downvoting me, which this subreddit seems to do if you talk about anything other than utility in crypto, I ask you to think about this deeply.

Value is what people decide it is. That is the only reason any token, stock, or real world asset has ever had value.

The actual utility of crypto if you remove all the narratives is that it allows people to form currencies and trade fluidly without any centralized institution. As soon as you introduce centralized institutions, the entire point is lost. This is why Bitcoin topped at $120K in my opinion. It became a community of suits, co-opted by Wall Street, and the main narrative and entire point (value) was lost. Bitcoin went up rapidly because it was against the system. As soon as it became apart of the system, there's not much reason to own it over the S&P500.

It pains me to see crypto taken over by traditional finance and all this nonsense. It is supposed to be a way for the people screwed over by centralized institutions abusing debt and inflation to take back power.

Bitcoin looked like nothing on the surface to people who didn't understand it. While invention of blockchain tech was crucial, I'd argue it wasn't so much about the utility as it was about a generation ravaged by the Global Financial Crisis taking back power from an abusive banking system.

I think this is happening again in crypto for the first time in a long time. It has never been more exciting, if you take off the utility tech blinders off and pay attention to the things that might look like nothing on the surface, but are actually greatly decentralized and stirring up people to unite. It might actually be the next generation's way of taking back power.

but i had to sell my crypto ($75) today so i can pay my credit card debt

i started with $20 3 years ago ???? rip wallet

Large primary raises at peak NFT hype followed by years of lower engagement produced a predictable result: 90%+ floor collapses across most of the major 2021-2022 NFT names. BAYC, MAYC, Azuki, Doodles, CloneX, Moonbirds and the rest of the list. The market eventually stopped paying peak prices for future delivery that was not showing up in daily activity. Holders who entered near the top financed the lesson. In several documented cases, people who held multiple high-floor pieces from these NFT collections absorbed losses measured in the millions.

The pattern repeated often enough that it stopped looking like bad luck and started looking like the business model.

Remove the extraction event and the pattern changes. Doginal Dogs never gave the market a peak to collapse from in the same way. Free mint structure removed the primary capital event. What followed was years of consistent presence instead of years of managing a drawdown narrative. The result is a #1 independent trust score (99/100) and an A+ ethics grade while the extraction cohort is still defined by the size of the holes it left.

What are people’s thoughts on this coin for the next bull run?

It seems to have a strong community and the value is holding well compared to other coins. My head is telling me just go in to Bitcoin as It’s the most proven and solid coin but the gains just won’t be the same as something like SPX.

If not that, what other alt coins are promising for the future?

Hello,

I’m one of those stupid noobs who put €1,000 into crypto a few years ago thinking I’d get rich without even having to look at it.

Of course, I lost quite a lot and had actually completely forgotten I even owned any crypto. I had everything on Binance and logged back in this morning after they sent me an email. I then discovered I still have about €265 left.
I’m in France.

It’s split like this:
DOGE: €111
BTC: €78
ETH: €42
SOL: €17
XRP: €13
SYN: €5

The thing is, if I understand correctly, Binance is no longer properly authorized in Europe, and I don’t want to lose what little I have left.

I also have the Coinbase app, but there’s nothing on it yet. Can I transfer my crypto there, and what would be the best way to do it?

Binance only seems to let me convert some of my holdings into EUR or USDC.

Would you simplify the portfolio into USDC, Bitcoin and Ethereum first, then transfer everything? Is moving to Coinbase a good idea?

Thanks for your help.

I have a sizeable amount of cash still in reserve that I'm looking to deploy later this fall, especially if we get another leg down.

I'm primarily a BTC maxi and been holding for a very long time, it makes up about 75-80% of my portfolio. The rest is ETH and ADA that I'm staking, both of which I've also had for a very long time. I have a VERY large position in ADA that I've had for a while now and I thought about loading up more because it's unbelievably cheap. The fact I could buy 50k ADA for less than $10,000 at under 20 cents is a crazy entry when it was trading at above 50 cents for almost all of 2025. However, I'm also a bit concerned about overexposing to just this one particular alt, which honestly gives me pause to reflect upon some other options.

I'm most likely going to invest at least 50% of this remaining capital into BTC but I'm considering either Link or Solana. I really am not too sure which one I want to go with here, Solana in particular I like because of it's staking rewards but LINK being under $10 I see as a solid entry point. I think both have a good amount of potential going into 2028 and beyond.

However, there's also a part of me that is thinking just going 100% into BTC just to keep things simple. I don't want to overspeculate on alts and looking back on my many years in crypto I would have been way better off just being 100% BTC the entire way through.

I day trade BTC/ETH using VWAP, volume profile and open interest. How do you guys actually build directional bias before the London/NY overlap?

I've been thinking about this while watching the market lately.

Crypto was supposed to give people an alternative to the traditional financial system. Yet so much of the market now revolves around ETFs, institutional money, interest rates and regulators.

And honestly, I'm not sure that's a bad thing.

If institutions bring more liquidity and make crypto easier for normal people to access, that's probably good for adoption.

But there's still something weird about building an alternative to traditional finance and then depending on traditional finance to make it mainstream.

At what point does "crypto adoption" become crypto just becoming another part of TradFi?

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My father just said to me today " Boy, I'm sure glad I decided not to buy into this bitcoin ponzi scheme garbage!"

Over the years this has been uttered (in some similar fashion) at least 8 times before.

And, it was soon followed by bitcoin rocketing to new all time highs.

Which is then followed by my dad saying " Damn, I should have followed my gut and hopped in this time"
--- which just so happens to be my clue to, Sell Now!

I've been doing this since the Silk Road days. I stopped when Mt. Gox took 300+ bitcoin from me! And I'm not saying I would have held onto those coins, but I was doing very well with the erratic up and downs that would happen multiple times a day; almost like clockwork, too!

And so I've seen more than a few ups and downs

In any case, my dad is very good at calling the bottom and very good at calling the top, he just has opposite ways of observing both

The NFT hype seems to be dead for good. Noone is talking about it or investing in it. I feel the same about altcoins. Noone is talking about it, except when the US president tries to scam his fans again. The only coin that people still seem to care somewhat about is Bitcoin, but the public conversation is pretty much dead except those who own it.

There has not been any talk of any new revolutionary coins/tokens in several years, except for perhaps very niche communities?

Honestly. Could crypto (bitcoin) fade into slow death like altcoins and NFTs seem to do?

Tokens can be traded 24/7, settled in seconds, and stored in your own wallet.

But that still doesn’t tell me what happens when something goes wrong.

Consider a tokenised stock, fund or real-world asset.

If the secondary market disappeared tomorrow, would I be able to redeem the token directly?

If so, who actually owes me the money?

If the issuer freezes redemptions, can I make a claim against the issuer, the SPV or the underlying asset?

To me, those questions seem more important than whether the token itself can move between wallets instantly.

Crypto has become very good at proving that I control the token.

The harder question is whether the token gives me an enforceable claim when the normal market stops working.

When evaluating a tokenised asset, do you consider the legal/redemption structure, or do you mostly treat the token and the underlying asset as equivalent?

Delio took bitcoin and ether deposits, paid 12 to 15% a year, and called itself a crypto bank. On June 14, 2023 it froze withdrawals overnight. It was declared insolvent in November 2024.

On August 13, the Seoul Southern District Court sentenced CEO Jeong Sang-ho to 15 years and detained him on the spot over flight risk. Prosecutors had asked for 20.

Here is what actually happened in that courtroom.

The original indictment covered about 2,800 victims and 245 billion won, roughly $175 million. The court acquitted him of all of it. Investigators had seized Delio's entire database from Gabia, the outside company hosting its servers, without letting Delio take part in the search and without handing over a list of what they took. Korean law requires both. The court called the search unlawful and ruled the database and everything built on it inadmissible.

Prosecutors saw that coming and amended the indictment on July 21, adding a smaller backup charge that did not rely on the seized data: about 1,100 victims and 71.5 billion won, roughly $49 million. The court convicted him on most of it, and separately convicted him of using false documents to register as a licensed virtual asset provider.

The broader point: in crypto cases the proof almost always sits on someone else's servers. Grab it sloppily and it vanishes, no matter how real it was.

First instance. Appealable.

Sources: Newsis, Herald Business, Newspim, Asiae.

If the evidence proving someone robbed you is genuine but was collected illegally, should it still count? Korea says no (in general). Do you agree?

Looking for the best platform mainly to stake assets such as sol, ada, eth and dot. The one I am currently using has very low APY percentage.

Also looking for great UI/UX.

Pretty sure the devs silently packed their bags and abandoned ship on $ONE.

I honestly hope none of you are holding this bag because it just refuses to stop drilling down. At this point, if it gets delisted tomorrow, my only reaction would be, yeah ok...

What’s the consensus here? Is this going straight to 0,0000 or below 0,0000? ????

Can we stop saying "there are too many coins" and "there are millions of cryptocurrencies"?

There are only 1,000 layer 1 coins. There are millions of layer 2's. We should be speaking about them that way so the public catches on early and so the space is thought of appropriately.

Layer 2's pump and dump often. They offer almost no value besides speculation or stablecoins.

Layer 1's grow or die with hash.

We should not lump L1's and L2's together as "all cryptocurrency". It makes the space that much more daunting to newcomers, in my opinion. We should rebrand and make clear distinctions from the top positions to the average user in crypto to keep the space accessible and honest.

I received an email from Binance that I am still missing identity verification. I don't see a way to upload a photo or any type of document. I watched a video by Binance on the Binance subreddit and it says to click on the profile icon, then Account, then Identification. On my profile I do not see a profile icon in the top right corner. I only see a notification icon, a Buy Crypto icon, and a Buy/Sell/Convert icon. I went to Basic Verification and entered my Date of Birth, Phone number for SMS notification, address, and social security number. Today I received an email that my verification was unsuccessful. I tried to use the Binance support on Reddit and when entering my email to login for support I get a message that my account does not exist. I have been having this account for a few years but never used it to purchase crypto, trade, or convert. Now I'm curious to know if I have an account with the actual Binance crypto platform or if this is a scam. Does anyone have any advice for me?

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Some of you might remember Vultisig running an AMA on this sub a while back. Theirs stuck with me, because the pitch stood out: a seedless wallet & MPC tech. It was one of the more interesting security designs I'd seen posted here. The last couple weeks of wallet news brought it straight back to mind, because the things that just went wrong for other wallets are the exact things Vultisig is built to avoid.

Two stories set it off. Late July, a firmware bug in Coldcard caused some units to generate seeds with weak randomness, and attackers reconstructed those seeds remotely and drained them. TRM Labs put it around 1,816 BTC, over $116M. Then the data-leak side of the space kept getting hit. Ledger's 2020 breach exposed roughly a million emails and 272,000 records with names, phone numbers, and home addresses, which got dumped publicly and turned into phishing, extortion, even physical threats at people's homes. More recently a Trezor shipping provider got breached too (their own wallets and infrastructure were fine, it was a third-party fulfillment partner). Different companies but the same two failure modes: a compromised seed, and leaked customer data used to phish you, or worse.

Here is what made me think of Vultisig specifically. Both of those failures need a target that Vultisig does not give them. It is a seedless MPC wallet: instead of one seed phrase or one private key, your key is split into encrypted shares across your own devices (vault shares), and every transaction needs a threshold of them to sign. No single device moves funds alone, and there is no seed phrase in the setup at all. So the Coldcard-style attack has no seed to reconstruct, and a phishing email has no 24 words to ask you for.

The data-leak part is even more basic. Ledger and Trezor have to ship you a physical device, so somebody has to store your name, address, phone, and email, and that is the database that leaks. Vultisig is a free app you download. Nothing gets shipped, so there is no address book to breach, and they say they do not collect user data in the first place. You cannot leak what you never collected.

I am not going to claim any wallet is unhackable, and MPC has its own tradeoffs worth understanding before you move anything. Keep your hardware wallet if it is working for you. The point is that the two things that keep costing people, one bad seed and one leaked customer list, are designed out of this one. Yet again, it goes to show this sub contains great information.

Hey everyone in this reddit, I used to make money off memecoins back in 2024, and it was amazing, but now its pretty grimy, so i would like to start investing some of my paycheck into something so that i could make money in the future. But i don't know where to do my research since its mostly people shilling or idk the term. Any advice where to do my research or what i should invest?

From 2016-2025, nearly every DeFi primitive was about making your assets "productive." DeFi figured out how to use your WBTC as collateral for loans, lend your USDC, stake/restake your eth, etc. It was incredible because you no longer had idle assets, but assets you could leverage for additional yield. This was optimized for a decade, but now there's really nothing new coming out for turning idle assets into productive assets. The next frontier is "hyper-productive assets," where a single asset has multiple streams for becoming productive.

In my research, Katana is the best chain for making hyper productive assets. I'm probably the biggest Katana bull on Reddit, and my conviction is back by results I've achieved due to the chain's features. Since Katana just reintroduced krates (I made a previous post about krates) and re-upped Morpho incentives, I'm going to share some of my strategy and hopefully give everyone some solid alpha and ways to make money, because, well, that's why we're all here.

I farmed stablecoins on katana from the time they announced the chain in June of 2025 through today. While I was farming the stables, I was able to use my vault position as collateral to borrow more stables and loop. This earned me ~6% APY on the stables and KAT tokens. At TGE, this worked out to ~25% APY at TGE, given the KAT price. So all in, I earned ~30% on my stables for the first year.

Now here is where things get really fun and how I've been turning the KAT I earned (and later purchased) into a hyper-productive asset.

Start with the base layer, how KAT becomes productive: avKAT & vKAT. If you hold KAT, you stake it into vKAT or avKAT, an autocompounding vault. Every 2 weeks, users vote on where to direct KAT incentives (right now different LP for swaps), and different pools put up USDC and other tokens as incentives for voting for them. vKAT gives USDC rewards while avKAT compounds automatically. This went live ~ mid April. For every $1000 at TGE in vKAT I've voted with, I've gained ~$250 back (25% raw, ~75% APY) while avKAT has appreciated ~33%, meaning a 120% APY on KAT. The difference is due to KAT depreciating in price and I'm calculating the vKAT on TGE. If base it on price at return, vKAT is ~150% returns APY.

Now how does KAT become hyperproductive? avKAT is composable, as it's a liquid staking token. You can use it as an LP token or in lending protocols. I supply it as collateral on Morpho & borrow against it. There are 3 pools where avKAT can be used as collateral - avKAT:KAT, avKAT:USDC, and avKAT:USDT.

I have roughly 2.5x'd my avKAT exposure by looping in the avKAT:KAT pool. I supply the avKAT, borrow KAT, stake the borrowed KAT for avKAT, resupply avKAT, borrow more KAT, etc. The borrow rate for KAT is currently ~1.5%, has historically been 1-4% with brief spikes to 10-15% when utilization is 100%, while avKAT is returning 30-50% each epoch currently. This loop gives can give you leveraged exposure to avKAT's compounding in the 2-4x range, depending on how hard you push it. It's a positive carry, leveraged loop.

But that's not all. I also keep avKAT to use as collateral to borrow USDC & USDT. The borrow rates are typically in the 2-4% range. Katana recently added incentives to Morpho vaults. In these Morpho vaults, the native supply rate is in the 3-4% range, so the borrow typically is at a breakeven. However, the new incentives are pushing rates to the 6-10% range. As a benchmark, Aave supply rates for stablecoins is 2-5%, and I'm earning 4-6% in stablecoins on my avKAT, while my avKAT is earning 60-100% on itself with the loop. My avKAT does three jobs: compounding as a vault, backing my KAT loop, & backing a stablecoin borrow. One asset, three income streams.

And to go next level, you're earning XP in Katana Quests. Every one of these actions, supplying, borrowing, LPing, holding avKAT, earns XP. That XP redeems for Krates, which pay out more avKAT, which you feed right back into the stack. The farming you're already doing prints a bonus layer of rewards on top. The quest XP gives another ~1% on stablecoins and 1.5% on avKAT, so the stables are now netting 5-7% APY on the avKAT I already hold.

So count the jobs on a single avKAT stack: it compounds itself, it levers into more KAT, it backs a stablecoin borrow, those stables earn in a vault, & the whole thing prints XP for Krates. That's what I call hyperproductive.

"But Timmy, wHeRe DoEs ThE yIeLd CoMe FrOm?" On most chains these APYs are token emissions on a countdown, printed until the budget runs dry, & then the loop collapses. Katana funds it differently. When you bridge an asset onto Katana, its Vault Bridge puts that asset to work in yield strategies on Ethereum instead of letting it sit idle. That yield comes back to the chain as real revenue, & Katana recycles the revenue into the incentives you're farming. Katana is literally running their own hyper-productive strategies for assets bridged to their chain.

Katana is built so your assets never sit still & those who seek yield get insane upside. The hyper-productive capital sitting on top of a revenue engine that recycles into more yield.

Disclaimer about risks: this is leverage on leverage, so respect the liquidation risk & watch your health factors. It is more for active capital managers than set-and-forget. I think the rewards justify the time to monitor. I am not a financial advisor and I am not your financial advisor, I'm simply sharing how I run my own stack.

i dont know what wallet to use to make transfers/send money/receive
im new to this and dont know whats good and whats bad

I bought a small amount a while ago and only checked it again recently. The price collapsed, xcellar.ai seems down, and the official X account appears suspended.

I’m not trying to accuse anyone of anything. I just can’t find a simple explanation or any actual news: was there an exploit, a shutdown, a team update, a delisting, or did the project just fade out?

If anyone followed it closely, has Telegram history, or knows anything about it, I'd appreciate some insight

Long read on how credit card networks work, where they're strong, where they're weak, and how blockchains and stablecoins actually address those weaknesses. And why stablecoin cards are growing in popularity.

This is not AI.

----

Card networks are a marvel of human coordination.

Every second, they process over 25,000 transactions around the world. Each year, they move over $30 trillion across 800 billion payments.

With a tap or a swipe, you can buy just about anything at 175M+ merchant locations. In person or online.

But while making a card purchase feels instant to you, the systems that actually move money from your account to the merchant are not so simple. They rely on pre-internet financial plumbing that imposes real costs on the companies behind your card. Costs that compound when money needs to cross borders.

While hard for the average person to see, these costs have restricted everyone but the deepest-pocketed companies from offering card services. Even for them, whole populations remain unprofitable to serve.

Here, I'll explain how card networks work, identify their strengths and where they’re showing their age. Then I'll explain how stablecoin cards preserve those strengths, while upgrading antiquated financial plumbing for the modern era.

By the end, you'll understand why stablecoins underlie more and more of the world's $30 trillion in card payments each year.

Authorization: the 2-second miracle

To buy your $5 morning coffee, you tap your card and within two seconds the transaction is approved and you’re on your way.

Unbeknownst to you, that tap sets off a series of messages. From the card reader, to the coffee shop's bank, through the card network, to your card issuer. This process confirms that you can afford the coffee, and that the purchase doesn't look like fraud. An approval then races back along the same path. All in two seconds.

This is where the marvel of the system lies. It lets two strangers, represented by two different institutions, transact in an instant, and then move the money later, according to a set of rules neither of you ever had to think about.

It works billions of times a day, the same in Boston or Bogotá, and everywhere in between.

Interchange: the cost of miracles

To accept your payment, the coffee shop hands over a cut of your $5. In the US, usually around 2-3%.

That 2-3% is split among three different companies. The card network (Visa, Mastercard, etc.) keeps a small sliver. Another sliver goes to the payment processor that the merchant uses to accept the card (Square, Toast, etc.). Then the rest goes to the company that issued the card.

The fee that goes to your card issuer is called interchange.

Interchange is the engine that makes the entire system work. Without it, no business would take on the risk and costs associated with issuing your card. It also funds the rewards you likely enjoy, as many card issuers pass a portion of these fees back to you, in the form of cash back, airline miles, and more.

These fees are the cost of using this complex system that magically authorizes billions of transactions a day. 24/7.

But this two-second approval is only the first part of the story. Moving the actual money takes two steps: clearing, then settlement.

Clearing: the great compression

When your coffee purchase was approved, your card issuer sent a message telling your coffee shop you were good for it. Along with an agreement to send the money later.

No money actually moved.

The first step is called clearing. At the end of the day, the coffee shop's bank bundles your transaction with every other, and submits the list to the card network.

The network takes that list, along with lists from the banks of millions of other merchants, and nets everything out into an even simpler list. One that shows what each bank owes, and what each bank is owed.

Clearing is another marvel of the system. It compresses billions of daily transactions into a short list of IOUs between banks.

However, the next step, where the money actually moves, is where the system is starting to show its age.

Settlement: pre-internet financial plumbing

Settlement is the vast behind-the-scenes machinery that shuffles money from your card issuer to the coffee shop's bank. Plus about $80 billion more from every other purchase that day.

Money moves not one coffee at a time, but in massive, netted batches. Banks that owe pay the card network. Then the network pays the banks that are owed. This is effectively when your coffee shop gets paid.

On a debit card, it comes straight out of your account. On a credit card, your card issuer fronts it, and collects from you at a later date.

The system works well enough. You’ve long finished your coffee by this point, and the coffee shop gets paid eventually.

The challenge sits with the company behind your card. It has to make sure it always has enough money on hand when these settlement batches come due. For your coffee purchase, and for the purchases of every other customer it serves.

And it has to do so through systems built in a pre-internet world.

These systems produce lags, which is where the first big problem appears.

Prefunding: the cost of waiting

Settlement runs on bank time.

In the US, most settlement moves through two systems: ACH and Fedwire. One built in the 1970s, the other with roots in 1918. Neither runs on nights, weekends or holidays.

So if you bought your coffee Friday at 5:30pm, the money won’t move to the merchant until Monday morning. Tuesday if it’s a long holiday weekend. And this lag is where the system’s first hidden tax shows up. Not for you or the coffee shop, but for your card issuer.

Your issuer has to be ready to pay for your $5 coffee, and every other transaction from that weekend. Let’s say its customers spend $1M a day, and Monday is a holiday. It’ll need $4M sitting in an account by Friday night waiting to move Tuesday morning.

That idle money waiting for settlement is called prefunding. It's money the card issuer could be using for working capital, or reinvesting in its business. Instead it just sits there, waiting for pre-internet financial plumbing to kick in during banking hours.

Now imagine your card issuer needs to settle $10M or $100M a day. Then it becomes $40M or $400M in idle capital.

There's no fundamental reason it needs to work like this, other than the fact that these settlement systems are heavily entrenched. It's why, historically, card programs could only be run by banks with pockets deep enough to leave that kind of money sitting idle. And it leaves less room for smaller, more nimble issuers.

Cross-border: where the pipes end

Up until now, we've focused on a single US domestic transaction.

One country, one currency, one holiday calendar.

Now imagine you live in Colombia, spending pesos on a card issued locally. You can buy your coffee in Bogotá with the same two-second approval, and your card issuer runs into the same prefunding expense.

What if you buy a Claude subscription online from Anthropic (a US company)? For you, nothing changes. You tap and pay in pesos. But for a cross-border transaction like this, the network must be paid in dollars. Your card issuer now owes a currency it doesn't hold.

US dollar settlement systems (ACH and Fedwire) are only available to US banks. So your card issuer has to do what nearly everyone outside the US does. It opens an account at a bank in New York, converts pesos to dollars, and prefunds it. That bank then settles US dollar transactions on its behalf.

Opening that account takes months of compliance reviews. Funding it takes an FX trade, which takes a spread. And the instructions to move the money travel over SWIFT, a bank messaging network founded in 1973.

This daisy-chain of banks holding money for other banks is called the correspondent banking system.

And it means your card issuer now runs prefunding twice. One pot of idle pesos in Bogotá. One pot of idle dollars in New York. Two holiday calendars to manage.

If your card issuer wants to serve users in Mexico, Argentina, and Europe, it gets more complicated. Each new market means another local bank willing to hold its money, more FX spreads to pay, and more idle capital to lock up. Three more pots, five in all, scattered around the world.

Serving a global audience takes even deeper pockets and a ton of patience. For businesses born on the internet, whose users show up from everywhere on day one, it's a structural mismatch. Global companies are forced into geographic borders.

Enter stablecoins

Stablecoins emerged in 2014, originally as a way to trade in and out of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.

They move over blockchains, which are essentially a new kind of database that runs 24/7, 365. Stablecoin issuers back these digital dollars with liquid assets, mostly US Treasuries. As long as each one can be redeemed for a dollar in the banking system, they hold their value at $1.

Stablecoins soon grew popular in emerging markets. Especially among people who wanted the stability of dollars but couldn't get dollar bank accounts.

While having clear advantages over traditional dollars, mainly that they move 24/7 at little cost to anyone with an internet connection, they weren't ready for mainstream adoption. They were technically complex to use, and nearly impossible for merchants to accept.

Enter stablecoin cards

The first stablecoin cards appeared in 2019. They let you spend stablecoins anywhere cards were accepted. But the card issuer simply sold your stablecoins for ordinary dollars and settled with the card networks the old-fashioned way.

The companies behind the card still had to prefund ordinary dollars in a bank account, settle on bank time, through every pre-internet pipe described above. Same as before.

None of the settlement bottlenecks were addressed. They just bolted stablecoins onto the old system.

Enter stablecoin settlement

Then in 2021, Visa became the first major network to accept a stablecoin for settlement.

Visa began letting card issuers settle in USDC, a popular stablecoin, directly with the Visa network. And since blockchains aren't tethered to legacy banking hours, Visa eventually enabled settlement 365 days a year. Mastercard followed suit.

Rain was the first company to offer stablecoin cards that settled 7 days a week, and provides the infrastructure for the majority of these programs.

For merchants, nothing changed. They still got paid out by the card network in their local currency. But this back office upgrade changed the game for the companies behind your card.

Daily settlement eliminated the need to park millions to account for multi-day lags. A single pot of stablecoin collateral could now serve a global audience, breaking reliance on the correspondent banking system.

Serving the world no longer required a banking empire.

Anatomy of a stablecoin card swipe

Let's return to your original $5 coffee purchase. Nothing about the experience changes for you or the coffee shop.

You tap your card or your phone. The same message races from the coffee shop's bank, through the card network, to the company behind your card. The only difference is what it's checking: that you have enough spending power onchain, rather than in a bank account.

The answer comes back along the same path. You're good for it, and it doesn't look like fraud. Two seconds, approved.

The coffee shop hands over its 2-3% fee, split the same three ways. Your rewards still get funded. At the end of the day, your purchase lands on the netted list alongside hundreds of millions of others. That list tells your card company exactly what it owes the network.

Everything from the tap through clearing runs exactly as it always has.

The difference comes when it's time for settlement. The multi-day prefunding pile-up vanishes. Instead, the company behind your card sends the network one lump daily payment in stablecoins, covering your coffee and everything else its customers bought that day.

It can make that payment any day of the year. On a Saturday. On Christmas morning. The network then pays out the merchant banks in regular currency. The same as it always has.

Prefunding, revisited

Recall your Friday evening coffee purchase heading into a holiday weekend. Your card program settling $1M a day no longer has to park $4M to wait for Fedwire and ACH to open Tuesday morning.

Friday's bill gets paid Friday. Saturday's gets paid Saturday. Most of that $4M stays in the program's hands every weekend. More as it scales.

That money goes back to work, funding growth, product, and payroll. Every card program becomes more profitable to run. So more companies launch branded cards, and existing programs expand into markets that never made economic sense before.

The net result is access to more financial services for more people.

Cross-border, revisited

Fly back to Bogotá. Now your card is backed by digital dollars, rather than pesos.

Like many in Latin America, you're happy to save in US dollars. You can buy your local coffee, and your coffee shop can still get paid in pesos through the card network. And you can buy your Claude or ChatGPT subscription just the same.

The difference for the company behind your card is huge. It no longer needs separate idle pots of pesos and dollars sitting in Bogotá and New York. Every bill from the network is due in dollars, and your coffee and Claude subscription are paid from the same stablecoin balance.

This eliminates the need to set up a banking relationship in New York. No FX trade to fund it, no spread to pay. No SWIFT instructions to send.

Similarly, expansion to Mexico, Argentina, and Europe no longer requires a local bank to hold its money, or new holiday calendars to manage. Every new market settles daily from the same wallet. Five pots of idle capital become one.

For a card program, the correspondent banking system just became optional.

Who's building on stablecoin cards

Companies big and small are launching stablecoin cards, creating new financial services that weren’t viable before.

There’s a new class of neobanks focused on narrow markets they know best, like the many teams across Latin America offering dollar accounts to users the banks never served. Internet marketplaces are putting cards in the hands of a global user base without dealing with a patchwork of correspondent banks.

Established institutions that could afford the old way of doing business are finding it cheaper to run on the new one. Like the world's largest remittance company, now sending stablecoins straight to the recipient's phone, spendable through an embedded card the moment they land.

Stablecoin cards make up a small share of card payments today, but judging by who's building on them, that won't be true for long.

The invisible upgrade

You've likely never thought about the authorization, clearing, and settlement systems that transfer your $5 to your coffee shop. Nor should you have to. The same is true with stablecoin cards. They just work, without the average person ever noticing anything has changed.

What people will notice is financial services becoming more abundant. That more companies are able to offer them. And that more institutions are serving people who were never profitable to serve before.

Stablecoin cards have rebuilt settlement from first principles. The rest of the card stack comes next. The messaging protocol behind each swipe still runs on a standard from 1987 and is due for an upgrade. Merchants will increasingly want to be paid out in stablecoins directly. And AI agents will transact with each other in stablecoins, using cards to touch the real economy.

Most importantly, stablecoin cards have made stablecoins compatible with the existing financial system. Famously, mobile phones first had to work with landlines before becoming the standard and producing innovations no one predicted. I expect stablecoins to do the same.

This is where the world is headed. The upgrade is already well underway.

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The leak exposed :
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Expect an increase in phishing attempts. Stay safe people.

Several notorious crypto players, including Jane Street, FTX, and SBF, backed Anthropic across multiple funding rounds. SBF alone provided 80% of Anthropic's Series B funding.

Source: https://techleaks24.substack.com/p/why-zcash-should-be-considered-fraudulent

Anthropic's Claude Opus was reportedly used to find the ZEC bug.

So how likely is it that VCs like Jane Street and Multicoin Capital had early access to Opus and used it to exploit ZEC?

Why are coins moving out of Orchard so quickly now that another shielded pool has been created?

And why is nobody talking about this?

I know there are mobile apps that do this. But then again just about anyone can vibe code something like this using Claude. Would you guys prefer to actually build something on your own using an AI agent (which seems painfully easy to do these days), or do you guys go with the tried and true apps that you can download on Google Play or the Apple App store instead?

There's like half a dozen or so different apps that you can use, but I want to know the ins and the outs and kind of gauge what you guys have to say about this. Discuss!

So I have a project that a client of mine has come to me with a project so users can pay market stall vendors at an event

Effectively these users would have an RFID band that's topped up with said virtual currency then they pay the vendors using the rfid band that has their currency loaded on it

Ideally this would need to be some sort of offline Blockchain that's not reliant on the internet

Is there something pre existing that exists for me to:

1 - a wallet that can be loaded to an RFID system

2 - an open source wallet that can be developed on

3 - A way to create some branded tokens

Any advice is appreciated

To everyone claiming every day that the altcoin season will start soon: The altcoin season was in 2024. You can clearly see it in the charts. Now many coins are lower than in 2022...

I was wondering if anyone uses a Duress PIN and if yes - do you think of it as a good feature? have you ever been in a situation where you had to use it

also how much do you put in the decoy wallet? too little might be suspicious, too much and you lose money

(disclaimer: I work with r/keycard_tech - this is a general question and I’d like to know more)