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Why Bitcoin Failed to Rally After CPI and PPI
“This creates an imbalance: weak spot buying, thin liquidity, and elevated leveraged positions. When positive macro news fails to lift price, leveraged longs can begin to unwind.” – By @xwinfinance
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Shenzhen just held the world’s first humanoid robot MMA event. This is absolutely the most futuristic city.
The white one even kicked the black’s head clean off in a spinning high kick! Brutal!
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Pump and dump activity for $RAVE originated on @bitget @binance @Gate
Call to action for both @heyibinance @GracyBitget to do better and launch internal investigation offboarding the responsible actors.
Offering up to $10K bounty of my personal funds for whistleblowers to come forward privately to share evidence about parties involved
We cannot allow this blatant market manipulation by insiders controlling >90% RAVE support to further extract from retail investors.
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Bankers are looting the world. You're not in the middle of a recession; you're in the middle of a robbery.
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INTEL: $NVDA extends its drop to 5.5%, wiping out more than $250 billion in market value amid concerns over rising competition from Google
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Since the second half of last year, a lot of my friends(OGs in crypto) left crypto, as they started to doubt their original belief in crypto/blockchain/Web3 like do projects really create value to the world, what’s profit market fit, only speculations like meme/perp/prediction projects survive in this cycle, do web3 projects like infra/social really have values?
Right now, it’s almost the toughest mode for startups, vcs, traders and users. Narrative play is not working, and hot topics shift every week. Organic liquidity is drained to lower and lower on cex and dex. Even without listing fees, few ppl want to buy new/old tokens. Market manipulators create pump and dump with leveraged perp to operate small cap or old coins every day.
We can always say defi or trading is the only pmf for crypto/blockchain. But OGs and builders like @VitalikButerin @pmarca always paint a bigger vision of world computer/web3 to not replace but at least build a better internet or crypto eat the world.
With llms like @OpenAI @claudeai, not just crypto but all industries are facing a 100-1000 to 1 problem: one experienced person can do 100-1000 ppl’s job with llm’s help. New tools and products are releasing too fast and will be faster for the next 1-2 years. Not just in crypto but in web2, tech and engineering start to become admin work(assigning tasks to llms to complete).
No matter for vcs and startups, keep pivoting and shipping is the only way out, until can dominate the particular sector. Staying relevant is the easy to say but hard and have to achieve to survive in this new meta.
My Ph.D. advisor always says persistence pays off. Hope we can win this uphill battle. To friends, to ogs, to builders, to dreamers, to crypto.
Based on my chats for the past few months with @VitalikButerin @tkstanczak @hosseeb @sreeramkannan @tarunchitra @ASvanevik @StaniKulechov @Lomashuk @lukejdpearson @13yearoldvc @YeruiZhang @jocyiosg @artofkot @no89thkey @xingpt @broleon
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For x402 starters or new users, you can try rumourx402.com/ to get a feeling of x402. It's using @CoinbaseDev @coinbase facilitator to process the micropayment 0.001 USDC to fetch latest rumours/news from @trade_rumour. It's fun and simple to experience x402 like gasless feature and sometimes slow settlement. @MurrLincoln @kleffew94 @programmer @base @jessepollak
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The controversies behind Binance listings🚨
1. The Zerebro case (October 2025)
Founder Jeffy Yu said Binance asked for $1 million in cash to list his AI token ZEREBRO on Solana.
2. Limitless CJ Hetherington’s accusation
Limitless’ CEO claimed Binance demanded 9 % of the total supply and a $2.25 million “security deposit.”
The breakdown he shared:
• 3 % for Binance airdrops
• 3 % for marketing programs
• 3 % for BNB holder rewards
Binance called these claims “false and defamatory.”
3. The Tier-1 case Simon Dedic (October 2024)
Investor Simon Dedic, CEO of Moonrock Capital, said Binance requested 15 % of the total supply from a major project that had raised about $100 million.
He valued the listing alone at $50–100 million.
4. Employee and internal scandals
Former staff member Amrita Srivastava reported a colleague for taking bribes to speed up client onboarding in Binance Link.
She was fired a month later and filed an unfair dismissal lawsuit in the UK.
5. “Girlfriend Coins” rumors
Between 2024–2025, community rumors spread about listings allegedly linked to Yi He, Binance’s co-founder.
Projects like Hooked and Sleepless AI were mentioned as “favorites.”
Yi He denied everything
6. Market-maker controversies
Wintermute was accused by Jeffy Yu of taking 10 % of $ZEREBRO’s supply for market-making
Other firms like GSR Markets and DWF Labs usually take 1-5 %, often with vesting to prevent dumps.
In 2025
Movement Labs suffered a 90 % price crash after a market maker allegedly sold 66 million tokens (10 % of supply) right after its Binance listing
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We've been investigating aster volumes and recently their volumes have started mirroring binance perp volumes almost exactly
Chart on the left is XRPUSDT on aster, you can see the volume ratio vs binance is ~1
Chart on the right is XRP perp volume on hyperliquid, where there's some decorrelation
Aster doesn't make it possible to get lower level data such as who is making and filling orders, so until we can get that data to verify if there's washtrading, aster perp volumes will be delisted
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Humanode Biweekly vol.105 is live!
Here’s the pulse of the Humanodeverse 👉
blog.humanode.io/humanode-bi…
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We're excited to announce that Chainlink and the United States Department of Commerce (@CommerceGov) have worked together to bring U.S. government macroeconomic data onchain.
blog.chain.link/united-state…
These new Chainlink Data Feeds securely deliver critical information around key U.S. economy metrics onchain, sourced from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (@BEA_News).
Metrics include the Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Price Index, and Real Final Sales to Private Domestic Purchasers.
Bringing key U.S. government data onchain unlocks innovative use cases for blockchain markets, including:
• Automated trading strategies
• Increased composability of tokenized assets
• Issuance of new types of digital assets
• Real-time prediction markets for crowdsourced intelligence
• Transparent dashboards powered by immutable data
• DeFi protocol risk management based on macroeconomic factors
These datasets are updated monthly or quarterly as applicable, and are initially being made available across ten blockchain ecosystems, starting with Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, Botanix, Ethereum, Linea, Mantle, Optimism, Sonic, and ZKsync. Support for additional blockchain networks can be incorporated over time based on user demand.
This development builds upon Chainlink’s accelerated work with the U.S. government in 2025, including meeting with several key officials and regulators to make policy recommendations that are advancing the growth of the blockchain industry.
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KKM’nin maliyeti şu kadar lira bu kadar dolar gibi hesap yapanlar görüyorum. Böyle bir politikanın gerçek maliyetini hesaplamak imkansızdır. Yüksek enflasyon, servet transferi, gelir dağılımdaki bozulma, güven kaybı, ahlaki çürüme, beyin göçü vs.. bunların maddi hesabı yapılamaz.
