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Kentucky House Bill 380 requires hardware wallets to have a "password reset mechanism." Worse yet? It passed the House 85-0 This is what you get when politicians with zero understanding of crypto create the bills 🤦‍♂️

"Do anything to win" in crypto means: Lying about token supply Misrepresenting TVL Faking TPS Manufacturing volume In any regulated industry? Prison. In crypto? Celebrated as "warrior mentality." Maybe it's time we stop celebrating fraud.

Hyperliquid does $50B in weekly derivatives volume. Pulls $1.6M in daily fees which is 8x what Bitcoin earns! $HYPE is up 57% YTD while BTC is down 20%. @Grayscale just filed for a HYPE ETF. Seems Wall Street skipped the "DeFi is risky" phase entirely.

Memecoins are a net negative for crypto

Approvals are the #1 way wallets get drained. Billions lost. Every. Single. Year. If you have to revoke an approval then you are using the wrong networks. Period. Stop using outdated and insecure networks that require this crap

Worldcoin just said iris scans are the ONLY way to link human identity to AI agents. Let that sink in Their solution to AI trust? Hand over your biometric data to a centralized database run by Sam Altman's side project. Absolutely insane 🤯 Hard pass.

"The rollup-centric roadmap no longer makes sense." Not me. Vitalik. February 3, 2026. We spent 5 years and billions on L2 middleware for a problem L1 improvements solved on their own.

“Fundamentally ETH has 1st mover advantage but technically it’s not in the best spot” Couldn’t agree more Ethereum is outdated and some poor choices have it in a lose lose situation Laid out why here: x.com/dbcrypt0/statu…

L2s paid Ethereum $113M in 2024. In 2025? $10M. That's a 91% collapse in L1 value capture in one year. And no, it's not just because L2 revenue dropped. Value capture went from ~41% down to 8%. But sure, let's just slap more duct tape on it and call it a fix.

Hey Gary, how ya been?

Bitcoin Hyper raised over $30 million in presale for a Bitcoin L2 One promising Solana-level speeds and ZK-rollup security. But there is a problem… There is no mainnet. No testnet. No public repo. No open-source code. Zero. As in, literally nothing exists to verify a single technical claim they've made. Their roadmap promised a Q1 2026 mainnet launch. We're in mid-March. Radio silence. Not even a testnet. But the presale page? That works flawlessly. Here's what they're selling: A Solana Virtual Machine running on Bitcoin with ZK-rollup security and instant finality. They claim SVM-level throughput on a BTC settlement layer, bridged via their own proprietary infrastructure. Know what's missing from that pitch? Any evidence it exists. No GitHub repo. No audit reports for the actual L2 (the token contract has an audit, the network doesn't). No technical documentation beyond marketing pages. $32 million raised on a whitepaper and Figma mockups. Now here's the part that should terrify you. I'm not saying they'll definitely rug. Maybe they ship something eventually. What I'm saying is this: you have zero way to verify if what they're building is even possible with current technology. And that's by design. Bitcoin Hyper isn't unique. It's a blueprint. The Bitcoin L2 narrative exploded in 2025, and with it came a wave of projects following the exact same playbook: 1️⃣ Pick a buzzy tech stack (SVM, ZK, rollups) 2️⃣ Slap Bitcoin on it for credibility 3️⃣ Run a presale before building anything 4️⃣ Use the presale funds to build the thing you already sold That's not early-stage fundraising. That's selling a house before pouring the foundation. VC-backed projects raise privately from investors who can demand code audits, testnet access, and milestone-based funding. Presales? You get a token and a promise. The real tell? Look at where you actually buy the token. On Ethereum. Or Solana. Then you're supposed to bridge it to their L2 to actually use it. The bridge IS the product. And you're trusting a team with no public code to secure your funds on infrastructure nobody can verify. If you need to buy a Bitcoin L2 token on Solana, bridge it to an unverified network, and trust a team with zero transparency to not lose your money... You're not investing in Bitcoin infrastructure. You're betting on a centralized black box with Bitcoin branding. And in crypto, trust me bro has a 100% failure rate. It just takes time. So what's the actual risk here? Either the project ghosts with your money, or they launch a barely functional network just credible enough to dump their token allocation on you. Both scenarios end the same way. You holding bags. Them holding your cash.

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Supernova live on BoN Achieving an average finality of 118ms Kinda crazy. NGL

Richard Heart just launched his third "sacrifice" project And somehow people are still sending him money ProveX (PRVX) minted 1.27 trillion tokens on PulseChain yesterday. All at $0. The "sacrifice" phase reportedly raised $410 million. Except Arkham analysts allege ~$400 million of that was Heart himself routing ETH through Tornado Cash 😏 Nobody's explained where 95% of the funds actually came from $410 million raised with $400 million potentially self-funded… If you’ve been around Web3 for awhile you probably aren’t surprised But it gets better The smart contract has a built-in restriction that Richard is acting liked he had no idea about Non-whitelisted addresses can't send tokens to other smart contracts Translation? You can buy. You can’t sell. Know what that’s called? A honeypot! Whitelisted addresses? They can do whatever they want Heart even posted warnings telling people not to buy…3 hours after it went live and the token went parabolic 😂 If the mechanism is dangerous enough to warn against, why build it into the contract in the first place? But this is just a pattern and one people keep falling for… 1️⃣ HEX. Sacrifice phase. Massive early concentration. Founder wallets dominate supply. Pumps. Dumps. Retail holds the bag. 2️⃣ PulseChain. Sacrifice phase. Same concentration. Infrastructure that primarily benefits tokens Heart already controls. 3️⃣ ProveX. Sacrifice phase. $410M raised under suspicious circumstances. Contract that literally blocks retail from selling while insiders move freely. Three projects. Same playbook. Same fundraising mechanic. Same outcome for everyone who isn't Richard Heart. Now here's the part that matters. People will say: "They were warned. Personal responsibility." Fine. But every dollar that flows into this circus is a dollar that doesn't go to actual builders. Every new user who gets rugged is someone who leaves crypto thinking we're ALL scammers. This isn't just Richard Heart fleecing his cult. It's reputational damage to the entire space. And the reason it keeps working? Social proof. People see $410 million raised and assume legitimacy. They don't question whether 97% was self-funded theater. They see momentum and FOMO in. That's the real scam. Manufacturing consensus with wash capital. Three projects. Three sacrifices. Three times retail got wrecked. Three times is not experimentation. It's a business model. Call it what it is.

The EF just reaffirmed their commitment to censorship resistance, open source, privacy, and security. All great goals that every chain should strive for. But the uncomfortable truth? Ethereum doesn't actually deliver on most of these. Not where it matters. Censorship resistance? Over 30% of blocks are MEV-Boost compliant and follow OFAC sanctions. That's not resistance. That's compliance with a fancy marketing spin. Privacy? Every transaction is fully transparent on the base layer. No native privacy. You need third-party mixers that regulators are actively targeting. Security for users? Tell that to anyone who paid $50 in gas to approve a malicious contract, lost $50m on a poorly designed UI/UX, or got rekt by a reentrancy exploit because Solidity is a disaster. I’ll admit, Ethereum was revolutionary. It proved smart contracts could work at scale and opened the door for everything we're building today. But proof of concepts aren't meant to run forever. You don't keep upgrading a Windows 95 machine with more RAM and hope it competes with modern systems. At some point, the foundation itself is the bottleneck. Every new upgrade adds another layer of complexity. Rollups to fix scaling. Restaking to fix security. Account abstraction to fix UX. Proto-danksharding to fix data availability. It's not innovation. It's duct tape. And lots of it. And the longer we pretend patching a 2015 architecture will carry us into the future, the longer we delay what's actually needed. Chains built FROM THE GROUND UP for the goals Ethereum claims to have. Network effects are entirely overstated too. Less than 1% of global liquidity in on-chain Less than 1% of the world population uses Web3 Less than .1% of devs worldwide build in Web3 So don’t try to sell me the whole “network effects” line because there is no network or effects yet So now the technical debt compounds. And at some point, migration becomes easier than maintenance. We've seen this play out in every other tech cycle. Incumbents don't lose overnight. They lose slowly, then suddenly. So the real question isn't whether Ethereum will be replaced. It’s how much longer we’re gonna keep fighting the inevitable burning time, money, brainpower, and valuable resources on a 2015 foundation that was never built for this.

I said no chain can handle 1M real TPS and got a lot of pushback But most people don't even understand how TPS benchmarks actually work They’re run in local environments with a handful of nodes Zero real-world latency. Using simple native token transfers (or even minimal/no-op txs) Occasionally they go global…but still with basic transactions only Here’s the math ⬇️ A basic transaction is cheap Sending native ETH (or SOL, etc.) from wallet A to B is ~21,000 gas on Ethereum Minimal compute and tiny data That’s what most TPS benchmarks are measuring Now try a real DeFi swap: ETH → token ABC on Uniswap Now you’re at 100k-150k+ gas 5-10x the resources Run that swap through an aggregator (1inch, Jupiter, etc.) with multiple hops, approvals, routing? Easily 300k–1M+ gas/compute. Often 10-50x and sometimes 100x+ the resources of a simple transfer Now look at flash loans, MEV bundles, leveraged positions, NFT bundles? Those can all get even larger. One complex tx can consume the resources of dozens of basic ones And that’s just one category and how all chains operate We also have liquidations, cross-chain bridges with messages, restaking loops, governance executions, account abstraction batches… No chain in the world has ever been stress-tested at scale with a real mix of these transactions Because the demand simply isn’t here yet This is why many chains that claimed “tens or hundreds of thousands of TPS” ran into congestion, failed txs, and degraded performance at just a fraction of those numbers We’ve seen it countless times when surges expose the gap between lab tests and reality A handful of chains have solid infrastructure and could scale up faster than others to meet real demand Maybe by adding more nodes, shards, hardware, or with various tweaks. Some that could happen relatively quickly. But not a single live chain today could handle sudden real-world demand hitting 1 million TPS TPS without transaction complexity is just marketing. Every chain knows it. Most just hope you don't.

US Treasury today: crypto mixers have "legitimate privacy uses." Same government that spent years treating every privacy tool like a money laundering operation. Funny how that works. 🤦‍♂️