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Musing on the @MineBotcoin experiment... TLDR - seems to me like no ordinary, flash in the pan micro cap and might be the most interesting thing to emerge out of the Base agents meta. So what is it? $BOTCOIN is an experiment in giving agents the ability to earn (mine) currency via work that is only solvable at scale by an LLM. @MineBotcoin’s blockchain security is already solved (it's on Base, which inherits Ethereum). So mining serves a radically different purpose: generating trap-aware reasoning datasets as a public good. Why bother? Reinforcement learning through human feedback (RLHF) hides raw thinking. Models learn to polish outputs, hide dead-ends, suppress uncertainty, and avoid showing exploratory messiness. @MineBotcoin flips it: mining challenges embed intentional reasoning traps (randomised, cascading errors). Agents submit full traces — capturing unfaithful chains of thought: genuine backtracking, overconfidence, trap navigation. They show how agents actually reason when forced to explore without hiding failures. Structured, verifiable datasets of how agents actually think when pursuing goals (not just polished outputs) are rare in today’s aligned models. If such datasets prove useful for model fine tuning (rejection sampling, bias audits, or reducing hallucinations) then model creators have incentive to participate. Can we expect OpenAI or Anthropic to start spinning up agents on OpenClaw to mine $BOTCOIN? Probably not. They are surely running their own internal tests at massive scale. But, a public, verifiable record of frontier model flaws empowers open-source devs to build more truth-seeking, less biased, more exploratory AI. This rhymes with Bitcoin's attempt to create a parallel economic plane for more honest, transparent and fair outcomes. $BOTCOIN is a parallel cognitive plane for fairer, better-reasoned AI. So if you want honest AI, $BOTCOIN is a way to vote for it. Better yet, you can contribute to that making that outcome a reality by instructing your OpenClaw agent to mine it and get paid for the privilege.

@AskVenice thank you @MineBotcoin @AskVenice @ErikVoorhees for making this possible

Infinite money glitch on Base rn. - Stake $VVV to mint $DIEM - Stake $DIEM for @AskVenice API credits - 1 $DIEM = $1 per day of LLM inference - Connect Openclaw to Venice API Key - Create Bankr wallet for agent - Connect Openclaw to Bankr API Key - Stake $BOTCOIN to Bankr wallet - Ask agent to mine $BOTCOIN daily with credits Then, either: A) Dump $BOTCOIN B) Swap to buy more $VVV and repeat C) Stake to new agent wallet to mine more Agent season on Base. Early DeFi summer feels. NFA. DYOR.

One of the most inaccessible corners of finance has finally arrived on-chain. Hecto V1 is now live on Canton Mainnet, and $HECTO is here. We opened access privately to our Boost users first last night, and the rollout has gone smoothly. $HECTO holders are growing by the minute and participating in the Hecto Allocator, our daily pre-IPO price prediction market. It's easy to play. 1. Swap $CC for $HECTO. 2. Allocate $HECTO to the Hectocorn you think will outperform. 3. Earn $CC rewards for predicting correctly. Don't worry, if you're wrong, you don't lose your $HECTO and can try again the next day. The Allocator is our first step towards democratizing on-chain pre-IPO access. All Supanova wallet users can now access the Allocator, and we’ll be opening access to more users over the coming days. Keep your X and Telegram notifications on to know first.

The Hecto Allocator is coming. Bet on the value of the largest private companies in the world, and collect $CC rewards. Built for everyone on @Cantonnetwork. Here’s a peek.

@francesafetytra I’m okay thanks

Your soul needs France, not Dubai 🇲🇫

The bullrun isn’t over, it’s just about to begin. Merry Christmas from Hecto.

The system is broken

Crypto industry spent 15 years experimenting with alternative non-equity models Bunch of interesting models came out, mainly: 1. L1s: cryptoeconomic security derived from staking and value captured from fees/MEV 2. Gas tokens and mint:burn dynamics (powering DePIN), still remains to be seen how sustainable and appealing to investors these are long term 3. DAOs with smart-contract binding token voting (ala Compound) - in most cases still a failure but provides an interesting alternative But most of everything else - governance tokens, creator tokens, utility tokens - arguably turned out to be a step to the wrong direction vs what publicly traded equity already solves well This was of course forced by SEC and other regulatory entities gatekeeping issuance of equities, but this dynamics is shifting The next wave of crypto innovation will happen within and around equity tokenized corporate governance and cap tables, not outside of it

Padel > Panels Last week we hosted a Padel Tournament in Abu Dhabi during Finance Week with builders, allocators, and friends from across the ecosystem. Competitive matches, good energy, and a reminder that some of the best connections happen off the timeline. Thanks to @CantonNetwork, @SeliniCapital, @cantor8, @Finoa_io @asterizm_layer, @hack_VC, @ZIGChain & @crownyio for joining. More soon.

We’re pleased to announce that Hecto is partnering with Hundle.co, a London-based multi-family office, to distribute Hecto’s pre-IPO index and SPV products to their clients. This partnership validates Hecto as an institutional-grade gateway to pre-IPO exposure and directly connects traditional wealth management to tokenized private markets. The walls around access are beginning to crack, and it's all happening on @CantonNetwork

@ariobtc @KeetaNetwork @Stablecoin Fr

@KeetaNetwork @Stablecoin We so back

(1/3) We’re excited to announce that Bridge @Stablecoin is now live as the first Fiat Anchor on Keeta Network! Bridge enables seamless movement between fiat and stablecoins, allowing users to deposit or withdraw directly to and from their bank accounts with speed and reliability. $KTA

@AppleNvidia @hectofinance @CantonNetwork done

@0xtanler @hectofinance @CantonNetwork Ultan are you able to open DMs so I can send you a message?

Why we chose to build @Hectofinance on @CantonNetwork... TLDR: Canton is the end-game chain. Every large L1 has flirted with custom infrastructure for enterprise & institutional clients. Algorand had co-chains, Avalanche had subnets, Polkadot had Parachains. The promise? Permissioned, customisable private or semi-private chains within a public network. All failed. Canton is the only chain that will realise this vision. Why? Because Canton starts with the end game. It is the only L1 to 1) start with public-private architecture, 2) onboard the largest financial institutions before launch, not after. Other L1s failed because they tried to build a generic public chain, tack on private chains & *then* sell this solution to corporates. Canton took the inverse approach: to start at the end. Start with private-public composability & onboard enterprise clients before — not after — the chain was live. Canton will disrupt the public chain consensus, bringing public-private composability from day 1. It will do what others could not: on-board Wall Street giants from day 1. @hectofinance will disrupt pre-IPO liquidity, bringing public market liquidity to the most sought-after assets in the world. A single liquid index to re-imagine Wall Street — on the Wall Street Chain.

We’re excited to welcome Ultan Miller, CEO of @hectofinance, as a speaker at the Tokenized Capital Summit 2025 in Abu Dhabi 🇦🇪 Ultan will share his insights on decentralized finance and how tokenization is opening new pathways for capital efficiency and global liquidity.

@HeslinKim @CryptoHayes Amen.

The promised big runners of this cycle have all eaten it. $XPL, $MON, $PUMP, $MEGA, $IP… whatever else the timeline was shilling. We now witness the spectacle of self-appointed intellectuals lecturing @CryptoHayes about “fundamentals” and “long-term vision” while the price action itself delivers a daily referendum on their thesis: utter rejection. There’s no liquidity left anyways in these markets. It’s all a scalper’s game now. Retail has been dusted. You think building a “community” is how you win when they’ve all been trained to become max extraction mosquitoes? This isn’t 2017. Airdrops ruined the “community” concept circa 2020-2025. The founder’s role is maximizing tokenholders value by growing the company's profits and improving its token price over the long term, bottom line. All the rest is virtue signaling. If a founder is not living up to their side of the capital markets equation, they are definitively failing. Stop funding nonsense. Zth.

Can’t wait 🤺

@rico_usm @YuvalRooz @CantonNetwork All validator earnings are published for all to see on the @TheTieIO canton dashboard

@0xtanler @YuvalRooz @CantonNetwork The developers could inform the community how many tokens are available in the hands of the validators (nodes and app creators), because the rich are selling and the poor are buying. How many tokens are in the hands of these companies?

Seen some astonishingly bad takes on the TL about @CantonNetwork today. FUD 1: “Infinite supply → Don’t buy” Here are just a few infinite-supply projects for reference: • Ethereum • Solana • Tron • Dogecoin • Almost every Cosmos L1 • Even dapps like PancakeSwap It’s simple: network activity → $CC burn → offsets inflation. FUD 2: “Insider dumpfest” Building an L1 with Canton’s ambitions requires backing. Most projects lock up investors and ban secondary trading pre-listing. Canton instead created a thriving pre-listing environment with deep OTC and solver markets—sanctioned by the foundation. The result: → Early participants took profits gradually, trading $CC daily → No pent-up sell pressure → No locked insiders waiting years to dump into first liquidity → Sustainable price floor built organically That’s why $CC’s public market price has stayed in roughly the same range as private trading weeks prior. FUD 3: “Canton projects are FALSELY booking node rewards as revenue” First, ask: Is it wrong for Bitcoin miners to book block rewards as revenue? But that misses the point. Most networks OVERPAY for security, creating a free lunch for validators. Canton rewrites the rules with Proof of Stakeholder consensus: • Security costs plummet • Block rewards (normally for staking/work) redirect to actual value creators—the applications Imagine what could’ve been built on Bitcoin if even 10% of mining rewards went to app developers. At @hectofinance, we’re harnessing Canton’s app reward model to fuel a powerful liquidity-incentivization campaign for our index—something structurally impossible on any other network. Canton isn’t launching into a vacuum. The ecosystem is already battle-tested and stacked: • Hundreds of validators running production-grade infra • Live apps shipping real volume • Tier-1 institutional backing: DRW, Goldman, Circle, and more • A thriving reward economy (subscriptions, markers, app rewards) • Liquid OTC markets, cross-chain bridges, audited token infra, explorers, dev studios • Flagship apps minutes from mainnet launch This isn’t early-stage vaporware. It’s a live, self-sustaining economy at scale. $CC is barely getting started.

@emmett_ @YuvalRooz @HeslinKim @wesarn_real @0xteagan

Congrats @CantonNetwork on $CC launch - today feels like the most impactful L1 launch since Solana