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Launching a token often feels like an easy call: fast, cheap, and “why not?” A lot of teams genuinely believe that 🤷‍♂️ And that’s why so many projects don’t make it past their first cycle. What looks like a clean launch usually hides far more moving parts than people expect at the start. We’ve put those into a checklist. Here’s what matters 👀 Part 1 👇

$PARK tokenomics has been audited by @8BlocksLabs – a team specializing in token economy design and stress-testing. They've built and reviewed models for 20+ projects with a combined capitalization of $500M+.

⚡️ Oil and silver outperform crypto on Hyperliquid Pic: Hyperliquid's perpetual rankings. (@HyperliquidX) Over the past 24 hours, oil and silver have surpassed all cryptocurrencies on Hyperliquid by trading volume, except for $BTC and $ETH. The reason is returns and volatility, which are now comparable to the crypto market. Over the past month, Brent is up 45%, while $BTC has gained just 0.59%.

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Partnering with 8Blocks to close the gap between growth and token economies. Read more ↓ 🔗 beincrypto.com/8blocks-city-p…

8Blocks and City Protocol have announced a strategic partnership to bridge the gap between user growth and sustainable token economies. The collaboration combines @cityprotocolHQ's distribution layer on Base with @8BlocksLabs' token economy design expertise, giving projects structured tools to convert user acquisition into real token demand. Full story: beincrypto.com/8blocks-city-p…

🔄 Most buybacks don’t work. Here’s why 👇 First, tokens should be bought from the open market using real, generated profit. Not from a pre-allocated fund that was set aside in advance 💰 Second, you should be buying the tokens that are in the hands of users 👥 Repurchasing tokens from the treasury, the team’s allocation, or long-term storage where they’re already sitting doesn’t change market dynamics. Those tokens aren’t part of active circulation. You can keep buying what isn’t being sold, but it won’t affect the price. A buyback only works when you purchase tokens that market participants are willing to sell and you do it directly in the order book 📈 That’s when capital meets real supply. And that’s when it matters.

.@Strategy is switching up its funding game to buy more $BTC 💸 Chart: Bitcoin purchase by Strategy The company just raised $1.18B through preferred stock to scoop up around 16,800 $BTC. Looks like Strategy is no longer too excited about piling on more dividend pressure, especially now that those obligations have already passed $1B 😵‍💫 Feels like they’re starting to play it a bit smarter and more carefully when it comes to capital structure 🧠

🏦 Wall Street is preparing to move the stock market onto blockchain The largest U.S. stock exchanges are stepping deeper into crypto infrastructure as they position themselves for the growth of tokenized equities. Chart: Tokenized assets market projection (BCG/Ripple) @Nasdaq is working with @krakenfx to build a blockchain platform for asset trading. @ICE_Markets, the parent company of the NYSE, has taken a stake in crypto exchange @okx. The biggest players in traditional finance are no longer standing on the sidelines. They are moving directly into the infrastructure layer. Blockchain, in this case, means the ability to trade assets globally and around the clock, without being limited by traditional exchange hours. For now, the tokenized equities market is still relatively small, around 1 billion dollars. But the volume of assets that could eventually migrate to blockchain is estimated at 126 trillion dollars. If this transition starts unfolding at scale, it will go far beyond a niche crypto segment. It would reshape the infrastructure of global stock markets.

🇪🇺 MiCA is reshaping Europe’s crypto market The new MiCA rules, now officially in force across the EU, are gradually changing the structure of the region’s crypto industry. Stricter regulatory and operational requirements are already starting to impact the market and could reduce the number of lightly regulated platforms: coindesk.com/policy/2026/03… And we’re already seeing movement. Crypto wealth manager Swissborg has secured MiCA approval and is preparing to move its European operations to France, with plans to expand further into Germany, Italy, and Spain. And at the same time, the opposite trend is playing out. Just a month ago, crypto exchange Gemini announced it would scale back part of its business in the EU. MiCA is quietly redrawing the lines. Companies that are ready to operate in a fully regulated environment gain access to European infrastructure, while less transparent business models start moving out of the region.

⚖️ Prediction markets under pressure: @Kalshi loses in Ohio Prediction market platform Kalshi has lost its court battle against the state of Ohio, despite the fact that the CFTC had previously classified the company’s products as swaps, not sports betting. The court saw it differently: cointelegraph.com/news/kalshi-co… The judge ruled that Kalshi failed to prove its sports event contracts fall under the CFTC’s “exclusive jurisdiction.” The opinion and order said: “Even if this Court were to find that sports-event contracts are swaps subject to the CFTC’s exclusive jurisdiction, Kalshi has not shown that the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) would necessarily preempt Ohio’s sports gambling laws.” In other words, federal derivatives regulation doesn’t override a state’s authority to regulate gambling. Kalshi has already announced it disagrees with the ruling and plans to appeal. The timeline for the next stage of the legal battle has not yet been disclosed. This case is quickly becoming a major precedent for prediction markets in the United States. At stake is a fundamental question: should these contracts be treated as financial instruments or as gambling products?

🚀 Bitcoin mining is going beyond Earth Starcloud plans to start mining $BTC in orbit. Yep, literally in space. The company intends to install solar-powered ASIC equipment on a satellite: pcmag.com/news/startup-w… 💡Founded in early 2024, @Starcloud_ focuses on building space-based data centers as a response to the growing energy demands of the AI industry. Back in November, it sent a satellite into orbit equipped with an NVIDIA H100, one of the most powerful GPUs ever used in space. Now the next step is bitcoin mining. According to CEO @PhilipJohnston, mining $BTC in orbit could be more cost-efficient than doing it on Earth. And the reasoning is surprisingly down to earth: near-constant access to solar energy and natural cooling. That means lower electricity costs and fewer expenses tied to hardware cooling. ⚡️ While the industry keeps searching for new energy sources to power computation, mining may become one of the first real use cases for orbital data centers. And all of this is happening while $BTC remains under pressure amid ongoing geopolitical uncertainty.

@tradertheory Strategy: steady growth Psychology: “what if we launch a token next month?” 🥲

Do you think psychology matters more than strategy?

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teams that underpromise and overdeliver >>>

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@noise_xyz Okay this looks illegal levels of cool

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@RoundtableSpace oh yeah and tokenomics people only start caring about after TGE 🙂

What are you building?

@RoundtableSpace Token economies that survive longer than the hype cycle

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@grahamfergs Pre-TGE BD is the only role where the KPI is the number of handshake emojis 🤝

pre TGE BD is the most commoditized role in crypto

@SolLunix Building a Luc Besson Taxi-style garage but for watching green candles?

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