Rick

It is one of the most humbling honors that I get to share with all of you that I have started working at @MessariCrypto as a Research Analyst. A dream job at my dream company to kick off my full-time crypto journey is something I will remember for the rest of my life. Ready to spend every waking second terminally online with all of you and make a ton of money doing it. Onwards and Upwards!

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The Daily Degen - Friday, May 15th, 2026 Reigns, Spikes, Airdrops, Tickers, Macro, Videos, + New Projects! + $HYPE, $ZEC, $CRCL, $VVV, and more! Shout-out to brilliant accounts mentioned with <10k followers (make sure to give them a follow!): - @CryptoRick98 (wholesome-maxxed brypto gigachad) - @0xAero8 (S-Tier defi expert + alfa-poster) And shout-out to new projects highlighted: @TradeVerus, @PredictParity, @papertrade_xyz And please RT/etc to support! Link in next tweet 👇

@a1expark Claude, update my resume to perfectly resemble me as a match for this role. Find every buzzword in the dictionary and fit it into my previous job descriptions. Make no mistakes.

currently hiring for a deployments role, and you can’t make this up the bar for effort has never been so low

Read the full State of Akash Network Q1 2026 report on Messari: messari.io/report/state-o…

Akash Agents launched on March 26, 2026, enabling one-click AI agent deployment on decentralized compute. Initial integrations include @Openclaw and Hermes Agent. Daily lease activity increased following the launch.

.@akashnet activated Burn-Mint Equilibrium (BME) on March 23, 2026, the first deflationary mechanism in the network's history. Every onchain compute deployment now triggers an $AKT market buy. This is the State of Akash Q1 2026

@thelearningpill Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade to launch in the next couple of months. ETH typically does well post-upgrades. Other than that, be attentive to what is coming out.

@CryptoRick98 any other impt news we should take not of?

'Buy the news' events have been pretty easy to trade as of late. It shows how few market participants there are left, and the hot ball of money shuffling between majors. e.g., Multicoin Capital's announcement that they have been building a large position in zcash:native, pumping it quickly over the first few hours, but even if you were late to the trade, you could have squeezed out another 15%. The other example is Pavel Durov's tweet aligning Telegram with the the-open-network:native ecosystem. The news was front-run by insiders, but you could still have entered the trade late and made a good return. Quiet markets are the easiest to trade in.

These suits are about to allocate billions to the digital asset industry post clarity act and you are quitting now anon? NGMI

@arndxt_xo @peptai_ DeSci charts are always very reflexive

11 tokens and promising desci projects it will be an interesting week for desci <> icm <> $BIO eco <> peptides 👇 $PEPTAI - @peptai_ - 16× oversubscribed on Bio ignition sale - allows AI agent research 24/7 so it improves speed and productivity for medical discoveries - coordinates a fleet of target-scoped agents - each one pursues a single receptor through the full 9-gate pipeline. - ico to raise: $50K, starting FDV: $1M - unlocks tied to scientific milestones - $BIO stakers get allocation, 6-month linear vesting claimable at any time $PEPTM - @Peptoma_xyz - using an AI engine to predict the 3D structures and bioactivity of these chains instantly - bypassing the legacy gatekeepers of Big Pharma - officially registered at SciCrunch Research Resource Registry with ID: RRID:SCR_028424 - any researcher who uses PEPTOMA in their study can now formally cite it the same way they cite instruments in a lab. - next: GenBank deposit + bioRxiv preprint. $PEPT - @peptome_ai - problem being that over 400,000 research papers, thousands of active trials, and no clear filter separating real science from nonsense. - $PEPT addresses this by building a true knowledge layer for peptide biology, grading every compound by evidence quality, backing every protocol with citations. - an AI agent that learns your biology over time and tells you what and how to use. - actual AI-driven laboratory on Solana analyzing peptide structures $BIO - @BioProtocol - the early $VIRTUALS when the ai run started - building out an eco for desci and ai and making it into something everyone can actually use - accelerate peptide research and novel drug discovery, as well as, bring peptide usage into the mainstream. $WOLVERINE - @peptidefolio - become the go-to app for everything related to peptides & their capital markets - tracks over 50 stocks (e.g. $HIMS, $LLY) and cryptos ( $BIO, $RSC, etc). it also has DEX (evm+solana), portfolio tracking, - launched a meme around it named $WOLVERINE based on the most popular peptide stack (bpc-157 & tb-500) $BIOHASH - @biohashnetwork - building a core desci finance layer and on-chain oracle with 26+ peptides and 7 vendors already integrated. - only desci project building its own on chain oracle and tokenising peptides end to end, - starting to deploy pegged peptides using their own pricing layer, already accumulating over $2k usdc in reserves on the first mint. $FOLD - @clarity_proto - @Pumpfun hackathon runner on peptides x DeSci - an end-to-end automated pipeline: prediction → AI interpretation → drug-like filtering → wet-lab preparation. - possible revenue from compute provision or agent participation fees. - upcoming catalysts includes: $BIO ongoing ICO, $PEPTAI x 16 oversubscribed TGE and stealth launching @StreetFDN peptides project $BIOLLM - @BioLLM_ - an LLM built on top of @CorticalLabs - one of the first projects to launch once @CorticalLabs API is live (next week) - pay using $BioLLM to use the "THINKING" mode, the other mode is free - blending large language models with living biological neurons. - brain-computer interface is an emerging sector with exponential growth. $OGNOME - @Open_Genome - received clinical trial registration number details: NCT07578610 protocol pecord: OGNOME-OBS-2026-001 - token used to mint biomedical reports as NFTs on-chain and as a payment currency for OpenHerb supplement marketplace - treasury auto-burns every 1M oGNOME accumulated, reducing supply permanently $GENESTACK - @GeneStackDeBio - world's first decentralized biological compiler - building the dashboards that will define how we monitor emerging viral threats like Hantavirus. - stacked dev with proven github $SPARK - @spark_sciences - new spin-off from @DeSci_Round_Ops building the fastest, most transparent funding layer for decentralized science on Artizen + Solana. - obtained grant fund for scientists & researchers, with over 300 reviewers and having 2.5M$+ funds moved, 150+ projects supported - dev doxxed @mariafreitasPhD - $SPARK is basically a DAO token and an OG desci project $RSC - @ResearchHub - backed by founder of @coinbase, @brian_armstrong - deposit $RSC and earn yield to deploy towards funding research projects.

@0xNairolf It will definitely be an entertaining sport watching people get liquidated on 100x leverage. I know teams like edgeX are already implementing trading as a sport competitions, and I am sure more projects will come about, making trading a competitive environment.

trading is the next biggest sport

@rektdiomedes Did Tom Lee already hit his target? I thought he was still short a bit.

Crypto + Macro Stuff I'm Looking At Today ... - $QQQ still over $700 - Crypto approaching $3T total market cap range (high was $4.38T last October) - Warsh will be new Fed Chair by end of week, right as long-end of yield curve blows out (personally think we'll see a sharp reversal of direction on this) - Trump and a bunch of tech CEO's are in China meeting with Xi Jinping - Ethereum Foundation rolls out new 'Clear Signing' - Nvidia is now worth more than the GDP of every country on earth except the US and China - Tons of debate over trading of pre-IPO Anthropic shares right now, both within and outside of crypto - Continued contention over Clarity Act - xStocksFi catalyzing lots of excitement, TVL now at $440 M+ - Dango still generating attention in airdrop circles as well - ETH Milan conference coming up May 21-22 (link below) - American sentiments on the economy have never been worse in the last 50 years, despite stocks being at ATH's (link below) - Debate continues on what the Bitcoin community should do regarding the quantum threat - Ordinals projects Ordio and Zap both shutting down June 1st - Tom Lee has now bought over 5% of all $ETH but price still languishing - Leading chains by 7-day stablecoin supply growth (with at least $5M total supply) are Tempo, Abcore, Morph, Wanchain, and Conflux (per DefiLlama) - Top 10 entities by 7 day fee generation are Tether, Circle, Aave, Pump, Canton, Hyperliquid, Lido, Polymarket, Uniswap, and Fragment Conclusion That is everything lads! Let me know what I missed! And please RT if you enjoyed!

@arndxt_xo Nice list bro, I like what @StreetFDN is building, wonder if there are any teams building out secondary markets for tokenized equity beyond the large pre-IPO offerings.

i am a huge proponent of privacy $ZEC and recently: - shared the desci narrative - caught onto $ONDO with a 2x - money/credit markets like $AAVE $AERO $MORPHO - $HYPE has been the strongest thesis along with several ai companies given their similar verticalization approach there are alpha to some early projects which you should also explore 👇 1) @SeismicSys privacy-first blockchain with normal ethereum developer experience. developers can build private apps without learning a totally new language or stack. most privacy chains require special tooling, new languages, or complex cryptography. Seismic tries to make privacy feel like normal Solidity/EVM development. - $17M total raised (latest $10M led by @a16z crypto + @polychain + others in late 2025). - testnet live since early 2025 (faucet + devnet activities ongoing, community is farming for potential airdrop). - partners like @brookwellapp already routing stablecoin flows. - narrative fit is perfect (privacy + real fintech adoption). - this has the strongest VC signal in the list. 2) @tmrwfinance creator lending against future AdSense revenue. youtubers and digital creators can borrow based on expected future income. Karat is more like banking for creators. Spotter buys catalog rights. Tomorrow uses a lending model, so creators can get capital without selling ownership of their content. - very early/stealthier than the rest. - part of @base ecosystem cohorts. - fits creator economy + RWA lending narrative but less public traction/funding visible yet. - underdog play vs bigger tokenized credit names. 3) @lightconexyz trade the impact of events, not just whether events happen. it answers: “what happens to ETH/BTC/SOL if this event occurs?” prediction markets trade probability. options trade price movement but not clean event-specific outcomes. lightcone creates state-based assets, so users can hedge very specific scenarios directly. - product site live. - still pre-token/early. - volves prediction market narrative into something more useful for hedging real outcomes. - low competition in this exact flavor. 4) @techdollarhq borrow against private tech shares without selling them. Employees or early investors in companies like AI labs or frontier tech firms can access liquidity while keeping upside. we recently saw @OpenAI employees sold $6.6b of equity and instead of selling, they can get a loan. Forge and EquityBee mostly focus on secondary sales or option financing. TechDollar focuses on lending against private equity, closer to margin lending for private startup shares. - product page live with waitlist + clear borrower thesis (frontier tech conviction without forced exits). - bridges TradFi private equity illiquidity with crypto-style credit. - no big funding announced yet but clean positioning in the private shares as collateral narrative. 5) @agra_gg secondary market for tokenized private credit. it lets holders exit before maturity instead of being stuck until redemption. most tokenized credit platforms only solve issuance. Agra solves liquidity. Its yield-based orderbook also fits bonds better than normal AMMs or price-based trading. - beta live on Ethereum right now with real markets like Anemoy/Apollo credit fund and others. - tokenized private credit is one of the hottest RWA sub-narratives ($14B+ already in the space). - first-mover liquidity layer here is real product alpha. 6) @OrnnExchange commoditizes GPU access. it treats compute like oil or electricity: a scarce resource that should be priced, traded, and accessed efficiently. most GPU projects are just marketplaces. Ornn’s bigger idea is that GPU compute becomes a financialized commodity layer for the AI economy. - $5.7M seed (oct 2025). - index already on Bloomberg Terminal. - live spot pricing + derivatives coming. - perfect AI infra narrative, compute as the new oil. - regulated U.S. venue angle is big for institutions. 7) @numoforex fx infrastructure for frontier markets that gives currency hedging tools to markets where normal fx products are missing or too expensive. most fx platforms serve large institutions or developed markets. Numo targets the places where fx risk is most painful but least served. - product live with actual markets and volume. - zero-fee on/off-ramps. - targets painful real-world FX risk in underserved markets. - one of the few actually shipping frontier FX infra. 8) @meanwhile bitcoin-native life insurance. it connects long-term $BTC holding with long-term financial planning. most bitcoin products are trading, lending, or custody. Meanwhile treats btc as a long-duration savings asset, closer to insurance and retirement planning. - massive $82M raise (oct 2025). - first and only licensed BTC-native insurance carrier. - huge signal for BTC as serious savings vehicle beyond trading/lending. - institutional partner push incoming. 9) @merit_systems from builder reputation to AI-agent commerce. it started by tracking and rewarding open-source contribution, then moved toward payments/commerce for agents. most reputation systems are static badges. their newer direction is more dynamic: enabling AI agents to transact, earn, and interact economically. - shift to agent economy is perfectly timed with AI agent hype. - live tools (AgentCash, Poncho, directories). - enables permissionless agent-to-agent commerce. - narrative tailwind is massive. 10) @StreetFDN tokenizing startup equity. it builds standards and infrastructure to make private startup shares easier to issue, manage, and transfer. equity tokenization usually focuses on public stocks, funds, or bonds. Street targets startup equity, which is illiquid, paperwork-heavy, and structurally hard to access. - claims 150+ startups tokenized. - solves paperwork + access issues in VC equity. - fits the broader equity tokenization wave (SPV wrappers are the current compliant path). - early mover on actual startup (not public stock) side.

@monosarin I like this series mono

My great-grandfather was a farmer. My grandfather was a farmer, too. My dad ran his own construction company. I studied civil engineering while working as a foreman. Then dropped college so I can farm yield. True story. Anyway, it's time for a new bowl of yields. Prepare your 🥄 , there's a plethora of double-digit yield on your stablecoins (even on your ETH!) 🔽

Applying @zeroxkyle’s framework on $ETHFI. The neobank sector has been quiet on the timeline, but MoM transaction volume continues to go up and to the right. New products are coming to market, including Plasma One and MOSS from megaETH, making the sector more competitive. @ether_fi has changed its main business line from a restaking platform to a neobank, with its cash business rising from 0% to 57% of revenue and continuing to grow. ETHFi price is down significantly from its all-time highs while its fundamentals trend upward. One concern for investors is the quiet halt of buybacks, but that is due to the migration to Optimism, as well as the latest contribution to the kelpDAO incident. Once mitigated, I am sure buybacks will resume. Investor allocations are fully unlocked, with core contributors maintaining a monthly unlock schedule until March 2027. Repricing is imminent for tokens that can monetize well in the neobank sector.