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$TAO's post halving price action is tracking Bitcoin's 2012 cycle almost tick for tick. Same 21M hard cap. Same halving economics. Same months of sideways boredom before the explosion... Except this time it's happening inside an AI Supercycle. Get ready!

Nobody is talking about $KAS. But I am. This is what a re-accumulation looks like before a breakout. Do your research. This is mine 👇

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The Company Inside Bakkt Over the past year #Bakkt changed its CEO, its core business, its board and its balance sheet. The stock price still reflects the old company, not the new one – and that's the opportunity. A few days ago I said I bought 22,000 shares at $10.20. Let me show you the company inside Bakkt. Start with the old Bakkt. It was built inside the New York Stock Exchange. ICE, the NYSE's parent, launched it in 2018 and took it public in 2021 at a $2.1 billion valuation. Then it lost the plot. The first leg down came post-SPAC, when the original vision never materialized and the stock collapsed roughly 95%. The second leg came on March 17, 2025, when Bakkt disclosed in an 8-K that both Bank of America and Webull were walking from their contracts. Webull alone was 74% of crypto revenue. The stock fell 27% that day and shareholders sued. Then, four days later, the company did something unusual. On March 21, 2025 — the same week the existing revenue model died — Bakkt brought in Akshay Naheta (@Akshay_Naheta) as co-CEO and signed a commercial partnership with his stablecoin payments firm, DTR. If that name doesn't mean anything to you: Naheta spent five years at SoftBank investing next to Masa Son, with a hand in the ARM and Nvidia positions. By August, the old CEO was gone and Naheta was running the company alone. The loyalty business was sold off. The dual-class super-voting share structure was scrapped. The balance sheet was cleared out: no debt, $82.6 million in cash. In October, Mike Alfred (@mikealfred) joined the board, then Lyn Alden (@LynAldenContact) a few days later. And in January 2026, Bakkt formally acquired DTR. On paper, Bakkt acquired DTR. In substance, it was a reverse merger — the acquired company is now running the acquirer. So when you pull up $BKKT today, the chart you're looking at belongs to a company that effectively no longer exists. New CEO, new core business, new board, a clean balance sheet. The only things that carried over are the NYSE listing and the licenses. And the licenses, as you'll see, are the one piece of old Bakkt actually worth keeping. That gap is the entire opportunity. When the company underneath a ticker gets swapped out but the ticker, the name and the chart all stay, the price can sometimes stay stuck to the ghost. Even the one number that looks current is misleading. The headline says Q1 revenue "collapsed 77%." But open the filing. Revenue was $243.6 million. Of that, $242.0 million was pass-through crypto cost. The actual margin left over was about $1.6 million. Bakkt's "revenue" was always gross transaction notional, a number that looks enormous and tells you nothing. The real cost of running this company is around $18.5 million a quarter, against $82.6 million in the bank. Now look at what the new company owns. The licenses come first. Pan-U.S. money transmitter licenses, a New York BitLicense, a European VASP license. And while that may sound trivial, it's actually what protects the business. Assembling that stack from scratch takes 2-3 years and millions of dollars. Plenty of bigger players have it — Coinbase, Circle, PayPal, Robinhood — but for each of them, licensed crypto payments is one piece of a much wider business. The faster route is M&A, which is why Stripe paid $1.1 billion for Bridge and Mastercard paid $1.8 billion for BVNK — both private. As far as I can tell, Bakkt is the only publicly traded, NYSE-listed company whose entire forward business is the licensed stablecoin payments rail. If you want public-market exposure to this, there is nothing else to buy. Then the plan. Three businesses. Bakkt Markets is institutional trading rails, with transacting volume the company expects to grow from $241 million last quarter to around $2.5 billion by year-end. Bakkt Agent is programmable payments for AI agents, launching in Q3. An AI agent can't pull out a credit card. It needs licensed, programmable money rails, and very few companies can legally provide them. Bakkt Global is a capital-light international arm. The Japan position — $11.5M into Bitcoin Japan Corporation (TSE: 8105, formerly Marusho Hotta) — is marked at $31.7M as of March 31, a 2.8x return that includes $14.9M of cash already received from Rizap share sales. The India position is a $9.5M warrant subscription in Transchem (BSE: 500422), an Indian brokerage that will offer regulated access to offshore and tokenised investment products. The warrants are subscribed but not yet exercised — conversion is pending regulatory and shareholder approval — with an illustrative quarter-end mark of $44.3M (4.7x). Combined Bakkt Global asset value: $76M. Strip that out of the $445M market cap along with $82.6M of cash and you are left with an enterprise value of roughly $286M for the entire operating business — the licenses, the rails, Bakkt Markets, and a yet-to-launch Agent product. Then there's the board. Lyn Alden (author of Broken Money) is on it - one of the most respected voices on how money actually works. She describes the financial system that's run since the 1970s as "antiquated monetary technology." She has now agreed to help govern a company building the replacement for it. Sitting next to her: Mike Alfred, who also sits on the $IREN board and recently bought 585,000 shares of Bakkt in the open market, and Richard Galvin, who runs an institutional digital-asset firm. So what could it be worth? Sum-of-the-parts, today. On 44.6M shares: cash is $1.85/share, Bakkt Global is $1.70/share at current levels (Japan $0.71 + India $0.99). That is $3.55/share of net assets before you value the operating business. Put the licensed, NYSE-listed payments rail at a 50% discount to what Stripe paid for Bridge and Mastercard for BVNK — call it $500-900M — and the operating business is worth $11 to $20 per share. SOTP fair value today: $15 to $25. The stock is trading at $10 following the rally this week. From there, two paths to the bull case, and you don't need both. Path one: an acquirer decides buying the only public-market licensed rail beats building one, and pays a strategic premium. Path two — the one I think is underappreciated — the Clarity Act passes, the sector re-rates, and Bakkt trades like the public pure-play it is. If Markets and Agent together drive $200–300M of real (non-pass-through) revenue by year three, and the sector trades at 15–20x revenue — still a discount to where Circle trades today — that's a $3–6B company, or $60 to $115 per share. If multiples expand the way they did in 2021 and Bakkt commands a scarcity premium as the only public option, you can defend higher. Circle, the only public stablecoin pure-play, is worth $28 billion today. One more piece I’m following with interest. Bakkt has changed its investment policy to allow it to hold Bitcoin on the balance sheet. Bakkt would be a Bitcoin treasury sitting on top of a real, licensed, operating business. The market currently prices that option at nothing. The Pharaoh's view: the market is paying $10 for the ghost. The company inside is worth far more, and eventually the market will figure it out.

Most people are watching $TAO's price. The people who matter are watching the Louvre. Jacob Steeves and Ala Shaabana take the stage at Proof of Talk in Paris on June 2nd and 3rd. The room holds 2,500 decision-makers. 90% are C-suite. The capital in that room represents $18 trillion in AUM. This is not a crypto conference. This is where traditional finance decides which decentralised AI infrastructure it backs next. Bittensor is not waiting to be discovered. It is walking into the room. The people who understood this early will not need to explain themselves later. @opentensor

@RvCrypto @WeAreSubConnect Sooner or later, but the doubling of subnets should be another great catalyst for the ecosystem. The reduction in cost for entry is needed along with that one killer subnet that really grabs normal people's imagination.....

@SylvPierre11 @WeAreSubConnect Yes, I would reckon within the next 6 months this will happen.

The first breakout subnet with a clear revenue feedback loop will validate the thesis behind the Bittensor ecosystem. It will show that $TAO subnets are not just experiments funded by emissions, but productive markets capable of turning real demand into real value. That would be a major shift for everyone still watching from the sidelines, from retail to institutions. Because once the market sees one subnet create a sustainable loop between product, revenue and Alpha and $TAO value, the entire ecosystem becomes much harder to ignore. Enough thoughts for this morning, enjoy your day. ✍️

NVIDIA, $NVDA, EARNINGS SUMMARY: 1. Record quarterly revenue of $81.6 billion, above expectations 2. Q1 adjusted EPS of $1.87, above expectations 3. Q2 revenue guidance of $89.2 billion to $92.8 billion, above expectations 4. New $80 billion share buyback authorization 5. Increase in dividend from $0.01/share to $0.25/share 6. Total revenue growth of +1,035% over the last 3 years Once again, Nvidia has crushed just about every expectation possible. The AI Revolution is on fire.

DAGKnight’s real implication is not just “faster Kaspa.” It is latency-aware economic finality: consensus that stops pretending the internet has one fixed delay and instead lets confirmation confidence adjust to the actual condition of the network. GHOSTDAG still relies on a parameterized model; DAGKnight is designed to remove the fixed latency assumption, self-stabilizing as network conditions improve or degrade. That matters because a global proof-of-work network should not be tuned around yesterday’s propagation conditions. It should breathe with the network itself. The biggest capability is that Kaspa can become a real-time ordering substrate. Once transaction order can finalize near the speed of actual network propagation, applications no longer need to treat L1 as a slow court of appeal. They can treat it as the live ordering layer. That changes the design space for liquidation engines, payment channels, AI-agent escrow, exchange settlement, logistics triggers, prediction markets, and energy-credit markets. The point is not that every application runs directly on L1. The point is that every application can inherit a neutral, proof-of-work clock that is much harder to censor, reorder, or politically capture than a sequencer or validator committee. A novel post-DAGKnight idea is adaptive settlement classes. High-value transactions could wait for deeper confidence during poor network conditions, while low-risk transactions settle faster during normal conditions. Instead of one universal “finality time,” wallets and applications could price settlement by risk, value, and latency. A $5 AI-agent payment, a $50,000 invoice, and a $50 million collateral unlock should not need the same finality policy. Another implication is real-time miner-attested markets. Yonatan has already explored the idea of using real-time decentralization for miner-based event attestation, where epochs of PoW activity can become a rolling majority signal for external events. That could support prediction markets, insurance triggers, oracle-like feeds, and automated conditional logic without importing a separate committee-security model. Toccata gives Kaspa programmable conditions. DAGKnight makes those conditions time-sensitive. That is the real shift: Kaspa stops being merely fast money and starts becoming a live, adversarially robust coordination clock for machines, markets, and contracts.

$TAO ( can you see what I'm seeing ) ❓

I have purchased 585,000 shares in BKKT via Alpine Fox LP. I joined the BKKT board 8 months ago with the firm belief that we could build something great. We have cleaned up the cap structure, balance sheet, and board, added stablecoin capabilities, and now it's time to accelerate

@DrocksAlex2 Bear market bites!

I can't stand Bittensor It's such a lame network where you can't build real stuff that actually work It incentivizes lying to create hype, cheating, inventing stupid projects that no one needs and it also attract thiefs. It promotes as the future of AI but teams can't even build because they can just disappear as fast as they joined. Or on the opposite of that, you can have teams of grifters or privileged losers stay up because they're just too rich and they can keep the bs show going for as long as they have $TAO and they do because they get fuxking 8% APY on root.

Update: Testnet 10 underwent the Toccata hardfork about 30mins ago and everything’s still running like clockwork. Transition was smooth and seamless. This seamlessness is the standard that kaspa devs set. It’s easy to take it for granted so I want to take this moment to recognize the effort and due diligence that went into making this happen @michaelsuttonil @OriNewman @Max143672 @IzioDev @FreshAir08 @manyfest_ @hus_qy (and sorry if I missed anyone) Mainnet HF soon

@KobeissiLetter Looks like it's time for the FED to print some more money 💰

It simply won't stop. It is Sunday night and the US 10Y Note Yield just casually hit 4.63%, the highest since February 2025. We are now ~4 basis points ABOVE the high that prompted President Trump's "90-day tariff pause" in April 2025. This puts the 10Y Note Yield up +70 basis points since the Iran War, with US mortgage rates now nearing 7.00%+. And, in a sudden turn of events, the odds of rate cuts have collapsed to 2% this year and US inflation is nearing 4%+. The US bond market is collapsing in real-time.

After Toccata, Kaspa’s future becomes much sharper: it is no longer just fast proof-of-work money, it becomes a base-layer coordination engine. Crescendo gave Kaspa higher temporal density by moving the network to 10 BPS while keeping the blockDAG, UTXO model, and proof-of-work clock intact. Toccata takes that expanded settlement surface and gives it enforceable structure. Not by copying Ethereum, not by dragging a global-state VM onto the base layer, but by extending Kaspa’s own validation model with covenants, lineage-aware UTXOs, zk verification, and sequencing commitments. That distinction matters because most “programmable” chains buy expressiveness by introducing shared-state congestion. Every application competes inside one giant execution theater. Kaspa is moving in the opposite direction. The L1 remains lean, parallel, and locally verifiable, while advanced logic attaches to transaction structure itself. KIP-17 gives Kaspa the covenant opcode backbone. KIP-20 gives those covenant flows consensus-recognized identity and lineage. Silverscript gives developers a safer way to write this logic without manually wrestling raw script. This opens the door to vaults, escrows, staged payments, conditional releases, payment channels, autonomous settlement flows, and peer-to-peer financial contracts that do not require custodians or committees to simulate trust. The deeper move is zk. KIP-16 brings verifier infrastructure, while KIP-21 introduces the partitioned sequencing commitment architecture needed for based zk applications. This is where Toccata becomes more than a covenant upgrade. A zk app anchored to Kaspa cannot be forced to prove the entire DAG every time it wants to prove its own activity. That would destroy the scaling model. Partitioned commitments let proof costs scale closer to the application’s own lane, which makes standalone based zk apps practical and prepares the road toward future vProgs. So the post-Toccata arc is clear: covenants first, based zk apps next, vProgs after that. Toccata does not complete the whole vision, but it changes the category Kaspa belongs to. Bitcoin proved sovereign money. Ethereum proved the demand for programmable settlement, but trapped it in global-state friction. Kaspa is attempting the harder synthesis: proof-of-work as the clock, blockDAG as the ordering engine, covenants as local constraint logic, and zk proofs as the bridge between off-chain computation and on-chain truth.

Here we go again: rehearsing a major hardfork on testnet 10, this time crescendoing into Toccata Activation is scheduled for tomorrow May 18, 16:00 UTC. Existing TN10 miners/operators should upgrade now. In a few hours upgraded p2p nodes will stop connecting to non-upgraded nodes as we enter the 24h pre-activation window. Let’s make the mainnet activation boring by making the TN10 rehearsal as mainnet-real-world as possible

Toccata hardfork activation testing in devnet earlier today showed very promising results with a smooth transition. Truly amazing work guys @michaelsuttonil @OriNewman @Max143672 @IzioDev! TN10 hf very soon

THE TOCCATA HARDFORK UPDATE ON KASPA L1 The Toccata hardfork stack is now ready, and we’re entering the final stage before mainnet activation: a full hardfork activation on Testnet-10. The scheduled activation point is: May 18, 2026, 16:00 UTC DAA Score: 467_579_632 Testnet node operators: please upgrade to this release: github.com/kaspanet/rusty… New people are also encouraged to join testnet and mine using this release. You can run a testnet node by extracting the appropriate zip in the above release and run: `./kaspad --testnet` And mine by downloading the CPU miner: github.com/kaspanet/cpumi… and running (replace `kaspa-miner-v0.2.7-linux-gnu-amd64` with the correct binary name if not running on linux): `./kaspa-miner-v0.2.7-linux-gnu-amd64 --testnet -t 1 -a `