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i'm just a girl standing in front of the metamask sdk asking it to connect wallet

@jayhinz shitcoins all the way down when u really think abt it

gold is a shitcoin

@Muskanjain0401 so you fell in love with crypto bc of how it improves cefi but now you're leaving crypto bc of how it tends to defi? not even unreasonable atp tbh.

i'm leaving crypto... 3+ years in, i have worked with layer 1s, layer 2s, infra, VCs, accelerators. i fell in love with crypto for what it enabled for finance. ~ stablecoins making cross border payments instant ~ real assets moving onchain at $20b + tvl ~ atomic settlement collapsing t+2 into t+0 ~ onchain prediction markets and trading ~ blockchain infra making tradfi cheaper and faster still do. that's the real stuff, the side building the new financial system what i'm leaving is the other half. ~ $3.4b stolen in 2025. the worst year on record. ~ 18 of the top 20 chains from last year are functionally dead ~ memecoins ate themselves once retail realized it was insiders sniping insiders ~ "narrative" as a substitute for product ~ launching a token to rug the people who believed ~ circle jerking capital from one fund to another the crypto job market is brutal right now, only utility driven projects are getting funded. as it should be. so i'm not leaving blockchain, i'm leaving the casino. what i'm staying close to is the boring side. institutional asset tokenization, stablecoin payments, atomic settlement, neobanks built on onchain systems, and the handful of trading and prediction markets actually solving real problems i've been deep into building ai workflows and experimenting with ai for the last 4 months, building, testing and shipping, going all in now. more on this soon upwards and onwards!

The entire US economy right now is 7 companies sending a trillion fake dollars back and forth to each other

probably something.

Coinbase and Binance both went to Anthropic to stress-test their own infrastructure with Mythos. Mythos simulates adversaries chaining small weaknesses together to figure out how systems interact, offering up a totally different threat model. And it's already finding problems in places auditors weren't looking: Key management systems Signing services Bridges Oracles (The plumbing underneath the protocols.) It's looking like the bigger risks now sit in infrastructure, with the Vercel breach helping to prove it... A compromised Context(dot)ai integration via Google Workspace exposed crypto developer API keys in production. No smart contract exploit involved - just a third-party tool with too much access. Brace yourselves. The attack surface widening.

Onchain funding's often treated as niche infrastructure for open source, but it’s really a live rehearsal for distributed coordination. Climate change, AI risk, institutional erosion – each requires strangers to align priorities, incentives, and resources at civilizational scale. Public goods funding gives that alignment a live proving ground: quadratic funding surfaces community priorities, retroactive funding rewards proven work, and coalitional funding amplifies impact through visible commitments. Funding open source matters. Learning how to coordinate matters too. Especially before crisis turns our need for alignment into an excuse for consolidating control. @owocki on what's at stake ↓ gitcoin.co/research/civil…

There were lots of people on the left and the right that thought Trump would cut spending. Spending went up. It will go up next year and the next, and more again whichever clown next takes office It does not matter who you vote for. Nothing stops this train. The sovereign bond market will collapse due to math, and it will shatter the world. If you own government bonds you are retarded If you’re a state, secede asap stocks.apple.com/A25-A65g3TpKwZ…

@ErikVoorhees my yes and to this would be: if you thought Trump would cut spending you are retarded

I feel like the social contract required for community as a channel's nearly impossible to maintain after 2-3 market cycles of the industry habitually choosing to violate the social contract for personal gain instead love this space and believe in it long term, but we've historically positioned community as a vector for token speculation -- often strategically gatekept to increase perceived value from the outside looking in. not all communities, but enough ICOs, NFTs, memecoins .. ppl are tired of being rugged. and as retail continues to recognize how often they end up as insider exit liquidity, it makes sense that what was once an extensive community-based landscape would contract back into insider groups alone or at least it makes sense to me. but who knows. just my $0.02

do we think the concept of community is dead in the water for crypto in 2026? i’ll start. i’ve worked with probably 100+ brands of all sizes across crypto since i joined the space in 2020. from global sports teams to mid-scale startups to super niche NFTs. i’ve seen top NFT communities like BAYC and Pudgy come when it’s hot and fall to the sidelines of CT when shit hit the fan. i’ve seen memecoins like doge pump to billions. communities like @BoysClubWorld and @shefiorg pivot, one to content, one to paid. new ones spring up. countless others die on arrival. and ecosystem-wise, seeing come and go thinking a community copy-and-paste playbook was their free ticket to Valhalla. on the IRL side, i cofounded @getofflinexyz, hosting 50+ events worldwide, fostering 8,700 attendees across @solana. more recently, i kicked off Women of Solana, a gated 180-person telegram channel, referral only. but here’s the reality: crypto, on discord, is dead. crypto, on telegram, is well alive. what was once one brand owning a discord server with 20 channels is now one siloed telegram channel,one stream of consciousness, because otherwise, you look like the Sahara desert when the last message was sent two years ago. and when people hire for “community manager” roles, they’re often the first to be let go. crypto, on a philosophical and sovereign level, is not what it once was. the depths of the internet are no longer favored by the unknown or uncharted possibility. they’re favored by monetary capture, right in front of us. my thesis: community as a consumer growth play is dead. community as a shared values, all-for-one cause, harnessed around exclusive invite-only channels is well alive. it’s just a matter of what that root cause is and whether people can truly rally behind it. where it’s at is about being in the room, whether that’s IRL, gated, or a hybrid of both. but smaller, and more intimate. as the focus for 2026 shifts to institutions, infra, stablecoins, and AI, all eyes are on monopolizing, superapps and being built to last. so back to the basics, perhaps the question was never whether community is dead, it’s whether you deserve one in the first place. what is dead may never die, but what is alive must still be earned.

@medeana identity crisis indeed

Quick take from Bitcoin Las Vegas is that this is an industry with an identity crisis. At moments it seems very scaled and mature with serious people at the helm. And then it presents as deeply unserious and comically fringe. I know for many this is a feature not a bug but I find the whiplash distracting and I’m SURE it prevents growth, which is contrary to the mission surely

i think ayn rand would have loved the coinbase sponsored military parade

@0xjayeshyadav stablecoins are just privately issued CBDCs

@CryptoTaxGuyETH we've been captured.

This is one of the most disheartening things I’ve had to listen to recently. Griff claims the 12-person Arbitrum security counsel is effectively the same as the BTC or ETH validator set because all are accountable to the market. What are we even doing here anymore?

Stablecoins are not crypto Stablecoins are not decentralized Stablecoins are not truly self custodial Stablecoins are not censorship resistant Stablecoins are not scarce Stablecoins are not permissionless Stablecoins are not sound money Stablecoins are not a hedge against fiat Stablecoins are digital fiat wearing a blockchain costume

The way we collectively make sense of the world was built for a slower one. Centralization, stratification, bureaucratic control – these tactics work best when the problem is cleanly defined. But when problems become entangled or increasingly complex, these tactics begin to break down. Misinformation, polarization, institutional decay – we're feeling the impact of this breakdown in real time. What we need now is a new model for collective understanding that can adapt faster than these legacy responses fail. 💚 We have some ideas ↓ gitcoin.co/research/a-net…

@tayvano_ gone as in left the ethereum nanny state for more decentralized pastures? this has been such a bizarre convo to watch unfold all around. rip credible neutrality

Anddddd it’s gone. Everyone say thank you to Thorchain for providing such a valuable service to DPRK and helping them get away once again.

@naruto11eth those willing to give up their ideals once will do so again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and... if sticking by the ideals that fucking birthed this tech makes me an enemy of crypto, then im a cypherterrorist.

@griffgreen @arbitrum 51%+ hashpower is a real coercive risk, but coercion at the execution layer still isn't permission at the protocol layer

For those complaining about the decentralization of @Arbitrum... What does 9 of 12 mining pools get you on Bitcoin?

@ygorz01 from blockmaxxing to blocmaxxing

@ashc0in Sorry cypherpunks, we syndicatemaxxing now

this new centralizationmaxxing arc is not very cypherpunk