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MEGA TGE APRIL 30, 2026

Here’s the hard pill to swallow. If your entire thesis is that TardFi regulations and adoption will give you DeFi summer again on alts again, you’re delusional. Blackrock and JPM aren’t here to transact on or pump your DeFi / Infra bags. They will rebuild SWIFT on blockchain rails and create a closed network of participants once more. I don’t know if you’ve realised but institutions adopting blockchain are defending their financial monopoly against a threat rather than going “awww the people are right we should really be transacting on transparent and immutable rails to embrace fair and open finance”. The chains all the banks use will be built by Accenture or IBM financed from balance sheet by a coalition of US banks who then use their positions in the banking ecosystem to disseminate this network throughout the global banking system. You and I won’t ever see a piece of the economics except when we indirectly pay the fees after we are unwittingly captured into the ecosystem we thought we escaped by some Jezebel “crypto founder” that deceives us into moving all our net worth into his wallet or stablecoin claiming backing from the powers that be in the hopes of an airdrop from suckling on the diseased teat. The TardFi Trojan horse is in full swing and the only way to preserve our right to freely transact is to stand behind the DeFi builders that are truly cypherpunk aligned - the ones that made this industry grow from a joke experiment to a credible threat to the incumbents to start with, rather than bend the knee and suck the cock of Xerxes the moment he marches up with an army and offers you false promises. Uplift yourself and stand for something because the existing powers will do everything to keep you on your knees.

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Happy Wizard Wednesday and Happy 3rd Anniversary to the Cult Content Chronicle! That’s right, 156 weeks of sharing all the amazing things @ForgottenRunes community members create for the Cult, EVERY. DAMN. WEEK! Thank you to everyone who has contributed content over the years. As long as you keep creating, I’ll keep posting! ✨✨✨

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OpenSea announced their token in February. They have farmed their users for almost a full year.

Joint Statement: Apple and Google have entered into a multi-year collaboration under which the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google's Gemini models and cloud technology. These models will help power future Apple Intelligence features, including a more personalized Siri coming this year. After careful evaluation, Apple determined that Google's Al technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models and is excited about the innovative new experiences it will unlock for Apple users. Apple Intelligence will continue to run on Apple devices and Private Cloud Compute, while maintaining Apple's industry-leading privacy standards.

Why we need to get away from DAO vs. x party language. A DAO is a set of smart contracts, it cannot participate in "civil wars." It is the onchain and codeified charter, rules, and regulations that a normal organization would be via law. It is what grants power and access to whomever is programmed to do x or y function for x or y purpose. The DAO is not "token holders" otherwise why, in Aave's case, is it "the DAO vs. Stani" who is one of the largest token holders? If a group of Apple shareholders made a google poll, and voted to do something, would we say "Apple did x, y, or z? No. We'd say "a group of Apple shareholders did x,y,z..." Why? because whatever it was, was not on behalf of the legal rules set in place and owned by the organization, the same for DAOs onchain. In the recent argument between the Aave Labs and "add adjective (some, many, etc.) $AAVE TOKEN HOLDERS" the DAO was never even utilized. There was no onchain vote to execute on an onchain action. As @newmichwill put it: "But what does this vote do? Apart from attaching ECDSA signatures to a collection of letters which humans call "text". The reality is, a DAO is a set of smart contracts that allow for the autonomous and decentralized "control/ownership/execution" of an onchain asset and action. IT CAN have multiple governing bodies that make it more or less decentralized. Decentralization is like beauty, in the eyes of the beholder, and it's hard to determine "HOW" decentralized anything should be. But autonomy is clear, that those who govern the asset have complete control over it without intermediaries. That is why a "DAO" cannot own or govern offchain assets AUTONOMOUSLY. Those assets are not onchain, they cannot be owned or executed on without trust. It doesn't mean however that token holders cannot entrust offchain assets to an entity that is aligned to those token holders. Which is the real "problem" and discussion in the Aave community (another perverse word) right now. What we need to start doing: - Refer to token holders as token holders. "Some $AAVE token holders want to ensure that the $AAVE token reaps the benefits of what it funded, including offchain assets. - The DAO is a set of smart contracts that autonomously govern VIA code what ever set of rules or governance is programmed. In the case of the Aave DAO, that is the protocol (amongst other things) and token holders directly vote and execute on. A DAO is a tool. It is not a bunch of people. It is not "the community." Similar to most things in crypto the term DAO was utilized by the general public as a way to virtue signal projects into giving away control over valuable assets to be extracted. It was also often a way for founders to feign decentralization. Both have occurred and the term & concept was pillaged from both sides and by both parties as often as possible. The reality: it's just a tool. It's a tool that CAN align incentives, secure assets, reduce counter party risk, and many other things that require binding onchain execution. This really is a new phenomenon and thus we need to understand its limitations. Just because a stakeholder group that controls a DAO can do something together doesn't infer that the organization did it. It must either have the legal or onchain power and backing to do something. Thank you for listening to my Ted Talk. Now I hope we can move on.

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Happy December 1st, Wizards ❄️

@sjdedic Well said

I don’t hold any $HYPE, but watching the discourse around the unlocks makes you wonder how detached from reality some people in this space have become. Hyperliquid is one of the highest-earning protocols in all of crypto, printing millions in profit every single day. If anyone is capable of absorbing unlocks sustainably, it’s them. And honestly, what exactly do people expect from the team? That they sacrifice their entire lives to work for free so bagholders can feel good? At the end of the day this is business, not charity. @chameleon_jeff and the Hyperliquid team have already shown, repeatedly, that they prioritize the long-term health of the protocol and the interests of $HYPE holders. There were no VCs, no insiders. They fully bootstrapped the protocol with their own time, money, and sweat. That level of conviction is rare, even outside of crypto. The token distribution was as fair as it gets. The most valuable and aligned contributors earned their share. Since then, the team has spent nearly 100% of the revenue they generate on buybacks, consistently treating token holders like actual shareholders - not exit liquidity. These guys have been working their asses off for years, building one of the most profitable and technically impressive systems in crypto, essentially getting nothing back personally. If they want to sell a small portion of their tokens after years of hard work and massive opportunity cost, let them. If anyone in this industry has earned that right, it’s them. As long as they’re not rage-quitting and dumping their entire stack in one click, everything will be fine. And why on earth would they abandon a cash-printing machine that’s finally hitting escape velocity and generating infinite money after everything they’ve put into it? It makes zero sense, so it’s not going to happen.

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@timothy_musick 🔥

Without question, I am one of the few BULLS remaining. Haven't flip flopped once and I am sure as hell not BEARISH now. Dips are for buying and we have already seen 20% and 30% dips this cycle alone. Not sure why this one is any different. These types of dips have taken place historically with all the cycles in the past. Cant sit through the pain then you get no gain. 2 E Z

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