My biggest issue with the two most shilled AI tokens of the moment - $SERV and $VVV - is that crypto is absolutely not needed for them to become successful.
It is a great initial marketing tool to acquire your first users, but when you think about it, the token serves no purpose (from the company’s perspective) other than giving the founders an ongoing source of funding, by selling part of the controlled supply over time. While publicly using some revenues to buy back and burn the floating supply in order to pump the price.
It doesn’t mean they will abuse that capability but it is hardly making a strong case for crypto’s raison d’être. And in my mind, they are certainly not the types of projects that will save the day for us.
One could literally run a crypto-native chocolate factory around the same architecture - use consumer numbers and buy backs to pump the price, while generating millions of dollars in ongoing token sale to their enthusiastic holders. And throw “free chocolates for life to the stakers” for good order. The fact that those two are centred around AI makes it sound more “crypto” but when you think about it, every half successful business could run the same playbook.
Anyway, just a thought on a rainy weekend…
Breaking
Palantir was allegedly hacked. An AI agent was used to gain super-user access and here”s what the hackers allegedly found:
Peter Thiel and Alex Karp commit mass surveillance of world leaders and titans of industry on a massive scale.
They have thousands of hours of transcribed and searchable conversations of Donald Trump, JD Vance and Elon Musk.
They have backdoored the devices, cars and jets of world leaders and accumulated the biggest archive of blackmail material.
Palantir is creating nuclear and bio weapon capabilities for Ukraine and is working closely with the CIA to defeat Russia. They believe they are one year away. They plan to achieve this by keeping Russia busy with meaningless peace negotiations.
Palantir is responsible of the majority of Palestinian deaths in Gaza. They have developed the AI targeting for Israel.
Palantir is an arm of the CIA and all data from international clients is copied into a CIA spy cloud.
Palantir has become the most dangerous company in the world. If you work there you have the right to know that this is what Palentir AI is used for, without your knowledge.
The Palentir data the hackers allegedly gathered will be given to Russia and/or China. I was chosen as a trusted partner for this publication. I’m not involved in the Palentir hack and I don’t know the hackers. But I do know that the hack happened.
a big reason sentiment feels so bearish
is because the focus is shifting away from degen use cases
less dopamine
more sustainable
the industry is simply growing up and it feels great
monad down 71% from ath but zerohash integration gives them kalshi prediction markets and gusto's 300k businesses for settlement. at 30 tps with 100k capacity they're building payment rails not shitter casinos. 40% supply unlocks november 2026. team has 9 months to prove usage. track zerohash wallet on monad explorer. if kalshi volume shows up by april the b2b thesis is real. if it stays dormant that $2.5b fdv is pure cope.
We get many questions about DAC8/CARF, so here is the full situation.
We are a Swiss company regulated in Switzerland, so DAC8 doesn't apply to us. DAC8 is an EU directive and only binds financial institutions located in the EU.
However, Switzerland plans to implement the Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF), of which DAC8 is the EU version.
Based on the latest official communication, the CARF will not enter into force in Switzerland before 2027.
Any future CARF implementation in Switzerland is not expected to be retroactive. Past operations made before its activation should not be reportable.
Until such rules are effectively adopted,we do not report your transactions to any foreign or domestic authority, except where required by existing Swiss AML regulations.
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HyperCore will support outcome trading (HIP-4). Outcomes are fully collateralized contracts that settle within a fixed range. They are a general-purpose primitive that are useful for applications such as prediction markets and bounded options-like instruments. There has been extensive user demand in both of these areas, and builders will likely think of novel applications as well.
Outcomes bring non-linearity, dated contracts, and an alternative form of derivative trading that does not involve leverage or liquidations. The outcome primitive expands the expressivity of HyperCore, while composing with other primitives such as portfolio margin and the HyperEVM.
Outcomes are a work in progress and currently only being tested on testnet. Canonical markets based on objective settlement sources will be deployed once technical development is complete. Canonical markets will be denominated in USDH. Pending user feedback, the infrastructure will be extended to permissionless deployment.
Token Unlocks: Over $115M in Assets Unlocking Next Week
Feb 2–8, 2025
• $BERA → $35.5M on Feb 6
• $STABLE → $21.3M on Feb 6
• $CAPX → $17.8M on Feb 5
• $ENA → $13.6M on Feb 2
• $Q → $8.8M on Feb 2
• $HYPE → $4.7M on Feb 6
• $KTA → $4.4M on Feb 5
• $JTO → $3.5M on Feb 7
• $LA → $3.1M on Feb 4
• $FLR → $2.4M on Feb 8
That second #btc move down starting to look more likely...
While not great, price remains long-term bullish within the macro model [LGC- Logarithmic growth Curve].
https://t.co/4sf8zUT5Lp
🚨 EU ministers voted to end private communication! 🚨
Today the EU ministers approved the councils surveillance plans for Chat Control:
- Warrantless mass surveillance of all emails, chats, messengers
- Mandatory ID for everyone using social media (end of online anonymity)
BREAKING:
🇪🇺 EU to monitor private chats
The EU reportedly plans to pass the controversial "Chat Control" legislation without discussion behind closed doors - MEP Martin Sonneborn reports on X
$MON launched at a $2.6 BILLION FDV
Now read this slowly:
$BNB launched at $30M FDV
$ETH launched at $22.39M FDV
$SOL launched at $110M FDV
Today?
BNB is 4,400× up
ETH is 15,400× up
SOL is 657× up
You know why those gains were possible?
Because their launch valuations weren’t delusional.
Now compare MONAD’s launch FDV to theirs:
SOLANA → 23.64× higher
ETHEREUM → 86.67× higher
BNB → 116.14× higher
At this point… what are we even doing?
We’re launching chains at valuations the legends only reached AFTER proving themselves over YEARS of building, grinding, and shipping real value.
These new projects just want the endgame valuation on Day 1.
We ask:
“Why aren’t we seeing 100×, 500×, 1,000× runs anymore?”
Simple:
We priced the upside out of the system before the market even had a chance.
So let me ask again and I want you to feel this:
Are we cooked?
Or are we finally ready to admit that our launch models are broken?