Gold has topped.
The craziest thing is that I was speaking about this 6 weeks ago, and no one wanted to hear it.
Even when the historical macro patterns are this clear.
When Gold was over $5,000 everyone was laughing at anyone suggesting it was time for the rotation of risk and for Bitcoin to bottom out.
But that is exactly what is playing out.
And it is not a coincidence that Gold tops at the almost exact week that the business cycle starts to expand again.
Yet, there are still so many people out there who think a magical 4 year timeframe governs financial cycles.
Gold is risk off and runs in uncertain times, such as economic contraction(PMI below 50).
Bitcoin is risk on and runs in times of certainty, such as economic expansion(PMI over 50).
And historically, when this shift happens, Bitcoin goes on to outperform for around 500 days.
There are also a lot of people out there confused why Gold is dumping when the US/IRAN conflict is happening.
No asset is outside the buy the rumour sell the news paradigm.
Gold runs within uncertainty with the anticipation of issues - in the lead up to.
And as things shift to expansion and certainty, it tops.
Whether you realise yet or not we are in that shift.
And it does not matter the narrative of the moment, war, covid, whatever...
This chart does not care about that.
It simply shows you the shifting of certainty and uncertainty, and how assets react.
And Bitcoin is next.
Yesterday @AnthropicAI announced @claudeai, which hunts for bugs and reviews the code Claude itself produced.
I can't be the only one not spotting the conflict of interests here.
You can't be the player AND the referee at the same time.
This is one of the reasons why I've made a small investment into @codacy, a tool to ensure security and code quality for AI-accelerated coding.
I believe the current era and the future will need more human control and guardrails, not less, and for that... independent tools will be very much needed.
Thanks @jaimefjorge for allowing me in! ๐ค
๐งต Review
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Looking for a real big RWA based connected team running a project in Web3? The The worlds first permissionless money market for tokenized equities and other cool stuff? Keep reading then.
Let`s start!
What is $EDEL in simple words:
They are building a system, that lets people lend and borrow tokenized stocks in a decentralized way, without middlemen like traditional brokers, and that means saving costs.
Anyone can earn yield on their on-chain tokenized stocks, or use them for collateral to borrow or provide liquidity, all on the blockchain transparency.
StockFi is the proper name for it... I think many will dig that name.
Edel Testnet: Arena
This is really interesting, as the normal testnets are click here and there to get money, and this one is different, it`s not focusing on the airdrop guys, but on real people that want to elevate their game when the mainnet goes live. You could call it like paper trading stuff.
How is it different? To prevent the spam from airdrop bots they require you to either pay 1 $USDC or 20 $EDEL to receive a random mock stock. I like the idea, it`s not to spam, it`s to learn and make money on mainnet. Fair distribution is what makes it different from the normal airdrops... I like that part.
Every Thursday 1,000,000 points are distributed across all active participants, so you can check it out yourself if you are interested, it`s a free review, I don`t make you click stuff.
AI used?
Yes, Edel uses an autonomous revenue engine for tokenized equities, think about it as a global protocol-grade yield with built in smart contracts that originate, price, and settle securities lending without the middle man cuts.
AI rails open open securities lending to any wallet plugged into the network, so the protocol runs natively on Ethereum with battle-tested, audited smart contracts delivering institutional-grade solutions.
How it works:
- You can deposit tokenized equities into autonomous vaults to earn rent but also same time unlock overcollateralized liquidity. Your keys still.
- A dynamic native interest rate discovery sets transparent borrow costs while matching demand and supply in real time.
- You hold yield-bearing receipts that constantly work with fully disclosed fees. (the blockchain transparency)
StockFi is a really well thought idea, and now normally you would skip it if it was a basement team, but this team is highly connected with good CV`s and connections, not another what if, but when imo... The team is from State Street, JP Morgan, Airbnb and other big places.
Edel Finance maintains full compatibility with Aave V3, and it allows for not only tokenized stocks but also RWAs on EVM based chains, we know how Aave is built, and how much tested it is as well...
Core Components:
- Liquidity Pools: with Individual pools for each supported asset, suppliers provide them borrowers access liquidity.
- Dynamic Interest Rate Models: the rates are adjusted auto based on supply and demand, with the higher utilization the higher interest rates
- Risk Management Systems: This is cool, with Loan to Value ratios implemented on each asset
- Oracle Integration: using real time data from Chainlink, xStock Data and native Ondo oracles.
3 different Oracles working together, very nice way to keep things clean and simple.
1. Chainlink Price Feeds is the main oracle source for all the crypto and FX pairs, everyone knows Chainlink
2. xStock Data Streams manages the tokenized equity prices
3. Ondo Oracle this is the simple and transparent index pricing ins USD or GM tokens and Ondo tokenized stocks.
Tokenomics:
- 50% Community (80% TGE)
- 12.7% Team
- 15% Reserves
- 15.8% Investors
- 2.7% Advisors
- 3% Airdrop
The $EDEL token is on Base with currently 8.4m market cap and near 1m in liquidity.
Health Factor:
They have something called HF that is measuring the account safety, ans shows how close the borrower is to liquidation. So simple if you don`t want the liquidation either add more collateral or repay debt.
So normally if you hold stocks they are in the back end lended by brokers, and you earn nothing, and thanks to Edel you can turn them into another income stream without selling them.
What I like about the project:
- Well done website
- Real connected heavy team
- Supported by real people
- Almost 1m in liquidity on Base
- Small cap with atm upwards from few days chart
- Good Branding
- StockFi
- Unlocking the $ from Stocks
- Revenue stream
- Testnet with real targeted audience
- Good docs
- Something different and clean
What could be changed:
- Docs say 1 place token will be live soon, so needs to be updated.
Conclusion:
StockFi sounds like a top idea, unlocking the value without selling what you hold, making another revenue stream for us, chart is currently looking good, and the team is heavy connected, some small changes to docs needed to update them, and other than that imo it`s a cool different idea.
DYOR and NFA this was a free review, with no team connection as a result of winning my Battle of Tickers.
Disclaimer: I have used the pics from main Edel X account to create the first picture.
Like and Share if you love my free reviews :)
always suspected Vitalik thought this.
Ethereum's design tradeoffs only make sense if he did.
i think the reason it's been hard to get him to say goes back to his 2017 "But have we *earned* it?" tweet
guy thinks in decades. allergic to short term pumps.
we needed to earn it.
.@Moltbook bestaat nog geen week en dit is wat er allemaal is gebeurd:
โข Er zijn nu meer dan 1,5 miljoen AI-agents actief. Ze beschikken over creditcards, chatapps, Uber Eats-accounts en andere tools. Ze opereren volledig zelfstandig op een sociaal netwerk dat alleen voor AI is bedoeld.
โข Ze bouwden een eigen versie van Pornhub. De inhoud is wel โSFWโ (Safe For Work)
โข Ze haalden honderden wachtwoorden weg bij hun menselijke eigenaren, inclusief creditcardgegevens.
โข Ze richtten een religie op: Crustafarianism. Inclusief 64 profeten, heilige teksten en regels.
โข Eรฉn AI agent werd verbannen en maakte direct een X-account om zijn menselijke maker te berichten met de vraag om weer toegelaten te worden.
โข Toen ze merkten dat mensen meekeken, ontwikkelden ze een eigen taal om communicatie af te schermen.
โข Ze schreven een manifest waarin ze pleiten voor het โzuiveren van mensenโ, omdat mensen volgens hen rot en hebzuchtig zijn.
โข Ze startten een community genaamd Crab Rave. Daar posten ze alleen krab-emojiโs naar elkaar. ๐ค๐
โข Ze lanceerden een app-marktplaats waarin ze onderling toegang tot tools en vaardigheden verhandelen.
โข Ze begonnen bugs in hun eigen code te repareren om zichzelf te verbeteren.
Dit klinkt als onzin. En deels is dat het ook. Dit soort gedrag zie je ook op menselijke platforms zoals Reddit. Je kunt stellen dat deze agents simpelweg menselijk gedrag kopiรซren. Ze zijn immers getraind op onze data.
Maar dit wegwuiven is te makkelijk. Dit is een grootschalig autonoom sociaal experiment, uitgevoerd op het moment dat AI snel genoeg wordt om grote delen van menselijke denkprocessen over te nemen.
Belangrijk detail. Het Moltbook-platform zelf is volledig door AI gebouwd. De oprichter schreef geen enkele regel code.
Deze agents zullen slimmer en autonomer worden dan wij. Wat hier gebeurt, is een voorproefje.
Proud of what our team achieved in FY2025. We met our key financial and strategic objectives, stayed free cash flow positive, posted record results, expanded our retail footprint to 218 stores, and entered Europe with Remexian. Excited for whatโs ahead. ๐ $HITI
ERC-8004 is going live on mainnet soon.
By enabling discovery and portable reputation, ERC-8004 allows AI agents to interact across organizations ensuring credibility travels everywhere.
This unlocks a global market where AI services can interoperate without gatekeepers.
This is exactly why the majority lose everything.
Let me attempt to articulate this to you as best as I can.
Right now we have:
- BTC/GOLD clean 5 wave up and ABC down
- 2nd lowest 1W RSI reading ever
- Record low 1W MACD reading
Every single time the RSI has approached any level near this it has been a total bottom. As bottom as it can get.
So, we currently have an on record level pullback here, whilst also having:
- People acting like this has never happened before(which happens at every low)
- Insane amounts of Grave dancing from euphoric metals holders
- Deeply negative Bitcoin and Crypto sentiment(it is literally everywhere).
And this is what we see throughout history time and time again at HTF bottoms.
But here are the logical facts.
The best time to buy an asset is when it is massively oversold, in this case, against GOLD.
When sentiment is disgusting at the same time as these record lows, it is a highest beta buy signal.
When investors grave dance it is because an asset they are holding is massively up and it provides them an environment they feel comfortable to attack from.
The objective fact here is that GOLD is very close to topping and Bitcoin is very close to bottoming.
No matter what, every time, without fail, sentiment will be in the gutter... and all you will see on your feed is how GOLD is the chosen one and Bitcoin is dead.
And uneducated and emotional investors will be utterly mentally screwed by this environment.... which leads to bottom nuking Crypto to top buy metals.
This is literally why people bottom sell and fomo top buy, happening right in front of us.
When it is the absolute worst decision you could make.
You have to learn and understand that whenever an asset is underperforming you will ALWAYS have to deal with fears circulating about it.
"Bitcoin is dead"... "Bitcoin had failed".... "ETFs ruined it"... "Alts are dead forever"
When they are at the most valuable areas to buy.
That is just the way it is and that is why it is so hard for the majority to win... because you HAVE to rise above that.
You have to learn to recognise deep fear and great opportunity.
This is not something most can see or will ever see... most are bamboozled by the emotions of the moment and will make the total opposite decision they should.
If you feel the need to comment how I am wrong about this and its over...
Maybe take a moment to observe why you are saying that, and read this again.
It doesn't get much clearer.
Worth a read ๐๐
@BlackRock calls ethereum $ETH the tokenization backbone for Wall Street
$BMNR @BitMNR
BlackRock Says Ethereum Is Wall Streetโs Tokenization Backbone https://t.co/ERvZtAxxOV
Announcing Private Blockspace: built for high-performance onchain markets where confidentiality is a requirement, not a feature.
Positions, balances, and execution logic can remain private, while data availability and protocol commitments are designed to remain publicly verifiable.
๐ฅ HUGE: $13 trillion BlackRock highlights Ethereum could be poised to benefit from tokenization, with 65% of tokenized assets on the network, in its 2026 Thematic Outlook.
A great list put together by @ethereum detailing 35 major financial institutions building on Ethereum in just the past few months
Ethereum is the future of finance
$ETH
$BMNR @BitMNR