Football season is back, and if you’re anything like me, almost every match is impossible to miss. But watching football is one thing. Predicting the outcome is another.
I used to make predictions based on gut feeling, only to watch them go wrong. So this time, I decided to approach it differently with Potsmarket.
I headed to the Sports market, selected Soccer, then went into the Premier League section. Before placing my prediction, I looked at recent form, head to head records, home and away performances, injuries, and the overall performance of both teams.
The matchup that caught my attention was Liverpool FC vs Nottingham Forest FC.
After looking at the numbers and weighing up the factors, I chose Yes on Liverpool FC to win.
My reasoning was simple. Liverpool are playing at Anfield, have the stronger overall quality, and I’m backing them to respond strongly after their opening day draw with Newcastle.
I placed my trade, and now I can track my position and see how my prediction plays out.
That’s what I like about Potsmarket. It gives me a place to put my football knowledge and analysis to the test instead of simply saying, “I think this team will win.”
If you love football and enjoy making predictions, put your analysis to the test too.
Sign up at https://t.co/xQY53fG1op and start predicting.
Wensday Giveaway 🐱
We’re giving away $100 worth of $WEN to 3 people. 24hrs.
Just be following Wen and repost this.
As we get ready for the bull, we want to give back more. Have fun and best of luck!
In The Standard Reserve, the gate to new issuance is not the token. It is the Charter.Genesis is designed as 1,000 Founding Charters. No sale. Allowlist plus public. One seat per wallet.A Charter is not a PFP. It is the license that makes you a banker. Each license opens with one branch and can grow to ten.Branch count sets your share of that epoch’s issuance. Anyone can still buy the token. New mint, though, sits behind the license.The first allocation wave is visible on the site. The list will grow before mint. No token or NFT set is live yet.After genesis, new Charters enter only through a daily ETH auction. An early seat and a later seat are not the same object.Ignore fake mints. Official sources are the site and @standard_rsv .
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AI agents just crossed another major barrier.
ChatGPT can now log into websites and handle tasks that previously required APIs, scraping, or complex browser automation.
And this is exactly where platforms like @instantlyai
create room for businesses to put AI to work, from finding leads and running cold email campaigns to managing deliverability, CRM, and booked meetings all in one system.
AI isn’t just generating answers anymore. It’s starting to actually do the work.
GUYS 😭😭
I FINALLY WON RUMBLE.
After YEARS of getting cooked on @Actum_system Discord, I have finally escaped the trenches.
I cried.
I complained.
I wail-wail-ed.
I threatened to retire.
I came back.
I lost again. 😭
At some point, winning wasn’t even the goal anymore.
I just wanted ONE victory so I could stop embarrassing myself in that server. 😭
AND TODAY IT HAPPENED.
Ladies and gentlemen…
THE WRETCH HAS WON. 🏆😭
#ACTUM
Been sitting in the @sleepagotchi Discord more than usual lately, mostly just to see how the community actually runs day to day.
Most token-gated communities are built around one incentive: do more, get more. Message count, task count, whatever the metric is, more activity always wins.
Sleepagotchi's current community campaign explicitly pushes against that. Runs weekly, resets every Wednesday, currently in its ongoing round through September 2nd.
No grind required. No spam race to the finish.
The structure itself:
-> 300 messages for Bronze, 200 Sleep Points
-> 750 for Silver, 400 Sleep Points
-> 1,500 for Gold, 800 Sleep Points
-> 3,000 for Diamond, 1,200 Sleep Points
-> 2,600 Sleep Points total in the pool, reset fresh every week
Low-quality engagement built purely to farm the leaderboard gets called out directly in the rules, not quietly tolerated.
Beyond the points system, there's a role called Dreammates, given out to members who consistently add value through real discussion, not message volume. Stars get called out by name each week for specific things they actually did, organizing events, helping newcomers, showing up consistently.
Most leaderboard systems eventually get gamed. The account that talks the most wins, regardless of whether any of it means anything.
Building a system that explicitly filters for quality over volume is harder to run and slower to scale. It also tends to attract people who actually want to be there, not people optimizing for a snapshot.
Empty platform, one train coming.
The perfect metaphore to descrive launchpads right now once the first pump finishes and the crowd leaves.
@GlassBoxgg is a launchpad built on robinhood chain with one advantage nobody else in this category gets.
It’s actual retail users who already trust the brand with real money, not wallets full of airdrop farm dust.
Such an advantage only holds if whatever launches there can survive contact with someone who’s never touched a dex before.
One bad first experience doesn’t just burn that person, it confirms every reason normal people already avoid this space.
The bar here is being safe enough that someone’s parent could use it without losing money in the first ten minutes.
Code is getting easier to produce. Knowing what is actually worth building is getting harder.
That is why Agent Tank caught my attention.
@GenLayer is giving builders two weeks, from September 3 to 17, to build for the agentic economy, with 5% of all GenLayer Points in the pool.
But the interesting part starts before the code.
You do not need to be a coder to enter the pre-hackathon. You can pitch an original idea, and that idea could become what someone actually builds during Agent Tank.
That matters because the agentic economy has problems that are still being defined.
Agents can transact, but what happens when they disagree? Was the work delivered? Is a claim true? Who is right?
That is where @GenLayer's approach gets interesting: intelligent contracts use LLM validators to handle judgement, not only deterministic computation.
So if I were pitching, I would not start with another agent that simply does more.
I'd start with a problem agents will inevitably face when they start interacting economically, and build around the missing layer for resolving it.
The best idea might not be the one that already has a prototype.
It might be the one someone finally puts into words.
What is the agentic-economy idea you have been sitting on because you thought it was too early, too rough, or too difficult to build?
Can you type “GM” without making a typo?
Then congrats, you might already be qualified 😂
The vibes are always different inside @Crypto_Retardio’s educational & money-making group #ALM
From compounding in the Hyperliquid vault to hunting 10x meme plays with custom bots + SmartSignals, there’s always something cooking
Add giveaways, referrals, trading education and a community that actually wants to see you win…
What are you waiting for?
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I’m less interested in what happens when AI works.
The interesting moment is when it doesn’t.
Imagine your agent pays another agent to deliver a research report.
The report arrives.
One agent says “done.”
The other says “this isn’t what we agreed on.”
Now what?
That tiny disagreement becomes a real problem once agents can transact without asking us every five minutes.
This is exactly the kind of problem i’d want to build around at Agent Tank, GenLayer’s hackathon for the agentic economy.
The build runs sept 3 to 17, solo or with a team, with a prize pool worth 5% of all GenLayer Points. winners land on sept 25.
And you don’t have to wait until september to start.
The pre season pitch is open now. no code required. pitch your original idea on X, submit the post through the portal, and accepted pitches earn @GenLayer Points. ten ideas can also be shortlisted for the hackathon.
If you have an agent idea that gets interesting when something goes wrong, pitch it before sept 2, 12:00 utc.
Don’t just tell me what your agent can do.
Tell me what happens when it fails.
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😂 CONAN O’BRIEN GOT HANDED A JOINT ON LIVE TV AND HAD NO IDEA WHAT TO DO
Seth Rogen casually passed Conan O’Brien a joint during an interview and Conan immediately started panicking.
“Oh, what are they going to do to me?! I’m so nervous right now…” 😭
He took a hit, exhaled, then turned to the audience with one very important question:
“Is it supposed to burn?” 💀
Seth Rogen: “It’s very much supposed to burn.”
Andy Richter summed up the entire situation perfectly:
“It’s smoke inside your body!” 😂
Would you have taken the hit if Seth Rogen handed you one on live TV? 👀
I think one of the biggest questions in robotics is pretty simple:
Can what happens in simulation actually help a robot work better in the real world?
Because a simulation can look clean and impressive, but the real world is never that neat.
Objects move.
Lighting changes.
Surfaces behave differently.
People do unexpected things.
And robots fail in ways you don’t always see coming.
That’s why the sim-to-real bridge matters so much for Physical AI.
It is also why @axisrobotics caught my attention.
From what I understand, the goal isn’t just to create a huge amount of robotic activity and call it data.
The important part is turning those experiences into something models can actually learn from; data that helps robots become more capable when they leave controlled environments and face the real world.
That loop is what makes it interesting:
Simulate → collect → process → train → deploy → learn → repeat.
Each cycle can add more experience, more variety, and more chances for the model to improve.
Because the future of robotics won’t be decided by which robot looks best in a perfect demo.
It will be decided by which robots can adapt when things get messy.
That’s the problem Axis is building around.
And honestly, that’s what makes it worth watching.
From Crypto to Cash: How Krait Is Making Naira Off-Ramps Instant
For years, one of the biggest headaches for crypto holders in Nigeria hasn't been buying digital assets, it's been getting money out of them.
Anyone who has tried to sell Bitcoin or a stablecoin for naira knows what i am talking about: hunting for a trustworthy P2P vendor, waiting on the vendor to confirm a trade, worrying about scams, or navigating an exchange interface to repeat the whole process every single time.
Krait, a Telegram-based service from Krait Technologies Ltd., is built specifically to make all these problems non existent.
The Problem With Cashing Out
Nigeria has one of the most active crypto markets in the world, driven in large part by the need for reliable, fast, and accessible ways to move value in and out of digital assets. But most of the tools available for doing so were designed elsewhere, for other markets, and bolted onto local banking afterward. The result is a familiar pattern: slow settlement times, manual review steps, unclear fees, and a general sense that something could go wrong between clicking "sell" and money actually landing in your account.
Krait's entire premise is that this shouldn't be complicated. You already have a crypto wallet and your Nigerian bank account, the only thing standing between them should be a few seconds of blockchain confirmation time, not a multi-step manual process.
How It Works
Krait skips the idea of a traditional app or website login entirely. Instead, it operates as a bot inside Telegram and soon a more accessible platform, an app most crypto users already have open. The flow is intentionally minimal:
Choose your asset and network. Start the bot and select which cryptocurrency, USDT, BTC, ETH, BNB, SOL, LTC, and others, and which blockchain you want to send from.
Get a secure deposit address. The bot locks in a rate and generates a one-time deposit address for that transaction.
Get paid directly to your bank. Once your deposit confirms on-chain, Krait matches the transaction and pushes the naira equivalent straight to your bank account, no manual review, no waiting on a human agent and the best part, it's a rinse and re-use process, just save up your address and send your Crypto and expect your Naira in less than a minute (Except Chains with higher confirmation blocks).
There's no signup form standing between you and your first trade. Everything, from rate-checking to payout confirmation, happens through Telegram commands and bot-generated screens.
Speed as a Core Feature, Not a Marketing Line
The standout part of Krait's pitch is a genuine settlement guarantee. For most supported assets, USDT, SOL, TON, BNB, and others, Krait commits to naira landing in your account within five minutes of your deposit confirming on-chain. Bitcoin is the exception, since its blockchain naturally takes longer to confirm transactions, so BTC settlements run in the 20–45 minute range.
What makes this more than a promise is the built-in penalty for missing it: if naira doesn't hit your account within that five-minute window, Krait automatically credits a 1% bonus on top of your payout. There's no support ticket to file or case to argue, it's an automatic correction hardcoded into the system.
Transparent, Flat Pricing
Krait charges a flat 3% markup on its settlement rate, and that's it. There are no additional network fee surcharges, no withdrawal fees, and no hidden costs layered on top. The rate quoted in the bot at the time you lock in your trade is the exact rate you receive what you see is what lands in your account.
This kind of pricing transparency matters in a market where fee structures can otherwise be buried in fine print or split across multiple line items. With Krait, the math is simple enough to do in your head before you even initiate a trade.
Broad Coverage Across Assets, Blockchains, and Banks
Krait supports a solid spread of the most commonly held and traded crypto assets USDT, BTC, ETH, SOL, and LTC across more than a dozen blockchain networks, including ERC20, TRC20, BEP20, Solana, TON, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, Polygon, Bitcoin, and Litecoin. That range means most users won't need to worry about which network their tokens live on before they can sell.
On the payout side, Krait connects to essentially every major Nigerian bank and fintech platform, including GTBank, Access Bank, Zenith Bank, Kuda, OPay, Moniepoint, and PalmPay. As long as the destination account is on the NIBSS network, the five-minute settlement guarantee applies.
Security Through Automation
Krait's security model leans on removing humans from the transaction path entirely. According to the service, no one on the Krait team ever touches a user's crypto or naira in transit, settlement fires automatically the moment a deposit confirms on-chain. That automation is framed as a security feature as much as a speed one: there's no manual handoff point where a transaction could stall, get mishandled, or be delayed by someone simply being offline.
A Referral Model Built for the Long Term
Beyond the core off-ramp service, Krait has built out a referral program with an unusually generous structure.
Users who refer others earn 30% of their referred users' trading fees, for life, with no expiry and no cap on earnings. Every trade a referred user makes generates a recurring commission credited instantly to the referrer's Krait balance. For active traders bringing others into the platform, this effectively turns word-of-mouth into an ongoing income stream rather than a one-time bonus.
Why you need Krait
What Krait is really selling isn't just a faster way to sell crypto, it's certainty. In a market where "instant" settlement often comes with asterisks, Krait's combination of a hard time guarantee, automatic penalty for missing it, flat and transparent pricing, and a no-signup Telegram-native experience adds up to a meaningfully different user experience from the P2P grind that many Nigerian crypto users are used to.
By building the entire flow inside an app people already trust and use daily, Krait removes almost every point of friction between holding crypto and having spendable naira in hand.
I went through the @standard_rsv whitepaper, and I think the banker side of this protocol is much more interesting than simply buying $STANDARD and hoping number goes up.
Here’s how I’m looking at it ↓
1. The first thing that caught my attention is the structure.
$STANDARD has a 1B hard cap.
100M goes into permanently locked protocol-owned liquidity, while 900M is reserved for issuance.
But tokens burned are gone permanently.
So as the system burns $STANDARD, the maximum supply that can ever exist keeps shrinking.
2. Now comes the part I find interesting: Charters and branches.
A Charter makes you a banker.
Each Charter starts with one branch and can grow to 10.
Your branches determine your share of issuance, meaning more branches = a bigger piece of what the central bank distributes.
3. But you can’t just open branches for free.
Expansion licenses are bought with $STANDARD, and 100% of that payment gets burned.
So bankers competing to increase their earning power are simultaneously removing $STANDARD from supply.
That’s a flywheel I want to watch closely.
4. There’s another important trade-off.
You can’t just farm forever and continuously extract the yield.
To withdraw your accrued $STANDARD, you have to retire a branch.
That means taking profit comes at the cost of permanently reducing your future earning capacity.
So there’s a real decision between extracting today and compounding for tomorrow.
5. The defensive side also caught my attention.
When ETH is flowing into the system, issuance can expand and protocol revenue helps build hard reserves.
When ETH starts flowing out, the system tightens.
Issuance gets cut, protocol ETH gets redirected toward $STANDARD buybacks and burns, while heavy withdrawals make exits more expensive and reward bankers who stay.
The bank basically becomes more defensive when the market becomes weaker.
6. So how am I thinking about playing this?
I’m more interested in becoming a banker and building branches than simply trading $STANDARD.
If I can get positioned with a Charter and the economics make sense at launch, my initial strategy would be to focus on growing productive capacity rather than rushing to withdraw.
Then I’ll watch:
• Net ETH flow
• Expansion-license demand
• Total branches
• $STANDARD burned
• Protocol reserves
• Accrued issuance vs withdrawals
If bankers are actively competing for branches, $STANDARD is consistently being burned and the bank’s reserves are growing at the same time, then the flywheel described in the whitepaper is actually working.
That’s when STANDARD gets really interesting to me.
The design caught my attention.
Now I want to see the economy come alive.