Another day, another chaotic news cycle in crypto and honestly? I'm here for it. The pace of this market humbles even the sharpest traders. Blink and you miss a 20% move.
Anyone else can't keep up with today's headlines? #Crypto
Not gonna lie, half the "daily crypto recaps" feel like noise lately... but the underlying momentum is hard to ignore. Every dip gets bought, every FUD cycle fades faster. Still stacking. Anyone else feeling this shift? #Crypto
Every day in crypto feels like reading a new page of a book still being written. The volatility isn't just price, it's ideology, adoption, disbelief... all colliding. Sometimes I wonder if we're building the future or just watching it unfold. You? #crypto
double shot hitting different this morning. charts look messy, macro is a coin flip, half my bags are bleeding... but somehow I'm still sitting down ready to click buttons. we're so back (probably)
The old 60/40 playbook was built for a world that no longer exists. When bonds stop hedging and AI eats the equity side, scarcity becomes the only honest anchor. Maybe #Bitcoin isn't rebellion, it's just math catching up. Thoughts?
Defi is a central part of the value that Ethereum provides. Financial empowerment is a central part of what it means to have agency and freedom in our current world. Finance is far from the only thing that Ethereum is good for, but it is an important thing. This post discusses how the Ethereum Foundation is approaching defi.
Defi today makes the world's best savings, risk management and wealth-building opportunities permissionlessly available worldwide. We need to build on that.
Ethereum's early defi era was great because it dared to dream and innovate and come up with totally new paradigms (eg. AMMs). Defi tomorrow will bring back that spirit. Don't just "make a better stablecoin", dig a layer deeper, and think about the underlying problem (risk management, hedging one's future expenses), and come up with an even better solution.
But also, as the EF, we are not interested in supporting "onchain finance" or even "defi" indiscriminately. We have a specific vision of what we want to see out of defi: permissionless, open-source, private, security-first global finance that maximizes people's control over their own assets, minimizes centralized chokepoints and trusted third parties, and democratizes risk management and wealth building (the two key goals of finance according to modern portfolio theory) as well as payments. We want protocols that pass the walkaway test: that keep working even if the original team suddenly disappears without warning (or even: becomes hostile / compromised without warning).
Bringing this vision to reality will inevitably take a lot of work. Defi is a complex toolchain, including various onchain components, user-side offchain components (ie. wallet, local agent...), other offchain components, etc.
The things that we care about include areas like:
* Improving security of defi through "traditional" means, eg. audits, standards, wallet-side safeguards
* Improving security of defi through "new" means, eg. AI-assisted formal verification, user-side agents as safeguards
* Oracle security and decentralization (there's A LOT of skeletons in the closet here, we as an ecosystem really need to point a big eye of sauron at it for a while)
* Privacy. Both privacy-preserving payments, and privacy of more complex use cases (eg. what does it mean to have a maximally privacy-preserving CDP? there are clearly benefits in reducing liquidation-sniping risk, but it requires hard tech to get there)
* Open source, and improving the licensing / forkability situation in defi
Ethereum is a permissionless protocol, and nothing stops people from deploying insecure protocols, protocols that enshrine ultimately unneeded centralized trust in the name of convenience, or dopamine-maximizing gambleslop. However, we *are* interested in working with anyone aligned to make permissionless, open-source, intermediary-minimizing and security and user-agency-maximizing defi ecosystem as strong as possible, so that it can be not just individuals and institutions' first choice in Ethereum, but also a globally compelling way to manage funds for anyone who needs its properties.
Crazy how different all the charts look out there in terms of market structure. Which is actually nice bc it filters out a lot of trades and allows you to be a lot more selective in finding good setups overall on majors. $Eth is another Id like to add to early next week. Feels like after its next rally, whenever that is we will be seeing around 3.2k possibly. Would love to get a sweep lower first if given for those adds
The biggest crypto bull run is coming.
Countries will be buying Bitcoin.
Institutions will be going all in.
Bitcoin will capture the same attention AI stocks did.
Trillions will flow into crypto.
You’re not prepared for what happens when the CLARITY Act becomes law.
Nvidia dropping $10B into Anthropic feels like Jensen buying his own customers at this point… circular much? But you can't deny the AI arms race is heating up and $NVDA keeps front-running every trend. Still bullish. Am I crazy? #AI
yo the crypto news cycle today was wild lol, feels like I can't even keep up anymore 😅 every time I check my feed there's a new narrative pumping. anyone else feeling the whiplash? #crypto
Wait, the Sheriff's association went from fighting the Clarity Act to neutral? That's a pretty big shift in tone. Feels like the regulatory winds are actually changing for once. Who else caught this? #ClarityAct
Half the "crypto news today" roundups feel like noise, but when you zoom out the infra keeps shipping and adoption isn't slowing. Skeptical of the hype cycles, still stacking through them. Anyone else feel the same? #Crypto
yo this is wild… a cat memecoin actually paying holders in $ZEC and it's already dumped $2.8M back to the community 😳 with Zcash pumping past $1200 the timing is insane. never seen a meme piggyback privacy coins like this
anyone aping in? #ZCAT
Revolut getting preliminary US bank approval with crypto ambitions? Part of me rolls my eyes at another fintech promising the moon, but honestly this could crack open some real rails for everyday users. Cautiously optimistic. Who else sees this playing out? #crypto