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[Sandalen.eth (🎨,🪄) #Freedom @Krisenvogel]

That was quick

[Jeff Park @dgt10011]

Resigned as CIO of ProCap today.

Day 1 of whatever's next.

More soon.

[Merlin Egalite 🕛 @MerlinEgalite]

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Open roles:
→ Chief of Staff
→ DeFi Desk - APAC
→ Events Lead
→ Head of Security
→ Senior Protocol Engineer
→ Senior Protocol Engineer (Verification)
→ Solution Architect - Americas
→ Staff Backend Engineer
→ Staff Fullstack Engineer
→ Staff Infrastructure Engineer
→ Strategic Account Manager
→ Strategic Partner Manager

[Sandalen.eth (🎨,🪄) #Freedom @Krisenvogel]

@alturax Seriously being a great role model for the space. Unfortunate that things evolved in that way.

[Doug Colkitt @0xdoug]

Basically the attacker created a bunch of “fake wrapper” that mint-wrapped real tokens like WETH/USDC/USDT.

Jared was boiled like a frog. Juicy arbitrages on real pools with the fake wrappers. Jared started small to test the waters, made money, things looked safe, then scaled up

[Smaris @Smaris]

how to get web3 jobs

+ secrets to actually land them fast

step 1: I realized many people don’t know where to find web3 jobs, so I complied a list

- crypto careers - https://t.co/MPmFjsQvXs
- web3 career - https://t.co/qbWeba5CI8
- crypto currency jobs - https://t.co/MsVBAGRgG8
- crypto jobs list - https://t.co/9mjeSxdAAz
- be in crypto - https://t.co/sCfopWQ8AF
- job stash - https://t.co/WUk2KqfrTn
- remote 3 - https://t.co/4nqGeHILJm
- midnight careers - https://t.co/cIBohReQfw
- dragonfly jobs - https://t.co/tFelSw5ZGV
- block careers - https://t.co/yULnvmhMug
- solana jobs - https://t.co/PwH6NETFg1
- avax jobs - https://t.co/jd6flx6UA5
- ethereum jobs - https://t.co/5tmlpe1d4H

contests/bounty sites -
- super team - https://t.co/7ETtwTBMfk…
- scribble dao - https://t.co/H8cwysUV0i…
- wizz hq - https://t.co/aXAUUfytBp
- first dollar - https://t.co/7lH0SXSYID
- rova - https://t.co/qDwYfhTPZf…

there are other sites, you just need to search

now let’s talk about how to actually get the job fast

having the right skill set and knowing where to apply is one part of the puzzle but getting the gig is another

step 2: practical steps to get a web3 job (secret)

-> cold DMs: this is the art of sending your proposal directly to your potential employer

when you find companies that are hiring, don’t stop at applying through the job boards

this is why many people never land a job, because they get many applications each day and sometimes really on bots to filter

-> Do this: search for the project on X, identify their teams members, follow them, join their discord (if any), start pitching yourself strategically

identify their problem and propose a solution you can provide

make it short, don’t write a wall of text, writing some catchy first few lines will ensure your dm doesn’t get ignored

your cold DMs should be focused on getting their attention to respond, you can do this by letting them know you understand what they need

points out the problem > then propose a solution

always aim for brief, short and concise writing

keep it as short as 3 paragraphs, this is the magic number that has proven to work best for me

step 3: POW - proof of work

build a professional resume for yourself, this will help you stand out and showcase your skills

use Canva or Claude to generate a good looking resume

convert your resume to a portfolio website using AI and add the link on your bio to make it easy for potential employers

your X profile is also your biggest POW, share what you’re doing, your work, clients testimonials, add them to your highlight

be your biggest shiller - close mouths don’t get feed

step 4: Mindset

landing a web3 job is a numbers game, the more you apply, the higher your chances of success

do quite after applying for a short period, some people takes days before checking their DMs

if you want to get results, you must be persistent, remember you’re not the only one

if you send only 10 cold DMs a day
x7 (one week) = 70
x30 (one month) = 300

it will be close to impossible to apply to 300 just and not receive feedbacks

good luck

[Coin Bureau @coinbureau]

⚠️ALERT: DEX Raydium exploited for $1.3 MILLION.

The attacker manipulated a fake token’s supply to withdraw real assets, draining legacy liquidity pools in the process.

The attacker manipulated a fake token supply to drain five legacy pools, stealing approximately 150,177 RAY, 5,603 SOL and 893,700 USDC.

Raydium says current users were not affected and the pools were inaccessible through its UI.

[Sandalen.eth (🎨,🪄) #Freedom @Krisenvogel]

@RizzyMsZ @ThinkingUSD 75b raising. 250b in commitments according to [sources]

[DeFi Warhol @Defi_Warhol]

Most underrated metric in a bear market?
Revenue.

My golden rule is that any protocol with high revenue during rough market conditions should be kept on a close watch.

These are my top 10 protocols by LTM revenue (below $1B MC):

1. @MeteoraAG (MET): $56.4M
2. @aave (AAVE): $21.9M
3. @AerodromeFi (AERO): $21.5M
4. @AethirCloud (ATH): $16.0M
5. @PancakeSwap (CAKE): $13.0M
6. @0xPolygon (POL): $12.5M
7. @Lighter_xyz (LIT): $11.3M
8. @JupiterExchange (JUP): $10.2M
9. @ORE (ORE): $9.6M
10. @LidoFinance (LDO): $6.6M

Bad conditions don't last forever, so I'd keep a close eye on each one here.

[Sandalen.eth (🎨,🪄) #Freedom @Krisenvogel]

@hurryslowly2000 @phtevenstrong +1

[Stan Trenev @sstrenev]

I felt bored and vibe-coded a neobank in a week. The best part? You don’t even realize it runs entirely on crypto rails under the hood.

Main functionalities:

- On/off-ramp fiat to stables via BridgeXYZ
- Send, receive, and request stablecoin payments on Base
- Deploy funds to selected blue-chip DeFi protocols
- Get a free Gnosis Pay crypto debit card

All of this is powered by account abstraction and non-custodial wallets.

Users receive a Privy wallet upon registration and never have to worry about signing transactions or approvals.

Transactions are sponsored and batched via EIP-7702, so no separate token approvals are required either.

In a nutshell: one-click access to stablecoin transactions sent directly to users via email, plus seamless entry into DeFi.

Tech stack:

- BridgeXYZ – on/off-ramp fiat to stables
- Privy – non-custodial wallets
- EIP-7702 – transaction batching and sponsoring
- iOS app built with React Native
- LIFI API – swapping between USDC and EURC
- Resend – email notifications
- DeFi protocols: Aave, Morpho, Compound, and YO
- Gnosis Pay API – virtual crypto debit cards
- NodeJs Backend

Inspired by @alliance's request for startups.

If you want to check it out, let me know so I can add you to TestFlight.

[Tulip King 🌷 @tulipking]

Now that I’m finally ready to walk away from the Zcash chart, let me walk you through my nearly year long trade. Hopefully you learn something about how to manage conviction and risk.

Mid Jul 2025: @kelxyz_ invited me to a pitch dinner where everybody was supposed to share a fun trade idea and all debate them. I wanted to do a good job so I spent a lot of time researching the market, specifically assets over $1B because it would’ve felt sus to suggest something smaller. That’s when I noticed Monero was actually the top large asset YTD. This piqued my interest in privacy as an emerging narrative and I tweeted about it July 11th without taking a position personally.

> I think this teaches the value of always looking for new trends and ideas. I had been ruminating and monitoring the privacy thesis for 3 months before ever even buying Zcash. Research and work you do in a bear market converts to profits in a bull market.

October 1 2025: I saw @mert bull posting Zcash and meme’d that I wasn’t gonna copy trade him. Later that night I realized I was being stupid. Zcash overlapped with my growing conviction in privacy and I shouldn’t fade a good chart just because Mert was tweeting about it. As @IvanOnTech says, “respect all pumps”. I bought zec and went on a rampage to build as much conviction in the coin as I could

> I think this teaches the importance of avoiding “right thesis, wrong coin”. The best traders I know respect the charts. You should have a healthy reverence for the market. when it moves in unexpected ways, your first duty is to give it the benefit of the doubt and re-evaluate your initial assumptions. This applies on the way up and on the way down.

I then spent all of October bull posting & arguing with as many accounts as possible. This is an essential part of my personal approach to building conviction. CT has the brightest minds in my opinion, the fact we can all debate in public and you have reach beyond the size of your own account is awesome.

> I think this shows the importance of engaging on this platform. I love 100k follower accounts as much as I love 100 follower accounts. I try my best to reply to as many good-faith non-bot comments as humanly possible because I want everybody to know I’m an account inclined to reply to you and engage in discourse.

October 30, 2025: I called Zcash would flip Hyperliquid, despite everybody coming out of the woodwork to clown me, this happened Nov 7-8ish for a brief moment.

> I think this shows the importance of remembering your duty as a trader is to yourself. At that moment in time it was wrong to be married to hyperliquid bags. In other moments it’s wrong to be married to zcash bags. I guess there’s even times where it’s bad to be married to Bitcoin. DO NOT become a community member ever. *if you’re a trader, if you’re an investor it’s different.

Nov 7, 2025: Zcash had just flipped Hyperliquid and I was up ~6x. The position was reaching a point where I couldn’t focus on anything else, I could feel my own euphoria. I forget who, but somebody shared @blknoiz06 's beautiful Feb 17, 2021 thread about how to sell parabolic moves. I overlayed his parabola indicator on the zec chart and it was a perfect fit, time to sell. I sold roughly half the position to lock in profits and cold stored the other half as a zero-cost basis moon bag given I still believed in the fundamentals of Zcash and was willing to ride a potential downturn. This turned out to be a perfect sale at the top

> I think this shows the importance of managing your own emotions and using the sell button maturely. You don’t have to full stack buy and full stack sell. When a position runs up like crazy, you can sell a portion of the position that brings some sanity back to your life. I find realizing PnL almost always clears my head. Am I so happy with these dollars that I want to sell more? Am I having fomo such that I should buy back in? Am I happy with this new size?

> In my opinion having a mature relationship with the buy/sell button - don’t buy or sell all at once, learn to scale in and out with rising and falling conviction - is the single greatest way to improve your trading ability.

Through the end of 2025 and into 2026 I would talk about Zcash a little but mostly to affirm I like the coin & thesis but am being patient.

> Obviously this shows the importance of being patient when you have real belief

April 4th 2026: I noticed a bunch more concerning government regulation; conscriptions, wealth taxes, and ai surveillance. Bitcoin looked like it was starting an uptrend, everybody was buying the Hyperliquid dip, and the Zcash chart had a beautiful rounded bottom. So I longed more on perps. The best thing I did in this window of trading was consistently taking profits into spot positions (mostly HYPE but some additional ZEC too). I did not capture the full move from $250 to $700 on leverage but I was able to acquire a bunch of HYPE (that I still hold now) and modestly grow my ZEC bag.

> Candidly I’m less inclined to recommend people trade as actively as I was during this time period but I felt there was edge in my ability to get bullish for the mini-alt cycle before everybody else, and I had confidence in my own ability to consistently lock in profits to avoid getting over my skis. Perhaps it’s worth noting that my trading Style in this April - June 2026 cycle was much more active than my trading patterns October - November 2025. I think there’s something to be said about knowing when to buy & hold vs actively trade in and out of a position. There’s a time and place for both.

June 3 2026: ZODL posted a post mortem of the Orchard Vulnerability. Two things immediately stuck out to me
1. within 48 hours they had censored orchard transactions with a softfork and pushed a hardfork through the network. No matter what anybody says, I interpret that as a high level of centralization. That’s bad with respect to the “Zcash is a viable alternative to Bitcoin” thesis
2. the blog was being cheeky with their language around the vulnerability. “shielded pool soundness vulnerability” and “In this case, successful exploitation could have allowed the Orchard pool to accept invalid state transitions, potentially affecting the pool's accounting guarantees.” both struck me as ways to avoid saying, we found a double-spend vulnerability (worst case scenario).

I got to work with ChatGPT trying to make sense of what I was reading, seeing if I could validate my level of concern. Between my own technical experience and an assessment from ChatGPT, I felt comfortable posting and raising my concern. Much of the Zcash community and even ZODL leadership went to war in my replies. Despite everything they said, I remained unconvinced this wasn’t a big problem so I went on stream to lay out what I still believe to be a fair assessment of the situation.

^ Let me address another thing here. [centralization concerns aside] It doesn’t matter to the perspective of the market that the inability to audit these pools has always been there (vulnerability or not). What matters is that most people buying zec didn’t understand this dynamic, myself included. Fwiw I consider myself in the top 99.9% of crypto and technical knowledge, if I don’t understand it, nobody else does either. The market was going to have to price in this new risk.

These compounding factors gave me confidence to completely flip a large long position to a large short position. I had edge because I understood something better than most participants in the market.

> I’m so proud of this trade. It represents so many traits of what I think make me a good trader
1. It relies on real technical understanding to build an opinion quicker than others
2. It relies on an accurate vibes based read on my fellow market participants
3. It relies on trading discipline to be able to so rapidly invert a position I had been loud and public about in the past
**Btw all of these traits are things you can develop.

June 4 2026: Zooko posted his blog, I collected flowers from my clip, and I closed the short. From my perspective Zooko’s blog was incredible. He addressed the reality of the situation with honesty, candor, and a forward looking plan. He did not invalidate the concerns of anybody or try to sugarcoat the situation, all while keeping a cool head. I have an incredible amount of respect for Zooko personally and the Zcash project in general.

That said, the blog was my signal to close the trade. I believed I had unique edge in my understanding of the situation and Zooko’s blog addressed the situation with such honesty, it seemed like the market had caught up to me and my edge had eroded. My trade was officially over from my perspective.

> In retrospect I could have held the short longer but it’s so hard to trade when you’re the center of attention on ct. there’s nothing like it. You get completely trapped in a bubble where your entire timeline is engaging with you, it makes it seem like your trade is much more consensus than it is in reality. My respect for big accounts like @notthreadguy and many others who trade in public has gone up tremendously.

Looking forward I do see a path where ZCash can come back stronger than ever. They’re developing new cryptographic primitives and working on formal verification to give provable assurances of solvency, I hope they win. Privacy is a fundamental human right and we’re lucky so many people are passionately working on it. Remember that Solana had to suffer years of crashes & instability to finally be ready for its time in the sun during the memecoin mania. That’s not to say ZCash is a guaranteed winner anymore (it never was) but it is to say I don’t think it’s worth zero.

However I will be stepping away from the Zcash chart and watching from the sidelines for a while. My emotions are so high on this asset that I don’t feel I can trade it effectively without some time to cool off. Instead there’s other coins and narratives inside of crypto I find interesting now +plus stuff in TradFi like AI Pharma! I’m going to hang this chart on my wall and move on to new trades.

- Tulip King 🌷👑❤️

[The Assembly @InTheAssembly]

Do you understand how CRAZY that is?

$SNDK just printed a 99 RSI on the monthly chart, one of the highest readings EVER SEEN on a major stock.

[Benjamin Cowen @benjamincowen]

Plausible path:

Bitcoin forms a low in June (like it did in June 2018 and June 2022).

BTC rallies in July

SPX correction later in year which allows Bitcoin to finally bottom (most likely October)

Four year cycle wins again

[James Bull @thejbullmarket]

May destroyed everything with a Bitcoin meganuke.

However, going into June 4 projects exploded regardless, especially from the PokeFi meta.

1. $CARDS at $400M, making $100M worth of revenue at a $250M FDV while leading the PokeFi meta
2. $GACHA at $4M, apparently you get Pokemon Cards worth $1,000 airdropped per day for holding $10,000 worth of $GACHA. There are also a couple PokeFI betas $POKEFI and $GRAIL below $1M that could see some good pumps if the above leaders keep growing.
3. $WORLDCUP at $4M, this is a great worldcup ecosystem, where you can buy all the country coins. The world cup is starting in 11 days, so expect a ton of volume, pumps and dumps depending on who is winning and how is losing.
4. $PRISM @prism_lp at $4M, LP rewards without staking, no LP wrapper, no router approval, no concentrated-liquidity management. Every whole $PRISM you hold is automatically a $PRISM NFT, and every Prism NFT is a share of the same Uniswap V4 liquidity pool. The token is the position and anyone needs to buy at least 1 NFT to get the LP rewards, which makes it very interesting at higher prices, currently it's at $600 per NFT.
Prism is the first ERC-20 to deliver this natively, through a Uniswap V4 hook, not as a wrapper around an existing LP, not as a staking layer on top of a token, but as a single contract where the fungible token and the LP share are the same thing on-chain.
It's like $PANDORA that went to $240M, but instead of just giving you a picture by holding it will give any holder the fees from the LP directly. It also looks better than $UPEG that only gave holders a picture, no liquidity benefits or burns and that went to $30M MC.

Some AI-plays also were completely unaffected by the nuke $ZAUTH and $PIE, because they have good fundamentals.

The 3 memecoins $TOESCOIN + $MANIFEST + $DOGEUS were completely unaffected as well.

[Wazz @WazzCrypto]

Made a Personal Finance app / Portfolio Tracker on Claude Code

Better than anything i've ever used and tailored to my needs in less than 1 week

Supports multiple bank accounts w/ API, crypto wallets, crypto exchanges, brokerages, automated categorization, budgets, analytics...

[Hyeon | Σ: @hyeon__dev]

Quick DSTABLE vs PRISM breakdown from @0xsolazy's UniV4 hook experiment

DSTABLE = yield-bearing stablecoin
• Swap ETH → DSTABLE → hook auto-splits to USDC+USDT and supplies ~95% to Aave.

Harvest (permissionless):
• 70% → DSTABLE holders (passive yield via exchange rate ↑)
• 20% → buys PRISM & burns to 0xdead
• 10% → dev

PRISM = the flywheel token
Holding PRISM = automatic LP fees from the V4 pool
• constant buy pressure from DSTABLE’s 20% yield → deflationary flywheel as DSTABLE grows

So which one?
• DSTABLE → safer play (stablecoin exposure + passive Aave yield)
• PRISM → higher risk / higher reward (LP fees + massive upside if flywheel spins)

Super early experimental project (tiny supply, new hook). Smart contract + dev + liquidity risk.

DYOR.

[Hyeon | Σ: @hyeon__dev]

Prism
· The Engine of DeFi Built on UniV4 Hooks
· Consolidates ERC20 tokens, LP positions, and the fee router into a single, unified contract.
· PRISM token holders continuously receive a portion of the fees generated across all Prism-powered products (such as dStable, Spectrum, etc.). These fees are automatically used to buy back and burn PRISM, driving supply reduction and continuous value appreciation.

dStable
· An On-Chain Stablecoin Powered by Prism
· When swapping ETH for dStable, the Hook automatically splits the ETH into USDC and USDT and deploys it directly as liquidity.
· A novel structure where the pool itself serves as the stablecoin system, completely eliminating the need for separate vaults or managers.
· Fee Distribution:
- 70% : Distributed as yield to DSTABLE holders.
- 20% : Allocated to PRISM buyback and burn.
- 10% : Allocated to development revenue.

Spectrum
· An On Chain Index Token Launchpad Utilizing Prism + UniV4 Hooks
· Anyone can purchase an index token creation slot via a Dutch Auction (e.g., price decaying from 1 ETH to 0.1 ETH over 10 blocks).
· Buying a single index token triggers the Hook in the background to automatically purchase the underlying assets (ERC20 tokens).
· The index price is 100% pegged to the basket's Net Asset Value (NAV), virtually eliminating premiums or discounts.
· Fee Distribution:
- 60% to Holders: Earned purely by holding the index token (sourced from swap fees).
- 30% to Creators: Permanent, passive revenue stream for the creator.
- 10% to Prism: Allocated to PRISM burn.

[Stacy Muur @stacy_muur]

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[0xGeeGee @0xGeeGee]

A few interesting things going on the crypto side, on my checklist for this sunday:

1) the AERO/VELO depeg
earlier last year Dromos Labs announced that they'd merge Aero and Velo in a single platform, with Aerodrome having 94.5% of it and Velodrome 5.5%. This was scheduled for Q2 2026 (which is essentially now).
However, AERO and VELO are trading very off this mark, which means either the market is being inefficient about it (partially can be excused due to Velo shitty liquidity and problematic in/out - if people expect Aero to actually reprice downwards before the merger), or that the targets are changing.
The two are so off right now, that I think a short $AERO long $VELO is actually a good trade.

2) PreStocks SPCX
The trade is essentially the same of point 1), but with PreStocks' $SPCX and Variational/TradeXYZ on the other leg, can book a similar gap (actually VELO/AERO is better for expected returns but carries a bit more of uncertainty in terms of duration, caveats etc... since they could still change the ratio or delay the merger).
The thing i'll try to understand is if PreStocks' SPCX is just being correctly priced because: SPV fees, layering, risk etc, or if it's just a 300%+ APR for a month, laying there to be collected.

3) $KAIA
This is an interesting one, there's a lot of buzz rn between Japan and Korea on stablecoins, especially after JPYC got the greenlight for integration on Line, and actually there's one specific weird blockchain that most of this is related to, the one in the title.
I'll take a further look at it, generally "asian blockchain" didn't play out too well aside from short terms but we'll see.

4) Memes in 2026
Bidding memes still in 2026 wasn't very high on my bingo list, especially Solana ones after i repeatedly said "this is my last time i touch onchain stuff on this cursed blockchain", but here I am looking at one once again (bc it's been going NEEaTly)

5) Rates and Stablecoin Protocols
This is not for this sunday, but i'm drafting a list.
Since rates-wise things are getting quite chaotic ($JP40Y exploding and all cards on the desk for US too) and there's much more uncertainty about how the next 2 years are going to play out, i'll keep a list of stuff that both benefits or get punished should rates move in one or the other direction, this obviously means digging a bit in the stablecoin stack or what's left of it beyond just $SKY and $CRCL.

6) Privacy - too late?
Privacy is clearly the third big trend of this inter-cycles / late cycle period: memes, ai, privacy.
Now, there are a lot of whipsaw names here (yeah i'm looking at you $RAIL), but it's probably worth to keep some tabs on some of the less looked upon stuff like $NIL that could scam pump, especially given AI and the fact that Kohaku is probably going to accompany us as a looming narrative for another few months.
There are probably other names, here i'll be looking a bit at VC backed stuff that raised much more than it's trading at (scouting for a BIO/H type of deal), ideas are welcome.

Oh and obviously, Hyperliquid to $69 thanks (and keeping a tab on that cursed wasteland of LIT chart)