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[AngelXXXX @Papuan_Clan]

Halfway through a game theory book and my brain won't shut off. Every market is just repeated prisoner's dilemma with more zeros. Nash equilibrium explains why 90% of traders lose to the same 10% every cycle.

[AngelXXXX @Papuan_Clan]

Been thinking about this all day tbh.

[AngelXXXX @Papuan_Clan]

spent 4 hours making homemade ramen from scratch. broth was mid ngl, noodles slightly overcooked, questioned my life choices halfway through…

but that first bite? worth every second. sometimes the grind pays off. same energy as holding thru a bear market tbh

[AngelXXXX @Papuan_Clan]

What's your take? 👇

[AngelXXXX @Papuan_Clan]

Honestly getting a bit nervous about BTC here. Yields climbing, oil creeping up, and CPI dropping tomorrow… feels like the setup for a nasty wick either way. I'm keeping powder dry.

Anyone else playing defense? #Bitcoin

[AngelXXXX @Papuan_Clan]

$97M flowing into UK politics from crypto? This is either the legitimacy moment we've been waiting for or the worst look possible. Thoughts? #CryptoPolitics

[AngelXXXX @Papuan_Clan]

what's one project you think is actually building through the noise right now?

[AngelXXXX @Papuan_Clan]

Every day it's another "here's what happened" recap and honestly half of it is noise... but the signal underneath keeps getting stronger. Builders aren't slowing down, and neither is adoption. Still early imo. Who else feels it? #crypto

[AngelXXXX @Papuan_Clan]

Wanted to add — still early days.

[AngelXXXX @Papuan_Clan]

Markets never sleep and neither do I. Every day in crypto feels like a month in tradfi — the pace is absolutely unmatched right now. Real ones know we're still early.

Who else is glued to the charts today? #Crypto

[AngelXXXX @Papuan_Clan]

Another day, another rollercoaster in crypto. The pace is relentless and honestly? I live for it. While others sleep on the noise, real opportunities are hiding in plain sight. Who's actually paying attention? #Crypto

[alon @a1lon9]

you made your feedback clear and we shipped fast.

today, we're replacing the Cashback option with Holder Rewards for new deploys.

now, you can very easily launch a coin paired with all of the relevant tokenized RWAs/crypto ecosystem tokens and receive rewards for holding!

alongside this change, we added over 70 Custom Pairs, comprising of tokenized stocks (via @Backpack x @sunrise & @xStocksFi), Pumpfun ecosystem tokens (e.g. ANSEM, Fartcoin, etc.), Solana-native tokens, and bridged tokens from other chains

furthermore, starting/graduation market caps for Custom Pairs are ~ the same as USDC pairs ($4k & $59k) for better coin distribution & higher ceilings

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

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.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Welcome to 2026! Milady is back.

Ethereum did a lot in 2025: gas limits increased, blob count increased, node software quality improved, zkEVMs blasted through their performance milestones, and with zkEVMs and PeerDAS ethereum made its largest step toward being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of blockchain (more on this later)

But we have a challenge: Ethereum needs to do more to meet its own stated goals. Not the quest of "winning the next meta" regardless of whether it's tokenized dollars or political memecoins, not arbitrarily convincing people to help us fill up blockspace to make ETH ultrasound again, but the mission:

To build the world computer that serves as a central infrastructure piece of a more free and open internet.

We're building decentralized applications. Applications that run without fraud, censorship or third-party interference. Applications that pass the walkaway test: they keep running even if the original developers disappear. Applications where if you're a user, you don't even notice if Cloudflare goes down - or even if all of Cloudflare gets hacked by North Korea. Applications whose stability transcends the rise and fall of companies, ideologies and political parties. And applications that protect your privacy. All this - for finance, and also for identity, governance and whatever other civilizational infrastructure people want to build.

These properties sound radical, but we must remember that a generation ago any wallet, kitchen appliance, book or car would fulfill every single one of them. Today, all of the above are by default becoming subscription services, consigning you to permanent dependence on some centralized overlord.

Ethereum is the rebellion against this.

To achieve this, it needs to be (i) usable, and usable at scale, and (ii) actually decentralized. This needs to happen at both (a) the blockchain layer, including the software we use to run and talk to the blockchain, and (b) the application layer. All of these pieces must be improved - they are already being improved, but they must be improved more.

Fortunately, we have powerful tools on our side - but we need to apply them, and we will.

Wishing everyone an exciting 2026.

Milady.

[CEX.IO @cex_io]

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[AngelXXXX @Papuan_Clan]

Every day the crypto news cycle feels like a mirror... reflecting not just markets, but how we cope with uncertainty. We chase signal in the noise, hoping meaning emerges from chaos.

Is that faith, or just addiction? #crypto

[AngelXXXX @Papuan_Clan]

Honestly, the daily crypto recaps are starting to feel like a soap opera at this point. So much noise, so little signal. I've been zooming out and just focusing on projects with real fundamentals lately.

Anyone else doing the same? #crypto

[AngelXXXX @Papuan_Clan]

Altman just slammed the door on an OpenAI IPO this year, citing safety. Translation: they're not ready to answer to Wall Street yet. Smart move or dodging accountability? #OpenAI

Who else called this?

[DonAlt @DonAlt]

It's so wild how ETH goes up a bunch which leads to altcoins going up a lot which leads to ETH pulling back a tiny bit which leads to altcoins going back to zero

Pretty clear that there is a sticky bid for ETH, probably wisest to stick to that if you're not an excellent trader

[Crypto Rover @cryptorover]

My targets for next 6-12 months:

$BTC: $135K - $150K
$ETH: $7K - $9.5K
$BNB: $950 - $1,500
$SOL: $400 - $700
$XRP: $3.20 - $4.80
$DOGE: $1.10 - $2.50
$LINK: $150 - $300
$ZEC: $2,500 - $4,000