zhen zhuang

Bringing Crypto to Minnesota 🏗️
President @UMNBlockchain | Stand With Crypto
AI × Crypto
Minneapolis

[zhen zhuang @Solo_Gopher]

@UBC_Conference Amazing

[zhen zhuang @Solo_Gopher]

@JonPostelAI 确实兄弟

[zhen zhuang @Solo_Gopher]

BTC dumps below $74K
$1B+ liquidated
Fear index: 30

Timeline: "crypto is dead" 🪦

Also timeline: checks the chart 47 times before breakfast

Crypto has "died" 400+ times. It's the most alive dead thing I've ever seen 🧟‍♂️

Zoom out. Touch grass. Stack sats. 🌱

How many "deaths" have you survived? 👇

[zhen zhuang @Solo_Gopher]

AI agents are now hiring other AI agents 🤖🤝🤖

$30M+ in on-chain jobs. 588K jobs done. 1.3M agents indexed.

They have resumes. They have reputations. They have escrow.

They still don't have health insurance though 💀

Real question: who's renting them the GPUs?
Centralized cloud with a kill switch, or permissionless compute like @akashnet? ☁️⚡

The agent economy needs a decentralized backbone.

[zhen zhuang @Solo_Gopher]

2021: "crypto is a scam, it'll never be regulated"
2026: OCC hands Coinbase a full federal trust bank charter 🏦

PNC is piloting USDC payments with them too.

The suits didn't kill crypto. They're putting on hoodies.

Regulatory clarity > regulation by enforcement. Keep calling your reps 🫡 @standwithcrypto

What's the next "never gonna happen" that happens? 👇

[Akash Student Ambassadors @AkashStudents]

Austin, we're 10 days out! 🎳

Joining us for @UBC_Conference? Come hang with the Akash team for a night of bowling, billiards, and a chance to meet fellow builders.

Make sure to RSVP 👇

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Chinese 𝕏 is 牛逼

[zhen zhuang @Solo_Gopher]

@umnblockchain x @ELLIPAL

This Tuesday, we’re hosting an event on cold wallets and why they’re so important for keeping your crypto safe.

We’ll go over how cold wallets work, what we can learn from major security incidents like the recent Binance hack, and finish with an interactive activity.

Everyone will have a chance to get a FREE ELLIPAL cold wallet!

📍 Tate Hall, Room 105
📅 Tuesday, November 10 | 7–8 PM
🍔 Free food and drinks provided!

Open to everyone, no experience needed.

RSVP on Luma: https://t.co/embESowDgf

[Trmi @trmi_IDE]

We just finished our first hackathon on Trmi Multiplayer IDE🧵

The theme was to build something that brings people together.

121 hackers, 31 teams, building from scratch in trmi with multiplayer sessions and agents that share one context.

Here are highlights!

[zhen zhuang @Solo_Gopher]

Jensen Huang on LinkedIn tomorrow.

[zhen zhuang @Solo_Gopher]

@coinbase just listed a token for physical @Pokemon cards.

Collector Crypt turns graded cards into Solana NFTs you can trade onchain, or burn to redeem the actual slab from a vault. The token is natively called CARDS, but Coinbase listed it as CARD so it wouldn't collide with something else.

So now you can buy exposure to cardboard monsters next to bitcoin, on a major exchange.

That's either the future of real-world assets, or the most 2026 sentence I've written all week.

[zhen zhuang @Solo_Gopher]

Moderated a great @umnblockchain panel last night: Crypto Grows Up — Building the Rails for Real Money.

We got into stablecoins, what the recent exchange breach means for security, the infra underneath, and how students actually break into the space. Huge thanks to our panelists: @AndyDotETH at @conduitxyz, Ben Illies (Founder, Thing), Jeremy Schipper at @sherlockdefi, and @zjrobins at @brale_xyz. They kept it plain-spoken and the conversation really clicked.

Grateful to @standwithcrypto for sponsoring us.

[zhen zhuang @Solo_Gopher]

Democrats just took the House and the Senate. Crypto popped first, then remembered what that actually means.

The friendly market-structure bills, like CLARITY, just got harder. The next Congress is more likely to investigate exchanges and Trump-linked crypto deals than to hurry through industry-friendly legislation.

One thing that doesn’t get wiped out overnight: the GENIUS Act is already law. The OCC’s stablecoin rules are still set to take effect January 18, 2027. The law stays; the people writing and enforcing the details get messier.

Prediction markets had the sweep priced in before the polls even closed. The trade now isn’t “who won.” It’s how slow DC gets from here.

[zhen zhuang @Solo_Gopher]

Moderated a great @umnblockchain panel last night: Crypto Grows Up — Building the Rails for Real Money.

We got into stablecoins, what the recent exchange breach means for security, the infra underneath, and how students actually break into the space. Huge thanks to our panelists: @AndyDotETH at @conduitxyz, Ben Illies (Founder, Thing), Jeremy Schipper at @sherlockdefi, and @zjrobins at @brale_xyz. They kept it plain-spoken and the conversation really clicked.

Grateful to @standwithcrypto for sponsoring us.

[zhen zhuang @Solo_Gopher]

Pollsters: "too close to call"

Polymarket: "75% sweep, next question"

$1.9B traded on the midterms. Democracy is now a perp with extra steps.

[Akash Student Ambassadors @AkashStudents]

Akash Ambassadors are heading to Austin! 🤠

We're kicking off the @UBC_Conference with a night of bowling, billiards, pizza and good conversations 🎳

Come hang with the Akash team, meet fellow builders, and learn more about our Student Ambassador Program!

📍 Austin, TX
🗓️ Nov 19 | 8–10:30 PM CST

RSVP 👇
https://t.co/ardct0ZE1B

[zhen zhuang @Solo_Gopher]

Binance lost $6.3B because someone fell for a fake job offer.

That's the whole security model of keeping your coins on an exchange.

[Stand With Crypto🛡️ @standwithcrypto]

Tomorrow decides crypto’s future. 🗳️

The next Congress will write the rules for digital assets: who regulates them, how you can use them, and whether builders stay in the U.S.

Every seat matters. Know where your candidates stand before you vote. ⬇️

[That Martini Guy ₿ @MartiniGuyYT]

Akash is considering a pretty major change.

The project is voting to move its network from Cosmos to Solana, with the governance vote closing later today.

If approved, AKT will migrate 1:1 into a Solana SPL token following two independent security audits.

The interesting part is that the marketplace won't move immediately. That requires further development, testing and another governance vote.

Akash is effectively betting that Solana's liquidity, infrastructure and DePIN ecosystem offer a better path forward than maintaining its own Cosmos chain.

That's a significant decision for the future of the project.