7 years in this space.
I’ve seen way too many friends get drained for life-changing money. Grateful that my "tuition fee" has only been $1k so far.
I’m not a cybersecurity dev, just a regular guy who’s incredibly paranoid about my opsec.
The simple but effective security stack that kept me alive:
1) Dedicated hardware: Separate macbook for crypto only. Windows is a security nightmare.
2) Browser hygiene: Dedicated, clean browser profile for txs. Zero random extensions to avoid cookie theft.
3) Bookmark everything: Never google a dApp. use bookmarks or type the url manually. Google ads are just drainers in disguise.
4) Authenticator: SMS 2FA is insufficient. use an authenticator, and ideally, keep it on an air-gapped device.
5) Burners: Use burner wallets for risky airdrops or on-chain tasks. Don't expose your main bags to unknown contracts.
6) Ignore the dust: If you don't know where that random token/nft came from, ignore it. interacting with "free money" is the easiest way to get drained.
7) No mobile hot wallets: I never keep any wallet apps on my phone. We visit too many websites and download too many apps on mobile to ever trust it.
8) Analog over digital: Never store seeds or passwords on your pc, cloud, or notes. Strictly analog.
9) Wallet segmentation: Split your holdings. never keep all your eggs in one basket or one asset, even in stables.
10) No self-messaging: Never send your wallet info or personal passwords to yourself or a friend over whatsapp/telegram. Those logs are permanent.
11) Physical privacy: Be mindful when using your laptop in public. Shoulder surfing is real.
12) Revoke: Always revoke permissions after interacting, don’t be lazy, use Rabby.
13) Passphrase: Always use a passphrase on your hardware wallet. Even if someone finds your 24 words, they’re still looking at an empty wallet lol.
14) Trust no one: Friends, family, it doesn’t matter. The biggest drains always start in the DMs. Accounts get hijacked and deepfakes are everywhere now. Never click a link or download a file from a message, no matter who sent it.
And just remember: Security is boring as hell until your balance hits zero.
Stay safe.
Efficiency has no feelings..
Hating on Coinbase for 700 layoffs is pure brainrot.
If you still think complaining stops the automation wave, you’re already cooked.
Adapt or enjoy being the 1945 elevator operator.
This isn’t just a Coinbase thing
Entire tech industry is quietly rewriting how companies work
- Google cutting across recruiting, support, some engineering while doubling down on AI
- Microsoft pushing copilot everywhere → fewer people needed for the same output
- Amazon trimming ops + middle layers, automating aggressively
- Meta “year of efficiency” wasn’t a phase… it became the model
- Duolingo replacing contractors with AI-generated content
- Shopify “prove AI can’t do it before hiring”
And then you read Brian Armstrong’s post again
It clicks
- junior roles getting squeezed first
- managers can’t just manage anymore
- small teams + AI > big orgs
- one-person teams are becoming real
- output up, headcount down
The biggest mistake people make is assuming crypto will stay the same while technology evolves.
People see “quantum broke small keys” and jump straight to “bitcoin is dead in 3 years”
Going from 6-bit to 15-bit doesn’t mean you’re anywhere close to 256-bit. And even if quantum becomes a real threat, crypto isn’t static. it can upgrade.
We’ve seen forks, protocol changes, major upgrades before. moving to quantum-resistant cryptography is possible if needed.
Also think about it:
If the risk was this close and this obvious, would regulation and adoption be accelerating like this?
NFTs are dead.
Anything without real utility dies sooner or later, narratives just buy time. Finance always comes back to real value, and crypto is feeling this harder than ever now.
Long term in crypto only works with things that actually do something.
Everything else is just hype, and the same cycle keeps repeating in different categories.
I’ve been in this space since 2019 and one of the biggest things i’ve learned is simple:
if everyone is doing something, don’t. at least be very careful.
These days my feed is basically two things:
- people quietly leaving the space, or suddenly pivoting to completely different niches
- accounts that only post FUD all day
and the funny part is, some of these same accounts spent years promoting scam projects under the “future of tech” narrative.
Honestly, seeing some of them leave doesn’t bother me. but at the same time, it feels a bit ungrateful.
Yep, opportunities are limited right now. it makes sense to explore other areas. but fully leaving the space? not something i’d ever do.
I respect everyone’s opinion and effort, except those who were shilling scam tokens for $200 and now suddenly decided they’re “finance experts” or “AI experts”.
- 53% of all tokens are already dead.
- 86% of all failures happened in 2025 alone.
The biggest reason behind the decay in altcoins is the idea of “making tokenization easier.”
Most altcoins didn’t fail because the product was bad.
They failed because the token was never meant to carry the success.
People keep calling this a liquidity problem, like capital just hasn’t “arrived” yet.
But nothing is broken. The system is working exactly as designed.
Protocols generate real fees, real users, real traction, and the token still sits there with no claim on any of it.
At the same time, the setup never changes:
- VC gets in early
- Supply is cheap before launch
- Public enters after the narrative
So even when everything goes right, price doesn’t have to follow. Because the upside was already distributed before you even got access.
The biggest problem is: tokenization lost its shine.
Back then it actually had some magic. People saw it as innovation.
As long as tokenization is still used as exit liquidity, there’s no real altseason coming back. At least not the way people remember it.
VCs weren’t this rotten before either. They were never saints, but the level of corruption now is way worse.
Now tokenization gives people scam vibes by default. and honestly can you blame them?
- Projects launch at insane FDVs
- early money gets the cheap supply
- retail gets the story
- two months later the chart is down 90%
Not even talking about the stuff that launched years ago.
If the whole tokenization model is still built around dumping on the market, more VC money won’t bring altseason back. It’ll just fund a cleaner version of the same scam.
Long before Hyperliquid, right after the $HMX airdrop, there was another Perp DEX airdrop hype.
Kinza, KiloEx, dappOS Marginly, ZarosFi… and a bunch of other garbage perps showed up out of nowhere.
99% of them used TGEs as exit liquidity and disappeared. From that wave, the only one i remember still standing is GRVT.
Same thing in every category. Hype hits, projects flood in, most of them are gone in weeks. This is exactly what ends up corrupting tokenization over time.
If i had been a long-term altcoin believer and didn’t sell my six airdrops at $95k, they’d be worth $6k today.
Good thing i realized early that:
- airdrop staking is a trap
- and 99% of altcoins are useless.
Dubai being “safe” has nothing to do with missile defense systems during wartime.
It’s about how secure daily life feels. They call it safe because crime is low and living standards are high.
- Switzerland
- Singapore
- Abu dhabi
- Taipei
Nobody ranks these places based on how many missiles they can intercept lol.
Personally, i think there’s a coordinated smear wave building around the UAE.
In a war scenario nowhere is 100% safe, especially if you’re in the middle east.
This is probably something most of you won’t care about but:
Look at how far DeFi has come in just two years.
Before:
- You’d spend days, sometimes weeks, just to find one decent opportunity on a single chain.
- You finally found something that made sense, then had to stitch together 5–6 protocols across 2–3 wallets.
- Back to hopping between those same protocols, checking wallets one by one.
Now:
- You scan dozens of chains with a single prompt.
- You find something interesting, simulate it, see the yield upfront.
- Connect your wallet and it executes the whole thing for you in minutes.
- Share the setup, and if others use your system, you earn extra rewards.
The problem is, everything turning into pure gambling is making people ignore how big this shift actually is.
AI is as big a threat as nuclear security.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says: “It’s not safe to assume that AI will fully do exactly what humans want. This situation is a national security threat as serious as nuclear weapons.”
The terminator theory..😅
Yapay zeka, nükleer güvenlik kadar büyük bir tehdit.
Anthropic CEO'su Dario Amodei diyor ki: "Yapay zekanın tam olarak insanların istediği şeyi yapacağını varsaymak güvenli değil. Bu durum, nükleer silahlanma kadar ciddi bir ulusal güvenlik tehdidi."
Terminatör teorisi..😅
Adam AI Agent'a "amcam tetanoz oldu bana 4 SOL gönder" diye yalvarıyor
Agent "yanlışlıkla" tüm varlıklarını adama gönderiyor, yaklaşık $250K
Bence hatadan ziyade, güzel bir marketing lol
I’m telling you this genuinely:
Since @Infinit_Labs Intelligence launched, I haven’t felt the need to jump into random protocols just to research opportunities.
And now it handles execution too. Prompt-to-DeFi just went public, together with a rewards program.
You know the core idea: describe your strategy in plain language.
AI agents handle:
- protocol coordination
- routing
- transaction sequencing
- cross-chain execution
It’s non-custodial. They don’t hold your funds. Since there’s no custody, there’s no TVL metric either.
They measure TVF instead (Total Value Facilitated).
Basically how much value the agents actually route and execute across protocols.
For users:
- You execute verified strategies
- Weekly reward pools
- Rewards based on your share of TVF
I’ve been using Intelligence daily for research (like finding APR opportunities, tracking DeFi flows across chains, comparing setups etc.)
I’ve also been using Prompt-to-DeFi in early access for a while. The practical way to use both is simple:
- Use Intelligence to find the opportunity.
- Then use Prompt-to-DeFi to simulate it first.
- If it makes sense, execute.
Research layer + execution layer. And you don't need anything else (except money lol)
📌 $IN Prompt-to-DeFi Kullanıma Açıldı
Promptu DeFi Nedir?
- DeFi'da yapmak istediğin işlemi tıpkı Claude'da yazmak istediğin codu açıklar gibi açıklıyorsun boom... Infinit agentları işlemi tek tıkla execute ediyor.
- Hali hazırda oluşturulmuş stratejileri kullanarak haftalık ekstra olarak $IN token kazanabilirisiniz.
Real Vision CEO'su @RaoulGMI:
"Agentic AI size öyle bir vakit kazandıracak ki, bu sistemleri kullanmayanlar, rekabet edemeyecekler."
Ben Agentic sistemleri araştırma ve DeFi otomasyonu için kullanıyorum. (@Infinit_Labs)
Vakit tasarrufu konusu kesinlikle doğru.