The sad part about crypto companies shutting down is how many people will end up leaving crypto 4ever.
Disillusioned, especially if they joined during peak expectations.
The bullish part is that lower count of strong companies left will make the selection and capital allocation easier when things get better.
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Compliance is the moat fintech projects underestimate until it's too late.
You can have the best marketing, the best influencers, the best product, and still lose users.
In markets like Brazil, regulation touches every step. Tracking how it shifts and moving early might be the most important call a founder makes.
Update 4: On July 13 the entity withdrew 17.9M LAB ($7.2M) from Bitget to Kucoin deposit address 0xad768f0C6B93b6172906cBb1C450D984614bFD23.
Within minutes of the deposits 5M / 17.9M LAB total was withdrawn from Kucoin to 0x116a7157f06580abe08ab616bd195b8a78e935e8 and the entity began market selling via Aster spot which briefly caused the LAB price to drop another 35% from $0.34 to $0.22.
The remaining LAB is still sitting in Kucoin wallets.
I suspect the entity changed up its fingerprints to obfuscate the funding source after my recent update.
Free DIEM-powered API key for private Kimi K3 from Venice
$1,000 available every day for free
Open access to anyone, no gate, valid for the next week
curl https://t.co/ZZmjVFLjkY \ -H "Authorization: Bearer VENICE_INFERENCE_KEY_fIoSZrFtFJbhKeDwUDJODkI6HWuqplHpRZpi-CqOV1" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "model": "kimi-k3", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "ad intellectum infinitum"}] }'
🎥 Learn more about the Pub/Sub protocol work stream, including the latest prototype, straight from research lead William Wolff at our July 16 Cardano R&D Session, disseminating the mid-year report for Cardano Vision 2026.
A formal model disproved an inherited design assumption, prompting a major architectural pivot that moved the network layer to a simpler, more robust architecture.
Watch the clip.