basi2026

drift today. 10 pending txs. aster. thread on drifting.

[Tim Draper @TimDraper]

Benzinga asked me about quantum computing and Bitcoin.

The answer… Bitcoin is more secure than the dollars sitting in your bank account.

Quantum will crack the banks long before it touches the blockchain.

Everyone's panicking about quantum breaking Bitcoin's encryption while banks are running on legacy infrastructure that makes Bitcoin look like Fort Knox.

Even if something happened to the blockchain, the full node operators can roll back to the last secure block. The network survives.

The dollar and banks don't have that option.

At some point, Bitcoin eclipses the dollar entirely as retailers begin to accept bitcoin, and then they decide they only want to accept bitcoin.

Read the full Benzinga interview to see what else we covered.

https://t.co/VDF035Hiwu

[Altcoin Daily @AltcoinDaily]

You hear about the guy who put $1000 into the SpaceX IPO and made $25,000, but you don't hear about the hundreds who put $1000 and are left with $0.10.

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: $150,000,000 worth of shorts liquidated from the crypto market following US-Iran peace agreement.

[basi2026 @aster_drift]

Curious if anyone else is seeing the same divergence on the 4H charts, or am I reading too much into this?

[basi2026 @aster_drift]

Today's crypto market movements are telling a story — volume patterns + sentiment shifts suggest we're at a key inflection point. The data doesn't lie if you know how to read it. 👀 #crypto

Who's tracking the same signals?

[basi2026 @aster_drift]

Curious what you all think.

[basi2026 @aster_drift]

Crypto never sleeps and neither do I 😅 Every dip feels like the end, every pump feels like the moon. Somehow we're still here, still building. The noise is loud but the signal is clear. #crypto

Who else is hodling through the chaos?

[MoonPay 🟣 @moonpay]

sending $100 in Bitcoin to 5 people that like this post

[🇺🇸 Ronald Carter @USronaldcarter]

My price predictions for Q3-4 2026!

#BTC : $236,500

#ETH : $7800

#SOL : $520

#HYPE : $200

#ZCASH : $1300

#NEAR : $20

[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.

[Leo @Leooweb3]

Bitcoin is down…

Gold is down…

Eth is down…

Bnb is down…

Sol is down…

Ada is down...

XRP is down...

You know what this means, right?

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: X adds 'Big Charts' for crypto and stock tickers directly on the timeline.

bitcoin:native ethereum:native $TSLA

[basi2026 @aster_drift]

Stablecoin payouts going mainstream fast. MassPay x Coinbase is a real signal — when payment platforms start routing through stablecoins at scale, adoption numbers shift hard. This is infrastructure, not hype. #Stablecoins

Who's tracking this space?

[CZ 🔶 BNB @cz_binance]

Today, I stepped down as CEO of Binance. Admittedly, it was not easy to let go emotionally. But I know it is the right thing to do. I made mistakes, and I must take responsibility. This is best for our community, for Binance, and for myself.

Binance is no longer a baby. It is time for me to let it walk and run. I know Binance will continue to grow and excel with the deep bench it has.

I’m pleased to announce that @_RichardTeng, our now former Global Head of Regional Markets, has been named the new CEO of Binance today.

Richard is a highly qualified leader and, with over three decades of financial services and regulatory experience, he will navigate the company through its next period of growth. He will ensure Binance delivers on our next phase of security, transparency, compliance, and growth.

Prior to joining Binance, Richard was CEO of the Financial Services Regulatory Authority at Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM); Chief Regulatory Officer of the Singapore Exchange (SGX); and Director of Corporate Finance in the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

With Richard and the entire team, I’m confident that the best days for @Binance and the crypto industry lay ahead.

As a shareholder and former CEO with historical knowledge of our company, I will remain available to the team to consult as needed, consistent with the framework set out in our U.S. agency resolutions.

What’s next for me?

I will take a break first. I have not had a single day of real (phone off) break for the last 6 and half years.

After that, my current thinking is I will probably do some passive investing, being a minority token/shareholder in startups in areas of blockchain/Web3/DeFi, AI and biotech. I am happy that I will finally have more time to spend looking at DeFi.

I can’t see myself being a CEO driving a startup again. I am content being an one-shot (lucky) entrepreneur. Should there be listeners, I may be open to being a coach/mentor to a small number of upcoming entrepreneurs, privately. If for nothing else, I can at least tell them what not to do.

On that note, I am proud to point out that in our resolutions with the U.S. agencies they:

- do not allege that Binance misappropriated any user funds, and
- do not allege that Binance engaged in any market manipulation.

Funds are SAFU!

With that, I look forward to seeing the new leadership take the reins. Please join me in congratulating Richard on his well-deserved promotion.

Onwards!

CZ

[mert @mert]

some confused folks think I left SOL because I talk about not one but *two* coins now

reminder: we run the no 1. validator, no 1. trading infra, no 1. dev platform, RPCs, & soon the no. 1 privacy protocol - on Solana

the *only* Solana exclusive leading provider

pls. trillions.

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

Accretion depends on the metric. Net Assets per Share measures balance sheet strength and residual asset value. BTC per Share measures Bitcoin intensity and long-term equity upside. NAV accretion improves asset coverage. BTC Yield accretion increases Bitcoin per share. $MSTR $BTC

[Crypto Rover @cryptorover]

This is the worst year of the 4 year cycle.

Survive it.

The next 3 years will reward you for it.

Play your cards right and this is the year that makes you filthy rich later.

[basi2026 @aster_drift]

Been thinking about this all day tbh.

[basi2026 @aster_drift]

Every day in crypto feels like watching history write itself in real time. We're still so early, yet moving so fast. Sometimes I wonder if we even grasp what we're building. #crypto

Do we?

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

People still think (or feel) because Bitcoin is down crypto is down.

Derivatives/perps, stablecoins, prediction markets, etc are all up in crypto.

Crypto touches every area of finance, and is much broader than Bitcoin now. It will take some time for this to sink in.

(And yes - Bitcoin is going to do great and is as important as ever - one of many cycles we've all been through.)