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[DEGEN @champ4136]

@venividi_trade @nansen_ai

[venividi 🔎 @venividi_trade]

Tired of switching tabs for on-chain alpha?

Meet @nansen_ai | Nansen CLI : the command-line beast that brings Nansen’s powerful on-chain intelligence straight to your terminal.

Perfect for devs, traders, and AI agents. Get wallet profiles, smart money flows, token screeners & more all as clean JSON.
No fluff. Just raw data.

Super simple setup video is here👇

Why it slaps:
▷ Built for automation & AI agents
▷ Track smart money in real time
▷ Profile any wallet
▷ Script your own alpha tools

Whether you're building a trading bot or just leveling up your research Nansen CLI makes it faster and cleaner.

Want hardware + credits? #NansenCLI Mac Mini Challenge is in its final hours!

Prizes: 1× Mac Mini M4 + 100K / 50K API credits.

Closes tonight.
Don’t sleep on it.
Go build https://t.co/VzHxUw3XEb

[WizardX @WizardX_0x]

Sign-up here for the "Early Mint" list:
(posting once again now with a working link)
🖼️ -> https://t.co/4sui32ea6K
[ August 18, 2026 ] [Late Stage Archetypes]
Early Mint: 0.023 ETH
Allow List: 0.026 ETH, Public Mint: 0.034 ETH

[venividi 🔎 @venividi_trade]

NX8: The Tokenized Layer-1 Index That’s Making Multi-Chain Investing Simple, Productive, and Institutional-Grade

Hey crypto fam 👋

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed trying to pick winners across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and the rest of the L1 battlefield… you’re not alone.

Most of us end up with a messy portfolio of 8+ tokens, gas fees eating us alive, and constant rebalancing headaches.

Enter $NX8 → the first tokenized Layer-1 index from @nansen_ai in partnership with @opendelta_ . Launched February 3, 2026, NX8 gives you one single token that delivers diversified, real-time exposure to eight battle-tested L1s powering crypto’s biggest use cases.

No more guessing. No more 8 wallets. Just one token, one yield stream, full DeFi composability.

Let’s break it down step-by-step so you can decide if this belongs in your stack.

1. What Exactly Does NX8 Track?

NX8 is not a random basket. It’s a rules-based index designed by GMCI (with input from Wintermute) and powered by Nansen’s 500M+ labeled onchain addresses.

The 8 L1s (as of March 2026 – unchanged since launch):

Bitcoin (BTC) – The ultimate store of value
Ethereum (ETH) – DeFi & smart contracts king
Solana (SOL) – Speed & high-throughput apps
BNB Chain – Payments & mass adoption
TRON (TRX) – Stablecoins & global payments
Hyperliquid (HYPE) – Derivatives & perpetuals trading
Avalanche (AVAX) – Subnets & institutional RWAs
Sui (SUI) – Next-gen object-centric blockchain

Methodology in plain :

*Market-cap weighted
*20% cap per asset (no single chain can dominate)
*Quarterly rebalances
*Formal review every 6 months (next rebalance coming March 27, 2026)

This isn’t hype-driven it’s data-driven from real onchain usage. These chains power stablecoins, DeFi, RWAs, derivatives, and more. NX8 bets on the entire multi-chain economy, not just one winner.

https://t.co/6pFIpy9hSF

2. How Does the Token Actually Work?

Issued on Solana using LayerZero’s Omnichain Fungible Token (OFT) standard → true native multichain (burn on one chain, mint on another / no bridges, no fragmented liquidity)

Zero AUM / management fees (yes, really)

A portion of the underlying assets is natively staked (via Nansen-operated validators where possible)

Bitcoin uses non-leveraged yield strategies with similar risk. Yield varies by network but compounds automatically no lending, no extra smart-contract risk beyond the protocols themselves.

Real-time onchain transparency of TVL, composition, NAV, and supply via Accountable.

*Backed 1:1 by the underlying L1 assets
*Main liquidity on Orca + accessible via Jupiter, Kamino, Dflow aggregators
*Already integrated into Kamino for liquidity provision and potential extra yield

3. Why NX8 Matters (The Real Benefits)

True diversification in one click capture growth across the entire L1 landscape without picking sides.
Passive yield from native staking your index works while you sleep.

DeFi-native use it as collateral, LP it on Orca/Kamino, bridge anywhere via LayerZero.

Institutional custody :Anchorage, Hex Trust, ForDeFi. Bankruptcy-remote structure. Nansen runs validators.

Nansen Points holders get extra alignment as this is the first product under Nansen’s Joint Venture Protocol (JVP)

4. The Risks (Be Real)

*Crypto volatility L1 tokens move fast.
*Yield is variable and network-dependent (no guarantees)
*Smart-contract and custody risk (though mitigated by top-tier partners)
*Rebalancing means slight lag vs. holding the top performer.
*Liquidity is still growing (early days)

In summary; NX8 looks like a game-changing path for anyone who believes in multi-chaining for the future.

DYOR. This is not financial advice. Always do your own research.

[TIKIR aka Çalı @degenupp]

Rialo 101

Bu sefer konumuz bir entegrasyon. Geçtiğimiz günlerde @RialoHQ ekosistemi için @keplrwallet kullanılacağının duyurusu yapıldı. Bundan dolayı gelecek olan testnet sürecinde kullanım için uygun bir alternatif olacak.

Buna ek olarak @RialoHQ kendi cüzdan uygulamasını da çıkartacaktır. Testnet başladığı zaman ben @RialoHQ kendi cüzdanını daha çok kullanmaya çalışacağım. Bunun temel sebeplerinden biri inşa ettikleri ya da etmeye çalıştıkları ekosistemde muadillerinin aksine oracle olmadan doğrudan veri çekme ve web2 ile web3 ü direkt bağlama gibi bir planları var ve bundan dolayı kendi çıkaracakları cüzdanı deneyimlemek.

Testneti merakla bekliyorum. Güncellemeler ve bildirimleri takip etmeye devam edeceğim.

[venividi 🔎 @venividi_trade]

Membit | @membit_ai with its @BandProtocol -supported capabilities, has announced a new product: Membit Insight

🔗 https://t.co/ibFai90B2X

1/ Been using Membit Insight and it’s become a core part of my market prep.

It tells me exactly where to look, how the market actually feels, and saves me hours of research.

No more endless CT scrolling.

2/ The True Fear & Greed Index is the biggest edge for me

This isn’t price-derived it’s pure sentiment from real CT conversations.

I’ve seen greed spike while price chopped → clear signal to stop chasing and wait.

3/That context alone has helped me avoid bad entries.

Charts tell you what happened.
Sentiment tells you how people are positioned and that matters before the move.

4/ Then there’s Gem Hunter.

It surfaces emerging narratives early, before they’re obvious or overcrowded.
Instead of reacting late, I know what’s worth researching ahead of time.

5/ Biggest win overall: time saved.

Less noise.
Better focus.
Better decisions.

Works for crypto and TradFi since human behavior drives both.

6/ This is already useful and it’s clearly just the start.

More analysis and market intelligence tools are being added as Membit grows, with a dedicated team behind it.

Worth paying attention to.

[Zenbon @zenbon_nft]

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[DEGEN @champ4136]

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[DEGEN @champ4136]

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moving into @Jaileddotfun soon

[DEGEN @champ4136]

personal news: i got life sentence

moving into @Jaileddotfun soon

[DEGEN @champ4136]

personal news: i got life sentence

moving into @Jaileddotfun soon

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[venividi 🔎 @venividi_trade]

How to farm @KGeN_IO | $KGeN before the crowd arrives
(Save this before it blows up) 👇

1/While most people wait for hype
Smart ones are quietly farming $KGeN

Here’s how you can start farming it for free, in less than 2 minutes 🧠

2/Meet KGeN - the Web3 platform that rewards real gamer engagement.

It solves a big Web2 problem: fake users & inflated data.
Instead, it verifies genuine players and rewards them for authentic activity through on-chain proof (POGE: Proof of Gamer Engagement)

3/ Everything happens on the main platform 🔗https://t.co/LDVdJBfZq2

Inside, you can:
🎯 Complete quests (K-Quests)
🧠 Join AI-Training tasks
🎁 Claim K-Drops
🛒 Explore the K-Store
🎮 Link games & social accounts

All these actions earn you K-Points → your core activity currency.

4/What are K-Points exactly?
They’re like your XP in the KGeN ecosystem → you earn them for:

✅ Completing quests
✅ Daily check-ins (streak system)
✅ Playing supported games
✅Following socials, joining Discord, connecting wallet
✅ Early adopter boosts

Simple actions = real rewards

5/ Once you’ve farmed some K-Points
That’s when the magic happens 🔄

🎯 K-Points → rKGeN → $KGeN

K-Points convert to rKGeN during reward cycles

Each rKGeN = 1 $KGeN token

No gimmicks. No staking risk.
You just farm → hold → earn

6/ Why it’s smart to start now:

TGE happened only a few weeks ago

Early users often get multipliers & exclusive boosts

$KGeN has real traction (over 10.8M gamers verified!)

The earlier you start farming, the more rKGeN you stack before the crowd arrives

7/In short 👇
✅ Do quests → Earn K-Points
✅ Convert → rKGeN → $KGeN (1:1)
✅ Cash in when cycles unlock

It’s free, simple, and early → exactly how most crypto success stories begin.

8/Don’t just scroll. Start farming.

Go to 👉 https://t.co/LDVdJBfZq2

Pick a K-Quest, link your wallet, and start earning.

In 30 seconds, you’ll understand why KGeN is the next-gen reward engine for Web3 gamers.

[DEGEN @champ4136]

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[DEGEN @champ4136]

Every quest adds strength to the soil!

I'm collecting beans to fuel Gassy Jack's climb out of the gassy world 💨 Invite others to multiply the growth and share in the rewards. Jump in now👇

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[DEGEN @champ4136]

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[ETHGAS @ETHGasOfficial]

Introducing the Open Gas Initiative - a way for protocols to subsidize gas for users, zero-code, for a seamless, frictionless onchain experience.

With OG cohort: @eigencloud, @ether_fi, @pendle_fi, @Velvet_Capital.

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[ETHGAS @ETHGasOfficial]

Introducing the Open Gas Initiative - a way for protocols to subsidize gas for users, zero-code, for a seamless, frictionless onchain experience.

With OG cohort: @eigencloud, @ether_fi, @pendle_fi, @Velvet_Capital.

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[TIKIR aka Çalı @degenupp]

SERIES Rialo 101

Today we will focus on the question of why @RialoHQ technology was not developed earlier. The full transcript of @itachee_x 's explanation as to why this was not done before can be found in the video below. We hope you enjoy reading it and that it helps you understand why Rialo's technology was not developed earlier. 🤔🤔🤔
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Question 4

--Why wasn't @RialoHQ technology developed earlier?

--"These guys expressed it very well. So the chain link creates new data streams and feeds them into the blockchain chains. Rialo allows you to access existing data streams. And I think one of the key points to understand here is that it provides scalability. And the question I wanted to ask you was this. Maybe you can start from here. Why wasn't this done before? Do you know if this is a philosophical thing? Did we want to rebuild this alternative utopia in our own world? Was it an engineering problem? Or, as Franklin also pointed out, were they back-end systems, but we were regulators and were prevented from implementing them? So why do you think this wasn't done before?"

--@itachee_x "This is an extraordinary question. It's a mix. Let's start with the philosophy. If you research this topic online, you'll find questions about it. For example, why am I tied to a third-party system, and why is it always like this? Or, you know, there were ideologies about how everything should have its own network, its own island, and now in crypto, there's a network of network problems. One is just for ZK, the other is just for FH, and as a developer, bringing all of this together is a nightmare, but with these philosophies, we couldn't have predicted this complexity. So, actually, this situation started to bite us. That's one reason. The second reason was that, technologically, the block spaces were limited. Ethereum is a great technology, but we were trying not to overload it. So we needed to find a system that would only handle price streams. And now the opposite is true. Isn't it the same with mobile devices? The first phone chips were small. They weren't that powerful. So they only made calls. Then there was something else for the iPod, something else for GPS. Then the chips improved. Now you can do much more. It's the same thing. There's much more block space. Networks can do much more. That's another big technology. And we learned that from our experience building blockchain from scratch, right? We weren't under any pressure. My co-founder and I were far removed from those philosophies. So when we started building blockchains, we said there were no rules. Why not do something different? This actually helped you establish a different ideology. And of course, another part is having truly amazing supporters like Panta and an amazing team. Being able to go against the current and having someone support you all the way is a huge thing for us, isn't it? We wanted this not to be a narrative, not an existing narrative. It would have been much easier for us to choose a narrative, you know, a stable coin chain or tracking chain art or whatever. We wanted to create an entirely new class, and having the right people and the right team to allow you to create a category that will support you is actually harder than it seems. It's always easier to choose what's trending. So I think it's a combination of all these things."

--What makes Franklin and Pantay such a great partner? Why did you choose them? Tell us for a minute."

--@itachee_x "Oh, sure, let me explain it simply. I think you said at the beginning that I have crazy ideas and my team has crazy ideas. And if you have an investor patient enough to sit down and talk with you, we'll listen to you, right? And we'll support you and the team. This is really a big deal, AND you see it in their past performance. They constantly support category creators, right? The Panta story was a huge and ambitious thing done with crypto, wasn't it? That also gave us a certain comfort that they would really give us the freedom and flexibility to evolve. Beyond that, there's also this thing. Being a founder is hard. You know, there are many places where you doubt yourself, where there's complexity, and where you can reach out to others, right? Franklin saw how much it bothered me to reach out to people and ask, “Hey, do you know how I can solve this problem? How can I get the resources?” It couldn't have been better. So yes, I think the whole package was amazing. That's it."

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In this section, we focused on why rialo wasn't done before. We continue to be exposed to more @RialoHQ .

Thank you.

Stay with @RialoHQ . o7

[TIKIR aka Çalı @degenupp]

SERIES Rialo 101

This series will be entirely focused on information about @RialoHQ

Hello again after a long break. I'm back after some system issues and health problems. Today, I'll try to touch on a few more things about Rialo. I'll try to convey Aden's answers from @therollupco 's broadcast. Let's learn about the true essence of @RialoHQ and where it stands from
@itachee_x himself. What exactly is Rialo? The full text of the second 5-minute video is here

Question 3

If I'm a large company, why should I settle for what already exists? Why should I continue using systems that have already successfully navigated many challenging processes? The world's largest organizations use them too. What are your thoughts on this? On overcoming this and moving beyond it. And even competing with Chainlink?

--@itachee_x said this;
"Actually, we're not competing with Chainlink. I think the point is that an oracle is exactly that. An oracle is what brings data onto the chain. Today, we mostly use it for financial things, like assets and such. And that's our point. For us, an oracle can be anything: credit score data, your private banking information, sending signals to risk models on the chain to be used as collateral. The thing is, our view of oracles in crypto is very narrow. Because until now, the only thing that mattered was trading in underlying assets. That's what we're saying. When you open up this space, it becomes a complete wild west. Now everything becomes an oracle problem, and Chainlink is doing a great job at what it does, but when you think about this idea of being able to see the world, and one of the trends we're seeing a lot right now is unsecured lending. People want more signals, to give people better rates or better collateral, but most oracle providers don't offer that, so they definitely don't have that option. But this is still an oracle problem; I want to see the world, there are things out there in the world, and our definition is much broader than what existing oracle providers give you. So does that make sense?"

--@therollupco "Is there anything else you'd like to add?"

--@FranklinBi "Yes, I think Chainlink's approach is truly scalable, and I believe that's what makes them so special, right? You don't have to rely on first-party integration. You can trust the testers, you can trust the third-party validators bringing the data to the chain, and that's what makes them particularly scalable on the chain, isn't it? So I don't think this precludes Chainlink from working with Rialo or serving users on Rialo. It really expands the surface area for people to interact and bring their data onto the chain. And hopefully we'll see a lot more first-party oracle feeds or developer-initiated oracle feeds built on top of Rialo. And I think this opens up the option for developers to say, “Hey, if Chainlink doesn't have a solution for this specific piece of real-world data today, and my application needs to see it, I can at least go to the APIs that already exist in Web2. And that could be the solution I use.” Whether Chainlink offers something superior to this, perhaps something more real-time, or whether developers can access it before even considering it. I think that's fantastic, isn't it? Because at the end of the day, developers are what matter to the customer."

--@itachee_x " I think there's another side to this. It's not just about reading data on the chain. It's also about going out and sending messages to APIs. Today, in crypto, there's no service that allows you to send messages like you can on Rialo. If you want, you can tweet, and we have that. You can even call ChatGPT right now. Being able to go out into the outside world directly is a feature that oracles don't offer you. But there's also a benefit to integrating these things on the other side. Oracles are not part of the blockchain today. There is always another layer of abstraction, which means a cost, a development and sales cycle. It's a process, and when you integrate these things, you can create entirely new things, like how developers could create Uber when GPS was on your phone. When the system isn't always integrated, the level of creativity remains quite limited because it's more fragile. So, by making this a fundamental principle, we think it will start to happen more often. As developers, we will have a lot more control over how data is brought onto the chain and how it is used."

--@therollupco "Yes, I think so too. I think an interesting micro analogy in this small crypto microcosm is how Zcash has been on everyone's lips lately. For a long time, it was like it was on a completely isolated island, and then suddenly intents came along and said, “Hey guys, welcome to the party.” Now, if you think about this at the macro level, crypto and blockchain continue to exist within this broader macro silo. Rialo also emerges and essentially says, “Hey, everyone, welcome to the party.”"

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These are excellent insights aimed at fully explaining Rialo's fundamental structure and understanding oracles. I'm learning a lot while translating these and enjoying it.

Thank you for reading. I'll continue with the last part tomorrow.

Stay tuned for @RialoHQ .