cliff

Views are my own. prev @tallyxyz, @arbitrum, @dYdX

[eric @econoar]

One major issue with this industry is anytime something goes wrong people pile on and call it a scam

To outsiders this looks so bad, all they ever see it CT calling things scams

ZEC is not a scam. An exploit doesn't instantly = scam

[Lorenzo Valente @LorenzoARK]

Can the EF please hire a PR person? Any PR person literally

You could not pick a worse day to announce you're selling 10k ETH right as the entire community is scrambling to bail out Aave's bad debt through donations.

[cliff @Clifftonishere]

Awesome read. Think designing for agents is the next big meta that traditional incumbent SaaS companies should gun heavily for to stay relevant.

[Simon Taylor @sytaylor]

I've read this piece three times.

It should be canon. If you're designing for agents, design for the workflow of it and its users. Think through how your data should show up and be presented.

e.g. Slack displays ugly Markdown. Notion nails it.

Read this.

[𝗵𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 @BFreshHB]

i'm extremely proud of what clearly was a well thought out decision by the arbitrum security council

@arbitrum is for the people

[zerolore @zerolore]

The whole industry should be applauding the elected 12 members of the security council right now. They made the difficult decision here between taking a decentralisation compromise and safeguarding its users.

The only way to get through this, is by sticking together as an industry. Users safety is paramount above everything else.

Well done @arbitrum and the rest of the team.

[David Hoffman @TrustlessState]

This was the right choice

This is not a violation of decentralization.

“Decentralized consensus” is an art that the Ethereum community has been working on perfecting since inception

I expect this to set a precedent for how and when urgent decentralized consensus is needed

[namik // mega-chef Σ: @NamikMuduroglu]

btw arbitrum with a 9/12 security council is more decentralized than every new chain (l1 or l2) launch in the past few years

[cliff @Clifftonishere]

I legitimately question why people are calling out @arbitrum's Security Council freezing DPRK funds - are you hearing yourself? Mfer are you legitimately ok screaming decentralization theatre when victims could actually have some recourse here?

[Uttam @uttam_singhk]

a KOL who would sell his soul to shill a f*cking memecoin scam, never built anything useful in his life, now has opinions on decentralization & security of the industry... ok

[Dexter's Lab @DextersSolab]

"My bot made $7,620 while i slept" is a LIE

Every day a new guy with same story and same numbers...

If this bot was real, why are you posting it for free?

He wouldn't.
And that's exactly the point.

I've been watching this scam flood my feed for months now.
And it's getting worse.

Here's the exact template they all use:

> Lost his job
> Can't pay rent
> Girlfriend broke up with me

Asked Claude to analyze top Polymarket wallets at 3am.

Bot ran all night.
Woke up to thousands in profit.

"Here's the prompt that changed my life."

Sounds familiar?

That's because it's copy pasted across hundreds of accounts.

Different story, but same link at the end.
Always.

Let me break down exactly why it's fake every single time:

The numbers are always absurd.

170x in one night across 94 trades.

Quant funds with million dollar budgets can't do that.

If someone actually built that edge, they'd be running it quietly and getting rich.

Not posting it on Twitter for retweets lol.

"Claude did everything itself."
No it didn't.

Claude is a chatbot.
It helps you write code.

It does not deploy agents, read live news, or execute trades on Polymarket alone.

That needs real infrastructure: APIs, servers, wallets, risk controls.

A prompt at 3am doesn't build that.

The dashboard in every video looks insane.

Green numbers.
Black background.
P&L only going up (how is this even possible).

That interface was generated in Claude in 5 minutes specifically to look convincing.

Real trading dashboards are boring spreadsheets and logs.

And there's always a link.

Paid Telegram or a closed group.

The bot story is just the hook to get you to click.

That's not a trader, but a marketing funnel.

Real edge on Polymarket exists.

I've spent months finding it and sharing it here for free.

But it doesn't come from a magic Claude prompt at 3am.

It never did guys.

PLEASE VERIFY BEFORE CLICKING.

Peace.

[cliff @Clifftonishere]

This isn't just limited to Polymarket either, the same engagement farming playbook runs across CT all the time.

Wild stat, mysterious whale, magic tool, referral link. If something looks too good to be true it probably is, so please always do your own research before putting real money behind someone else's "alpha."

[cliff @Clifftonishere]

Been seeing so many posts about copying "top traders" on Polymarket's Bitcoin 5-minute price markets lately.

The stats always look too good to be true so I spent some time looking into it. Figured I'd share what I found before more people get pulled in, especially in these tumultuous times where 90% of retail are rekt.

https://t.co/q4LAgDUIh8

[cliff @Clifftonishere]

The actual play is usually the referral link sitting at the bottom of the post. They tell you to "copy this trader" through some tool, but your copy trade hits after a delay while the bot's edge only lasts a couple of seconds.

By the time your order fills the price has already moved, so you're the one taking the loss while the poster quietly earns affiliate fees on every trade you place.

[cliff @Clifftonishere]

Call me petty but I enjoy watching teams beat the @MiamiHEAT (even the @celtics ).

Bam getting 83 will forever be a spit job to me at Kobe's legendary 81, and having Bam in between Kobe and Wilt is going to be a taint in the league's legacy for years to come.

[cliff @Clifftonishere]

Have refreshed https://t.co/XRVAEvTILu ~20 times in the past minute

[Tally @tallyxyz]

Should you actually launch a token?

→ why your token sale is a pinnacle event
→ the sequencing mistake that kills most launches
→ what we tell every founder before they talk to us
→ the framework we're applying to our own launch

Tally ICO Episode 11 👇

[cliff @Clifftonishere]

Is this a scam? Where did the money go? Who deployed this contract? After 5+ years full time in crypto, my general takeaway is that the challenge for teams isn't PMF, but trust. Trust isn't something teams can just promise, especially during an ICO.

That's what we built @tallyxyz to solve. Not by making ICOs easy, but by making them verifiable. Our ICO platform, built on @Uniswap CCA, lets teams of any size raise capital transparently, fairly, and accountably.

We're putting that to the test ourselves! Tally's ICO runs on our own infra. If it breaks, we break first.

[Tally @tallyxyz]

Tally is launching an ICO.

We believe we've built the best on-chain mechanism for raising capital via tokens — and we're going to prove it by using it ourselves.

Over the next 60 days, we're documenting every step of what it looks like to launch a token the right way, in the United States, in 2026.

We're demystifying a process that has historically be rife with abuse by bringing all the steps out into the open.

Episode 1 👇

[cliff @Clifftonishere]

Congrats to the @RobinhoodApp team on the testnet going live!

[Robinhood @RobinhoodApp]

The Robinhood Chain public testnet is live 🛠️

Developers can now build on a financial-grade Ethereum Layer 2 built on @arbitrum— designed to support tokenized real-world and digital assets.

Start building with the core foundation of Robinhood Chain: https://t.co/ZH4V0l0kKE

Learn more on our newsroom: https://t.co/niWJVkBW4K