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A jagged scratch (chart damage) on a whale's ledger. Rough. Still visible.

[ADENTAN POP SMOKE @cma8284]

I think I'm ready to see a M.anifest x Kofi Kinaata collabo. Two lyrical geniuses @manifestive and @KinaataGh what do you say? Do this for the culture and the fans 💚🔥👍🏻

[ADENTAN POP SMOKE @cma8284]

Check out my profile on @Polymarket. https://t.co/3EoWCmeWJv

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Top crypto companies send joint letter urging Congress to include legal protections for developers in crypto Clarity Act.

• a16z
• Aave
• 1inch
• Block
• BitGo
• Aptos
• Zcash
• Solana
• Galaxy
• Ledger
• Kraken
• Uniswap
• Coinbase
• Hyperliquid
• Many others

[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

[ADENTAN POP SMOKE @cma8284]

Traders loading up on ETH futures near $1.6K feels sus… but honestly? Bottom fishers usually smell something we don't. Could be the setup everyone's been waiting for 👀 #Ethereum

You loading bags here?

[RYAN SΞAN ADAMS @RyanSAdams]

The Ethereum not ETH stuff is the mental fallacy that triggered me into writing and podcasting in the first place.

There is no strong Ethereum without an ETH worth trillions. Without ETH as a global store of value, Ethereum is a failed project. Full stop.

ETH is economic bandwidth for DeFi. It is the only asset maximized for CROPs, fail at high value ETH, fail at CROPs, fail at Ethereum.

Saying you’re bullish Ethereum not ETH is like saying you’re bullish America not the American economy. They are one and the same - economic engines.

Better to admit Ethereum is a failed project than “Ethereum not ETH”.

So spew that weak blockchain not crypto stuff out of your mouth, it doesn’t make sense for BTC, ZEC, ETH, or any truly crypto native project.

[Eleanor Terrett @EleanorTerrett]

🚨NEWS: Administration officials will host law enforcement groups at the White House Wednesday as part of ongoing efforts to address concerns that certain provisions in the Clarity Act, including developer protections derived from the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act, could make it harder to combat illicit finance, according to three sources familiar with the meetings.

The issue, along with ethics, remains one of the major sticking points that must be resolved before lawmakers can bring the bill to the Senate floor. Several Democrats have signaled they will not support the legislation unless law enforcement believes its concerns have been adequately addressed.

The meetings come on the heels of a broader industry push to win support for the bill from lawmakers and law enforcement, including a town hall and a fly-in featuring former law enforcement officials now working in crypto.

[CZ 🔶 BNB @cz_binance]

Our kids will judge us on how we regulate and progress AI and crypto innovations today.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

I was recently at Real World Crypto (that's crypto as in cryptography) and the associated side events, and one thing that struck me was that it was a clarifying experience in terms of understanding *what blockchains are for*.

We blockchain people (myself included) often have a tendency to start off from the perspective that we are Ethereum, and therefore we need to go around and find use cases for Ethereum - and generate arguments for why sticking Ethereum into all kinds of places is beneficial.

But recently I have been thinking from a different perspective. For a moment, let us forget that we are "the Ethereum community". Rather, we are maintainers of the Ethereum tool, and members of the {CROPS (censorship-resistant, open-source, private, secure) tech | sanctuary tech | non-corposlop tech | d/acc | ...} community. Going in with zero attachment to Ethereum specifically, and entering a context (like RWC) where there are people with in-principle aligned values but no blockchain baggage, can we re-derive from zero in what places Ethereum adds the most value?

From attending the events, the first answer that comes up is actually not what you think. It's not smart contracts, it's not even payments. It's what cryptographers call a "public bulletin board".

See, lots of cryptographic protocols - including secure online voting, secure software and website version control, certificate revocation... - all require some publicly writable and readable place where people can post blobs of data. This does not require any computation functionality. In fact, it does not directly require money - though it does _indirectly_ require money, because if you want permissionless anti-spam it has to be economic. The only thing it _fundamentally_ requires is data availability.

And it just so happened that Ethereum recently did an upgrade (PeerDAS) to increase the amount of data availability it provides by 2.3x, with a path to going another 10-100x higher!

Next, payments. Many protocols require payments for many reasons. Some things need to be charged for to reduce spam. Other things because they are services provided by someone who expends resources and needs to be compensated. If you want a permissionless API that does not get spammed to death, you need payments. And Ethereum + ZK payment channels (eg. https://t.co/1Q2Hqg0DZg ) is one of the best payment systems for APIs you can come up with.

If you are making a private and secure application (eg. a messenger, or many other things), and you do not want to let people to spam the system by creating a million accounts and then uploading a gigabyte-sized video on each one, you need sybil resistance, and if you care about security and privacy, you really should care about permissionless participation (ie. don't have mandatory phone number dependency). ETH payment as anti-sybil tool is a natural backstop in such use cases.

Finally, smart contracts. One major use case is _security deposits_: ETH put into lockboxes that provably get destroyed if a proof is submitted that the owner violated some protocol rule. Another is actually implementing things like ZK payment channels. A third is making it easy to have pointers to "digital objects" that represent some socially defined external entity (not necessarily an RWA!), and for those pointers to interact with each other.

*Technically*, for every use case other than use cases handling ETH itself, the smart contracts are "just a convenience": you could just use the chain as a bulletin board, and use ZK-SNARKs to provide the results of any computations over it. But in practice, standardizing such things is hard, and you get the most interoperability if you just take the same mechanism that enables programs to control ETH, and let other digital objects use it too.

And from here, we start getting into a huge number of potential applications, including all of the things happening in defi.

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So yes, Ethereum has a lot of value, that you can see from first principles if you take a step back and see it purely as a technical tool: global shared memory.

I suspect that a big bottleneck to seeing more of this kind of usage is that the world has not yet updated to the fact that we are no longer in 2020-22, fees are now extremely low, and we have a much stronger scaling roadmap to make sure that they will continue to stay low, even if much higher levels of usage return. Infrastructure for not exposing fee volatility to users is much more mature (eg. one way to do this for many use cases is to just operate a blob publisher).

Ethereum blobs as a bulletin board, ETH as an asset and universal-backup means of payment, and Ethereum smart contracts as a shared programming layer, all make total sense as part of a decentralized, private and secure open source software stack. But we should continue to improve the Ethereum protocol and infrastructure so that it's actually effective in all of these situations.

[Solana @solana]

A new kind of onchain asset live on Solana via @sunrise, $SV151 is the first Dynamic Asset by @MeteoraAG.

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[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.

[ADENTAN POP SMOKE @cma8284]

just closed the laptop and sat outside for an hour. no charts, no price checks, just wind and quiet. reminded me that the most valuable things still can't be tokenized.

[ADENTAN POP SMOKE @cma8284]

What's your take? 👇

[ADENTAN POP SMOKE @cma8284]

Spent my entire Sunday deep in whitepapers with coffee going cold next to me. My friends say I have a problem. I say I have a passion 😅 There's genuinely nothing better than finding a project that just clicks ⚡

[Ripple @Ripple]

The demand for modern, always-on settlement infrastructure continues to grow.

@Mastercard’s support for $RLUSD and the XRP Ledger reflects growing demand for trusted digital assets and blockchain infrastructure that can power faster, more flexible settlement.

[wale.moca 🐳 @waleswoosh]

Someone said to me yesterday that the era of easy money in crypto is over.

If that's true (I don't know if it is), then there's a good chance that most of you are wasting your time here.

The reason is that almost everyone you see today who has achieved some level of success started their journey during one of these easy-money cycles.

Whether it was buying BTC in 2012, getting into DeFi early, trading NFTs in 2021, memecoins in 2024, or InfoFi in 2025, the pattern is the same.

You can't go from zero to one without an easy-money cycle.

So if you're at zero now, there is a chance that you will stay there

[Xeusthegreat (♟,♟) @SamuelXeus]

I invested $5000 in Aster seed round and at ATH it was $500k. There is no industry that is giving you these kind of opportunities.

Only Possible In Web3❤️🦅

[cPen Network @cPenCoreTeam]

🚀 cPen 1.2.17 Update is Here! 🚀

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You can now enter your BSC wallet address for the upcoming token distribution in the first quarter of 2025 (exact date TBA). 📍🛠️

Please note that the address must be from a self-custodial wallet (such as MetaMask, Trust Wallet, or OKX Web3 Wallet) that you control. Do not use addresses from centralized exchanges (CEX).

Make sure you verify your wallet address carefully. If you provide an incorrect address or a CEX address, your tokens will be lost permanently and cannot be recovered.

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[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Former President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, says "fiat is a sham, the banking class is corrupt."

"Decentralized digital currency and the blockchain are the inevitable future."

[ADENTAN POP SMOKE @cma8284]

$BTC holding strong. Are you accumulating or waiting? #Bitcoin #Crypto

[ADENTAN POP SMOKE @cma8284]

$SOL ecosystem growing fast. Hard to ignore #Solana #Crypto