CryptoQuant 🇺🇸🌱

🐧 1998 Linux hacker
✈️ 2004 Aerospace eng
⛏️ 2011 Bitcoin miner
🤖 2016 @numerai modeller
👨‍🌾 2020 @chia_project farmer
☁️ 2025 AI cloud builder

[Bram Cohen🌱 @bramcohen]

Chia Gaming now at Alpha 2 https://t.co/y1ehLc6cLm

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

AI will save lives.
Banning AI data centers effectively kills.

[Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 @EthanLevins2]

This was his last tweet.

[Alex 👽 @AlexesNakamoto]

Raoul Pal’s investment track record is truly unmatched:

🚩 2020: Calls BlockFi & Silvergate "most trusted"
🚩 2021: Calls Terra Luna "risk-free"
🚩 2025: Goes "massively overweight" SUI
❓ May 2026: Just announced he bought Zcash

[Tyler @rezoundous]

Opus 4.8 is insane guys. It one shotted my session usage limit.

[TFTC @TFTC21]

"I've traced the entire history of Epstein's interaction with different developers and compromised networks that he tried to infiltrate with Peter Thiel in 2011 and beyond to try to pull Bitcoin back into the fold." - @SimonDixonTwitt

"Brock Pierce was Epstein's guy in the digital currency space."

"He tried to persuade me that Satoshi Nakamoto was Dr Craig Wright. He ended up being an essential part of creating an alternative version of Bitcoin."

"Brock Pierce also was the co-founder of a stablecoin called Tether. Tether was the gateway drug for central bank digital currencies."

[Numerai @numerai]

Out of Sample.

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[mononaut @mononautical]

yesterday someone permanently burned 107.13 BTC, worth ~$8.25m, by sending them to the "null" burn address.

can we figure out why? 🧵

[CryptoQuant 🇺🇸🌱 @CryptoQuant]

@TheBTCTherapist https://t.co/26wp26rKWW

[Dreams of Code @dreamsofcode_io]

Really good time to consider putting your SSH Keys on a hardware security key, such as a Yubikey.

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

Gemini continues to be the most fascinating model

[aria 🍓 @ariadotwav]

oh my fucking god bruh

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

Just a friendly reminder - these are the quants you’re competing against.

[Kalshi Crypto @Kalshi_Crypto]

BREAKING: Iran reportedly holds $7.7B worth of Bitcoin

[Neil Jacobs @NeilJacobs]

NEW ‼️ - BILLIONAIRE MARK CUBAN:

I SOLD MOST OF MY BITCOIN. IT’S LOST THE PLOT.

[Evan Luthra @EvanLuthra]

🚨THE FBI CREATED A FAKE CRYPTOCURRENCY.. LISTED IT ON UNISWAP.. HIRED MARKET MAKERS TO PUMP IT.. THEN ARRESTED EVERYONE WHO SAID YES..

THIS IS THE CRAZIEST LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATION IN CRYPTO HISTORY!!!

The FBI built an actual ERC-20 token on Ethereum called NexFundAI.. 100 billion token supply.. A professional website.. Whitepapers promising "passive income through AI-powered investing"..

It looked exactly like every other crypto project.. Because that was the point..

Undercover agents posed as the founding team.. Then reached out to professional market-making firms and said "we need you to fake our trading volume"..

Every single firm said yes..

Here's what they recorded..

Gotbit.. A firm run by a 26-year-old Russian who publicly bragged in 2019 that he built a business faking trade volumes.. His team kept internal spreadsheets with columns literally labeled "fake volume" vs "market volume"..

When asked how fast they could pump NexFundAI's volume to $1 million per day.. They said "6 hours.. It will cost about $200"..

$200 to fake $1 million in daily trading volume..

MyTrade.. Run by a guy who called himself "the mastermind".. He explained the exact psychology of the scam on camera..

"We make the chart look like a really nice roller coaster ride.. That's where people jump in.. We have to make them lose money in order to make profit"..

He said that on a recorded FBI video call..

CLS Global.. A Dubai-based firm.. Their bots generated 98% of NexFundAI's total trading volume.. When the FBI asked if they could sync fake volume spikes with fake news announcements.. They said absolutely..

ZM Quant.. Bots executing 10 to 20 trades per minute through dozens of wallets to look organic..

All of them knew it was fraud.. All of them did it anyway.. All of it was recorded..

And the clients were even worse..

Saitama.. A meme coin that hit $7.5 billion market cap.. The founders coordinated buys through private Telegram chats.. Sent "pump it" memes while manipulating the price.. Then dumped on retail investors..

$7.5 billion.. Built entirely on fake volume.. Every penny of real money came from retail investors who thought the momentum was organic..

One founder left Saitama and started Robo Inu.. Used Gotbit again.. Another launched VZZN.. Same playbook..

Lillian Finance.. Founder claimed to be a defense contractor who addressed Congress.. Marketed the token as funding children's hospitals.. Pocketed everything..

When the FBI shut it down.. They seized $25 million in one day.. 18 people indicted across the US, UK, and Portugal.. The CEO of Gotbit was arrested in Portugal and extradited.. Sentenced to 8 months plus $23 million forfeiture..

But here's the part that broke my brain..

Real people bought NexFundAI..

The FBI's fake token.. With zero utility.. Zero real developers.. Created solely to catch criminals.. Attracted real retail investors because the fake volume made the chart look bullish..

When the FBI pulled the liquidity to end the operation.. Those people lost real money.. On a government-issued token..

The FBI had to set up a restitution portal to pay them back..

And it gets worse..

Within 24 hours of the DOJ announcing the sting.. Someone cloned the FBI's exact smart contract.. Launched a copycat token.. Rode the viral momentum.. And made $127,000 in a single day..

Using the exact same manipulation tactics the FBI just arrested 18 people for..

Then in 2026.. The FBI did it again.. New token called Lexobit.. 10 more arrests.. Including operators extradited from Singapore..

IRS forensics showed that in one firm's trading.. 1,209 out of 1,221 consecutive transactions went straight back to wallets the firm controlled.. 99% circular..

The FBI proved what everyone in crypto suspected..

The volume is fake.. The charts are painted.. The momentum is manufactured..

And every time you buy a token because "the chart looks bullish".. You might be the exit liquidity.

[Overheard on Wall Street @OHWallStreet]

*unmutes* “nothing from my end thanks”

[lynk @lynk0x]

POV: The banks and Hedge Funds watching you draw zig zag patterns on tradingview thinking you'll become a millionaire:

[PeckShield Inc. @peckshield]

Hi @mapprotocol, you may want to take a look: huge amount 1,000,000,000,000,000 of $MAP0 were minted:

https://t.co/gTl5TGRC9a

[🥋 @JamesCryptoNova]

Imagine

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