Dude Merkov

Cryptomaniac

[Dude Merkov @dudemerkov]

This might sound arrogant, but here it is:

If you don’t understand onchain revenue,
you don’t understand crypto valuation.

Price will catch up.
It always does.

Alkimiya is just one of the first tools built for that reality.

[Joe Andrews @jaosef]

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[Dude Merkov @dudemerkov]

Crypto isn’t just assets anymore - it’s infrastructure that earns 🏗️

Blockspace demand = revenue.
Revenue = fundamentals.

Everything else is noise.

[Dude Merkov @dudemerkov]

No more gas drama—let's build a better future!⛽️🚫

I'm collecting beans to help Gassy Jack's Gasless Future mission. Share the quest, earn rewards, and join the community climb 🧗

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[Dude Merkov @dudemerkov]

ETHGas is introducing the Open Gas Initiative, letting protocols incentivize their users to grow onchain adoption while ending gas fees anxiety for good.

… are you in? 👀

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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.

👇

[Dude Merkov @dudemerkov]

Leveled up in the Great Gas Reckoning with ETHGas! 💪

Baby Jack status: 0.021 ETH gas spent, 4 Beans earned—supporting the Gasless Future!

Claim your Gas ID at https://t.co/PPrIPrcU59

[Dude Merkov @dudemerkov]

Concrete vaults separate speed from authority:
capital can move quickly only inside a predefined risk envelope.
This design choice is why Concrete fits institutional capital - and why most vaults don’t.
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[Dude Merkov @dudemerkov]

⏱️ Speed in finance is not a feature by itself.
Unbounded speed is a liability.

[Dude Merkov @dudemerkov]

Concrete leverages this DeFi vault standard to deliver managed DeFi with clear accounting, predictable interfaces, and ctASSETs as ERC-4626-compliant vault shares.

[Dude Merkov @dudemerkov]

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ERC-4626 matters because it turned vaults into composable infrastructure instead of isolated contracts.

[Concrete @ConcreteXYZ]

1/ Phase 1 of the Concrete Social ‘Bags’ Campaign is live.

Your actions = your bags🗿

Start earning today, link below.

[Dude Merkov @dudemerkov]

@cascade_xyz This is done right

[Cascade @cascade_xyz]

The first 24/7 neo-brokerage.

Trade perpetual markets for crypto, equities, and private assets. Move USD in and out, all from one unified account.

48 hours to secure an early invite.

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[Leo @Leozayaat]

The next ByteDance is a prediction market

The media has profoundly changed. News consumption evolved from passive curation to active engagement. Today, 54% of the U.S. population accessed news via social, and AI is playing an increasing role in our daily information. LLMs paired with a powerful and pervasive “For You” pattern increases convenience, but exacerbate echo chambers: Narrower, more confirmatory, and more polarized.

In a world of infinite mirrors, markets remain the most powerful compass of consensus. An effective prediction market design focuses on matching information providers with varying degrees of knowledge at lowest possible cost. It crowdsources private knowledge and turns them into common information.

While prediction market metrics are growing at unprecedented rates, demand remains constrained and unevenly distributed. Polymarket recorded approximately 1.16 billion dollars in monthly volume in June 2025. Activity spikes clustering around elections and major events. Outside these peaks, most markets have low participation with open interest below six figures. This happens when distribution fails to reach the right long-tail audience and fails to scale.

To achieve social consensus at scale, a prediction market feed should personalize, evolve, and measure itself. Retrieval should surface questions relevant to users' identity, location, and demonstrated expertise. Ranking should prioritize expected information gain per interaction. Exploration should direct attention where uncertainty and user fit are high. Learning should happen online AND onchain. ByteDance's key lesson was precisely matching long-tail content with the right consumers.

Liquidity concentration in headline topics isn't an outcome of natural selection of market topics, but also structural. The Conditional Token Framework is clean and composable but relies on external market makers and loss-bearing liquidity providers. Unlike standardized markets such as perps or tokens, each topic needs to be modeled by subsidized market makers. This approach is expensive, explaining why liquidity bootstrapping remains challenging.

If every topic requires over a million dollars in working capital for proper probability discovery, prediction markets will remain limited to select topics, and the future of media will devolve into just another glorified sportsbook. The core mechanism needs to be liquidity-agnostic, such that a $1000 market feels as engaging and fun as a $100 million market. Without protocol-level innovation, scaling liquidity for new markets will repeatedly face the same costly issue.

We are working on all these big problems at 42. We are building a prediction‑market protocol that localizes, personalizes, and evolves. By pairing an innovative suite of liquidity‑agnostic mechanisms with identity‑aware distribution, we aim to unlock market consensus on any topic. Long-tail topics aren't niche. They're where most tacit, local knowledge resides. This is where prediction markets truly shine.

Come work with us to build the next generation of media. Break free from the world of infinite mirrors.

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[Dude Merkov @dudemerkov]

Every morning, Alkimiya posts the BTC projected avg fee.

That’s your starting line.
You watch early fee movement.
You catch the signal before the rest.

Then? You own the move 📊

[Dude Merkov @dudemerkov]

How to Trade: Onchain Revenue Markets?
Use congestion like others use RSI.
And never trade late.
#Alkimiya

[Dude Merkov @dudemerkov]

Gas ≠ friction.
It’s price.
It’s signal.

@alkimiya_io made it tradable.

[Dude Merkov @dudemerkov]

BTC fee resets daily.
Compare it to market activity.
That delta is everything.

[Dude Merkov @dudemerkov]

Token launches?
They’re not just speculative.
They’re structural.

Each one bends a chain.
And I follow the bending.

I don’t need price confirmation.
I need friction.
Alkimiya gives me that.

[Dude Merkov @dudemerkov]

Gas is the toll.
Fees are the pain.
Rewards are the clue.

🔍 When those shift,
something real is happening.

Onchain Events’ Impact on Fundamentals
turns that into alpha.