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[elin.hl @elin_hl]

🚨The Larva Labs digital sculptures that you’ve been sleeping on.

$1.5B traded. Below 1 ETH. More than just 3D Cryptopunks.

Meet Meebits ❚ ❚ - John Watkinson & Matt Hall’s art that’s still early [thread 🧵]

[BeaconLayer Podcast @BeaconLayer]

The New York Stock Exchange, the largest equity node in the world with over $44T in market cap, just announced it's building an onchain tokenization platform.

The announcement lays the groundwork for blockchain's watershed moment: mass adoption of tokenized finance.

Here's what you need to know👇

~~ Analysis by @elin_hl ~~

What's the NYSE Game Plan?

According to NYSE's parent company press release, the new tokenization platform will feature 24/7 trading of U.S. listed equities and ETFs, settling orders instantly using stablecoin-based payment solutions.

Its design will interweave NYSE's "Pillar" matching engine with blockchain-based post-trade systems, allowing multiple blockchains to support security settlement and custody.

Subject to regulatory approval, the platform will operate in parallel with the legacy @NYSE trading system, supporting both tokenized shares backed by traditionally issued shares and shares natively issued as digital securities.

Tokenized shareholders will receive the same protections as equity holders, including direct dividends, governance rights, and non-discriminatory access through qualified broker-dealer intermediaries.

To streamline money movement outside traditional banking hours, NYSE is conducting trials with banks including BNY and Citi to support around-the-clock trading and funding operations.

While the announcement lacked specific details, the exchange's message is unmistakable: tokenization is the next frontier of financial markets.

Per Michael Blaugrund, NYSE parent company Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) exec, "Supporting tokenized securities is a pivotal step in ICE's strategy to operate on-chain market infrastructure for trading, settlement, custody, and capital formation in the new era of global finance."

Competitive Landscape

NYSE's tokenization announcement is commanding crypto's attention, yet it's far from a first mover, arriving after multiple tokenization developments that rocked the industry in 2025.

In late June, @krakenfx teamed up with @BackedFi to launch "xStocks," offering tokenized equity exposure for over 60 leading U.S. equities with blockchain compatibility across Solana and Ethereum.

Kraken's announcement was overshadowed by Robinhood, who introduced 200+ "stock tokens" the same day, providing commission-free U.S. stock trading to European customers, with dividend support and access to pre-IPO opportunities.

Coinbase has taken a measured approach to tokenized stocks, gradually rolling out access for U.S. users since mid-December. Meanwhile, competitors like
@HyperliquidX
have moved at crypto speeds and already offer leveraged perpetual futures on stocks.

NYSE is also joined by the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the clearinghouse backbone of the U.S. financial system that processed $3.8Q of securities transactions in 2024 and recently secured regulatory approval to offer tokenization services.

While unclear how separate offerings from NYSE and DTCC will interact or compete, both are attempting to carve out a slice of the next generation financial system.

Language from both NYSE and DTCC appears tech-neutral, supporting the possibility that existing crypto native blockchains will host regulator-approved tokenization projects in the future.

Mainstream Moment

The NYSE's tokenization announcement is emblematic of a broader institutional trend. It demonstrates that blockchains have emerged from the periphery and become a focal point among institutions that define global markets.

For crypto natives, tokenization has always been about bridging TradFi's liquidity onto blockchain-based settlement layers to modernize financial markets with real-time settlement, composability, and global accessibility.

Now, as the rails for a tokenized future are being laid by the institutions that safeguard the legacy system, the question shifts from if financial markets will migrate onchain to when, where, and how.

[BeaconLayer Podcast @BeaconLayer]

Dozens of teams are fusing social networking and onchain trading.

Farcaster with its in-app wallet, Zora with its tokenized posts and profiles, while pioneers like @interfacedapp and @checkrsocial offer copytrading and influence analytics, respectively.

But there's a surge of newcomers ramping up. The two main arrivals I've seen this week are Clicker and Share.

~~ Analysis by @punk1831 ~~

@clicker, which just launched and is now available on Android and iOS, is a new "social network for traders." Starting with support for Base and Solana, the app links trading activity and commentary via trade comments, letting you post your reasonings behind swaps and analyze others' trades.

@sharexyz, which also just launched to iOS users, is a new crosschain social trading app that supports Base, Ethereum, and Solana transactions. You can trade through any wallet, including new ones spun up via Privy, and every wallet automatically gets a dedicated Share profile so you can easily follow others and get instant trade notifications. 0.5% earnings on every copytrade is a nice touch.

More social trading releases are incoming. Thesis, being built on the new Base token launchpad @feyprotocol, is gearing up, while in Solana land the @moolah team is working on a new primitive and product combo.

There are peripheral opportunities too. Consider @MemoryProtocol, a data layer that lets you sync your various social accounts (X, Farcaster, ENS, Github, etc.) and get paid when external apps build on this data with the Memory API.

The bottom line is that trading is becoming a social medium in itself. This trend is undoubtedly here to stay, so now's a good time to explore the early apps shaping this culture shift!

[BeaconLayer Podcast @BeaconLayer]

“What if AI gives us a once-in-a-generation chance to rebuild the internet from the ground up?”

@kenzimori sits down with Karan Sirdesai @karansirdesai, Founder of @miranetwork, to unpack the founder journey behind Mira and the early conviction that AI would become far more than another tech cycle.

They trace Karan’s path from teaching himself to build, sending cold DMs, experimenting with crypto arbitrage, and working alongside figures like Balaji Srinivasan and Sandeep Nailwal, to spotting the AI shift before it became obvious to the broader market.

The conversation also explores why Karan has consistently chosen the unconventional route, how his time at Accel exposed him to frontier AI companies early, and why the pace of AI progress made one thing clear: this wouldn’t just change startups or software, it would reshape how humans work, think, create, and interact with the internet itself.

[BeaconLayer Podcast @BeaconLayer]

“What if the most important AI infrastructure isn’t the biggest model — but the one you can actually trust?”

@sachimiyasaki sits down with Karan Sirdesai @karansirdesai, Founder of @miranetwork, to explore how Mira is approaching decentralized AI from a more focused angle: making machine intelligence reliable enough for real-world use.

They discuss why Mira is not trying to become a full-stack AI protocol, how its approach differs from networks like Bittensor, Ritual, and Sahara, and why focusing on trust and verification could make Mira a stronger fit inside the wider AI infrastructure stack.

The episode also breaks down Mira’s reliability architecture, from its core verification layer to node-level consensus, and why the next evolution of AI APIs may not be about simply accessing more models, but about knowing whether the answers you receive can actually be trusted.

[BeaconLayer Podcast @BeaconLayer]

“What happens when AI stops being a tool and becomes the operating layer of the internet?”

@dikshawells sits down with Karan Sirdesai @karansirdesai, Founder of @miranetwork, to explore a future where AI is no longer just answering questions, but taking action, making decisions, and handling large parts of our cognitive workload.

They discuss the upside of this shift: the rise of “infinite hires,” a world where most knowledge work can be automated or amplified, and a productivity wave that could completely reshape how companies, teams, and individuals operate.

But the conversation also gets into the darker side of that future. As AI becomes more capable, the risks grow with it: blind dependence, high-stakes failures, malicious autonomous agents, and the possibility of humans sharing the world with a new kind of intelligence we are not fully prepared to control.

[BeaconLayer Podcast @BeaconLayer]

This week on the podcast, we’re joined by Karan Sirdesai @karansirdesai, Co-Founder and CEO of Mira Network @miranetwork.

We cover Karan’s path from his university days and early crypto experiments to building Mira, an infrastructure layer focused on making AI more reliable, verifiable, and safe to use at scale.

The episode goes deep into one of AI’s biggest unsolved problems: hallucinations. Karan breaks down why unreliable outputs are such a major blocker for real-world adoption, especially in high-stakes areas like finance, healthcare, and other trust-sensitive industries.

We also discuss the early “aha” moment behind Mira, shaped by experiments with GPU rentals, AI workflows, and the insight that multiple models could work together to verify outputs through consensus.

Karan also shares how working with Balaji Srinivasan, his unconventional founder journey, and Mira’s AI + crypto-native team influenced the company’s mission: building decentralized infrastructure that helps make artificial intelligence more trustworthy, dependable, and useful in the real world.

[BeaconLayer Podcast @BeaconLayer]

After 7 years, Aztec’s Ignition mainnet is live.

Yet zero transactions or apps work yet. The chain is deliberately empty – because true protocol-level privacy can’t be rushed.

Here’s how this phased, decentralization-first launch positions Aztec as the leading private L2 on ETH👇

~~ Analysis by @punk1831 ~~

What's Actually Running

Think of Ignition like Ethereum's beacon chain from 2020. The governance and consensus infrastructure is operational, but the execution layer remains offline. The team is running what amounts to a live stress test with real money on the line.

Each sequencer staked at least 200K $AZTEC tokens to participate. They're producing blocks, provers are generating validity proofs, and the whole system is settling on Ethereum, just without any transactions.
The goal of running Ignition with real economics for 2-3 months will (hopefully) surface any remaining issues before transactions go live in early 2026, while setting the network up to be decentralized from day one.

The Decentralization Push

In Aztec's eyes, launching an L2 with a centralized sequencer from the get go rarely translates to decentralization down the road.

Centralized sequencers generate $40-150M annually in fees. Once you're locked into those cash flows, decentralization means making transactions slower and more expensive. The tension never resolves.

Instead, @aztecnetwork will launch fully decentralized from day one across three dimensions:

➢ Ownership is decentralized through $AZTEC token holders who control network parameters, fee schedules, and protocol upgrades.

➢ Block Production runs through 617 decentralized sequencer nodes using proof-of-stake. These nodes order transactions and produce blocks. To prevent any single party from gaining control, a small committee of sequencers is randomly selected to validate blocks before they are submitted to Ethereum.

➢ Proving is permissionless from the get-go. Provers generate the zero-knowledge proofs that cryptographically confirm all transactions in a batch are valid. They aggregate blocks and submit a single, final proof to Ethereum for verification, guaranteeing the integrity of the entire rollup.

When transactions go live, Aztec will qualify as a Stage 2 rollup, the highest decentralization tier for L2s. Most chains have pushed boundaries in one direction. Hitting all three pillars simultaneously is rare.

In Aztec's eyes, decentralization isn't optional for privacy. Centralized sequencers would face pressure from governments to install backdoors. Privacy requires cryptography plus decentralization, not one or the other.

What Happens Next

There are two major upcoming events, one technical and one token-related.

On the technical side, Ignition will remain live for 2-3 more months with sequencers producing empty blocks while the team monitors for issues. Early 2026 is when transactions flip on. Users will be able to send payments, deploy smart contracts, and interact with applications. By the end of 2026, block times should drop from the current 36-72 seconds down to 4 seconds, faster than Ethereum's 12-second blocks.

On the token side, the pre-allocation for the $AZTEC token sale is currently live, with the sale beginning December 2nd and running for 4 days. The sale uses @Uniswap's continuous clearing auction mechanism, meaning if you bid early, part of your bid clears at early prices and part clears later. This levels the playing field between early and late participants while letting price discovery happen naturally. When the auction ends, it automatically creates a Uniswap V4 liquidity pool at the final clearing price.

To participate in the sale, you must register prior to December 2nd.

For compliance, Aztec is using @ZKPassport, enabling people to prove cryptographically that they're from allowed jurisdictions and not on sanctions lists without traditional KYC. The sale is open to US retail and nearly every country worldwide, with the exception of sanctioned countries on the standard OFAC list.

The current 500 sequencers already staked $AZTEC tokens they purchased in a whitelisted genesis sale. They're earning rewards in $AZTEC right now. However, all tokens, whether from the genesis sale, the current public auction, or insider allocations, are non-transferable until Token Generation Event (TGE).

There is no set date for when TGE occurs, rather the community votes on it. However, the earliest date it can go live is February 11th, 2026. Once TGE happens, tokens purchased in the public auction unlock 100%.

7 Years in the Making

Overall, Ignition and the $AZTEC token sale demonstrate both the complexity of successfully executing privacy, as well as the extent to which Aztec is going to get this right.

First you have the need for decentralization from the get-go to ensure privacy endures, a feat unaccomplished by countless L2s launched so far. Then you have the tension between privacy and compliance, which the token sale's integration with ZK Passport helps solve.

Regardless of how mainnet goes, and I'm hopeful all goes well, this launch process shines as a testament to diligent design, demonstrating that forces like decentralization, privacy, and compliance can all coexist

[BeaconLayer Podcast @BeaconLayer]

For Bitcoin holders, this year’s been a bitter draft — gold blasting to $4.4K/oz with endless all-time highs, while "digital gold" barely scrapes by.

Marketed as a superior store of value, $BTC’s 3x underperformance in a safe-haven surge stings hard.

Is gold’s rally a 70-100 day lead-in to Bitcoin’s boom, or the cycle’s final curtain? Here’s how to decode it.👇

~~ Analysis by @kenzimori ~~

What's Going on with Gold?

Gold's relentless 2025 performance can be attributed to unprecedented central bank buying, driven by inflation concerns, geopolitical tension, and a fundamental shift in how central banks think about reserves.

Central banks had their second largest Q1 gold purchases on record this year. Poland added 67 tonnes amid the Ukraine conflict. Turkey picked up 19.5 tonnes as its currency weakens. China continues to quietly accumulate amid tensions with the U.S., swapping out U.S. Treasuries, while in Shanghai, gold futures volumes have tripled since early 2024.

Gold is increasingly replacing U.S. Treasuries as the "riskless" asset in global portfolios. With mounting U.S. debt and political dysfunction, central banks are diversifying. Some reports suggest gold has even flipped Treasuries to become the number one central bank reserve asset globally.

Why? Gold doesn't carry counterparty risk and can't be printed or devalued by central bank decisions. In an era where trust in institutions is eroding, that matters.

Still, gold is showing signs of being clearly overbought. Parabolic moves like this rarely end smoothly, which raises the question: what does a gold rally of this magnitude actually signal?

What Have Gold Rallies Meant in the Past?

Similar rallies have signaled different outcomes. Sometimes gold's parabolic moves have preceded major crises. Other times, they've set the stage for broader risk-on rallies, with Bitcoin following months later.

The Bear Case: Late-Cycle Behavior

Gold surges often coincide with late-cycle uncertainty. From 2007 to 2008, gold spiked as the subprime crisis unraveled. In 1999 and 2000, gold shot up ~34% as the dot-com bubble burst and recession followed.

While today is different, there's a parallel level of unease against the backdrop of geopolitical tension and economic uncertainty. Steep climbs tend to end in sharp corrections. Gold experienced this in 2010 and 2011 when it surged 70% before collapsing 45%.

But is this really a late-cycle warning? Gold similarly rallied during 2020's COVID crisis, but that surge led to recovery, not prolonged downturn. Central banks are now accumulating over 1K tonnes per year amid a structural shift away from dollar reserves.

The Bull Case: Gold as a Leading Indicator for Bitcoin

Evidence suggests that when gold breaks out, Bitcoin has followed, usually with a lag of 70-100 days.

The clearest example is 2020. Gold surged to $2,075 amid pandemic uncertainty. About 85 days later, Bitcoin began its climb from $5K to $10K, then exploded 590% to hit $64K by early 2021. A similar situation happened last August, with gold ripping to new all time highs while Bitcoin lagged for about two months before surging come November.

If the historical pattern holds, gold's rally could be setting up Bitcoin's next leg higher. Once gold peaks, capital could flow into Bitcoin as investors shift from defensive positioning to offensive plays.

The key is recognizing that gold moves first in debasement trades, and Bitcoin follows once the narrative crystallizes. While past performance doesn't dictate future results, gold's run is not a death sentence for Bitcoin.

Things to Consider

Whether you believe gold's rally signals late-cycle risk or sets up Bitcoin's next move, it's worth understanding what these assets do in a portfolio.

Gold is a preservation tool that maintains purchasing power. It can't be printed or manipulated by central banks, providing an anchor when other assets fail.

➢ A portfolio with 5% gold and 95% S&P 500 returned 152% since 2018
➢ A portfolio with 5% Bitcoin and 95% S&P 500 returned 199%
➢ At 10% allocations, gold delivered 155% while Bitcoin hit 253%

Gold provides stability during uncertainty. Bitcoin, still growing into this role, behaves with more volatility but significantly outperforms. If your goal is wealth preservation, gold makes sense. If you're willing to stomach volatility for outsized returns, Bitcoin remains the better bet.

So, while Bitcoin holders might feel frustrated watching gold gains, if history repeats itself, that frustration could be short-lived.

[BeaconLayer Podcast @BeaconLayer]

There's a war brewing in Bitcoin world over whether "arbitrary data" — non-financial data like images and text — should be allowed on the blockchain 👇

~~ Opinion by @punk3626 ~~

This is the same debate that's been going on since @ercwl and @udiWertheimer trolled a large part of the Bitcoin community with their Taproot Wizards project, which productized the extra space in blocks and allowed anyone to have their "magic internet JPEGs" inscribed forever on the Bitcoin blockchain.

The opposition is fighting back, and we now have a name for this camp: Bitcoin Knots.

This is the camp of @LukeDashjr, perhaps the most hardcore Bitcoin monetary maximalist and anti-shitcoiner. The "knots" name is an explicit Biblical reference to the "whip of knots" that was used by Jesus to expel the money changers from the Temple...

The Knots camp's argument:

Arbitrary data in the Bitcoin blockchain is an irresponsibly risky use of Bitcoin resources. Bitcoin code should exclusively serve the use of BTC as money. If arbitrary data is allowed, an attacker could flood Bitcoin with transactions that include illegal data (namely, child pornography) that would cause anyone running a Bitcoin node to be prosecuted.

In theory, an attacker could load CP into Bitcoin transactions, meaning Bitcoin nodes would all download this "arbitrary data," and anyone running a node would find themselves transmitting and in possession of CP. This would make running Bitcoin illegal and would be a censorship attack on the network.

It might sound farcical, but this is actually how the argument goes.

The tradeoff Bitcoin Knots want is to censor the types of transactions that Bitcoin users can make so that node-operators are protected from censorship due to processing arbitrary non-BTC-spend data.

Bitcoin Core, on the other hand, is saying that morality and policy should not be conflated, and that Bitcoin Core ought to be neutral software and be unopinionated about the data that the market decides to place in its UTXOs. Core is also the 'default mode' of what Bitcoin is today.

I do find elements of the Knots side compelling.

Not because the state-level censorship and CP transmission worries are valid, but simply because Bitcoin is ultimately just an app-chain for BTC, and taking a monetary maximalist approach seems right.

Bitcoin is for bitcoins, always has been, always will.

But the point of this article is to highlight that Ethereum has taken a radically different approach to essentially the same issue.

Ethereum's Fork-Choice Enforced Inclusion Lists (FOCIL)

FOCIL is the mechanism that @ethereum core devs want to implement to solve Ethereum's censorship problem.

With the OFAC sanctioning of Tornado Cash, parts of the Ethereum tech stack started censoring Tornado Cash transactions.

FOCIL makes sure "important but ignored" transactions still get into blocks, even if a builder or proposer would prefer to censor them.

1. In each Ethereum slot, a small committee of validators scans the mempool and publishes "Inclusion Lists" (ILs) of transactions they think should be included.

2. The next slot's proposer builds the block and can order transactions as they see fit, but must include the IL transactions.

3. Attesters can only vote for blocks that satisfy the ILs. If they don't see the IL transactions, the block won't be voted on, won't be built on, and the block builder doesn't get the reward.

This removes the exclusive power of transaction inclusion from just block builders to a wider variety of staking participants.

So, in stark contrast to Bitcoin Knots, Ethereum's strategy is to force everyone to download all the data.

Rather than attempting to censor data, Ethereum is forcing the entire network to download all fee-paying transactions, regardless of the data contained in them.

It's worth pausing and reflecting on how hardcore this is.

There are different ways to be a cypherpunk, and some are more radical than others. Ethereum's strategy of forcing transaction inclusion is pretty hardcore.

Ethereum doesn't give you an option. You include the transactions, or you don't get the reward. And if you don't get the reward, why are you bothering to stake at all?

Include or die.

To what degree all of this matters, or is deep-crypto-tech nerd shit... idk it remains to be seen. Maybe this attack vector never comes to fruition and the choice to include arbitrary data is more innocuous than Luke Dashjr makes it out to be. After all, we've had arbitrary data in Bitcoin and Ethereum since their respective genesis blocks, so why would this all start now?

I'll leave this all for the reader to ponder. Meanwhile, please appreciate one of my favorite bits of arbitrary data in Bitcoin, which is the first ever Bitcoin inscription, inscribed in block 767753:

Dickbutt.

[elin.hl @elin_hl]

@songadaymann You look like shrek

[elin.hl @elin_hl]

@BlockLayerPod @ronbodkin @TheoriqAI @SachiTakahara lfg!

[DefiLlama.com @DefiLlama]

Q2 2026 is already the most-hacked quarter on record: ~70 hacks, 2X the record

But the total amount hacked ($746M) is a fraction of the previous peaks.

Rather than a few giga exploits, it's been a constant stream of smaller attacks.

[Ignas | DeFi @DefiIgnas]

This Vitalik's 2016 Reddit post gave core idea for Uniswap:

'Let's run on-chain decentralized exchanges the way we run prediction markets'.

Hayden then built it and DEXs became core infra of DeFi where price discovery happens, LPs farm, and ppl can trade without KYC.

What if the new idea by Vitalik becomes a new Uniswap? Or in this case Aave?

He proposes DeFi without liquidations, built on options instead of debt.

How it works in practice:

Today on Aave you deposit 1 ETH at $1.5k and borrow $1k USDC.

If ETH dumps too much (likely lol), a bot sells your ETH with a penalty.

The whole system depends on real-time oracles being correct every second. Late liquidations incur bad debt.

In Vitalik's design your 1 ETH splits into two tokens: a 'stable dollars' token and an 'ETH upside' token.

- Borrowing: sell the stable token for cash, keep the upside token.

If ETH dumps you just lose the upside. No liquidation bot and no penalty

- Stablecoin: hold the stable token.

Worst case it slowly turns back into ETH rather than depegging overnight

- Leverage: buy the upside token. Max loss is what you paid and you can't get liquidated

It works like buying a call option: you pay once upfront, that payment is the most you can ever lose, and a temporary price wick can't liquidate you since only the price at expiry counts.

The two tokens always add up to 1 ETH, so the protocol can't end up with bad debt.

And the price oracle is only checked once at expiry so slow prediction-market style oracles are enough, no real time price feeds.

Since positions expire you have to roll them. But this creates new DeFi products like Pendle-ish vaults that automate the rolling for a fee.

This design removes cascading liquidations from DeFi lending.

Gotta keep an eye on it.

[cArbΞn_ApΞ @carbonbayc]

Secured my first @cryptopunks , #1812

This has been a long time goal, and I found one I really resonate with! Headed to the vault! 🔐

Thank you @bagholder for working with me on this deal! 🤜🏽

[Cozomo de’ Medici @CozomoMedici]

Welcome to the club Signore 🐧

[⟠Palis⟠🐍 @palis]

Some of the most successful CT participants never got NFTs and still don’t in spite of the fact they’ll trade memecoins. Cobie himself spent most of the first NFT cycle as the biggest NFT hater before partially capitulating

I just want to remind people this isn’t new, and the entire NFT cycle a significant portion of crypto natives refused to touch them, absolutely HATED them and seethed the entire cycle. The hate that memecoin trenchers received the past 3 years is nothing compared to the hate NFT twitter received from the older incumbent perp trader-centric CT

When NFTs come back, a large percent of these people still will never get it. They won’t get it in spite of the fact that the art market has outperformed the “up only” American stock by 165% between 1995 and 2022. This outperformance has existed the entire time the stock market has existed, and is even more dramatic when only looking at the top artists/fine art

Digital art was never capable of supporting true ownership due to the frictionless nature of digital files with no digital trail, until NFTs came along and solved that. Now digital files can reflect true ownership on the blockchain even as digital copies spread frictionless. Digital art does not decay, digital art verified onchain cannot be faked period, digital art can be viewed by the entire online world, not just people who enter your home and see your personal art collection

Digital art will never replace physical art, and that’s not at all what I’m implying. But art on the blockchain being the first art ever truly capable of being “owned” digitally means, of that art, which is either culturally relevant or simply loved, will be considered “art” just like various physical mediums for art. It’ll be its own category and have its own art history, and we’re still at the genesis of that category’s history. Intuitively, that category will be important and large, since the digital world itself is important and a large part of the modern human experience

Have said this since 2020 and it never stopped being true for me: of all the theses for use cases of crypto, NFTs being a new technological primitive for true ownership of digital art, digital collectibles and digital items that human value, is so glaringly obvious that it’s right up there with the BTC whitepaper and stablecoins, and I have never once second guessed its inevitability as a ubiquitous technology

NFTs “coming back” has been a running joke to 90% of CT who never expect them to actually come back. But for the few of us who understand it’s importance as a technological primitive, and the cultural importance of the early relevant art onchain, we always knew it was not a joke and was inevitable

[Rodo @0xRodo]

Impressed by the strong demand for Gazers in this market. 6 sales in the last two days 🌖

→ Gazers #567 for 4.99 ETH
→ Gazers #769, #64, #386, #235 for 20.5 ETH 🧹
→ Gazers #867 for 5 ETH

The cheapest one is currently listed at 6.8 ETH (+36%)

[VonMises @VonMises14]

If you’re a @dangiuz fan, like I am, this is a great way to own a 1 of 1 at a super reasonable entry price.

[ZachXBT @zachxbt]

1/ Recently an unnamed source shared data exfiltrated from an internal North Korean payment server containing 390 accounts, chat logs, crypto transactions.

I spent long hours going through all of it, none of which has ever been publicly released.

It revealed an intricate ~$1M/month scheme of fraudulent identities, forged legal documents, and crypto-to-fiat conversion.

Enjoy the findings!