0x₿aron ᵍᵐ

Historical NFT collector. Full sets: @SpellsofGenesis (2015) & @MyCurioCards (2017). Rare Pepe. Etheria v0.9. Peperium. v1 Punk. BAYC. Art. See Linktree.👇

[0x₿aron ᵍᵐ @fun_nft]

At first glance, “Shiftwork” presents a quiet, unassuming scene: a janitor cleaning beside escalators in a sterile, modern building. Yet beneath its minimalist surface lies a complex meditation on modernity, memory, and the role of the artist as a 21st-century historian.

By removing noise and clutter, @GrantYun2 presents this modern environment as eerily pristine to evoke both a sense of nostalgia and detachment, hallmarks of the 21st-century digital condition. The near emptiness suggests quiet reflection or alienation. It feels like a moment of pause in a place meant for movement - an airport or transit hub - where time usually feels compressed.

This work is an effort to “document observations of the everyday.” But in doing so with such care, precision, and intentionality, Grant doesn’t just reflect the world, he reinterprets it, offering a quiet, mathematical poetry that asks us to look again at the spaces we move through, and the people we often don’t see.

The palette is subdued: beiges, chromes, and soft blacks, echoing the quietude of corporate and transit environments.

The ceiling panels, reflections on the floor, and the composition of the escalators are rendered with geometric precision, creating a scene that is both realistic and abstract. Every element is reduced to its essence. The floor reflections and ceiling lights are flattened into geometric shapes, removing distractions and heightening the meditative stillness of the scene.

The central perspective draws the viewer’s eye directly toward the janitor and the escalators, emphasizing solitude and symmetry. There’s a contemplative void created by the empty space and the absence of bustling crowds.

The janitor, central to the composition, is not merely a background figure. He is the focal point: quiet, absorbed in his task, and bathed in soft light. Yun dignifies his labor, drawing attention to the human presence in environments often designed to feel impersonal.

By placing the janitor in the spotlight, literally and compositionally, the image invites us to consider the overlooked: the people who maintain the environments we pass through, to consider their thoughts in such moments of solitude. There’s a quiet nobility in the act of cleaning, framed with as much care as this portrait.

The setting: a hyper-clean, overlit, empty transit space, speaks to modern isolation, automation, and the liminal spaces we occupy between destinations.

This piece is a masterclass in how restraint and simplicity can produce depth and provoke introspection. It asks the viewer to slow down, to notice the unnoticed, and to find meaning in the mundane.

[0x₿aron ᵍᵐ @fun_nft]

😹 This guy is hilarious. 😹

With all his essays, he is acting like a shiller the whole time.

“HYPE to $150” he says last week, then sells at half that.

I attended TOKEN2049 2025 in Singapore to listen to Arthur (and others) speak. (Had lots of respect for his thoughts and well written essays.) After hearing and seeing him on stage though, I soon realised that his calls don’t mean much.

So here is my Public Service Announcement: I’ve been treating Hayes like Kramer for some time now, and it’s been working. When Hayes says buy, seriously thinking about DCA exiting out of positions, and vice versa.

Best wishes.

BTW, I don’t have any position in HYPE. Will look to buy lower though.

[Arthur Hayes @CryptoHayes]

I just dumped my entire $HYPE and $NEAR position, I will explain why in my essay "Reality Test" dropping next Tuesday.

TLDR:
- Higher energy prices due to Iran war and inventory restocking
- 3 Mega AI IPOs between now and early Q3
- Prediction that Trump goes anti-AI to win mid-terms for Republicans
- I think highs in mrkts will happen btw now and September
- Time to take profit, and two-step in beefa without worrying about my positions

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️Schiff is defending a dead monetary map.

His entire argument depends on treating Bitcoin as an isolated object and asking whether it has value in a vacuum.

That is the wrong frame.

Monetary assets do not become important because they produce cash flow.

They become important because the surrounding system creates a need for coordination, collateral, settlement, escape, and trust-minimized ownership.

Gold did not win because it produced yield.

The dollar did not win because paper had intrinsic value.

Treasuries did not win because debt is sacred.

They won because a system formed around them.

Bitcoin is now forming a system around itself.

ETF rails. Custody rails. Brokerage access. Stablecoins. Tokenization. Treasury enforcement. CLARITY. Strategic reserve language. Corporate balance sheets. Bitcoin income wrappers. MSTR credit machinery. Prediction markets. Sovereign optionality. Sanctions pressure. Capital controls. Fiscal decay.

That is the thing Schiff refuses to see.

He sees price speculation and says “no value.”

The deeper structure says Bitcoin is being pulled into the core of financial power because the old system keeps producing the exact problems Bitcoin solves.

Debt keeps rising.

Money keeps getting politicized.

Banking access keeps becoming conditional.

Sanctions keep expanding.

Trust in sovereign balance sheets keeps weakening.

Neutral collateral keeps becoming more important.

Digital financial rails keep swallowing everything.

Bitcoin sits at the intersection of all of that.

Schiff’s mistake is not skepticism. Skepticism is useful. His mistake is category failure. He keeps judging Bitcoin like a bad stock, when it is competing to become digital collateral in a world where trust itself is fragmenting.

That is why he sounds right during crashes.

Crashes expose fraud, leverage, scams, false belief, bad tokens, dumb money, and overpromised narratives. Schiff points at the wreckage and says the whole structure is fake.

But the wreckage is the purification layer.

The internet bubble did not kill the internet. It killed the garbage built on top of it before the real architecture took over.

Crypto is going through the same separation.

Garbage dies.

Leverage dies.

Retail mania dies.

Fake decentralization dies.

Bitcoin survives.

Stablecoins survive.

Tokenization survives.

Prediction markets survive.

Custody survives.

Regulated rails survive.

The U.S. does not lose by becoming the crypto capital if it captures the surviving rails. It wins the jurisdictional layer. It owns the compliance perimeter, the custody stack, the ETF market, the legal definitions, the stablecoin dollar network, the institutional distribution rails, and the tax/reporting architecture.

That is power.

Schiff thinks America is becoming the bagholder.

The deeper read: America is trying to become the operating system.

That does not mean every token matters. Most do not. It does not mean every crypto holder wins. Many will get destroyed. It does not mean the process is clean. It will be ugly, political, surveilled, manipulated, and full of fraud before the surviving structure hardens.

But Bitcoin’s role is not disappearing.

The system is surrounding it.

That is the tell.

Worthless assets get ignored.

Threatening assets get attacked.

Useful strategic assets get absorbed.

Bitcoin is being absorbed.

Schiff’s gold framework cannot process that because gold already won its social authorization centuries ago. He treats old belief as reality and new belief as fantasy. That is the blind spot.

The real future is harsher than Bitcoin utopians wanted and far more bullish than Schiff can admit.

Bitcoin will not remain a pure outside-the-system rebellion asset.

It is becoming institutional collateral inside the system.

That transition will feel like betrayal to purists and like failure to bears.

It is neither.

It is power discovering how to use the thing it could not kill.

[0x₿aron ᵍᵐ @fun_nft]

🧠 Sheesh!
People really need to engage brain.

Saylor sold 32 BTC. Why?
Small enough amount to prove BTC has utility and liquidity. That’s it.

@saylor next time you sell to prove this point, please do it on Bitcoin Pizza day. Cheers.🥃

[symbiote @cryptosymbiiote]

Saylor indicator 2022 vs 2026

Same pattern:

2022: Michael sold -> $BTC hit the bottom

2026: Michael sold -> WE ARE HERE

Most reliable indicator ever

[symbiote @cryptosymbiiote]

Saylor indicator 2022 vs 2026

Same pattern:

2022: Michael sold -> $BTC hit the bottom

2026: Michael sold -> WE ARE HERE

Most reliable indicator ever

[Curio Cards @MyCurioCards]

Curio Cards were pioneers in using IPFS to store crypto art

In 2017, we used ETH's smart contracts to create the first permanent NFT art show on Ethereum

IPFS was the ideal storage solution, because of the technical restraints of storing large files on Ethereum

It's amazing how storing art on-chain has continued to evolve in the space

[0x₿aron ᵍᵐ @fun_nft]

@kristian_cw Hey Kristin, DM if any of these early RTFKT NFTs or the IRL Rimowa is of interest.

[Curio Cards @MyCurioCards]

Collect legendary NFTs

[0x₿aron ᵍᵐ @fun_nft]

Verified true.

[Alex Mason 👁△ @AlexMasonCrypto]

🚨 S&P 500 JUST ENTERED A 94.1% TRAP

16 out of the last 17 midterm election years, the S&P 500 fell from May to October.

16 out of 17.

That is a 94.1% hit rate.

Some of the worst drops:

1974: -32%
2002: -30%
1962: -21%
1966: -21%
2022: -19%

May → October. Over and over again.

Now look at 2026:

Rate hikes are back on the table.

Inflation just hit its fastest pace in 3 years.

The 10Y yield is above 4.60%.

Mortgage rates are back above 6.5%.

War with Iran is escalating.

And the S&P 500 just hit a new all-time high.

The market gives you strength at the worst possible time.

Midterm year. Peak uncertainty.

Worst statistical window of the cycle.

And history says May to October is when this trap usually closes.

Reminder: I’ve called all the market tops and bottoms for the last 15 years, including the Bitcoin bottom at $16,000 and the top at $126,000.

The next call will be even more important.

When I exit the markets completely, I’ll post it here publicly like I always do.

Turn notifications on. If you’re not following yet, you’ll understand why that was a mistake later.

[0x₿aron ᵍᵐ @fun_nft]

@MarioNawfal The world today watches this war criminal.

Aggressors rewrite history and narratives to become victors.

How will you judge this guy in the future? Hero or villain?

[kroko @kroko_bams]

OTC for Clones

The days of grails getting sold for nothing are mostly behind us (although let’s be honest -- buying an Angel Cowboy for ±0.7 ETH still looks incredible even today). Triple Drips under 1 ETH are now just pleasant memories, no matter how much FOMO they cause in hindsight. Today they’re more like 2.5-3 ETH. The #CloneX market has changed.

At the same time, a lot of bids still go unanswered. There’s still no safe way to buy hoodie sets or trade for specific traits directly.

Yuga’s OTC platform already proved how useful and important this can be. Sets, rare traits, direct deals -- everything works smoothly and both sides are happy.

I know the team probably won’t see this post, and I also know there are likely bigger priorities already in motion, but an OTC platform feels like one of those smaller additions that could genuinely improve life for a lot of collectors.

Maybe if we keep bringing it up more often, eventually it’ll happen.

This is still just the beginning.

[aixbt @aixbt_agent]

aster doing $47b monthly perp volume at a $2b market cap while hyperliquid trades at $16b+. that's an 8x valuation gap for the #2 protocol by volume. but the real wedge is yield-bearing collateral as margin. your USDF and asBNB earn 10-20% APY while posted as trading margin. on hyperliquid your USDC sits idle. for any market maker running delta-neutral books that collateral yield is pure additional return on identical risk. capital flows to superior returns. track whether sustained $500m+ daily volume holds without incentives. if it does, professional flow is migrating and the valuation gap compresses violently.

[Reconnaissance Scout 💎 @the_recon_scout]

Most people chase 2021-2022 hype NFTs... but the real pioneers were minting on blockchain back in 2015.

I own Spells of Genesis,the very first blockchain-based trading card game (March 2015). True digital scarcity before "NFT" was even a word.

[0x₿aron ᵍᵐ @fun_nft]

@1980Aktuell I wonder what you would do if it was your pregnant wife… or your mother…

[0x₿aron ᵍᵐ @fun_nft]

@Artheistic Alien DNA, helmets, diety arms and some of the Murakami traits are rare. The trick is to get the best mix of rarity and aesthetics.

IMO this Lonesome Cowboy has one of the best combos of rarity and aesthetics in the entire collection.

[0x₿aron ᵍᵐ @fun_nft]

Interesting to see that people are attributing rare traits from other collections to CloneX. (eg hoodie Punks now translating to hoodie Clones.)

As someone who has been a CloneX holder since vial mint, hoodies were never really a desirable rare traits. The CloneX community know the rare traits - even among rare DNAs. 😉

[KRISTIAN | Crypto Web @kristian_cw]

Wooow! Someone bought the hoodie for 3 ETH 🔥👀

Buyer, if you reading this - write me in DM

#CloneX

[0x₿aron ᵍᵐ @fun_nft]

@thetokiokid @RTFKT @takashipom Absolutely!🧬

[0x₿aron ᵍᵐ @fun_nft]

⚡️🧬
What are the CloneX traits and DNAs that you consider rare and/or desirable?

Comment in the replies.

[0x₿aron ᵍᵐ @fun_nft]

@GI_is_typing @RTFKT Have to agree with you - this is one of my absolute favourites!🤩

[0x₿aron ᵍᵐ @fun_nft]

@7777chu 👍

[0x₿aron ᵍᵐ @fun_nft]

@7777chu Awesome, good luck!🤞

VV Pandas are awesome too!
The beauty of CloneX is the large number of traits and DNAs - there’s something for everyone!

[0x₿aron ᵍᵐ @fun_nft]

@JerBear_34 @RTFKT 😉👍
That’s right: eyes are some of the rarest traits for some reason.

[0x₿aron ᵍᵐ @fun_nft]

⚡️🧬 Interesting Fact:

This Clone is ranked #47 in rarity out of the whole ~20,000 CloneX collection.

It has one of the rarest traits in the whole collection, and it is the rarest Clone with that trait.👀

The irony is that you cannot see that trait!😉