IN THE FIRST 15 MINUTES THE BID IS AT 1E WHAT IS HAPPENING
Thank you @Klutch_NFT for the zero hesitation top blast and to @walasavagephoto and @VGFreakXBL for getting things moving right away
Beaming so hard right now 🥹
2025 isn’t just another year for crypto and for Cronos -- it’s the inflection point.
🌍 The world is waking up to on-chain infrastructure at scale. Stablecoins alone now sit around the ~$270B mark, proving that digital assets can deliver utility, liquidity, and resilience at global reach. Tokenized real-world assets have crossed ~$25B on public chains, early signs of a much larger transformation that leading analysts project could reach ~$18.9T by 2033.
🚀 Our new roadmap is built for this moment.
Together with @cryptocom, will focus on three growth engines:
1/ the backbone for open, compliant, and AI-accessible tokenized markets;
2/ mainstream distribution through https://t.co/xCMN6yIS69’s 150M+ user network and expanding merchant payment rails;
3/ deeper $CRO access via public-market channels such as ETFs and digital-asset treasuries.
This is how we turn promise into utility for people, institutions, and AI agents alike.
🤝 Why we’re confident: we’ve upgraded Cronos performance to sub-second blocks and materially lower fees -- concrete UX gains that unlock real-time finance, AI flows, and payments. When infrastructure fades into the background, new categories emerge in the foreground: instant settlement, 24/7 collateral, and programmable markets usable by billions.
What this means for our community and partners:
🛠️ Developers get EVM-compatible rails with credible compliance pathways and an AI-native stack (Agent SDK + Proof of Identity) to build beyond “wrapped” assets.
🏦 Institutions get distribution, USD liquidity, and on-chain products that meet their operational standards.
💆♂️ Users get faster, cheaper, more useful finance all accessible from the apps they already trust.
This roadmap is not about participating - it’s about setting the pace.
We will measure ourselves publicly on adoption, liquidity, and user outcomes, and we’ll keep shipping until on-chain finance feels as seamless as the internet itself.
Build Global Finance on @cronosapp
🔗 https://t.co/zfvz55wwkl
Monumental news to share today:
‘Corsican Stars’ — a set of four images that I consider to be the most intimate art project I’ve ever created, has been acquired as a full collection by @batsoupyum ✨
Musings below
Wild how many people disagree with this
I see smaller accounts in random gc’s hitting +100x’s weekly if not daily when the markets on a heater (and it’s been on a heater somewhere every day)
Of course — there will always be some information asymmetry but the barriers have never been lower:
- Wallet tracking easier than ever
- Bot assist trading better than ever
- Simple auto sells/buys in photon etc.
- Daily new 8-9fig runners
- More ppl than ever open to squad up with others that share their drive to make it out of the trenches
I’m absolutely trash at trading but when the drive to roll dice has been strong enough even I’ve made some big plays this run
But then I start missing things…bagholding and coping until eventually a small voice starts to wonder “how nice it must be to be in ‘the cabal’ 😩”
And then remember I’m onchain clicking like everyone else with 95% of the same info & access and the only reason my clicks stopped printing is bc I let that hunger fade and started getting complacent +/ focused elsewhere
Made peace with the fact that I’m not going to make LA Vape Cabal level profits this year, maybe I’ll regret not being perma-trenched but there’s other shit I care about more and I’d rather gamble on that — but I’m not going to judge anyone, regardless of platform size, just because they’re winning.
Innocent chad until proven guilty afaic
End of the day, if you’re not committed to keeping up at the speed DeeZe mentioned for +12hrs a day, your opinion lacks merit and probably isn’t worth sharing
And if you think you are committed but aren’t catching material w’s, you should probably pause, regroup & rethink your strategy before crashing out
Either way, you probably don’t want it bad enough and that’s ok if you can let it be
Trenches are for soldiers and not everyone is meant to go to war, or return after their first conscription if they once made it out with a medal & basic pension, more or less unscathed
1/ What happens when the chaos of NYC rain collides with photography and an AI rarity algorithm?
Meet Drip Drop by @dave_krugman—a stunning collection of 1,111 1/1 photography NFTs. 👇🧵
This is as good a time as ever to take a moment and step back and think about wallet security.
Please take a moment to read this. It’s important. Whether you’re new or seasoned it doesn’t hurt to get a little refresher.
Consider you may have made some purchases over the last couple of years that might not meet have met a vaulting threshold value but they may now or soon be at that.
What is that value? Well it depends on your risk tolerance and you need to consider holding time horizon as well which varies widely from person to person. But basically vault anything you care about.
When you have your artworks in an easily accessible hot wallet you face a significantly bigger risk of something going wrong and things happen super quick around here especially as markets start to heat up.
When I say vault I mean a wallet that is SELDOM connected to the internet. Not just a @Ledger but a Ledger that’s not in your household or within quick reach. A process that forces you to take time to access it, as sometimes scams prey on people rushing to make a transaction. The more time it takes you to access your cherished artworks (or memecoins) the less likely that you will become a victim of a scam.
At the very least take a moment and look for your seed phrase, make sure you know where it is and make sure it’s stored in a super secure place. Ideally a fireproof safe because you just never know.
As you progress through this market, assume the absolute worst in any situation that requires you to connect any of your wallets. Period. Best buddy DMs you for something involving connecting your wallet? Assume it’s a scam, text or call them to make sure they are not being impersonated. And even if they are the real deal assume they might be suggesting for you to participate in something that unbeknownst to them could be a scam.
Stick to the well established platforms if you are connecting your vault. Period. If you are participating in something new or exciting work with a hot wallet that has nothing you’d be afraid to lose.
Don’t follow any links from people’s comments on threads even if it looks like they’re just being helpful, only follow links from people’s original messages, and even then be careful as people get their Twitter accounts compromised regularly.
Generally if it seems too good to be true, it is. I promise you, it just is. Ask a friend or an established member of the community if you’re considering something remotely fishy. And make sure you double and triple check any transactions you are signing.
Never share your screen for “support” from anyone they can glean your private information in a flash. If anyone asks you to share your screen kindly decline.
Also please make sure to add 2FA to any websites you use, especially if they custody your crypto but also your social media. And please never, ever use text message 2FA. Always use an authentication app or hardware key.
Lastly, don’t travel with your vaults or even with any meaningful amount of value in a hot wallet on your phone. Just leave it at home. It’s annoying but just don’t do it.
Oh, and don’t forget to be kind to each other and support your peers along the way.
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Today marks 1 year since the launch of "Forecast" on @artblocks_io 🌟 This journey has been nothing short of incredible, and I’m grateful for all the support and love this project has received.
Here’s to more exploration and creativity ahead! 🎉✨ #Rain#GenerativeArt#Galicia
It's a beautiful day to give away a Drip.
Like this, drop a comment and RT, will send it off in 24 hours. 💧💧💧
Drip Drop is my 1/1111 photography meets generative art meets AI machine vision project, created in June 2022 with @TransientLabs. It's pure photography- each work is a unique image I made. It's generative because the works emerge from a system of strict rules, creating unique outputs based on the physical laws of the universe. It's AI because the traits are calculated by machine vision scanning each image and counting the drops, the color distributions, and the ratio of light to shadow.
Holders can claim physical prints on our token gated website. Deeply grateful for the continued support of this effort and will continue to explain the project in the thread below.
As promised, a short code breakdown of how we were able to reverse exploit NFTs earlier today, and put them back in the hands of their rightful owners.
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All 36 BAYC and 18 MAYC that the exploiter had are now in our possession.
We sent her 10% of the floor price of the collections as bounty. We will be working with the affected victims getting them back to them free of charge.
Right after this coffee break...
Victims please open-a-ticket in our discord and PLEASE BE PATIENT.
For as long as I’ve been aware of @FLAMINGODAO it’s been a goal of mine to have work in their collection. I’m so incredibly grateful to have 7 Drips flow into their esteemed wallet, alongside so many artists I admire. Thanks to everyone who has supported this generative photography effort. Means the absolute world to me. Here’s one of the ones they just got, Drip 136!
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In the quiet gloom and the peaceful darkness, we stoke fires within us to keep us warm. There are moments when the brand of toil and sacrifice presses into our skin, marking our suffering as a sign of life.
With graveyards built behind our eyes, we find the light dwindling as winter sets into our souls. The blue that led us this far becomes black in the absence of hope.
And yet, beyond the oppressive weight of the dying world around us, we find reasons to pay attention to what brightness remains. The gentle snowfall, the disappearance of our tracks. Where we've been never mattered so little.
In this erasure of our faults, under a blanket of new beginnings we find more clarity than ever. As the ice floats down from a kinder sky, the land beneath forgets that we were ever there.
One of, if not my favorite series/projects. Since I first saw my two drips I knew they would be keepers. Sadly I lost a third one to my own stupidity (OTC exploit) and no longer have an awesome triptych. Looking forward to claiming my prints soon!
DRIP DROP💧💧💧// To celebrate the exciting yet hilarious milestone of crossing 420Ξ secondary volume, I'm sharing an ecosystem overview of my generative photography project, which is a study of the intricate patterns of nature and the beautiful unfolding of entropy in our universe.
DRIP DROP consists of 1,111 unique, high resolution photographs of hitting puddles in Times Square. The color is light reflected from flashing LED billboards. @TransientLabs built this project and we created a machine vision system to codify the emergent rarity in each image, counting each droplet, color distribution, chaotic energy, and shadow and light ratios.
The original inspiration for this project was watching the beautiful generative art projects from the @artblocks_io community such as @ArtOnBlockchain Chromie Squiggles, @tylerxhobbs Fidenzas, and @MattKaneArtist Gazers, amongst many others. I decided to use the "code" of physics as the source for these photographic outputs, creating a system of automated creation that resulted in consistent but unique works of arts. I shot over 15,000 images with this system, and curated it down to 1,111 works. 100 mints remain unrevealed for future shows and use. This video, shot by @timbuz1 with sound by @olliechanin, is a poetic trailer we used at launch:
Thanksgiving is coming, so I'm dropping a short alpha thread on collecting Drip Drop by @dave_krugman.
This is my largest digital art collection. Although I'm the largest holder, I continue to add additional pieces of it when I believe they are underpriced (like now).