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[Shadow Crypto @shadowcrypto0]

The End of "Copy-Paste" Trading: Why Agentic AI is the New Alpha 🍩⚡️
The current Web3 user experience is fundamentally broken.

If you’re a trader, your daily routine probably looks like a chaotic mess of 20+ open tabs:

X (Twitter) for the latest narrative shifts.

DexScreener/Birdeye for price action and liquidity.

Bubble maps to check for insider clusters.

Telegram bots for execution.

Phantom/Metamask to confirm the final tx.

By the time you’ve connected the dots across all these "silos," the window of opportunity has already closed. This is "Passive Web3"—and it’s a losing game for retail.

I’ve been deep-diving into the Agentic AI space recently, and @DonutAI is building exactly what the market is missing: An Agentic Terminal that replaces the passive browser.

1. The Shift from Information to Execution
Most AI tools in crypto today are just "fancy wrappers" around ChatGPT. They tell you what happened.
But the real value isn't in information; it’s in execution.

What makes the D0 Agent from DonutAI interesting is that it doesn’t wait for you to find the alpha. It’s built on a DSEA (Discovery, Strategy, Execution, Attribution) framework. It’s designed to be proactive, not reactive.

2. Solving the "Context Switch" Problem
Imagine a browser that actually understands what you are looking at.
If you’re on a project’s X page, the AI agent is already running the background checks: scanning the contract, checking whale movements, and gauging sentiment.

It’s no longer about you digging for data; it’s about the data being served to you by an agent that knows your risk profile. This is the core of DeFAI (Decentralized Finance AI).

3. Why this is a "DePIN + AI" Power Play
Infrastructure matters. Building these agents requires massive compute and real-time data feeds. By leveraging a decentralized approach to compute, @DonutAI is ensuring that these agents remain permissionless and scalable.

We are moving toward a future where every trader has a personal "quant team" running inside their browser 24/7.

My Take:
The "Agentic Narrative" is just beginning to heat up. While most people are still chasing meme coins manually, the smart money is looking for the "rails" that will automate the next cycle.

If you aren't thinking about how AI agents can manage your execution gap, you’re essentially bringing a knife to a drone fight.

How much of your daily trading workflow are you willing to hand over to an AI agent? Is the "Human-in-the-loop" model still the safest bet, or are we ready for full autonomy?

Drop your thoughts below. 👇

#DeFAI #DonutAI #Solana #AIAgents #CryptoResearch #Web3

[Shadow Crypto @shadowcrypto0]

@MEKO_Xeffy Great day

[MEKO_Xeffy @MEKO_Xeffy]

5th Mission - XAX Vault: PreStaking 🔥

The PreStaking mission is voluntary, but the team highly values and appreciates the contributions of users who participate in this part!!

Even a small amount is fine. Feel free to join the Vault staking!"

[Shadow Crypto @shadowcrypto0]

@Xphere_official @Xeffy_io lfg

[XPHERE @Xphere_official]

We are delighted to share that we have made a strategic investment in @Xeffy_io and executed a grant for the project.

Xeffy is a team building institutional-grade Vault strategies and dedicated on-chain RWA infrastructure.

With the Xeffy miniAPP, the foundation of the Xeffy APP , now surpassing 300,000 users, it is one of the fastest-growing RWA projects.

We are thrilled to announce the execution of XPhere’s Grant to support Xeffy’s growth into one of the flagship projects on Xphere’s mainnet and to accelerate the development of all Xeffy DApps!

[Shadow Crypto @shadowcrypto0]

@allscaleio This Partner Program creates a real path for community members to contribute and earn at the same time 🚀

[AllScale @allscaleio]

AllScale Partner Program is Now Live!

Anyone can now earn commission by referring merchants to activate Checkout.

To get you up to speed on how it works, we're running a Quiz Challenge with rewards up for grabs on Discord.

🗓 June 5, 8:00 PM (UTC+8)
🏆 First 3 to answer all correctly → 30 USDT each
🎁 6 winners drawn at random from all perfect scores → 10 USDT each

How to join
- Read through the Partner Program docs in advance
- Join Discord server, where the quiz link and reward payouts both happen
- On June 5 at 8 PM, the quiz link goes up in the Quiz JUN. 5th channel
- After finishing the quiz, post your perfect-score screenshot in the Quiz JUN. 5th channel
- Wait for results, then rewards go out right away 🎉

[Xeffy @Xeffy_io]

Xeffy Mini App Surpasses 50K Users! 🔥

Thank you once again for your participation!!

[Shadow Crypto @shadowcrypto0]

@allscaleio Launching a storefront in 60 seconds sounds perfect for busy sellers.

[AllScale @allscaleio]

Launch your storefront in 60 seconds.

- Get paid in USDT/USDC, anywhere — funds land in a wallet only you control
- Built-in AI assistant — drop it into any group chat, it answers customers for you

[Shadow Crypto @shadowcrypto0]

@allscaleio Finally got USDC support, this was honestly needed badly.

[AllScale @allscaleio]

USDC now joins USDT across Wallet, Invoice, and Checkout.

Both run on the same chain, and both stay in your custody.

[Shadow Crypto @shadowcrypto0]

@fibonacki @riskanonymous @hdegrootvan @remusofmars @doctorHehe 3vbw4ibc89aypDaJ6DCVdwv8xuaAJwiV3iLCEEWZNdm6

[fibs @fibonacki]

we got around 500 nft whitelists to be given away for unc from uncDAO

the holders get a free mint but these 900 will be 0.1SOL or around that price each so not meaningful but rather showing edge in holders > raffles

@riskanonymous
@hdegrootvan
@remusofmars
@doctorHehe
@AI_nerd_girl
@RiccoRosas
@unnattybrah
@_logjam
@aibaldking
@fibonacki

50 each from these guys, if they want to join the operation

will mint 400 for the treasury just incase (tba) (maybe) (not sure yet)

if not - I'll give their 50 away

[Shadow Crypto @shadowcrypto0]

I haven't gotten D0 access yet.

But you don't need to be inside the app to see what @DonutAI is becoming.

If you slow down and look at the public surface area carefully, there are at least 6 things visible from the outside that already separate this project from 99% of the AI x crypto noise.

Here they are.

1️⃣ THE WAITLIST IS REAL DEMAND, NOT FARMED

➡ Past 160K traders, growing organically over months, not in a single viral burst

➡ No "follow + like + RT to enter" gimmicks

➡ No paid bot stuffing inflating the numbers

The signal here is closer to a real product launch queue than to a points farm. When demand grows steadily without a marketing detonation behind it, that's a compounding curve, and compounding curves are what you want to be early to.

2️⃣ THE FUNDING MIX IS UNUSUAL

➡ $22M raised in roughly 6 months

➡ Crypto VCs + AI experts + traditional finance institutions, all in the same rounds

When three different worlds buy the same thesis at the same valuation, the thesis is probably right. Crypto VCs validate the distribution play. AI experts validate the technical defensibility. TradFi validates the long-term compliance and B2B paths. Most projects can attract one of those groups. Donut attracted all three.

3️⃣ THE ECOSYSTEM CHOICES ARE INTENTIONAL

➡ Solana for execution speed and cheap fees

➡ Hyperliquid for deep perps liquidity

➡ Drift for native Solana perps

➡ Jupiter for Solana spot

This is not a "support every chain to look big" architecture. It's a deliberate routing graph optimized for the kind of multi-venue execution serious traders actually need. Each piece is best in class. Combining them under one agent runtime is the moat.

4️⃣ THE TEAM SHIPS, THEN POSTS

➡ Demos before announcements

➡ Real production trades before press releases

➡ Public posts that focus on what works, not what is promised

Most crypto projects post first and ship later. Donut flips that order. That ordering matters because it teaches you what kind of pressure the team is built for. They are built for product pressure, not Twitter pressure.

5️⃣ THE COMPETITION HASN'T CAUGHT UP

➡ No one in the agentic browser category has shipped at this depth

➡ The closest competitors are Telegram trading bots, which are an entirely different abstraction

➡ The 6–12 month head start is rare in crypto and never lasts forever

Right now that lead is the moat. By the time copycat browsers ship, Donut will already have ecosystem partnerships, real on-chain data, and a user base that has integrated the tool into daily workflow. That kind of head start is hard to acquire and easy to underestimate.

6️⃣ THE TGE WINDOW IS STILL OPEN

➡ No public token

➡ No FDV to fight over yet

➡ Pre-TGE attention is free

➡ Post-TGE attention costs liquidity

This is the simplest part of the thesis and the part most people emotionally resist. The cheapest seat at any table is always the one you take before there is a price tag on it.

You don't need access to see any of this.

You just need to look without the noise.

🍩 @DonutAI

#DonutAI #D0 #PreTGE #AgenticBrowser #CryptoResearch #Hyperliquid #Solana

[Donut @DonutAI]

D0 new version is on the way.

A few upgrades.
A better D0.
Soon.

[Shadow Crypto @shadowcrypto0]

I've been on the @DonutAI waitlist for weeks now.

Still waiting.

Still watching.

And honestly, that wait has taught me more about this project than any product demo ever could.

Because if you slow down and pay attention, the way a team handles their waitlist tells you almost everything you need to know about how they will handle their token, their treasury, and their users five years from now.

Most projects in this space do the obvious thing.

They open the doors on day one.

They blast invites to anyone with a wallet.

They optimize for the loudest possible launch.

They burn their early adopter goodwill in 72 hours and then spend the next 18 months wondering why retention is dead.

@DonutAI is doing the boring, expensive, correct thing instead :

🔸 Onboarding traders in waves so the agent doesn't break under real load

🔸 Iterating on actual user data before opening the floodgates

🔸 Treating risk infrastructure as a real product, not a feature in a deck

🔸 Refusing to ship a half-baked agent just to capture a hype cycle

🔸 Letting the queue grow instead of artificially shortening it for marketing

That last one is the one most people miss.

A waitlist that grows past 160K traders without the team panicking is itself the strongest signal.

When founders who don't yet have a token can sit on that much pent-up demand without rushing the door, you are looking at conviction in the product, not desperation for liquidity.

That kind of patience is rare.

That kind of patience is also bullish.

So yes, I'm still outside the gate.

But the gate is the signal.

When a team treats access like surgery instead of a flash sale, you pay attention.

When the people who should have the most pressure to ship sloppy still ship slow, you know the architecture is being built for the next three years, not the next three weeks.

The day my access drops, I'll be ready.

Until then, I'm doing the work that doesn't require a login :

➡ Reading every team post going back to the seed round

➡ Mapping how D0 actually fits the Hyperliquid + Solana + Drift + Jupiter stack

➡ Tracking what the small handful of early users say in public

➡ Writing my own thesis so I'm not building conviction off other people's tweets

The early seat is not only inside the app.

The early seat is also in the conviction you build before you click the first button.

By the time the door opens, the people who only show up for the giveaway will look like noise.

The people who showed up for the thesis will look like signal.

I'd rather be in the second group.

🍩 @DonutAI

#DonutAI #D0 #Waitlist #AgenticBrowser #CryptoAI #PreTGE

[Shadow Crypto @shadowcrypto0]

@DonutAI just dropped D0 v1.0.12 — their biggest update yet. 183 changes. Here's what CT isn't talking about yet.

——

They named their signal engine after Ed Thorp.

Not by accident.

Thorp is the MIT mathematician who figured out how to beat blackjack, then went on to run one of the most consistently profitable quant funds in history. He didn't chase alpha — he built systems that found it repeatedly.

The Thorp Strategy Engine in D0 does the same: runs continuously in the background, analyzes market conditions, and pushes you trading signals with real-time context — straight into Telegram.

That's not a feature name. That's a philosophy.

——

The part I didn't expect: D0 now trades TradFi.

Gold, Brent Oil, AAPL, TSLA, EUR/USD — all discoverable and tradeable via perpetual contracts across 6 exchanges.

123 assets. 257 pairs.

The thing you built to trade Solana memecoins is now running macro hedges on commodities and FX. The scope just expanded by an order of magnitude.

——

Multi-model selection is live.

You can now run D0 on Claude Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, DeepSeek V4 Pro, or GPT-5.5 — each independently configurable per task.

That's not cosmetic. That means you can route fast market scans to a lightweight model and complex strategy generation to a heavier one.

Actual model orchestration, not just a dropdown.

——

A few other things worth noting from this release:

• Market data now pulls from 9 exchanges with auto-fallback (Binance, Bybit, OKX, Bitget, https://t.co/rMJUDIxv8D, HyperLiquid, Coinbase, Aster DEX)
• Polymarket stop-loss is live — monitors every 30 seconds, three trigger types
• Protocol risk detection now cross-checks DeFiLlama TVL drops + Twitter sentiment simultaneously before you interact
• Workspace backups now run every 15 minutes instead of 4 hours
• D0 now responds in 20+ languages, preserved across sessions

——

Step back and look at the arc:

March 31: D0 launches as a 24/7 crypto trading agent
April 3: Voice messages, Market Regime Analysis, compound conditional alerts
April 18: 9 exchanges, TradFi perps, Polymarket stop-loss
April 30: Thorp Strategy Engine, HIP-3 commodities, multi-model presets, 183 improvements

That's one month. Four major releases.

——

Most projects take a year to ship what @DonutAI just shipped in 30 days.

The Thorp reference isn't hype. It's a signal about how this team thinks about markets.

Watch closely.

#DeFi #AIAgents #DonutAI

[Shadow Crypto @shadowcrypto0]

Everyone's talking about D0 from @DonutAI. Nobody's explaining why it actually matters beyond the surface.

Let me go deeper.

——

The real problem D0 is solving isn't "automated trading."

It's cognitive load.

Right now, a serious on-chain trader juggles: price alerts, Telegram alpha calls, Twitter sentiment, DEX charts, wallet positions, gas fees, liquidity depth — all at once, across multiple chains.

You're not trading. You're triaging.

The best opportunities get missed not because you don't know what to do — but because you weren't watching at the right second.

D0 is built for exactly that gap.

——

Here's what separates D0 from every "AI trading bot" you've seen before:

Those bots are glorified macros. You input a condition → they execute a single action. The logic is static. The bot doesn't understand *context* — it just matches triggers.

D0 operates on a continuous loop:

Monitor → Analyze → Decide → Execute → Risk-manage → Report

It's not waiting for your trigger. It's running its own trading cycle, under your rules.

That's the distinction between automation and agency.

——

The GRPS risk system deserves more attention than it's getting.

Stop-loss and position limits aren't new. Every degen knows how to set them manually.

The edge here is *enforcement*.

In practice, humans override their own stop-losses. The trade starts going against you, you tell yourself "just a bit longer" — and a 5% loss becomes a 40% loss.

GRPS removes that option. The rules you set when you were thinking clearly get enforced when you're not.

That's not a small thing. That's the entire reason most retail traders blow up.

——

The Telegram interface is more strategic than it looks.

Building a new app = asking users to change behavior. That's the hardest distribution problem in crypto.

Building inside Telegram = zero friction. You already have it open. Your alpha groups are already there. D0 just lives in the same environment.

This is why LINE, WeChat, and Telegram bots dominate in Asia — the interface is already won. You don't fight it, you embed in it.

Whoever captures Telegram-native trading UX in this cycle wins distribution before anyone else builds a "better app."

——

Now zoom out to the broader architecture.

D0 is the agent. Donut Browser is the layer underneath.

Most crypto tools are built on top of Chrome — a browser that has no idea what a token, a wallet, or a DEX is. Every interaction requires manual context-switching.

Donut rebuilds the browser natively for crypto. Calldata is human-readable. Wallet data is built-in. DEX liquidity is a first-class citizen of the interface.

When you run D0 inside a browser that already understands on-chain context, the agent becomes dramatically more accurate. It's not parsing raw HTML and guessing — it's operating in an environment built for exactly what it needs to do.

That's the architectural moat. The agent + the environment. Separately they're products. Together they're a platform.

——

The timing isn't random either.

On-chain perpetuals crossed $1 trillion in monthly volume in September 2025. DeFi daily spot volume is running above $20B across DEXs.

This market is large enough now that professional-grade tooling actually moves the needle. 18 months ago, the on-chain liquidity wasn't deep enough for autonomous agents to operate without massive slippage. That's changed.

D0 is arriving exactly when the market is ready for it.

——

What I'm actually watching for:

— Does GRPS hold under real vol? (Stress test is a black swan week, not a normal market)
— How does D0 handle multi-chain routing? (Solana + Sui + Monad means liquidity fragmentation)
— What's the latency between signal detection and execution? (In perps, seconds are positions)
— Who controls the strategy layer — user only, or will there be community/shared strategies?

If those boxes get checked over the next few months, this becomes infrastructure — not just a product.

——

The meta point:

Every cycle, one tool becomes the default interface for the cohort that enters.

2017: exchanges.
2020: MetaMask + Uniswap.
2021: CT + Discord.
2023: Telegram bots.

2025–2026: the agentic browser.

@DonutAI is making a serious bet that D0 + Donut Browser becomes that default layer.

Given the backing, the architecture, and the timing — I wouldn't fade it.

#DonutAI #DeFi #OnChainTrading #AIAgents

[Elonson.BTC π² (❖,❖) @havesonem]

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[Shadow Crypto @shadowcrypto0]

@havesonem @allscaleio 90 seconds?? I've been waiting 4 days for a payment to clear and nobody told me this existed