I’ve been through two bull markets and two bear markets.
This is my third cycle, and I know what’s coming next.
I built my portfolio when you were still just a sperm cell, waiting for your first-ever PvP.
I want to smell the flowers and listen to the birds sing.
Local FUD doesn’t concern me.
During this cycle, there will be two Black Swans.
THEY WILL SHAKE YOU OUT.
And me? I’ll be listening to the birds and smelling the flowers.
At the end of the cycle, I’ll sell my bags gently.
I won’t hurt you.
The one who will hurt you is the influencer playing on your greed. He’ll make you take off your last pair of underwear and gamble those last pennies on his cabal memecoin.
Maybe I’ll make a legendary post of my calls.
Maybe I’ll tell you that the music has stopped playing and the party is over.
I’ll take my chips off the table.
And I’ll go back to listening to the birds and smelling the flowers.
And you?
You’ll be smelling whatever you’ve packed into your bags during the distribution phase.
For now – HODL.
The party is just getting started.
CLARITY Act Momentum is Fading as The Clock Runs Out
Solana Policy Institute CEO Miller Whitehouse-Levine (@millercwl) sees only about a 10% chance of passage before midterms.
He described the bill as being in “August recess purgatory.”
The Senate has been working on the market structure legislation for more than a year.
Whitehouse-Levine said several votes would still be needed after the scheduled motion to proceed. Growing involvement from banks and financial firms is adding further complications.
Prediction markets are also pricing in low odds of the bill becoming law this year.
Source: The Block
The winners won’t be the people who simply use AI.
They’ll be the ones who spot where value is accumulating first:
Data
Compute
Robots
Agent operating systems
New workflows
The CLARITY Act could become one of the biggest unlocks for U.S. crypto in years.
Not because regulation suddenly makes products better.
But because clear rules reduce friction for builders.
Less uncertainty.
More shipping.
More capital formation.
More long-term infrastructure.
The winners from here won’t be the loudest projects.
They’ll be the teams that turn policy clarity into real users, trust, and durable products.
Aptos Proposal #188: Enable APT for Confidentiality has officially been passed and executed 🔒
Confidential $APT is now available on Aptos mainnet!
https://t.co/o3SDCu1ou5
Tokenization is shaping the next evolution of global markets. In @TheEconomist, Larry Fink and Rob Goldstein discuss how tokenization can modernize market infrastructure, enhancing efficiency, transparency, and access by connecting traditional and digital finance. Read more:
blackrock's buidl fund deployed $2.9b across avalanche ($554m), aptos ($544m), polygon ($530m), ethereum ($991m). zero on solana. the largest asset manager on earth just told you which chains get the $2 trillion in tokenized assets by 2028. sol etf hype won't change where treasuries settle.
After careful consideration, we've made the difficult decision to wind down Econia Labs.
This journey has been defined by exploration, collaboration, and the support of an incredible community. We set out to prove that high-performance decentralized exchanges could run fully onchain. We did.
Here's what we accomplished together:
- Built the first widely-adopted fully onchain CLOB on @Aptos - Processing over $500M in volume and 6.3M orders without a single security incident or outage, Econia served as the backend for 8 partner projects.
- Built @emojicoindotfun as the leading launchpad on Aptos - Processing over $38.5M USD in volume across nearly 3,000 launched emojicoins, https://t.co/cXTpVRH2Pb served 40k+ users with ~1M trades.
- Solved atomic matching and proved DeFi scalability - Through two custom matching engines, we showed that sophisticated financial infrastructure can operate entirely onchain without compromise.
We're deeply grateful to Econia integrators @AriesMarkets, @BAPTapp, @EchelonMarket, @hippolabs__, @kanalabs, @PanoraExchange, @PontemNetwork, @predictonfliq, as well as the countless @Aptos ecosystem projects who built on https://t.co/cXTpVRH2Pb and formed vibrant communities. Your collaboration made this work meaningful, and we carry forward the lessons from this chapter with immense appreciation.
Our open source code will remain archived and accessible on GitHub for those who want to continue building on what we started: https://t.co/ARBUtCjiv1. See for yourself: we proved that high-performance CLOBs can run fully onchain - atomically, permissionlessly, at web scale. The question was never if, but when the rest of the world would catch up.
The Econia Labs Team
From the first Thala Foundry project to the leading money market on @Aptos - congrats to @EchelonMarket on joining LFM.
Since launch, Echelon has delivered:
• $200M+ in TVL
• $95M+ in BTC liquidity
• Deep sUSDe integration
• Support for staked LP positions (xLPTs)
• First to bring E-Mode to MoveVM
• One-click leverage looping and more
Aptos DeFi is just getting started.