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The Problem Isn’t Hacks - It’s Fake DeFi
I want to revisit the widely discussed post from yesterday by the founder of Curve about the problems in DeFi. There’s one revealing idea in it that, surprisingly, no one seems to have noticed. Michael Egorov, the founder of Curve, criticized the current state of DeFi and pointed to what he considers the core issue: centralized points of failure. Let me quote...
Stablecoins Are Now Crypto’s Default Currency
CoinGecko shared an interesting infographic today showing that 68.1% of trading pairs on major exchanges are now quoted against stablecoins. And 97.7% of that volume is concentrated in USDT and USDC. These two have effectively become the primary settlement layer of the modern crypto market. It wasn’t always this way. Before 2018, the role of a common denominator was played by...
The Memecore Hype: Market Cap or Mirage?
The crypto community is watching a rather suspicious success story unfold today. The Memecore coin has reached an eye-catching valuation, and blockchain investigator ZachXBT has already raised concerns, accusing the team of artificially inflating the price. What caught my attention in particular is the comparison between Memecore and Hyperliquid that started making the rounds today. In the screenshot above, it’s...
DCA Alternatives. Part I
Everyone's heard that the safest way to buy Bitcoin is to buy the same dollar amount at regular intervals. It's called DCA — Dollar-Cost Averaging. I know people who follow this approach, and they're doing quite well. But if you dig into the topic a little, it turns out there are smarter strategies, and none of them are any more complicated than...
More Americans Own Bitcoin Than Gold - Or Do They?
According to data shown by Cointelegraph, more Americans own bitcoin than gold. At first glance, that sounds plausible. Bitcoin is simply easier to hold. It’s more liquid, easier to transfer, and in many ways more practical. On top of that, gold itself has been tokenized for years now. If someone just wants exposure to gold as a store of value, they no longer...
The Bitcoin Movie No One Expected
According to a recent item on IMDb, a thriller titled Bitcoin is set to be released soon. And its central character is... Craig Wright. There haven’t been many high-profile headlines about Craig Wright over the past year, so here’s a quick reminder of who he is. Wright is best known for claiming that he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin...
World’s New Revenue Model Raises Questions About WLD
When I saw the headline "The Revenue Potential from World ID" on the World blog, my first thought was that they were about to start charging users for obtaining a World ID. That would have been a bold move. Early adopters were actually rewarded for getting a World ID, so imagine the kind of FOMO they could have triggered by flipping the model and introducing...
Fewer Trades, Better Results - Proven by WSCT 2026
A crypto trading tournament, WSCT 2026, recently took place in Moscow, Russia. Its organizers call it the largest trading competition in the crypto market. I can’t say for sure whether it’s truly the biggest, but two thousand participants in the qualifying stage is no small number. From those two thousand, just 11 of the most successful traders advanced to the final, where they had to...
No Pay, No Deal: Is Kraken Right to Refuse Extortion?
Nick Percoco, Kraken's Chief Security Officer, shared on X that the exchange recently faced an extortion attempt. A criminal group threatened to release videos allegedly showing access to Kraken's internal systems and customer data. Kraken chose not to pay. This isn't the first time they've dealt with something like this. In a previous incident, they identified the employee responsible for...
Centralization Won’t Protect Your Crypto
Blockchain analytics experts are asking how a fake Ledger app managed to pass Apple’s review process and make it into the App Store - the very app that wiped out the savings of American musician Garrett Dutton, who lost 5.92 BTC after downloading a phishing app and entering his seed phrase. But fake apps on the App Store are hardly a...
