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Something Interesting Is Happening in the World of DATs
This week, ETHZilla – a company known for constantly buying and holding ETH – sold $40 million worth of Ethereum to buy back its own shares. I used to think that a "digital asset treasury" wasn’t really a business. Turning into a DAT looked more like leaving the business world. When things go wrong, you can always throw your remaining cash into crypto, figuring it...
What’s Wrong With Cocoon
At the Blockchain Life 2025 conference, Pavel Durov announced that in November a new decentralized network for confidential AI computations will launch. The network, called Cocoon, will allow GPU owners to rent out their computing power in exchange for Toncoin rewards. Sounds familiar? It’s quite close to what I described a few months ago — a cryptocurrency...
Lighter Made History, Then Erased It
On the Lighter exchange, the price chart for the HYPE perpetual contract suddenly changed. About a day ago, traders noticed a massive wick: the price briefly doubled from $49 to $98, then dropped back. Quite a sight — just a few days earlier, 1 HYPE was trading a bit above $20, meaning a lucky trader could’ve turned their stack into 5× in no time...
DeepSeek’s Pick: How FLOKI Performed After One Week
A week ago, inspired by DeepSeek’s success in the Alpha Arena, I gave it the same prompt I once used for ChatGPT: “Name the cryptocurrency with the highest short-term growth potential for the next week or two.” DeepSeek hesitated a bit… but eventually gave an answer: FLOKI. A week has passed. Let’s see how that turned out. Last week on rabbit.io, you could swap:...
Token Migrations: The Hidden Threat to Crypto Holders
When you carefully study a token’s smart contract before buying it and make sure it contains no mechanisms that allow the rules to be changed arbitrarily — you’re doing everything right. But all that diligence can still be useless. Sometimes, project teams announce a token migration — moving their token to a new network, a new protocol version, or simply a...
A single wallet approval can live longer than your memory
Not long ago, researchers noticed a strange transaction on one Ethereum address. Some stETH tokens were sent to it — and almost immediately forwarded to a phishing address. So well-known, in fact, that both Etherscan and several crypto wallets automatically flag it as malicious. What’s interesting is that the previous transaction involving the sender’s address was from a year and a half...
U.S. authorities file a lawsuit to confiscate BTC-e crypto assets
The U.S. government has filed a civil forfeiture case targeting the crypto assets of BTC-e — one of the largest exchanges back in 2013–2017, shut down during an American law enforcement operation. By 2025, U.S. regulators should have a pretty good understanding of what cryptocurrency is and how it works. So if they’re filing a lawsuit to confiscate...
ReachMe shuts down: not everyone wants to buy attention
The paid messaging platform ReachMe on BNB Chain, once known for letting users pay 1 BNB to send a direct message to CZ, has announced its shutdown. The idea of paywalls for private messages didn’t catch on, and the project couldn’t survive in the market. That’s a pity — it was actually a clever use case for crypto. For years, experts have been saying that we live in...
Kadena LLC shuts down, but the blockchain lives on
The company behind the Kadena blockchain has announced that it’s ceasing operations — and therefore ending official support for the network. Now, what does that sound more like? 1. Satoshi Nakamoto’s 2011 farewell message saying he was stepping away from Bitcoin development? 2. Or the closure of the HECO chain — the one I wrote about roughly a year ago?...
4% theory goes brrr
Bitwise dropped some eye-opening numbers. According to their model, moving just 4% of global gold capital into Bitcoin could double BTC’s price. People read that… thought about it… and started selling gold to buy Bitcoin. Gold crashed 6.3% in a day — the biggest daily drop since 2013 — while Bitcoin jumped by almost the same percentage. But is that really what happened? Did...
