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What’s the point of Litecoin?
Exactly 14 years ago — on October 13, 2011 — the Litecoin blockchain went live. Back then, it was mostly seen as a network that worked four times faster than Bitcoin, making it better suited for everyday transactions. But as faster blockchains appeared, many started to ask: why do we still need Litecoin? For a while, it became a popular bridge between...
Hyperliquid: Has the Exchange Truly Become Decentralized?
Back in May, I wrote that Hyperliquid was a striking example of CeDeFi — a system that uses decentralized finance technologies to build a centralized product. By “product,” I meant its on-chain perpetuals exchange. To me, it looked as if Binance decided to store all your deposit and trading data not in a private database visible...
He Shorted BTC and ETH Minutes Before the Drop — But Missed the Real Crash
Many are talking today about that big on-chain trader who first swapped his BTC for ETH right before ETH started pumping — and then, just a couple of days ago, shorted both BTC and ETH for millions and profited from yesterday’s crash. Since he trades on-chain, everyone could literally watch him build up his short positions minutes before the drop. It’s hard to believe someone could...
Crypto Is Learning New Languages
The growing popularity of BNB Chain has drawn attention not only to the network itself, but also to the tokens being launched on it. And some of those tokens have names that are quite unusual for the crypto world. On four.meme — a platform where many BEP-20 meme tokens are born — it’s becoming common to see tokens with Chinese names...
ZEC Takes Off While Others Bleed
While most cryptocurrencies are correcting along with gold and silver — or even dropping — Zcash is going wild. Sure, it’s still far from the legendary 2999 BTC per 1 ZEC seen at launch nine years ago, but compared to its bottom just over a year ago, ZEC has already done a 12x, with most of the gains coming in the last two weeks. I...
TRUMP token issuer plans a massive buyback
The issuer of the TRUMP token plans to launch a Digital Asset Treasury (DAT) that will buy back its own tokens. They’re looking to raise anywhere between $200 million and $1 billion for this purpose. * I get why companies buy ETH or SOL — they can stake them and earn yield. * I even get why they buy Bitcoin. At first, I thought it was just for resale...
Polymarket now accepts Bitcoin deposits
Polymarket now accepts Bitcoin deposits. That’s a great step forward. Bitcoiners, in my opinion, have been unfairly left out of the largest prediction market for too long. But the way these deposits work raises some questions: * First, users aren’t actually depositing Bitcoin tokenized on Polygon (as one might expect), but USDC. The deposit widget doesn’t make it clear...
$4.4 trillion market cap? Try getting a loan against it.
Crypto market cap just hit $4.4T today, according to Coingecko. CoinMarketCap shows a bit less — around $4.3T. But honestly, does anyone take those numbers seriously? Nobody really believes you could put all crypto up for sale and find buyers ready to pay trillions of dollars for it. The global banking compliance system would collapse long before that much money could even move...
Why Stablecoins Are Better Than Bank Money
Nine or ten years ago, most crypto enthusiasts had no idea why stablecoins even existed. Back when Ethereum was gaining traction, I remember a post on a forum that captured the general confusion perfectly: “I sold ETH on Poloniex and got some weird dollars with a ‘T’ at the end. What am I supposed to do with them?” Those “weird dollars”...
FLOKI enters the stock exchange
FLOKI price jumped 28.5% this week. At first glance, there’s no obvious reason. But it turns out that a Swedish stock exchange just launched an exchange-traded product (ETP) that tracks FLOKI’s price. In other words, stock traders can now speculate on FLOKI’s moves without ever touching crypto – no wallet, no coins, just their regular brokerage accounts. Let’s pause for a second. Who is this...
