How my friends changed my life Honestly, if one of my friends didn't introduce me to crypto, I don't know if I would be here today Back then, barely anyone around me was into crypto. I still remember seeing ETH around $253 and BTC around $7,000and thinking: “Is this really something I should put money into?” I finally took the risk and put around 20% of my portfolio into crypto At the same time, I created this account and started posting about crypto I also made this account and started posting about crypto and NFTs Then NFTs started going crazy I saw people making good money from Pudgy, Goblin, Azuki and other collections, and obviously I didn't want to miss it. So I jumped in Luckily, I made some good profits. Then the NFT market died down and I started waiting for the next big thing Then came memes Probably my favorite part of crypto. I remember seeing Elon tweet about DOGE and watching everything go crazy I was literally like wtf 😂 That's when I started grinding much harder I was grinding 7+ hours a day, researching, trading, posting, watching narratives and trying to understand where the next opportunity could come from I also remember the Arbitrum airdrop I had done some swaps and interacted with the ecosystem without expecting much. And then I got a pretty big airdrop Those moments made me realize how early I actually was in this space Of course, it wasn't all wins There were times when I put around 50% of my portfolio into futures and perps and learned some very expensive lessons I've made plenty of mistakes But that's crypto You win, you lose, you learn and you keep going I'm definitely not perfect and I don't always make the right decision But one thing I've always tried to do is give it my 100% Looking back, it's crazy to think that one friend introducing me to crypto completely changed the direction of my life Sometimes you don't realize how important one small decision is until years later.

The stablecoin market is getting bigger, but the interesting part is where the growth is happening. $300.9B market cap across 195 assets, 152 issuers and 47 chains. Over the last 90 days: • Tron gained $5B, while Ethereum lost $4.9B
• Circle led issuer growth with +$915M
• RLUSD +$765M and U +$474M
• Tether still dominates with 61.1% supply, but fell $207.7M
• USDT added 16.6M holders, USDC added 8.1M
• BNB Chain added 12.9M stablecoin holders
• Ethereum has 54.2% of supply but only 8.7% of holders
• Tron sits near the top in both: 31.2% supply and 25.2% holders The biggest takeaway for me: Capital and users aren't necessarily moving to the same places. Ethereum still holds most of the stablecoin liquidity, while BNB and other chains are attracting far more wallet activity. The next phase of stablecoins might be less about total supply and more about where that supply actually gets used.

Disappear from Lazarus. Enter the Alcove.

That’s how my mood swings happen when I trade crypto

Sonnet 5.5 seems aimed at the work people actually do every day: → fixing bugs
→ building interfaces
→ creating slides and documents
→ working with spreadsheets
→ quick iterations The interesting part is the cost + speed combination. Anthropic says it’s over 30% faster than Sonnet 5 and can cost up to 30% less per task, while keeping the same listed pricing. And if it can reach better benchmark results at Low or Medium effort instead of needing maximum compute, that matters even more The AI race isn't only about making models smarter anymore It's about making them fast enough, cheap enough, and reliable enough to use all day.

Don’t be a target.

Gonna drop an article on how you can farm points on Arcus in the easiest way arcus_xyz is currently running a hidden points program, and they recently took down the points API, so you can’t check your points anymore Join waitlist if you don’t wanna miss: waitlist.arcus.xyz/s/NAMIIXB… But we do know a few things: • Points started on July 1
• 395,861 points recorded
• 5 tiers + weekly drops
• Next points drop: September 30
• Private beta looks close to ending
• Currently doing around 367M daily volume Arcus also teased a “big week ahead.” So we could see the official points reveal and potentially Season 1 very soon. I’ll break down the easiest way to farm points and what I’m doing in the article.

Aero is getting much more interesting The big idea is pretty simple: one liquidity layer connecting Ethereum’s major EVM chains @aeroxyz is launching on October 21 across Base, Ethereum, OP, Arc, Ink, Arbitrum and Robinhood Chain What I find interesting is that it’s not just another DEX. You have: • Trade: Metaswaps for cross-chain swaps
• Earn: LPs can earn from fees, rewards and MEV capture
• Launch: Projects can permissionlessly create markets and attract liquidity
• Govern: sAERO holders direct incentives across the network The part I’m watching most is Predictive Allocation Instead of liquidity incentives being spread blindly, sAERO holders can direct rewards toward pools where they think liquidity will be most useful And Aero already has a strong starting point Aerodrome reportedly has around 86% of tokenized stock spot DEX volume on Base, in a market that did $1.3B over the last 30 days If Aero can take that liquidity and make it work across multiple chains, the interesting part isn't just the launch It's whether Aero can become the liquidity layer people don't have to think about.

When I used Bybit, Bybit got hacked Then I moved to Bitget and Bitget got hacked too At this point, I’m starting to think I’m the exploit

Yea i know you gys are going to retire from $VAR airdrop Btw tokenomics are pretty straightforward: 32% → Genesis
18% → Ecosystem
50% → Team + Investors Team and investor tokens are locked for 12 months after TGE and then unlock over at least 3 years Another thing I’m watching is the buyback. Variational says 100% of treasury revenue will go toward buying and burning $VAR. I think ,would be open at 2, 3B

Exactly, I don’t even know what to say Doesn’t look good to me And in the end, it’s probably excellent for insiders while you and I get to lose even more money together

how do you stay safe when your entire net worth is just sitting on a block explorer for anyone to see? @waleswoosh told us about a friend who built a six figure portfolio from almost nothing. then a scam wiped out most of it. everyone in crypto has a plan to get rich. far fewer have a plan to stay under the radar.