AI 正在吸干流动性，Crypto 还有戏吗？ “AI 确实是当下全球最大的共识，所有的钱都在往那边倾斜”，直面这个残酷现实，亲历三个周期的 Yetta 反而看到了机会： Crypto 最惨淡的时候，正是 VC 进场的最好时机。她当下依然坚定押注 PayFi 与 CeDeFi，并笃定 AI 与稳定币的结合才刚刚拉开序幕 本期，Mercy很开心可以对话 Primitive Ventures 投资合伙人 Yetta @YettaSing ！ AI 狂热下 Crypto 的结构性机会——“只要还有人在 AI 里赚钱，流动性迟早会回来”。

如果这次 @tradeparagon 没有办法从 @tradexyz 手里抢走宇树的流动性, 那么我认为，HIP-3 最核心的开放性叙事就被证伪了... 我之前一直以为，HIP-3 Auction 拍卖的是某个资产的命名权，或者资产本身。直到这次才发现，它拍卖的其实是一个 deployment slot。 也就是说，你买到的不是某个资产的独占权，而只是一次上线机会。每 31 个小时产生一个新的 slot，拿到之后可以自由决定上线什么资产。因此，不同项目完全可以前后脚上线同一个 ticker、同一个标的。 从机制设计来看，我认为这是比资产独占更优雅的方案。 它既避免了 permissionless 地无限上线资产，又不给任何人永久垄断市场的机会，而是希望通过开放竞争，让更好的产品赢得流动性。 但问题在于，开放性本身就是流动性的伪命题。 流动性天然具有极强的网络效应。订单簿越深，交易成本越低；交易成本越低，流动性越集中；最终形成赢家通吃。理论上的开放入口，并不能打破流动性的自然垄断。 Ventuals 的退出、Tradexyz 拿走超过 90% 的市场份额，都已经说明了这一点。 而这次 Paragon，可能是最后一次验证这个命题。 它手里有十几个 HIP-3 slot，也主动选择和 Tradexyz 在同一个资产上正面竞争。如果即便如此，依然无法建立第二个有意义的流动性中心，那就意味着：HIP-3 可以开放资产上线，但无法开放流动性竞争。

On July 27 at 23:01 UTC, SKHYNIX mark price dropped from $1,127.9 to $917.25. This print was based on an executed trade which was relayed by multiple independent data providers. The XYZ oracle was live in external pricing and tracking that venue, which serves as the primary Korean pre-market venue. The oracle system worked as intended according to its specification. While the system performed as designed, users are understandably upset about liquidations that were triggered. Market integrity is among Trade[XYZ]'s core values, and we understand the trust of our users has been, and will continue to be, earned. With these values in mind, we have decided to cover liquidation losses attributable to this anomaly. Eligibility requirements will be conveyed soon, and distributions are anticipated to be completed in the coming days. This is a one-time discretionary decision and is not a guarantee of similar future action. Going forward, our pricing systems will be further improved to handle tail events. We are accelerating our review of how prices are formed, including revisiting assumptions on external venues, and taking into consideration the price formation which occurs on our own orderbooks, which carry increasingly meaningful depth and signal in relation to external sources. We will share further information soon.

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lots of conversations about base over the last week. wanted to share my candid take after a week of listening and a lot of reflection over the last 6 months. first off - in case it’s not obvious, the first quarter of 2026 was a punch in the face. I spent 2024 and 2025 making a two pronged bet to bring base to the world: (1) builders would unlock the next wave of crypto adoption; (2) adoption would be driven by new onchain-native social experiences - creators, content, messaging. imo we made the right bet on builders, but obviously the wrong bet on social. builders did drive the next wave of crypto adoption - prediction markets, perpetuals, stablecoins - but social was not at the center of it. in fact, the entire social side of the market that many of us had been building towards - farcaster, zora, miniapps, and yes, creator coins - disintegrated completely. I was wrong - whether it was timing wrong (is $ansem a creator coin?) or fully wrong, only time will tell, but regardless, i was definitively wrong. the collateral damage was pretty bad! and this year has been an exercise in eating shit. we realized how our focus on social had meant that base had fallen behind in key areas that were now increasingly critical - we had perps (shoutout avantis!) and prediction markets (shoutout limitless!), but both were well behind scaled competitors. and we had a lot of room to improve in unlocking base as a platform for tokenization and payments that really worked for enterprises. people lost confidence, and CT spectators reminded me weekly of all of my mistakes as often as they could. it felt bad man, still feels bad. but if there’s one thing i’ve learned from the last decade of building in this space, it’s that when things feel the worst, the best thing to do is just put your head down and build. so that’s what i’m doing. I refocused my time and attention back to the chain away from the app, started writing code again, shipped a bunch of stuff (azul, beryl, b20, privacy, ledgers) and questioned a bunch of my assumptions: does crypto need social to grow? does base need an app? can base be bigger than coinbase? I thought for a long time that social was the only thing that could drive the sort of viral growth to get crypto to a billion people. unsurprisingly, I now believe that’s wrong. It’s clear that better money is more than enough - we are seeing this live with stablecoins, predictions, perpetuals, tokenization and i only expect it to accelerate. I am now focused on bringing a billion people onchain just by making global finance actually work. on the app, my focus is on building base into the blockchain for global finance. to that end, i’ve handed the base app back to the coinbase mothership, where my now good friend @cobie will be taking it from here to make it the best damn app for onchain you’ve ever seen, including expanding beyond the base ecosystem in ways that tbh i won’t love as the leader of base. it’s incredibly hard to grow a decentralized network inside of a big public corporation. and i feel like much of the discourse on CT over the last week is downstream of this. the following things can be true: (1) base (and i) love memes and (2) brian probably won’t ever bullpost memes on the tl (this activity is illegal once you’re over 40 years of age). it’s weird and we’re working through it as we continue to decentralize base, which has been our commitment from the beginning. we’re going to build base into the blockchain for global finance and do everything we can to be the place that the world’s money settles over the next century. we will surely have formidable competitors (welcome robinhood and stripe!) and people may abandon our cause, but we welcome the competition and believe it’s our duty to win the respect and commitment of those who rally to our banner.  in 2026, this concretely means three things: winning trading, payments, and agents. [continued in the reply]

Today we’re launching tBRL and tMXN. Tokenized Brazilian Real and Mexican Peso, now on-chain. Two of the most liquid + high-yielding currencies globally, tokenized via Tenbin with yield of up to 13% and 7%.

我越来越觉得一把手必须对赚钱与商业竞争这件事本身上瘾。 我们过去会把很多重点放在能力结构上，谁懂产品、谁懂技术、谁懂用户，但这些二把手都可以补上。 我们也很希望支持有情怀的founder，可最终如果一把手对商业竞争没有天然的兴奋感，公司迟早会卡住。 不是不能有情怀，而是商业世界不是靠"做对的事"赢的，而是靠"赢"本身。 所谓"狼性文化"，其实是对结果的饥渴感。这种东西是装不出来的，商业社会里，它来自于创始人本身对"赢"和"赚钱"的真实快感。

If AI succeeds: 中产阶级的劳动力价值归零, 全面不可逆的通缩，商品和服务的供给无限丰富，就算有UBI但有效需求被摧毁。外加现在市场大量net flow都是passive 401k/pension flow .. 一旦reverse big tech 估值画面太美不敢看🫣 If AI fails: 连Google这种超级现金奶牛的连百年债都发完, 忍痛咬牙做股权稀释融资也做了，但如果 token economics UE转正的速度追不上 capex扩张, 基建折旧和能源成本，big tech估值也是画面太美不敢看🥹 横竖看都是大家一起梭哈死了算了🤣

1/3 Before crypto, I helped build a neobank in Southeast Asia. I watched businesses lose 3–5% on every cross-border transaction. Wait days for settlements. Get priced out of basic financial infrastructure. Stablecoins fix the rails. But the gap between digital dollars and the real world? Still broken. Today, we're fixing that. 👉