The Daily Degen - Sunday, August 16th, 2026 Bears, Caymans, Chickens, Fishes, Macro, Videos, + New Projects! + $BTC, $CRCL, $LIT, $ETH, and more! Shout-out to brilliant accounts mentioned with <10k followers (make sure to give them a follow!): - @0xBobdbldr (long-term brypto brainiac) - @CallumOnCrypto (extremely locked-in perps/airdrop expert) - @ideacasino (Aussie brypto gigachad lookalike) And shout-out to new projects highlighted: @OrvexFi, @stockripx And please RT/etc to support! Link in next tweet 👇

The Daily Degen - Friday, August 14th, 2026 Raises, Crises, Airdrops, Alfa, Macro, Videos, + New Projects! + $LIT, $BTC, $ETH, $PUMP, and more! Shout-out to brilliant accounts mentioned with <10k followers (make sure to give them a follow!): - @OG_Branxi (one of CT's top perps/airdrop experts) - @pahueg (S-Tier of S-Tier crypto/macro channel on YT) - @FIREDxyz (general brypto gigastud) - And shout-out to new projects highlighted: @temple_ny, @_AvocadoFund, @vimenprotocol And please RT/etc to support! Link in next tweet 👇

Take note friends! Frog has created a YouTube channel for @thedailydegenhq! (link below!) Would be honored if you would subscribe 🐸🙏 So far we've just been experimenting with uploading clips from various crypto and (mostly) macro videos (just like we've been doing here on Twitter/X)... But eventually as Frog gets the lay of the land the plan is to start producing custom short-form content... AND... eventually maybe even voice-doxx and begin doing long-form interviews with interesting folks :) The experiment has been interesting so far- in terms of uploading shorts- in confirming what has often been reported, that YT has a massive bias towards a) macro content (at least right now), and b) doomeresque headlines :) If Frog posts some idealistic crypto short it gets like 100 views, then if Frog posts some macro doomer headline thing it gets 10-20x that lol... Nevertheless though the plan is to do a good mix of content long-term :) But yeah- the YT @ for it is TheDailyDegen_hq... And again - will paste the link in tweet below!

Crypto + Macro Stuff I'm Looking At Today ... - Bessent heralds co-intervention with Japan on currency issues - $QQQ almost back over $700 - 10 year still insanely high though at 4.688% - Saylor announces $BTC sales - Beloved CT frok @inversebrah hits 600k followers - Tether Q2 profits jumped bigly - Relatively quiet week in macro, with ISM (manufacturing) data coming today and JOLTS (jobs data) coming tomorrow - Oil back down under $80 - Perpl still a center of focus in airdrop circles - Nado rewards campaign also generating attention - Variational launching new trading competition - Interesting stat that S&P 500 company profit margins are at the highest level in history - $ETH now at just under 55% of total defi TVL - Warsh is apparently considering reducing the number of FOMC meetings per year (Fed interest rate decisions) - $SOL to apparently reduce token inflation (or at least release proposal to do so) - Fastest-growing protocols on the weekly with at least $50M TVL as per DefiLlama are Origin, Figure Markets, and Steakhouse - Fastest-growing chains on the weekly with at least $50M TVL as per DefiLlama are Provenance, Robinhood Chain, and Plasma - Lots of smart macro accounts I follow commentating on Bessent/Warsh/Trump desire to get dollar $DXY lower... which (if they're successful) should be good for crypto... Conclusion Keep going lads... Nothing worth doing in life is easy... 'Tragedies need heroes and heroes need tragedies...' Let's get it 💪

Maple closed H1 2026 with the strongest numbers in its history, right in the middle of the toughest market conditions of the year. AUM up 81% YoY. Loan book at all-time highs. All while the wider lending market shrinks. Here is the breakdown of @maplefinance's metrics.

The Daily Degen - Friday, July 31st, 2026 Wallets, Winddowns, Satoshi, Alfa, Macro, Videos, + New Projects! + $BTC , $COIN, $AAVE, $PUMP, and more! Shout-out to brilliant accounts mentioned with <10k followers (make sure to give them a follow!): - @QuotableCrypto (CT's #1 wisdom-curator) - @kenodnb (continually alfa-posts gigachaddedly) And shout-out to new projects highlighted: @Xylonet_ And please RT/etc to support! Link in next tweet 👇

The latest developments in DeFi👇 @Uniswap activated the fee switch on V4 pools for UNI buybacks and burns @1inch launched 1inch Aqua - a shared liquidity layer for DeFi @ethereum Foundation added SEAL 911 cofounder Pavel Caversaccio to its board @KaitoAI introduced Kaito Katalyst - a new InfoFi model in partnership with X @zama launched Zama Confidential RFQ - a mechanism for trading on-chain privately without revealing the size or the asset @AxisFDN, a new project generating yield via arbitrage opportunities, went live @grvt_io launched its token called GRVT @alturax claims its redemption user funds were frozen by its bank @0xfluid launched Fluid Liquidity as a Service - a product that helps asset issuers to bootstrap their liquidity on-chain @injective launched Injective Mint - a platform for issuing institutional-grade RWAs @variational_io partnered with the Arbitrum Foundation to get financial support for expanded security audits and sponsored gas fees @LidoFinance released Curated Module v2 - its biggest upgrade since May 2023 @fxyzai, a native trading agent for Hyperliquid and Lighter, went live I hope you found this recap helpful🫡

The Daily Degen - Wednesday, July 29th, 2026 Rates, Messes, Airdrops, Alfa, Macro, Videos, + New Projects! + $BTC, $HYPE, $ETH, $PUMP, and more! Shout-out to brilliant accounts mentioned with <10k followers (make sure to give them a follow!): - @LorenzoARK (brainiac crypto/macro expert) - @FourVork (all-around brypto gigachad) And shout-out to new projects highlighted: @Yieldfy, @atoma_fi And please RT/etc to support! Link in next tweet 👇

I don't know what to draw, so if anyone wants one, I'll draw a few PFPs for free. Post pictures in the comments of what you'd like me to draw, and I'll try a few. 🙂

Crypto Watchlist for the week ahead: $ETHFI - EtherFi teased a big announcement for July 30 during its Analyst Call $FLUID - Fluid's DEX V1 is expected to expand to Solana this month $POL - Polygon's Ithaca hardfork upgrade launches on July 29 $KAITO - Kaito will reveal the details of its new "data agreement" with X soon Macro events - FED's interest rate decision will be announced on July 29 $ATOM - Cosmos will publish a quarterly update on its progress next week $COIN - Coinbase will launch tokenized equities on Base soon If you enjoyed reading this, a like and a repost would be appreciated🫡

Key Takeaways from @pendle_fi 's Community Call and H1 2026: • ze auto-looping is the surface-level feature: The deeper objective is to convert PTs from passive fixed-yield instruments into reusable collateral primitives across Aave, Morpho and Euler, that changes Pendle’s addressable market from yield trading to the broader architecture of onchain credit formation.. • Pendle does not want to vertically integrate all of DeFi: It wants to control the yield abstraction layer while allowing money markets to supply liquidity, leverage and collateral infrastructure they say,“We want to stay in our lane”.. The important point is that Pendle’s lane is gradually becoming the connective tissue between yield origination, fixed-rate exposure and capital efficiency • Curators introduce a distributed market-creation model: Instead of Pendle remaining the sole bottleneck for PT/YT launches, selected partners will be able to instantiate markets themselves • Pendle-branded vaults extend that distribution logic: Starting with Morpho, the goal is to package fixed-yield and looping strategies into products that can be accessed through third-party liquidity venues.. Pendle retains the UX and product identity without needing to own the entire balance sheet beneath it • The US is becoming strategically important: @tn_pendle is spending more time in NYC building relationships with major RWA issuers and exploring compliant DeFi utility for permissioned assets and ze opportunity is not just tokenisation it is the financialisation of tokenised assets through fixed rates, collateral utility, secondary liquidity and structured distribution • RWAs are already economically central to Pendle; V2 averaged $1.3B in daily TVL YTD, while 9 of its 11 featured assets were RWA-linked, zis suggests Pendle is not simply benefiting from the RWA narrative, it is increasingly becoming part of the market structure through which RWA yield is transformed into investable fixed-income exposure • Pendle’s role for issuers is becoming clearer: RWA platforms originate yield + Pendle converts that variable yield into fixed-rate instruments + Money markets then make those instruments collateral-efficient + Vaults make the resulting strategies distributable = Each layer increases the utility of the one beneath it • ze Monad demonstrated the portability of the model: Pendle became a top-five protocol on Monad with over $150M TVL in under one month and only three pools, zis is a strong example of how a small number of high-quality yield markets can create disproportionate ecosystem relevance • le Boros is narrowing its strategic aperture: ze goal is no longer to become another generic trading venue, ze new mission is to become infrastructure for funding-rate arbitrage across exchanges, with institutions as the initial target market • Boros has STILL processed over $14B in volume in under 12 months and users are up 50% YTD, ze product has meaningful throughput, but the team was honest that it has not yet found its final equilibrium (yet) • TN openly admitted that Boros “still has not found its footing” (and that's ok, linn thinks, specially in this market) Funds continue to price $PENDLE primarily on V2 revenue, and the team does not want to impose a token model before Boros finds genuine product-market fit, zis is preferable to manufacturing token utility around an unresolved product thesis • Pendle is also resisting chain-expansion theatre, no Canton deployment planned for now (good, linn thinks most of canton also incentives not longevity) ze team would rather enter later with validated demand than become a first mover into an ecosystem without sufficient economic density (good team) • Tokenomics have become materially tighter. Weekly PENDLE emissions fell from approximately 90K to 21K. The intended reduction was 30%. The realised reduction was 76% (gyat...team always overdelivering) AND according to the team, protocol performance did not deteriorate (linn agrees) • Zis matters because lower emissions change the quality of growth, if TVL, volume and usage persist while token issuance falls, activity becomes less dependent on rented liquidity and more reflective of actual product demand (mucho longevity) • Staking behaviour reinforces that signal, around 36% of PENDLE is now staked (including linn's) More than 2M PENDLE has been purchased from the open market and distributed to stakers. Roughly 93% of stakers have never unstaked (diamond hands fr) That suggests increasingly persistent rather than purely mercenary holder participation, • Ze broader thesis is simple, even if the architecture is not, Pendle is evolving from a destination for yield trading into infrastructure for: → yield decomposition → fixed-rate formation → collateralisation → leverage → market distribution → structured product packaging • Pendle does not need to become every protocol, only needs PTs to become embedded across enough protocols that Pendle’s yield layer becomes difficult to route around -> “staying in our lane” (and holy moly is it a good lane) tldr: pendle go up, pendle team relentless, tn mucho excellente fearless leader, jobs not done dc: as always, linn is tier 1 kol supreme for pendle

Total deposit on @Infinit_Labs crossed $500k in 5 days of launch. icymi, APEX MultiStrategy Vault uses an AI brain which is built on context-engineering fundamental. The vault is spreading out in both long and short positions in crypto, equities, commodities, and indices. INIFNIT really wants to prove that an AI-managed vault can print better APY due to the real-time adaptivity. + lockup: 90 days + backtested APR: 163% + max drawdown: -10.5% This is where idle capital should enter a new journey.

Ceazor's Rules to becoming a Master BookWorm 1: Always carry a book. I never leave my home without a book. If you like ebooks, make sure your phone has a ebook ready to read. 2: Choose your books, wisely. I like to keep the rule that i always finish a book, so this rule is more important. But maintaining interest is key here. No one want to finish a bore. 3: Get a library card. The modern library is struggling to attract young people, so as a result, they have removed a lot of the hurdles in many places. No more late charges, automatic renews, digital on hold queues. Not having to dump 20 USD on a book is a huge motivator. 4: Do worry about wear and tear, even if its a library book. Sometimes, (dont tell anyone), i even put notes in books with a pen, at chapter ends, to make the next reader interact with me. But obviously, this is not a deep study. 5: Read while you eat, especially if you are alone. Dont tell me that you can't, you certainly can check your phone between bites. You can read a book. YOu can watch Netflix. You can read a book. 6: Read while you walk. Whether you are getting your green, or even on a treadmill. I'm able to read while walking through crowded spaces like airports, malls, and on the sidewalks. I personally find the multitasking beneficial for focus. But thats me. 7: Select powerful books to own. books that hit you hard, make you think. books that you feel you can reread again and again. 8: Dont ignore your friends and family. These people are more important than your book, so dont give them an excuse to make your reading a problem. When they ask you a question, finish your sentence, or paragraph, then engage. Close the book. 9 Talk to people in the library/book store. Let them shill you their books. You are not a salesman, you are a consumer, so dont feel the need to dominate these conversations with YOU think is a good book. 10: Quit the shit. If a book is not pulling you in, stop. If you bought it, it is on a shelf for later. Later you might enjoy it. If its a library book return it. You can borrow it again later 11: Language franca is key. Good books are easy to read. It doesn't need to be difficult to consume, a chore to read. 12: Find your next book in a book you are reading. I tend to read a lot of trilogies and fanasty series, but there are often hints in book around other stuff that motivated them. check the references, and even the name drops in the text itself 13: Get more than 1. I usually put an entire series on hold. but also other books from the same author of one i really like. Make sure you have something to grab when your done. 14: Finish the chapter. Try not to end your session mid chapter. I tend to do one more lap of my walk so i can, I tend to shake myself awake so i can. When you make a habit of not finishing, you read shorter and shorter times. 15: Have a book in the john. Put a book in the bathroom, and dont bring your phone in with you. Even a book of shortstories, poems, or articles. 16: Sign up for a book account. Goodreads, your library app, whatever. WHen you log your read books, these apps are great for recommending you more to read. 17: Have a reading room. Pick a corner, or a room of your house that has a comfortable chair, and no computer or TV. 18: Brag about reading. Be proud of your reading. Tell people what you read, how much you read, and why you read. Dont be a dick, but make it part of you and its actually something to be proud of. BONUS RULE for the boomers. have multiply pairs of reading glasses. 1.0, 1.5, whatever. Dont be a magnification Nazi. Put them in the bathroom, on the bed side table, in the car, in your bag, and on the book you are reading.

Advice for joining CT at ground zero? Would be that the main utility of this entire app is FRIENDSHIPS. If you view it like that it will be a blessing. So in concrete terms: -Comment more than you tweet -Don't be a jerk -Support your bros -Dm people you like and look up to -Check your dm's regularly and have a system to answer them so things don't get lost! And make sure to follow my man @JiraiyaReal below! :)

5 Ways I've Watched People Build Wealth (Ethically) In Crypto: 1) Being super early Obviously this one is hard to replicate... you had to be on Silk Road in 2011 with hundreds of spare $BTC lying around... or got into $ETH right at the start... etc... HOWEVER we see the same thing on a more moderate scale over and over... Last cycle there were projects like $OHM and DFK you could have been early too... And various 2024-2025 coins as well... 2) Catching a bear market >>> bull market trend My buddy @alpha_pls did this perfectly with $SOL in 2022, going hard in at like $8 or whatever it was in the depths of the bear market... 3) Airdrops Whether airdrops in general, like good ol' CC2Ventures... Or a singular airdrop, like the my man @reisnertobias with $HYPE :) Takes hard work and conviction but is still one of the best strategies imo... 4) Getting really good at the BD + marketing side of CT and providing value to projects in this regard Lots of my friends have done this... @crypto_linn as a perfect example... @JiraiyaReal with TailoredWeb3... etc... 5) Building something legitimately valuable The Phantom guys are a perfect example of this... Or Cobie selling Echo to Coinbase... Or many other similar stories as well... ... But yeah, still think any of these work in 2026... Most people have checked out and are not paying attention to the market... But right now as we speak there is some major coin that is going to 100x over the next 2 years... There's some low-key airdrop that is going to be the next $HYPE... And some new anon with 100 followers who is going to be a major CT account next cycle... Never feels like it in the depths of the bear market... But happens over and over again once conditions turn :)

The Daily Degen - Friday, July 17th, 2026 Legends, Looping, Airdrops, Alfa, Macro, Videos, + New Projects! + $BTC, $PENDLE, $QUAI, $ETH, $COIN, and more! Shout-out to brilliant accounts mentioned with <10k followers (make sure to give them a follow!): - @0xLouisT (S-Tier of S-Tier gigabrainage) - @pahueg (one of best crypto/macro podcasts on YT) - @kenodnb (wholesome-maxxed hyper locked-in defi'er) And shout-out to new projects highlighted: @basalt_vault, @BluefunLaunch, @y10kcapital And please RT/etc to support! Link in next tweet 👇