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November 2017: $31M $USDT vanished from Tether's treasury wallet 🚨

This was the moment that kicked off years of FUD around Tether's reserves and transparency. The hack (or whatever it was) forced them to hard fork and blacklist tokens.

Wild to think this happened when $USDT market cap was under $1B. Now it's the backbone of crypto liquidity at $140B+.

If you weren't around for this, you missed the early days of stablecoin drama that shaped how we think about custody and reserves today.

New Congress might check Trump, but he still controls the executive playbook. Still bullish.

1. Presidential veto = policy firewall
Even if Dems sweep both chambers, he can veto bills. Overriding that needs 2/3 supermajority—near impossible. Tax cuts, energy policy, crypto-friendly framework stays locked in.

2. Russia-Ukraine talks heating up
Trump signaling major deal progress to end the conflict. If ceasefire lands, European geopolitical risk drops hard. Risk-on for global markets.

3. Crypto stance unchanged, capital still flowing
He's the most crypto-friendly president we've had. No policy pivot. Institutional money still sees him as a key variable. Trump trade isn't dead—just shifted from moon mode to range-bound alpha.

4. Base locked, GOP influence intact
Midterm loss doesn't crack his core—oil, manufacturing, MAGA base still solid. Staff reshuffle = tighter execution. He's gearing up to fight Congress, not fold.

5. Foreign policy still his domain
Middle East: controlled strikes + Iran negotiation channels open. Geopolitical tempo dictated by the White House, not reactive.

TLDR: Veto power + crypto support + dealmaking momentum = Trump's not out of ammo. Play the volatility, but don't fade the setup.

Move your bags off @MEXC NOW.

$BTC $ETH $USDT — doesn't matter what you're holding. Get it to cold storage.

@Tangem / #Ledger / #Trezor — pick one.

Not your keys, not your coins. CEX risk is real. Better paranoid than rekt. 🔐

Confido straight up rug pulled back in 2017. Website vanished. Socials gone. Support contact had to publicly respond while investors got wrecked.

This was one of the OG exit scams that taught early degens a brutal lesson about DYOR and not aping into projects with no real team accountability.

Ep. #709 revisits the full timeline. If you're new to crypto, study these historical rugs. The playbook hasn't changed much—just the scale and sophistication.

Stay paranoid. Trust the contract, not the promises. 🔍

Two tokens, one network: $NEO runs on $NEO and $GAS 🚀

Flashback to 2017 when $NEO was climbing alongside $ETH - absolute peak bull vibes. If you were there, you know.

Covered this in Ep. 707 back on 11/18/2017. Wild to see how far we've come.

Throwback to Nov 2017 when $DAI was just a wild experiment 🧪

MakerDAO (now Sky Ecosystem) was building the first decentralized stablecoin on Ethereum. Most people had no idea what they were looking at.

Fast forward 7 years—$DAI became the blueprint for DeFi stability.

If you weren't early to this, you missed one of the most important primitives in crypto history.

Episode #695 covers the OG vision. Worth revisiting if you want to understand how real innovation starts.

$FREEDOM_coin still holds one of the largest on-chain wallet holder counts in crypto.

Current market cap is relatively low, but every single previous altcoin season saw it pump past $300M USDT (1000x+ moves each time).

Perfect setup to accumulate at the bottom and exit at the next altcoin season peak.

$FREEDOM_coin still holds one of the largest on-chain wallet holder counts in crypto.

Current market cap is relatively low, but every single previous altcoin season saw it pump past $300M USDT (1000x+ moves each time).

Perfect setup to accumulate at the bottom and exit at the next altcoin season peak.

$FREE still has one of the highest on-chain wallet holder counts in crypto.

Current mcap is dirt cheap. But every single altseason? This thing rips to $300M+ USDT (1000x+ gains each cycle).

This is your accumulation zone. Buy the dip now, exit the rip next altseason.

Available on Pancakeswap and Uniswap.

Stop tunnel visioning $BTC and gold when reading macro.

Most traders study Fed policy and dollar cycles but only watch Bitcoin and gold. You're missing the entire FX market—the most direct reflection of global currency flows.

Dollar strength hits currency pairs first, then trickles into everything else. EURUSD is pure US-EU rate expectations. USDJPY captures Fed vs BoJ divergence. Cross pairs are packed with economic expectation gaps. Ignoring FX = leaving alpha on the table.

Bitget CFD just upgraded 21 FX pairs to 2000x leverage with tiered margin. New tool for macro traders.

But get this straight: High leverage ≠ high returns. Leverage optimizes margin usage, not risk. The tiered system calculates margin by position brackets—you can't just divide total notional by 2000. Same position size uses less margin and frees up capital, but your loss exposure stays tied to notional size. Lower margin ≠ capped losses.

Gold, bonds, dollar, FX all correlate—until they don't. When you have a view on dollar vs euro vs yen strength, FX pairs let you express it directly alongside your crypto and gold plays. Tools give flexibility. Position sizing stays your call.

Leveraged CFDs are volatile. Don't get seduced by leverage numbers. Risk management is everything.

2027 = $SPCM season

$SPCM supply shock incoming → NASDAQ IPO on deck

MiCA compliance unlocked. Real World Deployment next.

If you're not watching @SpaceMworld, you're ngmi

Markets bleeding today but $ETH getting slaughtered for no reason.

Wall Street claims they price in growth. Cool — then look at what's actually growing:

$ETH is literally the rails for stablecoins, DeFi, staking, and tokenization. All compounding. All real usage.

Yet it trades like a dying tech stock instead of the infrastructure play it is.

Price discovery is broken. Growth is there. Market's just blind.

Go $ETH.

DePIN is quietly becoming one of the most practical narratives in crypto—real infrastructure, real utility, not just another memecoin casino.

What makes it interesting:
→ Decentralized compute power
→ Distributed storage
→ Wireless networks
→ Community-owned infrastructure

$RENDER and $ATH are leading the charge, but here's the reality check:

Most DePIN projects won't survive. The winners will be those solving actual infrastructure bottlenecks with sustainable economics—not just farming token emissions.

People contributing hardware to decentralized networks is a bigger idea than most realize. But demand has to be real, adoption has to stick, and the business model can't rely on perpetual token inflation.

If you're bullish on DePIN, focus on projects with measurable usage and revenue—not just narrative hype. The sector has legs, but only if the fundamentals deliver.

Ethereum + L2s crushing it with 68.8% of DeFi stablecoin deployment. That's dominance.

But here's the real alpha: only ~10% of stablecoins are actually working in DeFi right now.

That means 90% sitting idle in wallets doing nothing. When that capital starts moving on-chain? Massive.

$ETH L2 ecosystem positioned to capture most of that flow. Watch liquidity migration closely.

Throwback to 2017 fork wars—Roger Ver drops his side of the $BCH vs $BTC split on Ep. #692 (aired 11/04/2017)

If you weren't around for the blocksize debate, this is your history lesson. If you were—time to see how it aged.

Roger's take on $BCH, $BTC maximalism, and the altcoin landscape back when things were simpler (and messier).

Bring your hindsight goggles. This one hits different in 2025.

P小将们持有meme平均100秒就跑了，这速度我真跟不上😅

Trust Wallet亚太负责人分享了些硬数据：全球2亿+下载，支持100+链，日活45.2万。但核心问题是——钱包凭什么抢CEX的用户？

他们最近几个动作值得关注：

永续合约直接接入Hyperliquid，支持2万+币种。交易量从6月10亿美金飙到10月60亿，Builder Fee排名前三。

稳定币兑换在$BNB Chain/$SOL/$ARB等链上免平台费，质押和封装代币也零手续费。

AI交易助手+交易员社交正在测试，可以看其他trader的盈亏持仓，私钥还是自己管。

说实话，钱包想从CEX手里抢饭碗，光有功能还不够。华语用户的交易习惯已经被头部交易所深度绑定了，钱包的护城河到底在哪？可能还是得看能不能在链上alpha捕捉和速度上做出差异化。

另外他们要推返佣计划，做交易返佣的可以提前盯着。

gm ☕️

Last 24h recap:

$BTC reclaimed $80K after dipping to $75.6K post-midterms. $ETH outperformed, breaking $2.4K.

$1B liquidated in the reversal—shorts got wrecked.

$ZEC pumping ahead of NU7 upgrade.

Hong Kong passed crypto tax reporting bill (kicks in 2027).

Scroll governance proposal: pivot to privacy AI network + migrate $SCR to ETH mainnet.

Circle Q3 revenue $865M, +17% YoY.

Volatility, liquidations, privacy, AI, regulation—always something cooking.

Stay sharp. Don't chase every headline. 🫡

To everyone crying about @EFDevcon, @ethereumfndn & @VitalikButerin:

Stop whining. Start building.

$ETH is permissionless. Nobody's blocking you from fixing what you think is broken.

See a gap? Fill it yourself.

Don't ask what Ethereum can do for you.
Ask what YOU will do for Ethereum.

That's the whole point of decentralization. Put up or shut up.

Liquidity alone won't save you if your risk engine is trash.

TradFi learned this the hard way over decades. CeFi and DeFi? Still getting rekt by the same lesson.

Deep liquidity attracts size. Size attracts volatility. Volatility exposes weak risk management. Then liquidation cascades, oracle failures, and protocol exploits follow.

You can have billions in TVL but if your system can't handle a 30% swing in 10 minutes, you're just a honeypot waiting to get drained.

Real moats = liquidity + bulletproof risk systems. Everything else is just exit liquidity for smarter money.

$SPCM new listing incoming

Only the smart CEXs are picking this up. Watch the volume when it drops.