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After listing, price will dominate every conversation for about a week. Two other numbers will say more, and both come straight out of TermMax's own published structure.

The first is the split between claiming and staking.
The checker page offers a bonus of +80% for three months or +180% for six, against claiming immediately. Every allocation holder makes that choice by August 23. The resulting ratio is a direct, unfiltered measurement of what the people who earned the token actually believe about it.
No survey. No sentiment index. A forced choice with real money on both sides of it.

The second is whether TVL moves with the token.
@TermMax 's business is fixed-rate lending — deposits, borrows, vaults, maturities. TMX is a governance and utility token layered on top. If the lending business is genuinely independent of token speculation, TVL should barely notice listing day. If TVL drops sharply once points convert into tokens, then a meaningful share of those deposits was renting yield rather than using the product.
Both are visible without privileged access. The staking split is inferable from the staking contracts. TVL is on public dashboards.

One caution about timing. The first forty-eight hours will be noise — bridging, claiming, gas, panic and opportunism all firing at once. The signal shows up somewhere around days seven to thirty, once the people who intended to leave have left.
That's also roughly when Leaderboard Season 1 details are expected, which will muddy the read again. So the clean window is narrower than people think.

Thirty days from now, which would you rather see — a higher token price, or a TVL that didn't move at all?

#termmax @TermMax

#dusk $DUSK @Dusk Most crypto projects eventually call themselves “regulation-friendly.” Very few name the actual frameworks they are designing around.

Dusk does.

Its regulatory positioning repeatedly points to three EU frameworks: MiCA, which governs crypto-asset markets; MiFID II, which covers investment services and financial instruments; and the DLT Pilot Regime, the EU framework for experimenting with blockchain-based market infrastructure.

That specificity can be read in two very different ways.

The optimistic reading is that Dusk has done the homework. If the goal is to bring securities and other regulated assets on-chain, vague promises about “compliance” are not enough. You need to understand how issuance, trading, disclosure and settlement fit into existing law.

The more skeptical reading is that naming MiCA, MiFID II and the DLT Pilot Regime is also powerful marketing. Three recognizable regulatory acronyms make a blockchain sound institution-ready long before outsiders can measure how much of that alignment becomes real adoption.

From the outside, those two explanations can look almost identical.

There is another trade-off here.

Dusk’s regulatory thesis is heavily European.

That can be a strength. Building deeply around one relatively defined regulatory environment may be more realistic than pretending one compliance model works everywhere.

But it is also a regional bet.

The US has a very different regulatory structure, and Asian markets vary widely in licensing, securities classification and digital-asset rules. A system that fits neatly into the EU framework may still require major adaptation elsewhere.

So the real question is whether Europe becomes Dusk’s launchpad for global institutional adoption — or a regulatory architecture that is difficult to export.

And regulation itself is not permanent infrastructure. Frameworks get amended, interpreted and rewritten.

If rules like MiCA change later, who ultimately absorbs that risk — the protocol, the issuers building on it, or the users holding the assets?

That's how many contracts exist in Dusk's genesis block.
Stake, which tracks provisioners, stakes, rewards and validator set management. Transfer, which moves $DUSK and acts as the entry point for execution and gas payment.
That's the whole trusted base.
I keep thinking about how unusual that is. Plenty of chains launch with a dozen system modules baked in — governance, naming, fee markets, precompiles for whatever was fashionable that year. Every one of those is code you can never fully remove, audited once, carried forever.
@Dusk went the other way. Everything else has to be deployed the way any user deploys: as a transaction. Contract deployment wasn't even possible after genesis in earlier builds — it was added as a transaction type specifically for the mainnet release, so that nobody, including the team, would need a special path.
The upside is obvious. A small genesis surface is a small permanent attack surface, and it means the protocol team can't quietly privilege their own applications at the base layer.
The trade-off is less obvious and worth saying out loud. When almost nothing is built in, almost everything is somebody's contract — with somebody's upgrade key, somebody's bug, somebody's abandonment risk. Staking pools, name services, DEXs: all user-land. For a chain courting institutions, "it's just a contract someone deployed" is a sentence that gets asked about in diligence.
Minimal base, maximal responsibility pushed outward. That's a philosophy, not an accident.
Would you rather a chain build the important pieces into the protocol where they're permanent and audited, or leave them in user-land where they're replaceable but unowned?

#dusk

Was checking my Alpha points last night and something didn't add up.
I'd put in maybe 23 tokens worth of premium. The volume counter said close to 500.
Turns out that's not a bug. @TermMax 's volume page spells it out. Trading volume is tradingAmts minus whatever actually left your wallet, which basically means notional. They even publish a worked example with the tx hash on it. Long on an ESPORTS call, actual input 23.1, counted volume 496.9. Close the position and it counts again, another 490.3.
So one round trip on about 23 of premium shows up as roughly 987 of volume.
Being fair here. Options volume is measured by notional pretty much everywhere, that's just the convention. And most venues don't hand you the formula plus a hash to check it against. That part is better disclosure than I expected.
But the number you're farming and the number leaving your wallet are about twenty times apart.
Then I noticed the same thing one level up.
Token Terminal had @TermMax at #2 in daily active addresses among lending protocols back in March, behind only Aave. DefiLlama has it around #36 by TVL. Neither one is wrong. One counts people, the other counts money.
The fees live on the small side of that gap. 7% of premium to open or close. Take profit fee charged on notional, 1.9% at the start, shrinking as maturity gets closer. Financing that ticks per second, also on notional.

TGE is on the 25th. This is the bit I keep circling back to.

Activity gets reported in addresses and notional. Revenue and float get reported in dollars and tokens. I couldn't find anywhere that publishes the conversion between those two worlds.
Not saying the growth is fake. Standardised metrics exist for a reason.
I just don't know which number the market looks at on day one.
Addresses, notional, or fees. Which one gets priced?

#termmax @TermMax

#dusk $DUSK @Dusk_Foundation
I spent an evening going through Dusk's public audit repository instead of the price chart. Here's the inventory.
dusk-plonk, Porter Adams, Dec 2023. Piecrust, July 2024. BLS and hash reviews by JP Aumasson, Sep 2024. Protocol Security Review, Oak Security, Sep 2024. Economic Protocol Design, POL Finance, Sep 2024. Rusk Consensus, Oak, Sep 2024. Rusk Node Library, Oak, Sep 2024. Phoenix, Jules de Smit, Oct 2024. Plus a migration contract assessment, plus Kadcast by Blaize.
Publishing all of that openly, including the findings, is more than most chains do. Oak's method is worth noting too — multiple auditors work blinded and independently, then meet to compare, specifically so they don't bias each other.
Now the uncomfortable pattern.
Almost every one of those reports is dated 2023 or 2024. Since then Dusk has shipped DuskEVM, Hedger, Dusk Connect and a new first-party wallet, and pushed two hard forks — Aegis in March and Boreas in June this year. The audited surface and the shipping surface are not the same surface anymore.
And the critical finding of 2026 — the dusk-plonk soundness bug — didn't come from any of those engagements. It came from OtterSec, who weren't contracted for it and were looking at PLONK implementations generally.
I want to be fair: no audit program catches everything, Dusk fixed it in a day, and they published the audit repo that let me write this post at all. The transparency is real.
But "audited" is doing a lot of work in crypto marketing, and the dates behind that word are rarely checked.
For a chain shipping hard forks twice a year — how recent does an audit have to be before you'd stop counting it?

Most people ask whether a protocol is upgradeable. I found myself asking a different question: what is actually allowed to change? TermMax's upgrade docs make an interesting distinction. The core protocol logic remains immutable, while only a small part of the infrastructure is upgradeable. According to the docs, only the AccessManager and Router use the UUPS proxy pattern. Markets, vaults, and token contracts aren't on that list. That's a meaningful design choice. The contracts holding user collateral aren't meant to be rewritten after deployment. But the more interesting question is what does remain upgradeable. The AccessManager controls permissions, and the Router sits between users and the protocol. They're not random components. They're the points where a single upgrade could affect the entire protocol. The docs also describe safeguards. Upgrades require approval through a4-of-6 Gnosis Safe, with Hypernative monitoring transactions. Immutable core. Upgradeable gateways. It's a thoughtful balance between flexibility and security, but it also raises an interesting governance question. If you were designing the protocol, would you keep the permission layer upgradeable, or freeze it alongside the core logic?

#termmax @TermMax #TMX

I spent an evening reconciling Dusk block data and got stuck on something small. A block header said 6 June. The rules that block enforced did not go live until 10 June. Nothing was broken. For twenty minutes I still could not tell you why.
The answer is in how Boreas reached mainnet. It was not a routine future-height activation. The docs describe a coordinated restart. Mainnet resumed from block 4,414,095, and because the restart reused an existing chain snapshot, the first block retained a 6 June header timestamp while the Boreas ruleset activated on 10 June.
That matters to anyone building reconciliation, indexing, or audit tooling. Those systems treat timestamps as evidence, and they assume header time moves in step with rule changes. Here it does not. The gap is explainable rather than suspicious, but only because Dusk wrote it down. The alternative is an integrator finding a four-day discrepancy alone at 2am with nothing to check it against.
The second change is quieter. Boreas reorders state transitions so slashes are applied before transaction execution. Pre-Boreas there was a same-block ordering case where a provisioner's stake could be modified before a pending slash landed against it. Narrow, but the kind of window that produces disputed balances rather than visible failures. Pre-Boreas blocks keep their original ordering during replay, which is why fork-aware replay logic exists at all. History has to stay reproducible under the rules it was written under.
So I keep turning this over. $DUSK sells deterministic finality. Does that line survive a chain that needed a coordinated restart to ship a fork? Or is a documented restart simply what mature infrastructure looks like when it is honest, and the chains that never restart are the ones not telling you?
Node operators and integrators: which would you rather run against — a chain that never restarts, or one that restarts and publishes the block height, the snapshot reuse, and the timestamp artifact?

#dusk @Dusk $BTC

4% sounded like a small, forgettable number until I did the subtraction. TermMax's docs allocate 40 million TMX, 4% of a 1 billion total supply, to a pre-mine rewarding early users, claimable around TGE. My first thought wasn't the 4%. It was who holds the other 96%, and how long they're expected to wait for it to matter.
If four in a hundred tokens fund today's user activity, most of the supply sits with parties who aren't showing up in the TVL number at all — the ones the design assumes will hold while the protocol proves itself. That's a lot of patience asked of people earning no points.
Meanwhile, the deposits chasing that 4% aren't behaving like fixed-rate liquidity. The pre-mine reward is priced off an assumed FDV, so depositors are sizing positions against the token they might get, not the rate on offer. A fixed-rate order book needs liquidity that's there for the rate. Points-driven capital is there for the airdrop — and pre-mined TMX claims 1:1 with no vesting once it's transferable.
That mismatch doesn't resolve at TGE. It lands on whoever is still depositing for the rate once the mercenary capital has an exit.
How much of the current deposit base do you think is still there 30 days after tokens become transferable?

#termmax @TermMax

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Spot on analysis! Without the max supply, calculating future inflation is just guesswork. This makes me very cautious about investing right now.

I came across the CCXT integration while looking at GRVT’s API documentation.
It’s really cool that an open-source library makes it easy to connect to over 100 exchanges. Gravity’s services are hosted on AWS Tokyo and support CCXT, which is available in popular languages ​​like Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, and C#.
Also, their authentication methods, such as API keys and wallet login, ensure the highest level of security.
Do you think that using the CCXT integration has made developers’ work and trading experience much easier?
@grvt_io
Let us know what you think.✍️😊 #grvt #ccxt #security

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From what I've seen, the supply of GRVT is capped at 1 billion tokens, so there's no inflation due to GRVT. The allocation of GRVT is also quite interesting. 28% of it is for the community and airdrops, 33.1% for future issuances, and the rest is divided between the GRVT team and investors.
What I like about GRVT is that it doesn't feel like a useless token. If GRVT really offers various benefits across its ecosystem, such as trading perks and Gravity Card-related utilities, it will become even more interesting to watch. Then there will be more benefits for us as well and the number of users will continue to grow in the future. 😇
Of course, GRVT's good token mix alone does not guarantee its success. A lot of it will depend on the implementation of GRVT. All in all, I think GRVT is worth keeping an eye on. And I would like to tell everyone in my community to complete the binance web3 booster event properly, there are only a few days left until it ends.
What do you think about GRVT? I hope you share your opinions in the comments 😊
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The issue of additional margin requirements is very important in the area of ​​risk management. It is equal to the total value of urgent redemptions, which can be viewed through the sub-account summary API.
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