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There’s a clear gap between: - Creators - Influencers/ KOLs One is genuinely building content, brand, and product to deliver real value. The other is chasing performative engagement, signal without substance. And most of the time, we end up deifying the latter.

Check out our posts on DeFi governance attacks, often as sophisticated as social engineering, but with a more structured approach:

$137M was drained from DeFi in Q1 2026 alone. Resolv. Step Finance. Truebit. The list keeps growing. D1 of Q2: the $280M+ Drift hack. DeFi has ~$94–116B in TVL, but only $116M in insurance. About 0.12% coverage. TradFi sits near 8.6%. This is not a gap. It's a canyon. — ➠

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My take on the Claude x OpenClaw situation: ❶ Anthropic is right on the economics Subscriptions subsidize normal use. Harnesses like OpenClaw turned that into “unlimited agents,” where a $200 sub can rack up $5k in compute. That’s not sustainable, and it degrades service for

One of the most banger reply today, 🤣

Wait. I know 80% of these protocols and have put some of my funds into them. Do I become a complicit party? 🤣

Happy Easter Everyone!

I really love Nano Banana Pixel Arts output. 🔥

Just checked my following, looks like several creators have been inactive for the last 2 months, even though they used to be loud. Their accounts basically flatlined post-inf0fi era. Either they got wiped out and liquidated, or they left the space for good. Tourists, after all.

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We are not a serious industry. I usually avoid calling out projects, but this one deserves an exception.

Q1 2026 was Fvcking brutal. So many protocols are sunsetting or moving into maintenance mode, there are 20+ that I tracked down so far (list in post below). — ➠ Why They're Shutting Down No users = no money = shutdown. The reasons vary, but here are the patterns: ❶ Zero

Most powerful AI models live in a data center. You rent access, pay per token, and hope the API stays up. Google just changed that. Gemma 4 is a frontier-grade AI model you can download, own, and run yourself. No cloud. No subscription. No data leaving your machine. Gemma 4 is

The legacy financial system is not just broken. It is a carefully produced movie, and most people are still watching. That is why we need DeFi, imperfections and all. We do not experience reality directly. We live inside a model built by elites. Like Plato’s Cave, financial

We’ve all seen how brutal DeFi hacks can be. Drift is the latest example. But smart-contract exploits and self-hacks are just one part of DeFi’s attack surface. Check out our deep dive on the Governance Hack: rare, highly structured, and arguably the most ruthlessly precise

Some of my realizations: stop telling kids to “learn to code.” That mass-market advice just expired. AI writes production code, designs interfaces, edits video, and builds dashboards faster than any junior ever will. The entire digital skill stack just got repriced to

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