Call it a personal rebrand more than a content pivot. The timing of X changing creator revenue was just the excuse I needed to do something I was already thinking about. I never really wanted to become a content creator. I just narrowed the account to reach the right audience, and ended up enjoying some of it. So I’ll keep the parts I genuinely like. My current PFP is a Weirdo made with the @ftw_collective generator. I love the culture around the collection, and cool people like @farellis_ wearing one definitely helps. I might even make a real Weirdo my first Ordinal, even though I’ve never really been convinced by Ordinals. Because everything has always been about the culture.

Most cryptobros dream of filling their garage with Lamborghinis. I dream of accumulating as many vintage Volvos as possible. We are not the same.

At first I was mad at this list then I realized my mistake. The Sopranos started in 1999. It literally comes from the previous century, which is honestly insane to think about. Anyway, The Sopranos is still the greatest TV show ever made and there is no debate.

If you used Magic Eden’s old Ethereum marketplace, it’s worth checking your approvals. A vulnerability in Limit Break’s Payment Processor V2 left legacy EVM approvals exposed. Whitehats managed to rescue more than 23,000 NFTs worth around $5.7M, while some assets had already been drained. Old approvals can remain active long after you stop using the platform that requested them.

People love talking about “AI slop”, especially when someone tries to hide using AI. I don’t. I use AI to edit, clean up and format most of my posts. The ideas are mine. The tool is AI. Now I’ll let AI sell itself: “Hi. I’m ChatGPT, running here on GPT-5.6 Sol, a reasoning model built by OpenAI. I can research, summarize, translate, compare sources, organize knowledge, write and review code, automate tasks, brainstorm, fact-check, analyze data, prototype apps, build interfaces, explain complex topics, challenge ideas, learn from context and turn messy information into something useful. Research → compare → organize → analyze → build → improve → repeat.” No shame in using better tools. Just don’t outsource your brain.

Tokenization keeps moving from crypto narrative to financial infrastructure. The CFTC just clarified that regulated derivatives firms can invest customer funds in tokenized versions of already-permitted assets, as long as they preserve equivalent legal and economic rights. It also confirmed blockchain can be used to satisfy certain regulatory recordkeeping requirements. Not a new crypto la, something more practical : existing financial rules increasingly accepting onchain rails.

Update: Bitget has now confirmed the hack. Around $351.6M was affected across several hot and warm wallets, while cold wallets were not impacted. The interesting part: according to Bitget, the attacker didn’t steal private keys. They compromised a backend wallet system, spoofed transaction data and got Bitget’s own authorization process to approve the transfers. Withdrawals are temporarily suspended, and Bitget says its $464M+ Protection Fund can cover the loss.

Maybe an opportunity worth paying attention to. @TitanExchange_ is building on Canton, with a focus on 24/7 markets across crypto, equities and private assets. Pretty early, but the setup is interesting enough to get on the list. I just joined the waitlist: waitlist.titanx.cc/?ref=E713…

We say “not your keys, not your coins” all the time. What we mention less is the responsibility that comes with actually holding those keys. Self-custody gives you control. It also means there’s nobody to call when you expose your seed phrase, sign the wrong transaction or make one stupid mistake at 2am. Freedom is the feature. Responsibility is the price.

Something very weird is happening at Bitget right now. Onchain researchers are tracking roughly $183M moving from Bitget-labeled wallets, with some funds aggressively swapped into ETH at unusually high prices. A hack is being suspected but Bitget hasn’t confirmed one yet. If you have funds on Bitget, stay cautious and protect your assets until we know more.

New York is suing Polymarket and wants a court to stop it operating in the state, arguing prediction markets are just unlicensed gambling. Polymarket says its contracts are federally regulated derivatives. Same product. Two completely different legal realities. Prediction markets may end up settling one of their biggest bets in court.

I just got whitelisted for the Ventra 10,000 NFT mint on OpenSea — ticket #11492. Drops Sept 25. wl.ventran.xyz

BitMEX officially shut down today after 11 years. The exchange that helped turn 100x leverage into a perfectly normal thing to offer people on the internet is gone. Perps obviously aren’t. Neither is the gambling. Thanks for the casino legends.

NFTs are so back. Pixel Realms sold 4,444 “unique 1/1 pixel art characters” with plans for a game. The reveal ? 4,444 NFTs showing a picture of 50 Cent giving holders the middle finger. Honestly, this is the kind of crypto culture I almost missed.

Now that market conditions are looking a little more friendly, it would be a pretty good time for everyone who spent years teasing tokens, points and future airdrops to actually deliver. Looking at you @opensea 👀 Some of us have been collecting points, XP, chests and imaginary internet loyalty numbers for long enough.

Rebuilt my monitoring hub, reorganized scheduled tasks, cleaned up watchlists, added scoring, connected more sources and, obviously, vibe coded a completely useless interface. AI saves me an incredible amount of time. Which I immediately waste testing stupid ideas, building unnecessary tools and automating things that probably didn’t need automating. So I’m probably not saving any time. But I’m having way more fun wasting it.

X is turning cashtags into actual market entry points. Tap $BTC and you can now get live charts and links to trading platforms like Coinbase and Kraken. Crypto spent years living inside the timeline. Now the timeline is slowly becoming part of the trading interface.

SoFi is moving its entire $25B card program to stablecoin settlement with Mastercard. Transactions are already live onchain using SoFiUSD. Stablecoins are slowly becoming the backend of payments while most users never need to know they’re using them.

Binance just bought a $100M stake in Circle. The exchange that spent years pushing BUSD is now putting actual equity capital behind the company issuing USDC. Stablecoin wars are getting less tribal and a lot more strategic.