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I am about to offend a whole bunch of traders but I am tired of everyone pretending they make $$$ with their fake profit screenshots...it is sad. Most traders lose money but they just do not talk about it. Broker data shows 80% of day traders quit within two years. By year five only 7% are still trading and of those less than 2% consistently make money after fees. Yet thousands keep trading despite years of losses, hoping for a “comeback.” The numbers tell why. Most traders sell winners 50% faster than losers, booking tiny gains while holding sinking trades and they double down on losers to “get back to even.” I personally know people who trade more after a lucky streak confusing a coin flip with skill and proceed to lose more and more money. Active traders underperform indexes by 6.5% annually. In Taiwan retail trading losses equal 2% of GDP every year....imagine. Trading looks like a casino because most act like gamblers. The few who survive act like accountants. They journal every trade and set hard stop-losses to risk only what math allows. Everyone else keeps drawing trendlines until their broker margin calls them into retirement.

Bitcoin at $118,000 is a huge signal of the order we are headed to and it is a verdict of sheer conviction of institutional merit. Spot ETF inflows hit $1.18B in a single day which is the second-highest on record & total inflows now exceed $51.3B across 12 U.S.licensed ETFs. Net assets at $144B. This is big time institutional validation. Exchange inflows have collapsed. Just 18,000 BTC are moving onto exchanges daily and that’s the lowest since April 2015. For whales activity dropped from 62K BTC in Nov 2024 to 7K now. How I see it is: -Fewer tokens. -Less selling. -Stronger hands. Ethereum up to $3,024 has seen $5.1B in ETF inflows & net assets stand at $12.5B. MACD confirms bullish continuation so the next resistance is at $3,229. Even XRP has reclaimed $2.60 whereRSI sits at 83 but MFI says liquidity is still flowing in. A breakout to $2.76 is likely but one cannot ignore the 8h EMA at $2.28 if volatility kicks in. Markets are off the charts right now. This is not blow off top behavior. This is consolidation under pressure. The kind that sets new baselines. Are we excited?

Now that all the ETHCC selfies and pitch decks are posted...let me talk about what was happening off-stage. This is the behind the scenes you missed. A🧵 (1/8):

Can we the 'traders' stop saying the liquidity is 'deep' until we are the last one out? Do you all remember USDC's de-peg? I still remember watching it unfold in real time....$40B in market cap yet one bank failure froze $3.3B and triggered a chain reaction and when Curve’s stableswap pool drained in hours. “Safe” pools turned into exit races because this was liquidity behaving exactly as designed under stress. We’ve seen it before: → Black Thursday 2020 → Terra’s death spiral in 2022 → FTX contagion selloffs Each collapse showed the same pattern...liquidity is never as deep as it looks. It is an illusion tied to confidence and incentives. When fear kicks in, the equilibrium breaks. Pools shrink and spreads widen so liquidity providers pull capital or front run the unwind. Blue chip pools are NOT invincible & we tend to forget that until markets remind us. Designing for liquidity means pricing in panic. That’s the real challenge. When trust breaks, no algorithm can refill the pool fast enough. Well, there goes Day 3.

Crypto needs new stories. We saw Trump’s coin. We saw the meme coin mania. @gary_yangge told us this is 'crypto’s first growth curve'. These are 8 predictions he made. A🧵:

ethena didn’t fail miCA. it just exposed how miCA wasn’t designed for modular systems. the protocol didn’t rug. it migrated. from germany → bvi from compliance-first → composability first. people saw an exit. but what’s really happening is regulatory fragmentation. the cost of building cross jurisdictionally is now higher than launching from the start in bermuda, singapore, or even dubai. the irony here is that the EU tried to “protect users.” they just handed them to offshore entities anyway. what’s next is that institutions will follow the infra, not the flag. jurisdictions who want stablecoin settlement on chain will have to meet builders halfway.

Everytime someone mentions a “breakthrough”, I take a step back. dTAO looked like a breakthrough. Until it became a playground for memecoin shenanigans. What started as a fairer way to allocate TAO emissions quickly turned into a Ponzi loop. Subnets like SN28 (created for memes, not AI) drove up prices artificially. This only resulted in more TAO emissions for speculators, with little value creation. This is the free market running wild. But here’s the catch: Bittensor’s centralization saved the day. The Opentensor Foundation used its control to squash SN28’s 98% crash. We’re only one month in, but if this keeps up, dTAO could turn into a generalized incentivization network. The moral of the story is simple. Tell me your incentives, and I’ll tell you your outcome. 👀

Another major exchange exploit. Bybit lost $1.4B in ETH after hackers took control of its cold wallet through a masked transaction. Bybit’s CEO confirmed the attack. Signers saw the correct address, but the transaction quietly altered the contract logic. The hacker drained the ETH cold wallet & moved everything to an unknown address. This is really not just another exploit, please stop labelling it as such. It exposes a much deeper security flaw: UI spoofing at the contract level. How do centralized platforms keep failing the same way?