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Same week, same movie. And this one is even funnier.
Thursday it was Starknet. Monday it is Wormhole. Now the picture gets a bit clearer.
$W was sitting at $0.013 to $0.015 for most of October. Nobody cared. Then a fresh wallet pulls 62M W out of Binance, about $1M, around $0.016 each. Two days later $W is up 60% in a day and here comes the thread: "bought an insane amount of Wormhole", "top 1 RWA dominance infra", "$4.5B TVL exclusive partnership", "kingmaker", "0.1 to 0.5 this quarter".
The wallet bought at $0.016. The thread tells you to buy at $0.028. Now read it again.
Let's look at what is actually on the table.
Wormhole has nothing to do with real world assets. Nothing. It is a messaging bridge. It does not issue, does not hold, does not tokenize, does not settle anything. Securitize does all that. Wormhole is the pipe Securitize uses when a fund moves from one chain to another. "Top 1 RWA infra" is a narrative invented on the spot.
The $4.5B is not Wormhole's TVL. It is the money Securitize has tokenized, taken from the same RWA table he posts as proof. Those funds are issued and redeemed natively on each chain. "Every single trade powered by Wormhole" is simply false. BUIDL holders can swap into RLUSD on Securitize's own platform and Wormhole never touches it.
The partnership is not news. Securitize picked Wormhole on September 20, 2024. W was $0.25 that day. Same partnership, two years later, $0.028. The market already priced this story and the answer was minus 89%.
Infrastructure usage is not token demand. A BlackRock fund moving from Ethereum to Solana does not buy a single W.
Supply: 10B max, about 6.6B circulating, unlocks every two weeks. The next 50M W unlock on October 16. One day after the 127M STRK unlock. Two pumps, two unlocks, same week. Still a coincidence?
And "open interest at max at all venues" is not bullish. It means the trade is already full of leverage and the door out is small.
Now the pattern. On $STRK a wallet created the day before opened a 3x long on $2.9M and made $1M in less than a day. Verify it yourself: hypurrscan.io/address/0x2f59…
On $W a fresh wallet loaded $1M two days before the thread. Then the amplification. Tracking accounts flag the "smart money", the thesis arrives, the "kingmaker" word, a target up to eighteen times the current price. Different accounts, one ticker, same 48 hours. Probably not one person. Probably a group pushing the same project on a theory that does not exist. An insider move dressed as research.
I wrote it yesterday: side wallets, fame, main wallet, FOMO, dump. Narratives get sold into unlocks. The unlock is Friday.
And since we are talking about the "core interoperability layer". Who remembers February 2, 2022? Wormhole got drained for 120,000 ETH, about $320M, the second biggest DeFi hack in history at that time. Jump Trading, the parent company, had to refill the hole with its own money. One month earlier, January 7, Vitalik had written it: the future is multi-chain, not cross-chain, there are fundamental limits to the security of bridges. He did not even need to name it.
Today the same bridge is sold to you as the "exclusive" rail for BlackRock's tokenized fund. Secured by 19 guardian nodes and 13 signatures. That is not a kingmaker. That is a multisig. Lol
This is crypto Twitter in 2026. The narrative is written on Monday and sold on Friday. 🤦♂️
Justin Drake and Vitalik just told the whole crypto industry to go into "bunker mode".
The reason is simple. AI math may break ECDSA, the signature that protects every Bitcoin and Ethereum wallet, before a quantum computer even exists. And the "quantum safe" lattice schemes most chains are betting on may be next.
Only one thing survives that: hash-based signatures. Live today, not on a roadmap. And this could become one of the main topic in blockchain actually after RWA
$NEAR and $Algo picked lattice. $strk accounts still sign with ECDSA. Zcash has no post-quantum signatures at all.
But, Nervos $CKB is already there.
SPHINCS+, pure hash-based, live on mainnet and audited. Your public key stays hidden behind a hash by default. New schemes can be added anytime without a hard fork.
Market cap: around 80M. Listed on Binance and OKX.
Why so cheap? Because this narrative is four days old and the market is looking at bigger names. Nobody has connected the dots yet.
One chain already meets the standard and sooner or later the market has to price that…
Half the people making $100k+ are terrified of losing their corporate jobs.
The government calls stepping away "Not In Labor Force" (NILF).
We just swapped pointless Zoom meetings for 3 screens in the trenches.
That’s why I think robinhood:0xdb97b2aefd6816485a757ae49280d598a5c9c848 has the most potential on Robinhood Chain right now. It’s not some random forced mascot, it’s literally our daily reality.
$NILF
Americans are increasingly worried about their jobs.
The perceived probability among US consumers that the unemployment rate will be higher in 1-year increased +1.6 percentage points in August, to 44.4%, its highest since April 2020.
Excluding the 2020 pandemic, this marks the highest reading since the New York Fed Survey of Consumer Expectations began in 2013.
By comparison, this indicator peaked at 44.1% in April 2025, following uncertainty around tariffs.
By income, the perceived probability of a rise in unemployment was the highest among those earning over $100,000, at 50.3%, the 2nd-highest reading on record.
By comparison, expectations stood at 43.5% among those earning $50,000-$100,000, the 2nd-highest reading since March 2025, and 38.0% among those earning under $50,000, the highest since May.
Fear of unemployment is rising.
Trump sends his regards
Again and again.
BREAKING: Iran declares it will imminently respond to the US attacks against Iran tonight, with the response being "many times greater than the US attacks," and that "American interests and bases in the region will quickly come under Iranian fire," in the coming hours, per a senior Iranian military source to Tasnim.
