Happy New Year 🎉 Welcome to 2026 - the Year of Execution. This year, I’m choosing action over endless planning. Less noise, more building. The lessons from last year brought clarity, and now it’s time to apply them properly. I’m approaching 2026 with focus, intention, and a lot of passion for building things that actually matter, With just consistent execution and learning along the way. Let’s build with passion this year, support each other, and let the work speak. Wishing us all a strong, purposeful 2026 🤝

The interesting signal in Optimism’s ASP grant is where grant money is going: audit service providers, not just new protocols. I would browse grants.fogofi.com/explore to see what other ecosystems are funding. Infrastructure still matters.

Milestone 01 on @CorvoEdge is done, a week early. I audited the terminal itself. 19 findings, 13 closed. The one that mattered: wallet identity was running on values written in code. Change any of them and every X-login user gets a freshly derived, empty wallet, while login still succeeds and health still reads green. Nothing would have alerted. Fixed. The terminal now records a fingerprint of those values at boot and refuses to start if they ever drift, so silent loss becomes a loud refusal. The same review closed a path where a compromised backend could have handed the client calldata that drained a wallet's whole token balance. The client rebuilds the transaction itself now. Every finding, what it risked, the fix, and the hour it landed: corvoedge.xyz/security

Bitcoin bears are paying up for another leg down. Futures positioning is near yearly lows while BTC, ETH, and SOL are all under pressure. I read that as leverage leaving the system ahead of U.S. jobs data, not proof that spot holders are capitulating. If you’re trading this, the important signal is whether open interest keeps falling while selling slows. The other side of the tape is capital still moving into usable rails. @solana ETFs pulled a record $188 million in a week, but Bitwise took two thirds of it, while Ethena and @binance are pushing USDe collateral into tokenized equity perpetuals. That means crypto is trying to absorb traditional market exposure, even as the Bitget hack reached $387.5 million and reminds you where custody risk still sits. → Bearish futures show leverage getting flushed before macro data → Solana ETF inflows hit $188 million, with demand concentrated in Bitwise → Binance and Ethena are extending stablecoin collateral into equity markets I keep coming back to the same split: liquidity is cautious on crypto beta, but bullish on financial infrastructure. I think the builders who win here won’t just offer more markets, they’ll make risk, custody, and settlement legible inside the trading flow. That’s exactly why I’m focused on self custody and execution at @CorvoEdge, because users shouldn’t need five tabs to understand what they’re exposed to. Positioning matters more than headlines.

We know how cats on launchpads have been moving lately 👀 So if OneToken finally announces something around this, I think $ONECAT could be an interesting runner. Sitting around $10K FDV here and I’m in. CA: onecat-eeff96.pad.onetokenhub.near $ONECAT on @Onetokenhub near:native o’clock continues. 🐈

I've been trading NEAR tokens through @RexAssBot on Telegram. It rug checks every token and finds the best pool. It caught me this 43x on NEARFI. Still on $UPLY, under $10k. You are early, everything on NEAR now is UPLY. CA: uply.nearlytrade.near t.me/RexAssBot

I borrowed against my Bitcoin this week without wrapping it or sending it over a bridge, using @ZestProtocol's new Bitcoin Collateral Vaults. The idea: your BTC sits in a self-custodial vault on Bitcoin itself, and you borrow USDC on Ethereum against it. The coins never leave Bitcoin. Start to finish, I set up a fresh Xverse wallet and funded it by swapping 40 USDC to BTC on piptradedex.xyz. I connected a Bitcoin and an Ethereum wallet to Zest and deposited 0.0004 BTC, about $34. After 6 Bitcoin blocks, roughly an hour, I activated the vault and borrowed 3 USDC at 0% APR. What stood out to me is how much of the safety you sign up front. Before the loan goes out, you pre-sign fixed transactions that can only send BTC back to a vault your own key controls, plus veto approvals that block any spend you didn't authorize. There's also a timelocked exit that returns the BTC if everything else fails. It's more signing than a normal DeFi borrow, and the confirmation wait is real. But at 9% LTV, my position only gets liquidated if BTC falls below $10,000. Full walkthrough below 👇 nitter.cf/ZestProtocol/status/21…

NEAR o’clock is officially here ⏰ $NEARLY touched 69.3x $NEARFI 30.6x And more NEAR plays are moving. We’re just getting started. NEAR is NOW.

A real-world claim needs more than a token. PLAY has infrastructure that gives it identity, proof, legal structure, liquidity, and a market. PLAY is DualMint’s machine vault, tied to revenue from 200 operating claw machines in real arcades. Peaq handles machine identity, so the physical assets behind the claim have a defined onchain identity, while Chainlink verifies the revenue those machines generate through gameplay. Bedrock puts the holder claim into a legal structure instead of leaving it as a line in a dashboard. Meteora makes that claim liquid, and Jupiter provides the orderbook where the market can trade it. You can join PLAY through UPTIME via @stardotfun, with @DualMintRWA connecting the full stack to the machine revenue. → Peaq provides machine identity for the operating claw machines → Chainlink verifies revenue generated by people playing the machines → Bedrock provides the legal structure for the claim on that revenue → Meteora provides liquidity, while Jupiter provides the orderbook for trading I like this because every layer has a defined job. I think the stack is underrated: it turns physical activity into an identified, verified, legally structured claim with a route to liquidity and trading. This is infrastructure doing the work, not decoration around a pitch.