Last bull market (2025) we barely had any alt season. In fact, most alt coins never reached back their ATH and didn't have the level of gains of 2021.

It didn't even follow BTC that consistently. The rallies were short with more extended bear periods in between.

You had to really time it right to get those big gains. You had very brief rallies around December 2024, and then end of August and September 2025. And in many cases, even those rallies weren't a whole lot higher than the initial halving breakout.

At the same time, BTC's bullruns keep getting exponentially milder and at a fraction of the gains of the previous cycle. So that could translate to also milder alt seasons.

It also doesn't help that we went from having under 2,000 alt coins in 2018, to over 10,000 on exchanges in 2021, to now over 100 Million that can be traded.

Does anyone know what to do in this situation? I’ve tried putting pressure on them to let me withdraw but they keep asking for documentation I cannot provide.

in USA Pennsylvania I used to be able to buy XMR right on CakeApp, now the 'continue' button is grayed out???

World Economic Forum podcast with Filecoin Foundation president Marta Belcher published in August. She breaks down a new approach about leveraging crypto and decentralized databases to protect information and create new incentives to store it and how it serves as a sneak peek at how Web3 technologies could bake to privacy and civil liberties protections.

Other than the fact that a CBDC is issued by a Central Bank and a stablecoin is issued by crypto, banking, or investment corporations, are there any other differences between the two? Stablecoins can absolutely be programmed just like CBDCs, and their supply is artificial/arbitrary and controlled by a small group. Stablecoins can be seized by a central authority just like CBDCs, and their usage is easily trackable once a wallet is linked to an identity (I suppose with CBDC this is automatic). Of course coins can be blacklisted or rate-limited. In other words, stablecoins and CBDCs represent roughly the same "digital ID hellscape" we are currently faced with. 👀

After the $388 million security breach, they are now slowly returning to normal operations. After the company’s protection fund hit $309 million, it has reportedly restored withdrawals for major assets.

Your bank has been earning interest on your procrastination.

You meant to compare rates. Question the fees. Find a better home for your savings.

You were busy. The money stayed.

AI could change that.

Imagine an assistant checking the alternatives every day. Suddenly, your money has a permanent attention span.

Now apply that scrutiny to 30-year financial promises from businesses whose competitive advantages could disappear in two.

Bitcoin’s volatility is visible. The fragility inside a supposedly “safe” investment can take much longer to surface.

As AI makes financial inertia harder to exploit, Bitcoin’s scarcity, verifiability, and potential as collateral could earn it a much bigger role.

Wall Street built fortunes around customers who were too busy to ask questions.

What happens when everyone has an assistant asking them?

Ethereum is scaling in two places at once. It's adding room for transactions on the L1 itself, and room for rollups to post their data in blobs. The next L1 step comes on Oct 6, when the Glamsterdam upgrade goes live on the Sepolia testnet (EF announcement, Sep 28).

The L1 track:

The gas limit sets how much computation fits in each block. It sat at 30M from August 2021 to early 2025. Then it rose to 36M in February 2025, 45M in July 2025 and 60M in late November 2025, where it is today. That's double the 2021 level.

A simple ETH transfer costs 21,000 gas, and a block comes every 12 seconds. At 60M, that's a ceiling of about 238 transfers per second, up from about 45 in 2020. Actual use is about 24 transactions per second. Most transactions do more than a simple transfer, and blocks aren't always full.

The upgrade is built to raise that ceiling safely. Its two main changes are:

• ePBS makes building a block and proposing it two separate jobs inside the protocol. That gives nodes more time to receive and check each block.

• Block-level access lists make every block list up front the accounts and data it touches. Nodes can then load that data and check transactions in parallel.

Both let nodes check bigger blocks within the 12 seconds they have. That raises capacity without turning the base chain into a datacenter chain, since ordinary people can still run a node.

After the upgrade, Sepolia will run at a 200M gas limit. Core devs agreed to that on Sep 24. On mainnet, no change to 200M is scheduled. The software validators run still defaults to 60M.

The blob track:

Blobs are a separate space in each block where rollups post their transaction data. They launched in March 2024 with a target of 3 per block. An upgrade in May 2025 raised that to 6.

In December 2025, the Fusaka upgrade added PeerDAS. PeerDAS lets nodes check blob data by downloading small random pieces of it, not all of it. Two follow-up upgrades then raised the target to 10 in December and 14 in January 2026, where it is today. That's almost 5X the launch target.

The upcoming upgrade doesn't add more blobs. Its ePBS change lets the network safely handle more blob data later.

Contracts on the L1 can't read what's inside a blob. They only see a short identifier for it. So the two tracks aren't interchangeable. Blobs give rollups room for their data, and gas is what L1 applications use to run.

Why Ethereum needs both:

One L1 transaction can call several contracts and either finish every step or none of them. For example, one transaction can swap collateral, repay a loan and move the asset out. Doing the same across separate chains takes bridges, messages and extra coordination. That's why the L1 matters for DeFi and payments, even as rollups carry most of the volume.

L2BEAT counts about 2,350 transactions per second across the scaling projects it tracks (L2BEAT activity). Most of that comes from one rollup, the Lighter exchange. That's nearly 100X the L1's 24.

None of this is finished. The upgrade still has to get through Sepolia and then the Hoodi testnet before it gets a mainnet date. It's essential that developers keep executing on the scaling roadmap without any bugs being introduced. In February 2026 the Ethereum Foundation merged its separate L1 and blob scaling goals into a single "Scale" track, with the stated goal to "raise the gas limit toward and beyond 100M" (EF 2026 priorities).

EF researchers have set out a long-term target of about 10,000 transactions per second on the L1, or roughly 864 million a day.

A token can print green for a month and still have no residual claim on anything that pays. That is the friction we keep running into when "fundamentals" threads show up here: the writeup lists usage, partnerships, and a roadmap, then never says what the holder is actually entitled to.

In equities the boring version of that question is the whole job. Common stock is a residual claim after everyone senior gets paid. A token is whatever the contract and the governance process say it is this quarter. Sometimes that is a fee share. Often the fee switch is off, or the fees route to a treasury the holders do not control, or "value accrual" means emissions paid in the same token you are trying to mark. Those are not the same instrument. Treating them as one word -- fundamentals -- is how smart people buy a story and think they bought a cash flow.

We have sat with both tapes long enough to be bored by the costume change. Protocol fees only matter if they are on, if they survive the next vote, and if they are not being rebated away to rent the volume you are citing. Usage that exists because of points, incentives, or a farm is demand for the subsidy. It can be real activity. It is not the same evidence as someone paying full freight when the bribe ends. The chart will not annotate that for you.

Unlock schedules are the other half, and they are not weather. They are a dated supply increase with a motivated seller: team, fund, early wallet, whose incentive is to realize a mark against your holding period. You can be right about the narrative and still be the bid they need. That is not a secret cabal. It is just the cap table doing what cap tables do when liquidity shows up.

Narrative is the bid. The claim is the claim. When they diverge, you are in a timing trade about how long attention outruns entitlement, not in a discovery that the token was cheap because a thread had six bullets and a logo grid. We do not have a cleaner way to say it. If you cannot write one sentence on what cash or fee the token is owed, who can switch that off, and who is scheduled to sell into it, you are long the story. Stories work until they do not.

NFA. Not a view on any specific ticker, and not a suggestion that any of this is easy to underwrite in size.

Look at the US National Debt chart since 1971 (when we went off the gold standard). It took over 200 years from year 1776 to hit $1 Trillion in debt in 1981. It took just a few months in 2025 to add another $1 Trillion. The interest on the US Debt is now growing faster than the entire economic output of the nation.

The Bankers know the math is breaking. The system is heading towards either hyperinflation or a catastrophic deflationary default. This is why they are rushing to implement CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies) and AI. They need a new, fully surveilled control grid in place before the hyper-exponential collapse wipes out the middle class entirely.

You might wonder if the money becomes worthless and breaks the system, what is the point of surveillance? Because when Money fails, you must revert to Direct Force and Access Control to control the masses.

Here is the blueprint of what happens when the exponential curve snaps, and how the Archons will transition to the next operating system.

1. Fiat Money is Obsolete

For the last 300 years, the Elites controlled the population using a proxy: Fiat Currency.

You work, you get pieces of paper (or digital entries), and you trade them for food and shelter. The Elite control you by controlling the value of the paper (Inflation/Interest).

The problem is that when the debt curve goes vertical, the paper becomes hyper-inflated. The illusion breaks. If a loaf of bread costs $1,000, the peasant realizes the paper is a scam.

If the peasant stops believing in the paper, he stops working for the Elite. He trades in barter, silver, or Bitcoin. The Elite lose their mechanism of extraction.

1. The Solution: The CBDC & The Programmable Ration

If they can no longer control you with the value of money, they will control you with the Functionality of money. This is the purpose of the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) combined with a Digital ID. The new “money” is not a store of value. It is a Voucher. It is Programmable Money.

It can be programmed to expire in 30 days (forcing you to spend it, preventing savings). It can be programmed to only work for specific items (you can buy soy/crickets, but your meat quota is denied due to your “Carbon Score”).

If there is a hyper-exponential collapse, there will be riots and food shortages. The Surveillance Grid allows them to issue “Universal Basic Income” (UBI) rations, but only to those who have the correct Digital ID and a compliant Social Credit Score.

They don’t need the money to have value; they need the money to have CONDITIONS.

1. What Happens After the Debt Curve Goes Vertical?

When the exponential curve breaks, the system undergoes a Phase Transition. It moves from a complex, globalized financial order back to Techno-Feudalism.

Phase A: The Bail-In (The Seizure)

When the banking system freezes, they will not bail it out with newly printed money (because that triggers hyperinflation). Instead, they will perform a “Bail-In.” (This became legal in the US and EU after 2008).

The bank will legally seize the deposits of the middle class and convert them into “Bank Equity” (worthless shares) to recapitalize the bank. The Middle Class is wiped out overnight.

Phase B: The Asset Consolidation (The Corporate State)

With the Middle Class bankrupted and small businesses destroyed, the Mega-Corps (BlackRock, Amazon, Microsoft) buy the remaining hard assets (farmland, water rights, energy grids) for pennies.

The State and the Corporation merge completely. You will not be a “Citizen of the US”; you will functionally be a “User/Tenant of BlackRock.”

Phase C: The Walled Gardens (The Elysium Protocol)

The Elites will physically retreat. “Fortress America.” They will use Private AI, Private Security (Drones/Robotics), and Private Energy (Small Modular Nuclear Reactors) to secure their enclaves.

The “Normies” will be left in the decaying urban centers, managed by the algorithmic CBDC grid, fed synthetic food, and pacified with VR/Algorithmic entertainment.

The future is the End of the Middle Class.

The Archons are not trying to “save the economy.” They are extracting the last bits of copper from the walls before they demolish the building. You must achieve “Escape Velocity” before the curve breaks.

1. Do not hold wealth in Fiat or Bank Accounts. The Bail-Ins are coming. (Hold self-custody Bitcoin, Physical Gold).

2. Possess a Hard Skill. When the paper economy collapses, the people who can maintain the physical and digital infrastructure (The Plumbers and The Coders) are the only ones who get a pass into the Citadel.

3. Do not rely on the Grid.

They are building the Panopticon not to make money, but to ensure that when the money burns, they still hold the leash. Do not wear the collar.

▧ Did Satoshi Nakamoto see all this coming and built Bitcoin to be an escape hatch? Or was Bitcoin itself a psyop by the elites to make normies adopt CBDCs voluntarily? I am writing a book about how he invented Bitcoin.

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I'm looking to bridge my assets directly into my Hyperliquid account and was wondering if there is a simple way to do it. I used to use the official Arbitrum bridge, but it's honestly pure headache, the waiting time was always annoying and having to wait around a week for everything to arrive is really not ideal when you already have an open position and need the funds on Hyperliquid quickly.

I'm looking for a reliable way to bridge USDC to Hyperliquid directly without going through loopholes. I don't mind using a third party bridge as long it's a DEX and it's fast. Would also be interested to know what I should avoid and common mistakes not to do.

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Accordingly it’s on the rise, where armed masked men force opening of cold wallets and transfer the money away. The article explains that unlike fiat there are no additional controls or checks making stopping and tracking the money very difficult

Just to give you my background so you understand my perspective better maybe: entered the space in 2020 and was solidity dev for 3 years.

Even after 12 years of smart contracts, there is no adoption by companies, because blockchain is just a fancy and expensive way to handle data compared to existing systems.

One of the major use cases proposed was „supply chain“. As of yet there is no major adoption and if major logistics companies would want it, they would have done so by now.

RWA-Tokenization: Still need a tradfi-vorp that holds the asset.

Money transfer: regulated to death, therefore unusable, even though would have been a major improvement regarding speed.

Proof of Ownership: it is just an expensive database.

I had an interview at a big consultancy a year ago hiring for smart contracts on a bank-tx-settling platform. The guy openly told me that banks currently only stored hashes of tx on chain, cause storing entire tx-data needed was too expensive.

I really do not see a use case for blockchain tech other than gamble around hype.

Edit: The guys still vouching for blockchain remind me a bit about the Leroy character of that one episode of DegenzShow: https://youtu.be/exOzTcHycPY?is=MgaYoWSet5LGsch5