The stablecoin landscape is dominated by two players: Tether and Circle’s USDC. But issuance is moving toward becoming a standardized, low-margin infrastructure service. At the simplest level, issuing a well-collateralized stablecoin includes a standard process of:

• Custody of reserves
• Transparent accounting
• Mint & burn functions
• Legal/ c

Quick note up front. This indicator is not mine, it is built by Julius on CT (@jv_finance). I have been following his work for a while and this one is worth paying attention to.

Now on to the chart.

The BTC to Gold ratio has slipped below the model’s lowest power-law band. That grey zone is basically the statistical basement of the entir

Here is a recent conversation between myself and a good friend who runs a venture fund.

Me: “How are the portcos? Still doing well?”

Him: “Yeah ton of good progress across the board”

Me: “How is the env for them to raise?”

Him: “Really the only thing that matters…is that…good businesses get funding regardless of environment”

That conve

In 2019, it was discovered that a popular South Korean reality survival show called Produce 101, where contestants competed to make it into a fan-voted idol group, was rigged. For four whole seasons, viewers would call in and collectively pay millions to vote for their favorite idols, all to find out that it was just one big grift. Fans

It’s been a while since I leaned on Elliott Wave Theory (EWT) but the current price structure makes it hard to ignore. I will provide both cases: Bullish and Bearish paths for what we can expect and key levels to watch to see which is playing out. The TLDR is that both cases agree on a relief rally happening very soon, but in reality the

Silicon Valley investors have long championed the idea that software is displacing legacy industries at an inexorable pace. Or more famously said by Marc Andreessen, “software is eating the world.”

Why did this play out? Because software reduced overhead, made systems more efficient, and absolutely obliterated the cost structure of incumb

If you told me 6 months ago that Zcash would start absorbing Bitcoin’s original use-case, I’d have laughed.

Today, I’m not so sure…

In fact, I believe a strong case can be made that BTC’s original cypherpunk vision has been hijacked.

Not just because it has underperformed things like the $QQQ‘s, but because its role as a sovereign, cen

The Problem with Fixed Fee Builder Codes

Builder codes enable applications like wallets (Phantom) and trading interfaces (TreadFi) to route user transactions through perpetual protocols (Hyperliquid) while earning a share of the fees. The fee structure here really matters. Fixed minimums create barriers, while revenue sharing unlocks expe

On November 3rd, YGG’s publishing arm (YGG Play) kickstarted its new launchpad with the launch of $LOL – the in-game token for its flagship P2E game LOL Land. After a choppy launch, the token is currently sitting at roughly a $3.6M FDV, representing a ~4x for launchpad participants.

So, how does this launchpad differ from the others, wha

Across Bitcoin’s history, November has consistently behaved as a structural pivot month and the timing of its monthly low often reveals the underlying market regime.

Between 2020 and 2024, the distribution of November lows shows a clear bifurcation: in bullish markets Bitcoin bottomed within the 1st week of the month, while in bear or tr