Join Can Gurel as he hosts Harry Dewhirst, co-founder and CEO of 375ai, to discuss their ambitious real-world application of DePIN. Learn how they’re building a decentralized network of sensors to capture and monetize physical data at scale. 375ai:... Read more

Macro Signal Monday sets the tone for BTC capital flows at the start of the week. Follow along each Monday for the full Hope Metric signal breakdown and forward-looking capital flow context for BTC.

 

TLDR

• Hope Metric Score: 58.1 (Neutral-Cautious Optimism)

• BTC ETF Inflows: +$1.37B last week

• ETH ETF Inflows: +$528.12M (significant

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Stablecoins, Narrow Banking, and the Liquidity Blackhole

For over a century, monetary reformers have proposed versions of “narrow banking” – financial institutions that issue money but do not extend credit. From the Chicago Plan of the 1930s to modern proposals like The Narrow Bank (TNB), the idea has been simple: prevent bank runs and sy

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CT has a habit of conflating projects. Lately, Humanity Protocol has been getting lumped in with World as “the other biometric blockchain project.” While both offer biometric verification and are building identity solutions, this comparison misses important differences in scope, architecture, and go-to-market strategy.

In this piece, I’ll

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We’ve published a guest post from Rittenhouse Research on Galaxy Digital’s AI Mining Center Helios. The link to the full report is at the bottom with a snippet here:

Galaxy Digital (“Galaxy” or the “Company”) is a digital asset and AI infrastructure focused holding company. Similar in structure to Berkshire Hathaway,

Galaxy has a book of

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Macro Signal Monday

Macro Signal Monday sets the tone for BTC capital flows at the start of the week. Follow along each Monday for the full Hope Metric signal breakdown and forward-looking capital flow context for BTC.

TLDR

• Hope Metric Score: 54.7 range (Neutral – top of range)

• BTC ETFs saw outflows of –$131.6M last week, ETH ET

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Loud!, a simple token experiment, has dominated the conversation on CT last week. Powered by Kaito, Loud distributed 45% of its token supply to users who promote Loud in a first-of-its-kind Initial Attention Offering (IAO). The novelty of the launch mechanism and upside speculation propelled Loud to 76% Kaito mindshare. After a down-only

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Circles is a protocol to create a decentralized social currency, without intermediaries. Every user issues their own personal currency $CRC (Circles Credit) and uses it to trade within a trusted network. It was built by Martin Koeppelmann, the co-founder of Gnosis.

You mint CRC at a fixed rate: 1 CRC/hour. But bear the following in m

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Plume opened its Season-2 liquidity-mining program this morning and will be distributing 150 million liquid, non-dilutive $PLUME via Royco’s Incentived-Action Markets (IAMs) over the next ninety days—the same framework I covered in detail during Royco’s Berachain rollout (Royco Protocol Deep Dive).

It’s simple: 

1. Protocols (Nest, Rooster

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Political horseshoe theory is a very intuitive way of visualizing the notion that extremists, on different ends of the political spectrum, have more in common than they believe.

I believe the crypto equivalent of this is the product maxis versus the decentralization maxis. Product maxis prioritize a functional, complete experience for en

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