From the earliest on-chain interactions to the current collaboration with HTX. Watching @Riverdotinc grow little by little, this feeling is really like watching a small stream merge into a big river.
Flowing into the Future is not just empty talk, but something we experience every day. Every flow is building momentum for the future. Let's flow together downstream, heading straight for the stars and the ocean!
Everyone, how many points do you think my creation can score?
2018 seems like a lifetime ago. In this industry, eight years is indeed a lifetime.
We search for meaning in the market, or at least, some sort of order. When I looked at @Dusk , what I saw was this yearning for order. Not the kind of frenzied bubble, but something much more solid—compliance, privacy, and those less glamorous but essential underlying structures that support the real world.
Now it is January 2026. Dusk is finally bringing its 300 million euro tokenized securities onto the blockchain through DuskTrade. They are discussing their collaboration with NPEX, talking about the mainnet launch of DuskEVM, and how zero-knowledge proofs preserve the dignity of privacy on a transparent blockchain.
This is interesting. We once thought decentralization meant being unrestrained, but $DUSK tells us that perhaps ultimate freedom comes from extremely stringent compliance.
When the tide goes out, all that remains are those who truly built the infrastructure.
We tell ourselves stories in order to trade. The old narrative was one of friction—the unpredictability of gas, the anxiety of the wait. @Plasma dismantles this. It is a Layer 1 stripped to its essential mechanics: sub-second finality and Bitcoin-anchored security.
With gasless stablecoin transfers, $XPL offers a kind of stark clarity amidst the market's noise. It is the infrastructure of finance, finally visible and functioning as it should.
Stop saying you can't make money! Lista DAO's 18% 'money-making' opportunity, I won't allow you to be unaware of it! 👇
Many friends can't stand having their funds idle in their wallets (truly the capitalists' dilemma 😂), focusing on making money from money, and funds must never be idle. 💰 However, high-risk options can be quite dangerous. If you are in this situation and have $BNB or $BTC in your wallet, how can you earn additional stablecoin income without selling your coins?
The answer is: take advantage of the ultra-low interest loans at @ListaDAO + Binance financial arbitrage.
📈 Yield comparison table (calculated at an annualized 18% net profit):
If you borrow $USD1 by staking assets and deposit it into Binance financial products: ▸ Invest 10U: earn 1.8U in a year (enough to buy a bottle of cola, a mosquito leg is also meat) ▸ Invest 50U: earn 9U in a year (that's a good takeout meal) ▸ Invest 100U: earn 18U in a year (enough for two movie tickets) ▸ Invest 1000U: earn 180U in a year (approximately 1300 yuan, equivalent to an extra month's food expenses!)
This is just the 'interest spread' income and does not account for the profits from the appreciation of your staked $BNB!
🛠 Core arbitrage path: 1️⃣ Collateral: stake your $BNB or $BTCB at Lista DAO. 2️⃣ Borrowing: borrow $USD1 at an extremely low annual interest rate of about 1%. 3️⃣ Arbitrage: transfer $USD1 to the Binance exchange, deposit it into 'Binance financial products', and enjoy an annualized return of about 20%. Earn passively: collect over 18% interest spread.
🌟 Why must you choose Lista DAO? 1️⃣ King of Efficiency: as the largest USD1 ecological hub on the BNB Chain, borrowing costs are extremely low. 2️⃣ One fish, multiple benefits: stake BNB to receive clisBNB, allowing you to borrow for arbitrage while still participating in Binance's Launchpool, Megadrop, and HODLer airdrops, with no delays in new earnings!
⚠️ Friendly reminder: While arbitrage is enjoyable, please adjust your collateral ratio (LTV) according to your risk tolerance to avoid liquidation due to severe market fluctuations. DYOR.
Recently, the progress of score recovery has been very slow, so when I saw the new Alpha points collection activity added to the Binance wallet, I immediately participated.
The official has kindly provided detailed operating instructions:
1️⃣ Open the Binance App →【Wallet】
2️⃣ Click on 【Stock Tokens】 under the balance or 【Market】
3️⃣ Select any stock token, click 【Company】 to view the company overview and industry information
4️⃣ Click 【Trade】, choose to exchange/use exchange balance/professional mode
5️⃣ Successfully buy a single stock token of ≥ 50 USDT/USDC
I am trading gold, bought 51U, set the slippage, and after successfully buying, I can sell it.
Here is other information about the activity:
📌 Points will be displayed before the end of the next day
⚠️ This activity is only applicable to Binance wallet users without private keys
⏰ Activity time: January 20, 2026, 21:00 — February 3, 2026, 20:59 (UTC+8)
🎯 During the activity period, if you successfully buy a single stock token of ≥ 50 USDT/USDC in the Binance wallet (App/Web), you can receive 5 Binance Alpha points (limited to once per user).
🔸 Token range: All stock tokens in the Binance wallet →【Stock Tokens】 market
In the #币安钱包 stock token section, users can trade precious metal stock tokens issued by third-party platforms directly using USDT / USDC 🙋
At the Binance Futures - TradFi section, users can trade the XAUUSDT (gold) and XAGUSDT (silver) trading pairs, enabling 24/7 trading, supporting long/short positions, and flexibly expressing market views.
Today, let's talk about the first alpha big毛 I received in September last year $XPL 👀
If you are like me, tired of having to set aside ETH for Gas every time you transfer U, then @Plasma is definitely a lifesaver. It truly achieves gas-free transfers and instant transactions; this smooth experience is a game changer for the high-frequency payment market.👊
With the explosion of the stablecoin market, whether for our retail daily payments or institutional settlements, $XPL has indeed solved many practical problems. Payments are one of the largest landing scenarios for Web 3, and I am optimistic about its potential!🚀
Although the coin price has been declining since its launch, the fundamentals remain unchanged. I recommend staying vigilant and patiently waiting for opportunities on the right side.📉➡️📈
1⃣Funding: Strong financing background. $12M seed round completed in December 2025 (led by Polychain), previously had $5M Pre-Seed.
2⃣Team: Founder Kevin Lepose has a background in financial engineering from Silicon Valley and extensive infrastructure development experience.
💡Strategy Suggestion: Although currently in the early points stage, risk is relatively controllable, but considering the tokens have not yet had TGE, it is recommended to participate within your comfortable risk range, and take care with multiple accounts.
Trump just made a statement: the government might shut down again on January 30th—let's wait and see. 👀
Looking back at the "previous" shutdown: October 1, 2025 - November 12, 2025
This shutdown lasted 43 days, the longest in U.S. history. The market reaction unfolded in two phases:
1️⃣ Initial rise instead of decline: At the time, the market viewed the shutdown as a negative for dollar credit, prompting capital to flow into Crypto as a safe haven. $BTC once surged past the previous high of $117k.
2️⃣ Mid-term liquidity crunch: As CFTC data ceased updates and institutions lost their radar, large players hesitated to enter the market, leading to a prolonged decline.
History doesn't repeat itself simply. If this shutdown actually happens, what do you think the scenario will be for early January? ❓
Last night, $币安人生 didn't short and missed out on a big opportunity 🤦🏻♀️ Recently, I've been scared by $RIVER , worried that with such high market manipulation and the first Chinese coin listed on spot, the sentiment might be too high, so I didn't enter a short position.
Today, $BLESS didn't get enough secondary airdrop allocation, so I waited for the 15-minute candle to close and entered a short position. Made 75%, which is acceptable.
Next time, I should remember: Wall Street has seen it all, and so has the crypto world. Did everyone short yesterday?
Is a person's cognition equal to the knowledge they possess?
A couple of days ago, I finished watching the video on 'Kenya's paper writing industry' by Film Hurricane, and I felt a deep sense of powerlessness. A large number of highly educated people, due to the lack of national industry, can only rely on physical labor to set up stalls or sell their knowledge cheaply—helping the 'slackers' of developed countries write papers. The same knowledge reserves, due to being in different environments, lead to vastly different destinies. This makes me think again: why does a high education ≠ high cognition? The answer may lie here: If we compare the human brain to a computer: 📂 Knowledge is the data in the hard drive (Data).
🧵【Playing with Chains Episode 9】When Polychain Meets Franklin: A Deep Dive into this BTC Infrastructure Jointly Backed by 'Traditional + Crypto' Giants 🕵️♂️
It is not just another 'oracle'; it is an Oracle 3.0 specifically designed for the BTC ecosystem + AI RWA.
👇 Why do I think it is the most important 'shovel' before the BTCFi explosion?
First, let's look at the background. The oracle track is extremely resource-dependent, and APRO's investor lineup is truly luxurious:
🏛 Franklin Templeton: A trillion-dollar giant on Wall Street, exceptionally rare in directly investing in oracles. 🦄 Polychain: A top VC that has invested in Uniswap/Coinbase. 🏦 Binance Labs / ABCDE: Covers exchange and Asian resources.
This is not just money; it is a 'moat'. This configuration means it was born to serve institutional-level assets.
Current oracles (LINK/PYTH) only solve the 'price feeding' issue. But what if on-chain applications need to read financial report PDFs? Need to read news to assess predicted market outcomes?
APRO's core narrative is Oracle 3.0 (AI-Driven): Utilizing LLMs (Large Language Models) to process off-chain unstructured data (news, financial reports, social media) and validate it on-chain.
💡 Scenario: This is a necessity for RWA (Real World Assets on-chain) and prediction markets.
APRO did not intend to compete head-on with Chainlink on Ethereum; it carved out a huge empty market: Bitcoin Ecosystem.
With the explosion of Runes, BRC-20, and BTC L2, the Bitcoin ecosystem is in urgent need of a native, low-latency oracle.
⚡️ Simply put: If it is a bull market for BTCFi, APRO is the infrastructure that must be deployed.
To make it easier to understand, I made a simple comparison (as shown):
🔹 Chainlink ($LINK): Industry standard, secure but expensive, suitable for blue-chip DeFi. 🔹 Pyth ($PYTH): Fast but unbreakable, suitable for high-frequency derivatives trading. 🔸 APRO($AT ): AI verification + BTC native. Not only feeds prices but can also 'understand' data.
It uses a dual-layer network that combines 'push + pull', ensuring speed while reducing gas costs with AI.
If you are optimistic about the revival of Bitcoin Layer 2 or the combination of AI x Crypto, APRO is currently an undervalued 'shovel-type' asset.
🧵【玩转链第 8 弹】Kite is building the future of AI agent payments.
I wonder if you have the same question as I do: Why let AI help with payments? Can't it execute by itself? What is the significance of developing this product?
The core pain point that Kite @KITE AI 中文 (and similar AI Agent payment protocols) addresses is not "paying for you" (saving effort), but rather "how to let machines autonomously make money safely" (scaling).
Efficiency dimension: from "auxiliary tool" to "digital employee."
"Can it execute by itself?" Of course, this is possible for low-frequency trading. But Kite aims at markets beyond human physiological limits:
▸ 7x24 hours standby: You need to sleep, eat, and work. Through Kite, AI agents can become your "full-time traders," monitoring on-chain fluctuations and executing purchases instantly while you sleep.
▸ High-frequency and micro-payments: In the future, AI agents will purchase services from each other (for example, an AI responsible for data analysis pays an AI responsible for storage). These machine-to-machine (M2M) transactions occur at a very high frequency and very low amounts, making it impossible for humans to operate manually.
▸ Concurrent execution: For instance, when a significant market event occurs, you need to operate on 5 DEXs across 3 chains simultaneously; human hand speed cannot keep up, but AI can.
So does Kite, this AI payment chain, have a future? 🤔
Typically, we only look at one indicator: Is the SDK (Software Development Kit) easy to use?
If we liken Kite to a Lego base plate, the SDK is the building blocks provided by the official source.
🧱 No SDK: Developers have to create their own blocks, which is too difficult, and no one comes.
🏗️ With SDK: Developers can get AI running with just a few lines of code.
Currently, Kite's progress bar has reached a critical position: It directly borrows Coinbase's standards (x402) to lower the difficulty, but the real ace up the sleeve—allowing developers to easily set AI budgets—is still in the works.
Once this toolkit is implemented and easy to use, applications will explode. Until large-scale applications emerge, everything is just air. Stay tuned. 👀
🧵【Playing with Chains Volume 7】Falcon Finance: Left Hand RWA, Right Hand Trump, Is It a Perfect Financial Closed Loop or a Dangerous Nested Game?
I wonder if everyone still remembers the Alpha Big Hairy $FF from September?
From Binance Alpha to now, I have been tracking the product iterations of Falcon Finance @Falcon Finance . Although I have exited completely after the TGE in September, this does not prevent us from objectively discussing a significant recent signal - the strategic binding with the Trump family project World Liberty Financial (WLFI).
Why is this combination worth studying? This is also a question I have been contemplating.
Falcon's core barrier lies in "Universal Collateral": it allows for the conversion of long-tail assets and RWA into standardized synthetic dollars USDf. The vision of WLFI is to put traditional financial assets on-chain. The two are perfectly complementary in business logic: WLFI provides the asset side, while Falcon provides the currency side.
For investment research users, this is a very classic case of "technology seeking scenarios." Setting aside the fluctuations in cryptocurrency prices, Falcon's model of "RWA linkage + political narrative support" may become a new paradigm for DeFi protocols to break through in the future.
I suggest everyone $FF rejoin the Watchlist to observe the correlation between its business data and WLFI's progress.
🧵【玩转链第 6 弹】Lorenzo Protocol: "Financial Alchemy" on Bitcoin, is it the Holy Grail of DeFi or an incomprehensible black box?
When reviewing various protocols in the BTCFi track, Lorenzo Protocol @Lorenzo Protocol $BANK is worth paying attention to. Skipping market sentiment, three core logic points are sorted out from the fundamentals for rational reference:
1️⃣ Backing by investors and liquidity certainty Binance Labs led the investment, and it was the first IDO project of the Binance Web3 Wallet (April 2025). Projects that have passed Binance's due diligence inherently filter out many non-systematic risks.
▸ Other core investors:
HTX Ventures (Huobi Investment) Foresight Ventures NGC Ventures ABCDE Capital (a fund founded by Du Jun and BMAN, sensitive to technology projects) ArkStream Capital, Waterdrip Capital, etc.
▸ Current status (as of the end of 2025):
The project has issued its token (BANK) and is already trading on platforms like LBank, Biconomy, PancakeSwap. TVL (Total Value Locked) once surpassed $600 million in March 2025, demonstrating strong capital absorption capabilities.
2️⃣ The team's "financial engineering" gene Looking closely at the team's background, the Founder has experience in top market makers Jump Trading and Akuna Capital. This not only represents coding ability but also signifies top-level financial engineering thinking. They are not just doing simple nesting; they are reconstructing on-chain returns using TradFi's quantitative logic.
3️⃣ The elevation of product narrative: OTF Lorenzo has moved beyond simple LSD competition, shifting towards "on-chain asset management." Through OTF (On-Chain Traded Funds) and a principal-interest separation mechanism, it has effectively become a platform for issuing structured products. This infrastructure capable of carrying complex strategies is the real reason Smart Money is willing to enter the market.
💡 Conclusion: In the current market conditions, this kind of "regular army" with strong investor backing and high technical barriers is worth adding to the core observation list.
A new week has started again. This Tuesday, there will be non-farm payrolls and PMI, and on Thursday, there will be CPI. It should be an exciting week! 😆
Last week, the $NQ was adapting to the new system and ended up being a flat week, but overall there was progress. After the system integration, stop losses have become more stable; in crypto, I only made the trade with $ZEC. My half marathon training is not going well; I only ran 20 kilometers (this week I need to run 49 kilometers).
This week, I will continue to trade $NQ steadily, and in crypto, I will look for opportunities every day. I hope to update a video as well, hehe.
Last week, I also started the habit of not looking at my phone when I wake up. I meditate for 10 minutes first, then drink coffee and exercise before starting to scroll through my information feed, which makes my mind feel a bit more relaxed.
So I plan to keep this habit going, reducing the time spent scrolling through information feeds, at least minimizing the impact of information feeds when I wake up and before sleeping. If you've been feeling tired from scrolling lately, I recommend this method to you; sticking to it for about 3 days should make a noticeable difference. 😆
The picture shows a snowy day, taking two little ones downstairs to play in the snow, leaving cute marks from the little ones. It looks like this year will be a very cold winter, and I hope the stray animals can safely get through the winter. 🍀 Wishing friends a wonderful week! 🧡
【Playing with Chains Volume 5】🔥 Breaking News! YGG Play Launchpad is now officially launched! 🚀
Everyone, in this world, finding a job is hard, but finding fun is even harder. But what if I tell you, there’s a way to have fun that is more professional than your job? Do you believe it?😏
As a leader in the Web3 gaming field, Yield Guild Games (DAO) is not just an ordinary "gaming community"; it is a DAO—Decentralized Autonomous Organization! Doesn’t that sound very “philosophical”? In simple terms, it means everyone acts as a boss, specifically investing in NFTs in the virtual world.
Now, the YGG Play Launchpad is officially launched! 🚀
In the past, you could say playing games was “not a serious business,” but that’s no longer the case. In YGG, there’s a treasury, there are SubDAOs, you can engage in liquidity mining, pay network transaction fees, and even participate in network governance and staking. What does this mean? It means turning “play” into a serious asset management!💼🎮
So, don’t hesitate any longer, hurry to the Launchpad and explore your favorite YGG Web3 games. In this metaverse, you’re not just a player; you’re also a builder.
In short: Play with a professional attitude, discover the next potential blockbuster, and redefine the future of gaming with players from around the world!🎮✨🏃♂️💨