We’ve all seen those influencer-style lists before: “Top 5 coins with huge upside!” or “Best coins to buy before the next pump!” 😯

But what about the opposite?

🤔 What about a list of popular coins that might already be dead in practice? Coins that still have huge loyal communities, but aren’t going anywhere and may slowly bleed to zero over time.

Check out the recent video that looks at 4 “crypto cults”: projects that still have believers, but are fundamentally dead 🍄

4 platforms to trade equities onchain 📈

Since bottoming around March 30, the Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500 have fully retraced and hit new all-time highs in under a month. They close at new highs almost every week. BTC is down 37% from its peak and still struggling to hold $80k.

Sad! But we need to adapt 🧠

If you want stock exposure, you either need a brokerage account or you can get it onchain. All you need is some crypto and a non-custodial wallet. No KYC, no banks:

💸 Futures on stocks:

⏺Trade.xyz, built on Hyperliquid's HIP-3. Best liquidity and volume in the space

⏺Lighter, has zero fees, but thinner liquidity and less volume

💸 Spot stocks:

⏺Jupiter, for tokenized equities through xStocks. Includes shares in private companies that never IPO'd, like Anthropic and Anduril

⏺Felix, from the Hyperliquid ecosystem. Uses Ondo for RWA tokenization

For all of history, trading US equities meant a broker, a bank account, and a stack of KYC/AML paperwork. Anyone, from anywhere, can now skip all three. Most people still haven't figured this out

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March, April, and May are all green. That's 3 consecutive months in the green, and historically Bitcoin has NEVER done that during a bear market 👀

Not once across 13 years of data we had 3 green months in a row during bear markets.

May isn't over. For BTC to close red it needs to drop below $76,300 from here. That's a big ask. Are we still in a bear market, or did something change? 🤔

Buying the Nasdaq at the dot-com top was still a good trade 😂

Most people treat the dot-com bubble as the ultimate cautionary tale about market timing. The fear makes sense on the surface.

🤪 Late 90s tech mania was completely unhinged. Companies with no revenue or real business model were trading at ridiculous valuations, and CEOs were adding ".com" to their company names just to catch the wave. Pets. com raised $82.5M in its IPO and went bankrupt 9 months later...

📉 When the bubble popped, the Nasdaq fell 84.38% from its peak and took 15 years to get back to the same nominal price. So imagine your dad bought in at the absolute top in March 2000, right before all of that.

From that peak to today, the Nasdaq is up 513%. A $10,000 investment at the worst possible entry in modern stock market history would be worth about $61,000 now. That works out to roughly 7.5% per year compounded over 25 years 🤑

Most people have no idea the US stock market has done this well. That's the part that gets lost in all the crash stories

Peter Schiff might actually be right about STRC 😨

Peter Schiff built his career calling Bitcoin a Ponzi and pushing gold. He was usually easy to dismiss. But now he's got a new hobby: criticizing Saylor and Strategy. Yesterday he called STRC, Strategy's new yield product, a "classic centralized Ponzi run by MSTR," and the mechanics make him hard to argue with.

❓ Saylor laid out the model himself: Strategy raises $3.2B through STRC, buys Bitcoin with it, then sells a sliver of $80-90M to cover the dividend. For every coin sold, roughly 30 stay on the balance sheet. As long as BTC rises, the math looks like a perpetual cash machine.

The catch shows up when Bitcoin stops rising. STRC dividends are fixed in dollars while BTC's price swings. A 50% drop means Strategy sells twice the coins for the same payment, dumping into an already falling market. The drop also pushes STRC below par, forcing a coupon hike. Now they're selling more BTC at worse prices for a bigger dividend.

🧠 The cleaner design was to simply never sell BTC, pause dividends in deep drawdowns, push losses onto STRC holders from the most junior tranche down. But Strategy did the opposite. I'm not betting against Saylor, but the failure mode is real and activates exactly when the market can least handle it.

In practice, he created somewhat of a time bomb for the BTC market, it's a so-called “selling death loop”. I'm not saying it will ever trigger, but it definitely can...

How to Track BTC ETF Flows 🔍

Spot Bitcoin ETFs hold actual BTC. When investors buy shares, the issuer purchases Bitcoin on the open market to match that demand. Flow data tracks the daily net change in BTC held across all products.

📈 This matters because ETF flows can diverge from price. In late October 2025, BTC was still trading above $105K, but net flows had already turned negative and kept falling through November and into winter. That was institutional demand quietly leaving while price looked fine. Watching flows then was an early signal to reduce exposure before the big drawdown hit.

Two tools cover this well. Coinglass breaks flows down by product with daily granularity, positive numbers mean inflows, negative mean redemptions. CoinMarketCap's ETF page gives a cleaner overview if you want totals and AUM without the raw table.

❗️ But remember: flow data shows the scale of demand through the ETF channel. It says nothing about spot or derivatives activity, which can dwarf ETF flows on any given day.

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The rate cut trade is officially over 😵

US CPI just came in at 3.8% in April, the highest since May 2023 and above the 3.7% consensus. Month-over-month prices rose 0.6%. Nasdaq futures dropped 0.7% at the open and roughly $300B was wiped from US stocks within the first hour 📊

The driver is oil. US gas prices are up 65% since the Iran war started, with crude now around $101. That's pushing core prices higher too. Core CPI printed at 2.8%, above the 2.7% expected.

🙄 For the first time in 3 years, inflation is running faster than wage growth. Real purchasing power is falling. The Fed has no cover to cut now, and most analysts expect rates to stay on hold through the summer at minimum.

📉 The bull case for equities in 2026 leaned partly on rate relief. That relief is gone. Earnings have to carry the whole load.

If big tech starts repricing for a "higher rates for longer" world, the rest of the market goes with it...

This is a logarithmic yearly chart of the S&P 500. 90 years of price action, at least 3 corrections deeper than 45%, and the line still goes from single digits to $7,400 😲

Every chart tells two stories, and this one is really a chart of the dollar losing purchasing power against productive assets. Businesses produce things people need, generate revenue, and push the economy forward. The dollar does the opposite.

💸 If you're sitting on $100K in cash right now, you need to generate roughly $4K a year just to stay at the same purchasing power as last year. You're not earning anything, you're treading water

Want to save money? Put the cash under a pillow. Want to preserve your purchasing power? Then you MUST invest, there's no third option that works long term. Be bearish on fiat and long on anything that actually produces something. That's the only conclusion any sane person reaches after staring at this chart 🤷‍♀️

Now look at the ratio of bad years to good years on this chart. It's not close. This story has been running for hundreds of years, corrections included, and the direction was never really in question.

Being bearish long-term on a chart like this is an IQ test...

Trump brought 17 CEOs to Beijing 😮

Today is a very important day. Trump is in Beijing for his first visit to China in 9 years. He arrived with 17 CEOs representing virtually every major sector of the U.S. economy: tech, finance, defense, agriculture, semiconductors, etc. The delegation reads like a Fortune 50 roll call 👇

🛑Jensen Huang – Nvidia
🛑Elon Musk – Tesla and SpaceX
🛑Tim Cook – Apple
🛑Larry Fink – BlackRock
🛑Stephen Schwarzman – Blackstone
🛑Kelly Ortberg – Boeing
🛑Jane Fraser – Citigroup
🛑David Solomon – Goldman Sachs
🛑Larry Culp – GE Aerospace
🛑Brian Sikes – Cargill
🛑Jim Anderson – Coherent
🛑Jacob Thaysen – Illumina
🛑Michael Miebach – Mastercard
🛑Dina Powell McCormick – Meta
🛑Sanjay Mehrotra – Micron Technology
🛑Cristiano Amon – Qualcomm
🛑Ryan McInerney – Visa

🔍 Most of these companies have direct, unresolved China exposure. Nvidia can't get regulatory approval to sell its advanced AI chips in the Chinese market. Boeing needs Chinese aircraft orders. Qualcomm, Micron, and Coherent all depend on Chinese sales or face Chinese market restrictions, and so on.

They arrived for the highly anticipated summit. The agenda covers:

🛑Trade and Tariffs
🛑Agricultural Purchases
🛑Boeing Aircraft Sales
🛑AI Export Controls
🛑Semiconductor Access
🛑Rare Earth Materials
🛑Taiwan Situation
🛑Strait of Hormuz / Iran Crisis
🛑Iran and China Relations
🛑Hong Kong and Human Rights
🛑Fentanyl and Drug Trafficking
🛑Supply Chain Security
🛑Investment and Economic Cooperation

🤔 Trump's stated priority is getting Xi to open China's market. Analysts expect the summit to close with visible wins: Chinese purchases of American aircraft and soybeans are the most likely announcements. Treasury Secretary Bessent pre-negotiated with China's Vice Premier He Lifeng in South Korea before the delegation even landed.

Both sides want to maintain the trade truce. China has its own economic pressures at home, but the urgency skews harder toward Washington. Trump is dealing with falling approval ratings after the Iran war, with midterms on the horizon, and he needs to show voters that real money was made here!

Six face-to-face meetings between Trump and Xi are scheduled across three days. By Friday, markets will likely react to what we are about to hear. I'm optimistic and bullish 🐂

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Nvidia > India 😐

A single U.S. company, Nvidia, has reached a market capitalization of $5.5T, overtaking the value of every publicly traded company in India COMBINED, a country with 1.47 billion people...

🎮 Five years ago Nvidia was worth $345B and was mostly known for gaming graphics cards. It has added over $5T since, roughly a 1,500% gain. The revenue justifies some of it: $216B in its last fiscal year, $96.6B in free cash flow, with Wall Street expecting over $400B in FCF over the next two years.

It became the default infrastructure layer for AI, supplying the GPUs behind every major language model and enterprise AI system built in the last three years 🤖

The most inspiring thing about this whole story is that Nvidia was a publicly traded company for decades. Everyone could buy any amount of its stock. There are and will be more of these opportunities, because the world never stops changing 💰

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🚨 The U.S. Senate could vote on crypto's biggest regulatory bill this week

The Clarity Act goes to committee before May 21st. One clause in it matters more than anything else: any project with an ETF already filed or approved before January 1st, 2026 gets automatic regulatory clearance, no repeat SEC review required.

🔍 Goldman Sachs already built over $150M in XRP ETF positions ahead of the vote. A survey of 352 institutional investors found 83% plan to increase crypto exposure, and Galaxy Research forecasts $15 to $25B in new inflows once the legal path is clear.

10 altcoins already did the legwork to qualify. The new video breaks down which ones, why each one makes the list, and what institutional money at that scale actually looks like when it starts moving 📹

AI helped crack a $400K Bitcoin wallet locked for 11 years 🔐

In 2015, a guy got stoned, changed his Bitcoin wallet password and forgot it instantly. Over 11 years he tried 3.5 trillion combinations and paid $500 for professional recovery. Nothing. Last week he dumped his entire old college laptop into Claude.

Claude dug through years of old files and found a backup wallet from before the password was changed. Then it spotted a bug in the recovery software that had been scrambling the password in the wrong order the whole time. Fixed the bug, got in, pulled the funds. 5 BTC locked since 2015 transferred to a new wallet 😎

🟠 Chainalysis estimates 3-4M BTC, around $300B, are permanently lost to forgotten passwords and dead hardware. If AI starts recovering even a fraction of that, it's new supply hitting the market. Nobody is pricing that in.... The password, by the way, was "lol420fuckthePOLICE!*:)"

How to Revoke Token Approvals and Why You Should Do It Regularly 👛

When you interact with DeFi protocols, you often sign token approvals. That approval gives the protocol permission to spend tokens from your wallet, often with no cap and no expiration date.

🤔 The approval doesn't disappear when you stop using the app. It stays active indefinitely. If the protocol gets exploited later, an attacker can drain whatever you approved, whether you last opened that app last week or two years ago.

Revoking removes the permission. It is an on-chain transaction, costs a small gas fee, and takes under a minute. Checking your approvals every few months and clearing anything unused is a simple habit that meaningfully reduces your risks.

The default tool for all EVM chains is RevokeCash. It covers Ethereum and 100+ other networks, shows every active approval tied to your address, and lets you revoke them one by one. Connect your wallet, pick the chain, and work through the list.

👍 For Solana, the Revoker by Famous Fox Federation does the same job.

😘 MetaMask users can manage approvals at the Portfolio page under the spending caps tab.

🥰 If you use Rabby, open the web extension and click the Approvals icon. It supports revoke in batches, which helps if you've accumulated a long list.

These tools clear permissions you've already granted. Some of them even flag which approvals are actively risky versus simply old. But they can't protect you from what you sign going forward!

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South Korea's stock market hit an all-time high and crashed the same day 🔽

South Korea's stock market hit a record high this morning, then closed down 6.12% in the same session. The index had tripled over the past year, one of the best runs of any major market on earth.

📱 The main reason is Samsung. The company is so dominant it makes up 42.2% of the entire South Korean stock market.

When Samsung falls, the index falls with it, and today Samsung dropped 8.6% after its union announced an 18-day strike starting May 21

😱 SK Hynix, the second-largest name, fell 7.6% on top of that. Foreign investors pulled over $2B from tech in a single session, and the exchange had to halt automated selling mid-afternoon.

How to sell a JPEG for $42k 💸

A few days ago an artist named SHL0MS posted a water lilies painting on X, labeled it AI-generated, and asked followers to describe what makes it inferior to a real Monet. The replies came fast. People explained exactly why it was "slop": no spatial depth, no clear composition, brushstrokes that looked nothing like Monet's. The post garnered 1,200 comments, most of which criticized the AI art.

🎨 But, the image he posted was a real Monet painting. People invented every flaw the moment they read the word "AI." The anti-AI crowd, which positions itself as the defender of real artists, spent an afternoon confidently critiquing one of history's most celebrated painters.

The irony spread fast. SHL0MS minted the screenshot as an NFT, put it up for auction, and sold it today for 18.99 ETH, roughly $42k, across 28 bids.

🤔 Why would anyone pay $42k for a JPEG? For the same reason a real Monet hanging in a museum has value while an identical print from the gift shop sells for $30.

Value is a social agreement. The NFT is a receipt for a specific cultural moment, a documented event where a crowd hallucinated flaws in a masterpiece. The value of something is determined by what someone is willing to pay for it. That image, apparently, was worth $42k 🤷‍♀️

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