Happy Saturday, frens!

Here’s a curated list of new memecoins from Moni Discover + Some examples of how I personally analyze and validate them.

PS: The best book is when you know where to find alpha and know how to validate this alpha.

Another interesting phenomenon on TON – Hamster Kombat.

+ Some thoughts on why TON is much different from any other chain and it’s totally fine.

Have a look 🙂

Weekly research series for my fam

General
➖ Coinbase: Weekly: Brewing in the Background
➖ Glassnode: Room to Grow
➖ Galaxy: Ethereum All Core Developers Consensus Call #134 Writeup
➖ Galaxy: Weekly Stories - 5/31

Market
➖ Crypto.com: Points Farming – Development, Significance and Controversies
➖ Glassnode: Market Making on Uniswap: An Analytical Approach - Part I
➖ Glassnode: Market Making on Uniswap: An Analytical Approach - Part II
➖ Glassnode: Market Making on Uniswap: An Analytical Approach - Part III
➖ Glassnode: Primer on Automated Market Making and Uniswap
➖ Galaxy: The Evolution of Memes and Their Place on Blockchains

DeFi
➖ 4pillars: SynFutures: Harmonizing Simplicity and Efficiency
➖ SSRN: Artificial Intelligence and Decentralized Ventures

Blockchains & networks
➖ 4pillars: Base: Bringing Future of Consumer Applications
➖ 4pillars: LayerZero: Pushing the Boundary of the Cross-Chain Capabilities
➖ ConsenSys: EigenLayer: Decentralized Ethereum Restaking Protocol Explained
➖ ConsenSys: Besu Maintainers on the Pectra Fork
➖ Galaxy: The Ethereum Government

Tokens & currencies
➖ Binance: Lista (LISTA)

Earlier this week, Connext (now Everclear) announced the next big thing in chain abstraction – their Clearing Layer.

This transforms Everclear in the Visa of Web3.

Here’s your Eli5 on why it matters and how it changes Web3 experience.

Gm, frens!

As usual, if I have a giveaway I have it only for my Telegram fam.

This time I have 15 WL slots for $LUMI Public Sale.

TL;DR:
– Ethereum memecoin
– Healthy community, featured on Moni and in The Daily Degen newsletter
– $476K initial marketcap
– Public sale on June 19, WL only

Just drop your ERC-20 address in the commens.
I give you a like => you win, fcfs.

Tokenomics here.

Job done, all WLs distributed.

Got a like => Got a WL

Lol some cringe from Pencils Protocol here

They didn't even care to ask the designer to remove the OKX logo.
This is a ready-made pack of assets.
Standard license costs $68.

And they have $44M in TVL on Scroll and are a Top-2 dApp rn.
That's not fine, a huge red flag for me.

I just realized that "1,000x" and "how-to-become-a-millionaire-overnight" threads are Web3's equivalent of pseudo-scientific movies and articles about Yetis, aliens, and Atlantis.

This type of content always goes viral and sparks more discussion.

People just want to believe.

If you're a threadoor, the choice is yours: be a mythificator or concentrate on more critical matters that may not be as engaging.

If you're a reader, the choice is also yours. Just ensure you can distinguish between pseudo-alpha and real facts.

Gm, crypto people.

Quick facts about Web3 you'd never google.

#1: During Ethereum's ICO in 2014, the price of 1 $ETH was $0.31.

#2: It is estimated that about 20% of all Bitcoin is lost forever.

#3: The largest bribe in Web3's sniping history is 141.66 ETH (~$350K) to buy $SAVM

#4: As of 2024, there are 2.5M+ tokens issued on Ethereum.

#5: As of 2024, there are 925 active CEXs worldwide.

#6: One of the highest profit trades in crypto history involves the Winklevoss twins who bought $11M worth of Bitcoin in April 2013. In December 2017, their investment appreciated to ~$1.3 billion.

#7: The largest hack in crypto history to date is the Ronin Network (Axie Infinity) hack, where ~$620 million was stolen.

#8: The percentage of total crypto transaction volume associated with illicit activity, including hacks, is estimated at 0.3%.

#9: The largest Web3 wallet by value currently holds over $30 billion worth of various cryptocurrencies and is owned by Binance.

#10: The lowest Bitcoin dominance in history was around 37% in January 2018.

#11: Monad Labs is the most-funded project in 2024 with $225M raised.

#12: The highest gas fee in Ethereum's history was recorded on February 23, 2021 when the average gas price surged to over 1,400 Gwei (0.04 Ether).

#13: The largest ICO in history was conducted by EOS in 2018, raising over $4 billion.

#14: As of 2024, there are over 35,000 Bitcoin ATMs worldwide.

#15: The first decentralized exchange was EtherDelta, launched in 2016.

#16: The Pineapple Fund, created by an anonymous Bitcoin philanthropist, donated over $55 million worth of Bitcoin to various charities in 2017 and 2018.

#17: The first travel booking platform to accept Bitcoin was CheapAir in 2013.

#18: In 2021, SpaceChain sent a Bitcoin node to the International Space Station (ISS), making it the first blockchain transaction executed in space.

#19: Vitalik Buterin donated over $1 billion worth of SHIB tokens to the India COVID-Crypto Relief Fund in 2021.

#20: The first-ever NFT for a physical item was the digital token for the 2006 Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano, which sold for $2.5 million in 2021.

Avail’s mainnet might be closer than you think.

Here’s everything you need to know to prepare yourselves.

Gm, fam!

In case you consider getting yourself an onchain registered Permanent Residency in Sierra Leone, I have 5 codes you can use to mint it with 10% discount.

First read this article pls.

Discount codes:

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DYOR, there are some restrictions.