Pi Network’s anniversary is less a celebration and more a requiem for the naive. One year since its “open” mainnet launch, the project has grown, yes-but at what cost? The numbers swell like a plague, yet the questions linger: Who truly benefits from this digital serfdom?
BIP-110, that darling of Luke Dashjr, promises to corral stray data in transactions with the precision of a poet and the subtlety of a sledgehammer. Lopp, ever the skeptic, dismisses it as a seven-lock door on a house built on sand. He calls it “reckless and doomed to fail,” not for its technical merits (which he admits are “neat, if slightly unhinged”) but for the way it threatens to turn Bitcoin’s governance into a game of Russian roulette with the network itself.
Banco Braza, a Brazilian foreign exchange bank, has launched its Brazilian real-backed stablecoin, BBRL, on the Polygon blockchain. The development was shared on X by Sandeep Nailwal, who referenced how Polygon is increasingly being used for payments and on-chain movement of money. (Because if you can’t trust a blockchain to move your money, what can you trust? A spreadsheet? A napkin? A signed promise?)
According to data from Bloomberg Intelligence – you know, the analysts who actually crunch numbers – the 13F filers, those are the wealthy institutions who need to report their assets to the SEC every quarter, were busy dumping Bitcoin ETFs in Q4 2025, offloading nearly $1.6 billion worth. Quite the ‘oops, maybe we should’ve held on’ moment.
Ethereum [ETH] joined the parade of misery, its fortunes sinking like a lead balloon, all thanks to the timely exit of co-founder Buterin. As these two crypto titans staggered about the marketplace like a pair of drunken sailors, the mood became positively “risk-off.” Traders, clearly trying to minimize exposure to further pain, began pulling their investments like someone pulling a hand away from a hot stove. Investors were making their swift exit, and not a soul seemed left to pick up the pieces.
The fear-and-greed index? A resounding 11/100. That’s not fear; that’s the vibe of a dating app profile that says “just looking for someone to hold my hand through a panic attack.” Liquidations hit $342.76 million in 24 hours, and open interest? A sad little $43.64 billion after the October 10 flash crash left it feeling like a deflated balloon at a toddler’s birthday party.
A retail run, dear reader, is a rally driven by the kind of hype that makes a debutante’s first dance seem sedate. It is the chaos of social media, the fevered whispers of FOMO, and the reckless abandon of capital fleeing from stablecoins like they’re last season’s hat. XRP, you see, has been subjected to this particular spectacle multiple times-demand spiking like a poorly timed yawn at a tea party, volume surging like a debutant’s pulse at the mention of scandal, and breakout levels chased with the desperation of a man who’s just discovered he’s forgotten his umbrella.
21Shares, the asset management wizards, just announced their spot SUI ETF (TSUI) is live on Nasdaq. Because what’s better than one way to invest in crypto? Another way to invest in crypto!
Ah, the irony of progress! Hedera, with its grand ambitions, has decided that AccountBalanceQuery, once a faithful servant, is now a burden. The network, in its infinite wisdom, has declared that this query, which dares to disturb the sacred consensus nodes, must be sacrificed for the greater good. “Off with its head!” they cry, though the executioner’s axe will fall not with a swing, but with a throttle.
Market analyst @AltCryptoGems has highlighted that Dogecoin’s largest profits are not made by accumulating during hype-driven breakouts, but during extended periods of low activity and sideways trading. In a recent analysis shared on X, the market expert stated that Dogecoin currently has one of the most challenging price charts to read for timing entry points.
