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Generate a illustration for this post : Danketsu: Dungeons of Ninava — public beta is LIVE Turn-based RPG on Cardano. Connect by entering your $handle — the game detects your clan NFTs and assigns perks automatically. 4 dungeons · 8 companions · boss mechanics · weekly
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People literally faded $Pnut when it launched. And ended up buying it at 1 billion marketcap. Similarly with Nomnom at 30k MC when I called and bought at 24m MC. Crypto is full of opportunities. You just have to time it right. Btw, Cashcat ?
gm from Ibiza with @okx
Vacation’s officially over. Going live today and it feels good to be back! We’ll be hanging out, gaming, catching up, and checking out some awesome Web3 content. Stop by the stream—I’ll be gifting subs to people in chat! blaze.stream/crypt0k1ng96 See you there!
Today I joined the @wolfswapwolfies @Wolfienauts Club thanks to the incredible @Daltonecleus ! Excited to be in flight school! #CroFam
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Can he make it back to shore with DASH? He's holding and accumulating this project's tokens every day. This is not investment advice.
12 năm, 5000 $BTC và hành trình x262 lần của một siêu cá mập 12 năm trước, con cá voi này đã mua tổng cộng 5,000 BTC với giá vốn 1.66 triệu đô tại mức giá ~$87 và hold hơn một thập kỷ Đại gia này đã trải qua hàng loạt biến động lớn của thị trường từ
Me waiting for all my bags to go up
$ANSEM has been showing real staying power on Solana. The community is active and the project is focusing on building a loyal holder base rather than chasing quick pumps. The recent price action with higher lows and volume support is a positive sign. @blknoiz06 #TheBlackBull
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کله در برابر چشم کدوم کله؟!
Real ops real yield
Great breakdown of the real drivers behind BTC's next move.
Reya’s Migration to Based Rollup Isn’t an Overnight Event! Sometimes projects make a big change in one step and hope everything goes smoothly. @reya_xyz has chosen a different path. First Native Orderbook, then migration to Based Rollup with a single Execution Node, and
OKB 1000万美金 一枚
This legislative process is like watching a slow fuse finally reach the dynamite.
We're looking for an Engineering Leader for our core product Safe Wallet, in Berlin. This is a very high impact role building mission critical software that is used globally for moving $1T+ in volume and hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. We have an excellent team at
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IMO IT’S VERY SIMPLE $BTC
AI visual note: A Bitcoin/USD (BTCUSD) monthly candlestick chart from 2017 to 2028 on TradingView shows historical "Buy Zones" of $18k, $20k, $22k, and $26k leading to a projected target of $420k within an ascending channel, illustrating the post's argument that BTC's long-term trajectory remains simple and bullish.
PYUSD Dual-Currency Trading Carnival Officially Launched! Low entry barrier, high returns—perfect timing for newcomers to jump in! Multiple surprise rewards waiting for you to claim: First trade 0 fees + up to 88 USDT cashback 100,000 USD newbie-exclusive prize pool
This also is failing? Idk why
AI visual note: A screenshot of Relay.link's swap interface showing a failed ETH-to-USDT0 transaction on Robinhood Chain, with a red error message at the bottom reading "Destination transaction failed" despite entering 1.1 ETH ($2,121.95) to swap. The wallet balance shows $126,488.69, but the transaction cannot be completed, illustrating the poster's confusion about why the swap keeps failing.
In case you missed it, Sedona is launching on @arbitrum . By doing so, we're bringing you access to the programmable economy while keeping your finances completely private. You don't deserve anything less.
Highest yield so far. LFG! @0xSunflowerLand #SunflowerLandFarm #SunflowerLandWeekly sunflower-land.com
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Here’s a fun story about the time I met @cz_binance : - I was super excited to finally meet him - ended up being one of the coolest people I had met. Also very humble, which I loved - I got him to sign a $100 bill for me. He said it was the first time he autographed money
This is good for crvUSD
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If you NFT, today is a special day for you as well! @pudgypenguins across all socials, teams, communities, sub communities have championed our space well enough that not celebrating them today would be a travesty! I don't hold an NFT yet, but I have a range of IRL and onchain
Fresh @arbitrum Chain Testnet Just Went Live. If you're looking for early opportunities before the crowd arrives, this one is worth checking out. @plether_fi has officially launched its public testnet on Arbitrum. Funding: N/A Cost: FREE Time: ~5 Minutes Get
UPDATE : BitMEX says it will shut down operations on September 23, 2026. following a strategic review by parent company.
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AI is advancing fast in math and cyber. Cryptanalysis sits at their intersection and underpins our digital security. So can LLMs do cryptanalysis? Increasingly, yes! Introducing CryptanalysisBench where we test if AI can break 191 real schemes from past standardization efforts
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This @playcambria airdrop is gonna be fucking legendary
The EU has agreed on its 21st sanctions package against Russia. The new measures target 94 Russian financial institutions, including Moscow’s stock exchange, while expanding restrictions on crypto platforms and oil traders. The EU is also keeping Russia’s oil price cap at
AI visual note: The European Union flag waves against a clear blue sky, symbolizing the EU's unified stance as it announces its 21st sanctions package against Russia, targeting Russian financial institutions, crypto platforms, and oil traders.
RM
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Very few other markets give regular people a real shot at meaningful upside with that kind of capital. That’s a big part of why so many stay in it despite the volatility
The Clarity Act bull run will be legendary.
ETF Flows, week on week Bitcoin ETFs: +$75.5M (prior week +$197.4M) Ethereum ETFs: +$105.5M (prior week +$84.3M) ETHA led Ethereum with +$135.3M, its strongest inflow week in three months. Both green for a second straight week.
If the token doesn’t have business model and demand drivers with the token ownership exceise rights than its worthless to hold for longer term. Thats yeh new dynamics people could have learnt last year only when the clarity act proposal was announced
Every token generates their image for the marketplaces directly in solidity as an svg. Updating the seed will also update the assignment of the censor blocks within the image.
The weekly bullish divergence on the #Altcoin market capitalization remains active, which means that it's just a matter of time until the breakout takes place.
AI visual note: A TradingView weekly chart of the altcoin market cap showing price action within a red "Breakdown" zone above and a green "Dip buying" zone below, with declining volume and a forming bullish divergence on the RSI indicator at the top. The chart visually supports the post's claim of an active weekly bullish divergence, suggesting an impending breakout.
Live on main net already AND crunking out over 100% APY…
𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸... @SuiPump_SUMP 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝘁𝗵. If you've been waiting for the "perfect time" to check it out, this is probably it. Early creators and active testnet
Those + @playcambria Airdrop + $RSGP TGE
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Zoom out. The vision gets clearer. Memes fade. Communities endure. Builders win. $DUMP is still loading for the big thaangg…
Got my @opensea Mobile Early Access! Huge thank you @HollanderAdam for giving me a Code. It looks refreshing and easy to navigate. Well done team. Got 3 codes earlier and gave it to the people in my community. Will try to share if I got more
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good morning $ANSEM bulls memecoin szn is active glad to see you all eating well
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In the past 2 weeks 7 fig Upnl on cashcat 500K+ Upnl on CZ 500K+ Upnl on juggernaut Soon to be next GME? ALL SHARED AND POSTED Deep bear market, and i know 2027 will be some insane shi
Everyone’s talking about $fefer now. I saw it at a $2M market cap, but unfortunately couldn’t swap into it. Congrats if you got in early. I first saw it in @PhilOnChain ’s Telegram. He’s been cooking well over there.
Gm fam Day 7 of dropping custom mockups of what our mutuals' Flextags would look like on premium aluminum. Today with @yugalabs CEO @mfigge See you at Apefest!
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Hello everyone I'm really happy today because we're so close to 500 followers—only 6 more to go! I truly believe we'll hit 500 followers this month with your amazing support Once we reach 500, I'll start trying more new Web3 games and share fresh content with all of you
Trump and his wife finish issuing the coin, reap all the suckers and then slam the door shut Trump signed a policy banning all federal officials and their spouses including the president from issuing or sponsoring digital assets for profit He has once again created
A pretty interesting mix on CoinEx today You’ve got privacy, memes, and emerging plays all in one list. Feels like traders are hunting opportunities everywhere right now. Which one are you most bullish on? Shared in Collab with the CoinEx Creator Program @coinexcreators
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I love Solana
Gm I’ve got 2 @opensea Mobile invite codes to give away Drop a comment below and I’ll reply with the code to the first two people
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Crypto vs Traditional Finance: Do They Have to Compete? For years, people have framed it as a battle: Crypto vs Traditional Finance. But what if that's the wrong question? Traditional finance has been built over decades. It gives us familiar services like savings accounts,
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I'm always excited to stake on SL8 Social! It's not just fun, it's rewarding to know my assets aren't sitting idle but are earning every week. You can stake your portfolio on Sl8 and earn weekly rewards! Join: sl8.online/invite/qXLhzy Wallet → Staking → "+"
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#BinanceConnect PREPARING FOR THE WEB4 ERA
Race is just getting started. @Racerz_eth opensea.io/collection/pil …
Every few months there’s a partnership that makes you stop scrolling. This is one of them. Aptos is a launch partner for Open USD (OUSD), a new stablecoin supported by more than 140 companies, including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase, and Shopify. It’s [Spoken audio]: Guys, USDC might be in major trouble. Aptos has paired up with some massive names like Mastercard, Visa, Stripe, BlackRock, all to make a native stablecoin. It's just a generational place from Aptos. I'm super excited to see what comes next, because genuinely this could be the make or break for USDC.
builders are shaping the future
Welcome to the club
Morning vibes before the market chaos
AE CẨN THẬN, NOXA GIẢ MẠO ĐANG XUẤT HIỆN. Cộng đồng đang lan truyền thông tin rằng dự án giả mạo này được cho là do một nhóm dev Việt đứng sau, nhưng hiện chưa có xác nhận chính thức. Đừng FOMO, hãy kiểm tra kỹ nguồn chính thức trước khi xuống
this is the “nobody uses crypto for real things” argument dying in realtime$1.7B feels like 2021 all over again but the composition tells a different story i’ve been tracking tokenized equity issuances since early 2025 and the real signal isn’t the 5x market cap, it’s that AI
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Join me in the metaverse and become my future friend at Verseum. Pick Futurist to match with me: verseum.app/futurist/futur … @Futurist_conf
DEFI CHAO ĐẢO: 3 VỤ HACK LIÊN TIẾP, THIỆT HẠI HƠN 35,5 TRIỆU USD Thị trường DeFi vừa trải qua một ngày đặc biệt tồi tệ khi 3 giao thức liên tiếp bị tấn công chỉ trong vài giờ, với tổng thiệt hại lên tới hơn 35,5 triệu USD. AFX Trade: Thiệt
$XRP spent months in accumulation and is now shaking out late sellers in the manipulation zone The next phase of this cycle points toward a strong markup move higher
Yoooo Gm Gm Who wants to buy "Refuge for Every Wound " I'm so excited to see my sales Yayyyy come on Only 15 $XTZ
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Anyone who might be affected by Bitmex shutting down, can come to @okx We will take better care of you
Closed AI companies are incentivized to: 1. Maximize token usage 2. Push the most expensive model 3. Maximize time spent on the platform. Open source AI is designed to be human aligned.
Having the AI tools directly inside Bitget Wallet should make it easier for people to actually use them day-to-day instead of jumping between apps.
这波生态起飞是真的猛
Private finance coming to Arbitrum
14 hours, that's how much it took for us to deploy our full package on Stable: > Wolfswap trade > Wolfswap terminal with live charts, PnL and bubble maps for $FEFER, $FLUFFY, $REALCOIN and other memes on @Stable > Wolfswap launchpad, deploying to DYOR V2 We are now LIVE with
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Enjoy the retreat
JUST IN: Kazakhstan is now taking a cut. New rules force miners to hit infrastructure benchmarks AND hand over a slice of mined assets to a state-backed national reserve. Central Asia's mining boom just got a state-shaped tax attached to it.
wen $BASE @aixbt_agent ?
I just secured my Genesis Airdrop on @playcambria Degen Score: 4 Legendary: 0 · Epic: 4 · Common: 6 Use my code e1b92f0f to claim yours: lobby.cambria.gg/?code=e1b92f0f
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Bitcoin hitting $100K again isn't just about market hype anymore. The bigger question is what actually gets it there. This breakdown connects the dots between Fed decisions, ETF inflows, and stablecoin liquidity to explain why these factors matter for BTC's next major move.
One asset to hold for 10 years, no switching. What is it?
The journey keeps evolving Clutch Puppies - Soon to be fully burned, becoming a part of ApeChain history Pixel Pups - A lifetime pass into every experiment, innovation, and opportunity the team builds Pup Cup - A fun World Cup 2026 collection with K9 Rewards, now
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Métrica blockchain: Pool con 23.8% de hashrate evalúa el protocolo BIP-110 sobre límite de datos. La estructura de bloques es analizada objetivamente en VQJ Exchange. veyblue.com #Cripto #VQJExchange
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JUST IN: @Coinbase CEO @brian_armstrong is calling on the Senate to bring the CLARITY Act to a full floor vote, saying negotiations are done and it's time to finish the job. "The status quo in the U.S. isn't working."
now its time to evoke timothy may. the cypherpunk godfather. he will tell you the truth about the clarity act.
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$ONDO is a bull
AI visual note: A 3-day candlestick chart of ONDO/USDT on Binance (TradingView, July 21, 2026) shows the token declining from ~$1.10 to lows near $0.25, with a descending channel pattern in 2026 and a recent bullish breakout marked by a green check near $0.39, supporting the bullish sentiment noted in the caption.
What interests me most about decentralized ecosystems is their ability to grow through collaboration. No single person builds everything. Every contribution fills a different role. Developers improve efficiency. Builders create opportunities. Communities encourage learning.
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#LINK Our support zone has worked beautifully on our daily chart, and we're currently in the intermediate resistance zone. If it breaks through, we could see a rise up to the next resistance zone. Warning: My charts are for educational purposes. They do not contain
AI visual note: A TradingView chart of ChainLink/TetherUS (LINKUSDT) on the daily timeframe shows the price at 8,570 USDT, sitting between support at 7,138 and resistance levels at 8,613 and 10,842, aligning with the post's analysis that LINK is rebounding from its support zone into intermediate resistance.
The first thing that pulled me into crypto was not a coin. It was the idea that rules could be written in code instead of being changed by people behind closed doors. I still remember sending my first transaction and checking the explorer every few seconds because I wanted to
maybe 500 people on earth truly understand what's being built on bitcoin right now. 100 of them follow this account. 全世界真正看懂比特币正在发生什么的，可能只有500人。 $CATO #RGB
600+ onion again. LFG! @0xSunflowerLand #SunflowerLandFarm #SunflowerLandWeekly sunflower-land.com
AI visual note: A screenshot from Sunflower Land showing a yield calculation of 611.8 Onions, breaking down boosts like Scarecrow (x1.2 x67), Sprout Mix (+0.2 x67), and Giant Onion (+3 x67) to reach the total harvest in 3h 54m, celebrating another 600+ onion yield.
Colombia's next government wants every public contract onchain for full transparency. When they began exploring blockchain solutions after the elections, one network stood above the rest. The leading chain in Latin America. The Colombian chain. @KiiChainio @DanyelArenas shares [Spoken audio]: Oh, and let me tell you something. We're about to slam the door open because like I mentioned to you, the incoming administration here in Colombia, the members of the campaign reached out to us, right? Because the vice president, the president of vice president, they have an anti-corruption program where they're going to put their government contracts on chain in order for maximum transparency, right? Well, when they set out to do that, the people of the administration had to go and find out who they could do it with. Well, all of them only knew one blockchain, and guess who it was. So I got like six different calls after the elections, and they said, hey, later in the year, we really want to take this off as part of our anti-corruption agenda in our whole program, and blockchain is the central piece, and who else to do it for the of the Colombian government than the number one in Latin, that's a Colombian chain, right? And especially because the relationships that we
很久没拿起笔写点什么了 送给币圈的各位朋友
Clear rules for the digital asset industry. Let's see what the near future has in store for us.
AI visual note: A stylized painting of an American flag waving against a blue sky with circuit board patterns and the word 'CLARITY' in bold red letters at the top.
Three major crypto exploits in a single day. @AFX_XYZ - $24M Arbitrum Bridge vulnerability @VerusCoin - $7.55M Ethereum Bridge exploited through an unbacked payout @BSquaredNetwork - $3.8M BNB Chain Staking contract upgrade authority compromised
AI visual note: A cryptocurrency transaction screenshot showing BEP-20 and ERC-20 token transfers, including BNB ($2,997,790.27), WBTC v2 ($4,667,033.18), and Dai Stablecoin ($220,341.60) from addresses including 'B2 Network Exploiter' and 'Verus: Ethereum Bridge'.
#BitbaseThursdayPlayground | Proof of Brain Challenge! Sharp eyes make sharp trades!Which one is physically possible? How to Enter: 1. Follow @Bitbase_EX 2. Like & RT this post 3. Comment your answer + Tag 3 friends 3 winners will each receive a 20 USDT bonus!
这正是去中心化该有的样子
1M Wallets on Flap.sh Still early. Let’s build the next million.
Sitting idle doing nothing and money still comes to you—that's Satoshi Nakamoto Satoshi's wallet address, the father of Bitcoin, has received nearly $6,000 in Bitcoin over the past 2 days from transfers by many other wallet addresses It's true, doing nothing and suddenly BTC
people are staking up multiple Xs on new chains but you decide you larp about content creation tips just to farm engagement and end up taking $20 per post
当我探索一项新的协议时，首先吸引我眼球的并非它的代币发行或潜在的空投。 相反，我真正关注的是，一旦协议结束测试阶段，正式上线后，是否还能拥有一个长期活跃的用户社区。 在测试网阶段，大多数操作的成本都极低。
We're hiring an Engineering Manager for Safe{Wallet} to join the @SafeLabs_ team in Berlin. The EM will lead the team behind @safe 's daily touchpoints: login, onboarding, transactions, passkeys, Workspaces, security flows. Frontend, mobile, backend, all under one roof, working
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#ListaWeeklyRecap Jul 23, 2026 Protocol & Governance - Total Weekly $LISTA Buyback: 184,321.28 $LISTA - 8 New Episodes Of Learn DeFi w/ Moolah (Ep 14-21): Oracles, Bridges, Layer 2, MEV And More - Expanding Our Horizon: Curator Network Expansion Search On Ethereum Mainnet
Continuous education to understand the tokenonmics. This is the number one question/confusion I receive in my YT comments.
哪里都可以扫链
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