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Arc has a few notable sessions this week -> Aug 19 — Office Hours Q&A and updates on the week's happenings. -> Aug 20 — Technical Office Hours 7:00–8:00 PM GMT+7 This session is geared more towards builders. Two topics to review beforehand: • EVM differences • One token,
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The average cost of a single data breach worldwide is $4.44 million, with breaches involving stolen credentials costing as much as $4.67 million per record. The problem isn’t encryption; it’s that data has no trusted owner from the moment it is generated. MEMO uses DataDID to
AI visual note: An infographic about data breaches stating 'The average cost of a single data breach worldwide is $4.44 million' and promoting 'MEMO' DataDID solutions for data ownership.
15-YEAR DORMANT BITCOIN WALLET MOVES BTC A Bitcoin wallet that received its coins in 2011 moved 8.54 $BTC (~$539K) to Kraken after more than 15 years. The wallet originally received the BTC across multiple addresses when Bitcoin was trading around ~$14. At current value, the
AI visual note: The image displays a blockchain transaction history for a Bitcoin wallet (address starting with "1EmiMJfyBYNYfeFZWEoXxJ9cZ7pF..."), showing multiple transfers to Kraken exchange, with the most recent being 8.542 BTC (~$538.96K) sent 1 day ago, and numerous older deposits of 1,000-5,000 BTC received approximately 15 years ago from various sources including Miner (130qN). This transaction log visually supports the post's narrative about a dormant Bitcoin wallet—dormant for 15+ years—suddenly moving 8.54 BTC (~$539K) to Kraken, illustrating how the wallet had accumulated funds across many addresses in 2011 and remained inactive until now.
Join @SugoiDaowarrior and I later today to discuss everything @CadeMarket and meme madness. @PopPunkOnChain @scottybmitch @gnarzilla @steoniy @kosgoood @0xRookmate , it'll be nice to have you guys on the space too!
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PI APP STUDIO PRICING MODEL CHANGE: SUBSIDIES WILL FOCUS ON APPS WITH REAL USERS Starting August 24, 2026, Pi App Studio will shift from a fixed fee of 0.25 Pi per app creation and 0.25 Pi per edit to a new pricing model that more closely reflects the actual costs of AI
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An age-old question, you answer it. When did you start mining $PI ?
AI visual note: A hand holds a smartphone displaying the Pi Network app with "Welcome to Pi!" and a balance of 1581.388 π, surrounded by floating gold Pi Network coins against a purple background—visually tying to the post's nostalgic prompt asking followers when they began mining $PI.
Dash HQ is cooking so hard in research More to come from the Content Team!! Get seated and dont miss out!!
SNAP BATCH 2 FROM AXIS HAS ARRIVED - 2,697 POINTS! Yesterday, Axis just completed the next settlement batch, and my portfolio has also been updated. 2,697 Points for Epoch Jul 28 → Aug 14 Task Points: 2,696 Referral Points: 1 And notably, my total Points have now
ICO flips are fun! But playing on DeFi field is even better One YT rerate can fund the next farm. Currently, @saturn_credit gives nice opportunity to farm SZN 2 pts for almost free. There're two YT pools on @pendle_fi : - 148 days to expiry > 7.27% nominal - 9 days to
AI visual note: A Telegram-posted crypto chart shows the PUMP token down -1.92%, with annotations reading "1 min after launch price fell by 50000 ($ 170.00 with liquidity dried up)".
$ANSEM is quietly cooking
Binance Wallet × TermMax Booster Mission Hits Hard! Time: UTC August 17, 07:00 to August 24, 23:59 Rewards: 2,000,000 $TMXEligibility: Binance No-Key Wallet, 2 Alpha Points Event One Complete a few simple social tasks to join the lucky draw 1) Follow the official Twitter
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just minted now @TheSaudisNFT nfts on Robinhood are absolutely insane right now 0.009 to 0.0488, x5,5 the nft season is back
I believe in $Jimothy
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Unpopular opinion: bottom was in on the 1st of July...
AI visual note: A TradingView candlestick chart for Bitcoin / U.S. Dollar showing a current price of 64,293.46, with visible stats: O58,523.93 H61,287.33 L57,717.55 C59,961.45 and a +1,437.52 (+2.46%) change.
EVM++ on Ritual is starting to make a lot of sense The idea is simple. Take the EVM and give smart contracts more native capabilities. Ritual brings 16 native precompiles for things like AI inference, key management, scheduling, and more. Then you have encrypted secrets
Now is truly the time to buy cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. By the end of the year, it'll probably start going up. Folks freaking out right now just don't have much sense, so blocking them is fine lol
Mấy ae tàu khựa đẩy ác vcl Từ MC 100k giờ đã chạm 50M rồi, x500 lần Mới điều chỉnh nhẹ về vùng 30M Mình dự đoán con này sẽ sớm list Binance alpha thôi
AI visual note: A Dextscreen token screener chart showing the price of 牛来 (USDT) on PancakeSwap at $0.03018, with a candlestick chart displaying price action from $15M to $50M over the period of the 15th to 18th.
BITWISE CIO MATT HOUGAN SAYS TRUMP'S UPCOMING MEETING WITH CRYPTO EXECUTIVES IS BROADLY POSITIVE FOR BITCOIN AND DEFI APPS $BTC $TRUMP
Just saw this from @Allbridge_io and it actually makes sense. Native USDC via CCTP isn’t marketing talk, it’s a deliberate technical choice. Circle’s protocol mints real, native USDC on every supported chain. No wrapped versions, no liquidity stuck in bridges, no extra friction.
Drama has unfolded 31.5M tokens: permanently destroyed $154160: awaiting to become real stock in ~24h The $PRINTER sellers have triggered the first dip. The question is why they sold when the supply is only down to 170M..???
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The road to the First 10 Million Linkers Celebration continues with another important ITL milestone! Phase 1 of the ITL Reverse Auction Buyback is open, giving ITL holders the opportunity to submit their own offers. Set your offer by choosing: The amount of ITL you want
NEW: Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says Trump's upcoming meeting with crypto executives is "broadly positive for Bitcoin," also highlighting that the key winners would be DeFi apps.
AI visual note: Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan speaks at a conference, wearing a navy blazer over a light button-down shirt, with a lapel microphone clipped to his jacket. His appearance accompanies commentary on Trump's upcoming meeting with crypto executives being broadly positive for Bitcoin, with DeFi apps positioned as key winners.
A quant trader raked in $1.36 million on Polymarket using a regime-switching model. Lots of people think changes in market structure are just fluff, but when the model's regime flips, old trading plays go invalid in an instant. Hidden Markov models can capture these shifts—they
AI visual note: The image displays a Polymarket betting dashboard for user "Sossy-Bucket" showing a balance of $1,251,448.70 alongside active wagers on various NBA and NFL games (including matchups like "San Diego Padres vs. Seattle Mariners" and "UFC Fight Night: Yaroslav Amosov vs. Joaquim Murray"), illustrating the kind of sports betting positions where a quantitative trading model's performance can be tracked. The high portfolio value visually supports the accompanying post's claim about a quant trader earning $1.36 million on Polymarket using regime-switching models like Hidden Markov Models.
PANDO RINGS EXPLOITER MOVES AFTER 2 MONTHS The Pando Rings exploiter became active again after two months, swapping 3M $DAI for 1.57K $ETH (~$3M) via CoW Protocol. It has since sent 800 $ETH (~$1.52M) to Tornado Cash across eight transactions. Pando Rings was exploited for
AI visual note: The image displays a transaction history on a blockchain analytics platform (Arkham), showing the Pando Rings exploiter's recent movements: eight transfers of 100 ETH (totaling ~$1.52M) sent to Tornado.Cash Router, each from the address 0x303D0A175CeEC14DD7B3d4F60..., along with a prior swap of 3M DAI for 1.572K ETH (~$3M) via CoW Protocol from two months ago. This visually confirms the post's description of the exploiter's revival, asset laundering through CoW Protocol, and subsequent mixing through Tornado Cash in uniform 100 ETH increments.
500u 200x杠杆更好
$Jasmy $0.003659
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This is my Abstract Pulse. 21,311 lifetime transactions on @AbstractChain . GREAT WHITE tier.
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not sure what you guys expected you put a black bull on the timeline for this long eventually there was gonna be $BULLSHIT
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Alright .25 SOL Giveaway Like+RT THATS IT! Drop solana addy as well in the comments will pay winner out with proof.
cctp is the only way to bridge now
A Simple Story, Infinite Potential In a narrative-driven market that changes in the blink of an eye, $STACK stands out with its clear, minimalist, and easy-to-understand positioning. @StackersXYZ The appeal of STACK goes far beyond short-term market fluctuations. The real
AI visual note: A cryptocurrency price chart for STACK (STACK/STACKERS) showing a 17.85% gain over the past hour with a current price of $1.24M and volume of 589K, illustrating the kind of short-term volatility the post references in promoting $STACK's long-term appeal through its clear narrative-driven approach.
Strategy continues not to buy more BTC, while BitMine is actively accumulating ETH. In the past week: • Strategy sold MSTR, netting ~333.7M USD and allocating ~150M USD to USD Reserve, but did not buy more BTC. BTC holdings remain at 840,447 BTC. • In contrast, BitMine
AI visual note: A promotional graphic for Strategy announcing 'Strategy Increases USD Reserve by $150 Million to $4.8 Billion and Repurchases $132 Million of STRC', featuring a glowing Bitcoin logo.
是币安需要牛来，而不是牛来需要币安
BREAKING: James found a 100x token but no one wanna sell him rekted james
Finally Received 450$ USDC secured from the Binance July Referral Tournament. Ranked #35 on the leaderboard, and the reward is now sitting in my Rewards Hub. This is the result of everyone who joined through my referral and supported the journey. One campaign. Real results.
The Bank of Japan's September rate hike odds have climbed to 73% on Polymarket. Three weeks ago, it was below 40%. Even so, USD/JPY is still hovering in the 159 yen range. On the same prediction market, the odds of breaking below 150 yen by year-end have withered to 35%, while
AI visual note: A Polymarket chart for the "Bank of Japan Decision in September?" market shows odds of a 25 bps increase at 73% (rising from below 40% three weeks prior) versus no change at 24%, visually supporting the post's claim about climbing rate hike expectations despite USD/JPY remaining stuck near 159 yen.
Real value from skill and participation is exactly the direction we want to see in Web3 gaming.
Good night Iron Allies family! The best part of @IronAllies_ is the community. Instead of just focusing on buying NFTs or chasing rewards they’re trying to encourage people to actually contribute to the ecosystem. As the leaderboard progresses, we’ll understand more about
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Meet Metal Dollar, the stablecoin index for onchain dollars. Mint $XMD 1:1 with USDC and other leading stablecoins whenever you need it. 100 USDC in. 100 XMD out. Simple, transparent, and built to make digital dollars more connected.
What Can Ethereum Learn from Bitcoin in the Scaling Race? Vitalik Buterin believes Ethereum can learn a great deal from Bitcoin's approach to the scaling challenge. Notably, research initiatives like Utreexo are paving the way to drastically reduce the volume of data nodes must
Btc+eth, 最后逃命机会？
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$NVM might be a scam Be careful 3ArcxqLtXMmBnWbbtfwQgVL3MNnDsggzgGDtXMnjpump #crypto
Don't ask why... Just drop your $SOL wallet address. Every wallet gets 200,000 $BULLPURR First 300 wallets only. Follow @katecoinonsol Like & RT the pinned post
Bạn ngủ dậy vào năm 2010, bật máy tính và tìm được website này, bằng cách giải Capcha, sau đó nhập địa chỉ ví Bitcoin bạn sẽ nhận được 5 BTC hoàn toàn miễn phí. P/s: Website này do Gavin Andresen tạo ra (ông là nhà phát triển Bitcoin Core quan trọng thời kỳ
I've been building this in silence for over a year Why I've been building this in silence for a year and most people in my life don't know about it. Real estate is my income. Stable. This is not what this is about. Over a year ago I had capital sitting there, and every instinct told me to open an exchange, drop it in, and figure it out live. That's what almost everyone does - You get a little money, you get impatient, you click buy on something because a chart looks like it's about to move, and you find out what you don't know by losing it. I didn't do that. and it wasn't willpower. It was one decision before I ever placed a real trade. I found someone I actually trusted and put myself under them. Not a random group chat, Not a signal group. One person, being accountable, who could tell me when I was wrong before the market did.
Alhamdulillah I’ve received 450 $USDC from the july Referral campaign Everyone, congratulate me! #Binance
"What will we tell our kids?" by @hyschpepe Sold to @suparno67 for 0.069 ETH ($131.27)
Thả mình vào dòng nước mát Tập xong rồi thư giãn Dù thị trường đỏ lửa Giữ form – giữ tinh thần – chờ lệnh xanh.
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Good morning reached my goal of 10k points in @VestExchange
AI visual note: A mobile app screenshot titled "Points" showing "Total Points 11,186" earned by trading and providing liquidity, with a list of weekly time entries starting from August 12, 2026 down to July 22, 2026.
Tokyo's Ward-Specific Official Land Prices per Square Meter Currently, 1 $btc < Chuo Ward 1m²
AI visual note: A map of Tokyo's 23 wards color-coded by rank of official land price (公示地価) per square meter, with Chuo Ward (中央区) topping the list at 1,003万4603円/㎡—roughly equivalent to 1 BTC—followed by Chiyoda (691万4576円/㎡) and Minato (609万7793円/㎡), while Katsushika (葛飾区) ranks lowest at 48万7841円/㎡.