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Holy smokes, I really missed the threads format. We need to make threads great again. Curated, essential information, presented in bite-sized writing, with strong visuals and videos. Not some TikTok-fication with reaction videos.

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Dropping a little personal W here, hope nobody minds. If you remember, one of my hot wallet got drained for $42k back in May. I was left with $8,000 in my hot wallet, pushed everything else to cold storage, and made a deal with myself: I’m only trading with that remaining $8k.

$101 million vanished to wrench attacks in just the first four months of 2026. The blunt truth is your wallet puts you on full display. It already has the whole picture: your balances, who you deal with, which dapps you use, and the rhythm and timing of your routines. And it

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I’m genuinely more bullish on the H2of 2026: RWAs plus stablecoins, with institutions finally running DeFi experiments out in the open. Meanwhile, Fable 5 resurfaced this week after being taken out by Anthropic for non-US users and with it the revived idea that compute is the

Woke up to a flood of takes on liquidity vs market cap, even from some larger accounts. The claim floating around: $ANSEM only has ~$1–2M liquidity. Okay, I’ll assume they’re being tongue-in-cheek and not genuinely confused about how AMM LP and swapping work. But here's the

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You realized that Robinhood is building on top of Ethereum right? We need smarter people on EF and do something smart instead of dumping their own tokens. Hyperliquid.

So, is $ANSEM = $HYPE 2.0?

This is why memory/storage stocks like $SNDK can deliver generational runs. $1k invested right after the Feb 2025 spinoff (~$30–$40 range) ≈ $45k–$50k+ today (about 45–50x). The memory bottleneck is real. AI agentic systems + exploding data needs = relentless demand for both

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I misread $ANSEM at the start. I lumped it in with the usual celebrity ticker: pure attention grab, quick pump, then vanish. But digging in, the part that’s actually embedded in CT’s culture and ethos became obvious. This isn’t just a meme token. Ansem is effectively running

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Robinhood will be the new Base.

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I fully agree, one of the legendary exit and even until now we haven't seen the next season of UpOnly, not even a teaser, 🤣