Everyone talks about “credibility” in Web3 but it’s still reputation = followers.
Aura by @ShardsOfficial is building an actual InfoFi layer for Web3.
It lets protocols measure who is valuable, not who is loud.
Onchain actions → scores → reputations → real trust layer that
Crypto adoption isn’t slowing down
We’ve now crossed 1 billion unique addresses holding digital assets.
That’s a 10x surge since just four years ago.
Sure, some of those might be multiple wallets per person
but that’s missing the point.
The real takeaway?
Global momentum is shifting. More people are stepping away from closed financial systems and opting into something transparent, open, and on-chain.
Everyone talks about “credibility” in Web3 but it’s still reputation = followers.
Aura by @ShardsOfficial is building an actual InfoFi layer for Web3.
It lets protocols measure who is valuable, not who is loud.
Onchain actions → scores → reputations → real trust layer that other apps can build on.
$SHARDS is the core incentive and governance layer. As more apps plug into Aura’s rep infra, $SHARDS demand grows.
TGE next week.
One of the few new launches with a real narrative + infra value path this cycle.
Watching closely.
What is $aura?
The vibe. The energy. The presence.
Born on Ethereum. Built for those who get it.
Hold $aura , gain aura. Simple as that.
🔗 X: https://t.co/mCSWcjdvxx
📢 TG: https://t.co/2DsCSxabHv
📜 CA: 0x217eb35cd71f8667182d343ad1496cee063c2ddb
The frequency is different here.
🔥 Just dropped today @LBank_Exchange officially launched its EDGE zone 👇
A new section focused entirely on early-stage 100x gems 💎
✅ Spot + Futures go live within 1 hour after listing
✅ Trade protection: up to 100 USDT covered if you take a loss
✅ Past launches have seen
🔥 Just dropped today @LBank_Exchange officially launched its EDGE zone 👇
A new section focused entirely on early-stage 100x gems 💎
✅ Spot + Futures go live within 1 hour after listing
✅ Trade protection: up to 100 USDT covered if you take a loss
✅ Past launches have seen
🔥 Just dropped today @LBank_Exchange officially launched its EDGE zone 👇
A new section focused entirely on early-stage 100x gems 💎
✅ Spot + Futures go live within 1 hour after listing
✅ Trade protection: up to 100 USDT covered if you take a loss
✅ Past launches have seen 10,000%+
✅ Backed by a $5M ecosystem fund to support legit early projects
If you’re serious about catching meme early, this is worth your radar 👇
https://t.co/2d4WgWCVox
Here’s something to really sit with:
Even when you’re trading at your worst chasing setups, revenge trading, overexposing you almost never lose 10 trades in a row.
That alone says something important:
Your edge is probably more solid than you give it credit for.
The issue isn’t the strategy it’s what happens when emotion takes control.
So why do traders blow up?
It’s not a perfect streak of losses that sinks accounts.
It’s one oversized position that flips against you.
It’s the spiral that starts with one tilted trade and turns into doubling down without thinking.
It’s risk stacking during frustration, not logic.
That’s where things go off the rails.
It’s rarely the strategy it’s how you manage yourself when the strategy stops delivering short-term comfort.
Most people don’t go under because their system failed.
They go under because they pushed size too fast, ignored their own rules, and tried to force a comeback before they cooled off.
This is why risk management isn’t a formality. It’s everything.
Keep your size steady. Not necessarily small but consistent, sane, and sized to survive.
That’s how you stay in the game.
If you’re still standing after the drawdown, you’ve already won half the battle.
You’ve bought yourself space for your edge to play out.
Because the wins will come but only if you're around to catch them.
The real skill isn’t picking tops and bottoms , it’s surviving the in-between.
Not nuking your account when things get uncertain.
Not getting greedy when things are hot.
Risk expansion during emotional highs or lows that’s what drains most traders.
Not lack of knowledge. Not poor analysis.
You don’t need new indicators.
You don’t need another secret system.
You need to stop self-sabotaging through panic, through tilt, through ego.
So when things feel shaky, remember:
Your job isn’t to win every trade. It’s to stay alive long enough to let your edge work.
Survival isn't passive. It's discipline in action.
And it’s the most valuable skill in trading.
There’s been a lot of noise lately ETH L2 vs alt L1.
So here’s a messy, unfiltered brain dump on scalability, tradeoffs, and how I see the current state of things:
Let’s start here: Ethereum is slow. It’s expensive.
It’s not ideal for most applications. And honestly, it hasn’t been for a while.
That’s why we have alt L1s Solana, Avalanche, Polygon PoS, and others.
They exist because Ethereum couldn’t scale fast enough.
And to their credit, they’re fast. They’re cheap.
But none of them get that way without sacrificing something.
Every L1 that claims to be “better” than Ethereum is really just making a different tradeoff.
Usually it comes down to running fewer validators, or skipping full verification by every node.
Sometimes, it means requiring higher-end hardware so fewer people can even run a node.
That leads to lower decentralization, even if the chain feels smooth and fast.
Does that make them bad? Not necessarily.
If you’re building a game or a social app, do you really need Ethereum-level decentralization? Probably not.
A lot of apps simply don’t need “bank-grade” security.
They need cheap fees, fast confirmations, and easy user flows.
So in that sense, alt L1s are totally valid.
They trade a bit of decentralization and security for way more usability. And for many use cases, that’s the right call.
Now let’s talk about L2s.
L2s aim to get the best of both worlds:
Security and decentralization from Ethereum plus scalability.
The whole idea is to process transactions off-chain (cheap + fast), then roll them up and verify them on Ethereum (secure + decentralized).
Take something like Polygon zkEVM it batches a bunch of transactions, generates a ZK proof, and sends that proof to Ethereum for validation.
For users, it feels snappy and affordable.
For developers, it’s just EVM same tools, same wallets.
And under the hood, Ethereum is doing the heavy lifting, verifying that the batch is legit.
If the proof doesn’t check out, it doesn’t get finalized.
What’s powerful here is that ZK tech doesn’t rely on social trust—it’s math.
If Ethereum doesn’t approve the proof, it’s game over for that batch.
That’s what makes ZK rollups so promising:
You get Ethereum-grade security
You keep EVM compatibility
You gain real scalability
But here’s the catch: none of this is perfect yet.
All the big L2s Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, Scroll, Polygon zkEVM they all still have training wheels.
They’re upgradeable via multisig.
There are centralized sequencers.
Some have trusted provers.
Why? Because the tech is still evolving.
We’re not at the “set it and forget it” phase. There are bugs to fix, features to ship, edges to smooth out.
Most teams have roadmaps to reduce these powers phasing out centralized control, making sequencers decentralized, limiting upgradability to on-chain provable bugs.
But we’re not fully there yet.
So yes, L2s have risks.
Just like alt L1s have risks.
No magic chain. No free lunch. Everything has tradeoffs.
The key is knowing which tradeoffs make sense for your use case.
That’s what the scalability conversation should be about not tribalism.
Big week ahead for @entertheorigin!
The HBAR Staking Campaign goes live June 16.
Stake HBAR → stack points → secure your shot at ORIGIN (pre-TGE access only here).
🔗 They’re also throwing a Launch Party with prizes & giveaways, I’ll be tuning in:
Tired of DEXs that feel like they were built in 2018?
Same. So I’ve been testing something new.
VDEX, an omnichain Perpdex that has fastest trade executing time and zero gas fees from any chain and country. (without VPN)
@0xVDEX is launching a trading comp June 9–23 with
Since May 16th, #Ethereum ETFs have seen over $1.01 billion in inflows.
That’s 17 straight days of positive inflow no breaks, no reversals.
Just yesterday, another $125 million flowed in.
These aren’t small numbers.
This is institutional capital steadily entering the market day after day.
It’s not hype-driven, it’s not a short-term narrative pump this is consistent demand for $ETH exposure through regulated vehicles.
And for anyone still unsure about ETH’s place in the future of finance, these inflows speak louder than any tweet ever could.
This trend is a clear sign of growing conviction and it’s extremely bullish.
For years, Ethereum users have leaned on Layer 2s like Arbitrum and Optimism to work around the core limitations of Layer 1:
• Network congestion
• Slower transaction speeds
• High gas fees—sometimes $10 to $100 during peak hours
• Long finality times (~12.8 minutes)
That’s because Ethereum’s base layer (L1) handles consensus and security, but not scale. L2s process transactions off-chain, then settle them back to L1 delivering faster speeds and lower fees.
But now, Ethereum is going deeper.
Instead of just scaling through rollups, it’s aiming to 100x performance at the base layer itself.
How?
With Zero-Knowledge Virtual Machines (zkVMs) and specifically, SP1 from Succinct Labs.
zkVMs can run any computation and generate a cryptographic proof (ZKP) that confirms it was done correctly without revealing the underlying data. With SP1, these proofs can be generated and verified in real time.
What that unlocks:
• Scalability – massively higher throughput
• Instant Verification – near-instant block confirmations
• Security – trustless validation via ZKPs
Right now, Ethereum creates blocks every 12 seconds. It takes 2 full epochs (768 seconds, ~12.8 minutes) for finality. With SP1 and ZKPs, finality could happen in 12 seconds matching block production speed.
That’s a massive leap forward.
Backed by $55M in 2024 and building on EIP-4844 (also deployed this year), Succinct Labs is pushing Ethereum L1 into a future where it's not just secure, but fast and affordable.
Will this eliminate the need for L2s? Not entirely.
Rollups will still be vital for high-throughput apps.
But what it does mean is this:
#Ethereum is evolving into a chain where L1 no longer equals slow and expensive.
The base layer is catching up. Fast.
Big week ahead for @entertheorigin!
The HBAR Staking Campaign goes live June 16.
Stake HBAR → stack points → secure your shot at ORIGIN (pre-TGE access only here).
🔗 They’re also throwing a Launch Party with prizes & giveaways, I’ll be tuning in: https://t.co/QFvVlHYLlg
If you want to get ahead of the curve, full details here 👇
Tired of DEXs that feel like they were built in 2018?
Same. So I’ve been testing something new.
VDEX, an omnichain Perpdex that has fastest trade executing time and zero gas fees from any chain and country. (without VPN)
@0xVDEX is launching a trading comp June 9–23 with reward pool upto $5k, and it’s worth showing up early 👇
1. VDEX Difference
Everyone’s promising speed and UX but VDEX actually delivers both.
It is 200x faster than Hyerliquid and UX that is improving daily.
Built by the cryptography team at Virtual Labs, it runs on Virtual Rollups, a custom infrastructure with sub-millisecond execution, zero gas, and no KYC.
You get CEX-level speed, true self-custody, and private trades that can’t be sniped even if you’re trading from the US.
It’s genuinely the first time a DEX felt invisible in a good way.
Duration: June 9–23
2. Fees that don’t bleed your PnL
This is where it gets spicy. While platforms like Hyperliquid charge 0.045% taker fees (or 0.0144% if you’re a whale doing billions), VDEX is handing out VSHARK SBTs that gets you 0.0125% taker fees!
That’s 80% lower fees, permanently, for users who qualify early. In a space of razor-thin margins. (fees like this can be a real edge.)
3. Early Traction
VDEX is still in beta and access is referral-only. That means if you’re reading this, you’re early.
Over $30M in volume has already moved in the first 2 months. (And that’s before full launch.)
4. VSHARK Trading Competition
They’re kicking things off with a limited, invite-only trading comp. Winners unlock the VSHARK SBT, which gets you 50% off on trading fees for life!
* Click here: https://t.co/4fzESncqcl
* Connect wallet to VDEX
* Deposit just $50
* Make one trade and you are good to go!
To conclude, this is one of the few DEXs that doesn’t tax your time or your capital and the trading competition is the perfect way to get involved!
🔗 Join here: https://t.co/4fzESncqcl
Let’s see who the real sharks are 🦈
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Saw a lot of people post about building cities today... had to check it out.
@network_cities_ it’s a clever social-Fi layer: your X network literally powers your city.
Homes, factories, markets but each citizen is an actual person from your graph.
You invite friends, they show
Funny how most of L1s keep promising “real world adoption” while @algorand keep delivering it in the background.
T-bill products for retail. A working card that works without flex or drama, just output.
Maybe the quiet ones really are the ones to watch.
In a cycle flooded with
Looked into $ZEUS on @GeckoTerminal today.
First thing I checked: holder distribution. Top 5 wallets hold between 1.1% and 1.6% each.
It means no whales games or single point of control. That’s a blue flag for me.
Then ran the security check. GT Score came in at 87/100.