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JUST IN: Ben Honeill of Stablecoin states that stablecoins are the new petrodollar and will be the most effective tool for extending US soft power into the 21st century.

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JUST IN: Monad is set to launch the claims portal for its highly anticipated airdrop on October 14th.

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JUST IN: Monad has announced that its airdrop claim portal will open on Tuesday, October 14th.

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💵 Why Stablecoins Are Winning

The debate around who should control digital money is heating up again - government or private innovators. The answer is already visible on-chain.

➡️ Money was never fully public
Only a quarter of all dollars in circulation are government-issued. The rest comes from private banks and institutions. The US has always run on hybrid money — stablecoins simply continue that tradition in digital form.

➡️ The dollar is already digital
Over 90% of US dollars already exist as numbers in bank ledgers. Payment apps like Venmo and PayPal have done more to modernize money than any central bank pilot ever will. The problem isn’t technology - it’s bureaucracy pretending to innovate.

➡️CBDCs keep failing
From China to Nigeria, central bank digital currencies are struggling. Adoption is near zero, and users don’t see real benefits. The projects meant to “defend the dollar” only prove that people don’t want government money they can’t trust or move freely.

➡️Stablecoins are spreading the dollar
Stablecoins now serve hundreds of millions globally. Almost all are pegged to the US dollar, reaching users in regions where traditional banking doesn’t. They’re used for salaries, trade, and payments — quietly powering digital dollarization across emerging markets.

➡️The Fed can adapt
Stablecoins don’t break monetary policy - they extend it. Once connected to Fed accounts, they’ll work like money market funds, moving rates and liquidity the same way. They’re private infrastructure built on top of public trust.

➡️ Privacy lives in the private sector
Every CBDC would be a surveillance tool. Stablecoins, meanwhile, offer limited but real privacy — pseudonymous transactions within clear legal boundaries. The new US stablecoin law even protects this model, something unheard of in traditional finance.

Stablecoins don’t compete with the dollar - they amplify it.
And once again, private builders are doing what governments only talk about.


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JUST IN: Bitcoin has dropped below $120K.

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JUST IN: A prominent Bitcoin veteran, who recently sold BTC for ETH and USDC, deposited $80 million in USDC into HyperLiquid and opened a short position on BTC with 6x leverage, now valued at $418 million.

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JUST IN: Fourmeme has surpassed Hyperliquid in 24-hour revenue.

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JUST IN: Chainlink has launched a high-quality RPC endpoint for the HyperEVM testnet, making it available as a public good.

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JUST IN: Coinbase and Mastercard have engaged in late-stage talks to acquire the stablecoin startup BVNK for more than $2 billion, according to Fortune.

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JUST IN: Changpeng Zhao claims that Google notified him of potentially detecting government-backed attackers attempting to steal his password.

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Everyone suddenly getting into perps.
Everyone sliding up the risk.
Everyone getting euphoric maximizing leverage.

There’s one way this ends.

Human nature never fails to keep cycles going — this time will not be different.


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JUST IN: Based has launched Based Streams, described as the first live streaming platform powered by Hyperliquid.

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📉 The Truth About This Altseason

Time to face it - this cycle is different.
In this altseason, you have no edge.


Everyone’s already here

Crypto isn’t underground anymore. Every taxi driver, barista, and high-school kid knows what’s pumping. The girl next to you at the café probably caught the meta before you even noticed it existed.

➡️ The crowd is playing better

The taxi driver buys strong narratives and has cleaner entries. The “crypto housewife” just buys and holds, seeing Bitcoin as protection from currency decay. The school kid doesn’t overthink — he keeps half in BTC and sends the rest into memes, and somehow, he’s up more than you.

➡️The broken edge

You’ve got experience, but it’s scarred. Too many cycles, too many rekt charts. Fear of entries, fear of holding, fear of being early. You call it discipline — it’s trauma.

➡️ Meanwhile, the suits are winning

Institutions, funds, the slowest and grayest players in finance — all sitting 3x up in Bitcoin. The very people you thought would miss the train are already onboard, quietly compounding.

This time, there’s no asymmetric advantage, no secret alpha.
The new wave doesn’t think — it just acts.
And that’s why it’s winning.


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Onchain: Vitalik Buterin has sold some memecoins he received for free, netting 22.14 ETH valued at $96.4K.

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JUST IN: According to the Wall Street Journal, traders on Polymarket are increasing bets that the government shutdown will extend until the end of October.

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🐋 Weekly Recap — Markets, Politics, and Power Plays

➡️ The old Bitcoin whale is back — opening a $438M short on 3,600 BTC while the price still holds above $121K. Someone’s testing the trend’s strength.

➡️ Trump rattles markets again saying the US might halt mass imports from China amid growing China–India ties. The rhetoric alone was enough to shake risk sentiment.

➡️ Senate rejects funding bills for the 7th time, extending the government shutdown. The Bureau of Labor Statistics recalled part of its staff to finish key inflation and unemployment reports before the late-October Fed meeting, though no release date is set.

➡️ EU mulls euro-backed stablecoins to counter the dominance of the dollar in global settlements, a direct challenge to US financial hegemony.

➡️ Arthur Hayes says Bitcoin no longer follows a 4-year halving cycle — instead, it tracks liquidity flows from the US and China.

➡️ Coinbase and Mastercard are in talks to acquire stablecoin issuer BVNK for $1.5–2.5B, aiming to expand their reach in global digital payments.

Macro, politics, and whales - all moving at once. The next CPI print might decide which one leads.


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Onchain: Vitalik Buterin transferred 6.29 million STRK tokens, valued at $1.09 million, to the Methuselah Foundation approximately 30 minutes ago. The Methuselah Foundation then sold 607,318 STRK for 24.15 ETH, worth $104,640.

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JUST IN: Binance CEO CZ revealed that Jeff (HL) was part of the YZILabs incubation cohort in Season 1 of 2018 under what was then Binance Labs. Unfortunately, the project failed, and YZILabs did not recoup any of its investment, though such outcomes are common.

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JUST IN: Plasma's $XPL token has declined below its TGE price as enthusiasm for the Tether-backed cryptocurrency wanes, market data shows.

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🚀 Altcoins break into price discovery

After six failed attempts, the total crypto market cap excluding BTC and ETH has finally moved above $1.13T - the same level that triggered the 2021 altcoin melt-up.

➡️ Back in 2021, TOTAL3 ran from $350B to $1.13T in months
➡️ It’s now breaking that ceiling again for the first time in four years
➡️ Market-wide confirmation signals the start of a new expansion phase

The charts say it clearly - the next stage of the cycle has just begun.


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