🔽 Zcash plunges after core dev team exits

Zcash fell sharply after the entire team behind Electric Coin Company, one of the main development firms for the protocol, left the organization. The token dropped about 15% in 24 hours, wiping roughly $1.2B off its market cap.

The exit was caused by a governance conflict with the nonprofit overseeing the project. According to former CEO Josh Swihart, board members changed employment terms in ways that made it impossible for the team to continue their work properly.

The entire team is now launching a new company.
They say the protocol itself is unaffected and that they remain committed to the same privacy focused mission.

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🎁 Expected airdrops to watch in 2026

A short list of projects where a TGE or drop is still on the table next year. None of these are early anymore, but activity may still matter.

➡️ Base
Coinbase’s L2 launched in 2023. The team has repeatedly hinted at a future TGE and token distribution. Activity on the network remains the main signal.

➡️ Backpack
Centralized exchange plus non custodial wallet with EVM and Solana support. The fourth and final points season before TGE is currently running.

➡️ Polymarket
Decentralized prediction market. A token launch has been mentioned by team members in the past. User activity and volume are the key focus.

➡️ Paradex
Derivatives exchange built as a StarkNet appchain. The second season is live and expected to wrap up soon, which keeps TGE speculation active.

➡️ OpenSea
NFT marketplace founded in 2017. The team has publicly referenced a future drop multiple times. The Pre-TGE rewards campaign is already in its fourth wave.

➡️ MetaMask
Rumors suggest a possible TGE sooner than many expect. A points program is active and approaching its final stage.

All of these are late stage plays, not early bird opportunities. Still, activity could pay off if 2026 turns into a heavy TGE year.

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📱 Solana Phone drop on January 21?

The long awaited drop for Solana Phone holders may be just around the corner.

The launch of the $SKR token is scheduled for January 21, which has fueled expectations of an airdrop tied to the device.

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🎰 How not to be a bad gambler in markets

Most people lose money in crypto not because they pick the wrong tokens, but because the game is structurally stacked against frequent, uninformed traders.

Even in a world with zero commissions, every trade still has a hidden cost. You buy at the ask and sell at the bid. That gap, the bid ask spread, is not just a fee. It is a transfer of money from less informed traders to more informed ones. Every time you trade, you pay it.

Markets are dominated by informed traders. These are participants who only act when they believe the price is wrong. They might have better data, faster reactions, deeper analysis, or models that detect mispricing. Their trades push prices closer to reality. Someone has to lose on the other side of that trade, and most of the time it is the uninformed trader.

Market makers sit in between and quote prices so you can trade instantly. They cannot tell if an order comes from a fund with insight or a retail trader chasing a candle. To protect themselves, they widen spreads. Uninformed traders end up paying for losses market makers take when trading against informed flow.

This is why overtrading is lethal. Each trade without an edge has negative expected value. Trade enough and the outcome becomes predictable. Slow bleed, then ruin.

The simplest fix is trading less. Long term holding works partly because you pay the spread once. Active trading means paying it again and again.

If someone insists on trading without an edge, volatility matters. Low volatility coins bleed because the spread eats most moves. High volatility coins at least allow random price jumps to overpower the spread occasionally. The expected value is still negative, but variance is higher. That is gambling, but an honest version of it.

The real question is simple. Do you have a clear, testable edge that survives many trades. If not, crypto is not a skill game for you. It is a casino with better graphics.

If you must gamble, do it knowingly. Small size. Rare trades. High volatility. And accept that every trade pays rent to the house.

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The world’s richest 100 people made their first $1,000,000 at 37.

Studies show that the average millionaire is about 57.

While the average billionaire is 67.

Don’t let social media deceive you.

You’re still doing fine.

Keep going.

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“When I get rich, I’ll keep a low profile!”

Degens after their first $10 withdrawal:

Are you this old?

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This.

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Do crackheads ever say, “I’m too broke to smoke crack tonight”?

No. They get up and make it happen.

Lesson in there.

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Real

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🐋 “Satoshi era whale” headlines are back

A viral claim says a wallet inactive since 2011 just bought 26,900 BTC, worth about $2.45B.

The post spread fast and even got reposted by CZ, which added fuel to the story.

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6 figs crypto guys : BMW, ig model girlfriend

7 figs crypto guys : Lambo, Dubai penthouse

8 figs crypto guys:

Pro tip for your 20s:

RISK IT ALL.

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⚡️ Crypto Watchlist for the week

➡️ $POL - Polygon will introduce its vision for the Open Money Stack on Jan. 13

➡️ $SOL - Solana's Privacy Hackathon starts on Jan. 12

➡️ $RUNE - Thorchain will soon integrate Solana for native cross-chain swaps

➡️ $HUMA - Huma Finance's January ecosystem call is scheduled for Jan. 12

➡️ $BNB - BNB Chain’s Fermi hard fork, which will bring a much faster transaction finality, is scheduled for Jan. 14

➡️ Macro events - Crypto market structure bill is expected to be voted in US Senate next week + US CPI data will be released on Jan. 13

➡️ $BTC - US Supreme Court may issue rulings on Trump's tariffs on Jan. 14, which could have a major impact on all markets

➡️ $FOGO - Fogo will either release or announce its upcoming token on Jan. 13. Fogo is an SVM Layer 1

➡️ $EGLD - Voting to activate MultiversX's Supernova, a major network scalability upgrade, ends on Jan. 18

➡️ $ZAMA - Zama community sale starts on Jan. 15

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📉 Relative Unrealised Loss says stay cautious

Relative Unrealised Loss shows how much of Bitcoin supply is sitting below its purchase price.

In real bear market bottoms, this metric historically goes above 50%, when mass capitulation kicks in.

➡️ Right now it is below 10%.

That means most holders are still in profit. There is no stress, no forced selling, and no real market cleanup yet.

Simply put, this does not look like a final bottom.

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➡️ Gold is at all-time high.
➡️ Silver just hit a new all-time high.
➡️ S&P 500 is now also at all-time high.

Meanwhile BTC is down ~27% from ATH and altcoins are trading worse than pokemon cards.

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Iran’s currency just rugged.

🇮🇷 Iran needs Bitcoin

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