📉 Crypto VC Funding Falls to 6-Year Low

Venture capital investment in crypto projects dropped to $2.2B in Q1 2026, the lowest level in six years.

Most of the funding went to crypto financial services (24%) and DeFi (27%).

Early stage activity is especially weak. Seed rounds totaled just $166M, roughly back to 2020 levels.

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⚠️ $50M AAVE Trade Turns Into $36K

A user tried to buy $50M worth of AAVE through the Aave interface.

The swap went through an extremely illiquid pool, and the interface repeatedly warned about massive slippage. The user confirmed the warnings and executed the trade from a mobile device.

The result: 324 AAVE received, worth roughly $36K.

Almost the entire amount was captured by MEV during the transaction.

➡️ MEV bot paid Titan Builder: 16,927 ETH (~$34.8M)
➡️ Titan Builder paid Lido validator: 568 ETH (~$1.2M)

Aave says it will try to contact the user and refund about $600K in fees collected from the swap.

One click through the warnings turned a $50M trade into a $36K position.

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🪙 Tether CEO on AI: Efficiency vs Freedom

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says most modern AI is “long efficiency and short freedom.”

AI clearly makes people faster and more productive, but the downside is control. Major models are run by companies like OpenAI and Google, while user data is stored and used for training.

Ardoino continues to push an alternative: decentralized, open-source AI that can run locally without sending data to third parties.

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⚠️Kiyosaki Warns of “Largest Crash in History”

Robert Kiyosaki says the biggest market crash in history could be approaching, arguing that 2026 may expose unresolved problems from the 2008 financial crisis.

To protect savings, he recommends holding gold, silver, BTC, ETH, and stakes in oil assets.

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🤖Bitget Introduces GetClaw AI Trading Agent

Bitget unveiled GetClaw, an autonomous AI agent for trading built on the OpenClaw platform.

Unlike the previous GetAgent system that worked in a question-answer format, GetClaw operates independently after activation.

The agent monitors portfolio conditions, funding rates, volatility changes, liquidation risks and macro signals, then notifies the trader when important events appear.

Over time it adapts to the user’s trading style, taking into account position preferences, risk tolerance and historical patterns.

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💸Upcoming Token Sales

Only one IDO took place last week through Binance Wallet, raising about $50K.

Still, several launches are planned for the coming days.

➡️ AtlasOra will start its ICO on Sonar
➡️ Katana will become the 7th Prime project preparing for a TGE campaign via Binance Wallet

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🚨 Alpha Alert: $LIT

We’ve added $LIT spot at $1.1

The market gave a solid discount after the recent flush, so we decided to start building a position.

The idea is simple. The bet is not that Lighter overtakes $HYPE, but that it can become a strong #2 perp DEX behind Hyperliquid if the product keeps developing and the market narrative returns.

If the market gives deeper levels, we’re watching the $0.5 area for additional accumulation.

As always, manage risk. Over a 12 month horizon, the risk to reward here looks interesting.

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When you realise "lock in" and "no days off" in memecoin community means just sitting at home refreshing the same 4 apps and same charts non stop, rotating between motivation and burnout every 48 hours and hoping something eventually clicks.

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Life if we never understood stocks and crypto

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Which one?

Green 👍

or

Red❤️


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6 months of focused work can put you 5 years ahead in life.

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Archeologists digging up Dubai in 500 years

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People in crypto once they hit 30:

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Full-time crypto just means you switch between telegram and twitter for 12 hours a day.

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⚡️ Crypto Watchlist for the week

➡️ $AAVE - AAVE's proposal to launch Aave V4 on Ethereum just went live

➡️ $ASTER - Aster Chain mainnet launch is expected to happen this month

➡️ $ZEC $RUNE - Thorchain will add support for Zcash native swaps soon

➡️ $KAT - Katana TGE will happen on March 18

➡️ $EGLD - MultiversX will launch SuperNova, its biggest upgrade since mainnet launch today

➡️ $ZRO - $52M worth of ZRO (5.64% of its circ. supply) will be unlocked on March 20

➡️ AI coins - NVIDIA GTC, the biggest annual AI conference, starts today

➡️ $MNT - Mantle State of Mind, a livestream covering Mantle's recent milestones and its roadmap, is scheduled for March 17

➡️ $AEVO - Aevo will announce its upcoming product launches today

➡️ Macro events - FOMC interest rate decision will be released on March 18

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🇦🇷 LIBRA Memecoin Team Allegedly Paid Milei $5M for Promotion

Developers of the LIBRA memecoin may have agreed to pay Argentine President Javier Milei $5M to promote the token.

The reported payment structure:

➡️ $1.5M upfront
➡️ $1.5M for an X post supporting the project
➡️ $2M after signing a consulting agreement related to blockchain and AI

The document is dated February 11, 2025, just days before LIBRA launched and Milei publicly posted about the token.

After the promotion, the coin’s price spiked sharply and then collapsed, with investor losses estimated at around $250M.

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A man is great not because he hasn't failed.

A man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.

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👀 Messari lays off staff and replaces CEO as it shifts to AI

Analytics platform Messari is restructuring the company to become AI-first, focusing on institutional clients and AI-driven research.

CEO Eric Turner stepped down and will remain an advisor. CTO Diran Li becomes the new CEO following discussions with the board.

The company also carried out layoffs, though the exact number wasn’t disclosed.

Messari is clearly moving toward automation, betting that AI can handle a growing share of research and analytics work.

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⚡️ JUST IN: Mastercard to acquire stablecoin infrastructure firm BVNK for up to $1.8B

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