Crazy how fast the stablecoin space move. A year and a half ago it was nobody trusted anything besides USDC and Tether. Now you got USDe, Plasma, million new stablecoins via Pendle, stablecoin bill, Ripple/COIN circling Circle, banks forming strike team to go to war with Tether
Seekr is clearly the Apple of Solana. In fact it was so unprofitable when they tried launching it due to lack of demand they were likely going to wind it down until Bonk and other airdrops started subsidizing the cost.
People asking for alt season like we didn’t have bridges and undifferentiated L1s launching at 20B FDV so even if they fall 90% investors still got a 2B FDV to sell
With the vote last night in Genius bill, interesting that the biggest donors behind the massive crypto Super PAC is Coinbase, a16z and Ripple. The first and third I could have guessed. Surprised to see Circle not up there or Barry.
Everyone always makes memes about how much Saylor owns when the more interesting question is besides the USG how much sovereign ownership of BTC exists. Wonder how much China, NK or Russia has stockpiled esp with the role of sanctions.
Reflecting back, I think one of the hard parts for me this cycle was initially started off with narratives like AI like Tao, restaking (Pendle), DeFi in Solana but then memes dominated which have no tangible value so as a result could rocket or bleed. Technicals, mindshare and KOLs mattered a lot more. As a result people either played that game or stuck to majors
Raydium got hit with the double whammy of now needing to compete with Pump fun with launch labs but also SolFi taking up a bunch of stablecoin volume as well