Foresight News brings you a quick overview of this week's hot topics and recommended content:
01 WLFI and Trump
(Stay away from WLFI, or you will become unfortunate)
(Newsom wants to issue 'Trump Corruption Coin', how many 'shenanigans' will the new U.S. president have after taking office?)
(A loophole makes stablecoins the focus of the trillion-dollar battle)
02 Jack Ma's布局 Ethereum
(Jack Ma becomes E Guardian, Xiao Feng boosts? A quick read of Yunfeng Financial's Web3 strategy)
03 Project Observation
(Did you receive the Linea airdrop?)
(40 million financing, V God participates, Etherealize wants to be the 'spokesperson' for Ethereum)
(Is the hair pulling dead? Have you participated in these 10 A7 level projects?)
04 Industry Insights
(Can babies be tokenized? A crypto experiment to solve the population crisis)
(Pre-contracts: to kill or to boost token launches?)
(From HYPE to the Evolution of Altcoin Investment)
(How much do you need to earn in the crypto world to dare to say 'change your fate'?)
(Why is InfoFi not appealing anymore?)
01 WLFI and Trump
This Monday, the much-anticipated WLFI token officially launched, with mainstream exchanges like Binance and OKX participating. In the early trading phase, market sentiment was high, and trading volume surged. However, the good times did not last long; after the launch, the price plummeted, dropping as much as 41% within just a few days. Even the emergency destruction of 47 million tokens by the official team could not reverse the trend, leaving investors worried. Recommended articles:
(Stay away from WLFI, or you will become unhappy)
Everyone in the Crypto ecosystem has a poor memory. Do you remember how we were brought down by the TRUMP meme coin? If you forgot, this WLFI now looks just like TRUMP.
But compared to what they are doing on WLFI, that is nothing. I have seen too many warning signs. Here are a few that indicate you should stay away from this project.
Recently, Newsom stated on the podcast Pivot, hosted by tech journalist Kara Swisher and NYU professor Scott Galloway, that he plans to issue the 'Trump Corruption Coin' to satirize Trump's use of cryptocurrency for personal gain. Recommended articles:
(Newsom wants to issue 'Trump Corruption Coin', how many 'tricks' will the new U.S. president have after taking office?)
In the podcast, Newsom's criticisms of Trump are sharp, and this 'deep-seated hatred' is not recent; the months-long tension between the two is a reflection of the indignation of many Americans who despise Trump's use of power for personal gain, as well as a microcosm of the political rivalry between the two major parties in the U.S.
The controversy surrounding Trump's 'corruption' has a long history; according to a (Washington Post) investigation, the Trump International Hotel hosted official delegations from at least 47 countries between 2017 and 2020, with the Saudi Arabian government spending over $270,000 at the hotel, while during the same period, the U.S. government had military sales agreements with Saudi Arabia totaling $110 billion. This kind of behavior, exchanging favorable policies for commercial returns, is shocking.
In July 2025, Trump signed the (GENIUS Act) in the White House, which set the framework for stablecoin regulation in the U.S. cryptocurrency industry. This act requires stablecoin issuers to maintain full reserves and prohibits the payment of interest, but allows exchanges to offer rewards to stablecoin holders. This loophole has raised concerns in the banking industry, fearing a $6.6 trillion flow of bank deposits to stablecoins, with the subsequent (CLARITY Act) negotiations further determining the fate of this trillion-dollar battle. Recommended articles:
(One loophole turned stablecoins into the focus of a trillion-dollar battle)
To position stablecoins as 'digital cash' rather than 'fund storage tools', the (GENIUS Act) also prohibits stablecoin issuers from paying interest.
But the key is that the bill does not prohibit cryptocurrency exchanges from providing rewards for users' stablecoin holdings — this means that stablecoin holders can still receive economic incentives highly similar to 'interest'. Nowadays, Coinbase users can achieve an annual yield of 4.1% by holding a stablecoin called USDC on the platform, which is comparable to the expected yield of high-yield savings accounts.
The American banking industry believes that this regulation constitutes a significant regulatory gap, which may prompt the public to transfer funds from banks to cryptocurrency exchanges with much looser regulations. Some exchanges offer rewards that even exceed those of high-yield savings accounts (the latter generally having an annualized return rate of around 4.25%, with specific rates varying by institution). For example, the exchange Kraken promotes its 'USDC holding reward annualized rate of 5.5%'.
02 Jack Ma's Layout in Ethereum
On September 2, 2025, Hong Kong listed company Yunfeng Financial Group released an announcement: the company has used $44 million of its own cash reserves to accumulate 10,000 Ethereum on the open market as a strategic reserve asset. In fact, the company began laying the groundwork as early as July. Behind these bold moves, key figures Jack Ma and Xiao Feng have become the focus of industry attention. Recommended articles:
(Jack Ma becomes an E guardian, Xiaofeng assists? A quick read on Yunfeng Financial's Web3 strategy)
Yunfeng Financial's recent series of actions outlines a complete path for traditional fintech companies to transition to Web3: from top-level strategic design to talent and licensing preparation, to partnerships and infrastructure building (Ant Group, Pharos), and finally to direct allocation on the asset side (buying ETH).
This is far from a simple speculative investment; it is a carefully considered, systematic strategic upgrade. The core objective is to seize the opportunity in the future Web3 finance composed of RWA tokenization, digital currencies, and DeFi by embracing blockchain technology, acting as a bridge between the traditional and digital worlds.
03 Project Observation
This week, the highly anticipated project Linea opened the airdrop query channel and announced that it would officially open token claims on September 10. After waiting for 3 years! The Linea airdrop has finally landed. Recommended articles:
(Did you receive the Linea airdrop?)
Of the LINEA token supply, Consensys Software will retain 15% of the tokens, while the remaining 85% of the token supply will be allocated to the ecosystem:
- Of which 10% will be allocated to early users and strategic builders, and will be fully unlocked for airdrop afterward;
- The remaining 75% will be allocated to the ecosystem fund. The Linea alliance has approved the allocation of 4% to reward liquidity providers participating in Linea Surge (fully unlocked at TGE).
Linea allocated a total of 9,361,298,700 LINEA in the airdrop, with 749,662 addresses eligible to claim (fully unlocked at TGE). This airdrop primarily targets two types of participants: LXP (Linea Voyage) participants and LXP-L (Linea Surge liquidity providers).
This week, Etherealize completed a $40 million financing round, led by Electric Capital and Paradigm, with participation from Ethereum co-founder Vitalik and the Ethereum Foundation. Electric Capital and Paradigm are not shy about investing heavily in the Web3 space, especially in the Ethereum ecosystem, and both are key supporters of Ethereum DAT listed companies. However, it is rare for Vitalik and the Ethereum Foundation to both take part. Recommended articles:
($40 million financing, Vitalik participates, Etherealize aims to be the 'spokesperson' for Ethereum)
Etherealize is succinct in its self-introduction, calling itself 'institutional-level products, BD, and marketing departments of the Ethereum ecosystem' on X, and its website only states the vision of 'remaking Wall Street' and 'bringing the world to Ethereum by providing research, content, and products'. In terms of products, Etherealize targets institutional-level infrastructure, providing issuance, management, settlement of tokenized assets, and corresponding automated compliance infrastructure, planning to introduce privacy features through zero-knowledge proofs.
The market is constantly evolving; if you are still stubbornly insisting on the wrong way to earn easy money, you will only fail repeatedly and never achieve results. Recommended articles:
(Is the easy money dead? Have you participated in these 10 A7 level projects?)
Recent project airdrops have repeatedly harmed the crypto community; as project exploits become the norm, community users are starting to feel despair.
But I believe they will not disappear so easily. As the noise decreases, the airdrop rewards given to real users will gradually become more generous.
The reality has changed significantly from the past airdrop environment: you must continuously use the protocol; a single transaction is not enough, as projects will choose to reward real users rather than simple airdrop hunters.
This article lists 10 airdrop projects I am currently participating in.
These are not just simple airdrops, but also good products; even if the final airdrop rewards do not meet expectations, you should still be able to derive value from them.
04 Industry Insights
The world is currently facing the severe challenge of declining birth rates and an aging population, with children in traditional reproductive models often becoming 'net liabilities' for families. This article focuses on a groundbreaking crypto experiment proposing the minting of 'baby bonds' through the ERC-404 standard, tokenizing the growth trajectories of babies, and combining AI monitoring, educational badges, and bonding curve mechanisms to help families achieve financial freedom while re-establishing children's economic asset status, providing a new financial idea to solve the population crisis.
(Can babies be tokenized? A crypto experiment to solve the population crisis)
Some may view this proposal as 'dystopian', believing it commodifies life. However, in reality, life already possesses financial attributes in today’s society, and children are essentially a cost center for families. We have just been using models with low transparency and unreasonable incentive designs. Tokenization is not exploitation but a realignment of the existing system; it can allow 'the meaning of life' to coexist with 'capital'.
The subjects of the trades are not the babies themselves, but the value predictions of their growth trajectories.
Pre-market trading and pre-contracts have gradually become important components in the launch of popular tokens. This mechanism, provided by third-party trading platforms before the official launch of tokens, releases market price signals in advance and attracts investor attention, not only changing the timeline for price discovery but also affecting the initial performance of the token after its official launch. Recommended articles:
(Pre-contracts: to kill or to boost token launches?)
The pre-market refers to the early trading environment provided by third-party trading platforms before tokens officially go live for trading. Such trades often rely on futures contracts or token subscription rights to achieve price discovery and test market sentiment by simulating real market behavior, providing speculative or risk-hedging opportunities for early investors.
Recently, the pre-contract market has been particularly eye-catching, allowing users to speculate on prices before tokens go live.
Different platforms have different pricing mechanisms. For example, the pre-contracts recently launched by Binance adopt a dynamic marking price, taking the average trading price over the past 10 or 20 seconds and updating every second. To suppress abnormal fluctuations, the change in marking price is restricted to ±1% per second. If there are fewer than 41 transactions within 20 seconds, the average of the last 40 transaction prices is used to enhance anti-manipulation.
The decentralized derivatives exchange HyperLiquid launched the 'Hyperp' contract, initially trying to use a pricing mechanism that does not require external oracles, anchoring the funding rate to the 8-hour EMA's own marked price. However, after experiencing extreme market conditions with the XPL contract, team members indicated they would introduce external pre-contract price data and adopt a hybrid pricing model to enhance robustness.
In an era where indicators are manipulable, how to penetrate the narrative fog of token economics? Recommended articles:
(From HYPE to the Evolution of Altcoin Investment)
- The success of a token depends on three main factors: narrative, product-market fit (PMF), and value capture.
- Most tokens stop at the 'two-thirds' stage: narratives are easy to build, while product-market fit is highly challenging but not an all-or-nothing situation; capturing value is even more complicated — the interplay between stakeholders, legal compliance requirements, and considerations at the listing level all make the design of value capture mechanisms and timing choices tricky.
- Only a few tokens (like HYPE) can simultaneously meet the three main factors. Many protocols that perform strongly in other areas still encounter bottlenecks in value capture, which can limit the upside potential of the token even if the fundamentals are solid; in some cases, a weak fundamental can even result in the token performing contrary to expectations.
- The investment triangle model is easy to understand but difficult to implement in practice. Indicators may be manipulated, protocol documents often obscure key details, and token economic mechanisms may change temporarily during project advancement; market narratives iterate rapidly, and today, tokens that are either completely underperforming or completely meeting standards across the three major factors may have drastically different future trends.
In the crypto world, 'how much can you earn to change your fate' is a hot topic. $200,000 has different meanings for different people: it can help a teacher pay off debt, while just being an ordinary income for a high earner. This article uses the story of a poker player folding 'pocket Aces' to explore how to clarify target amounts, avoid being swept away by desires, and find one's own 'standard for changing fate' in the volatile crypto market. Recommended articles:
(How much do you need to earn in the crypto world to dare to say 'change your fate'?)
To understand this matter, it is crucial to answer three questions:
- How much do you 'need'? — An amount that covers actual living expenses, debts, and emergency savings.
- How much do you 'want'? — An amount that can be used to improve quality of life, purchase comfortable goods, or relieve you from worrying about bills.
- How much can you 'actually earn'? — Assessing based on your work income, savings rate, and the real advantages you have in the cryptocurrency field.
The cryptocurrency field is like an ongoing poker game: everyone wants to keep 'playing the next round', hoping for greater returns. But the real 'win' lies in knowing when to stop — this 'stop' may not be permanent, but you must have a clear strategy.
Since the rise of InfoFi, many people have earned considerable profits, with some accumulating five-figure sums and others even six-figure amounts. However, some signals today warrant our heightened vigilance. Recommended articles:
(Why is InfoFi not appealing anymore?)
For content creators (yappers), the conventional token allocation ratio of 0.5%-1% is far from enough, as the valuation of these tokens at launch is often very low.
In the early days, some accounts could earn four to five figures in profit from 1-2 months of promotional activities; now, even participating in activities for 3-6 months can only yield three to four figures, leaving many feeling disheartened.
Even top accounts, despite producing high-quality content, find it difficult to earn substantial four-figure profits.
Why is this bad news for creators relying on InfoFi? Before the rise of InfoFi, many creators promoted content as brand ambassadors or KOLs, earning a decent income. Now, the rewards offered by project parties on Kaito are simply not comparable to external collaborations. Given this fact, it’s not surprising that more and more creators are choosing to leave the InfoFi platform.
