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Bedrock@Bedrock is pushing veBR, locking $BR to exchange for non-transferable governance tokens, which can vote on emission direction and validator selection.

But I'm pondering a question: TVL dropped from 686 million to 382 million, and funds are running. At this point, who are we locking up with this governance push?

Those still in are either stuck (staking has a lock-up period) or are down too much to want to sell. Promoting a locking mechanism for this group essentially rationalizes their sunk costs. You're not locking up because you believe, you're locking up because you've lost and need a reason to stay. #Bedrock

The premise of governance voting is that the protocol is growing, with something worth governing. In a shrinking protocol, the value of governance rights is also diminishing. BR is currently at 0.108, and in 14 days, another 40.63 million team shares will unlock. The team wants liquidity, while retail investors want governance rights; the directions couldn't be more opposite.

Checked out the product timeline for @GeniusOfficial Genius Terminal: TGE on April 13, and listing on bn on May 22. That's a solid 40 days in between.

This is an aggregator product, claiming to connect 150 DEXs across 10 chains, but from TGE to mainstream launch, it only took 40 days. What does this speed imply? Either the product was fully baked before TGE, just waiting for the Binance time window, or the product itself isn’t the main focus; it’s all about hitting Binance’s schedule. $GENIUS

It’s been two weeks since the listing, and I went looking for product metrics: daily active trading users, aggregated routing volume, fee revenue. Nothing’s available. No clue how long the product’s been in the works, how many users are on it, or how much revenue it’s generating. The only clear thing is that the token dropped from 0.67 to 0.43. #genius

If a product is truly solid, the numbers are the best marketing. Not publishing data just screams that the stats aren’t pretty. Buying at 0.43 isn’t about the product; it’s a bet on the hope that someday the data will look better.

Done, $BTC broke below 60K, it’s all over.

Crypto scam, I want to request a minor refund😭😭

US non-farm data beats expectations

Feels like we're about to see a 5 figure starting with $BTC 🫪

A big player discovered a red envelope software for the square. I remember back when I was streaming, sending out a red envelope would pull in everyone. Turns out there's software to back that up.

Scrolling through the feeds, I came across the @Bedrock Bedrock released an AI tool called BRClaw, claiming to be an on-chain AI analyst that helps optimize yield strategies. Shortly after, they dropped version 2.0, rebranding it as the Smart Yield Engine.

In just a week, they've pushed two AI-related products hard. But when I checked the TVL data, it told a different story: from 686 million at the start of the year, it plummeted to 382 million now, nearly a 50% haircut, with funds continuously flowing out. $BR

The question remains: where's the yield from BTC staking actually coming from? ETH has protocol layer rewards, but BTC doesn't. #Babylon The chains they’re protecting aren’t even fully operational yet; the yield's still coming from token incentives. Adding an AI shell doesn’t change the yield structure.

BR is currently at 0.108, with a market cap of 27 million. There’s another unlock scheduled for June 20. They've upgraded the protocol twice, but the money keeps moving out. Users are casting their votes with their feet, which is more honest than any AI tool.

I suddenly found an extra $GENIUS in my wallet and it took me a few seconds to realize it was from an old Binance HODLer airdrop that just hit my account.

10 million tokens were distributed to BNB stakers, making up 1% of the total supply. After the news dropped, trading volume skyrocketed from 80 million a week to 2 billion, a 25x increase. The numbers look good, but the price tanked from 0.67 to 0.43, a 35% drop over two weeks.

The massive surge in volume coupled with a price crash only points to one thing: most of the new trading volume is from sell orders. @GeniusOfficial

When people get coins for free, their first instinct is usually to swap them for USDT and bail. The previous HODLer airdrop ended the same way; free chips never stick around. #genius

Binance also set aside 25 million tokens for marketing, and they'll continue to release more into the market. With the launch, airdrop, and marketing, they’ve pretty much played all their short-term cards. On the product side, we still can’t see trading volume data; whether 0.43 can hold is totally dependent on when the next narrative drops. I just took my profits when I got mine; I'm not betting on this.

Square Mouth's project @OpenLedger Little Octopus snagged the leaderboard, Top 300 can split 25,000 $USDC

This time I just happened to be hovering around the mid-range, ranked 189, checked with my tools and got 79.5U, not too shabby

Even though the creator's task board changed the algorithm, there's still some gains to be had.

There's been chatter about Fiat24's card possibly being unavailable, so I'm wondering what's the point of opening one?

by Kabi I've had Fiat24 for a while now, and just hitting a monthly spend of 500U gets you a free month subscription, so it's a no-brainer for Fiat24.

Also, Fiat24 works on a top-up system; once you load it up, it turns into fiat tokens that can't be reverted back to U.

What's really important to watch out for is the trend; if Fiat24 stops allowing mainland users to open cards, could other platforms follow suit?

Today's candlestick action is more thrilling than a rollercoaster ride!

No wonder they say folks in the crypto space have big guts! 😂

$BTC #美国初请失业金22.5万人

翻@GeniusOfficial Genius Terminal的文档看到一个东西叫GeniusFi：不只是给终端用户提供交易，还要做路由层，给其他钱包和聚合器提供最优执行路径。

Hold up, what's the positioning here? An aggregator routing for other aggregators?

There are already plenty of middle layers in on-chain trading: DEX is the first layer, aggregators are the second, and now #Genius wants to add another layer on top of aggregators. Every extra middleman brings more latency, fee cuts, gas costs from smart contract interactions, and extra failure points.

Theoretically, an additional routing layer could allow for better price comparisons between more aggregators, finding optimal prices. But in reality, aggregators like 1inch and Jupiter are already scouring dozens of DEXs for the best routes. How much marginal improvement can we expect from adding another layer? Can a 0.1% price optimization even cover the extra gas and latency? $GENIUS

Plus, this positioning means Genius's clients aren't the end users but other aggregators and wallets. B2B business in DeFi is tougher: you have to convince competitors to hand over their routing to you, while they can easily do the same thing themselves at any time.

An aggregator of aggregators sounds like a more upstream position, but in reality, it's a tough spot in the middle: upstream DEXs don't need you, and downstream aggregators don't trust you.

uniBTC is theoretically pegged 1:1 to wBTC: you deposit 1 wBTC and receive 1 uniBTC receipt, which can be redeemed anytime. But there's a catch: the underlying liquidity needs to be sufficient.

The issue is that the BTC staked through @Bedrock Babylon has a lock-up period. If a bunch of users try to redeem uniBTC for wBTC at the same time, the immediate liquidity held by #Bedrock may not be enough. At this point, the secondary market price of uniBTC could decouple, falling below the value of 1 wBTC.

This isn't just theoretical; there's a historical precedent. In 2022, stETH decoupled: it was theoretically pegged 1:1 to ETH, but when market panic and high redemption demand hit simultaneously, stETH plummeted to 0.93 ETH in the secondary market. It only slowly recovered after the Ethereum Shanghai upgrade opened withdrawals. $BR

uniBTC faces similar structural risks: the underlying assets have lock-up periods, and the liquidity receipts promise instant redemption, creating a mismatch in timelines. Normally, everything's fine, but once panic hits and a bank run is triggered, decoupling can occur.

Bedrock currently has a TVL of 362 million, spread across 18 chains. If a decoupling happens on a smaller chain with only a few million in TVL, the liquidity simply won't be enough to absorb sell orders, and the price deviation could be even worse than what stETH experienced back in the day.

By holding BTC for yield, you're also carrying the decoupling risk. This risk may not be visible during normal times, but it's always lurking.

Genius Terminal @GeniusOfficial claims to be a non-custodial platform where users control their private keys. But after digging into the product features, there are a few points worth considering.

signatureless trading: pre-authorized session parameters mean you don't have to pop your wallet for every trade. It’s convenient, sure, but it’s like handing over your trading permissions to the platform’s session management for a while. If that session gets hijacked during that time, the losses are on you.

chain-invisible execution: cross-chain trades automatically handle gas fees and bridging. Users don’t have to sweat the underlying details, but that also means you have no clue where your funds are, which chain they’re on, or what state they’re in. Troubleshooting issues becomes super difficult. $GENIUS

unified balance: all assets across chains displayed as a single balance. It looks nice and tidy, but underneath, your assets are held across multiple chains. This aggregated view is maintained by the platform; if something goes wrong on their back end, your assets are scattered across a dozen chains, and manually recovering them is no walk in the park.

The definition of non-custodial is that you can withdraw your assets anytime using your private keys. However, the convenience offered by Genius Terminal is built on the premise that you delegate a lot of trading operations to the platform’s infrastructure. Sure, your private key is in your hands, but if you don’t even know which chain your assets are on, how much can that private key really protect you? #genius

Convenience and control are always at odds. Genius Terminal has opted for convenience, making non-custodial feel more like a legal disclaimer rather than true user protection.

Bedrock@Bedrock has deployed 18 chains, and the official line is that multi-chain coverage expands the ecosystem. I checked out the data on DefiLlama, total TVL is 362 million; breaking it down: Bitcoin chain has 124 million, Ethereum 116 million, and the remaining 16 chains share the rest of the 122 million.

On average, each chain has less than 8 million in TVL. Some chains might only have a few hundred thousand or even less. $BR

The fragmentation of liquidity brings several issues: the depth of uniBTC/uniETH on each chain isn't enough, large redemptions can cause slippage; cross-chain bridging adds another layer of risk and cost; maintaining and auditing the smart contracts for 18 chains expands the security surface by 18 times.

For users, where exactly is your BTC of #Bedrock located? If that chain's TVL is only a few million, is your redemption liquidity guaranteed?

Multi-chain deployment benefits project teams: numerically, TVL can be summed up into one big figure, making it look large. But for single-chain users, you're facing a fragmented small pool, not the big 362 million pool.

18 chains don't represent ecosystem prosperity; it's liquidity dilution. First, clarify where your assets are on which chain and if that chain has enough depth for you to exit.

Awesome, it's been months since we've seen such a candlestick, those who short $LAB are lucky!

Are you willing to buy the one starting with 18, $ETH ?

Suddenly thought of a question: If @OpenLedger #OpenLedger shuts down, where does the data contributed on Datanets go?

Attribution records are on-chain, but the data itself is likely on centralized servers. If the servers go down, the on-chain records are just pointers to nowhere. I haven't seen any indication that the data exists on IPFS or Arweave.

Moreover, for attribution to generate revenue, three conditions need to be met simultaneously: the project must continue to operate, someone has to pay to access it, and the OPEN token must hold value. These three conditions are multiplicative; if any one goes to zero, the result is zero.

All Web3 data comes with the same paradox: ownership requires infrastructure support, and that infrastructure is maintained by a centralized team. If the team disappears, ownership is just empty words. $OPEN

Think carefully before contributing data: what you’re betting on isn’t the data being valuable, but whether this project can last long enough.

@GeniusOfficial Genius's Ghost Order's selling point is its hidden funding source: MPC generates temporary wallet clusters, splitting large orders across hundreds of addresses, making it hard to trace who’s buying.

Looking at it from another angle: What was the reason Tornado Cash got sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury? It helps users obscure the sources and flows of on-chain funds. Ghost Order is essentially doing the same thing on a functional level, just with a new label called institutional-grade privacy execution. #genius

That said, it doesn't mean Ghost Order will definitely get sanctioned, but this gray area is worth noting. The developers of Tornado Cash ended up in prison, and the protocol was added to the SDN list. If regulators decide that Ghost Order is also facilitating fund obfuscation, how will the project team respond?

CZ himself has served time over compliance issues, and the core functionality of the projects funded by YZi Labs also involves hiding the source of funds. This combination is quite interesting. $GENIUS

The product may be fine, but the regulatory risk is a variable that isn’t reflected in the pricing.

Bedrock@Bedrock Store BTC for yield, the operation looks straightforward, but the real risk is the nested structure.

First layer: BTC → wBTC. Cross-chain bridging risk, the peg of wBTC relies on BitGo custody, which has faced issues more than once.

Second layer: wBTC → Deposit into Bedrock. Smart contract risk, if there's a bug in the code, it's a 100% loss.

Third layer: Bedrock → Staking in Babylon. Babylon protocol risk, still in its early stages, hasn't undergone large-scale stress testing.

Fourth layer: Babylon → Protecting a PoS chain. The risk of that chain itself; if it collapses, the staked BTC could get slashed.

With four layers of risk stacked, any issue at one layer means a total loss. But what about the yield? A few percent annualized token incentives.
$BR #Bedrock
Risk compounds, while yield adds up. This calculation just doesn’t add up.