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Today is probably Optimism’s most triumphant day since Base announced its departure from the OP Superchain ecosystem.

According to L2BEAT data, @Optimism’s OP Mainnet was the L2 chain with the largest net inflow of funds over the past 24 hours, at $25.91 million. Robinhood Chain followed, with a net inflow of $21.21 million.

Over the same period, @base saw a net outflow of $27.23 million.

#Base #Optimism $OP

Arc current situation:

An expedition is launched, yet victory is not achieved; the general dies before success, forever making heroic tears wet their garments.

#ARC

It’s only been about 10 days since Abstract announced it was shutting down, and now its fellow sufferer @Sophon has followed suit.

The two flagship projects in @zksync’s tech stack, ZK Stack, have both fallen one after another. ZK Stack has been proven a failure.

A look at Sophon L2’s on-chain data over the past 24 hours:
Chain Fees: $0
Chain REV: $0
Active Addresses: 0
Total Chain TVL: $15K

Sophon’s founder, former ZKSync DeFi director @0xsseb, has gone silent on X, quietly fading into obscurity.

#Zksync #sophon $ZK $SOPH

How can Starknet break out of its predicament when it backstabs Ethereum while still relying on Ethereum’s settlement layer for security?

I have an idea.

Given that the renowned zero-knowledge proof professor @EliBenSasson is also a founder of both Starknet and Zcash, I suggest Starknet use Zcash L1 as its settlement layer instead of Ethereum L1 as a transitional solution. Once the time is right, it can upgrade Stark to an independent, quantum-resistant L1 chain.

After all, settling on Ethereum means Starknet can’t withstand quantum attacks, so it isn’t secure enough.

#STARKNET $STRK

Hot Knowledge:
Robinhood Chain’s all-chain TVL has quietly flipped Monad.

Currently, RH Chain’s all-chain DeFi TVL reaches $1.018 billion, ranking as the 9th-largest TVL public blockchain.

#robinhoodchain $PONS

Robinhood Crypto’s official X account, @RobinhoodCrypto, publicly welcomed a relatively niche ecosystem protocol, @metricxyz—a fairly rare occurrence.

I believe Metric earned this recognition because its focus aligns closely with RH Chain’s, and it can strengthen critical underlying infrastructure.

Metric is a DEX built on the propAMM mechanism. But it isn’t competing in a zero-sum way with Uniswap, the leading DEX on RH Chain. Instead, it aims to grow the overall spot market.

The propAMM mechanism differs from traditional AMMs. Traditional AMMs can be thought of as “trade first, then let trading move the price.” Metric, by contrast, “brings in the real-world price first, then facilitates trading around it.” The former is especially suited to assets without external price references and to long-tail markets; the latter works particularly well for assets with real-world market prices, such as RWAs and tokenized stocks.

Since asset prices under the propAMM mechanism are driven primarily by external reference prices supplied by oracles, they can quickly track real-world price movements. This means more accurate pricing, lower risk for LPs, and greater capital efficiency.

With Metric in the mix, it can complement Uniswap through a clear division of roles:
Uniswap provides foundational, general-purpose liquidity, while Metric offers specialized liquidity for stock tokens.

Together, they can help Robinhood Chain’s ecosystem grow stronger.

#Robinhood

Stark @Starknet has gotten way too big for its boots and is spectacularly stabbing Ethereum in the back.

Starknet has loudly announced on X that it is considering breaking away from Ethereum and building its own L1, with the goal of making Starknet the first fully quantum-resistant network.

Starknet’s founder and driving force, @EliBenSasson, published a lengthy post openly taking shots at Ethereum, implying that Ethereum L1 is a bottleneck on Starknet’s path to post-quantum security. The interesting thing is that, after reading the entire post, there’s not a single practical, actionable proposal for achieving quantum resistance—it’s all just empty slogans and hot air.

So, does Starknet’s behavior count as a betrayal of Ethereum?

Without a doubt. Starknet’s fundraising narrative, security, liquidity, and STRK valuation are all built around being an “Ethereum ZK Rollup.” Without that deep connection to Ethereum, Starknet would just be another obscure chain that nobody uses.

Even today, Starknet continues to wear the Ethereum L2 badge and benefit from Ethereum’s settlement security. But that doesn’t stop it from using the shortcomings of its host chain—and of the entire public blockchain sector—as marketing fodder.

It’s fair to say this is an especially ugly way to behave.

#STARKNET $STRK

Solana’s No. 2 co-founder is going full throttle:
First came @toly’s Ying-Yang Robinhood, and now @rajgokal is taking over to continue the Ying-Yang play with Arc.

On X, Raji said that he’s currently in the LinkedIn-chain phase of a supercycle.

The timing of this post is extremely delicate: roughly about 12 hours after @arc officially announced its mainnet launch. The implication is very clear—it’s mocking Arc as a product of Circle’s in-group collusion.

Pumpfun has already been drawing blood from its own veins, which is bad enough. Then Robinhood stepped in to grab a slice of the meme race, making it even more infuriating. Now Arc keeps diverting flows—one could say it’s pouring fuel on the fire.

It’s really hard—please try to understand.

#ARC #solana