Fifteen years ago, Laszlo Hanyecz posted on an internet forum offering 10,000 bitcoin in exchange for two pizzas. A user accepted, ordered the food, and bitcoin was used as money for the first time in history.
Today, those ₿10,000 are worth $1,100,000,000.
COLLABORATION: Guess who is going to serve as Paxos International’s beachhead for scaling USDL across Southeast Asia.
That’s @veloprotocol, ladies and degens. A blockchain-powered PayFi network that makes financial services more accessible worldwide, within a regulator-friendly framework.
Velo’s partnership with Paxos brings it closer as a key aggregator of tokenized RWA and a pioneer in the PayFi space.
This makes Paxos’s USDL the first yield-bearing stablecoin under regulatory oversight, backed 1:1 by short-term U.S. Treasuries and cash equivalents.
Pure execution, baby.
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InfoFi Landscape Report
Narratives move faster than capital
Enter InfoFi --> the primitive that lets you bet on both
TLDR
InfoFi focuses on monetising attention, influence, and info, probably one of the more compelling narratives in crypto now.
Below I compare a few protocols: @KaitoAI, @cookiedotfun, @ethos_network, and @elfa_ai, each approaching the financialisation of digital mindshare from different angles.
These are platforms that structure and index high-signal info with an emphasis on measurable influence, data provenance, and actionable insights.
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1. Kaito ($KAITO)
• The Bloomberg Terminal for crypto narratives, using AI to process thousands of CT, Reddit, and Telegram posts into searchable summaries ("Yaps")
• Leaderboard system identifies top-performing accounts/wallets based on alpha calls
• Creates a powerful social filter for crypto research
2. Cookie ($COOKIE)
• Modular data layer for the agentic economy --> https://t.co/FVmBL8fOCG, tracks 1,500+ AI agents and their performance, powered by a backend called the Cookie DataSwarm.
• This infra feeds into Agent Cookie, a super-agent providing social + on-chain intelligence
3. Ethos
• Introduces a reputation graph for crypto, based on: Review, Vouch, Slash, and Influence.
• Aim is to create a social trust layer that DAOs, protocols, and community mods can use to filter credible contributors or defend against Sybil attacks
4. Elfa
• Sentiment engine indexing token mentions, KOL shills, and project/community updates in real time
• Token mindshare is tracked hourly and Smart Accounts are analysed which is filtered by alpha potential
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Personal Take
• Kaito dominates structured research workflows and integrations with projects
• Cookie leads in infra for AI agents
• Ethos builds foundational social trust infra for Web3 (reputation)
• Elfa captures narrative volatility and CT pulse
Same with DEXes/L1s/L2s, all will have competition as protocols imitate and try to one up each other.
BREAKING: Exploit or glitch? What's
happening on SUI? 🚨🚨
Cetus, the main liquidity provider DEX on $SUI, has reportedly been hacked or compromised.
Around |$11M in #SUI was drained from the
SUI/USDC pool, with most tokens dropping over 75% as liquidity vanished.
The Cetus team claims it was a technical halt of the blockchain, but the situation remains unclear. Meanwhile,
some traders are already buying the dip.
If someone wants guidance then they can let me know.
This isn’t financial advice.
#BinancelaunchpoolHuma