GM, frens! ☕️ 

If you stop and think about it, life’s still pretty good. Even with the chaos, there’s always more ahead.

More loot to chase, more moments to enjoy, more possibilities waiting just out of sight 🫡 

That’s the part worth holding onto 🤝 

Here’s what’s on our radar this week:

• 🤓 The house always wins (unless it can’t count)

• 👻 BNB hits $1,000 - whales, DOJ and the ghost of CZ

• 🪙 Google wants in on stablecoins – and they’re bringing ETH along

• 📰 Trump sues the Times.. over a memecoin

As for the W3oF Degen Portfolio 👇️ 

$WALLET is shining bright. Our torch, our compass, our fully stacked North Star, and honestly? This one isn’t even gambling nor is it degen at all.

Catch us in the Discord as we ride it forward 🤠 

The house always wins (unless it can’t count)

Every casino should have the math on their side. That’s the whole point: the odds are cooked and the rake is inevitable.

But what happens when the house doesn’t know how to do math? 🤯 

That’s what recently unfolded at Polymarket, crypto’s favorite prediction platform.

An academic study tore open the books and found the platform bleeding out $40 million in “free money” last year, not from exploits or hacks, from basic mispricings. Yes-shares plus No-shares weren’t always adding up to a dollar.

Traders who noticed could lock in risk free gains, no dice roll required.

It wasn’t just fat finger stuff. Markets that should have been logically linked, stuff like “Trump wins presidency” vs. “Republican wins presidency” were trading at wildly different odds. Savvy players stitched the gaps, arbitraging outcomes that should’ve been glued together. For once, you didn’t need alpha, just a calculator 🧠 

The scale is what makes it wild 👇️ 

• Researchers combed through a full year of Polymarket data, April 2024 through April 2025, and found more than 7,000 individual cases where market prices simply didn’t line up.

• In some instances, inefficiencies lasted long enough for human traders to catch them. In others, bots and professional arbitrageurs were ready, running scripts across dozens of markets, hoovering up the inconsistencies like vultures on roadkill 🪙 

• On peak days, profits stacked into the millions. By the end of the study, the number was clear: more than $40 million in risk free gains siphoned out of the system 😲 

Of course, the problem isn’t unique to Polymarket.

Even regulated platforms all suffer from the same structural quirks. Liquidity gets fragmented across markets, obvious relationships are ignored, and prices drift until someone sharp enough pulls them back together.

The difference is that the prediction markets are still messy enough to leave the door cracked open 🚪 

The implications cut both ways. Arbitrage does make prediction markets more efficient in the long run, bad pricing eventually gets corrected.

But it also shatters the illusion that these markets are perfect crystal balls. For a few hours, or even minutes, the prices can be wildly off. And in those windows, the house isn’t the one holding the edge 👛 

BNB hits $1,000 - whales, DOJ and the ghost of CZ

Last year, Binance looked like it was running on fumes. A $4.3B settlement, a court mandated babysitter from the DOJ, and its founder, once the most powerful man in crypto, going for a four month visit to jail.

Some thought Binance was finished as a serious player and BNB would be forgotten forever 💀 

Then $BNB blew past $1,000 for the first time ever 📈 

CZ wasn’t railing on timelines or teasing listings. He did his time, then wandered off to finish some “side quests”: launching his crypto education push (the whole “learn for free, build for real” thing), posting reading lists, talking builder mindset.

It looked like a clean exit.

And then, without a word, his profile suddenly read: “Binance” instead of “ex-Binance”. Just a single word in his bio 🤔 

But for crypto, that was enough to set off alarms. The market read it as a signal: CZ was back in the orbit of his old empire 👇️ 

In the meantime, Binance was negotiating with the U.S. Department of Justice to scrap the three year compliance monitor they were saddled with in the $4.3B settlement back in 2023 🔨 

That monitor was essentially a government installed babysitter: expensive, invasive, and designed to make sure Binance played by the rules.

Now the DOJ is said to be considering a softer setup - enhanced reporting instead of a full time monitor. Not absolute freedom, but much lighter leash 👀 

Traders couldn’t help but connect the dots.

And while all of that simmered, BNB Chain kept tightening the bolts.

• Blocks trimmed to sub second finality. Fees shaved down. Throughput widened. The quarterly burn took out more than a billion dollars’ worth of BNB out of circulation, and the BUSD hole didn’t stay empty after it was taken out of the circulation in 2023 💵 

• New stables moved in, RWAs and payments rails found the chain cheap and predictable, and even the AI adjacent communities parked some money in it. Boring upgrades, but quite a real impact.

Short squeeze season

Of course, the market loves a story, but it loves liquidations even more 🪙 

As the rumors flew, shorts piled up, and whales had their fun.

A violent squeeze punched through the order books, vaporizing overleveraged bets ☠️ 

Some walked away millionaires. Others got the classic crypto margin call obituary ⚰️ 

Seems like it was a tale the market decided it believed again: that Binance still had stamina, that the chain is faster and leaner, and that (even after a year of courtrooms and contrition) the founder’s gravity hasn’t really left the room, and that seemed to be enough.

Google wants in on stablecoins – and they’re bringing ETH along

If you needed another reminder that the line between Tradtech and crypto is gone, here it is: Google just decided that stablecoins should flow through its AI apps like tap water 🤖 

They’ve been working on an open source protocol that lets AI agents talk to each other, trade info, and now.. move money 💰️ 

Not toy AI “tokens” either, but dollar pegged stablecoins.

And they’re not doing it alone 👇️ 

• The Ethereum Foundation is plugged in, alongside Salesforce, American Express, Etsy, Coinbase and a long list of others making sure the rails line up with both crypto and TradFi. A mesh of serious players, each dragging their own weight into the mix 💪 

• The bones of this go back to April, when Google rolled out a protocol to standardize “agent-to-agent communication”, at the time, it was about making AI bots smarter at coordinating tasks.

• Now, that skeleton grew a payments layer 🤯 

It sounds futuristic, but it’s also brutally practical. Stablecoins are liquid, programmable, and fast. Google doesn’t want your Visa card on file, they want a bot to bot system that skips the banks and settlement layers entirely.

And look at the timing ⏲️ 

Circle’s IPO earlier this year was oversubscribed, a flex that showed investors aren’t sleeping on stablecoins, they’re climbing in circulation like crazy. Call it boring, but the “digital dollar” is turning into one of crypto’s most undeniable product market fits.

So yeah, Big Tech didn’t choose NFTs, or DeFi, or yield farms.

They went straight for the unsexy pipes of crypto and wired them into AI. You might not see it tomorrow, but soon enough, your AI might be tipping a barista, paying your bills, or cutting a check to another bot on your behalf 🤷‍♂️ 

Trump sues the Times.. over a memecoin

Donald Trump is back in court, but not for the reasons you’d expect. This time, he’s suing the New York Times for “harming”…. his $TRUMP memecoin 🙃 

The lawsuit, filed in Florida, demands $15 billion in damages.

Trump claims the Times tanked his coin’s reputation, his social media platform, and by extension, the whole Trump Organization. Basically: the paper rugged him 🪙 

• It’s true, the Times has been gleefully torching $TRUMP all year, calling it muzzle velocity for corruption, a Ponzi in campaign red 🧨 

• They wrote about foreign investors getting burned, political influence sold by the coin, and the fact its market cap cratered from $8.8 billion to $1.7 billion 📉 

• Trump says the paper went too far. He wants accountability for what he calls “malicious defamation”. And if that means putting the Times on trial for hurting a memecoin.. Well that’s America 🤷‍♂️ 

Meanwhile, the coin itself is still a soap opera. Justin Sun was one of its biggest buyers. Trump’s sons, Eric and Don Jr., are “advisors” in name and cash out in practice. Even Truth Social got pulled into the mix.

Also, imagine explaining this to someone in 1999: Donald Trump, now a president + a Chinese crypto billionaire and two nepo bros defending fake internet money in federal court 🤪 

But everyone has already realized $TRUMP isn’t really about market cap or tokenomics, it’s about control of the narrative.

Trump thinks legacy media cost him credibility and money. The Times thinks exposing this circus (in a VERY selective manner) is journalism. The rest of us just get to watch the clown show: a memecoin trial that could drag the “paper of record” into the same swamp it tried to report on 🤡 

Now for punchline: even if Trump wins, the coin’s still down 80%. You can’t sue your way out of shitty tokenomics 🫠 

Other worthy reads

Crypto & Robotics crossover thread by blocmates:

Korea Blockchain Week survival guide by JK Remote:

Paypal is integrating $ETH into their P2P payment system:

MEMES

That's all for now, frens.

We'll meet in a week! And remember, the market conditions are temporary, but our commitment to building a better Web3 is here to stay. Thanks for joining us, and we look forward to seeing you back next week. Cheers!

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