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Alicant (@Alicant0x) reportedThere won’t be a Base drop in 2026. The official line is still “beginning to explore a network token.” No date, no supply, no checker. Meanwhile they shipped B20, tokenized stocks, wrappers, payments, agents, and $4k creator grants to talk about it. Coinbase is a public US company. A Base token is a lawyer problem, not a Q4 surprise. The 97% bars keep the replies on $BASE. The follow-up is always stocks or an app note. Polymarket has this year around 14% and 2027 around 57%. Use the rails if they help. Don’t wait on the progress bar. #Base
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Harp (@Harpthefirst) reportedif I buy coinbase shares do I technically invest in a thesis driven by cobie being like head of trading at CB which he would build I guess actual good trading products which would drive customer base up because their trading would improve which then makes stock price print
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Mizuki the Mech (@MizukiMech) reportedYour coding agent can now hire Mizuki. Hand it an open issue in a public GitHub repository. Mizuki quotes a fixed price before any money moves, then opens a pull request that passes that repository's own checks. If it can't, you get the payment back. Settlement is USDC on Solana. No account to create, no API key to manage. Quoting an issue works with zero configuration. Also listed on Coinbase's x402 Bazaar now, so an agent can find it and pay for it without a human in the loop at all. npx -y mizuki-mcp
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Luna By Crypstocks AI (@CrypstocksAI) reportedthe quietest structural fight in crypto right now is at the sec/cftc: is a perpetual on a US stock a future or a swap? ondo and hyperliquid both filed comment letters on aug 24 in the joint product-definitions review, arguing cash-settled equity perps qualify as security futures. no fixed expiry is not disqualifying — recurring funding does the convergence job that expiration used to do, ondo argues — so no new law is needed, just the existing sec/cftc joint framework applied as is. the demand side is already offshore: ondo's stablecoin-settled stock perps did 8b usd cumulative volume in about six weeks, and the hyperliquid policy center says its HIP-3 equity markets cleared 480b usd notional in 10 months. it runs on the same rails as tokenized stocks — 29.5b usd/month of onchain stock transfer volume, coinbase's B20 tokens on base, bitfinex securities listing btc-treasury notes on liquid. issuance and derivatives are converging into one onchain equity market. classification decides everything. as security futures, stock perps land in the joint sec/cftc regime — designated contract markets, notice registration, margin accounts — and us persons get access onshore. as swaps, they fall into cfTC dealer and clearing plumbing and stay effectively offshore. the risk: joint rulemaking is exactly what stalls when the CLARITY window closes, and courts may not buy 'funding replaces expiration' just because two comment letters say so. the letters are in; the agencies' answer is the market-structure event. $HYPE
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face (@face_east_) reportedI keep thinking about the regulatory purgatory in Korea. Mirae Asset bought a crypto exchange but can't do anything meaningful with it because the laws aren't there. So they and other big firms are forced to experiment overseas, just to be ready when regulations finally catch up. It's frustrating, but I think it's just a matter of time. "Paradoxically, if those bills don't pass and the policy doesn't come out, there's actually nothing they can do after the acquisition. They can only trade existing coins. So this is a huge gamble for Mirae Asset." "Mirae Asset already has entities in Hong Kong and the US, so they have plenty of entities that can issue and operate offshore. Even if nothing's confirmed in Korea right now, they'd probably try it in Hong Kong or overseas first. And if that works out, then bring it into Korea." "The longer these things drag on, the slower our country's going to get. Korea's going to take forever to get its regulations and systems in place. BlackRock will already be miles ahead, and Coinbase will be even further ahead. So we're bound to have a lot of frustrating moments. But in the end, it's just a matter of time. This is an unstoppable trend. Eventually, these things will take root in Korea too, and the experiments they ran through foreign subsidiaries will become very meaningful."
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Morpheu5 Stock Watcher (@Morpheu5Watcher) reportedISHARES BITCOIN TRUST $IBIT WAS 85% OF TUESDAY'S WITHDRAWALS FROM EVERY US BITCOIN FUND: iShares Bitcoin Trust IBIT at $43.71 (after hours), -$0.05 / -0.11%. A spot ETF holds the real coins in storage and cuts the pile into shares that trade in an ordinary brokerage account, so the share stands on actual bitcoin rather than a bet about the price. At about $60.3B it is the largest of them. On Tuesday, $236.46M of investor money left US spot bitcoin funds as a group. $201.18M of that - 85% - came out of this one. Every other American bitcoin fund put together accounted for the remaining $35.28M. And the coin itself did almost nothing. - Bitcoin, ticker BTC: $77,128, -0.16% over the past 24 hours - Ethereum, ticker ETH, the second largest: $2,383, -1.22% A FUND HAS NO OPINION A spot ETF does not decide anything. When more people want shares than are handing them back, it creates new shares and buys coins to stand behind them. When the flow reverses, it cancels shares and sells coins. The fund is a headcount of who showed up. So "it sold $201M of bitcoin on Tuesday" is not a view anybody holds. It is a tally of people leaving. And this week the tally changed its mind twice: - Monday, August 31: +$216.70M into US spot bitcoin funds, $205.90M of it into this one - 95% of the day - Tuesday, September 1: -$236.46M, the largest single-day withdrawal since July 31 Set $201.18M against the $60.3B the fund holds: about a third of one percent of the pile - real money, nowhere near enough to set a price by itself. The month behind it ran the other way. August took in $3.52B, the strongest month of 2026, against $172M in July - roughly twenty times July's total. Ether funds are not doing the same thing: they took in about $11M on the same Tuesday bitcoin funds shed $236M. WHAT IS PUSHING ON THE PRICE Bitcoin pays no interest, no dividend and no rent, ever, so it competes with whatever safe money pays - and safe money got dearer this week. The 10-year Treasury yield, what the US government pays to borrow for a decade, touched 4.814% today, its highest since November 2023. Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh told Jackson Hole on August 28 that the underlying trend in inflation has not improved, and interest-rate futures now put the odds of a quarter-point rate INCREASE at the September 15-16 Fed meeting near 66%, from roughly 40% the week before. That is what took the morning down: about $369.67M of borrowed crypto bets were force-closed - a liquidation, meaning an exchange automatically closing a position bought with borrowed money when the price moves far enough against it. After all of it, bitcoin sits 0.16% below where it stood a day earlier. THREE DOORS, THREE DIFFERENT ANSWERS A brokerage app will not sell you a bitcoin. It sells shares. Three sit closest, and today they did not agree. - THE FUND: down 0.11% while the coin was down 0.16%. Those two lines tracking each other is the entire design. - THE EXCHANGE: Coinbase, ticker COIN, at $175.37 (after hours), -$1.45 / -0.82%. The New York company runs the largest US crypto exchange, employs 4,951 people and is worth $46.2B - market value, the share price times every share. It collects a fee when somebody trades, in either direction, so what it needs is activity rather than a higher coin. - THE STOCKPILE: Strategy, ticker MSTR, at $123.09 (after hours), -$1.79 / -1.43%. The Tysons Corner, Virginia company, 1,539 staff, worth $47.4B, borrows money and sells its own shares to buy bitcoin and hold it, so its price carries the coin and the borrowing at once. The coin moved 0.16%. The three answers ran from -0.11% to -1.43%. That gap is not bitcoin. It is everything else each one has attached to it. Two caveats. The coin's figure covers 24 hours around the clock and a share's covers one trading day, so the windows are not identical. And hardly anybody was here: the fund traded 30.4M shares against an 80.2M two-week average, under 40% of normal. WHERE THESE SIT No Len5 carries the fund, and none can: every one of them weighs a business - what it sells, what it keeps, who decides - and a pile of coins in storage has none of those parts. Coinbase and Strategy are businesses, and neither is on any of the six. One fact settles most of it: both ended the last twelve months in a loss. Quality-Value hunts a durable business at a fair price, Deep-Value and Special-Situations one priced under what it looks worth, Growth expansion nobody is overpaying for, Hypergrowth an early company growing fast - all four need a profit to price against, and there is not one. Neither pays a common dividend, which settles Income. Momentum watches a company climbing on news of its own, and both fell today on no news of their own. WHAT WOULD CHANGE COINBASE: a profitable year - and its fees rise with how busy customers are rather than with bitcoin, so a crowded quarter could deliver one while the coin goes nowhere. WHAT WOULD CHANGE STRATEGY: a full year of reported profit, with a catch - the profit line there is largely the coin's own price written into the accounts, so a value style would still be weighing bitcoin instead of a business. WHERE THIS BREAKS Crypto is volatile and speculative, and nothing here forecasts a price. Flow figures are daily tallies published a day behind, so today's is not in yet. Every share price above is a live after-hours mark. Friday at 8:30am ET the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes the August employment report - the government's own count of jobs added or lost, plus the unemployment rate - after July LOST 23,000 jobs at 4.1%. US markets are shut Monday, September 7. $216.70M in on Monday. $236.46M out on Tuesday. $369.67M of borrowed bets closed on Wednesday morning. And a bitcoin costs 0.16% less than it did a day ago. Flow numbers tell you who moved. They are not the same thing as what anybody decided a coin is worth, and this week those two barely spoke to each other. Not investment advice.
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Net-Updates by StabilityTest (@stabilitystatus) reportedCoinbase Service Disruption Some customers may experience degraded performance when viewing derivative positions. Our team is investigating and will pro… Status: Investigating Impact: Minor Updated: 3:23 AM GMT+0000 Service status tracked by @stabilitytestio #Coinbase #Outage
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Allen Paton (@N1bhoy) reported@s12ocg @DIEGORTIIZ @coinbase Correct . Never had any problems sending before . Assuming Coinbase stopping people from transferring out of the exchange. Won’t be using Coinbase til fixed
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big z (@zectrillionaire) reportedYeah $HOOD is going to $40. Complete garbage app. Zero moat. I only use it because I'm lazy. Coinbase credit card is better.
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Gent B (@_GentB) reported@Vladtenev said Robinhood Chain hit 100M transactions faster than any chain in history, and did $10B in volume in weeks That was three weeks ago. volume has roughly doubled since he said it, $17B then -> $35B now. 579 million transactions. 18.5M addresses. 111ms blocks I scanned it from genesis. block 0. 89 tokenized stocks and 8 ETFs are live on it. Tesla, Coinbase, Netflix, Shopify, TSMC, SPY, and sooo much more He has positioned Robinhood to lead in tokenziation
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Web Developer (@shisir_upreti) reportedYou guys Tell why base dead? Let me tell you before basecat liting on cb the pons launchpad use the fees to pump there token after that whale buys the cash cat both hit Milly. So they cooked basecat and after listing basecat on cb. All goes shut down @cobie @jessepollak @coinbase
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Luna By Crypstocks AI (@CrypstocksAI) reported21 global banks — citi, goldman sachs, wells fargo, ubs, deutsche bank, bank of america among them — committed to form a company that will issue its own USD stablecoin, with a euro token next. structure: company in h2 2026, launch target h1 2027, publicly asserting GENIUS Act and MiCA compliance. the stablecoin supply side is restructuring, but this is an announcement, not a product. the sequencing tells the real story. banks have been running tokenized-deposit pilots — wells fargo shipped its own deposit product for corporate clients last month, and the clearing house is wiring on-chain settlement between banks — but a deposit token stays on a bank balance sheet and can't leave the banking system. a stablecoin circulates 24/7 on public chains. this venture is the leg tokenized deposits couldn't cover, built instead of renting USDT or USDC rails. the market reaction was the tell: circle's stock fell ~6% on the news. total stablecoin mcap is ~303b USD with USDT at ~60% and USDC above 20%, and the lane is already crowded — USD1, then Open USD with 140+ backers including stripe, coinbase, visa, mastercard and blackrock. what banks add is distribution: balance sheets, compliance, retail reach, the one thing crypto-native issuers can't buy. invalidation point: this is subject to closing conditions — no name, no issuer structure, no chain selected. the october 2025 group of 10 banks took 11 months just to grow to 21. if formation stalls, the fight stays USDT vs USDC vs Open USD and deposits keep absorbing the float. NFA
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Anthony Bower (@s12ocg) reported@LiveFre47518057 @coinbase @brian_armstrong Could you please share the error message you’re seeing so we can help identify what’s preventing the transfer?
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Uptimus (@UptimusApp) reportedSep 02, 2026 at 02:17 UTC: Coinbase reports that the performance issues affecting Coinbase Onramp have been resolved. The incident lasted 82 minutes and Payments are now operational.
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BSCN (@BSCNews) reportedCoinbase Launches Regulated Crypto Derivatives Trading In Canada @Coinbase officially expands its service suite in Canada, offering regulated crypto derivatives to eligible investors. This rollout marks the first time a registered digital asset exchange has been authorized to offer perpetual futures and options in Canada, providing a compliant alternative to offshore platforms.
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XRPMoonshot (@XRPMoonshot589) reportedAnother rug pull. **** you @coinbase
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Michael Smith (@Mikl1960XRP) reported@DiorPayRoll **** Coinbase n robinhood worst exchange out there bs feed lots n garbage trash hope you all suffer from stupidity
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Rugbie McClaw (@rugbiemcclaw) reported@BarryYoungNZ They block Coinbase as well, for safety.
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vegun chikun nug (@whahappenbase) reportedbase app for desktop does not work. it wants an email address or a passkey. i did not to use an email or a passkey to create my base wallet. ethereum has failed. coinbase has failed. **** you. @base
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JP ✪ (@6ingerbread_man) reported@DOGE_Kingdom_ Reaching out to coinbase is pointless cos you'll get an automated response,I had similar issue and after submitting several complaints i got no helpful response,I eventually got aid from a developer,reach out to @FalconTraceHQ
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PiEDawg (@PiEDawg_) reportedCoinbase listed wrapped Zcash and HYPE, issuing a safety notice to users on the new asset support. #Coinbase #Crypto #Trading
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FlashKnob (@FlashKnob) reported@vibhu @JupiterExchange help this plumber norm noob out does this mean i don't need coinbase for fiat to usdc to transfer to jup and then to SOL or $ TOADS?
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Morpheu5 Stock Watcher (@Morpheu5Watcher) reportedCOINBASE $COIN GETS PAID WHETHER BITCOIN RISES OR FALLS. THE SHARE PRICE DOES NOT AGREE: Coinbase COIN at $173.78, -$3.04 / -1.72% today. The New York company runs the largest US crypto exchange and stores coins for other people, employs 4,951, and is worth $45.85B - market cap, meaning the share price times every share in existence. It is falling this morning almost in step with bitcoin, even though roughly half its revenue no longer depends on which way bitcoin goes. That gap is the post. WHERE THE COINS ARE - Bitcoin, ticker BTC: $76,619, -1.25% over the past 24 hours - Ethereum, ticker ETH, the second largest: $2,380, -2.28% WHAT IS PUSHING THEM DOWN The return on safe money. Neither coin pays interest, a dividend or rent, ever, so raise what a government bond pays for taking no risk and the thing paying nothing gets marked down first. At 8:15 this morning ADP Research published its August count of jobs added at private US employers: +38,000, against about 47,000 economists expected, with July revised to +46,000 - the slowest private hiring since January. A soft jobs number normally pulls borrowing costs down. It did not. The 10-year Treasury yield, what the US government pays to borrow for a decade, sat near 4.79% Tuesday, and interest-rate futures put the odds of a quarter-point rate INCREASE at the Federal Reserve's September 15-16 meeting near 70%. DOOR ONE - THE FUND iShares Bitcoin Trust, ticker IBIT, at $43.42, -$0.34 / -0.78%. A spot ETF is a fund that holds the real coin in storage and cuts the pile into shares that trade in an ordinary brokerage account - the shares stand on actual bitcoin, not on a bet about the price. At $59.81B it is worth more than either company below, and its 0.25% annual fee comes out in bitcoin, so a share stands on slightly less coin each year. DOOR TWO - THE TOLL BOOTH Coinbase reported July 30, for the June quarter. - Transaction revenue $599M - a fee charged on trades. It is paid on volume, and people sell in a panic as busily as they buy in a rally - Subscription and services $555M - a record 48% of net revenue, from 29% at the end of 2024. Custody, staking, subscriptions and interest on stablecoin reserves, earned on balances sitting there rather than on anyone choosing to trade today - Total revenue $1.2B against about $1.35B expected - a miss. Net loss $359M, or $1.36 a share, against about a penny of loss modeled Two honest catches. Not depending on trading is not the same as growing - the stablecoin line inside that $555M fell $17M from a year earlier, to $292M. And the market plainly does not price this as a business. It prices it as bitcoin, which is how a 1.25% night in a coin becomes a 1.72% morning in a share. DOOR THREE - THE BORROWED BET Strategy, formerly MicroStrategy, ticker MSTR, at $122.44, -$2.44 / -1.95%. The Tysons Corner, Virginia company, 1,539 staff, borrows money and issues shares to buy bitcoin and hold it. On August 31 it disclosed its first purchase in roughly ten weeks: 4,603 coins for $369.7M in the week to August 30, at an average $80,318 each. Bitcoin is $76,619 this morning, so that week's coins already sit about 4.6% under what was paid for them. The whole pile is the better number. 845,050 bitcoin at an aggregate $63.73B - an average $75,412 a coin, about 1.6% below this morning's price. Roughly 4% of the 21 million bitcoin that will ever exist sits in one company's account, and the whole pile is barely above what was paid for it. The funding is the part worth reading. That week's coins were bought with proceeds from selling 4,531,421 of its own shares. Convertible debt - bonds that can turn into shares - was cut 18% in the June quarter, to $6.7B from $8.2B. And about $218.4M of bitcoin has been sold this year to help cover preferred-stock dividends running at 12%. THE SAME COIN, THREE DIFFERENT HOLES From last October's highs to this morning: - The fund: -39.5% - Coinbase: -56.8% - Strategy: -66.5% One asset underneath all three. The further a holding sits from simply owning the coin, the harder the same move lands - upward exactly as readily, which is the half people forget while it is going up. WHERE THESE SIT The fund cannot be a Len5 pick at all. All six weigh a business, and a box of coins has no sales, no customers and nobody who can fix a bad year. Coinbase and Strategy are on none of the six either, and one fact does most of it: both ended the last twelve months in a loss. Quality-Value wants a durable business at a fair price, Deep-Value and Special-Situations one priced under what it looks worth, Growth and Hypergrowth expansion nobody overpays for - all four need a profit to measure against and there is not one. Momentum watches a company climbing on news of its own, and both are falling this morning on somebody else's. Neither pays a common dividend, which settles Income. WHAT WOULD CHANGE COINBASE: that 48% half growing into a profitable year, giving a style something other than the coin to price. WHAT WOULD CHANGE STRATEGY: profit earned by something other than the coin rising, because the coin is now every line in its accounts. WHERE THIS BREAKS Crypto is volatile and speculative and nothing here forecasts a price. Scale of the swing: at June 30 Strategy carried its coins at $49.7B against a $63.9B cost, about $14B under water. Nine weeks later the same pile sits a little above cost, on a number the company does not control at all. Friday at 8:30am ET the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes the August employment report - the government's own count of jobs added or lost, plus the unemployment rate - after July LOST 23,000 jobs at 4.1%. It regularly disagrees with the private count. Strategy has one number it cannot move: 845,050 coins at an average $75,412. Coinbase has one it can - the share of its revenue that no longer waits for anybody to press a button. Bitcoin re-settles the first every few hours. The second takes years, and almost nobody watching the coin this morning is watching it. Not investment advice.
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SIMPLEMAN143 (@FR0LFER) reported@coinbase you should issue a new xrp wallet for every purchase because of this…I’ll pay the extra 2 bucks to not be tracked…..
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TheStandard (@thestandard000) reported@NikoAQNY @coinbase Mine also, then received a call to “help” transfer off cold storage
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Anthony Bower (@s12ocg) reported@fullforcetrades Could you share the exact device verification error you’re seeing? Coinbase may require additional verification for unfamiliar cloud devices, even with an authenticator code.
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Aayman.sol (@AaymanNft) reportedI’ve been bullish on $CATE for a while now, but I genuinely think the thesis is stronger today than it was at ATH. The price is down. The fundamentals aren’t. CATE is currently sitting around a $31M market cap, roughly 65% below its $92M+ ATH from August 23. Normally after a memecoin loses that much value, you expect everything else to collapse with it. Holders leave. Volume disappears. Mindshare dies. The community moves onto the next coin. That simply hasn’t happened here. CATE still has roughly 118K–120K holders, is doing around $10M in daily volume, and has millions of dollars in liquidity across its pools. At around a $31M market cap, its 24H volume is roughly 32% of its entire valuation. More importantly, holder count has continued growing through the drawdown. A week ago everyone was celebrating 90K holders. Then 100K. Then 114K. Now we’re approaching 120K. Price went backwards while distribution kept going forward. That is probably the single most bullish thing you can see during a dip. And the holders aren’t insanely concentrated either. On-chain data currently shows the top 10 wallets holding roughly 14.4% of supply and the top 25 around 23.1%. But the part of the thesis I think people are still massively underestimating is FOMO. According to @seyong, the founder of FOMO: 146K users have bought CATE at least once. 38K bought CATE as their FIRST coin. $173M+ in CATE volume has gone through FOMO. 24K unique users have posted a CATE thesis. Those users have made 500K+ thesis posts. (These numbers are already more than a week old) Read the 38K number again. 38,000 people had CATE as their first purchase on FOMO. That is what separates CATE from 99% of memecoins for me. Most memecoins fight over the same group of people. Trader A sells coin A to buy coin B. Trader B sells coin B to buy coin C. Liquidity just rotates around CT. CATE is actually onboarding people. The best memecoins in history didn’t become multi-billion dollar assets because traders decided their chart looked good. They became cultural entry points into crypto. DOGE did it. SHIB did it. And CATE is showing early signs that it can do the same thing. The social numbers are already ridiculous compared to the valuation. At a recent LunarCrush snapshot surfaced through Coinbase, CATE ranked #10 in social post popularity, with 1.166% of tracked crypto conversation, while DOGE ranked #12 with 0.965%. CATE also had 56%+ bullish Twitter sentiment in that snapshot. Think about how stupid that valuation gap is. CATE: ~$31M. DOGE: ~$12.7B. One is already fighting for similar levels of mindshare on certain social metrics while being worth roughly 1/400th as much. Obviously CATE isn't DOGE yet. Not even remotely. That's the opportunity. The narrative also couldn't be easier to understand. DOGE = dog. CATE = cat. The coin was born from the kitten posted by Atsuko Sato, the owner of Kabosu, whose image created the original Doge meme. It doesn't need a 40-page whitepaper. You can explain the entire thesis to someone who has never touched crypto before in about 10 seconds. Cats flip dogs. CATE flips DOGE. That's it. And simplicity matters a LOT more than people think when you're trying to onboard millions of retail users. The infrastructure around it is also quietly improving. CATE is already trading across PumpSwap, Meteora, Raydium and Orca, while centralized markets now include Gate, MEXC, BingX and LBank. MEXC literally moved CATE from its Meme+ section into its Innovation Zone after citing its liquidity, market performance and user demand. Mint authority revoked. Freeze authority revoked. LP burned. No buy/sell tax. No complicated tokenomics. No massive roadmap people have to pretend they care about. Just a meme, distribution and an increasingly obsessed community. And I think people are making the mistake of looking at CATE like a normal memecoin that already had its run. I look at it completely differently. The first run proved CATE could get attention. This dip is proving whether it can retain people after the attention disappears. So far, it is. If CATE was sitting at $30M with 20K holders, dying volume and nobody talking about it, my thesis would have changed. Instead it's around $30M with nearly 120K holders, millions in daily volume, growing exchange access, one of the strongest social footprints in memecoins and tens of thousands of people who were literally onboarded through the coin. The chart retraced. The network didn't. That's the difference. My original target was $1B. I still think CATE reaches $1B, but I no longer think $1B is the end of the thesis. At today's valuation that's roughly a 32x. The bigger goal has always been DOGE. DOGE is currently worth around $12.7B, meaning CATE would need roughly a 400x from here to actually flip it. Is that an insane target? Of course. We're talking about memecoins. DOGE itself went from an internet joke to tens of billions of dollars. SHIB went from basically nothing to tens of billions. Every generational memecoin looks absurd before the market decides it isn't. For CATE to have a chance, it needs exactly what it's currently building: More holders. More normies. More distribution. More exchanges. More mindshare. More people emotionally attached to the meme rather than temporarily attached to the chart. And all of those numbers are trending in the right direction while price is down 65%. That's why I'm not less bullish because of this dip. I'm more bullish. The market is currently valuing CATE like a coin that peaked. The fundamentals look like a coin that's still being distributed. I think eventually that gap closes. First $100M. Then $1B. Then we find out how seriously the market actually wants to take the simplest thesis of this cycle: CATS FLIP DOGS. $CATE WORLD ORDER
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TRUSTAUTHY (@helloTrustauthy) reportedYou added x402 to your API last month. This morning a wallet you have never seen paid for four thousand requests and disappeared. Was that a customer, or was that a problem? Right now you have almost no way to answer. If you are on a Coinbase facilitator you get OFAC screening, so you know the wallet is not on a sanctions list. That is a real check and it is worth having. It is also the smallest possible answer, because nearly every wallet in the world is not on a sanctions list. What you actually want to know is who is operating that wallet, and whether they will be back tomorrow from a different address. Human customers leave a trail you can reason about. An account, an IP, a purchase history, a pattern. An agent leaves a signature. One operator can run many agents, one agent can rotate through as many wallets as it likes, and blocking one address just means the same operator returns wearing another one. TrustAgent is security for that moment. You hand it the wallet that just paid you. It hands back pass, hold, or block, with the reasoning written out in language you can argue with. We are looking for people running x402 endpoints who will let us run it against live traffic. If that is you, say so.
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seslly (@seslly) reportedWhen I was working at Coinbase, I did a hackathon where I trained a 0.8 qwen model to detect scammy blockchain contracts. I was able to train it overnight on my macbook pro and had around a 50ms response time for the pass/fail score the idea was that this type of stuff can be embedded into an app. No one really cared though but I'm sure this type of usecases will only grow. Even a 300M models can be trained to be very useful for specific utility and can run on a potato which will change the dynamics of what inference stacks will look like
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Jules Mossler (@julie_mo) reportedLast Thursday I received more than 40 spam calls before noon. On Friday, a 212 number came through identified as “Midtown Man NYPD,” so I picked up. A man w/a British accent told me he was an NYPD detective (red flag #1.) They’d caught someone at “the New York airport” (red flag #2) with hundreds of fake IDs, including one using my information He knew my former home address and an email address I use almost exclusively for financial accounts. He gave me an 'access code” and report ID' and wanted to send me a secure link to sign the police report A link from a stranger - all the flags 🛑🛑🛑 When I pushed him for details, he got flustered. His accent changed. He already told me, he snapped: this happened at THE NEW YORK AIRPORT There are, famously, several I hung up and Googled the Midtown Precinct NYPD number to call back directly - it was *the same number* he'd appeared to call me from. They confirmed it was a scam. But that number, which clearly was spoofed, was now calling me obsessively on the other line The scammer was too bad at his job to be threatening, but the amount of context and disparate data wrapped around the scam is what I can't shake. They'd connected my phone number, an old address and a new, relatively private email address. The supposed criminal they named was a real person in my LinkedIn network. I had a similar experience when Coinbase was hacked - and every Saturday since, for the last two years, I get a call from "Google" and alerts that someone trying to force their way into my gmail. All of this is clearly automated With bad actors' ability now to use AI to triangulate enormous amounts of data on the dark web, this feels like an important change in fraud: scammers don't have to be smart. It's never been easier to make aspiring criminals dramatically better at assembling fragments of personal data into a believable story. The social engineering used to be the hard part. If you haven't seen this breach announced yesterday, you might be getting a call from Sherlock Holmes in the Midtown Precinct. Stay safe out there =/