Sergei Sergienko

👑 Polymarket’s founder Shane Coplan just landed on the cover of Forbes, crowned as the “Prince of Predictions.” History shows this kind of spotlight tends to attract prosecutors before it attracts investors. Let’s hope the cover curse skips him the way it didn’t skip SBF and CZ.

☄  China issued another reminder that crypto is banned and is tightening control over stablecoins. These headlines appear every year, and Bitcoin keeps breathing just fine. That is the whole point of decentralization. Local bans look small against global momentum. Anything that survives decades of pressure clearly matters more to the world than to individual regulators.

❎ Vitalik Buterin voiced hope that $ZEC will walk away from a token-based governance model. The community agrees. Buying influence goes against everything privacy and decentralization stand for. Progress is sometimes about cutting the excess instead of piling on new features, and values are not something you put on sale.

🧡 Elon Musk says Bitcoin could end up as the only currency in the future. His point is that Bitcoin is tied to energy, and that changes everything. Energy can’t be printed, canceled, or banned, as it comes from real work and infrastructure. The value of Bitcoin  is energy turned into money. Hard to argue with that.

💵 Tether published a fresh report: $174B in liabilities and $181B in assets. On paper, everything lines up, from cash to Bitcoin, gold, loans, and investments. The reaction is the funny part. After all these years and all the proof, people still sit around waiting for USDT to collapse in a stress test like a traditional bank. Yet millions of users worldwide keep using it every day, and that says more about trust than any press release ever will.

🚀  Pavel Durov has launched Cocoon, a decentralized network where early user requests are already handled by AI with full privacy. While Amazon and Microsoft stay focused on profit, Cocoon gives back control and confidentiality. Pretty sure more AI features are coming to Telegram, and Cocoon is only warming up.

😝 HP wants to cut up to 6,000 jobs by 2028, hoping to save a billion dollars with AI. Sounds harsh, but history keeps proving that machines don’t automatically outperform people. And without these experiments, nothing really moves forward. Another round of change is rolling in, and the attitude we bring into it matters as much as the tech itself.

✔ Cointelegraph nailed it: privacy rules and anti-money-laundering laws constantly collide. The tension between being private and being compliant sits at the heart of the whole space. That’s the paradox we live with. A technology built for freedom now walks a tightrope between anonymity and responsibility. Solving this tension will shape the next phase of blockchain evolution.

🧡 Someone suggested Elon add an orange checkmark to show who holds BTC, supposedly as a defence against bots. Funny detail: while everyone keeps inventing new colours for badges, the whole idea of “verification” turns into a status ladder.

🎂 Brian Armstrong marked the date: twelve years since the Ethereum whitepaper went public. That moment turned crypto from internet money into a platform for ideas, code, and wild experiments. Without Vitalik Buterin, the cofounders, and the early Ethereum community, this space would look very different. One bold idea changed the entire future.

☄ Everyone heard about the Upbit Solana hack already. $36M gone, and the exchange covered the damage without blinking. Then you look at India’s WazirX, where user funds have been frozen for over a year and the losses sit on the customers. Seems like companies treat responsibility like a choose-your-own-adventure.

✨ FT says Tether holds 116 tons of gold, more than some countries. That puts the company at the top of the independent gold-holder list. Nice to see trust backed by something you can actually weigh. Feels kinda poetic too. Even in crypto, a pile of gold still signals stability better than any press release.

🕯 CryptoQuant spotted odd traffic on Bybit. Someone fires off fifty five-dollar trades per second on the BTCUSD Inverse contract. Looks sketchy at first glance, could just be a load test. Real manipulators rarely work in plain sight. Markets get jumpy and everything feels sinister. Noise pretends to be signal, and suddenly every shadow looks like a scheme. Keep your filter on.

👀 Weekly soap opera. McGregor called out Khabib for using his father’s name and Dagestani culture to pump an NFT, then scrubbing it and leaving fans empty-handed. On-chain sleuth ZachXBT stepped in and reminded everyone that Conor had his own shady token moments. Celebrity crypto is a trap, steer clear.

📈 Coinbase published their 2026 idea board. Perpetual RWAs, fresh perp markets, on-chain privacy work, DePIN data, AI agents for dev workflows. A solid batch of future breakthroughs. More tracks appear, adoption creeps closer. The space looks scattered on the surface, yet everyone keeps pulling in the same direction: a digital world that’s open, sharp, and genuinely global.

🔒 Vitalik is back on the privacy beat. The next hurdles are permissionless accounts and keeping metadata out of everyone’s pockets. He pointed at a couple of messaging apps trying to move the needle here. Nothing flawless on the table yet. The work still matters. Every click leaves a footprint, so keeping a bit of yourself out of the machine turns into quiet resistance.

⚠ Hackers are creating fake adult sites to steal data. In the middle of browsing, a pop-up claims you need a “critical Windows update,” and instead of a patch you get malware that hunts for keys and passwords. The mix of taboo content and shady context puts people under pressure, so they click before thinking. Staying alert is the one rule that never stops mattering.

🎮 Elon Musk wants to test Grok 5 against T1, the strongest League of Legends team. OpenAI already beat a top Dota 2 squad back in 2018, so the bar is high. Musk has been steering Grok toward gaming for a while and says he wants an AI that can build a full game by 2029. The scale of that ambition is hard to ignore.

💡 Few people know that at the core of Cloudflare sits a wall of lava lamps. Cameras snap photos every moment and turn the glowing chaos into number sequences used for encryption keys. Computers alone are too predictable, which makes them easy prey. Cloudflare prefers the randomness of nature.