The explosive growth and certain prospects in the AI sector are attracting a ton of crypto talent and capital to shift its way.
By 2025, AI venture capital is expected to exceed $200 billion, while crypto only sits at $19.7 billion, creating a massive capital gap that results in a powerful resource siphoning effect.
The weekly code commits in the crypto industry have plummeted by 75% since the start of 2025, with active developers down by 56%. By early 2026, hiring in the crypto space has nosedived by 80% year-on-year, with only about 6.5 new positions created daily.
This migration is seen as a natural selection of tech talent in search of higher returns, more stable development paths, and a stronger sense of being at the tech frontier.
AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek offer compensation and growth opportunities that far exceed the crypto industry's average, while the token incentives and remote culture that crypto once relied on are being diluted by the globalization of remote hiring and competitive salaries also provided by AI firms.
This is essentially a rational choice for tech talent during the cyclical bear market of the crypto space.
Moreover, behind star AI projects like Hermes Agent and OpenRouter are seasoned figures from the crypto industry.
They are successfully transferring the product thinking, community operations, and rapid iteration capabilities accumulated in the Web3 space to the AI track.
🚀 The hotshot Hermes Agent is backed by the open-source AI research institution Nous Research, whose CEO Jeffrey Quesnelle was the chief engineer for the Ethereum MEV infrastructure project Eden Network.
🚀 The founder of the world’s largest AI large model aggregation platform, OpenRouter, Alex Atallah, was a co-founder of OpenSea.
☀️First off, you just need to study the crypto market, ⛈️Now, you also need to keep an eye on US stocks, AI, macro liquidity, geopolitical factors ......
The era where Bitcoin's price was driven by a single narrative (like halving cycles or digital gold) is over.
Traders are gradually realizing that Bitcoin's price is actually the result of multiple structural forces at play: ETF capital flows, miner sell pressure, corporate treasury accumulation, derivatives liquidation, regulatory policy changes, and the tightening or loosening of macro liquidity ......
Therefore, the analytical framework must shift from 【listening to stories】 to 【seeing structures】. This includes analyzing on-chain data (like illiquid supply, net exchange flows), monitoring daily ETF inflows and outflows, observing options market position distributions/expirations, and evaluating miners' break-even points and expectations around the Fed's actions ......
In this new paradigm where structure reigns, having a profound understanding of the market's microstructure often allows you to better capture market trends, rather than blindly chasing grand narratives.
From escaping Wall Street to returning to Wall Street
Personally, I find it ironic that Bitcoin is currently being co-opted by the establishment to achieve its mainstream status, despite its anti-establishment origins.
The genesis block of Bitcoin even has a critique of the traditional financial system etched into it.
However, the largest wave of adoption right now is being driven by the very entities it aimed to disrupt, like banks, investment banks, and asset management firms.
Major whales might also leverage the ETF's physical exchange mechanism to move Bitcoin from decentralized wallets to institutional custody accounts like those at BlackRock, in exchange for more liquid and protected fund shares within the traditional financial system.
This creates a profound paradox: Bitcoin gains the widespread recognition and legitimacy it initially dreamed of through being absorbed and regulated by the traditional financial system.
Head of ETH treasury firm — BITMINE, announces it will slow down its ETH purchases. Their stack is incredibly robust, holding 5.18 million ETH, of which 4.36 million are staked.
Here lies a structural cognitive gap: over 80% of investors in the crypto space only understand cryptocurrencies as price speculation.
This cognitive model is singular and linear, meaning that 【buying is the only bullish action, selling/ceasing to buy is bearish behavior】.
In reality, for institutions holding millions of ETH, price appreciation is just one dimension of their massive profit matrix.
Even though BITMINE is slowing its buying pace, their methods of earning through staking, capturing ecosystem value via protocol development, and innovating financial products to set industry standards represent a more advanced and sustainable way of being bullish and realizing value.
This is a multidimensional game of capital, showcasing the profound cognitive and behavioral gap between institutions and retail investors.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin fell victim to a sandwich attack by one of the most notorious MEV bots on Ethereum, jaredfromsubway.eth, while executing a small XDB token swap worth about $3.86.
The bot manipulated the XDB price by buying and selling around Buterin's trade, utilizing approximately $1.14 million in WETH between SushiSwap and Uniswap V2.
However, after deducting around $5.14 in Gas fees, the bot actually ended up taking a loss, while Buterin's slippage loss was only a few cents.
What stands out in this incident is that even Vitalik Buterin, a co-founder of Ethereum with a deep understanding of MEV issues, could not avoid becoming a target of an MEV attack.
The often-cited "dark forest" analogy in DeFi suggests that in the public blockchain mempool, all trades are exposed to automated bot surveillance, and any profitable trade can potentially be attacked.
If an expert user like Buterin can be attacked due to improper trade settings, the threats faced by regular users are clearly much greater.
Looking at the ups and downs of the Bitcoin market in 2025, you can clearly see a main thread: the expansion and contraction rhythm of global central banks' (especially the Fed's) balance sheets, along with the scale of fiscal deficits in major economies, forms the 'tide force' of Bitcoin prices.
Progress in regulation, like the <a>GENIUS Act</a>, acts like a solid dam and canal, allowing this tide force to impact the crypto market in a more orderly and massive way.
Without a channel, water would flow everywhere, making it hard to gather momentum; but without water, even the best channel is just a dried-up project. The bull market of 2025 is the result of liquidity, the 'water', surging through the regulatory 'canal'.
As the market anticipates tightening liquidity by the end of 2025, no matter how smooth the channels are, when the flow weakens, prices should naturally drop. This ultimately validates that liquidity is that more fundamental and powerful core driving factor.
One entity holds over 818,000 BTC, which goes against the decentralized vision.
Let's look at an unavoidable fundamental fact: by May 2026, just MicroStrategy alone will possess over 818,000 Bitcoins, accounting for about 4% of the total circulating supply. This concentration of holdings has created an unprecedented 'whale position' in Bitcoin's history, capable of influencing the market ecology. This stands in stark contrast to Satoshi's vision of one CPU, one vote, and a decentralized network on a physical level. Saylor's victory has, in effect, intensified the centralization of Bitcoin asset ownership through massive capital. This means that a single company's financial decisions (like dealing with debt or regulatory pressure) could cause a tsunami-like impact on the market, which itself undermines the original intent of Bitcoin's anti-fragile design.
MicroStrategy CEO hints at selling coins; has the faith of only buying and not selling loosened?
Is MicroStrategy about to take a dive? Run? The market is in a frenzy over Phong Le's comment about "considering selling Bitcoin." However, we might be overreading the situation.
👨🎓Preliminary considerations 💡 CEO says "considering selling coins"; why does "considering" ≠ "selling right away"? 💡 Saylor talks faith, Phong Le talks reason—who is the true essence of MicroStrategy? 💡 The conditions to trigger a sell-off are extremely strict; do you really understand that warning line? 💡 Is what the market should truly fear the fact that "it wants to sell" itself? CEO publicly acknowledges the possibility of selling Bitcoin for the first time
👨🎓Preliminary Thoughts 💡 GSR's transition from market maker to asset management — is it a strategic blow or a cross-industry gamble?
💡 What exactly is the active management strategy? Can it really generate more yield? 💡 In a ‘red ocean’ dominated by giants in the Bitcoin ETF space, how can Crypto Core3 ETF break through? 💡 Management fees are nearly four times higher than those of passive crypto ETFs — what makes GSR worth that price in the market? Introduction
On April 22, 2026, the Nasdaq exchange welcomed a unique crypto ETF — GSR Crypto Core3 ETF (ticker BESO).
Four-Star General Reveals in Congress: The Military is Running Bitcoin Nodes
👨🎓Preliminary Thoughts
What's the purpose of the military running a Bitcoin network node? What can a single Bitcoin full node do and what can't it do? Why does Paparo repeatedly emphasize that 'attacks require physical costs'? Bitcoin touts 'censorship resistance', but when sovereign states start running nodes, does that narrative still hold? Introduction A testimony at a U.S. congressional hearing has caught the global crypto community and geopolitical watchers by surprise. U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Admiral Samuel Paparo openly admitted that the military is running a real-time node on the Bitcoin network. This move shatters the original narrative of Bitcoin as a tool against power, directly integrating it into the toolkit of national strength.
Hot Topics | Guotai Junan International Obtains Hong Kong Crypto Trading License / Strategic Logic Behind Chinese Concept Stock Nano Labs' Large Increase in BNB Holdings
Table of Contents 1. Guotai Junan International | Obtained Hong Kong Crypto Trading License Guotai Junan International has been approved by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission to upgrade its securities license to virtual asset trading service qualification, supporting trading of BTC, ETH, etc., and promoting the integration of traditional finance with the crypto ecosystem.
2. Hong Kong Company Dalian Holdings | Collaborates with ViaBTC to Build a Crypto Service Ecosystem Hong Kong-listed Dalian Holdings and Mining Pool ViaBTC Establish Joint Venture, Layout Crypto OTC, Asset Management, and Compliance Platform Development, Explore Bitcoin Reserves, Achieve Complementarity of Financial Resources and Technological Advantages.
3. Breakthrough in Hong Kong Stablecoin Regulation | Implementation of Multi-Currency and Autonomous Network Policies
Hot Topics丨HashKey Collaborates with Guangzhou Data Exchange for Major Initiative / Goldman Sachs Warns U.S. Debt Approaches World War II Peaks
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1. Guangdong-Hong Kong Heavyweight丨HashKey Collaborates with Guangzhou Data Exchange for Major Initiative On June 17, 2025, HashKey Group and the Guangzhou Data Exchange signed a memorandum of cooperation to jointly promote the construction of the innovative pilot zone for cross-border flow of digital assets in Nansha, Guangzhou, building a compliant digital asset service ecosystem and assisting in the development of the digital economy in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
2. Alchemy Pay丨Central Exchange Hub for Stablecoins On June 19, 2025, Alchemy Pay officially announced plans to launch Alchemy Chain and issue stablecoins in the fourth quarter of 2025, creating a central exchange hub for global and local stablecoins to address the high costs and low efficiency of cross-border payments.
Hot Topics丨Overview of Four Key Regulatory Changes in Hong Kong, Aiming to Become a New Hub for Global Asset Management Across Borders / Sun Yuchen's Tron Shell Listing
Hong Kong Regulatory Upgrade丨Overview of Four Key Reforms The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission will include over-the-counter trading and custody in the regulatory framework, expand the asset range of spot ETFs, and allow staking services while accelerating the pilot of securities tokenization, launching a regulatory sandbox to balance innovation and risk. Vietnam丨The World's First Digital Technology Law The Vietnamese National Assembly passed the Digital Technology Industry Law, regulating the classification of digital assets and implementing a dual-track compliance framework, providing tax incentives to promote the semiconductor and AI industries, responding to FATF anti-money laundering requirements. Cold Wallet Scam丨$6.9 Million Disappeared Overnight
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Fundamental analysis not only provides investors with a scientific basis for investment decision-making but also helps investors maintain rationality during market fluctuations and avoid making irrational investment decisions due to short-term market sentiment. Therefore, fundamental analysis is an indispensable part of investors' assessment of Web3 projects.
🔍 The Confusing Behavior Awards in the Crypto Circle
🌐 The crypto world is full of strange tales! For example, - Buying coffee with Bitcoin, and the transaction fee is more expensive than the coffee? - Throwing a celebration party during a bear market? - Value investing ends up being in vain, going all in on meme coins? - "I have no hands, so I can't run away?" - "I am Satoshi Nakamoto, designed the X Logo, and developed ChatGPT"
If you know more confusing behaviors in the crypto world, come share in the comments!
In the world of Ethereum, There is a crucial concept, which is Gas. It is like fuel in real life, Driving every transaction and the operation of smart contracts.
But do you know What is the Gas limit? Why does it change? What different results could arise if the Gas limit is too high or too low? This article will help you understand some aspects of the Gas limit.
What is Gas?
Gas is the unit used in the Ethereum network to measure the computational resources required to execute operations. Whether it is a simple Ether transfer or triggering the execution of complex smart contracts, every operation requires Gas consumption.