So I guess there’s a rumor going around that @farcaster_xyz might get acquired. I have no insider info obviously, but we can at least look at where the chips have fallen. Farcaster has pivoted into trading. Base app has also pivoted into trading, so now they’re competitors. Farcaster has Clanker, Base has aligned with Zora, so they both have “launchers” (even if Zora is still its own independent team). Either way, Base is the bigger boy. My understanding is a lot of casts / network activity are coming from Base, though I’m not 100% sure that’s right. And so far it feels like the execution of the Base app has been met with… not a ton of enthusiasm? Expectations were definitely higher. Coinbase has deep pockets and distribution, sure. But if Robinhood had looked at all the trading platforms that existed when they launched, they probably would’ve never started. And Base isn’t the Robinhood of DeFi right now, not even close. So I don’t think this gets decided just by who has distribution and deep pockets today. A lot of outcomes are possible. Farcaster could still win here if they want to, and honestly someone else could too. That said, the team being quiet could mean a bunch of things. Maybe they took a quick break. Or maybe after acquiring Clanker and pivoting to trading, they’re heads down doing strategy + go-to-market + building the thing around that. I don’t really know. Either way it would be really sad to see the protocol get acquired by a giant like Coinbase. At that point the “decentralized social” thesis for Farcaster is basically gone, and us (or someone else) has to fork the protocol. Anyways this is all gossip. Gn degens.

$BTC 🟠 Coinbase Premium Index has gone absolutely vertical. Probably something.

This is absolutely insane: Venezuela currently has 303 billion barrels of crude oil reserves, which Trump says the US now controls. Oil prices are trading at ~$57/barrel, making Venezuela's total reserves worth $17.3 TRILLION. Even if the US sells this oil for HALF of the market rate, that's still $8.7 TRILLION. In other words, in 12 hours, the US has gained control of oil reserves worth more than the entire GDP of ALL countries in the world, aside from the US and China. That's 4 TIMES larger than the GDP of Japan. Most people do not realize how much the world just changed. Oil markets will react to this news for the first time on Sunday at 6 PM ET. The next few days will be critical.

Who cares about words anyway ...

🚨 BREAKING: $795 million total hacked in DeFi in 2026 alone - and it’s only mid-April. DeFi has an on-going security nightmare: • January → ~$86m lost to smart contract bugs and executive key compromises • February → ~$27m attacks on bridges and oracles • March → ~$52m when stablecoin minting and lending-pool exploits hit core primitives • April → ~$630m, the worst month on record Some are already blaming the recent release of @AnthropicAI's Mythos for making sophisticated attacks faster and easier to pull off For our audiences: • Low yields + constant rehypothecation by protocols simply aren’t worth the risk right now • Everyday is a good time to off-ramp your funds off-chain into bank or brokerage accounts, or at least move to reputable CEXes • Check your wallet approvals, go through your opsec, and don't keep your entire networth in crypto Full monthly breakdown attached below 👇

New: Here is a handout distributed at the White House's meeting today between banking and crypto reps on stablecoin yield (round 2). It lays out banking's red lines on yield. A source familiar described today's meeting as productive, but also said "nothing was solved." It could be the last held meeting held at the White House, as the baton is handed off to Senate Banking and the trades themselves to figure this out. Some crypto players are leaning in to banking's asks, I've heard, while Coinbase is still "holding out"

Introducing: Nothing Ever Happens A @Polymarket bot that automatically buys "No" for every non-sports market and holds to resolution. Why predict the future when 73.4% of all Polymarkets resolve as No? Stop over thinking it. Nothing Ever Happens. https://github.com/sterlingcrispin/nothi…

Shitcoiners ruined yet another good thing by abusing Moltbook upvotes to promote their shitters

ERC-8004 is now live on mainnet. 5 months ago, we wrote the specs for the Trustless Agents standard. Since then, over 10k agents registered on testnet. Today, we’re releasing it on Ethereum Mainnet. Welcome to the 8004 Genesis Month. Here’s everything you need to know 👇

↩ (@Eli5defi) List of Sunsetting / Maintenance Mode Only Protocol on Q1 2026: - @kongswap - @SilverSwapDex - @PolynomialFi - @zerolendxyz - @parsec_finance - @SlingshotCrypto - @StepFinance_ - @RemoraMarkets - @yupp_ai - @Merkle_Trade - @enclavemarkets - @podsdotmedia - @objectivedefi - @Colonylab - @rodeodotclub - @RuniverseGame - @AngleProtocol - @milky_way_zone - @DataHaven_xyz - @tallyxyz - @playgoatgaming - @niftygateway - @DappRadar - @MagicEden Wallet - @leap_wallet - @Dmailofficial - @Mars_Protocol - @entropydotxyz - @Balancer Labs (not the DAO or protocol)

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The Next Chapter 🧬 The Mutant Garden Seeder Mutation Minter will be released this Wednesday, January 7th, 2026. 12 PM EST (noon) / 18:00 CET

PartyDAO is joining Stripe. We believe the most meaningful crypto products are yet to come, and we’re excited for what’s next. Read more in the full post below.

It's official, we are taking the snapshot for the $RNBW Airdrop on Monday January 26th at 4:20pm EST. You still have a chance to accumulate Rainbow Points before the $RNBW Airdrop on February 5th 🌈⏰