Every degen's dream: graduating from degen. Open GMGN APP over fine dining: one-tap sniping, live trader leaderboard refreshing in real time — smart money, at a glance. This week's BSC Top Traders (live leaderboard): @aa_AFeng @Ed_x0101 @feibo03 @antpositions @rob02643673_rob @HunterOnlyETH @ZephyrTrading @Redemption8666 @CryptoCharming @Lesliex886 @00xhwin @0xyukaz

Want to know where many of us from previous cycles fell behind? It wasn't because we stopped understanding markets. It was because we stopped adopting new tools. I first noticed it during the early Solana launches the Thick LP ones. A handful of people had access to advanced sniping bot (peppermint) were making lifechanging money within minutes. Most of us dismissed it. Coz ya we were cocky/lazy Then those same advantages evolved into trading terminals like BullX, Photon, GMGN and others. By the time many experienced traders realized the game had changed, a new generation had already mastered the tools and taken the edge. Every cycle creates a new weapon. The winners aren't always the smartest. They're usually the fastest to adapt and if you dont adapt you are the exit liquidity. Anyways BULLMORNING

Battlefield 6: Stream Snipers Can Now Receive VAC Bans Battlefield 6’s latest anti-cheat update expands enforcement beyond traditional cheating software. Players engaging in the following behaviors may face penalties, including VAC bans on Steam: - Stream sniping - Match manipulation - Win-trading - Team sabotage - Vehicle spawn blocking - Collusion with players on the opposing team - Targeted harassment of streamers and content creators Battlefield 6 uses new machine learning systems to detect these offenses by identifying repeated patterns of disruptive behavior. Enforcement focuses on repeated and intentional behavior patterns rather than isolated incidents. Confirmed offenders can receive both Battlefield-specific punishments and VAC bans visible on their Steam profiles.

Announcing the Zama Public Auction. We’re selling 10% of the $ZAMA supply via a sealed-bid Dutch auction on Ethereum, using the Zama Protocol itself to keep bids confidential with FHE. Why this matters: ◼️ Fair distribution & real price discovery ◼️ No bot sniping or gas wars ◼️ Tokens are unlocked immediately 🗓️ Auction: Jan 12–15 🗓️ Claim: Jan 20 $ZAMA is the utility token of the Zama Protocol, a confidentiality layer for existing L1s/L2s: ◼️ Pay encryption & decryption fees ◼️ Stake or delegate to operators ◼️ Help secure FHE coprocessors & KMS nodes Mainnet is expected to launch by year-end, with $ZAMA fully functional before the auction. Get notified at launch:

Crypto is still the easiest financial market for a smart guy to make it. But if you are expecting the 2021 type of alt season, you’ll have to wait for couple years for another 2001,2008,2020-like major crisis/event to occur first, then the world’s fed will start their super sonic money printer > fiats depreciates drastically > a new era of easy money comes. Then we’ll have another great cycle of speculation&gamble. But before then, you should survive& grind on your tools and skills and connections, also learn more about macro cycles and AI. The BSC hot wave recently also gives opportunities for some grinders to make banks. Just need to make a tool that tracks CZ&heyi’s posts and enters the trade fast within 1 minute. The grinders are still getting rewarded. A news trader chigga made $3m on sniping MUBARAK at the first CZ tweet couple days ago, made me envy him as fuck, showing there are still exit liquidities that you can farm on. There won’t be altseason for couple years but there will be continuous rotating events/narritives/PVP frenzy that you can participate in.

Defi is a central part of the value that Ethereum provides. Financial empowerment is a central part of what it means to have agency and freedom in our current world. Finance is far from the only thing that Ethereum is good for, but it is an important thing. This post discusses how the Ethereum Foundation is approaching defi. Defi today makes the world's best savings, risk management and wealth-building opportunities permissionlessly available worldwide. We need to build on that. Ethereum's early defi era was great because it dared to dream and innovate and come up with totally new paradigms (eg. AMMs). Defi tomorrow will bring back that spirit. Don't just "make a better stablecoin", dig a layer deeper, and think about the underlying problem (risk management, hedging one's future expenses), and come up with an even better solution. But also, as the EF, we are not interested in supporting "onchain finance" or even "defi" indiscriminately. We have a specific vision of what we want to see out of defi: permissionless, open-source, private, security-first global finance that maximizes people's control over their own assets, minimizes centralized chokepoints and trusted third parties, and democratizes risk management and wealth building (the two key goals of finance according to modern portfolio theory) as well as payments. We want protocols that pass the walkaway test: that keep working even if the original team suddenly disappears without warning (or even: becomes hostile / compromised without warning). Bringing this vision to reality will inevitably take a lot of work. Defi is a complex toolchain, including various onchain components, user-side offchain components (ie. wallet, local agent...), other offchain components, etc. The things that we care about include areas like: * Improving security of defi through "traditional" means, eg. audits, standards, wallet-side safeguards * Improving security of defi through "new" means, eg. AI-assisted formal verification, user-side agents as safeguards * Oracle security and decentralization (there's A LOT of skeletons in the closet here, we as an ecosystem really need to point a big eye of sauron at it for a while) * Privacy. Both privacy-preserving payments, and privacy of more complex use cases (eg. what does it mean to have a maximally privacy-preserving CDP? there are clearly benefits in reducing liquidation-sniping risk, but it requires hard tech to get there) * Open source, and improving the licensing / forkability situation in defi Ethereum is a permissionless protocol, and nothing stops people from deploying insecure protocols, protocols that enshrine ultimately unneeded centralized trust in the name of convenience, or dopamine-maximizing gambleslop. However, we *are* interested in working with anyone aligned to make permissionless, open-source, intermediary-minimizing and security and user-agency-maximizing defi ecosystem as strong as possible, so that it can be not just individuals and institutions' first choice in Ethereum, but also a globally compelling way to manage funds for anyone who needs its properties.