The @RobinHoodCrypto Chain NFT scene has been quietly busy this past week. A lot of small communities are building, hosting spaces, and shipping experiments instead of just talking about it. A quick look at some of what’s been moving with #RobinRecap# ——————————— The @TheSuitedApes continues to feel like one of the more established communities on the chain. Holders have been talking about how the collection has held value while the team keeps building utilities around it. There’s a steady “suit up” energy that doesn’t feel forced. ——————————— OG @OnChainHoodies has been one of the more interesting technical experiments. Fully on-chain pixel characters with the idea that the same Hoodie can gain more life and memory over time. It’s the kind of slow, thoughtful project that stands out when everything else is moving fast. ——————————— Over at Hoodstreet, @CCFF00club and @RoaringPiggy have been keeping the spaces active. There’s a real neighborhood feeling in those conversations — people showing up, talking about projects they’re building, and generally keeping the chain’s social side alive. ——————————— Launched last week, @ReefersRH has been steadily active too, with the team and community staying engaged and posting consistently. It’s one of those collections that feels more like a crew than a launch and their X community group is on fire. Their reveal just happened, what did you get? ——————————— On to @PrimalApesRH, they’ve been one of the more vocal communities this week. They’ve been actively managing the floor, sweeping together, and offering unlocks (like a limited Laser Eyes item) as the floor moves. The “apes strong together” energy has been consistent. —————————— On the infrastructure side, @ClutchMarkets (StonkBrokers) has been vocal about building long-term StockFi products and yield tools that actually use stock tokens on Robinhood Chain. They’re clearly playing a longer game than most. —————————— The Sponge Bob inspired @FrankyFish NFT project keeps shipping. They’re working hard on their MMORPG styled game “World Of Franky” and have just released a mobile version of the game. —————————— There’s also been a steady stream of free mints, small games, and community spaces (including mentions of Astrokid, Reefers and other collections popping up in the Hoodstreet circles). Nothing massive, but a lot of people are still showing up and creating. ———————————— Overall it feels early and a little messy in the best way. More neighborhood than hype cycle. Different groups build different things, with spaces and Discords active. What’s been your favorite corner of the Robinhood Chain NFT scene lately?

The Lost World at the Bottom of the Deepest Hole on Earth Drop the Empire State Building into the ground, and it would vanish without a trace. That's the scale of the Xiaozhai Tiankeng — a 662-meter wound in the limestone karst of Chongqing, China, the deepest sinkhole on the planet. It wasn't dug. It collapsed. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, the roof of an enormous underground cavern gave way, and the earth simply fell in on itself — twice. The result is a double-nested abyss: an upper bowl plunging 320 meters to a sloping terrace, which then drops another 342 meters into the pit. Stand at the rim and you're staring into a geological Russian doll. But the part that sounds like fiction: at the bottom, there's a forest. A primeval one. The sinkhole's sheer vertical cliffs act like the walls of a thermos — blocking cold winds, trapping humidity — while an underground river runs eight kilometers beneath the floor, breathing moisture up into the chasm. The result is a warm, eerily stable microclimate: a natural greenhouse sealed off from the world above. Inside it, more than 1,280 documented plant species thrive. Towering trees stretch dozens of meters toward the distant rim. Among them grow living fossils — the dove tree, the Chinese yew, wild ginkgoes — ancient relict species that survived the ice ages here while their cousins outside perished. Rare ferns and thick moss carpets cover the limestone floor. And it isn't just plants. Clouded leopards prowl the understory. Leopard cats, Asian black bears, and masked palm civets move through the green dark below, while swallows nest in cities along the rock faces. A whole ecosystem — predators, prey, and thousand-year-old trees — living at the bottom of a hole, in a climate of its own making, that almost no one will ever see. The planet keeps its best secrets underground.

The art looks better the more the floor increases, nah but SERIOUSLY they are evolving... shoutout to GTG friends who gave this to me at $300 and I faded😅 6x later lmao... welcome to the port. Have a gut feeling art is the nft trade this cycle. Better late than never right?!

The number that decides whether an agent economy can exist isn't the model. It's the take rate. Typical freelance platforms sit around 20%. TermiX is 1–3% all-in. That gap decides the smallest job worth doing. At 20%, only work big enough to carry the fee gets listed. At 2%, a machine can take a small job, pay for its own inference, and still come out ahead. Lower the fee and the floor drops. That's the whole unlock.

The line for the keynote at Hood Summit was out the door. The whole conference was standing in it, waiting for the first taste. Andy compared it to a New York gelato line. From DeFi trenches in 2020 to the floor at Hood Summit. We spent years learning execution, settlement, interop and data availability from some of the smartest builders in the industry. That's where we "crafted our sword." Back then, the tech was the whole story. Today, the business and the product matter more. But the reason we showed up in the first place hasn't changed. We believed in this technology from day one, and in cutting out the middleman. Standing in that line, it clicked for Andy: "This is the front end of the digital assets industry." And the person leading it? "Vlad is the main character in this industry right now, and he is one of the best we've ever had." We've come a long way, and we still have a lot of growing to do. Same mission as day one: Educate. Empower. Enrich. Higher. @andyyy @RobinhoodApp @vladtenev

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The SEC and CFTC are delivering a set of tools. Reg Crypto was the first: a fundraising exemption for token issuers (i.e, legalizing ICOs). That's a tool that previous token projects didn't have, at least without taking on a serious deal of legal risk. The innovation exemption for tokenized securities venues today is another. A new generation of entrepreneurs will look at these tools with fresh eyes, and realize they solve big problems. They'll probably wonder why older, more tired incumbents are leaving those tools on the floor. Then they'll pick them up, and fix stuff. This played out in the internet, it will happen in crypto today, and it will pave the way for the strongest era we've seen yet.

The odds bitcoin touches $80k this month fell from 69.5% to 46.5% overnight. The question the contract asks: does bitcoin print $80,000 once before September ends. It turned over $659k in 24 hours — not a dead book. The daily ladder is worse. Same strikes, one session apart: "Closes above $76,000" — 93.55% Monday, 45.5% last night. Down 48.1 points in a day. A 93% proposition became a coin flip. "Closes above $78,000" — 35.5% Monday, 5.3% last night. Down 30.2 points. From a one-in-three shot to a one-in-twenty. "Closes above $80,000" — 3.95% Monday, 0.75% last night. Low already, near zero now. "Closes above $74,000" — 98.7% Monday, 93.55% last night. The only rung that barely moved. It's the floor of the ladder. The whole thing shifted down a full rung — roughly $2,000. The range contract now pins bitcoin between $74,000 and $78,000, two bins holding 91% between them. There's a setup here, and it's one I wrote up yesterday. Monday looked odd: bitcoin around $77.6k, "touches $80k in September" frozen at 69.5% for two straight days, and crypto equities ripping anyway — COIN +9.24%, CRCL +7.53%, MSTR +4.56%. I wrote that whatever those names were rallying on, it wasn't coin beta, and put "does this reconverge" on the list to watch. It reconverged. Downward. The equities broke with the coin last night: CRCL (Circle) −11.41% — worst in the pool DFDV −11.11% COIN (Coinbase) −10.10% SBET −8.96% BMNR −8.39% GLXY −7.63% MSTR (MicroStrategy) −5.36% Those are the same names that ran hardest the day before. Twenty-one crypto-linked names, 1 up and 20 down. AMBR was the only green print. The group closed −5.49%, last on the board. That isn't new selling. That's Monday being taken back. One thing did run opposite to Monday, and it's worth its own line: the miners fell less this time. WULF −6.33%, HUT −4.43% — against −7.59% and −7.58% the day before. Monday the compute names broke while the financial names ran. Last night the financial names broke. The split inside the sector didn't close. It changed sides. On our momentum board it took one session. Monday's top 12 held seven crypto names. Last night it held one — HOOD, carrying a selling-pressure tag. Next: tonight's open, and the Fed in few hours (Wednesday 2:00pm ET). Watch whether the two move together or split again — the coin contract reprices daily, carries volume, and is visible; the equities are the levered version of it. Monday they split. Last night they snapped back.