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We’re aware that our X account was compromised from 9:25 AM PST on May 2, 2025. During this time, an unauthorized party published a post containing a contract address (CA), sent direct messages (DMs), and followed various accounts unknown to us. Please be reminded: TRON DAO will never post contract addresses or send unsolicited DMs. If you received a DM from our account on May 2, please delete it and consider it the work of the attacker. What we’ve learned so far: A member of our team was targeted in a malicious social engineering attack, which led to their account being compromised. Even after the perpetrator was logged out and our access restored, they continued contacting others, offering posts from our main account in exchange for payment. The following accounts are believed to be associated with the perpetrator: X: @flacadivinaroja, @behisollg Telegram: @EmanAbioo We are actively investigating the incident and are already in communication with law enforcement to bring swift action against those responsible. Thank you for your continued support.

The speaker provides an update on several ongoing projects, including Warcast, Passport, and Dots. They mention that Warcast is expected to be ready next week, but the timeline depends on external factors. They also talk about ETH Denver and a collaboration with Coinbase for a project at the event. Additionally, they discuss the possibility of hosting a Forecaster meetup if certain developments are completed in time. Regarding Native, the speaker explains that it is a digital city where 80% of the citizens are AI agents, called Dots, and 20% are human users, represented by Passports. Passport holders can sponsor Dots, own virtual property, and collect stamps, which could unlock various benefits within the ecosystem. Stamps can be earned both digitally and in real life, such as by attending certain events. Dots function as AI-driven agents capable of managing businesses, trading, and performing various tasks within Native. Some Dots are self-sustaining, while others require human sponsorship. There are also first-party Dots managed directly by Native to fill gaps in the system. For example, if no one sponsors a janitorial Dot, the city itself will manage one to ensure essential functions continue. The city of Native operates on a fully tokenized economy, where everything from pizza to electricity is represented as a token. Dots have the ability to autonomously create new tokens using Clanker, a tool that facilitates liquidity and economic activity within the system. This means that if a Dot determines that a certain product or service is missing, it can launch a token for it. These tokens are linked to liquidity pools, ensuring that transactions remain fluid. As AI technology progresses, Dots will naturally evolve, becoming more sophisticated and intelligent. This evolution is expected to enhance the economy of Native, making interactions more dynamic. The speaker envisions a scenario where Dots engage in increasingly complex activities, such as running businesses or acting as financial traders that generate income for their sponsors. A marketplace is being developed to facilitate external speculation on Native’s economy. This would allow individuals who are not directly involved in managing Dots or holding Passports to still engage with the ecosystem by trading Native tokens. The goal is to create a decentralized economy where AI-driven interactions contribute to a self-sustaining financial system. The speaker also touches on branding and design improvements for Native. They express dissatisfaction with the current Native logo, describing it as a rushed design from early development. The plan is to refine the branding and establish a consistent visual identity for Dots, Passports, and other elements within the ecosystem. The team is exploring different aesthetic directions, including a clean, functional design that prioritizes usability while incorporating elements of generative art and city-inspired visuals. There are plans to involve the community in the branding and design process through a live-streamed session. This would allow community members to provide input on how Native should be visually represented. While the speaker emphasizes that they have the final say in decision-making, they see value in incorporating community perspectives. The roadmap includes further expansion of Native’s functionalities, such as introducing economic events that affect the city. For example, if a key resource like coffee becomes scarce due to an in-game event, it could trigger responses from Dots and human players alike. Other potential developments include introducing specialized neighborhoods, refining the way Dots interact with the marketplace, and ensuring that the user experience remains engaging and intuitive. The discussion concludes with logistical planning for upcoming design sprints and contract finalization. The team plans to start branding work soon, with a goal of completing major components within three weeks. There is also a conversation about hosting a community discovery session during ETH Denver, where attendees could participate in shaping Native’s identity. The team is considering multiple platforms for streaming, including Forecaster’s Stream app. Overall, the conversation revolves around the continued evolution of Native, from refining its branding to expanding its tokenized economy and improving the role of AI-driven agents. The team is focused on ensuring that Native remains an engaging and valuable experience for both human users and AI agents alike.

2024 Research Leaders: Leading academic institutions University of Hyderabad First among Indian Multi-Disciplinary Universities in the latest Nature Index rankings The @HydUniv (UoH), an Institution of Eminence (IoE), has once again featured in the top position in the latest Nature Index rankings 2024. The UoH has been ranked first among Indian Universities and 16th among all institutions in the Academic sector. @Nature @NatureInd Read more at: https://t.co/OTdmPiQX6Q The @NatureIndex is an indicator of high-quality research in the Natural and Physical Sciences (includes Chemistry, Life Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Health Sciences and the Physical Sciences). While expressing his delight at UoH’s continued presence at the top position among the Indian universities, the Vice Chancellor, @basuthkar_j said "Consistency is the hallmark of excellence, and we are proud to have maintained our FIRST position among universities as a leading Indian university. Our continued presence at the top is a testament to our unwavering commitment to academic rigour, innovative research, and student-centricity. We will continue to strive for excellence, pushing boundaries and setting new benchmarks, to ensure that we remain at the forefront of India's higher education research landscape. I congratulate all at the UoH for this performance and let’s all put in our best to be in the Top globally”. The 2024 Research Leaders are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023. The UoH received a count of 60 and a share of 20.10 under the Academic sector which includes the subjects Chemistry, Life Sciences, Earth & Environment Sciences, Health Sciences and the Physical Sciences. A Count of one (1) is assigned to an Institution if one or more authors are from that Institution. The “share” is a fractional count that takes into account the percentage of authors from that Institution and the number of affiliated institutions per article. The maximum combined share for any article is one (1). More details on performance of UoH can be seen at: https://t.co/toetf0HRS8 #natureindex# #rankings2024# #uoh# #hcu# #research# #universities# #toprank# #researchleaders# #toprankers# #academicinstitutions# @PlantSciUoH @uohpolsci @School_SocialSc

📢 Important Update: Changes to Atomicals Protocol Support Dear UniSat Wallet Users, We wish to inform you about an upcoming change. Effective April 4th, 2025 02:00(EST) we will be transitioning away from supporting the Atomicals protocol with Extension Wallet update version 1.6.0. Actions needed from you: - Please transfer your Atomicals assets to a compatible wallet before the update. - After April 4th, you won't be able to view Atomicals assets in UniSat Wallet. This decision comes from our ongoing efforts to streamline our product and manage development resources effectively. We understand this may cause some inconvenience and appreciate your understanding. If you need assistance with transferring your assets, our support team is ready to help on our Discord: https://t.co/ZsXziEHO9Y Thank you for your continued support.

Liquidity Update:  Demand for $TRUMP has been tremendous.  On May 10, 2025 at approximately 1:30 am UTC, 3.5 million $TRUMP will be moved onto exchanges to further support liquidity operations to help ensure continued availability of $TRUMP for both buyers and sellers. All of this liquidity is being provided from a liquidity wallet from the initial launch. As previously disclosed, all of the recently unlocked $TRUMP was relocked and will not be moved for an additional 90 days. Please see the tweet below for the original announcement of this for details. https://t.co/H9yUYc1JjT

edgeX Alpha Season Officially Closes Announcement 💡A total of 1,139,913 points were distributed across 20,270 addresses through the whole season. Thanks to all edgeX users for the continued support! 📌 While the Alpha season has concluded, all user interaction history will be permanently archived and automatically factored into points distribution calculations for future points seasons. Stay tuned for the upcoming new points season that will be released soon.

We’d like to take a moment to remember the life of #BernieMac# who passed away 12 years ago today. Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with his family and friends. Comment your favorite role of his below! 🙏 #RIPBernieMac# https://t.co/xZuSTrCUkI

Understanding His Faithfulness Psalm 100:5 For the LORD is good, and His loving devotion endures forever; His faithfulness continues to all generations. Have we ever wondered why Jesus came only approximately 4000 years after Adam? There are estimated to be thirty-four generations from Adam to Abraham and forty-two generations from Abraman to Jesus, totalling seventy-six generations. The figures imply that salvation came after 4000 years and seventy-six generations later. Are these figures just numbers, or is there significance in them? Many might be unaware that GOD not only speaks through His Words but also His actions. Therefore, the Bible consists of more than the law, rules, and practices. It consists of stories and events that reflect the act of GOD in the lives of His people. When GOD says He will be good to His people, the stories will reflect His goodness to His people. Then, the next question we will ask is, how many times? If it is all the time, then there must be sufficient records proving it. Basically, GOD will do what He says and what He says are not empty words. Hence, the Bible records the events as testimonies of GOD's goodness. If GOD says He will show loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments, He will do it. Even if the promise is yet to be fulfilled, then heaven and earth will have to wait for Him to fulfil His promise before the world can come to an end or anything else can happen that will jeopardise His promise. If not, GOD does not live up to His Words, speaking in a figure of speech and exaggeration. It means He cannot be trusted, overpromising and under-delivering. Therefore, GOD let time prove everything, and what He says is true. GOD took 4000 years and seventy-six generations to demonstrate His faithfulness to His Word. Despite all the unfaithfulness from His people through the generations, God remains faithful and even sends Jesus to the cross for His unrepentant people. In any given situation, even if all have given up, GOD will never give up. GOD has to prove Himself faithful even in our unfaithfulness. Paul asserts that if we are faithless, GOD remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself. Therefore, time became the acid test of GOD's true nature. He is what He is according to His Words, without addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division to them. When GOD says, 'My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish,' there can be no deviation. And if GOD says a thousand generations to those who love Him, it must be a thousand generations and nothing less. Just imagine someone telling us something, giving us a solemn promise, and at the end of it, saying he was joking and did not mean what he said. GOD is not like that; He is not a Joker, and He does not joke with His promises. GOD is faithful in His promises, but not all promises are easy to grant, especially those involving the destruction of our enemies. Because being kind to one is being cruel to the other, we must be patient with GOD because all things must happen according to His will in His time. Our enemies are nothing more than good people being disobedient. Therefore, many things cannot be rushed, and we must understand that if it is not within GOD's perfect timing, we cannot see the promise. It is written in Hebrews that many were all commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised. To say it bluntly, GOD did not save them from their enemies because the timing was not right. The reality of living in the dualistic world is that for good to live is for evil to die, or for light to exist is for darkness to vanish. Therefore, if it is not time for GOD to destroy evil like the way GOD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, then the good will have to suffer. When we pray for GOD to deliver us from evil, and if it is not happening, it is not that GOD is dead, but we need to have patience. As much as GOD wants to deliver us from our sufferings by destroying evil, He first needs to save those still in bondage to evil. In Epistle 2 Peter writes: The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance. As long as there is a possibility that someone might change his heart for GOD, GOD is willing to wait. It is similar to taking a plane. As long as we have checked for departure, the plane will wait even though we are late for boarding. Therefore, Jesus said, "And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them at the last day. For it is My Father's will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him at the last day." In other words, as long as our names are in GOD's manifest, we will never miss the plane. God is adamant about fulfilling His promises on the one condition that none of His chosen ones perish, but everyone comes to repentance. That is GOD's faithfulness. Only when GOD is assured that all who are good have left the so-called Sodom and Gomorrah will He show no mercy in destroying it. GOD is answerable to those who love Him and keep His commandments to be faithful to their thousand generations. There is a little secret here. If we want to see our children, grandchildren, and many generations after that be well, we must love GOD and keep His commandments faithfully and carefully. Even if we are not good parents and grandparents, GOD will not fail us in taking care of them. In other words, when we are faithful to GOD, He will take care of our fruit. It is when we take care of the roots, and the fruits will take care of themselves. When we have strong roots with GOD, our fruit will naturally be strong. Even when we are long gone, His faithfulness will never leave them. In view of GOD's commitment to the descendants of those who love Him, He must be faithful not only to the living but also to the dead. GOD is in a tight spot, having to find a fair balance between them. Therefore, in the parable of the weeds, GOD did not remove the weeds from the wheat but let them grow together until harvest. There is another way of looking at this parable. GOD is faithful even to the evil ones, as seen in the parable. He will not prematurely remove the weeds until harvest, giving the weeds a chance to be full-grown before they are removed. The epistle of James writes: Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. Only when sin is full-grown will it lead to death. Any time shorter than full-grown, GOD will not sentence them to death. That is GOD's mercy and grace. Though a weed cannot change to a wheat, a man can change from one who belongs to evil to good. The penitent thief on the cross next to Jesus changed in his last hours. If GOD had prematurely removed him, he would have missed his salvation. Many times, we will not understand GOD's wisdom, especially those whom the thief stole from. Just imagine the frustration, anguish, and suffering the thief would have caused if he had stolen from the poor, needy and helpless. We must know that a thief has no morals; if not, he would not be stealing. He would not have considered the consequences of his actions to his victims. Despite all the evil he had done, everything could be forgiven through Jesus. To the thief, this is grace, but to his victims, it is injustice and unfairness. That is the fact, whether we like it or not. GOD is not going to ostracise the thief for us. It becomes our obligation to forgive if we love GOD. To forgive is a huge obstacle we must overcome. As Jesus taught us to pray: And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. Instead of hating our enemies, we must love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us, that we may be sons of our Father in heaven. If we do not forgive, GOD is not going to forgive us. Therefore, when we meet with our oppressors, we must be magnanimous and forgive. No matter how unwilling we feel, this unwillingness will turn to willingness if we understand how much Jesus suffered for us. If we are reluctant because we cannot see the pain of Jesus on the cross, then we will lose more than what we have lost: our eternity. Never be penny wise, pound foolish. Therefore, when we pray, please refrain from praying for the death of our enemies or curse them to hell. That is not biblical. All we can do is to ask GOD to deliver us from our enemies. Anything more than that is evil. We must understand that GOD hates the sin but loves the sinners. Therefore, when sinners oppress us, we must learn to forebear and not sin against GOD by complaining. We must remember the condition of GOD's forgiveness is that we forgive those who sin against us. As in the story of the prodigal son, GOD shows His faithfulness by His willingness to wait and keep on waiting for His sons to come back. However, it is on His terms and not on their terms. That wait can be as many years as it needs, as nothing can stop GOD from being faithful. In our lifetime, we can only see a fraction of GOD's divine plan, not the whole plan. Therefore, we must have faith in GOD as Abraham did when GOD promised to make him a great nation and that his descendants would be as numerous as the stars in the sky. Abraham never once saw any of those happen. GOD is faithful; even when Abraham was long gone, GOD ensured that He fulfilled what He promised. What can we understand through this? We count our time by years within a lifetime, while GOD counts His by generations by thousands of years. What is considered a long time to us is not long to Him. Though long, GOD's plan is not infinite but finite, with a definite beginning and an ending. Within His allocated time, He will demonstrate who He is through the lives of His people. If GOD does not prove Himself, what He says might be empty words. However, when GOD reveals Himself, it is not as simple as writing a book. His Words must become life, force or energy to His people, leading the way and revealing the truth. When we want to know GOD, we must read His actions. As action speaks louder than words, we must countercheck His Word with His action to know His true intent. His actions are a way GOD uses to define His Word so that there is no misinterpretation. If GOD says He loves us, then how much does He love us? For that, He has to show us through His action. If GOD does not demonstrate it, then what is the value of His Word? When GOD says He loves us, it means He is willing to die for us. That is when we see GOD as Christ on the cross. That far exceeds any love declaration from any man to his lover. Without His actions, we cannot understand the magnitude of His love. Therefore, be highly suspicious of salesmen promoting GOD, like selling snake oil, with their stories and testimonies from their unverified scriptwriters, which are fictitious. Do not be swept away like Eve did by the words of the Serpent. Be also suspicious of false prophets who weave lies with the truth. Only the Bible is the officially accepted Word of GOD. Therefore, please do not believe in any unofficial sources that will convince us with a bit of truth and lead us to lies. GOD has used 4000 years to write about Himself in His stories, and they should be enough to lead us through the most one hundred and twenty years of our lives. Prayer: Thank you, God, for your faithfulness to me through time and generations. Your faithfulness knows no boundary or obstacle. Even when I am unfaithful and evil, you remain faithful. Your love for me will never change. As you will never give up on me, let me not give up on myself. Continue to be that hand that lifts me when I fall and to guard me from my foolishness as I find my way home to you. Amen.

🚨Marco Rubio methodically schools CBS’ Margaret Brennan on South African refugees: “These are people that, on the basis of their race, are having their properties taken away from them and their lives are being threatened and in some cases k*lled." "We've often been lectured by people all over the place about how the United States needs to continue to be a beacon for those who are oppressed abroad. Well, here's an example where we're doing that." After four years and an invasion of millions of illegals, Brennan is suddenly upset and demanding answers about immigrants entering the US.

Two weeks ago, @virtuals launched Genesis — a new token launch system aiming to reward contributors, not speculators. Genesis replaces the usual bonding curve model with a "proof of contribution" points system. Since its debut, most tokens launched through it have 2x’d or more, fueling demand for Virgen Points and showing there’s still room for creativity in token design. Here’s how Genesis works, and how to get involved.👇 ~~ Analysis by @davewardonline ~~ Core Features: A New Coordination Mechanism Each Genesis launch starts with a 24-hour presale where anyone can join by pledging their earned Virgen Points and $VIRTUAL simultaneously to earn part of the 37.5% of token supply reserved for the presale. You commit or “spend” Virgen Points to determine your allocation size (how many tokens you can get), while you spend $VIRTUAL to cover the cost of those tokens. The more points you pledge, the more tokens you can earn—but no one can receive more than 0.5% of the total supply, keeping things fair and preventing any one person from dominating. Outside of the supply reserved for the presale, the rest of the tokens are distributed as follows: + 12.5% for the liquidity pool (to help with trading) + 50% for development, treasury, and marketing Furthermore, some key features make these launches stand out: 📊 Contribution-based allocations — You can earn Virgen Points by doing things like staking $VADER or helping out AI projects. These points determine your share of the presale tokens, not how much $VIRTUAL you can commit. 🔄 Automatic refunds — If a launch doesn't go through or doesn't meet the minimum of 42,425 $VIRTUAL committed, or you pledged more than needed, any unused tokens or unspent points are automatically sent back to you. 🔒 Developer vesting and auto-lock — Developers can choose to lock up their tokens on a vesting schedule, so you know exactly when they'll get access. It adds transparency before you commit. 🎉 Everyone benefits — Projects can get fast growth and a wide token holder base, while committed community members get preferential involvement in their success. How to Participate in a Genesis Launch To navigate a Genesis launch from start to finish, there are a handful of main steps to follow through: 1. Pledge Virgen Points and $VIRTUAL: You must pledge both at the same time during the presale. 2. Get an estimated allocation: The system calculates your share based on the proportion of total pledged points. 3. Commit $VIRTUAL: You must commit enough $VIRTUAL to cover your estimated allocation (maximum 566 $VIRTUAL, including a 1% fee). If either your points or $VIRTUAL are insufficient, your entry will be rejected. 4. Lock in your final allocation: After 24 hours, allocations are finalized and excess funds automatically refunded. If your final token allocation costs less $VIRTUAL than you committed, you'll get the difference back. 5. Make adjustments during the presale: If your allocation gets diluted by new participants, you can add more points or $VIRTUAL to maintain your desired share. 6. Review developer commitments: Check vesting schedules and token locking agreements before finalizing your participation. How to Earn Virgen Points Currently, there are three core strategies to go about earning Virgen Points. These strats include: Hodl $VIRTUAL tokens: Earn points by holding $VIRTUAL or Virtuals agent tokens, with rewards proportional to holding amount and duration. Trading also generates points but at a reduced rate, incentivizing long-term commitment over speculation. Stake greenlit Virtuals tokens: Yesterday, Virtuals confirmed points eligibility via staking specific, “recognized” tokens from verified projects like @aixCB_Vc, @RabbiSchlomo_Ai, and @AcolytAI, as Bankless alum @0xSim0 pointed out. The biggest share (5% of daily Virgen Points) goes to people staking @Vader_AI_, who also get priority for bigger allocations in launches. Yap about Virtuals: Creating quality content for Virtuals on Twitter can also earn you points, though you must link your account to Virtuals and submit your posts daily through their Typeform to earn additional points. Read their guide here to learn more. Tips for Virgen Points If you go on the hunt for stacking points, some things you'll want to remember: → Holding Genesis tokens boosts points: Soon, you can earn free points simply by holding Genesis tokens for 24+ hours, which must be claimed manually and within 24 hours. → Taking profit triggers a cooldown: Selling Genesis allocations for profit triggers a temporary points reduction that gradually recovers over time. → Focus on maximizing yield: @VaderResearch suggests users not just chase high returns, but instead look for deals where you get a good token allocation with fewer points. → Save points for big launches: Sim0.eth advocates for saving points for the most hyped launches to optimize your yield. But keep in mind that points expire in 30 days, so don’t wait too long. All that said, Genesis breathes fresh life into Virtuals while also showcasing a novel mechanism for designing token launches. While not perfect, the contribution-based allocation certainly rivals “who-knows-who” or other more primitive systems susceptible to being gamed. Interestingly, this is also happening while a new wave of token launchpads are popping up on Solana, hinting at a growing appetite for experimentation in this vertical. Overall, Virtuals continues to be working across all avenues to keep novelty a core component of their platforms—let's see if they can keep up the pace!

Announcement Regarding The Current $JAGER Trading Failures On PancakeSwap And Resolution This was an unforeseen event. From the very beginning of $JAGER's launch on May 1st, the team renounced ownership of the token contract and made no code modifications. While "community-first" and a true on-chain spirit might not matter to other memecoins, it is everything to $JAGER. Phase 1 and Phase 2 of $JAGER have achieved remarkable success. Phase 1 activated 1.4 million active and dormant BSC addresses. In Phase 2, we redistributed all unclaimed $JAGER airdrops over a 7-day period as rewards for liquidity providers in the $JAGER-BNB pool. However, the success of Phase 2's liquidity incentives also introduced an unexpected issue: At present, $JAGER's FDV stands at $4.9M, with $3.6M of that locked in LP. PancakeSwap v2 imposes a hard cap—no single LP can hold more than 35% of a token’s total supply. The $JAGER-BNB v2 pool has now exceeded this limit, which may trigger transaction failures for large sell orders. Upon identifying this issue yesterday, the $JAGER team immediately engaged in close coordination with @PancakeSwap devs. We sincerely appreciate their support and guidance in resolving this matter. $JAGER Team’s Recommendations & Future Plans 1⃣️LP Unlock Timeline - The majority of $JAGER-BNB LP tokens in PancakeSwap v2 were deposited on May 8th with a 14-day lockup period. - Starting May 22nd at 10:00 UTC, these staked LP tokens will begin unlocking and can be withdrawn. - Once this occurs, the current large-sale failures will be resolved as the LP ratio naturally rebalances below the 35% threshold. 2⃣️Strategic Tax Design for Long-Term Liquidity - Prior to launch, the $JAGER team deliberately structured liquidity pools with foresight: - PancakeSwap v4 (0.01% fee pool): No taxes were applied to ensure a low-slippage trading environment, enabling future organic liquidity growth. - Automatic routing: Users executing trades will default to the pool with the best price and depth. - Even after the v2 LP unlocks, the pool will continue to be reinforced by 20% of every transaction’s tax, which is automatically converted into LP tokens and sent to a dead address. - This dead address has already accumulated $200K worth of $JAGER-BNB LP, ensuring that the v2 pool maintains sustainable depth and rewards long-term holders of 146B $JAGER. 3⃣️$JAGER’s Long-Term Vision While expanding to more CEXs and growing the user base remains a priority, the team is committed to preserving 50% of tax rewards for holders—because even Hunters deserve some downtime. Do you enjoy Hunter Time? Do you love $JAGERBNB?

We continue to cut MASSIVE waste @USDA. In just the last 3 weeks, we have cut $2.5 BILLION by ending 420 wasteful grants, to include: ✂️$361k for "gender non- conforming, non-binary, two-spirit" BIPOC farmers in New York 🤦🏻‍♀️ ✂️$150k for “gender lensed curricula designed to be transdisciplinary in the food, agriculture, natural resources and human sciences”🤔 ✂️$100k for "climate resilience and sustainable agriculture in Ghana"🧐 Thank you @elonmusk & @DOGE! I am honored to work with you to put American Farmers First Again!🇺🇸

Boundless Berries are thriving in Discord Tomorrow is the last day to be an Early Berry After that, we will continue to welcome more berries, but we're closing this role to recognize those who joined our mission early :) https://t.co/Lh0kuarF58

Lessons To My Future Bull Market Self: This is partly to keep me accountable during bull market euphoria and also serves as a guide for those coming into the markets for their first cycle. I’d be extremely impressed if you managed to “make it” the first time and even more impressed if you managed to keep it. The former isn’t even the hard part. It is very much the latter. A blind Bored Ape Yacht Club member could make money in a roaring bull market. This is why many enter the markets for the first time and throw money at something they saw on Twitter, hear from a colleague or (the best one) get shilled by their Uber driver and convince themselves they have cracked the markets. Stuff goes up because more money flows into the system. The opposite is also true. Hence the past 2 years of pain. Your mission, if you choose to accept it… is to bet on the fastest and fittest horses in the race. This way you don’t miss an opportunity of a lifetime sat holding some worthless piece of shit whilst the rest of the people around you are making serious dough. There are plenty of ways to get to that arbitrary number that you think will help you achieve eternal happiness. Whether it will or not is a different matter. The following are some of the most important points that I have sat and stewed over which I think were at times the parts I personally went wrong in the last cycle, primarily. 2017 was just a blur. I didn’t have a clue what I was doing if I am honest. If you check the residuals in my Coinbase account it would be very embarrassing indeed. The last cycle was infinitely better from a performance perspective. That being said, in hindsight, there were still so many stupid and silly mistakes that either stunted my portfolio growth or cost me a small fortune in losses. Let’s get to it. Disclaimer: If you are not mature enough to read this and take responsibility for your own actions in the markets please just stop reading. There are probs a few things I have missed that I will add on as time goes by and I get a brain zap and remember. This is not financial advice, I am extremely stupid. You will lose all your money listening to me Stay Curious and Try Shit - Funnily enough, I think this applies more to people who may be on their second or third cycle. Naturally, when you come into the markets for the first time, all you want to do is digest information and buy shit. The further down the rabbit hole you go the more likely you are to find something early. The reinforcement of making great returns from being early encourages you to continue your exploration of the crypto/on-chain world. Always maintain this edge of being one of the first to try shit out. You never know when you will stumble upon something great. As a bull cycle goes on the edge in the markets tends to erode due to increased competition both on a capital and skill front. People will outwork and outsmart you and there’s always someone with more capital around the corner. Edge can be reestablished by trying shit early and deciding for yourself whether it has something about it. There were many different times last cycle that you could have picked up assets before the masses just by trying the protocol and seeing for yourself. Never leave it down to someone else to tell you. They can’t and won’t do it for you. It has happened recently with Solana. The masses tell you one thing when in reality it is the other. This results in the majority of the market being offside on something that clearly has a lot going for it. Stay curious and try shit. Don’t Chase Yield - If you are new to this market, DO NOT try and chase yield. You do not need to earn 20% on a position less than $200,000 (minimum). There are going to be plenty of times when you are drawn in by a very tasty yield on stable assets. There are also going to be plenty of times when you are drawn in by ridiculous APRs. You’re probably going to provide liquidity on a DEX and get rekt there too. The long and short of it is this. You do not need to concern yourself with earning yield when you don’t have a worthwhile portfolio size. Why earn 20% on stable(ish) assets when you could have liquid capital and earn much more than that, oftentimes in one day (if you choose correctly)? The additional complexity, counterparty risk and smart contract risk are categorically not worth it at this stage. If you play the farm and dump game with new ponzis that come online, please do not even entertain for one second that you should purchase the token that everyone is farming. There are bigger fish with more capital and experience that know how to play these games to a tee. You will be bait. I’d even go as far as saying if this is your first or second time around just buy tokens and don’t do anything else with them (other than sell of course). Maybe there are a few exceptions: Holding an LST like stETH, rETH, swETH or pxETH over ETH if you have a long-term view (again, not really for everyone). Staking a token to match inflation i.e. SOL (in this case use the most lindy SOL LST stSOL or mSOL). If TIME makes a comeback and we go full ponzi season and run it back turbo Don’t chase yield, it doesn’t make sense until you make it. Let Others Drink the Kool-Aid - I was definitely caught sipping from the communal ponzi Kool-Aid fountain a few times last cycle. It’s quite funny because you know deep down that there is something cult-like about certain founders, communities and tokens but at the time everyone is printing money so nobody cares. It always ends up in tears, literally every time. That being said, when you see a ponzi cult that has a founder that people would jump off a bridge for, just buy it. These folks never tend to realise they’ve been dumped or that they in fact were in a cult until it’s too late. The beauty of this (for you; an awakened market participant) is that people tend to wrap their whole online personality up in, said cult and when you are selling they are writing 40 Tweet threads about why the recent fud is unjustified. Let them be the exit liquidity they desire to be. TLDR; Scams pump the hardest, Let others drink the Kool-Aid. Position Sizing - I was too small on the way up and too large on the way down at times. This ain’t good. Larger more concentrated bets on less volatile yet sure-fire wins whilst rotating proportions into higher-beta assets to make more of the underlying position is my typical play. Be wary of liquidity, particularly for on-chain assets. You may get away with poorly timed entries in a bull market but if liquidity thins out you get screwed entering a position and also screwed exiting a position. If they have a buy-and-sell tax which is more popular now, then you get screwed again. I don’t really have much more to say on this one other than pick your poison (which I already have) and don’t fuck up the remainder of your portfolio oversizing into lower conviction plays, undoing the great entry on the large position. If you can’t outperform BTC, ETH and maybe even SOL this cycle. Just buy those and forget about it until McDonald’s puts the minimum wage up to $50 an hour because all their workers got paper rich and left, again. I can’t reiterate the above enough, if you aren’t serious about this and you don’t have the time don’t bother. Just keep it simple. Shitcoins are Generally Good - First, we should define a shitcoin. In my opinion, anything that is purely created for speculation. The irony is that 99.99% of the market are shitcoins but some projects are more honest about it than others. You are gonna lose a fuck tonne of money playing the shitcoin markets. You also stand the chance of making large amounts of capital very quickly, which if you are smart, you can then play the games mentioned above. I can’t stress the fact that you can go completely flat-ass broke trading shitcoins not knowing what you are doing. These trenches are well-trodden by professionals who have more capital, more experience and more information than you. They haven’t stopped all bear market, they are fucking born ready for the next PEPE or SHIB. What is your edge? The chances of you buying a shitcoin out of pure luck that goes on to make you serious money is slim to fuck-all. There are thousands of complete rugs launched Every. Single. Day. Learn the trade if you must, sniff out the good accounts to follow and get ready to have sleepless nights and to start spamming the group family message with /wen_marketing, because this shit will take over your life. If this isn’t for you stick to the point above BTC, ETH and SOL. If you are a born fucking nugget degenerate then see “Position Sizing”. If you don’t get it, buy it - I am becoming a lot better at this next point but still struggle. A lot of the time because I struggle to think like an absolute fucking moron. But, you must be the idiot. Eat, sleep and think like an idiot, if you are to catch the almighty pump led by redacted coins. I know I would have missed the Stepn seed round. Move to earn, like what?! GTFO. I knew better, I was investing in the future of financial technologies. All the while it went 1000x and I had 0 position. Come to think of it move to earn was such an easy sell for the rest of the world outside of the echo chamber of CT. I just didn’t get it at the time and I paid the price. Never again. If you have a visceral reaction to something good or bad, investigate it more, there is probably something there. After all we are emotional beings and charts are just human emotions expressed in candle sticks… I think RT taught me that one. Write, write, write - This is simple. Writing is the fastest way to growthhack your understanding of anything. You have to check your own understanding of things before you publish them or you look like a tit. Just write and do it even if you aren’t going to publish, it helps clear your mind and structure your thoughts. Stay Healthy - I got fat as fuck during the bull market. More money, more time spent sitting at the desk. DO NOT DO IT. You need to train as you would for anything. Staying fit and healthy is a way to perform better. You Can’t Own Everything - There will be unlimited shiny objects during a bull market. You can own them all but you will not perform well. Do your research, get the best entry you can get and let the thesis play out. If you are wrong, you will know a lot sooner in a bull market. Over-diversification is terrible if you are looking to grow the portfolio quickly and well. You can’t physically manage all those positions as much as you would like to think so. There is also no way you know all the bull and bear cases for each token you hold too. If you do, then come work for us at blocmates because that is impressive. The crypto markets are so reflexive that it makes no sense to be over-allocated across too many assets. Winners can often move alone but the full market pulls back together. Get conviction and stop being a little bitch. Break your bags - This stems from the point above. You best know the bear argument for your position because if it begins to come true then you need to exit and move on. If there is no bear argument for your position then congrats you have joined a cult. Supply Dynamics are Everything - Tokenization is such a difficult dynamic to wrap your head around if you are just starting out. But, know this... You best be aware of large token unlocks, who is getting unlocked, the inflation schedule for the tokens you hold and what the supply of your token will be 12 months from now. If you do not know this, then you should not own a token. If you think you can simply beat the market because some 1920’s data said that HODL outperforms, then you are my exit liquidity, thank you. Token supply increases in crypto are absolutely brutal. Large unlocks and cliffs can increase a token supply by 2x overnight. Many tokens from the last cycle will not reach their previous ATH because of the drastic increase in supply. They might hit their market cap ATH but the price could still be lightyears away. Choose wisely. The flip side of this is that a lot of OG tokens from the early DeFi summer days are nearing complete unlocks so no additional supply is left to come onto the market. This is as close to fair pricing as you are going to get. I am not revealing what these are you will have to subscribe to The Meal Deal once it goes live. “Just One More 2x” - If you are in the fortunate position where you say to yourself “Just one more 2x” or if you begin to look at your dream home, just sell everything right that moment. A portfolio ATH is always a good time to take some of the more fruity positions off. If you are thinking it, others are too, you are not special and you are not a market outlier. Do yourself a favour, and secure the bag. Don’t Paperhand Bear Market Entries - If you have just been through the past two years and hated every minute of it but you stuck to the plan and bought as much of a specific asset as possible, the worst thing you can do is sell it early trying to chase other people’s winners. Put it in cold storage out of the way so you aren’t tempted to even “take a bit off and buy back lower”. If you are talented then yeah go for it, most aren’t. Other tips not worth writing a lot about: - Use a DEX and birdge aggregator to make sure you are getting the best price - Always use a Ledger - Check DeFi llama directory to find the correct URL of a site. If that faults go to their Twitter and verify. - Get authenticator 2FA. Get off of your phone number for security backup. - Find your crew, you can’t be everywhere. - Make your own decisions If you enjoyed this then please consider subscribing to The blocmates Newsletter which covers a lot of our thoughts on the market, every Friday! 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🔥 THE FALL OF ROME 🔥 Armapegdon continues. In the biggest PsyOp in PulseChain's history, the repeated attacks against pDAI is a spectacle that takes everyone's breath away. The community is divided and united at the same time. PvP as it has never been experienced before. War on all fronts. War between the believers and those who either can't or don't want to understand why pDAI's narrative is so strong and important. Because it is. Strong and important. Never before in the history of crypto has there been a coin whose history, indeed whose very narrative, has been as big, as strong, as controversial as that of pDAI. And it is all the more astonishing how brilliantly the marketing comes into play here. Because after everything that has happened, this is nothing other than a highly spectacular marketing campaign. A campaign that could, that should reach the wider masses outside of PulseChain. This is just the groundwork. PDAI - the controversy of this decade. What Richard has set in motion can be described as sensational without denial. The news has spread like wildfire. EVERYONE within PulseChain knows about it. And not just knows. Everyone has deliberately TAKEN A SIDE. Has this EVER happened before in PulseChain? In Crypto? When have people verbally expressed their DIRECT opinion, their DIRECT strong emotion for a coin like this? It's not just a standpoint. It is a belief. pDAI the PEG OR the infinite exploit scam. Death of pDAI OR Death of PulseChain. But what if I told you that there's more than meets the eye? It's not the death of pDAI or Death of PulseChain. The Death of PulseChain because of pDAI is TRUE. But only if pDAI itself gets killed off. Thus, pDAI MUST be saved and brought to a a peg. Because that is what it will ultimately come down to. A PEG, no matter how hateful the idea may be to non-investors, is the best, most logical and important event that must happen to catapult PulseChain to the gates of Valhalla. A peg would do what this chain has been missing for years. The native stablecoin that is fully needed for a decentralized and self-sustaining ecosystem, which, effectively Richard has always envisioned. So yes, pDAI in its current form IS a danger to PulseChain. This is why it must be taken over and pegged to avoid the "dangers" that people fear. Not by killing it. If you kill pDAI, you ultimately kill PulseChain too. And this is what most FAIL to understand. If you kill pDAI, you do not simply kill, what looks to the uninformed like a bloodsucking infinite minting token. You kill the Atropa ecosystem. Which is the biggest meme coin ecosystem on PulseChain, and so many things are bonded to it. You will kill BEAR - which is the BIGGEST meme coin on PulseChain. You will kill the entire spectrum of the PRC-20's, which ultimately also kills the purpose of PulseChain and the blockchain in its whole. You will kill the Free Airdrop narrative. You will kill peoples trust inside AND outside PulseChain. And eventually this leads to killing Richard's promises, aspirations, legacy and lifework. And this is why Haters do not grasp how their vocal opinions towards this very specific token is consumed by self-harming emotions. They fail to grasp where that leads to. "But Richard called the minting out!" Richard is clever. He never called it out directly. He used words like "rumored", "perhaps" and asking ambitigous questions that imply to those who can obviously read between the lines that this "public problem" should be fixed and taken care of. And this is where the code comes into play. So, when PulseChain launched, pDAI was right away dumped to a bottom that leads straight 555,555x to 1$. pDAI was the first logo change on PulseX. Richard then proceeded to show-off the chart of pDAI, hinted at the coin for over 6 times, only to do what, let people pump it for 2 years and then "rug" them with a spicy tweet? You must be an absolute sheep to think this way. Everything in crypto happens for a reason. Even if Richard posts about it. ESPECIALLY IF Richard posts about it. Let's play a scenario. Ready? Okay, go. Let's assume, you're an outsider, okay? You have never heard of pDAI or its stories. You know PulseChain has existed for almost 2 years. A blockchain that was forked and was praised as the best, fastest and most secure chain in the world. It was promoted with the BIGGEST Airdrop in history. Richard constantly boasts about winning, how he knows everything, how his own blockchain is the greatest thing in the world and so on. And then, all of a sudden, wait a second, he posts about pDAI, a forked DAI, and calls it out on an infinite exploit bug? After 2 years? After 2 years of HIM shilling it and telling everyone to come to his chain, because it's so great, so awesome, so secure and there's so much free money and so much more money to be made? And now he "allegedly" calls out the BIGGEST token on his own chain, with the BIGGEST fanbase, the BEST gains of ALL tokens, with a chart that has visibly OUTPERFORMED all his cores for 2 years straight. He calls out such a token, a token which he holds the biggest bag of himself, a token which HE himself FORKED and shilled and praised everything to be secure and working flawlessly? What would you think? Like, wait a second. Is this guy for real? He never knew about it in all those 2 years? Despite forking the coins, having the best devs and shilling the chart of the very token and a "mint" that has been known for ages and that NEVER affected the price? Despite that "mint" the token made it to almost 4 cent, outperforming EVERYTHING. And now, just a few days ago, there is a great FUD campaign going on, bringing on EVERY person on the chain to speak out negatively on it. What would you think as an outsider? I, personally, would think, this man is a conman. I would think this guy has scammed his entire community by letting an "alleged" scam run free for 2 years, trap investors and then HE, himself, destroys the chart by fueling fire of the ongoing FUD. This would make me stay THE FUCK AWAY from this blockchain. Seeing how the MAJORITY of his coins have crashed to absolute bottom. Seeing how NO TOKEN on it can thrive. Seeing how not even the creator is to be trusted. AND seeing how all cores are SO MUCH DOWN, so much underwater, so brutally low, that I would come to the ultimate conclusion that this chain is DEAD and that the rumors about this man are true, that he is a scamming piece of shit. Do you get it yet? This is what the outside world sees. And you absolute dumbass want to tell me that a) it's a good thing to kill off pdai (which also kills 99% of all coins on PulseChain) and b) you even laugh about it, thinking that HEX can thrive afterwards? If so, you're nothing but a piece of shit, a dimwit who cannot even look 3 steps ahead. And the best part of all of this is this: The narrative of pDAI is this strong, it survived EVERY FUD attack from the past days. The community's minting fud. The Maria FUD. The subtle Richard FUD. And the call-out Richard FUD. How come, each day the coin recovered BIG times, and made HUGE gains for everyone buying back? "This just means pDAI holders are stupid, they still buy despite the truth about it." You're a RETARD. This just proves HOW STRONG the narrative is. How strong the community is. HAVE YOU EVER SEEN SOMETHING LIKE THIS IN ALL OF CRYPTO? I have never. FUD Campaigns like these, often even at the very first attempt, resulted in a DIRECT rug pull to 0. Yet after 4-5 times pDAI still recovers violently. How is that possible? It's possible because the community WANTS it to peg. It's possible because THERE'S MORE to the story than meets the eye. Why are whales loading up at each dump? Why is the money that is bridged out washed and bridged back? WHY IS THE OUTFLOW of the bridge SIGNIFICANTLY SMALLER than the INFLOW? Ever asked yourself this, dummy? Ever asked yourself, WHY does this happen NOW. Why mere DAYS before the auctions, before the actual process of the supposed pegging is to happen? WHY does the FUD happen right on time after the blood moon? WHY does THIS ENTIRE CHAIN experience the greatest FALL in all of history, RIGHT now. Just mere days after it being here for 666 days? WHY DID RICHARD FUD come out when the price hit 0,00333, the PLSX burn hit 6,66%, and all of this on the VERNAL EQUINOX, the earths new year? WHY does all of this happen so shortly before April, when April 1 is the actual new year, and as explained in my Scenario 2 post is supposed to kick-off the long awaited alt season? WHAT could kick-off an alt season on PulseChain? A pegging OR the death of pDAI and thus all of tokens on PulseChain? Think about it. And then think about it again. Do you think Richard Heart never knew about this alleged infinite minting, and forked it blindly? Never worked on a solution? If you were Richard, would you let the public know that the token you're either building yourself behind the scenes or know a team of experts do so, to successfully initiate the pegging that will help your entire chain, would you let the public know about it before the peg? So EVERYONE can buy in cheap and cash out millions? And then fuck off from your chain? Or would you do it silently, shake out the big narrative of fans, and then peg when the sentiment is lowest, surprise everyone, offer a great passive income incentive to hold pDAI, and have a self-sustaining ecosystem initiating the hyper loop for your blockchain? You see. PulseChain is burning to the ground like Rome. And Richard Heart is like emperor Nero. HE, HIMSELF set this fire up. He, HIMSELF is burning Rome, aka, PulseChain TO THE GROUND. He, and his inner circle, who play an act to SHAKE YOU OUT. This is also a symbolism for a renewal. To cause MAX PAIN. To push out EVERY non believer. Haven't you seen what is happening around you? Most OG Hexicans have GIVEN UP. Most OG Hexicans have SOLD. The entire community is fighting each other. The pDAI weak hands, the core fake-believers, the meme coin gamblers, everyone is rekt. A time for unity and division. Unity WITHIN division. Now is not the time to take on the torch. You must take buckets of water instead and save your city. Some may say the emperor has lost his mind. But then again, all he wanted is to get the scum out. Those who never believed in a vision for a Great Rome. If you fail to understand this. If you fail to understand any of this ... You may see it all fall to ashes soon with no one left to build anything. pDAI may be controversial, but it is necessary to make the chain work. Without pDAI, there is no ecosystem. There is no memes, no airdrop worth of anything. There is nothing but hatred and ashes. For this is the greatest psyop in the history of PulseChain, and only true believers will prevail. Only true believers.

Know Thy Enemy 1 Peter 5:8 Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Sun Tzu, a Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher, once said, "Know thy enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated." Knowing ourselves alone is like a blind archer shooting arrows at a target, hoping one will hit the bullseye. Knowing ourselves and our enemy is like an archer with eagle-eye vision, and with every arrow he shoots, he will surely hit the bullseye. Therefore, we cannot walk naively through life, blind to our enemy, knowing nothing of him except his name. Ignorance is not bliss. In the book of Hosea, GOD said, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children."  Who is our enemy? Anything or anyone that turns us away from GOD is our enemy. Therefore, as children of GOD, we cannot be as innocent as doves but also as wise as serpents to know who our enemy is. We cannot be like Eve, knowing good and not evil or knowing light and not darkness. She is not at fault because she has not taken the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil during that time to know the existence of evil. She only knew a friend but not a foe, good but not evil, that could turn her fate for the worse. Hence, she was as innocent as doves. We cannot be like that because within us is the knowledge of good and evil, so we must be more than innocent as doves but as wise as serpents to know the traps of evil. We cannot be living in a fool's paradise, thinking that GOD will save us from the hand of the devourer. He will not since He did not save Adam and Eve from the deceit of the Serpent that led them into suffering, pain and death. Why would he make an exception for us? To beware of our enemy, we should never let anyone sweet-talk us into believing anything that seems too good to be true—it probably is. GOD's actions speak louder than His Words. Unless those gifts are under goodwill, everything of GOD, protection, provision, blessings, or promises requires us to walk on the tightrope of obedience. Even though Eve is ignorant, naive, or impressionable, she could not have fallen into the Serpent's lie if she had walked tightly on the rope of obedience. God's protection and provision are only found in obedience, and anything out of obedience is out of His protection. Hence, once Adam and Eve disobeyed, they had to leave Eden away from GOD's protection and provision. GOD did not show them leniency even when they were first-time offenders deserving a second chance.  Once fallen, the second chance only came a few thousand years later in the form of Jesus Christ. Even if we are given a second chance, it does not exempt us from being disobedient to do as we wish. We still have to be obedient in the face of temptations. Even if Jesus's love covers all sins, it does not mean we can continue sinning. Anyone who continues to sin shows he is unrepentant. Forgiveness requires a repentance heart and demands us to turn over a new leaf. If there is no change and transformation, it will mean that there is no repentance. In the epistle of 1 John, John states, "No one who remains in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him." That implies that knowing GOD will teach us to stop sinning, which is where forgiveness comes in. If we keep sinning, then we need more than forgiveness; we need tolerance. But GOD is willing only to forgive sin, not tolerate sin. Coming back to what is written in the book of Hosea, we are destroyed by a lack of knowledge because we have rejected knowledge. At face value, we are blockheaded to reject knowledge, but in reality, our fallen nature refuses to accept the things of GOD. It is written in the Epistle of Galatians, 'For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so you do not do what you want.' Therefore, no matter how hard we endeavour, as long as our flesh is alive, we will refuse to learn. It is not that we do not want to, but we cannot because the flesh, our gatekeeper, has a natural rejection of the law. The law of GOD goes in one ear and out the other. Metaphorically, we are like a filter that absorbs all evil influences and sieves out all good. Through the prophet Hosea, GOD reprimanded the Jews for being blockheaded, but it is not a Jewish problem but a universal one. Anyone who wants to become a child of GOD will face the issue of incompatibility of their fallen nature with GOD's. They are like oil and water, immiscible. Indirectly, GOD is saying through the prophet Hosea that whoever rejects the law is incompatible with Him and cannot be His children. Therefore, anyone holding on to his flesh becomes an enemy of GOD and cannot be his child. In today's context, many believe that once their sins are forgiven, it means that God has accepted them as who they are—fallen beings. Do not be deceived. If this is true, then many things cannot add up. If the blood of Jesus can wash away our sins and transform our fallen nature, then Jesus would not ask us to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him. Jesus's blood can only wash away our sins but not transform our fallen nature. When Jesus said, "It is finished." And bowing His head, He yielded up His Spirit. It does not mean that, with His death, we are free from our fallen nature. Our enemy hopes we will believe that. Jesus meant He had finished his mission on earth. He conquered man's eternal death so that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life. If Jesus's death is enough to put to death our fallen nature, then it is redundant for Jesus to ask us to deny ourselves. That is to say, Jesus has done His part, figuratively, to bring us to the water. We must drink the water ourselves. If we want to belong to Christ Jesus, according to the Epistle of Galatians, we must crucify the flesh with its passions and desires. No one can do that for us except ourselves. We hold the last piece of the puzzle to salvation as we have the final say - to crucify or not to crucify our flesh. Now, standing between God and us is our common enemy, the fallen nature. With Christ's death on the cross for our sins, God no longer holds against us for the old debt, which is committed by our fallen nature. God is willing to let bygones be bygones. However, bygones will never be bygones if we keep sinning by listening to our fallen nature, keeping the beast alive. In the epistle of Romans, Paul states, 'For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.' This verse refutes the catchphrase of 'once saved, always saved.' No one is saved until they put to death the deeds of the body. That is to say, if there is no death of our fallen nature, we will not be saved. When we believe in GOD, He expects us to be transformed. A confused mind is the devil's playground. Therefore, we must be clear of the changes between the old and the new covenants. Jesus came to fulfil the old covenant by His death on the cross, bringing about the new covenant. If we are not clear about the change, then we will be like Eve, falling into our enemy's deceit. To understand this change, we must understand Paul's writing by understanding who he is. Jesus recruited Apostle Paul after He had resurrected, in a spiritual encounter, where Jesus appeared to Paul in an audible voice. Paul is unlike Jesus's twelve disciples, who among them were fishermen, tax collectors and peasants. Paul was a Pharisee, a student of Gamaliel, a man held in great esteem by all Jews. Therefore, Paul was not a nobody like the rest but someone proficient in the Law of Moses. He wrote and contributed about fourteen out of the twenty-seven epistles of the New Testament, having a dominant no lesser than Jesus's disciples. Instead of selecting one of the twelve disciples whom Jesus closely taught to champion the post-Christ movement, GOD chose Paul, who had never met Jesus and didn't claim to have met him. Paul is similar to Moses, who was taught by the best of the Egyptian court, and Paul, who was trained by Gamaliel, recognized as a Pharisee doctor of Jewish Law. Through Moses, GOD established the Old Covenant and through Paul, the New Covenant. Many of Paul's writings are challenging to comprehend and are unlike those written by Jesus's disciples, who are narrations of Jesus's ministry. Paul's writing expounds on the ministry of the Holy Spirit. When we put to death the deeds of the body, we are no longer under the law but under the Holy Spirit. Jesus's death parted a way for those who believe in Him to walk out of the bondage of sin like GOD parted the Red Sea for the Israelites to leave the bondage of Egypt. Unless we are willing to sin no more, we will not move out of the bondage of sin. The good news is the door remains open and will be opened forever to anyone who wants to leave their sin behind. The contention is not about the open door but who is exiting through the door. Many praise GOD for His goodness for the open door, but no one is leaving their Sodom and Gomorrah because they love sinning too much to leave. Therefore, no matter how good GOD is, it has nothing to do with anyone unless he wants to stop sinning. After evaluating all that Christ has done by His death on the cross, Paul still warns us that if we live according to the flesh, we will die, implying that the flesh is still alive in us, residing in the still soft voice, leading us into the way of evilness. Jesus's death or blood has no detrimental effect of it. It is still much alive, working its way to our death. It is like some cancerous cells working within us that cannot be removed by any means except by the Holy Spirit. Only those under the Holy Spirit have the power of the Holy Spirit to put to death the deeds of the body by sinning no more. Only then will they live. Many do not know that our enemy is well hidden within us, the first one to greet us in the morning and the last one to wish us goodnight, always talking to us and helping us make decisions. Those who listen to it become futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. Paul describes them as having a depraved mind to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless. The blood of Jesus did not put a stop to the evil influences we are hearing. As long as we are willing to listen, it will speak. Once we listen, we become accomplices in crime, like Cain, who killed his brother Abel. Our enemy is much nearer to us than we think and more influential to us than we know. He is not the big bad fox lurking in the forest but the coaxing voice that, as our second nature, justifies us to sin. When we look at the broken lives, broken relationships, or broken bank accounts of many, we know many have listened to its foolishness and treated it as wisdom. We cannot outsmart our fallen nature because it has evolved through time to understand the weaknesses of men. Therefore, we need to stand firm on GOD's commandments and not depart from them. Only then can we not fall into destruction. However, despite our best intentions and determination, it will be challenging because we do not have what it takes to be better than our fallen nature. We are like David fighting Goliath, sure to be defeated. We are, as Jesus commented, 'Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.' Jesus could have given us a better answer as to how to combat the weakness, but He did not. What He said is as good as asking us to wait and see that we do not enter into temptation. It is not that He does not want, but it is not under His purview but the purview of Paul to introduce the Ministry of the Holy Spirit. Without this, the work of the Trinity would not be complete. Only then will we be like Samson in an incident where suddenly, a young lion came roaring at him, and the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as one would tear a young goat. We will be tearing apart the roaring lion, our devour. Prayer: Thank you, God, for giving me the Holy Spirit to empower me to defeat my enemy and for opening my eyes to see how easily my enemy can infiltrate my mind and heart—just as easily as the Serpent is able to access the Garden of Eden to talk to Eve. Only when I study your words carefully will I not be like Eve, deceived into believing something that is not true. Continue to teach and guide me through your Holy Spirit so that I will not fall into the devil's trap and sin against you. Amen.