Since the rsETH exploit, AAVE incurred over $200 million in bad debt and lost more than $10 billion in TVL as everyone rushed for the exits.

AAVE’s reputation and trust are compromised to the level that it is now fighting for its very survival. At the time of writing this, there is no solution to its bad debt problem and billions in assets are still stuck on their platform with users unable to withdraw.

This is what we call a black swan event in crypto. As a central nexus in DeFi, AAVE impacted everyone. Where next from here? I got a few suggestions below.

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How AAVE became compromised?

If you missed the events around AAVE and the rsETH exploit, I encourage you to read this long tweet I made that went viral. It gives a good overview. TLDR below.

Since this started, more than three days ago, AAVE lost over $10 billion in TVL across its core Ethereum markets, which were the most affected by the exploit. For example, their USDT market went from $4.5 billion to $2 billion as of today.

With AAVE on silent mode, it’s unlikely things will change any times soon as more and more liquidity leaves their platform. This impacted most of their markets as people look for alternatives. More on that soon.

The irony here is that AAVE became the biggest loser, even if the exploit itself had nothing to do with them directly. Their exposure to rsETH became critical because they allowed a risky asset to be collateral. Some say it was listed by AAVE due to a conflict of interest.

Worse, they allowed hundreds of millions to be borrowed against such an asset. Therefore, the hacker was quick to take advantage of this. Since all markets were impacted, AAVE users that never heard or touched rsETH were also affected.

How this will end, nobody knows. There are too many affected stakeholders involved and they appear to be lawyering up instead of cooperating to find a settlement that can benefit users.

Even AAVE put this loss on their users instead of coming up with a clear plan on how to mitigate this huge oversight in their governance and risk management. If you’re still using AAVE, I recommend to reconsider, and look at the below alternatives.

1. Fluid

They innovated while others stalled.

Fluid is a relatively new entrant into the lending markets at just under $1 billion in TVL. Their advantage is in their agility and eagerness to innovate in the lending space while others lag behind.

For example, soon after the AAVE crisis started, Fluid created an AAVE collateral swap that allowed trapped users on AAVE to sell their ETH positions and exit impacted markets at negligible cost.

This is because Fluid has ETH loops on AAVE and this swap allowed them to unwind their positions, reduce their exposure, and give users a way out. A win-win.

Another advantage of Fluid is their more efficient markets in terms of lending rates and yields. Since you can borrow against your liquidity pool tokens that earn yield, you pay less in borrowing costs.

Fluid also provides an easy way to earn yield via their Lite feature that automates yield generation. However, be careful of the underlying exposure. In this case, Fluid acts like a Morpho curator/vault and you take additional risks if they move your money into risky assets to chase higher yields. More on that next.

2. Morpho Markets

A direct competitor to AAVE.

The problem with AAVE, which Morpho has fixed some time ago, is that all deposits in v3 enter one big pot. When the hacker came and borrowed assets from that pot (by posting fake collateral), every AAVE depositor was affected in some way.

On Morpho, you can use discrete markets that allow just one type of collateral and one type of borrowing asset. This segregates risks and contains them to that market. Had AAVE used such a mechanic for rsETH, which v4 would have allowed for, the contagion would not have been this dramatic.

An example of such a market is presented below which uses only WBTC and USDC. You post BTC and borrow USDC, that’s it. AAVE simply allowed too many collateral assets (hence more risks) on their v3 platform which eventually lead to the current disaster.

The problem with Morpho is not these markets, but rather the vaults provided by their curators. Sometimes, in the rush to chase higher yields and profits, Morpho curators expose users to exotic assets that lead to losses (like the Resolv USR hack).

I don’t recommend using Morphos vaults, they are too dangerous since curators have little incentives to protect users that deposit there. Curators take a cut on any profits, so they always aim to maximize that even if risks are high for depositors.

Overall, Morpho is a solid choice at over $6 billion in TVL if you know and understand the markets you play in.

3. Spark Protocol (former MakerDAO)

One of the oldest lending markets in crypto.

The creator of the DAI stablecoin, MakerDAO, is one of the oldest lending protocol in crypto. They have since rebranded to Spark / Sky and launched a new stablecoin called USDS to replace DAI.

They faced their ups and downs over the years, but during this AAVE crisis, over a billion in liquidity that left AAVE went to them, making Spark the key beneficiary of this crisis.

This is for a very good reason.

Spark also had rsETH on their platform as a collateral, but was removed. They applied a much tighter risk mitigation policy which has now paid handsomely. When you deal with billions, you need to put user protection and risk mitigation as a top priority. This means being very picky on your collateral assets.

Spark delivered where AAVE failed.

This makes them a favorite among whales and is one of the most robust protocols out there. Together, Spark and Sky hold over $10 billion in TVL and may rival AAVE for the top spot in lending if AAVE continues to bleed liquidity.

4. Honorable Mentions

• Hyperliquid emerging ecosystem of lending markets and related DeFi

• Jupiter lend and similar protocols on Solana

• Uniswap if all you want to do is earn yield on your liquidity

• Curve finance has a growing lending market with crvUSD

• Pendle yields are always attractive

Whatever you choose, pick security first. Avoid exotic assets (like Ethena’s USDe) and if you spot teams getting greedy (like AAVE Labs), get out. Greed in crypto is the first sign things will go wrong.

For example, the AAVE Labs founder (Stani) bought a mansion in central London worth $30 million, then proceeded to do a hostile takeover over the AAVE DAO, removed other service providers that were uncomfortable, and paid himself $50 million in DAO funds to develop AAVE v4.

Weeks later, the AAVE crisis started. Coincidence?

I think the AAVE DAO was so focused on fighting themselves, they forgot their protocol was securing over $26 billion in assets (now under $16 billion). Expensive mistake that costed them billions in TVL. They got complacent and greedy.

But the biggest loss is the trust of their users.

I also had assets in AAVE, but luckily I removed them in time. I will never use AAVE again, especially while it is under the current leadership which also failed to manage this crisis from the start.

Let me know if I missed any good DeFi protocols that are worth attention and drop them in the comments. Like and share this post to spread awareness!

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You buy the top and sell the bottom. That’s instant liquidity for your counterparts.

To avoid being manipulated, you need to base your decisions on an objective reality. That’s represented by the price chart, not emotions.

In what follows, I’ll show you three charts with pure alpha on Bitcoin and where it is going. This is free knowledge that will help you be a better trader and investor.

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Where is Bitcoin going and how to spot it?

1. The Macro View of Bitcoin

Whenever you are in doubt, zoom out. Emotions are usually triggered by low timeframe price action. This is why, when you feel like you’re about to FOMO or sell the bottom, try to zoom out first to calm down.

Below I show you the monthly timeframe of Bitcoin since 2019.

The price is clearly in an uptrend, but has created a huge bearish wedge. For now, the price held well at the key support around 60k and appears to be bouncing here. This is good news since it could imply a relief rally may be at hand.

However, it is too early to call for a rally because the price needs to break that resistance at 75k and turn it into support. Until then, tame your excitement and don’t get trapped into a possible fake breakout. It will likely be short lived and a trap set by market makers to open new shorts before they send BTC into lower lows.

That’s because if the price falls below this wedge later on (below 60k), this will get very ugly, very fast. I lean bearish long term since I don’t think this bear market ends at 60k. We will likely see new lows later and I’ll explain why using the next two charts. If so, the key area of interest will be between 50k and 30k.

Nevertheless, if bulls show up in numbers in the future, this bearish wedge has plenty of room to allow for a rally or even new record highs at 140k or 150k, depending where the price breaks from the apex.

Keep both these scenarios in your mind. Your ultimate goal should be to buy as much Bitcoin as possible. Don’t aim to trade it as the risk of losing it is not worth it long term.

2. Bullish and Bearish Sweeps

Price action needs no indicators. If you know how to read a price and chart, you’re already ahead of most traders and investors. This comes with time and the below will help you with that.

In a bullish market, whales or market makers will push the price down to liquidate or trigger stop losses before they reverse the price action towards new highs. We call these bullish sweeps (or long sweeps since longs are meant to be liquidated).

In a bearish market, like today, market makers will push the price up to liquidate shorts before they nuke the price lower. This is reflected on the chart as a bearish sweep (or short sweep). See the red and green dots for more examples on Bitcoin below.

The idea is simple, before market makers expose their true intentions for the price, they aim to access the deep liquidity offered by areas on the chart where most people place stop losses or where liquidations are clustered.

Therefore, before Bitcoin can go higher, the aim of market makers is to access that liquidity where most longs will be liquidated. To do that, they need to push the price into a lower low first. Unfortunately, the Bitcoin chart does not show such a patter today. There are no long sweeps, only short sweeps.

In a bear market, the price will make a higher high to trigger shorts liquidations. That’s a clear short sweep and the recent price action by Bitcoin supports that case. Once the liquidity is drained, market makers are free to send the price to new lows.

For most retails users, these mechanics are not very intuitive because market makers operate at a different level. Due to their size and power to push the price, they need to access liquidity to secure profits before they push the price the other way. They can only do that if they can farm retail by triggering liquidations or stop losses.

3. How to Scout for a Top or Bottom?

Now that we’ve covered the bullish and bearish sweeps we can move on to the next chart that shows the aggressiveness from market makers. This can be measured by the angle of the patterns.

As you can notice on the below chart, the closer we get to a top or bottom, the more aggressive the angle of each sweep pattern. No surprise then, that we’re getting more aggressive the lower Bitcoin goes from 10° degrees to 40° degrees today.

This is bearish.

To turn bullish you’d want the angle to reduce in aggressiveness as the price falls or to see a bullish sweep. This is not yet the case. Therefore, it is too early to turn bullish here. Those that go long may soon be trapped while shorts are stopped out.

During the rally from 2023 to 2025, the bullish sweeps increased in angles gradually until a top was found during a bearish sweep at 10° degrees. That in itself was also a bearish signal that a top is in.

To buy the coming bottom, aim to scout for a bullish sweep and buy every time the price makes new lows. Those will be prime buy areas before the price snaps back up and moves into a sustained bull market again.

Last tips

The price of Bitcoin is at a key crossroad today. A break under 60k would send it quickly to new lows and likely a bottom during this bear market. We’re not there yet, but the signs point to this as being the higher possibility based on existing data.

In markets, you need to think in probabilities. Nothing is certain, but the charts can move the edge in your favor if you know how to read them, not predict them. Bitcoin can easily go to 80k during this bearish sweep before new lows, so watch out for that.

Lastly, market makers will play with your emotions to their advantage. Plus they know your liquidation points. If you are predictable, the price will hunt you down before it shows its true intentions.

Good luck and hope the above will boost your edge! Like, share, and subscribe for more alpha in the future.

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Several altcoins are showing promise after a brutal correction. If you want to get exposure to the market, this may be a good time to consider it for a quick win.

In this update, I’ll share my thoughts on Bitcoin as usual and my top three altcoins I have my eyes on right now. Let’s start!

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Latest Bitcoin Price Forecast

BTC TLDR: Bitcoin is about to attempt a second rally to the 75k resistance. If it manages to break above it, things are going to look bullish for a while with 90k as the next major target.

Bitcoin pumped by $3,000 when Trump announce the ceasefire and painted a nice bullish candle on the daily timeframe. If this weekly candle closes like today, or even better above the 75k resistance, we will have a major rally ahead of us.

This is turning me quite bullish in the short to medium turn. But I need to see confirmation with a clear break above the 75k resistance first. I don’t think we will need to wait long for that to happen if this momentum is sustained.

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If Bitcoin can clear 75k, then watch the price rally to 90k next. That will be a major resistance zone until about 100k. Don’t think it will go higher than that on first try. Follow the price, don’t try to predict it.

The market has been begging for a relief rally and we might just get it now. We’re long overdue for one and altcoins also stand to benefit greatly when that happens. More on that next.

If you’re turning bullish like me, it’s time to pay attention and get positioned. I see several charts showing great promise in the altcoin space. My focus is on momentum coins, those alts that can run 50% or more in quick succession.

That’s because you want to get massive gains in a short amount of time since we do not know how long this relief rally will last once it gets going.

Aim to be aggressive in taking profits so that you don’t give back the gains to the market if it decides to turn later on.

I’m also sharing my private invite codes below on this new DEX I’m farming. Best of both worlds - trade alts while farming an airdrop. I wrote more on that in Alpha Post #87. Invites are limited: first come, first served.

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I believe we have six to twelve months before the real consequences of what is happening today will affect everyone in a very tangible way.

I summarize that into five key market trends below covering the US Dollar, inflation, Gold, Bitcoin, and stablecoins.

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Top 5 Market Trends You Need to Watch!

1. Dollar Rally Followed by High Inflation

The current uncertainty across the world is driven by the war in the Middle East which has created a short term rally in the US Dollar versus major currencies. That’s because many countries are being squeezed as they now have to pay twice as much in US dollars for the same barrel of oil.

This has pushed the dollar higher and even crashed Gold by over 25% as central banks are selling it to get immediate liquidity during this time. However, this is a short term impact. The longer term impact will be far worse.

As long as the price of oil sits around $100 or higher, that will translate into everything costing between 10% to 30% more. That means high inflation, again. Key driving forces include supply shocks, disruptions in logistics, and higher energy prices. This may end up as Covid 2.0.

What will governments do to address this crisis?

Print more money.

As it happens, the weakest economies are hurt first. For example, the Philippine peso crashed to its lowest level vs the US dollar. Same for Turkey and many other countries.

Eventually, this inflationary spiral will return to the US Dollar once it circulates across the global economy. The world can only take this much beating before the dollar also has to inflate and devalue again.

If you hold USD, expect it to be worth much less by 2027. Time to move to the second trend.

2. Petrodollar Under Pressure, More Inflation

Another reason why the US Dollar is going to be under huge inflationary pressure in the future is related to the petrodollar mechanism. Most of the world has to buy USD before they can buy oil. Short term, a high oil price is bullish for the dollar.

But long term, nations will look for alternatives.

This is why Iran blocks anyone in the Strait of Hormuz from shipping oil, unless they pay in Yuan instead of dollars. This is also why Iran bombed every country in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) like UAE, with Dubai as a prime target.

That’s because GCC countries take only dollars in exchange for their oil, then park those dollars into the US stock market or its arms industry. The GCC accounts for 22% of the worlds oil production.

If the GCC can’t pump out oil for dollars, the demand for USD falls even more. This is again inflationary long term and bad news for USD holders since they will get diluted even more.

It’s also bad news for the US stock market and its magnificent seven that lead the AI race like Nvidia, Google or Microsoft. If the GCC countries no longer park their oil dollars in the US or into the AI narrative, a crash awaits. NASDAQ is already down 10% in 2026.

Right now, the GCC countries have more pressing needs at home like rebuilding their oil infrastructure, than speculate on AI technology. This war already went on for too long and even Trump knows it because the US stock market is starting to curve down.

Trump will do whatever it takes to stop the downtrend and reverse this drop. If the GCC won’t buy more US stocks, guess what can replace that?

Printing even more dollars.

Now that we’ve established why inflation is about to hit us hard, it’s time to look at Gold and Bitcoin as a hedge against this inevitable dilution.

3. Gold Correction Followed by a New Rally

The current selloff in Gold won’t last. That’s a given if you expect high inflation in the future. The liquidity crunch was short lived and whoever wanted to sell Gold most likely did it already.

Still, Gold will need more time to complete its current corrective move. But by 2027, I’d expect Gold to return on a clear uptrend. This will be pretty much guaranteed if inflation kicks in hard across the world.

If you’re looking to buy more Gold, use the second half of 2026 to your advantage. Normally, the market should give us an excellent entry in that period, particularly if the war in the Middle East continues and escalates. Panic is always a prime buy moment.

Eventually, that panic will move money back into safety assets, like Gold, after liquidity needs are satisfied. Bitcoin should follow a similar pattern. More on that next.

4. Bitcoin Correction to Continue Until End of 2026

I am bearish on Bitcoin this year. That’s because I believe we’re about half way in, timewise, into this bear market. We still have at least six months or more left to go before a real reversal takes place.

As it happens, that reversal will likely start as soon as countries start panicking about inflation again in 2027. Until then, prepare to buy discounts.

A price under 50k for one Bitcoin is going to be a steal years from now. Therefore, if you plan to buy more, start anywhere below that level. I see 30k as a more pessimistic bottom for Bitcoin which seems unlikely, but still possible.

Either way, don’t miss this coming window of opportunity. Until then, stack cash and wait for your triggers to hit. Then buy hard. I’ll aim to buy as much BTC and Gold as I can later this year.

5. The Fall of Altcoins and Rise of Stablecoins

Going into the next crypto cycle, I can see altcoins lose much of their appeal. That’s because this past cycle was a total disaster for 99% of people holding altcoins.

The altcoin inflation, much of it driven by Solana, killed the concept of “altcoin season”. Few altcoins delivered (like HYPE), while a majority ended up crashing by over 90%.

If you’ve been around crypto for more than four years, you should have long moved away from altcoins and replaced them with a clear focus on Bitcoin accumulation. That will keep you solvent and make you rich over time.

However, there is one type of altcoin that is thriving:

• Stablecoins

The total market cap of stablecoins is now over $300 billion and has led to a new concept called neobanks. These are digital-only financial institutions operating without physical branches that blend traditional finance with crypto.

Simply put, you can instantly send USDT or USDC around the globe now at near zero costs. Neobanks aim to capture that market and offer in/out ramps for crypto folks.

A recent example is Hyperbeat that allows you to earn on your stablecoins, borrow against crypto assets while linking all that to a card for real life spending.

You can also deposit/withdraw directly from your bank.

As the space matures, neobanks will become ubiquitous. Even X plans to integrate a payment system into their app and link it to a card and everything else you may need.

If you want to make money in the altcoin business, best to invest in companies that are leading on the stablecoins front like Tether or Circle. Problem here is that these are still private enterprises, but may IPO in the future.

Note that USD stablecoins will lose their value over time and are a poor hold compared to Bitcoin or Gold. That’s why you should only hold these short term for spending / consumption purposes. Your wealth should always be kept in hard money.

With neobanks taking over, borrowing and spending against your BTC or Gold will require just a few clicks while you maintain full custody over your assets. That should be your ultimate goal.

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Yes. Volatility is a dream for traders. If you plan to trade this, I got good news that will make you eligible for a juicy airdrop.

There’s a new decentralized exchange that just entered the picture. You need to add it to your shortlist and farm it. If you missed Hyperliquid, Lighter, Aster or Grvt, then this is for you.

But before that, let me talk a bit about Bitcoin and Gold.

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Latest Bitcoin & Gold Price Forecast

BTC TLDR: Bitcoin tried to break above the 75k resistance, but was sharply rejected. This is bearish. If the price falls under the 60k support, expect 50k and lower.

I had hoped that Bitcoin could break that 75k resistance to take us into a sustained relief rally towards 90k. Unfortunately, the macro events are too bearish to allow it. Even Gold has crashed over 20% since its recent top.

In these conditions, the bias remains bearish and attention is shifting towards the key support levels at 68k, 65k and 60k. If the last one falls, then new lows will follow and you should prepare to accumulate more Bitcoin once that happens.

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Gold TLDR: The parabolic rally has ended. Expect a correction/consolidation move for some time between 3k-4k. Afterwards, new highs are likely in late 2026 and beyond.

This crash in Gold prices is the fastest on record with nine consecutive days in red. Considering the macro, you’d expect it to go higher. However, this price action shows panic selling to access liquidity since global markets are under stress.

The actual panic will start when the stock market crashes as well. NASDAQ is already down 10%. The macro is primed for a major crash which will also pull down Gold. At that moment, I’d buy Gold hard. Key levels on the chart with the 3k to 4k zone as a great area to accumulate. Lowest it could go is 2.8k I’d say.

A higher price is pretty much guaranteed later on if the war in the Middle East continues, inflation picks-up, and the stock market falls. I’d definitely consider buying any Gold discounts in such an environment.

This ongoing volatility will filter weak hands, but Gold has been a strong performer in similar times, like the 1970s when we had another energy crisis. I lean bearish until late 2026, but bullish thereafter. Make good use of this time.

It’s hard to get excited about anything in this market right now. However, behind the scenes, there is a new decentralized exchange that caught my attention due to its pedigree and backing.

They do everything Hyperliquid does with lower fees and it’s a prime place to farm a future airdrop! DEXes are one of the few real use cases in crypto that will never go away.

As money rotates between DEXes, you should too. Let’s start.

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The first signal was Bitcoin which stopped falling at 60k. Now, key altcoins are also ready to pump.

Let’s take a closer look at Bitcoin first, then dive into my Top 5 Altcoins this week.

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Latest Bitcoin Price Forecast

TLDR: Bitcoin bottomed at 60k, at least for now, and is flirting with the 75k resistance which is likely to break if bulls test it again. That would push BTC into a sustained relief rally.

Buyers tested the resistance at 75k three times to date, but were rejected. However, the more this level is tested, the more likely it will eventually break. This is why I interpret this price action as bullish.

Moreover, since Bitcoin has been bearish since October 2025, we’re long overdue for a significant relief rally before new lows become possible. Therefore, my bias in the short-term is bullish, while long-term I expect bears to attempt new lows.

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The key support remains at 60k and if the resistance at 75k breaks, then bulls have a good shot to take Bitcoin between 82k and 98k. That area may revert any relief rally since sellers will emerge again as the price approaches 100k.

I’d look for longs if the price breaks above 75k and start shorting once it approaches 100k. Just be mindful that the global geopolitical context is rather volatile so things can change in an instant.

Long term, just focus on accumulating as much Bitcoin as possible since in a few years a price under 100k would be a dream. Now let’s move to the Top 5 Altcoins this week!

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Top 5 Altcoins This Week!

One of the best performers since late January has been Hyperliquid. Its price is already up by over 80% from the $20 low to around $37 at the time of this post.

Why do I mention HYPE?

Because HYPE is an early mover and shows where the market is headed before the rest follow. It was the first to dump before the market turned bearish in September 2025 and is the first to pump now.

I expect other key altcoins to follow and pump soon as well.

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The thesis was straightforward: on-chain derivatives exchanges generate real fee revenue regardless of market direction, they don’t need a bull market to function, and the best ones reward early users before the broader crowd catches on.

In the past, I highlighted Hyperliquid, Aster, and Lighter as some of the names worth paying attention to. The feedback was good, but a lot of you asked the same follow-up question: are there any left with a pre-TGE window still open?

This article will answer that question.

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The honest answer is that most of the obvious ones have already launched their tokens. Hyperliquid is now a $10B+ project. Lighter had its moments. If you were early, great. If not, those particular windows are closed.

But there’s one that hasn’t launched yet and it’s worth a serious look precisely because of what it offers beyond just being another perp exchange.

That’s Grvt

Pronounced “gravity”

This isn’t a “buy before the airdrop” article. The pre-TGE timing is a bonus. The more interesting story is that Grvt is taking a different angle from what I covered in the past, one focused on real trader experience. In a market where returns are hard to find, that distinction matters.

Grvt is a hybrid derivatives exchange with centralized performance and speed, on-chain settlement, and self-custody. Think Binance’s trading experience with a security model closer to a DEX. It’s live, it’s functional, and the token hasn’t launched yet.

Here are five reasons that sets it apart.

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1. Smart Order Execution Turns Fees Into Revenue

Most retail traders bleed fees without thinking about it. You hit market orders, you pay taker fees, it compounds quietly against your PnL over time. In a bull market, nobody notices. In a bear market, it’s a slow drain you can’t afford.

The structural fix is to trade like a market maker, not a market taker. When you place limit orders that sit on the orderbook, you’re providing liquidity, and on Grvt, the exchange pays you a rebate when those orders fill. Instead of paying to trade, you’re getting paid to trade (see image).

Hyperliquid ran this model early on and shut it down. Grvt still has it, and for a trader thinking about total return rather than just entry and exit prices, that’s a meaningful edge. Every filled limit order is a small credit back to your account. Across dozens of trades, that compounds.

The strategic implication: if you have a price target in mind anyway, there’s rarely a reason to chase with a market order. Set the limit, let it fill, collect the rebate. Same position, better economics.

2. Let Your Capital Earns While You Trade

This is probably Grvt’s most interesting feature and one that’s still rare in crypto.

On most exchanges, trading collateral sits idle. On Grvt, it doesn’t. Your deposited stablecoin is yield-generating while simultaneously serving as margin, currently earning up to 11% APY.

In practice: deposit USDC, open a futures position, and your margin continues to work for you the entire time.

Later in March, this will becomes even more powerful with the integration of Aave, adding a new trustless DeFi yield source to the Unified Margin framework. The infrastructure expands, but the core principle remains the same: your capital should never sit still.

One strategy worth considering is a delta-neutral setup, going long and short in equal size to neutralize price exposure, while collecting yield on your margin and funding fees from the trade. It’s not risk-free (execution quality, funding rate shifts, and liquidation risk are real), but in flat or ranging markets, the structure can tilt the math in your favor.

3. Self-Custody: You Actually Own Your Assets

After FTX, this shouldn’t need to be said, but apparently it still does.

Grvt settles trades on-chain via an Ethereum Layer-2, meaning your funds aren’t sitting in a centralized black box. Trade settlement, margin management, and withdrawals all happen on-chain. You retain custody.

What makes this more practical than most self-custody setups is the mobile app they recently launched. Self-custody on most DEXs means juggling wallets, browser extensions, and clunky interfaces, Grvt wraps the entire experience into one app.

Trading, margin management, yield tracking, and withdrawals are all there, with the on-chain security running in the background without you having to think about it. For anyone who manages positions on the go, that’s a meaningful quality-of-life upgrade over the typical CEX app that gives you convenience but holds your funds hostage.

4. One Account. Every Market. Zero Opportunity Cost.

It’s long been the norm for trading activity to be scattered across different venues, different asset classes demand different platforms, and different strategies often require different infrastructure entirely. Every time you switch, you’re dealing with separate margin pools, separate fee structures, and separate apps. Capital that’s sitting in the wrong place when an opportunity hits is capital that’s working against you.

Grvt is built around collapsing that fragmentation.

Gold is trading on Grvt right now, and the timing couldn’t be better. Gold has been one of the clearest macro trades of the past year, hitting all-time highs as investors rotate out of risk assets.

Traders who wanted exposure had to go through a separate brokerage or settle for a gold-backed token with its own counterparty risk. On Grvt, it’s a single order from your existing account.

Equities are live too. The S&P 500 has been one of the most resilient assets over the past decade regardless of macro conditions.

And several of its most actively traded constituents are already on Grvt: Tesla, Intel, Robinhood, with more being added.

But the point is that the foundation is already there, and you can trade all of it from the mobile app. One account, one margin pool, every opportunity, whether it’s a crypto breakout at 3am or a macro move in gold during the London open.

5. The Airdrop: A Bonus, Not the Thesis

I want to be clear here: if Grvt’s product wasn’t interesting on its own, the airdrop wouldn’t be worth your time. Bear market airdrops from weak products have a poor track record.

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The Bottom Line

Bear markets reward capital efficiency over speculation. The traders who compound through a down cycle aren’t the ones waiting for the next narrative. They’re the ones extracting yield from their margin, reducing fee drag on every trade, and positioning early in infrastructure that has a real shot at mattering when volume returns.

Grvt sits at the intersection of all three. The product is functional today, the economics are real, and the pre-TGE window is still open. None of that guarantees anything. It’s a young platform, and the token timeline remains fluid. But as a place to put active capital to work while the broader market figures itself out, the case is there.

The AMA next week will likely answer a lot of the outstanding questions on the token side. That’s probably the right moment to form a fuller picture before deciding how deep to go.

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I’m talking about stablecoins dominance.

When the market is bullish, stablecoin dominance falls because everyone wants to capture the next pump and they buy various coins. On the other hand, when the market is bearish, everyone is running to safety and sells their coins for stables. This pushes their dominance up, like today.

Let’s have a closer look next.

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In early February, I covered 10 charts that can help you find a bottom. This one is close to number 9 on that list, but with a twist.

You can add up all the biggest stablecoins together to get a comprehensive view of the overall stablecoin liquidity in the market. For the purposes of this article we will use USDT and USDC as seen below.

If you want to create the above chart, simply open the search bar for symbols in TradingView and type this: CRYPTOCAP:USDT.D+CRYPTOCAP:USDC.D

As you can see below, the stablecoin dominance has moved above 11% after breaking away at 8%. That breakout happened just after the BTC top in October 2025. That was a key signal to sell and stay in cash.

The first major resistance of this rally is at 15%, still some distance away from today’s levels. This tells us a few things already:

• The Bitcoin bottom is not in, we have to wait a few more months at least

• The search for a bottom is accelerating based on this price action

• Once a bottom is found, reversal can take at least six months to materialize

Therefore, you should not rush to buy here. This chart, like the others I covered in the past, suggest that it is too early to do so now. At the same time, there is no guarantee the stablecoin dominance will stop at 15% or 16%.

Nevertheless, those levels coincide with a key demand area that is likely to reverse the current downtrend in Bitcoin’s price. Since more and more people are sitting in cash, they will eventually be tempted to deploy it if the price is low enough.

I still believe the area between 50k and 30k is a prime buy zone. However, what we’re missing in this bear market is a clear relief rally. It’s been a non-stop downtrend for almost six months.

In previous cycles, even if we had a bear market, we still got a month or two of bullish price action. This may be expected somewhere after March with a bottom forming as we approach October. This scenario assumes new lows in the second half of 2026.

We will probably have a good idea where this market is going by the start of summer. Hopefully we get a nice relief rally until then as the alternative is quite bleak, but may bring about a bottom faster.

I don’t believe we have reached max pain yet across the markets. That stage is still ahead of us and this BTC/Gold chart may hint at it. Bitcoin can fall almost 30% more against Gold before a bottom. That will surely reach max pain levels.

Exciting times ahead if you plan to top up your Bitcoin bag. Whatever you do, don’t get scared. That’s how the whales shake the coins from your hands and put them in their pocket. Then they send this market to new highs. Don’t fall for that trap.

Stay optimistic.

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1. Hyperliquid HLP Vault

The Hyperliquid HLP vault is the undisputed king to farm yields in a bear market. That’s because this vault pays best in a bear market: the more traders get liquidated, the more profits you’ll make by depositing cash (USDC) in this vault.

Let’s have a look at its historic returns first (source).

As you can see, only in this January deposits in the vault returned a 6.33% yield, more than other protocols do in a year! That’s huge and miles above US treasuries (4%) or DeFi rates like AAVE (1.5% to 5%).

And the year just started.

If you’re bearish, expect more market turmoil in the future which will lead to more liquidations = profits for the vault. That means this vault will continue to perform well above market rates. In 2025, the yearly yield was over 15%. In 2024, it was even higher at over 30%!

This vault is not without risks, of course. You can see in the table two months with negative returns. However, those are only two months out of 34 months!

I believe the risk/reward ratio is very attractive. No wonder over 380 million has been deposited in this vault.

If you got cash, this is a prime protocol to consider. Moreover, should Bitcoin drop under 50k later this year, you only need to withdraw from the vault and buy BTC on Hyperliquid’s spot market. Flawless and easy.

You can then withdraw the BTC to your cold wallet on the native chain (see image below). You won’t get anything better than this.

2. Flui.io

Fluid is like AAVE, but with additional features, including integration with newer protocol like USDai. This USDai vault offers 9.4% APR right now. That’s over 2x the market rate!

You can also multiply your stablecoin yields by using leverage. As long as you trust the peg of paired stablecoins (like USDe), you can reach over 12-18% APY.

I don’t recommend using this when market is volatile since USDe could lose peg and that can trigger liquidations. Best to not be too greedy and keep your liquidation lower than max if you go for this. However, HLP is a better choice risk wise.

If you like safe and boring vaults following market rates, you can go with Spark 4% yield on USDC. Spark protocol will always offer you a stable rate close to US treasuries.

3. GMX.io

If you are not interested in farming stablecoins yields and want to keep exposure to BTC and ETH for example, you can consider the single pair vaults on GMX.

These yields are pretty solid all things considered since the ETH yield on AAVE is only 2%. On GMX its over 5%. On BTC, you will rarely find any yield over 2% without massive risks.

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Latest Bitcoin Price Forecast

TLDR: Bitcoin nuked in February and fell by over 20%! That sent the price to 60k before the current bounce. Even if we get a relief rally, I expect lower lows later this year.

A few days ago, I wrote an extensive post about where Bitcoin could bottom in 2026. The most promising area is between 50k and 30k, as highlighted on the chart by that circle in red.

I do not think Bitcoin bottomed at 60k. A simple check of the monthly MACD confirms this since that indicator is only starting to drop and has plenty of room left to go. Prepare accordingly and hoard cash to buy the bottom.

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I expect Bitcoin to bottom until October or latest by the end of the year. A good way to confirm that is to check the BTC/Gold chart I detailed in my above post already mentioned.

If you manage to dollar-cost average into Bitcoin under 50k later this year, you’re going to have a generational entry in the next five to ten years. Make the most of it if it comes to that.

Don’t be scared if that happens, deploy your cash by laddering limit buy orders from 50k to 30k or lower. Try to catch any wick down. You’ll be glad you did later.

Now let’s move to the Polymarket alpha.

This past week, Polymarket added a new crypto market for Bitcoin that resolves every five minutes! That allows for 12 trade an hour or 288 per day. Several bot developers literally made 100k or more within 24h since this market was launched.

In what follows, I’ll share a trading strategy that can print if executed well. You can book 10% to 50% profits in minutes.

The way it works is that every five minutes this market takes the start price of Bitcoin which becomes the target. If the price ends up above the target after five minutes those that bet on UP win. If the price ends below, those that bet on DOWN win.

In TradFi we call these binary options. You also have 15M, 1H, 4H, 1D options.

The winners take all and the losers lose their bet. This is why you want a high win rate over time and to cut your losses fast before the market expires if the price goes against you.

Since this resolves within five minutes, your time to act is short. But that is also an advantage since you are only exposed to the market for a few minutes at a time. If you ride the trends well, this is free money due to arbitrage opportunities.

Arbitrage opportunities means that Polymarket takes time to adjust to price action movements which allows you to take favorable positions and capitalize on the gap before it is closed.

Polymarket prices also have a small delay compared to live Bitcoin price action. This can be critical to success, but this delay will likely be reduced over time due to bots.

To start, all you need is a crypto wallet with USDC. Connect to Polymarket and make a USDC deposit. Use a cheap network like Arbitrum or Polygon for the deposit. Note that you will also need a few Polygon tokens for gas fees since Polymarket is build on top of the Polygon network. More deposit options below.

Note that if you connect from geo-blocked countries you will not be able to open an account. You can use a VPN, but you may risk your account being banned if so.

Next is my Polymarket strategy. You can also apply this to higher timed binary options like 1H and up. Let’s start printing!

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I expect a bottom within six months, maybe even faster if this accelerated rate of descent is maintained. Bottom should be in by October 2026.

In what follows, I’ll explore with you 10 Bitcoin charts that can help you time the bottom. When we’re there, buy hard. I don’t think Bitcoin will stay low long based on this price action.

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1. Long Term Holder Realized Price

The first chart I want to show you is the long term holder realized price that calculates the average price at which long-term investors have purchased their Bitcoin, taking into account only those coins that have not moved for a significant period (155 days or more).

The current realized price for such holders is 40k. See the chart.

As you can see, any price under 40k will likely trigger long term holders to buy more and begin the reversal process in this downtrend. Any price under 40k is also a buy signal in my book.

I will personally start dollar-cost averaging into Bitcoin once it falls under 50k with the lowest price level I expect around 30k. I find a price at 30k or under unlikely, but never dismiss a wick down there. Be ready to catch it with limit orders.

Historically, any buys under the long term holder realized price was an excellent entry. No reason for this cycle to be different. It would also place BTC in a 70% correction. Pretty similar to the past.

2. Bear Bands

This chart was posted on X by CryptoCon_ and caught my eyes because when he first posted it people laughed at him. They ain’t laughing now. His first target for January - March was hit perfectly at around 60k.

Click on each image to make it larger. The first was his original prediction and the second is a detailed view of the current price action.

The next key target is around 40k and is expected by August - October. The lowest target is just under 30k and likely by the end of 2026. I find this prediction a bit more bearish overall, but don’t dismiss it. Plan around it.

3. Excavo Cycles

Excavo is an old trader that has been active in crypto for over a decade. He posted the below chart back in September 2025 when he told everyone he sold everything because the top was in. He was right.

As you can see, he predicts a bottom around 40k and likely to happen before the end of 2026 or in early 2027. This fits with my own expectations, but I am leaning on Bitcoin finding a bottom faster and most likely before 2026 is over.

4. Bear Markets Comparison

A look at 2026 vs previous bear markets shows us this crash is a bit faster than 2021 and slower than 2013 or 2017. This projection also implies a bottom around late 2026. Right on target I’d say.

I don’t think Bitcoin falls to 20k or lower, but 30k as the 2021 bear market projection shows in green? Yep, that’s possible.

5. Symmetry to Previous Cycle

Another pertinent point is that this cycle mirrors the last one quite well. This can be seen below. If the price action respects the past, expect a bottom at the 78.6% Fib level or around 40k.

6. Bitcoin vs Gold

This chart already predicted the Bitcoin top to perfection, can it also predict the bottom? We have a few more levels to touch before the bottom is found, specifically 11 and 9.

I’d be patient until at least July before making any judgement. We need to let the price show us its intentions. What this chart also misses is a bounce. We’ve had no bounce or relief rally since August 2025 vs Gold. That’s seven months of downtrend only! Crazy.

7. Don’t Fall for Hopium

While the below pattern could hold a surprise for the market, I find such an outcome highly unlikely. The most obvious and likely scenario is for the price to maintain its current downtrend (or existing trend) as shown in previous charts.

For Bitcoin to follow Gold we need a major catalyst or black swan event that can trigger such a significant rally. Don’t bet on this. Keep your cash safe and ready to buy the bottom. Worst case scenario, you lose nothing.

8. “Crypto/Bitcoin is Dead!”

Until you don’t see these words all over your news feed or on X, you’re probably too early to buy. It’s an excellent bottom signal. While this is not a chart in itself, it’s a sentiment indicator that’s very effective.

The opposite of this is euphoria and ridiculous price targets in a bull market. Such delusion is a great exit signal.

9. USDT Market Cap

Another excellent bear/bull market signal is the USDT market cap. As long as it makes higher highs, the trend is bullish. This changed since January 2026 when the market cap of USDT started to fall.

As long as this continues to fall, there’s no reason to turn bullish. Start buying once USDT market cap goes up for two consecutive months. That’s a pretty solid buy signal.

10. Follow the Price Action

Sometimes you just got to follow the price. Buy the red circle. That’s it.

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TLDR: Bitcoin made a lower low at 72k and most indicators show a likely bottom in the short to medium term. However, the macro view remains bearish even if the price may bounce here. Expect lower lows later in 2026 if BTC cannot reclaim 100k.

As you can see on the chart, Bitcoin has returned to the margins of this expanding triangle. Normally, we should get a bounce around this area, but if bulls cannot reclaim 100k as support, it’s hard to turn bullish.

The latest candle indicates a likely reversal in the future due to its narrow body, showing buyers are interested again. By the end of this week, we will know if BTC reverses here (even if for a brief period) or not.

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The bullish view is that Bitcoin stops around 70k and returns on a steady uptrend that can challenge the 100k resistance. The bearish view sees the price bounce here briefly then makes new lows. In that case, expect 60k or even 50k as we approach the summer months.

If we get any price around 50k, you should seriously consider buying or starting your DCA (dollar-cost average) into BTC. We will have more clarity by mid-February. Now let’s dive into the latest opportunities in the altcoin space!

January was quiet in crypto, but February is about to change that. This month, we have three major token launches which deserve your close attention. If you want to speculate on solid projects, these are some of the best available in crypto today!

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Gold only doubled in the same period and added $15 trillion to its market cap. That’s 5x the total market cap of crypto, including Bitcoin.

I’ve been recommending Gold for a long time, and in this post, I will explain why this is happening and where prices may top using six key charts. Scroll down.

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Why are metals going crazy?

Everyone is revising their investment thesis lately.

The fundamental reasons are slightly different based on the metal in discussion. Let me explain these in brief, then move to the charts showing where they can top.

• Gold - central banks FOMO, debasement trade, hedge against war and crises

• Silver - huge demand from AI sector, Veblen effect, short squeeze

• Copper - huge demand from AI sector, production to lag demand for decades

Why is Gold pumping?

Gold is old money, the real thing. Since USA decided to weaponize the dollar against Russia in 2022 by freezing their accounts in Belgium, the world realized they need an alternative to the dollar.

This is when central banks, with a focus on China, have been starting to buy huge amounts of Gold as insurance. Moreover, China opened Gold spot trading in Shanghai. The price of Gold is no longer decided by London, but by the biggest buyers.

On the other side of the world, in Switzerland, the Bank of International Settlements (the central bank of central banks) made Gold a Tier 1 High-Quality Liquid Asset. This allows banks to count Gold at 100% of its market value toward their core liquidity reserves, treating it as a risk-free asset similar to cash. This happened in July 2025.

In today’s world, buying Gold and seeing its price pump is driven by real incentives motivating bankers to hoard it. The other incentive is hedging against uncertainty. The world is becoming more decentralized (or multipolar), unstable, with crises and wars likely to proliferate. Gold is insurance in a world where globalization is collapsing and you can’t trust any fiat money, including the dollar.

Why are Silver and Copper pumping?

Almost 60% of all Silver is used in industrial applications. Silver is not pumping for the same reasons as Gold. The thesis here is slightly different and also applies to Copper.

To sustain AI development and reach AI singularity, where artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence, huge investments have already been committed today where some AI companies are buying a decade-worth of future supply of resources.

Current estimates show that the existing demand for Copper is higher than the total expected production for years to come. This has naturally pushed prices higher. In the case of Silver and Gold, there is also the Veblen effect. Essentially, the demand for these precious metals increases as their price goes higher.

To make matters worse, some traders decided to short or already had massive short positions on Gold, Silver, or Copper. These were either naked or delta neutral positions. However, because of the accelerating prices, the margin requirements have increased, requiring more collateral to keep positions open.

If such traders were deep in red and needed more collateral, they likely blew up, and were forced to liquidate their short positions. This means they had to buy Silver, Gold or Copper at huge losses! That’s a short squeeze. The implication are severe and also impacts crypto as explained next.

Crypto vs Metals

What started as a joke is no longer a joke.

In the past year, Bitcoin and Ethereum have been moving sideways and most altcoins crashed. Last year, people joked that Gold may hit $5,000 before Ethereum. Well, that joke became reality this week.

This raises a bigger problem for crypto-natives. Look at this chart.

In blue we have Ethereum, in yellow Gold. Ethereum’s volatility was all over the place in the past five years, up and down, and underperformed Gold. Meanwhile, Gold was in a steady uptrend with little volatility, and offered better returns as of today.

Based on this data, you want to select the asset with the highest Sharpe ratio, i.e. Gold had a better risk-adjusted return due to its significantly lower volatility. If we add Silver to this discussion, then few altcoins are worth your attention.

This puts into question the whole crypto sector. It’s simply an inferior buy. Granted, such a run in metals is a once in a decade or two event. Still, I believe Gold has much more room to grow (Copper too). Silver, however, may be approaching a top. More on that below.

What metal to buy today and where will they top?

Silver to $150. Gold to $10,000 or even $20,000. Copper to $10 and beyond.

If you did not load up on metals last year, you are late today, especially on Silver. One way to assess it is to look at the Gold and Silver ratio. As you can see below, we left the zone to buy Silver some time ago.

If you already hold Silver, this is the time to think about rotating it into Gold. I do not recommend buying Silver here or above $100. You’re taking too much risk.

Another look at Silver can be seen on the Bitcoin and Silver ratio. It seems Bitcoin can still dump a bit against Silver, but the main move is behind us. The below chart indicates that Bitcoin may soon bottom against Silver since a major support is about to be hit. That can signal a top for Silver and a buy for Bitcoin.

In this context, you want to rotate out of Silver into Bitcoin. This is similar to the Gold/Silver ratio presented earlier. Both indicate a top on Silver is likely in the near future. I estimate any price up to $150 could end up as a top for Silver. If you hold any, it’s good to reduce risks in the weeks and months to come.

When it comes to Gold, the horizon is quite different. This is obvious once we look at Gold against the S&P500. The chart below gives a good long term perspective.

Gold has been in a bull market since 2000 against the S&P500. The ongoing rally is just the second leg or pump in a multi-decade Gold bull market.

If the uptrend breaks above a ratio of 1 on the above chart, then Gold will be well on its way to hit the previous high from 2010 which would be around $10,000 in today’s dollars. Should this second pump make a higher high (likely), then even a $20,000 price becomes possible. That’s a 4x from today’s price. Crazy, but not impossible!

The alternative is a massive crash in the US stock market, which would see Gold pump hard on this chart even if it just holds its current price.

Lastly, Copper broke away from a massive and long consolidation, presented below. This can easily hit $10 or higher later on. If you can get access to spot, not a bad hold in the next year or two. You can hold Copper futures on Hyperliquid, but the funding rates will erode any gains.

With that said, let’s look at Bitcoin compared to Gold.

Historically, the BTC/Gold ratio was always on point to signal a top for Bitcoin. This happened again in September 2025 when Bitcoin topped at 126k. Since then, BTC quickly fell against Gold. That coincided with the breakdown on the below chart, highlighted in red.

I saw the breakdown when it happened and even tweeted about it, but it was hard to believe this BTC/Gold ratio would be so accurate. Looking back, it was the exact top.

Can Bitcoin go lower against Gold? Definitely. We have support at 16, 13, 11, and 9. While 16 is interesting for a bounce, 13 is a better candidate for a bottom. This tells me Bitcoin is likely to bottom in 2026 against Gold with a higher low then return on an uptrend.

In other words, Gold is expected to continue its uptrend and outperform both Bitcoin and the US stock market in the near term. In the medium term, a pullback is likely sometimes in 2026 which can give you a good entry if you’re aiming for 10k or 20k within three to five years.

Where next for Bitcoin and crypto in 2026?

In general, I have a bearish outlook for crypto in 2026. I expect the market to bottom sometimes in mid/late 2026, then a recovery and sustained rally can start in late 2026 or early 2027.

This crypto bear market could be extended further if the stock market crashes at any point in 2026/2027. On the other hand, I believe metals like Silver or Gold topping will be bullish for crypto since money will look to rotate into the next best thing. After Gold, only Bitcoin qualifies as such.

Silver investors are more likely going to look into altcoins since that suits their profile better. However, neither Silver nor altcoins are a good long term investment, they are, at best, a great tool for speculating quick gains. In a year or two, most of the current Silver gains will likely be lost as it crashes 70% to 90% like in the past.

That’s because the AI driven demand also looks like a bubble that may pop in a year or two. This AI FOMO is also driving most of the stock market returns lately. This makes me stay away from buying stocks nowadays. Too risky.

In such uncertain times, bet on certainty. That’s Gold and Bitcoin. These are the best assets to protect your wealth long term. Don’t be tempted by other investments beyond speculative bets. They end up as a massive trap. We know that well enough in crypto if you’ve been here long enough.

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Time to find out.

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1. BTC is bearish at first, but turns bullish later

I remain somewhat bearish on Bitcoin in the first part of 2026. The downtrend that started in late October 2025 is still ongoing. If the support at 83k and 74k won’t stop this downtrend, then expect a longer bear market with a key target around 50k.

This is the pessimistic scenario which I put at around 40% chance. If we get such price levels, buy hard. It will be one of the last chances to get into Bitcoin at mid-five figures. After that, I expect future BTC prices to hold above 100k.

The optimistic scenario assumes this price action is a long consolidation in a large range which has held true for over a year. The BTC price is basically identical to a year ago. If 100k is reclaimed, bulls will return and push Bitcoin very high, very fast similar to how Gold has been acting lately. That makes 150k an easy target. We will probably know if this scenario is realistic by March.

I also think Gold is basically telling us how Bitcoin will behave in the future. If not this year, then the years after for sure. It’s just a matter of time before we will see Bitcoin double or more within a year like in the past. Just be patient, it will come. Until then, accumulate as much as you can if discounts increase in 2026.

2. ETH remains flat under $5,000

Ethereum has been flat since 2021. Yes. Just look at the price action on the chart. This is because of multiple reasons, one being that Ethereum has become too complex and lost focus for a while. Even Vitalik agrees.

Moving away from Layer-2 scaling and re-focusing on improving the Layer-1 experience, which includes lowering transaction fees, has been the correct approach in the last year or so. This puts ETH back on a bullish trajectory in my eyes.

Moreover, institutional adoption and their plan for tokenization of stocks and everything else on chain is extremely bullish for Ethereum as one of the default choices in this process. Eventually, ETH will break away from the $5,000 resistance. That will take it to 10k or more.

However, I don’t see Ethereum having its major breakout this year. We will have to wait a bit longer for that.

3. Solana falls under $100

Because of the new L1 meta, you may think Solana will do well. However, the reverse is more likely because you only need one L1 chain to do a good job (think Ethereum) and that will capture 80% of the market, if not more, based on the pareto principle.

Solana also has a fundamental problem. Running a Solana validator is very expensive and highly dilutive of holders due to token subsidies. That’s why Solana validators went from 5,000 to less than 800 in two years. Solana is expensive to run, bloaty, and getting more centralized over time. The price action shows it too.

As you can see on the chart, SOL made a head and shoulder reversal pattern with a clear base around $100. If that support is lost, SOL will fall hard later this year and likely run towards $40. There is nothing bullish on this chart. I recommend you stay away from SOL in 2026.

4. XRP falls under $1

We know XRP is a momentum coin that likes to pump and 5x in a few weeks. The problem is that this already happened in late 2024. Since then, the price has been flat in 2025. I suspect in 2026 it will correct further.

I see a re-test of $1 or lower as very likely in 2026. This can also be seen on the monthly MACD which turned bearish in late 2025. Historically, it can take over one year for this downtrend to reverse.

For this reason, like with Solana, I don’t recommend touching XRP in 2026. There’s nothing attractive on this chart and from a fundamental point of view XRP has nothing going for it. It has become mostly a meme coin in the last few years.

5. BNB revisits $700

After a strong performance in 2025, it’s time for BNB to cool down, especially if other major altcoins continue to correct in 2026. The most likely scenario is for BNB to continue its current downtrend until it reaches the support at $700 which is the best candidate for a strong defense by bulls.

I’d look at that area to accumulate more. Historically, Binance Coin held pretty well in all market conditions because its supply is tightly controlled by Binance and its founder CZ that hold most BNB tokens.

Once the market turns bullish again, BNB will make new highs. I think this is likely from 2027 onwards.

6. ADA remains under $1 forever

Long term, the L1 space can only sustain one or two chains with any real traction. Right now that’s mostly Ethereum. Solana had its spotlight moment with memes, but that is gone now and BNB had a chance, but blew it. What is left for Cardano? Not much.

I don’t see a way where ADA can return to make a splash in 2026 or any time beyond that. Even its founder, Charles, said he will stop being active on social media because of “toxicity”. Sounds to me like he plans to retire early after making hundreds of millions off ADA.

Cardano holders? Left holding a big bag of nothing.

Don’t fall for any new marketing narratives around ADA or any new L1, most are just a blip before they fall into irrelevance (Monad anyone?). Another good example of that is the Cosmos ecosystem which pretty much died in the past few years after being one of the most exciting things in crypto for a while.

7. HYPE falls to $10

Whatever hype HYPE had left in 2025, is now gone. The price is down 65% since its all-time high. I expect this bearish price action to continue in 2026 until at least -80% to -90% from ATH.

That will put HYPE somewhere around $10 at the end of this correction.

The reason HYPE is underperforming to such an extend is because of major token unlocks which have generated a lot of selling, including from team members. This cascaded into whales also heading for the exits. For example, HYPE team members sold over 500k HYPE tokens or over $10 million in early 2026.

Team members received HYPE at zero cost basis. They literally printed the tokens from thin air. Therefore, for them, selling at any price is pure profit. Plus they deserve it after such a performance since early 2025.

Still, Hyperliquid remains the best decentralized exchange on the market. I don’t see that changing any time soon. For this reason, getting a fat bag around $10 will probably do well into 2027 and beyond.

8. Mantle revisits $0.50

Think of Mantle as a BNB beta. In 2025, Mantle became the native token of Bybit exchange. This allowed its price to make a new all-time high at almost $3. That performance was impressive, but the price pretty much erased all of that since.

There is a good chance this goes to 50 cents which will make it attractive again. Getting a bag there is probably a sound bet as Bybit will thrive during the next bull market which will push MNT much higher again. Easy way to 2-5x your money.

9. XMR goes above $1,000

Coins like Monero, that focus on privacy, are due to thrive in the age of AI which can analyze all your financial history with one click since most blockchains are public.

The XMR price already shows it.

A massive breakout from a multi-year consolidation that created a huge ascending triangle. I expect this to hit $1,000 in 2026 and go far beyond it in the years to come. Make sure XMR is on your watchlist.

10. Gold will rally higher, but expect a significant pullback

If you bought gold at any point in the past three years you are in solid profit. If you only bought Gold, you’d outperform both the S&P500 and Bitcoin, at least since late 2024.

If you are in crypto, you can get exposure to Gold via tokens such as PAXG and XAUT on Hyperliquid or most centralized exchanges. Most predictions put Gold above $5,000 in 2026 with long term targets above $10,000 in the coming years.

This is almost guaranteed to happen considering the global geopolitical situation where fiat debt-based systems are breaking down. There is simply too much paper money going around, like too many altcoins. These are worthless over time.

Gold and Bitcoin are a hedge against that. In this context, use any significant pullback to ape in and get a fat bag of Gold if the opportunity arises. I’ve been a heavy Gold buyer since 2021. I’ll add more on every pullback in the next 5 years.

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The Flying Tulip whitelist sale starts on January 20th!

If you are part of our Patrons Pro group (Unlimited Plan), you had a chance to join the whitelist in late 2025 via our Discord server. Those on the whitelist will have an opportunity to buy Flying Tulip tokens before the public sale.

But don’t worry, if you didn’t make it into the whitelist, you can still join the public sale in early February! Let me explain why this is worth your time and money. Scroll down.

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Flying Tulip TLDR

In September 2025, the founder of Flying Tulip raised $200 million (seed round) to develop and kickstart this on-chain exchange. His end goal is to raise a total of $1 billion. The missing $800 million will be raised from investors and the public.

That means you.

The beauty of this sale is that you have almost zero risk since the downside is capped at 10 cents (the price of buying 1 FT token), while the upside is unlimited. I wrote more about it in this Alpha Post back in October 2025.

The reason the downside is capped is because if you buy the FT tokens during the sale, you have the option to redeem your money in exchange for the tokens at the same purchase price, if you don’t trade them away.

Basically no downside risk because if the FT token goes to 9 cents, you can just swap them back for your cash at 10 cents a pop. Easy right? Investing into this is a no brainer since any price above 10 cents is free money. That’s why this sale will likely be oversubscribed as soon as it goes live.

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I will explain later why this can do a 5x or more. But first, how you can join the sale!

Flying Tulip Sale Details & How to Join!

The whitelist sale takes place between 20-22 January 2026. The public sale is expected in early February. The whitelisting for Patrons Pro was made possible via Impossible Finance in collaboration with YCC. If you made it on that list, congratulations! Over $250,000 or 2.5 million FT tokens were reserved for our members.

Those that can’t access the whitelist, can join via the public sale. More info next.

• Price per FT token: $0.10

• Total tokens: 10 billion

• Fully diluted valuation at sale price: $1 billion

• No vesting period, tokens are yours immediately after the sale

• Fundraising method: USDT on Ethereum

• Only direct sale buyers get the downside protection (the PUT option)

• If you join the sale, your downside is almost zero (except protocol risks)

If not all tokens are sold during the sale, then the market cap and total tokens in circulation will be lower. There can never be more than 10 billion tokens and the protocol is designed to burn tokens and reduce its circulating supply based on its revenue.

How to access the public sale?

1. Go to the Impossible Finance portal

2. Register your Ethereum wallet

3. Complete KYC

Once the public sale is open in early February (expected 3-5 February based on my intel), make sure you have USDT in the wallet used to register with. Then you’re good to go. Just be quick to join once deposits are open. It will be a stampede.

This portal is just one way to access the FT sale. There are other providers that will facilitate this as well. Demand is already very high.

Flying Tulip - A 5x or more?

The $1 billion raised during the sale will be parked in AAVE and similar protocols netting a yield of 3% to 5% on USDC and other stables. This yield is what will fund the protocol development. The sale proceeds will not be touched! This is important because it allows FT to process redemptions (your protection).

Let’s just say the roadmap is quite ambitious (posted below). This will be an everything protocol: a DEX, a stablecoin, lending, spot markets, futures markets, options, AMM, launchpad, insurance, etc.

The reason you can redeem your tokens for your money (at 10 cents a pop) is because your money is parked in AAVE. It’s not used for anything else. Therefore, you can at any time claim it back, if you did not trade your tokens out. You get your cash back and Flying Tulip (the protocol) burns those tokens.

If anyone else wants to buy those tokens at 10 cents (if the sale is not over or sold out), those tokens will be re-minted and the cash parked in AAVE. Pretty straightforward.

Why can FT do a 5x or more?

Because one of the only narratives in crypto that is sticky and actually has a product-market fit are exchanges, and most recently, decentralized exchanges. The flagship example is Hyperliquid, which to some extend aims to be an everything app, just like Flying Tulip.

Moreover, if we look at the recent launch of Monad (an L1 network) and Lighter (a DEX) we can see that Lighter has 2x the market cap. A decentralized exchange has a bigger market cap than a new blockchain network. It’s clear that if you want to be successful in crypto, you want to launch an exchange, not a new network.

For example, LIT has 1 billion total tokens and is trading around $2, at the time of this post. FT will have 10 billion tokens. When LIT was launched it traded above $4. If we expect FT to do similar, the token price can trade anywhere between 20 and 50 cents. That’s realistic and a solid return on the sale price of 10 cents.

Moreover, gold is making all-time highs every day and Bitcoin is slowly griding higher since the start of the year. I expect this bullish wave to last a while, especially if BTC reclaims 100k. This is an excellent period to do this sale, all things considered.

Another reason why FT can do well is because sale buyers are incentivized to hold and not sell since they can’t lose, even if the price falls under 10 cents. If they sell or swap back their tokens they are out of the game and will miss out on any future rally.

Plus, as time passes, FT tokens will be burnt due to protocol revenue, similar to how Hyperliquid does buybacks and burns. If you hold FT tokens long enough, with your protection active at 10 cents (if you joined the sale), there is no way you can lose money, unless the protocol or related partners are hacked in some way. I see this risk as very low.

With that in mind, I don’t think there is a better risk/reward investment available right now in crypto.

There will be more opportunities in 2026, but make sure you don’t miss out on this one. I’ll be here when the next opportunity arrives. Stick around and join our Patrons group for that.

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Here is this week’s alpha, curated just for you:

• Latest Bitcoin price forecast

• My Strategy for 2026!

• Market tips of the week

TLDR: While Gold is breaking into new price records, Bitcoin is struggling to hold above 85k. This weakness may last until the price breaks away from its current range.

Since late November, Bitcoin has been flat above 85k with a very choppy price action. This is a no trading zone where the best trade is to just wait and give the price time to pick a direction.

Just look at the chart. Up and down with no consistent trend.

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A break below 80k would signal bears are in control and Bitcoin will fall to 70k next. A break above 94k would signal bulls are back and a price above 100k becomes likely. Until any of these two scenarios happen, best to wait and hold your cash tight.

Speaking of cash, here’s my Strategy into 2026.

My recommendation in this market is to avoid any unnecessary risk taking. Be very selective if you plan to deploy your cash. The investment thesis has to be solid and, above all, a clear asymmetric bet.

If those conditions are not met, move on, and protect your cash. Particularly in 2026 which may prove more difficult than 2025.

Most recently, the Monad network was launched after a $270 million public sale at 2.5 cents a token (facilitated by Coinbase). Those that did not sell into the initial pump are all underwater today.

The reason I say this is because, in this market, you do not buy and hold. You buy and sell at the first opportunity to secure profits. Booking any profit nowadays puts you in a very tiny minority.

The only asset in crypto you want to buy and hold with confidence is Bitcoin. That’s it. However, I think Bitcoin has a good chance to hit lower price levels in 2026. Therefore, best to be patient on that front with your cash and scoop as much as you can when the time comes.

My key area of interest on Bitcoin is anywhere around 50k. We’re likely to hit that zone later in 2026 if the market remains bearish, but first, we could get a nice bounce around 100k. Perhaps in early 2026. Keep an eye for that scenario, also presented on the below chart.

Until then, I have my cash and Bitcoin deployed in several strategies which I recommend to you below. I’ve already discussed farming the USDai airdrop which is likely to take place in early 2026. You can read more on that in Alpha Post #83 (see the section after the BTC analysis) and here.

Let’s start with how I manage my cash first and then how I deploy my Bitcoin across DeFi. I do this while waiting for that juicy entry on Bitcoin at around 50k sometimes in 2026. My detailed strategy below.

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An edge is a strategy, skill, or knowledge that gives you a higher probability of profitable outcomes over the long term.

Think of it as an advantage (say inside information few have access to) that allows you to profit. Crucially, you need to be able to repeat this again and again until the edge is gone. At that point, you change strategy or learn new skills.

In what follows, I share real examples to help you define your own edge. Let’s start!

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A trader that is consistently profitable will tell you that an edge is a clear market advantage that can be exploited for a given period. An example of that is arbitrage.

If Ethereum trades at $3,200 on Binance and $3,150 on Hyperliquid, an arbitrage bot can net $50 (minus any fees) by buying on Hyperliquid and selling on Binance until prices merge and the arbitrage opportunity is gone. This is a very profitable trade during volatile times.

A similar strategy is applied across DeFi and different chains where the price of assets like Ethereum sometimes diverges enough to make such arbitrage profitable.

However, arbitrage is a crowded trade and is mostly automated. The edge there is gone for regular users since that opportunity is farmed as soon as it emerges by market markers paying almost no fees on such exchanges (another clear advantage or edge in their case!)

How to develop an edge?

Buying and holding is not an edge. Especially if you buy and hold the wrong things. However, if you blend buying and holding with the following, you will have an edge over time:

• Understand what sound money is and why it’s important

• Plan to accumulate hard assets only, preferably highly liquid ones

• Don’t mind waiting years or decades to maximize compounding effects

• Have a steady cashflow you can deploy over time to grow your portfolio

Doing the above with Bitcoin, gold, index ETFs, or real estate will likely make you pretty well off in a decade or two. This is a passive way of developing an edge over time by consistently investing in the right assets again and again. That’s your strategy!

Doing the same with altcoins will likely lead to ruin in the same time period.

This method is the most basic way to success. However, if you want to be more active in developing an edge, then follow the next examples.

Have a strategy or create one

Below are three strategies that can give you an understanding of what I mean:

1. Trade only one asset 30 minutes after the New York Stock Exchange opens every day. If the price makes higher highs in that 30 min window, you go long. If lower lows, you go short. You stay in this trade until lunch time at best. Repeat this every day.

2. You participate in public or private token sales with a strict list of criteria (no lock times or long vesting after the token generation event). You sell said tokens within a week after the token goes live across exchanges. Repeat this several times a year. Here’s a list with such opportunities.

3. You split your USD liquidity in five buckets. Each bucket of cash (20% of total) goes into a DeFi protocol farming yields. Your goal is to have an average yield of 10% to 15% per year across your portfolio. That’s up to 4x more than TradFi rates. Review your portfolio and positions daily and update accordingly to maintain an edge. See USDai as an example.

You have an edge if at the end of the week, month, or year you are net positive or in profit. Notice the key to any strategy - it can be repeated again and again. The edge stays valid until it no longer generates a profit or underperforms benchmarks such as Bitcoin or AAVE’s 5% annual yield.

Assess your skills then double down on them

Whatever strategy you pick, evaluate the skills required, and refine them. Just doing that can turn a boring strategy with little profit into an edge that can make you rich. Here’s what I mean, keeping consistent with the above examples:

1. Learn price action and technical analysis. Spend time watching charts until the price speaks to you. Refine your strategy until you know exactly what to do at every moment. Repeating your strategy should become a boring and predictable set of actions, whatever the market may do. You know when to buy, sell, cut losses and what to do with the profits. Nothing is uncertain.

2. You build a network and “reputation” onchain over time. This allows you easy access to join private or public sales before tokens go live. This is your edge. For example, the MegaETH sale had 50,000 interested participants, but only 5,000 made it in. I spoke about it in Alpha Post #80. Farm such airdrops, sell for profit, and buy more Bitcoin. Then repeat.

3. You are an advanced DeFi user. You can easily assess opportunities and risks of any new protocol across various blockchain networks. You deploy cash using the most optimal routes and bridges. You farm yields as long as they are competitive and bail early at any signs of trouble. This agility to move across DeFi is your edge. You also farm points and airdrops with your liquidity on top, that will boost your yields further. Repeat this again and again.

Find and exploit any advantage

Crypto is, in most cases, a zero-sum game. For you to make a profit, it has to come from somewhere. This is why there are plenty of losers in this space. It’s a highly extractive industry and I wrote more about it here.

To differentiate yourself, you need to take a different approach. For example, I started my X account out of curiosity and an interest in posting my analysis about various protocols and coins. That quickly exploded into a following.

Over time, having an audience can generate leverage where you can gain access to information before it becomes public by interacting with teams and protocols that would otherwise not be interested in talking to you. This is a clear edge or advantage. Subscribing to this newsletter and reading my premium posts is another way to access alpha early.

Others are skilled in reading the blockchain or can code bots that allows them to track or mirror whales actions in real time. This provides them with insights that are rarely public.

Another way to have a clear advantage is to simply build something onchain. As a builder, you control your product and can leverage that to your advantage. Just look at Stripe that recently enabled USDC to fiat transactions for which they charge a 1.5% fee! Crazy high, but they will likely print from that.

The bottom line

If you are playing in the crypto casino without a strategy or edge, don’t expect to become rich. At best, you may get lucky on a meme token, but then lose that profit quickly by gambling on the next one.

Take a week or a month to define, develop, and refine your strategy. Start by identifying your skills which can lead to a concrete edge. You will know if you’re on the right track once profits emerge from your actions. If a former profitable strategy is no longer working, seek a new edge.

The market always provides opportunities to those nimble enough to catch them early. Your role is to show up early and maximize the opportunity. When the rest follow, it’s time to exit.

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Here is this week’s curated alpha:

• Latest Bitcoin price forecast

• Top 3 Altcoins This Week!

• Market tips of the week

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Latest Bitcoin price forecast

TLDR: Bitcoin dropped to 80k last week and may have formed a local bottom for some time. With bears resting now, buyers can push BTC into a bounce towards the 102k resistance.

As expected, the loss of the 102k support led to a massive drop that touched 80k briefly. The 84k fib level acts as support right now and a sustained relief rally is likely since sellers are exhausted after this 36% crash from ATH levels.

The question is if this relief rally will end up as a dead cat bounce that will lead to new lows or can it break that 102k resistance to attempt new highs? Momentum indicators would suggest we’ve entered a bear market, but past fractals give hope of a sustained reversal.

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The below chart shows Bitcoin’s March 2023 crash in blue overlayed on its current price action. The similarity is uncanny and may suggest Bitcoin could make new highs in early 2026. A 36% crash is also not atypical for a bull market. Either way, we should know by end of December or early 2026 if this is hopium or a valid play.

My bias turned bearish since BTC lost 102k. If that level is reclaimed as support, then new highs are likely and my bias will shift bullish again. Until then, watch closely how the price moves once it approaches 100k.

This relief rally can also give a good boost to altcoins that could net some solid returns as we enter December. I expect December to be a green month after a red October and November. Let’s look at that next.

With Bitcoin about to rally towards 100k, it is not a bad idea to get some exposure to altcoins that can outperform in this period. Since many alts dropped quite a bit lately, they can also enter a sustained relief rally that is worth a bid.

Below, I have three altcoins for you to consider.

However, if you’re more risk adverse and want to protect capital, you can also farm solid yields on your stablecoins using Fluid. I suggest joining my USDai team, then deposit USDC on Arbitrum in this Fluid sUSDai/USDC pool (see image below).

That’s 12% APY right there plus an airdrop later since you’re also farming 10x allo points against your USDC deposit. This is an easy win considering current market conditions.

Having said that, let’s look at my Top 3 Altcoins this week that can outperform Bitcoin by a factor of 10x during this relief rally.

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This has generated a lot of new opportunities for retail despite volatile market conditions.

In what follows, I’ll show you five such opportunities. I’ve already covered some of them in the past and is not too late to join them! Let’s start.

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1. USDai - farm allo points

Most recently, Coinbase has made a strategic investment in USDai. I’ve covered this opportunity before and encouraged you to join my team using this link. Those allo points will turn into an airdrop later!

Considering Coinbase is all over this opportunity, there is serious money involved. That’s because USDai blends the AI hype/infrastructure needs with crypto yields and DeFi.

This is quite novel in the space and a pretty safe investment at this time considering most of the deposits are currently parked in US treasury bills. If you have stablecoins, park some into USDai to farm allo and qualify for the airdrop.

This is free money basically.

2. Neutrl - farm points

The Neutrl points campaign has started. The mechanics are somewhat similar to USDai where you trade your stablecoins for NUSD to farm points which will turn into an airdrop later.

How is Neutrl different?

Neutrl’s synthetic dollar delivers premium market-neutral yields by harnessing exclusive over-the-counter (OTC) market strategies. Basically, they buy OTC tokens at a discount and hedge them on futures markets.

This is how they protect investors with hedged positions, but also how they farm funding fees on futures markets, similar to Ethena. Moreover, because they bought OTC tokens at a discount, they secure even more profits which will boost the yields they generate for NUSD holders.

In terms of risks, Neutrl and USDai are somewhat similar since they both have exposure to assets that may not be liquid at all times. USDai will eventually have a large exposure to AI hardware (used as collateral) and Neutrl has exposure to tokens that are locked for a certain period (they can’t sell them immediately).

These risks are mitigated by laddering lock periods and investments to ensure a constant flow of liquidity. Since both projects are new, the risks are low right now. However, I believe risks will increase when most of their liquidity will be allocated into assets that are harder to liquidate on demand (like selling lots of GPUs for USDai).

3. Monad Public Sale via Coinbase - 2 days left

The Monad sale on Coinbase has two days left to go and is already filled at 75%. You can track the progress live here without an account. This will likely be fully filled and oversubscribed at this rate by tomorrow.

If you are from US, this is probably the first opportunity to join a public sale of this scale. Monad’s network goes live on November 24th. That’s when you can get your tokens if you join the sale.

You can also read more about the sale in this previous post.

You can check the pre-launch price of MON token on Hyperliquid. It is hovering around 4 cents right now and the sale price is 2.5 cents. So far, this is free money since you can sell for a profit as soon as the network goes public.

4. VOOI Public Sale via Legion - 1 day left

The VOOI sale is oversubscribed by 16x four days since it began! Demand is high and for good reasons. VOOI is a DEX aggregator with the same investor (YZi Labs) that invested in Aster! I wrote about it in Alpha Post #82 as well.

You have one more day to join!

Go to Legion using my squad link, open an account, KYC, and then select Cookie as curator. Then join the sale by following the steps. You still got time.

If you don’t make it into the allocations, don’t worry. Your funds will be returned to your wallet after the sale ends. They accept USDC on Ethereum for deposits. Good luck and let me know if you make it later!

5. RAT Escape Buy-Back and Distribution to Members

This month, we have launched three RAT community initiatives which also include a program to buy-back the token on the open market and re-distribute it to our participating members. You can read more about it on our Discord here.

As you can see below, over 15M RAT was purchased on the open market to date with an average profit of 30% for participating members. This is on top of the 20% bonus paid in RAT that will be applied to any member that holds their RAT for at least three months after this buy-back round ends.

You can still join this round until the end of November. Simply send a message to Duo on Discord. We will organize more community buy-backs in 2026 and these will be announced in due time.

Moreover, we will also reward community members that create viral content about RAT Escape across social media. This can include X posts, YouTube videos, articles, or fan art. Anything goes.

Post, share, and then apply for our prize pool on Discord as follow:

• 1st place: $300 in RAT

• 2nd place: $200 in RAT

• 3rd place: $100 in RAT

• 4th & 5th: $50 in RAT

• + more

If you are a builder, investor, or creator, reach out! RAT Escape is 100% community driven and we’d love to partner with like minded individuals and projects.

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Here is this week’s curated alpha:

• Latest Bitcoin price forecast

• Three key opportunities to make easy money right now!

• Market tips of the week

TLDR: November has been bearish to date with Bitcoin falling under 100k. Hopefully a bounce follows before the end of the month. The alternative is a bear market starts.

As you can see on the chart, the uptrend that started in 2023 appears to have ended this month. If November closes like this, then it will be hard to argue in favor of bulls.

Still, the month is not over yet and a bounce is likely. If Bitcoin manages to reclaim 102k as support, buyers have another shot at a rally higher. Some critical weeks ahead.

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Either way, it’s best you are very careful in the coming period, especially if Bitcoin makes new highs. You don’t want to add risk to your portfolio. You want to reduce it. Take solid profits whatever happens and sit in cash as we enter 2026.

Don’t get trapped.

The opportunity cost is real if your money is stuck in losing positions. Below I show you three such opportunities to print in the coming weeks and months.

The first opportunity goes live tomorrow!

I’m talking about the VOOI public sale. This is a DEX similar to Hyperliquid or Aster, but with a twist. It’s a DEX aggregator that allows you to trade on any popular decentralized exchange under one interface.

Their public sale starts tomorrow on Legion in partnership with Cookie.

To join, you will need to create an account on Legion and KYC. Make sure you use my referral link to join my Legion squad.

This sale is likely going to be oversubscribed. Nevertheless, if you have some cash laying around, you can deposit it and hope for the best. I recommend anything around 1k to 5k.

If you are not selected, you get the cash back or perhaps a lower allocation than the one requested. Either way, the risk/reward is promising since DEX sales have done fantastic this year (look at Aster).

Having said that, let me share with you two more opportunities which are longer term, but equally exciting. Scroll down.

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