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The year's most hyped convergence turned out to be mostly cosmetic. "AI x Crypto" largely manifested as: chatbots that read on-chain data for you, tokenized versions of open-source AI models, and "AI-powered" trading bots that executed classic pump-and-dump schemes with a fancy U ... read more on X

The conflict of interest at the heart of multi-billion-dollar prediction platforms. These companies thrive on the appearance of fairness to attract retail liquidity, but they rely on high-volume "whales" to keep the markets deep. When those whales win with suspicious perfection ... read more on X

Once upon a time, the "wisdom of the crowd" was a noble idea, a digital campfire where collective intelligence could outshine any single expert. But in January 2026, that campfire started to look more like a smoke-filled backroom. Take the case of a certain anonymous trader on P ... read more on X

2025 Market Stagnation & Narrative Overcompensation. _____ While major asset charts painted a brutal, agonizing picture of sideways movement, the narrative machine went into hyperdrive. Every micro-bounce was "the breakout." Every dip was "a healthy cleanse." We were fed a co ... read more on X

Every December, the Delhi elite (and anyone with a credit card and a cough) participates in the "Great Oxygen Migration." We spend thousands of rupees to flee to the mountains of Himachal or the beaches of Goa, chasing a myth called "Fresh Air." The problem is that we’ve become ... read more on X

The 2025 Echo Chamber Amplification. "Real adoption" was the mantra. Yet, every metric of "realness" was just crypto measuring its own reflection. User growth meant new anon Twitter accounts joining CT. Volume meant money moving between the same 50,000 degen wallets across new c ... read more on X

The 2025 Hype Cycle Whiplash. _____ 2025 didn't have one narrative; it was a conveyor belt of them, each with a half-life shorter than a meme coin. We pivoted from "AI Agents" to "DePIN Summer" to "Autonomous Worlds" to "On-Chain Order Flow" before Q3 even started. Each new t ... read more on X

There is a specific kind of theater that happens every November. While the citizens of Delhi are coughing up small pieces of the atmosphere, officials emerge with colorful charts and bold press releases. They tell us that, actually, the air is 4% "less lethal" than it was last ... read more on X

By late 2025, the Solana ecosystem was technically flawless. FireDancer was live on mainnet, Solana Seeker phones were in the hands of thousands, and institutional flows into Solana ETFs were hitting nearly $700 million in a single week. Yet, as the price cratered from $294 to $1 ... read more on X

There is a specific type of madness reserved for the Delhi "Health Enthusiast." Every morning, thousands of people hit the parks of Lodhi Garden or Leisure Valley, dressed in neon dry-fit gear, determined to "get their cardio in." The problem? They are doing it in air that has ... read more on X