Most Oracle tokens are just governance tokens with fancy names. $RED is different. It's the economic engine that powers their entire modular Oracle architecture🧵

$MNT is running hard while quietly building the real DeFi infra. > Stablecoin mcap reached $657M ATH > TVL hit $233.5M > Launched @URNeobank as a fully onchain banking solution last month > Positioned as ‘Blockchain for Banking’ targeting for TradFi x DeFi users Study @Mantle_Official

Here's the thing about BTCFi. Most of the protocols are designed by people who love complexity. + Bridge here + Rebalance there + Pay fees everywhere Most $BTC holders take one look & decide their coins are fine sitting in cold storage earning nothing. @SolvProtocol’ BTC+ changes this entirely👇 > One deposit, automated everything, zero fees during launch > Your Bitcoin gets deployed across RWA, CeFi arbitrage & LP strategies > BTC+ doing the work = 4.5-5.5% target APY > Some users seeing 99% APY initially before it normalizes > $100k $SOLV incentive pool for first movers > 400 BTC cap for the first round The bigger picture here is BTCFi is finally getting products that can be onboarded on easily! For $BTC holders who've been sitting on 0 yields & are checking out BTCFi, it's worth exploring.

So @solana’ most volume happens through Dark AMMs that don't show up on any dashboard you check. > AMMs that can capture transaction + liquidity flow on the chain but rarely exposed are called Dark AMMs > They process huge volumes for institutions & HFT bots but stay invisible to sites like DefiLlama, Dune > One unnamed Dark AMM ranks #1 in actual trading volume on @solana > Most stablecoin trades flow through these invisible exchanges, not Orca or Raydium > These protocols have almost no online presence (no websites, minimal docs, spam search results) > Public dashboards show completely different leaders than actual volume data This creates a 2 tier market where professionals trade on invisible infra while retail users make decisions based on incomplete information. Not scaring anyone here but remember what you see on dashboards isn't the REALITY but it's just the marketing layer while the REAL business happens most of the times in the shadows. This has been happening for some time!

So @Lombard_Finance’ $LBTC holder count just hit 269k users & here's why this matters for BTCFi👇 > 90.9% hold small amounts (0-0.001 $LBTC), proving retail adoption > $1.56B TVL shows significant capital wants Bitcoin earning yield > Opportunities across @ethereum @base @SuiNetwork @SonicLabs @katana @berachain > Users earning from loans, liquidity provision & DeFi strategies while keeping Bitcoin exposure Infra layer approach means $LBTC becomes more useful as BTCFi ecosystem expands.

Over the past month @ethena_labs has been crushing it🔥 > $USDe supply has surged 75% to $9.3B > $3.1B+ in the last 20 days > The fastest growing YBS based on TVL (3rd largest stablecoin by mcap) > DeFi's 6th largest protocol by TVL > Utilization of @BlackRock BUIDL fund based RWA via $USDtb > Working with the institution level through @convergeonchain $106.59M (2.7% of CS) of $ENA is getting unlocked tomorrow.

19 things that quietly sabotage your life if you keep doing them… 1/ Don't overshare your struggles with random people 2/ Don't announce your goals before you've made real progress 3/ Don't complain about the same problems without taking action 4/ Don't compare your behind the scenes to everyone else's highlight reel on social media 5/ Don't check your phone first thing in the morning 6/ Don't say yes to everything out of fear of disappointing people 7/ Don't argue with people who aren't interested in understanding your perspective 8/ Don't hold grudges against people who don't even remember what they did 9/ Don't spend money you don't have to impress people you don't actually like 10/ Don't ignore small problems hoping they'll disappear 11/ Don't make major decisions when you're emotional 12/ Don't assume people understand what you need without you clearly communicating it 13/ Don't keep toxic people around because you have history together 14/ Don't procrastinate on things that take less than 10 minutes 15/ Don't take criticism from people whose opinions you wouldn't ask for advice 16/ Don't stay in situations that consistently drain your energy without giving anything back 17/ Don't expect others to change just because you want them to 18/ Don't sacrifice your mental health for anyone else's comfort or expectations 19/ Don't wait for the ‘perfect moment’ to start something important Small habits compound into big life changes, positive or negative.

That's what a year of grinding looks like. This is my Twitter analytics from the past 12 months & honestly, it's been a wild ride that I want to share because I think it'll help anyone building their own audience. Started from basically nothing last July. Those first few months were brutal. > Felt like I was posting into the void > Got a few hundred impressions per tweet > Wondered if anyone even cared about what I was sharing But I kept going because I believed the content was valuable. > Had decent spikes in Sept & Oct > Nov-Mar was honestly depressing Impressions dropped to 25k some weeks, engagement felt non existent, & I questioned whether I was wasting my time writing about crypto & DeFi. Here's what I learned during those low months👇 1/ They weren't wasted time 2/ Every thread taught me something about my audience 3/ Every reply built a relationship that would matter later 4/ Learnt a lot from the posts of @0xCheeezzyyyy @kenodnb @thelearningpill @AlwaysBeenChoze & how they went ahead w their posts 5/ I was building the foundation even when it didn't feel like progress. Connected w some amazing folks like @splinter0n @eli5_defi @Hercules_Defi @0xAndrewMoh The real change started happening around April & May. Not because I discovered some algorithm hack or viral formula, (see the numbers are not that great) but because I'd finally understood what my audience needed. Better analysis, clearer explanations, less hype & more data pa. The compound effect slowly now has started kicking in. June & July have been good. But more importantly, the engagement quality is so much higher. People are actually finding value in what I share. The lesson? Your breakthrough is probably closer than you think, but it won't look like you expect. It's not one viral tweet that changes everything (for some it does) but I believe it's the slow build of trust, consistency & genuine value creation. If you're down right now, I promise it's worth pushing through. Slow audience > Quick audience

So @mawariXR’ Guardian Node DIO just launched & the fundamentals look solid for the XR infra space. Here’s everything you need to know about it🧵

$AVAIL might be the most undervalued infra play in crypto right now. NFA > Trading at $63M valuation compared to $1.1B of $TIA & $347M $EIGEN despite comparable development > Survived $19M token unlock (38% supply) with only 1.2% price drop while others crashed 10-15% > 100+ partner projects like @sophon @LC @soon_svm already building on their DA infra > 11%+ staking yields + 1.7M+ blocks processed > $150M+ in TVS > Nexus stack (across 9 chains) positioning for tokenization as BlackRock/JP Morgan enters the RWA space DA demand growing with Ethereum rollup expansion. @AvailProject is building the boring infra that institutions actually need for large scale tokenization.