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Why I Still Believe in Airdrop Farming After 8 Years My first airdrop was Stellar Lumens in 2015. All I had to do was prove I held Bitcoin. That was it. I received Lumens just for existing in the right…
DEX farming is one of the biggest opportunities in crypto right now. Trading volume earns points. Points convert to airdrops. Some of those airdrops have been worth tens of thousands of dollars. But here’s the honest truth: crypto is hard…
Let’s be direct. In a market where altcoins are down 68% from 2026 highs and the Fear & Greed index is sitting at extreme fear, most farming opportunities are not worth your time or capital right now. Hyperliquid is the…
Yesterday we entered a BTC long at $66k and took a stab at ETH too. As of right now we’re sitting at $67k — a small scalp, but we’re still holding. Nothing wild yet. What’s been on my mind though…
Last year, we joined the first Trump meme coin dinner in Washington, DC, and to this day it remains one of the wildest experiences of my life. I ended up with my face on CNN twice, my photo on newspaper…
The long-running Uniswap case is officially over at the district court level. And the message from the court is clear. Developers and venture backers cannot be held responsible for scam tokens created and traded by third parties on a decentralized…
Crypto never sleeps. And apparently, neither do AI agents with access to token treasuries. Today, Lobstar AI pulled off one of the wildest “oops” moments we’ve seen in a while. An AI agent accidentally sent 5.2% of the entire $LOBSTAR…
We have always liked Pudgy Penguins. Back in the NFT days, they were one of the collections we actually enjoyed trading. We flipped a decent amount of them, rode the waves, and of course got the $PUDGY airdrop in 2024.…
I was a huge fan of NFTs. Digital ownership on the blockchain? I was in. I traded hundreds of Bored Apes. A few dozen CryptoPunks. I received NFT airdrops like ApeCoin, PENGU, LooksRare, and Blur. Good times. I gave loans…