Invisible Tax, Independent Thinking, and Agent Identity — The Three Major Challenges of the AI Era in 2026
⚡️ Friends, in 2026, the development of AI has entered a critical moment, showcasing three significant trends that are fundamentally changing our ways of working and living.
The rise of AI agents accelerates technological innovation and profoundly impacts the open network economy. These intelligent agents earn profits by extracting information while bypassing traditional revenue models such as advertising and subscriptions, effectively becoming an invisible tax.
As a result, content creators on websites have suffered losses from traffic diversion, making it difficult for advertising and subscription models to maintain their original sustainability.
⚡️ Friends, this time it's really mouth-feeding cold! $KAITO and $COOKIE dropped by over 15% directly, and before anyone could harvest the gains, the game was paused by the official team. All those brilliant ideas are left unfulfilled, not even a single bite of the pie's meat was tasted.
On January 15, Nikita Bier, the product lead at X platform and also a Solana ecosystem advisor, announced a major transformation: the platform will fully revise the rules for developer APIs. In the future, all applications relying on incentivizing users to post content for monetization (in short, the so-called "mouth-feeding" model) will be strictly prohibited.
The reasoning is straightforward: the existence of such applications has essentially turned the entire feed into a chaotic mix of AI-generated content—repetitive posts, automated replies, and low-quality spam—making the information stream increasingly disorganized.
Currently, API access for applications involving these mouth-feeding mechanics has already been revoked. Once bots and accounts that depended on posting for rewards realize they can no longer earn, X platform's content feed might undergo a major cleanup. It's foreseeable that the future feed will become more concise and higher in quality, free from content clearly generated by machines, possibly allowing for more authentic and meaningful interactions.
From this perspective, X platform's adjustment is clearly aimed at improving overall content quality and delivering a more genuine, valuable social experience to users. For developers who have been trying to ride the wave in the mouth-feeding model, this change might well be a chilling storm.
⚡️ Hey friends, Orderly's performance is impressive—cumulative trading volume has surpassed $181 billion, and the number of wallets has exceeded 890,000, with both figures continuously rising, showing steady growth.
Notably, Orderly One, as a no-code DEX launcher, has helped over 2,000 DEXs go live smoothly, with many platforms already achieving profitability, demonstrating outstanding performance.
In addition, Orderly is rapidly expanding into the realm of real-world assets (RWA), launching perpetual contracts for assets such as S&P500, Nasdaq100, gold, and silver, further enriching the asset portfolio and enhancing platform liquidity and market activity.
The New Era for Traders: Creators and Platforms Building a Sustainable Profit Ecosystem
⚡️ Friends, traders always vote with their feet. The names on the leaderboard may change, but the core demand remains the same: a reliable execution, sufficient depth, and controllable slippage. Hype marketing does not bring real trading volume; in the end, time only leaves behind platforms that can consistently create value.
OrderlyNetwork can become the underlying layer for multiple profitable trading venues, and it's not by chance. What it offers is not a gimmick, but a solid foundation.
Aden Perp DEX is an example, with a trading volume of $46 billion over three months, low fees but healthy cash flow. This explains why the acquisition of http://Gate.io is not just about functionality, but also about the already vibrant and sticky trading community.
How to Seize the Advantage: MemeMax Second Phase Early Planning and MaxPacks Unlocking Guide
⚡️ Friends, currently, the second phase of MemeMax has not officially launched, but everything is ready and is expected to unfold quickly after the confirmation of the Perp DEX launch date.
As the second phase approaches, we will witness more activities and features being gradually unveiled. It is important to note that the second phase will bring intense competition, so now is the best time to plan ahead and seize the advantage.
The competition in the second phase of MemeMax will be exceptionally fierce, and the leaderboard will become the core focus. Those who can seize opportunities in this phase will gain an edge in future competition. Therefore, it is recommended for everyone to participate early; the sooner you enter, the greater the rewards and advantages you will gain.
From Hype to Real Use: The Long-Term Growth Logic of Orderly Network
🌲 Merry Christmas @OrderlyNetwork ~ There has been a lot of discussion about Orderly in the Christmas timeline, but most of it revolves around whether it will rise and how far the sentiment can go.
This perspective itself easily misses the truly important things. If you extend the timeline a bit, you'll find that in DeFi, the hardest part has never been going live, nor the excitement, but whether it can be genuinely and repeatedly used after going live.
Whether trading volume can continuously convert into transaction fees is actually a very high threshold. Many protocols, at their most visually appealing stage, have not yet crossed this step; the real crossing often happens in the early stages when the market is not concerned and the narrative is not sexy.
The King of Chains Not Relying on Subsidies: Arbitrum's Sustainable DeFi Ecosystem
⚡️ Friends, if you only look at the narrative dynamics, many people will mistakenly believe that Arbitrum's highlight has passed.
But as long as you break down the data and the flow of funds, you will find that the core of Arbitrum has not wavered; it remains the king of Layer-2 infrastructure centered on DeFi.
By 2025, Arbitrum will long remain in the top tier of L2 TVL, and what truly supports it is not short-term hotspots, but a cluster of protocols that can generate high-frequency, sustainable transaction fees, including perpetual contracts, lending, and DEX. The trading volume of GMX's perps and the deep liquidity of Aave and Uniswap have made Arbitrum one of the few chains that survive without relying on subsidies.
When Liquidity is Taken Seriously: Lombard's Rebranding for LP
⚡️ Friends, many projects talk about liquidity, but what they are actually discussing is scale, TVL, and rankings; however, truly mature projects care about something else—where liquidity exists, why it exists, and who maintains it.
This is also the reason I recognize Lombard Finance's approach this time. Doing LP in places like Uniswap, Curve, Aerodrome, and Fluid has never been a passive thing.
You are not just depositing money to wait for returns; you are actively standing on the front line of price discovery and system stability. Every piece of liquidity is a participation in market structure, not just a cold, hard number.
⚡️ Friends, the fate of a project is often determined not by what it has, but by whether it can be implemented.
Beldex currently holds a decent hand; VRF and Bulletproofs++ are genuine technological assets. On paper, it indeed has more potential in performance and privacy than many established privacy coins.
However, technology has always been a tool with both advantages and disadvantages; it can form the basis of value but may also become an insurmountable barrier. Only when it truly operates and runs stably can these technologies transform from highlights into long-term competitive advantages.
But relying solely on technology won't tell the story. The narrative around privacy is gaining momentum globally, which is a favorable breeze for privacy coins. The question is: will this wind lift all privacy projects together, or will it only blow toward those that are the most prepared and trusted?
When users truly grow weary of a life where data is transparent, they will not be willing to pay for experimental products; they will choose default, plug-and-play privacy solutions that require no explanation. For Beldex to get that ticket, it must prove it can become one of the default options, rather than just one among many candidates.
The good news is that Beldex has not just been quietly writing code. The support from DWF and the community actions from Kaito show that it is beginning to fill in the narrative and visibility gap.
In this market, strength and exposure are both essential. If technology is strong but nobody knows about it, it will fail; if there is a lot of exposure but no product, it won't last long either. Beldex's current positioning resembles that of a player preparing to enter the main stage, with ideas, resources, and exposure.
What it needs most now is one thing: the adoption of real users. It's not about the excitement on Twitter, nor the calls for orders in the community, but about being able to say, 'I am using it,' and that it indeed solves a problem. That moment is when the true revaluation of value begins.
Everything is still in progress, but at least we can see it moving in the right direction.
⚡️ Friends, the multi-chain world is bustling, but cross-chain operations remain a pain point. Every time you transfer, borrow, or face various bridging, delays, and security risks, the experience is always interrupted.
River's solution is straightforward: the omni-CDP system hides complex processes in the background, allowing you to collateralize BTC or ETH on chain A and directly generate the stablecoin satUSD on chain B, all without crossing bridges.
This is not just about saving steps; it's about reconstructing security boundaries. Cross-chain bridges have always been a hotspot for hackers, and River has circumvented this risk point through its mechanism.
Currently, River has integrated with over 8 mainstream chains, with a TVL exceeding 600 million USD and a circulation of satUSD approaching 370 million. The deep integration with protocols like LayerZero has made cross-chain truly achieve "seamless switching."
Surrounding satUSD, River has built a highly adhesive ecosystem, achieving dynamic exchanges and long-term holding bonuses through the RiverPts points system, while also opening up NFT trading scenarios to enhance asset liquidity, and plans to introduce an AI module in the future to further simplify user operations.
Its token is issued on Solana, with low fees and high speed, complemented by an official buyback mechanism, providing the community with additional confidence support.
River is not just another stablecoin project. What it is doing is more fundamental: redesigning the way assets flow across chains. While others are still building bridges, it has already constructed tunnels.
In an era where DeFi experiences are becoming increasingly complex, this approach to making complexity invisible may be the breakthrough point the industry needs.
⚡️ Friends, holding idle XRP and ETH, always wondering if they can make them work, yet fearing cross-chain troubles and asset insecurity, this is probably what many retail investors think. Until I met @moremarketsxyz, I realized that earnings can come effortlessly.
What impressed me the most is that it allows my XRP to earn a stable 3.5 – 4% yield on the native chain, without the need to move around, which naturally reduces risks.
I put a portion of my assets into their XRP Flare Account, backed by a partnership with Firelight Finance, where the system automatically allocates the optimal strategy, and I hardly have to worry about it, which is stress-free.
The team's background is also reassuring: built by former core members of NEAR Protocol, Electric Capital led a $13 million investment, and both Halborn and Sherlock have passed security audits. Now the TVL is approaching $30 million, gaining momentum.
Moreover, the assets are always in my own hands; the platform merely helps me execute strategies. This self-custody model is the true way of wealth management that belongs to Web3.
Watching their CEO Altan share recently at Ripple Swell, I can feel that this sector is heating up. The project is still in the pre-TGE stage, and early participation may bring additional surprises.
After all, @moremarketsxyz is not just about transferring assets but using precise routing algorithms to calculate fees, slippage, and execution costs in real-time, directing liquidity to the highest-yielding places. This is not simple automation but a revolutionary efficiency optimization that allows every piece of liquidity to unleash its maximum potential in the network.
Sometimes, making money doesn't necessarily require hustle. Choose the right place, apply the right strategy, and leave the rest to time.
BTCK Renamed BTC.b: From Local Experiment to Comprehensive Launch of Multi-Chain Bitcoin Asset Standards
⚡️ Friends, on Katana, BTCK has officially been upgraded to BTC.b. While this may seem like a simple rebranding, it actually reflects the subtle changes in the demand for Bitcoin assets in the DeFi world and reveals Lombard's strategic foresight in cross-chain Bitcoin layout.
Looking back, Katana once launched dual-track Bitcoin assets: interest-bearing LBTC and non-interest-bearing BTCK. According to traditional logic, interest-bearing assets are usually more popular because they can directly generate income.
However, on-chain data reveals an unexpected fact: the scale of BTCK is almost twice that of LBTC. This phenomenon highlights the market's demand for pure, high-liquidity, non-lockup Bitcoin assets. For high-frequency traders and those who operate cyclical lending strategies, non-interest-bearing assets are easier to combine, more beneficial for tax planning, and can flow freely across multiple protocols.
⚡️ Friends, River is building the first chain-abstract stablecoin system aimed at overall liquidity interconnection of the ecosystem.
The next three tasks that River is advancing all point to a clear goal: to eliminate the differences in the forms of funds across different blockchains.
River's core weapon is satUSD. The biggest pain point in cross-chain currently is: has the money really arrived? Is this packaged assets? Will it be liquidated? Could there be issues with the bridge? These complexities make ordinary users not want to think about it at all. River's philosophy is simple: if satUSD is truly the same asset on every chain, users do not need to understand any underlying mechanisms.
Just like USDC is USDC on both Ethereum and Solana, if satUSD can achieve true unification in ecosystems like EVM and Solana, it can naturally become the default stablecoin in trading pools, the mainstream collateral in lending systems, and the pricing benchmark for cross-chain assets. In short, without hype, make stablecoins something users naturally want to use.
The Smart Vault and Prime Vault it launched are very much in line with institutional needs. Ordinary users can tolerate some volatility, but institutions fear uncertainty the most. River treats zero liquidation risk as a core feature, which essentially tells institutions: put your assets in here, and you won't be liquidated in the middle of the night, nor will you wake up one day to find your positions missing. This product capability is extremely attractive to institutions because what they pursue is not the highest returns, but security, auditability, compliance, and accountability to their internal stakeholders.
If Prime Vault can truly become institutional-grade DeFi infrastructure, then River will no longer be targeting ordinary users, but rather financial-grade liquidity, and its growth potential will be completely redefined.
River4FUN is currently a community interaction tool, but River intends to steer it towards a more "serious" direction. In the future, points will no longer be "participation rewards", but rather a means for you to participate in governance, make decisions, and influence the stability of satUSD. For example, whether to adjust system parameters or whether to add new collateral assets should be decided by those who truly participate.
This is true decentralization, not leaving it to a few large holders, but giving it to the entire community. If points can become such governance credentials, River's ecosystem will be much healthier than it is now.
⚡️ Friends, the market is cold, but the builder's pace has not stopped. Recently, the Orderly team did a key thing by bringing over 50 core members to Jeju Island to align their direction, and then the founder headed straight to Seoul for five days of discussions.
This is not just team building; it's a strategic move. South Korea has officially become the focus of Orderly's efforts. The maturity of the South Korean trading market is high, and users are quick to accept derivatives and high-frequency trading.
In the past two months, the Orderly DEXs that performed the best in trading volume have all come from the South Korean community; this community is strong, and the trading culture is deep, but limited by regulation and the CEX environment, the demand for building a trading front end has become increasingly urgent.
So when Orderly says New Korean DEXs are coming, it is not just a slogan; they have already seen in practice: a group of Korean teams with traffic and community are building localized trading platforms based on Orderly One.
Their goal is not just DEX, but to become the underlying construction base for the next generation of financial applications. From globally unified liquidity, no-code DEX tools to cross-chain capabilities, these modules are exactly what mature trading markets like South Korea lack and desire the most.
In a bear market, many projects choose silence, observation, or even contraction, while Orderly goes against the trend: intensively promoting cooperation, landing scenarios, expanding ecosystems, and continuously investing in infrastructure. There are not many teams that can maintain execution power during downturns and continue to invest in foundational construction.
In South Korea, some want to make DEX, and Orderly provides the fastest and most stable approach. While others choose to wait, they gather their team and rush to South Korea to discuss business. The value of infrastructure does not rely on words but is built layer by layer.
This time, Orderly tells the outside world with action: their pace does not look at the market, only at the direction.
⚡️ Friends, observing MemeMax has become increasingly clear that they are not just speculating on a meme, but rather trying to turn fun into a driving force for trading and ecological growth, and to systematize this process.
There are too many projects on the market that treat memes as buttons, where clicking results in a rise; not clicking leads to a drop. Their direction is more like: turning memes into an entry point, but behind that entry point is a set of mechanisms that can operate sustainably in the long term.
Not relying on luck, not relying on emotions, but rather creating a direct connection between participation, contribution, and real actions within the ecosystem. Maxpacks is a reflection of this idea.
It is not the kind of blind box meant to stimulate short-term emotions, but rather a quantifiable reward where what you do determines what you get. Trading, interaction, contribution, all can be translated into actual incentives. The logic is transparent, traceable, and does not require faith in the issuer's words; the system and the on-chain data themselves are the rules. This truly stands out among numerous projects that rely on probability and hype.
However, the true strength of MemeMax is not the mechanism, but the community. This community is not about shouting bullish or bearish sentiments, but rather a gathering of people who can play, dare to play, and love to play, bringing their own traffic and creativity. Such a community is a core driving force in any project, especially since they are building an ecosystem that requires activity and a sense of participation.
The next crucial step is their Perp DEX. If this line opens up, trading demand will rise, and then let Maxpacks bind actions and incentives together, only then will MemeMax truly form a self-sustaining cycle. At that time, the excitement of the ecosystem will not rely on operational pushes, nor on hot topics for stimulation, but rather on the natural interaction between the system and the community.
So looking back at MemeMax now, it is not just a meme project limited by labels, but more like a hybrid ecosystem with technology as the foundation and the community as the amplifier. What appears on the surface are memes and excitement, while underneath run mechanisms and trading facilities.
Many people may only see the surface layer of memes, but fail to notice the underlying structure. But truly vibrant projects often look like this: the excitement is the entry point, while the structure is the future.
⚡️Friends, recently @Kindred_AI's SAFU Engine has been a hot topic because it incorporates early bird advantages and collective power into its rules, clear and straightforward, no nonsense.
Arrive at the restaurant ten minutes early, go straight in and start eating; arrive late, and wait an extra half hour at the door. At a concert, being quick by a few seconds can secure front-row seats; being slow means you can only see what's sold out. Life's rewards have always quietly favored those who take action first.
The core mechanism of the SAFU Engine actually consists of two points: the earlier you participate and the more united everyone is, the higher the multiplier for your earnings.
First is the Early Bird Multiplier. In the first 24 hours, you get a 3.5× early bird multiplier, which decreases every 12 hours thereafter. What you're delaying is not time, but a tangible reduction in your potential earnings.
Second is the Colony Multiplier. As the number of participants increases, everyone's multiplier will rise together, reaching up to 3.4×. This isn't individual competition, but the entire community working together to raise the multiplier.
Ultimately, your earnings multiplier is the sum of these two: Final Multiplier = Early Bird + Colony (up to 6.9×).
This mechanism doesn't create anxiety; it makes the idea that the earlier you act and the more the community pushes together to earn more into a publicly transparent mathematical rule. The sooner you enter, the more you earn; and the more everyone pushes for subscriptions, the more you earn.
Besides the multiplier mechanism itself, the long-term value of SATO in the MemeCore ecosystem is also worth noting. Each SATO will consistently produce 69 points of sweetness daily, which will be mapped to $SUGAR token airdrops in the future; the more SATO you hold, the larger your future share of airdrops.
Particularly noteworthy is the HERO SATO iNFT series. Not only is it rare (only 3333 in existence), but it is also the first batch of iNFTs launched by @Kindred_AI in collaboration with partners, likely to become a key revenue engine within the entire ecosystem.
If you don't want to buy at high prices in the secondary market in the future, this SATO presale is the safest entry opportunity; the first 800 holders will directly receive a HERO SATO whitelist.
Opportunities are never just waited for; they are actively seized when the rules first start. The SATO presale starts on December 2nd; this time, we are not just early birds, but the group of people pushing to raise the multipliers together.
A Low-Key Yet Crucial Turning Point: Beldex's New Stage
⚡️ Friends, familiar projects have new faces. Do you think it's just a rebranding or an upgrade? Seeing @BeldexCoin's brand revitalization, I feel this time it's a real expansion of perspective.
In recent years, privacy in the crypto industry has become increasingly scarce. Many projects claim to value privacy but treat it as an optional feature; however, Beldex has always considered privacy as a fundamental logic to build upon, making it one of the few projects that persist on this path.
They haven't shouted slogans loudly, nor have they done anything flashy; they just continue to fill in every piece of the puzzle: chat, VPN, browser, identity system, metadata processing...
⚡️ Friends, OrderlyNetwork is already a profit-generating exchange infrastructure, and it is currently operational and truly making money.
To put it in the most straightforward terms, over 1000 exchanges are using its services, not in an experimental way, but as a real product. It supports more than 17 blockchains, and a new exchange can be set up in just a few minutes, with the platform being very easy to operate.
Now let's talk about buybacks, which is also a highlight that many people are paying attention to. Every two weeks, the company uses 60% of its profits to buy back $ORDER tokens. The bought-back coins are split evenly: half goes to staked users, and half is given to community management.
Simply put: platform makes money → automatic buyback → tokens become scarcer, which is very friendly to holders in the long term. In fact, as soon as the announcement was made, the token price rose by 47%, and the market has voted in the most direct way.
The reason OrderlyNetwork has the confidence to conduct buybacks is because its business model is very stable: weekly revenue is about $547,000, the more transactions there are, the more fees are collected, and the more money is available for buybacks. Just like selling virtual items in a game, every transaction generates income for the platform, making the entire cycle self-sustaining.
This sense of reliability is not just empty talk about the future, but rather money → buybacks → coins becoming more valuable, with the entire logic being simple and clear. Coupled with a large market size, with weekly trading volume approaching $96.3 billion, there is plenty of room for imagination.
OrderlyNetwork is like a profit machine that is already on the road, with people using it, people making money, and it is reinvesting the earnings back into the token system. Compared to projects that can only paint grand visions, this sense of reliability is even more reassuring.
⚡️ Friends, for a long time, many have regarded Irys as a decentralized storage solution. But if you delve deeper into its technical path and vision, you will find that its goals go far beyond this.
Traditional solutions only focus on storage and retrieval, while Irys makes data programmable, verifiable, and capable of triggering actions, deeply binding data with execution logic, providing a new infrastructure paradigm for DApps, on-chain content, and even enterprise-level collaboration.
It is precisely for this reason that this Genesis NFT is named the first step. Irys is ushering in an era of programmable data on the blockchain, a truly meaningful data chain is taking shape before our eyes.
The Genesis NFT consists of 999 pieces and serves as a long-term pass with real rights: holders can obtain future $IRYS token airdrop eligibility, priority participation in ecological projects and internal testing nodes, gain exclusive identities on Discord, and become a symbol of long-term builders in a non-transferable manner.
The claim window is only 48 hours, requiring a small amount of Gas to be paid on the Ethereum mainnet, and users who participated in the Irys testnet should not miss this.
This issuance is not merely a marketing move but has released three important signals:
▌ Since the testnet, Irys has been listening to the community and rapidly iterating, showing a strong community orientation in the project.
▌ From the permanence and verifiability of data to the current programmable data chain, the technical roadmap is gradually becoming clear, forming a unique competitive barrier.
▌ With the launch of the Genesis NFT, the TGE of $IRYS may not be far off, and ecological incentives and governance frameworks are worth looking forward to.
Be patient, good things are on the way. If you agree with the future vision of trustworthy data and programmable on-chain solutions, Irys may just be a project worth paying attention to and participating in for the long term.
As the officials said, this is the beginning of something new. What we are witnessing is not just an NFT, but the start of an ecosystem.
Reliable, verifiable data architecture and a sincere community culture encourage people to invest, build, and stay for the long term. The next important progress is approaching, and we are taking the first step.