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In June, the US restricted access to top centralized AI models, including Anthropic's. One policy decision and entire regions lost access overnight. That alone is enough to make people reconsider where AI infrastructure should actually live.

Inside the network, there's a live governance proposal (Root Reborn) that would change how validators operate. Instead of constantly selling $TAO emissions, they'd choose which subnets to fund and reinvest returns back in.

And on the institutional side, both Grayscale and Bitwise have filed for a spot TAO ETF, SEC decision expected in August.

Any one of these would be a reason to watch. Together, they make a case for $TAO as something worth adding to a portfolio.

In 2012, Sunny Lu was playing World of Warcraft and needed in-game gold fast. A Taobao listing offered 100 BTC for $300 and he sent the money. Unfortunately, it was a scam and Bitcoin never arrived.

Instead of walking away from crypto forever Sunny opened the Bitcoin whitepaper. At the time, he was CIO of Louis Vuitton China, building internal track-and-trace systems that followed luxury goods through factories, distributors, and stores. The whitepaper hit differently for someone already wrestling with multi-party data problems every day. His question wasn't "how do I make money?" It was "what if every supplier, manufacturer, and retailer could read from the same immutable ledger without any single company owning it?"

In late 2015, a mutual contact introduced Sunny to a young Vitalik Buterin in Shanghai. Hours of conversation about smart contracts and the EVM later, the answer was clear: neither Bitcoin nor Ethereum was built for enterprise. He'd have to build from scratch.

Vechain launched that same year. Walmart China uses it to trace food from farm to shelf. BMW built VerifyCar on it to fight odometer fraud. 530 million transactions processed, 100% uptime since 2017.

Sam Altman has spent years at the center of the AI revolution as co-founder of OpenAI. But back in 2019, long before ChatGPT existed, he was already thinking about a problem most people hadn't considered yet: in a world full of AI, how do you prove you're a real person?

That question, combined with his long-standing interest in Universal Basic Income (he ran a UBI pilot in Oakland years earlier through Y Combinator), became the seed for Worldcoin

Together with Alex Blania, a physics researcher straight out of Caltech with zero CEO experience, Altman started building what would become one of crypto's most ambitious projects.

Their solution: the Orb. A device that scans your iris and issues a unique World ID, proving you're human without revealing who you are.

The project launched publicly in 2021, backed by a16z and Khosla Ventures. By July 2023, $WLD went live and spiked over 20% within hours.

In 2024, the project rebranded to simply "World" and launched its own Layer 2, World Chain. Now it's expanding into payments with partnerships like Visa and Match Group.

From a late-night thought experiment about AI and identity to millions of iris scans worldwide, $WLD might be one of the strangest "what if" stories in crypto.

Dog-themed memecoins have remained one of crypto’s strongest narratives for years.
But while many communities were pushing aggressive, masculine “degen energy,” there weren’t many projects built around a softer and more friendly identity.

That’s how Mom appeared, promoted as the first female Shiba Inu memecoin on Solana. A pink-themed dog token that leaned fully into “cute energy”.

The project quickly gained attention across Crypto X/Twitter and Telegram because it felt different from the usual meme formula. Some community members even started calling $MOMO the “queen of dog coins” or $BONK’s little sister.

One of the interesting parts of the story is that $MOMO survived early turbulence that kills most meme tokens. After initial hype and setbacks from early participants, the community continued pushing the project forward on its own, turning it into a community-driven token rather than a founder-driven one.

In a market full of chaos, charts, and competition, $MOMO built its identity around something surprisingly rare in crypto: wholesome energy.

Join the $MOMO army 🎀

In August 2020, someone called Ryoshi launched Shiba Inu with $3,000 of liquidity on Uniswap. No presale, no VC money, no team tokens, only a dog memecoin as an alternative to DOGE.

Then Ryoshi did something nobody expected, sent 50% of all SHIB to Vitalik Buterin without asking, and it turned into one of crypto's most iconic moments. Important to say that Vitalik burned most of the tokens and donated the rest to India's COVID relief fund.

The name Ryoshi means "fisherman" in Japanese. Nobody knows if it's one person or a group. In May 2022, everything connected with Ryoshi was deleted - all blog posts, all tweets, and the creator disappeared. The last message was: "I am not important, and one day I will be gone without notice. Take the SHIB and journey upwards frens"

The project kept building after the founder vanished with ShibaSwap, Shibarium, metaverse, NFTs appearance. The project that was built by someone who called themselves nobody.

HYPE bounced from $38 to almost $49 after Hyperliquid suddenly became one of the hottest topics in crypto again. Mentions of the project across соцсети exploded as traders piled back into the onchain perps narrative.

🔹 One major trigger was fresh hype around the CLARITY Act, which pushed attention back toward decentralized trading platforms like Hyperliquid.

🔹 At the same time, Coinbase and Circle expanded USDC support inside the ecosystem, bringing more liquidity and confidence to the platform.

🔹 Another catalyst was the launch of the SPCX perpetual market tied to SpaceX speculation. The listing brought traders back to the pre-IPO and synthetic assets narrative, an area where Hyperliquid is becoming one of the main players.

Right now, HYPE is testing the important $48–$51 zone. A breakout above it could open the way toward $55–$60 and potentially send the token even higher.

Named after Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong's cat and Bitcoin's creator Satoshi Nakamoto, $TOSHI became the mascot of Base chain.
But behind the meme and strong community lies a real launchpad, a governance DAO, NFT collection, and DeFi tools. No presale, no team tokens, 100% community from day one.

Since its all-time low, $TOSHI is up 3,678%. Its ATH was $0,00226 in January 2025. Today it's trading at $0,000186. Do you think we'll see a new ATH?

The move happened because of altcoin season warming up, Solana memecoins running, and $GIGA getting compared to early $DOGE again.

Your $1,000 in $GIGA at the start of the month has already turned into $2,350.

Catch the chad 💪

$PENGU is up 58% this month, dominating the memecoin rotation. Whales increased their holdings by 17,71% over the past week, the huddle is getting bigger.

Stay frosty 🧊

1️⃣ "Monero" is Esperanto for "coin"
The name wasn't random. It was deliberately chosen from Esperanto, the constructed language invented in the 1800s to unite humanity. The plural, moneroj, follows Esperanto grammar rules. A privacy coin named after world peace. Make it make sense.
2️⃣ It was born from a community mutiny
A Bitcointalk forum user called "thankful_for_today" launched BitMonero in 2014 and was almost immediately ousted by the community he built. They forked it, renamed it Monero, and took over. Both the ousted founder AND the author of the original whitepaper remain anonymous to this day. Nobody knows who built the thing that nobody can trace.
3️⃣ The IRS put a $625,000 bounty on cracking it
In 2020, the IRS criminal investigation division offered $625K to anyone who could trace Monero transactions. They hired Chainalysis, the best blockchain forensics firm in the world. As of 2022, the verdict was still: untraceable. The US government spent over half a million dollars and got nothing.
4️⃣ North Korea weaponized it against the world
In 2018, North Korean hackers deployed malware that silently hijacked victims' computers to mine $XMR and funnel it back to Pyongyang. No banks. No blockchain trails. No sanctions that could touch it. Arguably the only crypto ever used as a state level financial weapon.
5️⃣ It has infinite supply and that's the point
Bitcoin's block reward hits zero one day. What happens to miners then? Nobody actually knows. $XMR solved this with "tail emission," a permanent 0.6 $XMR reward per block, forever. Slight inflation (~0.8% annually) replaces lost coins and keeps miners incentivized indefinitely. Bitcoin is betting on a fee market that doesn't exist yet. Monero already solved it.