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GM, This article concerns the public interest and is fully open — feel free to share it. As mentioned in recent Blocktrend articles, last week I discovered that two of my assets were stuck in DeFi services 1 2 3 : 1. Euler Finance (K3 USDT Earn Vault – Avalanche) 2. Silo Finance
GM, Starting next week, Blocktrend will take its year-end publishing break. Four articles will be paused, and regular publication will resume on December 2. This is a pre-planned family trip — not a getaway to recover from last week’s loss of funds 😅. But hey, it works out perfectly. Now, onto
GM, I originally planned to skip publishing this week—honestly, my mood was terrible. But after thinking it through, since I’ve already paid what feels like a million-dollar tuition fee, I should at least share my firsthand experience of falling into a DeFi pit. First, a quick reminder: if
GM, It’s currently earnings season for U.S. stocks, and last week, the American cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase held its earnings call. As the meeting was coming to an end, CEO Brian Armstrong admitted he was a bit distracted, then proceeded to read out a series of keywords: “Bitcoin,” “Ethereum,
GM, According to Tuesday’s poll results, this article will once again feature human narration. I personally prefer reading my own work aloud, though it does take extra time to record — unlike AI-generated audio, which is much easier 😂. Still, I’ll keep exploring AI tools to see if there’s
GM, Longtime readers of Blocktrend know that writing this article carries some legal risk for me. The main subject, OwlTing, once filed both civil and criminal defamation lawsuits against me and three other netizens in 2020 — all because I criticized the government’s so-called “mosquito chain” project on Blocktrend, for
GM, Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictment of 38-year-old fraud ring leader Chen Zhi (English name Vincent) and seized 127,000 bitcoins from his wallet — worth around $15 billion USD — marking the largest cryptocurrency confiscation in U.S. history. The Prince Group, chaired by Chen,
GM, Exactly one year ago, Stripe announced its $1.1 billion acquisition of Bridge, a startup providing stablecoin APIs — marking the largest acquisition in crypto history. At the end of my article back then, I wrote¹: The current model of cross-border remittance is built on the assumption that money itself
GM, Last weekend was Taiwan’s National Day holiday, but the cryptocurrency market went through a bloodbath. The turmoil began when Donald Trump suddenly announced a 100% tariff on Chinese goods starting November 1. The news triggered a global selloff—both in traditional markets and crypto. The Nasdaq Index plunged
GM, Bitcoin has once again hit a new all-time high — but do you remember exactly what the current ATH (All-Time High) is? I honestly can’t keep track anymore 😂 Ever since Bitcoin broke past $100,000, the price has started to feel “blurry.” I used to care about whether it
GM, If you’ve ever bought cryptocurrency, you’ve definitely run into the issue of how to move money in and out. “On-ramping” means converting New Taiwan Dollars (NTD) into crypto, while “off-ramping” is the reverse. This has always been the biggest barrier to entering the blockchain world. In Taiwan,
GM, Recently, all kinds of Digital Asset Treasury companies have been emerging in the market. Even TNL Mediagene, the parent group of well-known media platform The News Lens, has set up a digital asset committee to prepare for purchases of BTC, ETH, and SOL. But this party already seems to