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Monday, January 27, 2025
Even by crypto's chaotic standards, this weekend was something else. The kind of market madness that makes the ICO boom look like a church bake sale.
After Friday's news of Gary Gensler's departure from the SEC, what followed was so wild that some half-jokingly wished for the return of crypto's favorite hall monitor.
While Washington's elite clinked glasses at the Inaugural Crypto Ball, a different kind of political revolution was brewing in the digital shadows.
Enter the Official TRUMP token, the weekend's unexpected kingmaker - launching at $0.20, rocketing to $70, creating and erasing billions in wealth along the way.
A weekend of wealth creation that would make even the Wolf of Wall Street howl at the moon.
But like all things in crypto, what goes up must come down.
Sunday brought the queen's gambit - MELANIA meme token's launch sent markets into a death spiral.
The timing couldn't have been more calculated - mere days before taking the oath of office.
Was this one last dance as a private citizen, one final pump before the presidential duties begin?
Could this be the new normal, where memes make millionaires and politics goes permissionless?
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Stories and Articles
• Ross Ulbricht granted a FULL AND UNCONDITIONAL PARDON by President Donald Trump [Read more]
• List of Reported Crypto Scam Companies in 2025 [Read more]
• Telegram malware scams spike 2,000% as crypto investors face new threat [Read more]
• Inside the Trump Crypto Project Linked to a $2M DeFi Hack and Former Pick-Up Artist [Read more]
• District Court officially ordered to reverse sanctions against Tornado Cash [Read more]
Best of Feed
• The company of the 47th President of the United States just bought $47 million in Bitcoin. | @saylor 1991 points
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• Bank of America’s CEO say Wall Street is ready to “come in hard” for Bitcoin and crypto if the regulators allow them. | @BTC_Archive 426 points
• The 1st-ever mention of Bitcoin in television history at $3, 13 years ago. It's up OVER 3,000,000% since. | @pete_rizzo_ 410 points
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Research of the Week
MEV Bots: The Invisible Hands Stealing Your Gains
In DeFi, the market isn’t your biggest enemy—it’s the MEV bots hiding in the shadows, waiting to rip you off before your trade even sees the blockchain. Before you’ve blinked, they’ve front-run your transaction, hijacked your profits, and left you holding the bill. These bots aren’t just a nuisance—they’re predators, and every transaction is their hunting ground.MEV, or Maximum Extractable Value, is how these bots siphon value from your trades. Think of it like a poker game where someone peeks at your cards before every hand. Bots camp out in the mempool—the holding area for pending transactions—ready to pounce. They reorder, insert, or cancel trades to make sure their wallets get fatter while yours gets thinner. That juicy arbitrage opportunity you spotted? Gone. That low-slippage swap you planned? Blown up. All that’s left is your rekt face staring at the chain.Front-running is their bread and butter. Let’s say you’re swapping tokens on Uniswap. A bot sees your trade, copies it, and cranks up the gas fee to make sure their transaction gets mined first. They buy the token before you, pump the price, and then dump it right back to you at a markup. By the time your trade goes through, you’re paying extra while they pocket the difference. It’s not just a game—it’s daylight robbery.Then there’s the infamous sandwich attack. The bot places one trade ahead of yours and another behind it, manipulating the price on both sides. You’re not just losing value—you’re getting squeezed dry. These bots aren’t just taking your lunch—they’re cleaning out your fridge and raiding your pantry for good measure.So how do you fight back? The best defense is staying out of their sight. Tools like Flashbots Protect can hide your transactions from the public mempool, cutting off the bots’ line of sight. Using aggregators like 1inch can help you find routes that dodge slippage and minimize your exposure. And if you’re setting slippage tolerance, keep it tight—just don’t go too low, or your trades might fail altogether.The harsh truth? MEV isn’t going anywhere. As long as there’s money to be made, these bots will keep hunting. Some protocols claim they’re redistributing MEV profits back to users, but let’s not kid ourselves—it’s still a battlefield. The only way to survive is to stay sharp, know the risks, and never let your guard down.In DeFi, bots don’t just play the game—they own the board. If you’re not paying attention, you’re not trading—you’re the product. Protect your trades, or the bots will make you their next meal.
Memes and Videos How a Hacker Saved The Internet A routine test uncovered a backdoor that could have turned millions of servers into hacker playgrounds. Andres spotted the malicious code buried in open-source software and sounded the alarm, stopping a global cyber disaster in its tracks. In a world where even trusted tools can be weapons, vigilance isn’t optional—it’s survival. Source: fern Source: naiivememe
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