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The battlefield metaphor still holds.

A new chapter in decentralized social unfolds. Bitcoin enters legislative frameworks. ETH is being hoarded by public companies. $TRUMP holders spend $50K on burrata salads. KOLs find themselves trapped in algorithmically generated attention prisons.

Meanwhile: backdoors in Shenzhen printers are siphoning crypto, Farcaster now supports Solana, and Balaji launches a meme coin.

Web3 isn’t cyberpunk. It’s financial surrealism.


Biweekly Highlights

📢 MaskDAO Acquires Orb.club, the Largest Lens Social App, to Unlock Onchain Virality for the Creator Economy

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Let’s start with some big news from the past two weeks — @Orb_Club is officially joining the Mask Network family! 💥 With 50K+ monthly active users, viral sticker drops, and a thriving community of on-chain creators and collectors, Orb adds serious firepower to the decentralized social movement.

Here’s to this milestone — and to the future we’re building together. 🍻

去中心化社交网络Mask Network完成对Lens链原生社交应用Orb.club的战略收购


🏛 The GENIUS Act: Victory or Viral Distraction?

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David Sacks calls the procedural passage of the GENIUS Act a major win for crypto.

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But behind the celebrations, the real game begins. Democratic senators are scrambling to rewrite the bill — trying to sever any link between the Trump family and blockchain. Meanwhile, as stablecoin legislation gains ground, Tether signals a pivot overseas.

The blockchain world’s biggest “real-world use case” isn’t payments — it’s power.