Bitduke

Earn it yeah, just hand an AI bot full trading access and some capital and tell it to EARN IT. zero risk, right (but cool experiment if true)

so shutdown is pretty much guaranteed?

onchain trading was never dead

crypt IPO season

the token clearly matters

quick update on the Lighter Mobile Way Competition: it wraps up on Jan 26 at 11:59 PM UTC (you can still join) in addition to the main leaderboard, a 10,000 LIT bonus prize pool is now active, awarding special prizes rewards are split into two waves, mid-way and final winners,

a lot shipped today on Lighter. alongside equity perps, trading is now live for pure crypto coins: $RIVER, $DASH, and $DUSK more announcements are on the way, sub-accounts and Public Pools are expected in the Lighter mobile app by week’s end, and the staking page for LIT should

\~8 days left until the end of the two-week grace period (Jan 28), during which existing LLP holders can keep their capital in the pool. after that, staying in the LLP will require staked LIT (1 LIT staked = 10 USDC in LLP) that said, this already doesn't seem like a big issue,

"Supreme Court rules in favor of Trump's tariffs?" polymarket is gaining traction again toward the end of January, this market is currently around 8th among all Polymarket markets, with roughly $3M in volume the Supreme Court could rule on Trump's tariffs in the coming weeks,

days without DeFi exploits: 0

\> NYSE's new digital platform \> tokenized trading experiences \> 24/7 operations so, does this mean stocks will be issued natively as digital tokens? and if so, on which chain, like ETH, tempo, their own?

Lighter continues to execute buybacks, scooping up every dip, about 1.6M LIT accumulated so far (up \~11% since Jan 16) I'd cautiously say selling pressure also seems to be easing. the chart has been struggling to break below $1.9 over the past few days, which suggests the

Will Microstrategy announce a Bitcoin purchase January 13-19? YES or is Monday a holiday and the announcement coming on Tuesday instead?

actually a good short thread on some pieces of quant finance history, definitely food for thought (particularly if you think the next big direction for crypto is moving toward a DeFi+TradFi merge) + also the book recommendation The Man Who Solved the Market by Greg Zuckerman

meanwhile, officials are reportedly angry over Coinbase's unilateral move, and the White House may pull support for the crypto market structure bill if Coinbase doesn't return to negotiations

\* 1.4M LIT tokens quick fix

about $1.4m worth of $LIT has been accumulated in the Lighter buyback account so far, with roughly 20% of that purchased in just the last two days with no buybacks today, yet

there's been a lot of hype lately around a possible invocation of the Insurrection Act, with polymarket pricing it at \~60% but let's look at reality. the last five uses were: 1957 (Eisenhower, little rock desegregation) 1962--63 (Kennedy, desegregation) 1965 (LBJ,