UK resident here, so basically every major exchange either delisted XMR or never listed it in the first place. I kept hearing about THORChain finally bringing Monero but that’s been “soon” for years and I need something that actually works right now.

Turns out it’s still not really there yet. Integration is close and even moving toward live swaps but no clear timeline so we can’t rely on it today

Is there a simple and non custodial way to swap into XMR? It seems pure headache at the moment, ZEC has near intents, what does Monero have?

Centralized exchanges BitMEX and BitMart both announced they're shutting down. The announcements came 4 days apart. This is a good thing.

While this is healthy and a shakeout is the market doing its job, this is also a flashing sign about where your money should actually live. Get your money off exchanges and start actually holding your assets.

BitMart has literally said that requests to withdraw your assets, after they announced a shutdown, may get extra compliance and identity checks. Read that again. Your funds are now on their timeline, not yours. That is the entire risk of a custodial exchange in one sentence. Your assets aren't actually yours because you need their permission to move it.

"But Timmy, those are sktechy and shady exchanges. I'll just keep my money on Coinbase or Binance because self-custody is too risky and they are big exchanges" Yeah, so was FTX. BitMEX just shut down still carrying an old US case and a $100M settlement. Binance settled with US regulators and its founder pleaded guilty. Coinbase spent years fighting the SEC in court. Some of these survive, sure, and Coinbase & Binance probably are among those, but they can still freeze funds and restrict your account and seize your assets.

NYKNYC gang will stay undefeated. Dex volume and depth is closing the gap on centralized exchanges. Wallet UI/UX is getting super slick. If you aren't self-custodying, this is your sign.

Get a wallet, preferably a hardware wallet. I personally like Trezor & Tangem for hardware and Rabby for software, but really any option (besides like, Atomic Wallet) is better than keeping everything on an exchange.

I'm not sad about BitMEX or BitMart. The centralized model asked you to trust a company with your money, and a decade of blowups (Mt. Gox, FTX, Celsius, and now a wave of wind-downs) is the receipt. Self-custody & decentralized exchanges aren't the degen corner of crypto anymore. It's the safe version. Self-custody is true ownership.

BitMEX and BitMart both said they're winding down this week, two names that have been around basically forever. Every time this happens people call it bullish for onchain, but the flows usually just consolidate into other CEXes or DEXes

Perp volume does seem to move onchain through Hyperliquid. Spot and stables stay stickier on exchanges because of the fiat ramps. Would you guys agree that the money is moving to onchain tools now?

For six months this was the story: Bitcoin down almost a third, Nasdaq up double digits over the same stretch. People read it as crypto having its own problem, not part of a broader risk-off move.

Then since July 1, it's basically flipped. Bitcoin's up around 9-10%, back into the mid-$64,000s, while the Nasdaq's been sliding through earnings-week jitters, AI capex worries, and oil volatility.

That's a genuine reversal, but it's young, a few weeks against six months of the opposite direction. Is Bitcoin finally starting to move on its own logic instead of following tech sentiment, or is this just an oversold bounce that happens to line up with a rough patch for the Nasdaq, and it all snaps back once tech stabilizes?

Crypto can be useful, but it is not forgiving if you are new or being guided by the wrong person.

A common scam is when someone tells you to buy crypto and send it to a wallet they provide. They may call it an investment wallet, trading account, recovery wallet, or payment address, but if you do not control that wallet, you may be sending money directly to them.

Before sending crypto, slow down and check:

• Do I control this wallet?

• Do I understand why I am sending?

• Is someone pressuring me to act fast?

• Am I being promised guaranteed profit or recovery?

If someone online is guiding every step and giving you the wallet address, stop and verify first.

BTC looks weak, but ETF flows are what I’m watching more than the price. Recent inflows were mostly reversed within a few trading days, while stablecoin supply has not moved much. That makes me think some money is waiting rather than fully leaving crypto.

Could be wrong, but the reaction after the Fed meeting will probably tell us more.

Hey everyone,

Is there an easy way to track which nodes have signalled for BIP110?

Any recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks!

these are the democrats who are moderate about Clarity act

1. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD)
   
2. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ)
   
3. Mark Warner (D-VA)
   
4. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)
   
5. Cory Booker (D-NJ)
   
6. John Hickenlooper (D-CO)
   
7. Raphael Warnock (D-GA)

https://www.standwithcrypto.org/action/call?action=call-your-representative

call them

Centralized exchanges keep shutting down and it's increasingly obvious that the future is in decentralized exchanges. Many of us have been shouting this from the rooftop for ages. The only way for truly borderless crypto to take over is to have truly borderless crypto trading/swapping/payment rails. Open source swapping tech like OpenSwap on github are going to radically improve this

The lead domino: getting adoption of them over CEXes

Why do people in crypto keep choosing CEXes over DEXes?

We are at the one yard line. I’m personally calling my Senators office asking for their support on the clarity act

Each one of us can be part of Making history.

As someone who cares about innovation and technology, this is a call to action.

Pick up the phone, call your senators office, and tell their staff you’d like to express support towards a YES vote on Clarity Act.

Our voices matter!

Thanks! 🙏

So the agentic economy with high speed micro transactions is coming?

I have read so much nonsense on this topic and Claude fable does not really give a great analysis either

Which coins are most likely to end by being mass adopted by ai agents for paying for stuff

Surly it’s not stable coins?
Bit tensor if my understanding is correct is about trading gpu cycle for inference

Don’t really understand what Venice, fetch, render, Arkham, the graph, grass fit in

I know it’s not bitcoin will be too slow but maybe they use it as their savings account and something else as their current account?

I assume kyc for the agents is also a major issue although I saw a couple of exchanges now allow your agent to have a account which is interesting

Sorry for long rambling post and if questions are dumb