MASTR · 2024–2026
Original investigations, critical essays and the conversations behind them. Read by subject, follow a thread, or find a person or project in the source texts.
694 · Selected publications · 18/29
This is not a philosophical position or a rhetorical warning, but an empirical observation repeated across economics, geopolitics, systems engineering, psychology, and especially crypto markets.
Crypto com was under siege for more than 1 year. The US SEC issued a Wells notice in 2024. Crypto com sued the SEC in October 2024, then dropped the lawsuit in December 2024. On March 27, 2025, Crypto com announced the SEC closed the…
The users decided what this ecosystem would become. Not builders. Not protocols. Not regulators. Users. Capital follows behavior, and behavior made the choice clear years ago.
It became repetitive, predictable, shallow, trapped in loops that endlessly repeat while pretending to be new. The same narratives are recycled, the same people farm reactions, the same moral theatre plays out every day, loud, aggressive,…
Solana won the speed war, then spent years paying interest on that architectural debt. Today the brand lives in 2 parallel realities: a high-throughput base layer that genuinely ships, and an ecosystem layer where outages, exploits, insider…
At first it felt harmless. A tool that finished sentences. A system that cleaned images. A shortcut that saved time. People welcomed it because it did not look like a threat. It looked like help.
My thoughts: Do not obsess over how prices look tonight or tomorrow. Short term price movement has always been the loudest distraction in financial history, and almost never the signal that mattered.
In July 2025, a consolidated class action lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York accusing Pumpfun and the Solana ecosystem of operating a coordinated illegal scheme that allegedly wiped out between 4…
Politics is no longer a stable architecture of rules. It is a high frequency theatre of optics, outrage, and emergency powers. Parties mutate, alliances flip, enemies become partners, partners become enemies, and every narrative is…
When we warned about the legal risk around $ASTER , a highly supply-controlled project with artificially inflated volume concentrated in a very small number of entities... we received a lot of hate. No problem.
While it has become quieter around hype chasers and KOLs promoting scams because gamblers are leaving the space in large numbers, it is time to address another major problem.
What draws me to the original idea of crypto is not speculation or short term profit, but systems design.
2017 Binance launches and grows explosively through rapid listings, minimal transparency and regulatory arbitrage. Speed and volume are prioritised over structure.
A comparison of what Musk and similar figures are doing and what the same behavior would mean in crypto.
And in my view, that matters more than ever, because crypto has reached its lowest point. Not in price. Structurally.
Let`s start: More than 20000 documented victims. Tens of billions of dollars lost. Entire life savings erased within days.
This was one of the most extreme and systemic events DeFi has ever seen and almost nobody cares anymore?!
Here’s how I see it: yes, crypto reach on X has dropped hard, but there’s still zero solid proof that X is deliberately suppressing crypto.
🔺 1. What happened on 10.10: On 10 October 2025 the crypto market suffered the largest single liquidation event in its history.
The US border authority has published a proposal to massively expand data collection on travellers under the Visa Waiver Program.
This is a bit different than usual because I just needed to get it off my chest. It won’t happen again. Unfollow me if needed.
🔺Every crypto hype cycle runs the same script: New tech buzzword appears Influencers race to position Projects launch without products VC unlocks wait in silence Retail enters on belief Liquidity peaks Dumps start quietly Blame shifts to…
If it were not for our project, I would have left this platform a long time ago without looking back.
A Binance employee used insider information to front run a token launch. Official account. Official post. Personal profit.