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.
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They are organised, patient, funded, technically serious and fully aware that crypto still runs on weak humans, lazy security, rushed integrations and teams that spend more on marketing than on infrastructure hardening.
I am seeing a huge amount of hype around the Robinhood Chain right now, and it already looks like the first wave of KOLs was paid very well to manufacture attention.
Even under difficult circumstances, the work has continued, products have been shipped, and real value has been delivered.
A shocking amount of Web3 behaviour is built around the belief that people might receive something for doing almost nothing.
Here is a summary of what appears to have happened with #BonkDAO. So you can verify it yourself, here is everything I found:
Have you not enriched yourself enough already with scams, insider games, political grifting and every other rotten trick in the book?
That is at least a measurable step in the right direction, and deeper liquidity is obviously better than thin pools where every larger sell turns into chaos.
How is crypto supposed to get better when so many crypto people feel completely at home on an app that rewards the loudest, dumbest, most criminal, most dishonest behaviour imaginable?
To the few newbies here: this is neither generally considered cool, nor was it normal until a few years ago.
Forget the low liquidity and anti-decentralised behaviour, the KOL bootlick shitcoin narrative, the backdoors and the volume bots for a second.
This is a selection of tweets from the brainrot account @cryptorover where this account praised Trump, $TRUMP, $WLFI, or the extraction machine behind it.
Paid DEX visibility: MASTR’s July 2026 boost-price snapshot. Dated original source, with context and links.
Yes, CT forgets everything after 5 minutes and then runs straight back to the same KOLs as if nothing ever happened, but rugging the runner of the trenches right now would still be catastrophic.
I tried to rank the major chains using a proxy model instead of pretending there is one perfect public dashboard for X mentions, web reports, on-chain activity, TVL and trading noise combined.
ANSEM: a market-cap screenshot meets the available pools. Dated original source, with context and links.
but I am still bullish on crypto prices and on the long-term future of Bitcoin and open networks, assuming the world gets through this insane geopolitical period with only a black eye.
I listed only public bigger incidents, breaches, exploits, scams, fraud buckets and major crypto security scandals below.
It looks like a machine. One wallet acts as the trader, creates the movement and routes buys and sells. Is pumpfun behind it? Is the Solana cabal behind it?
It has died again and again, through the market, through self-destruction, and now again because these are not even memes anymore.
This is not some anonymous wallet accidentally touching one ticker. This is the same creator identity repeatedly showing up around recognisable CT names, memes and public figures.
I am honestly tired of watching another round of worthless bundled coins with no utility, no product, no real purpose and no reason to exist being treated like the next runner, or even worse, like some kind of rescue mission for the…
I pulled together a liquidity map for $ANSEM liquidity pools, since I was already searching for stuff there anyway.
I went through Brian Armstrong’s own numbers and the follow-up reporting around Coinbase’s AI costs, and the story is much bigger than “company saves money on tokens.”
I keep seeing tweets from people claiming that all the gloating and piling on Binance only exists because some people want to push another CEX.