Airdrops are becoming more like "community farming" these days. Only a few have really been worth it with the dynamics favouring "yappers" and Binance alpha participants.

However, to stay ahead, I usually explore gauranteed exchange rewarding events like Bitget launchpool, Bybit trade events amongst others. Currently, Switchboard launchpool is reaping in $50 for me.

So, it depends on your strategy and experience.

With Fed rate cut odds now sitting at 100%, market sentiment is turning optimistic, and many are already calling this the spark for the next altseason. Exchanges seem to be riding the wave too — Binance is running trading leagues, Bybit have theirs coined around referral, OKX has copy-trading contests, and Bitget is tying its 7th Anniversary to altcoin team trading with $30k up for grabs.

Moments like this usually test strategy:

Do you swing-trade the volatility?

Hodl and ride the macro trend?

Or stack rewards through exchange events while waiting for the bigger moves?


No financial advice, of course — just curious how everyone here is positioning for what could be the start of something big.

Just yesterday, a BAYC holder sold his NFT (once worth $400k) for only $37k. In less than three weeks, BAYC’s floor price fell from 14.5 ETH to 9 ETH — a sign of how far the NFT hype has cooled. Yet, at the same time, Ethereum Foundation launched “The Torch” NFT to mark its 10th anniversary, showing there’s still interest from major players.

We’re also seeing shifts in the NFT narrative:

Collectibles: Pokemon cards are gaining traction as a crypto crossover.

Art Integration: Projects like LiveArt (ticker $ART) are merging traditional art with NFTs, drawing attention from collectors and degens alike.


The ecosystem seems to be evolving rather than dying. But the big question is: will NFTs surge again in this bull cycle, or are they destined to remain a niche market?

Really? I mean a whole lot of those cexes offer onchain trading these days and the trading  of tokenized stocks are actually done onchain because you can monitor them in realtime using lookonchain or coinglass or any other onchain watchdog.

Ondo finance recently announced partnering with several exchanges to bring these tokenized stocks onchain

RWAs are one of the fastest-growing narratives in crypto, with projects like Ondo Finance recently listing 100+ tokenized stocks, branding it “Wall Street without the wall.” By tokenizing illiquid assets, DeFi gained real utility and new yield opportunities.

Now the SEC has declared tokenized stocks as securities. History shows mixed outcomes with such rulings:

Bitcoin ETFs: SEC approval brought huge inflows and legitimacy (bullish).

ICOs (2017–18): Crackdowns wiped the market (bearish).

Stablecoins & XRP: Regulatory pressure slowed adoption and caused sell-offs.


For DeFi protocols like Maker, Aave, and Ondo that already integrate RWAs, this could go two ways:

Bullish: Clear rules attract institutions, boosting liquidity and legitimacy.

Bearish: Heavy compliance could push projects offshore and restrict retail access.

So, is this going to be bullish or bearish?

That's why DCA is just the best at this phase. Another option I explore more is exchange events with casual earnings. I usually average $300 every month from this.

Nakamoto's primary vision was for BTC to be the currency of web3 and enable financial freedom. How can that be if tha Bitcoin economy is not universally accessible?

Blockchain technology evolves everyday to make it better; defi will definitely make Bitcoin better and more accessible.

Historically, September has been one of the weakest months for crypto markets. Data from past cycles shows that BTC and most alts tend to struggle during this period, with red candles being more of a norm than an exception. This year is shaping up the same way — the market is showing weakness, and the dips look set to stick around for a while.

But dips are not all bad news. For long-term players, it’s usually a good time to DCA and strengthen positions. For short-term traders, volatility in these conditions often opens doors for swing trades and quick scalps.

Another angle worth considering is the smaller-cap side of the market. Shitcoins, while high-risk, tend to move aggressively during these downturns, and exchange-driven events (like trading competitions) can sometimes provide an extra source of gains.

In the end, it comes down to risk appetite:

Do you accumulate patiently through the red season?

Or do you trade volatility and aim for quick profits?

With BTC supply set to dry up very soon, many questions are beginning to pop up like:

1. what happens if every last BTC is bought?
2. how do we control liquidity after then?
3. are we gonna be vulnerable to price manipulation?

The answer is to bring utility to Bitcoin. The only way to achieve that might be "defi" - bringing true programmability to Bitcoin L1 and make the $4T liquidity readily accessible.
Babylon opened the possibility of defi on Bitcoin network by enabling native BTC staking using the interoperable cosmos sdk though not on Bitcoin L1 which leads to liquidity fragmentation.
Now Bitcoin devs have began building the possibilty of a true "defi" Bitcoin network and one of those earliest protocol is Portal to Bitcoin where native swaps between ETH, SOL and BTC is gonna be possible using PTB as network fee.
Being one of the early users of this protocol (using a native wallet) has got me believing that defi is indeed possible on Bitcoin L1.
Just maybe, the imminent launch of PTB (set to be listed across several T1 exchanges like BG soon) might just be the necessary drive towards achieving defi on Bitcoin.

Well, the financial market is always filled with news and rumours like this everyday but one thing I do know is that with World Liberty Financial listing a crypto token today, eyebrows will be raised as investors seeks to profit from the listing on several exchanges and liquidity is strong across top T1 exchanges like nance, BG and others.

Heard presale and public sale investors are already in 15x profit post-listing buying at $0.02 and listing at $0.4 today after a long wait

Just a fortnight ago, a Whale saw an opportunity in the ETH dip and decide to buy over a 100k ETH and stake them all at $4.1k; another sold his BTC and opened a long position for ETH on an exchange. Then suddenly the floodgates opened and more Whales began "dumping" to buy more ETH. Any obvious reason for the flow of liquidity into ETH? Be my guess!

While others were busy analysing the market, these guys acted promptly. Put that into perspective now; ETH has since reach a new ATH since then and hasn't returned to that "bottom" after those moves. 

3. I'll choose this if I've got enough stablecoins and the APY does give me some satisfying money, I'll park my money there and wait for the actual bear market to appear and I'll start buying.
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That was my strategy during the last bear market. I staked USDT for 24 months before investing in SOL

My honest assessment about buying BTC is that it's hugely centralized with higher percentage concentrated in few hands like microstrategy and blackrock and mining is largely done by 2 institutions. That was our fear when ETF was about been launched.

Staking natively on defi protocols shouldn't pose any risk, in my opinion.

Not sure about the sentiment in the market right now especially the current massive sells happening. Seems lots of whales are taking profits even when the odds of a possible rate cut in september is high at the moment.

A lot of options am considering right now are really "hilarious":
1. Buying the dip and staking them
2. Sniping memcoins (highly risky and costly)
3. Buying and staking stablecoins until market show signs of bulishness

What do you think?

That's some good suggestion there. Hopefully one of the team members get this feedback haha.

Btw, I think this looks like another opportunity to stack up before the burn. Maybe a progreesive DCA into January might make sense.

If the ecosystem is not supportive around the token utility, such measure is bound to be futile.

Oh sh*t, did I say 2025? Nah, it's 2026.

And yeah, timing is very important especially when token momentum is at its peak and during the bull season.

Yeah you are right about hype and marketing but if onchain data does not corroborate with the price movement, there are high possibilities of a massive dump in price later on.

We all expected liuquidity flow to alts in Q3 of 2024 but didn't happen basically because this bull cycle is more driven by adoption rather than market moves. So, project teams and devs need to up their game and ensure their ecosystem evolve to cater for the need of the society (global economy). BTC for instance is now used as strategic reserves, base value for ETF trades, payment solution etc, Ethereum, Ripple and Chainlink are rapidly evolving too to provide evolutionary banking solutions and meet defi needs.

Unfortunately, Bitcoin L2 presents another essential problem - fragmented liquidity. I don't really know how ordinals was engineered (prbably an open-souce tech) but having a VM that audits transaction before being executed on L1 might be the solution here. I still believe Bitcoin L1 has a lot to offer in curating the present defi space if programmability is achieved.

Using BTC as fees, collaterals and getting yield from their defi stakes will be more reliable and universally appealing than ETH.