Several Alphas to watch today (many are MEMEs disguised as infrastructure—proceed with caution): 🌟 @tollsfun: Focuses on enabling agents to pay fees via x402. Likely a coin-first, project-later approach; currently, there’s no .AI-style model on Solana, so worth monitoring closely. 🌟 @ElympusHq: An NFT collection on Elysium. Typically, Elysium is scheduled to launch on the 9th and has been gaining significant momentum recently. However, substantial funds have already flowed in prematurely. I’ll post a separate thread later detailing the current infrastructure and popular projects on Elysium.

Seeing an old high school classmate I hadn’t seen or spoken to in years post a futures trade on their social media really made me realize how many people around me are trading crypto 😄

I rarely follow pump signals, but this time I’m definitely on board with $PRL. I first bought this token back in May this year, treating it as a quick-dead mining coin—I doubled my money, made around ten thousand USDT, and then exited. But the Ethereum address ethereum:0x07696dcab55e62cfef953666b29fe1970518cb00 has remained on my watchlist. Later, it dropped gradually to $0.2–$0.3, and I thought it was dead—until it started climbing again. So I re-entered around $0.57, adding tens of thousands of USDT, and sold my cost basis at $1.66 via OTC. Then, when it dipped back to $1.27, I added more. This is a long-term play. I’ve told my friends: just focus on its mainnet launch and then forget about it.

Some Alpha Projects Worth Noting Recently 🌟 @metricxyz This project currently functions as a DEX, and those interested in providing liquidity should pay attention. All LPs here follow a stock + stablecoin model. The NVDAB-USDT pool is particularly large, with an APR of around 284%. The CTO, @CGkol, previously worked at UNI. 🌟 @Flovia402 A project that previously won awards in competitions from OpenAI and Stripe. The core concept is bundling multiple APIs with different functionalities into a single package for sale—similar to a Costco-style retail model. It’s currently on a waitlist: https://t.co/kL53jV4YUe In my view, this type of project has low likelihood of tokenizing and is better suited for developers. 🌟 @SpoutFi A stock lending protocol on SOL. The basic idea is to collateralize your tokenized stocks to obtain loans. It recently secured investments from Toly and Raj. Worth keeping an eye on, though the probability of a token launch is moderate. 🌟 @cardboard_trade A clone of PaperTrade. Purely a replica—its entire interface is copied directly—so just take a quick look. Possibly MEME-related Projects: 🌟 @TimQAI: An AI-powered quantitative analysis tool that shows you token bundling, developer wallets, holder distributions, and more. Similar products are already common in the market; this one is just emerging. I suspect it resembles startup platforms on Robinhood, so I’m temporarily categorizing it under MEMEs.

Luck was pretty average—I opened eight packs and got only one Rare and one Epic, the rest were all Common. But I’ve been a long-time player of @SurfAIHQ—I bought my membership way back. This time, I really caught the bottom; hoping to reap some serious gains! @kevinlilili https://t.co/QN0PFUIG41

I won’t say more—let’s just say that going short on gold on @midasmarketsxyz is pure, steady peace of mind... Previously shorted $SPCX, held the position for a few days, and I’m almost back to breakeven... https://t.co/oMM8s6wArU

Missed a one-time 1M opportunity in a single coin… If I’d bought it back then, I’d be out of jail after four months—wouldn’t that be great? 😄 Made tens of thousands in U and ran off so fast https://t.co/CxDRft1ryO

The next round of so-called airdrops may lean more toward an ICO model. Projects with strong capabilities and resources might allocate a small portion of their tokens for an ICO; projects lacking strength or resources may offer additional free tokens as incentives during their ICO. The era of earning airdrops through simple interactions is over. Only idealistic “foreign teams” with sustainable, profitable projects might occasionally distribute a large traditional airdrop to reward their community. But token farming will still exist—its essence is simply arbitrage through information asymmetry. It’s unwise to overly rely on past models, but there’s also no need to be overly pessimistic. The most important thing: ordinary people should not go all-in on crypto, but they shouldn’t walk away from the table either.

E went up, and I’m filled with endless regret thinking about the money I lost in PVP gambling.

The ARC chain has always been weird, fully proving the theorem that the world is a giant makeshift operation. This @minarafun, backed by @minara and funded by @circle, started with a perfect hand—but turned it into this mess. I’m truly impressed. $Minara was the first coin launched on this platform. In DC, many people asked if it was an official platform token. Why not just stay silent—neither confirm nor deny? Instead, you actively denied it. Even if it wasn’t official, you didn’t have to endorse it, but why attack it outright? What’s the point? And then there’s $Circled—probably feeling like a bad start, they tried to create an insider FOMO pump to distract everyone. The logic and strategy aren’t flawed, but can’t you at least execute it cleanly? Tying multiple projects together isn’t unheard of—there are plenty of highly bundled insider pumps on BSC. But the damn official Twitter account got the token address wrong? Any one of those mistakes alone wouldn’t have doomed this platform. I was telling my group members the other day: “No matter how you play it, this platform shouldn’t die—unless arrogance is its fatal flaw.” And sure enough…