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Very much this. Nice.
OP higher timeframes for bias and confluence like this example are super helpful. Just keep in mind you aren’t predicting anything. No one is. No one.
You should look into GEX/gamma/vanna and how it affects the indexes. It, like everything else, is just helpful information to be used in conjunction with other tools. It will help you understand more of the “why”.
Some important things dealers/bd/institutions gravitate toward based on intraday volatility (barring geopolitical catalysts of course) are:
Gamma / Vanna dynamic
VWAP - ie anchored NY session vwap, ETH anchored vwap for futures (anchored to midnight or the start of the eth session the night before), and the corresponding std dev of each vwap (usually +-1 and 2 std deviations is enough of reference point)

Appreciate the transparency about being early and potentially wrong. I'll give you the honest technical pushback.
The fundamental problem with XEN-style mechanics on Solana is that gas was doing a lot of hidden work on Ethereum. The cost to mint wasn't just friction, it was the actual value input into the system. When minting costs $50-200 in gas, that's real economic commitment filtering participants. On Solana where minting costs a fraction of a cent, you've removed the implicit value floor without replacing it with anything.
Anti-bot on a near-zero-cost chain is essentially unsolved. Every approach has serious tradeoffs. Time-locks just mean bots wait. Proof of humanity solutions either require KYC which kills adoption or use captchas which are trivially farmed. Social verification is gameable. Staking requirements mean it's no longer free-mint. Our clients exploring sybil resistance have generally concluded that without economic cost or identity verification, you pick which type of abuse you're willing to tolerate rather than preventing it.
The liquidity bootstrapping question is where I'd push hardest. You say no external capital, but value has to come from somewhere. In XEN's case early participants paid real ETH in gas, that was the bootstrap. If minting is truly free and frictionless, the only source of liquidity pool funding is either you providing it, which is external capital with extra steps, or expecting minters to provide it, which means it's not really free anymore.
Aggressive burn mechanics don't create value, they just redistribute it among remaining holders. Deflation only matters if there's organic demand. Without utility driving buy pressure, burns just make a worthless token more scarce. That's the piece that needs to be figured out before the tokenomics matter at all.

I’m seeing a lot of posts saying 2026 could be more of an altcoin year, especially if $BTC turns more institutional and less wild.
A “2026 powerlist” that keeps popping up has the same names: $XRP $ETH $SOL $WBT $ZEC $ADA $XMR
If BTC holds up, the usual rotation is BTC →majors (ETH/SOL/XRP) → smaller caps.
What’s your top pick for 2026 and why?

Beast financial services platform using defi, ether and maybe running on ink rollup as kraken is another investor could arguably increase eth/usd which as major holder is even more important than ETH/share. Ethereum is weakest with the age range mr beast has the biggest outreach to possible. I like this, it's wild and potentially could be worth it.

Quantum resistant cryptography is a myth more than a theory. It's like applying another coat of paint on a wooden fence in the hopes that a tsunami wouldn't break it.
This entire stunt looks more like a marketing B.S. thinly vailed in a "scientific" see through coat to slap a "quantum resistant" label on ETH without the means of proving it really works,because there simply isn't any way to test it, since the thing it should be providing protection against doesn't exists yet.

**(SOL)**\- A dormant whale withdrew 80,000 SOL from Binance to a private wallet.
\- A whale closed a 493,330 SOL long position for a $1.96M profit. [Source](https://twitter.com/1462727797135216641/status/2011247682464202843)
\- Solana ETFs had a 1-day net inflow of 42,888 SOL ($6.22M) and a 7-day net inflow of 247,561 SOL ($35.9M). [Source](https://twitter.com/1462727797135216641/status/2011433197956178118)
\- An entity who previously made $24.5M shorting 255 BTC has opened a 20x leverage short on 54,281 SOL ($7.8M). [Source](https://twitter.com/1462727797135216641/status/2011344527127429627)
\- Trader #BitcoinOG(1011short) profited over $51M in 24 hours from long positions in BTC, ETH, and SOL. [Source](https://twitter.com/1462727797135216641/status/2011243610147353056)
* **Bitcoin (BTC)** saw significant inflows to exchanges, with notable transfers of **1,305 BTC ($127 million)** and **650 BTC ($62.7 million)** to Coinbase Institutional, suggesting potential selling or custody strategies.
* **Ethereum (ETH)** whales are actively staking, with large transfers to Beacon contracts, including **33,984 ETH ($114.5 million)**, reflecting strong confidence in the proof-of-stake mechanism.
* **Solana (SOL)** has experienced growing institutional interest, highlighted by ETF inflows of **42,888 SOL ($6.22 million)** in just one day, along with key whale accumulation.
Read the full report here

BTC and ETH pretty well cover it all. 

Will this reduce the number of accounts that will have those 8 bit ugly headshot profile pictures, hundreds of thousands of followers, and usernames that have like ".ETH" or equivalent in them?

By using Quantum resistant cryprography for signatures. Right now ETH uses ECDSA which in theory can be broken by Quatum Computing once realized.
Algorithms like Falcon or Dilithium are resistant to this Attack vector so using them instead of ECDSA provides security against this.

Remember those clowns….. “ ETH to $15k ny the end of 2021!!!!!!”

**Forensic Analyst here.** First, stop calling yourself stupid. SIM Swap attacks are highly sophisticated social engineering.
**You have a valid legal case.** Because the Telco authorized the SIM swap (negligence), you need to link that event to the Crypto theft forensically.
**The Path Forward:**
1. **Secure the Telco Logs:** Demand the exact timestamps of the SIM activation.
2. **Map the Crypto Flow:** Trace the 25 ETH from your wallet to the attacker's cash-out point (Exchange).
3. **Correlate:** Prove that *Crypto Movement* happened exactly during the *SIM Event*.
I specialize in these correlation reports for Law Enforcement. If you need the official blockchain evidence file (CSV/Map) to hand to the FBI/Police, let me know.
**Don't let the Telco off the hook.**

> There's little room for stablecoin adoption left
I know a few high ranking officials and CEOs that think we're heading to trillions in stablecoins.
> anything changing from legislation won't make a positive impact on that adoption
The whole point of the legislation is to create clarity because regulatory uncertainty was bemoaned for years as impeding adoption.
> he con section highlights "tokenized securities under threat" -- as if they were a real use case for ETH.
Blockchains [add a lot to asset sequencing and settlement.](https://tokenomicsexplained.com/blockchain-superpowers) If you don't think RWAs are a valid application for Ethereum I don't have time to explain it to you.
> So stop reading tea leaves on what the politicians are doing and what it might mean for ETH.
I'm concerned with more than the ETH asset price though that will also be affected on both narrative and longer term by adoption. I'm an advisor to multiple VCs so I look at this legislation through the lens of investable opportunities it creates. For example if this legislation passes in a way that supports tokenized equities then we might buy private equity in the issuer companies.
> Traditional finance does not want to use tokenized assets, and only barely wants to use stablecoins.
Citation needed. Every fintech strategy slide deck I saw last year at least had a slide for stablecoins. That includes multiple banks, brokerages, exchanges, and payment companies.
I don't know what attracted you to this space that you wouldn't find RWA adoption exciting but I think you need a better sample of just how much interest there is in this topic if the law is written to explicitly permit it.

ETH founder Vitalik Buterin lays out „walkaway“ test for a quantum safe Etherum

I’m seeing a lot of posts saying 2026 could be more of an altcoin year, especially if [$BTC](https://) turns more institutional and less wild.

A “2026 powerlist” that keeps popping up has the same names:
[$XRP](https://) [$ETH](https://) [$SOL](https://) [$WBT](https://) [$ZEC](https://) [$ADA](https://) [$XMR](https://)

If BTC holds up, the usual rotation is BTC → majors (ETH/SOL/XRP) → smaller caps.

What’s your top pick for 2026 and why?

Man im sorry to hear this, i'm just waiting for my ETH to be activated via staking right now...its been over 35 days...and now im scared for what's going to happen when I try to unstake...

Do you think this is related to your using an actual validator aka PRO and not general staking?

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Gemini is currently unable to unstake coins for ETH. They never even sent a request. Their help team sends a link, but doesn't understand that they have not removed it from the validator node. No one is going to help you. Please do not use this platform to stake.

Amazingly you can send 100k transactions (ETH transfers) on Ethereum L1 today for 0.3 ETH.

Thank you for the corrections and addition of Kiln. Yes, it is very much true, that timing games first and foremost hurts the node operator further away from the internet backbones. I tried to frame it a bit differently though in the hope to make it clear that timing games also hurt the proposer as the CL rewards for a proposed block depend how many validators attested to it correctly.
I was curious and I checked some block proposals with 100% attestations and some with 70% attestations, assuming that the lower ones were due to timing games. The ones with lower attestations had several % lower CL rewards paid to the proposer. It was on the order of around 0.002 ETH. With MEV rewards currently on the order of 0.015 ETH and under the assumption of linear increase of MEV with time (big if?), we get that delaying the block by another 2 seconds might increase the MEV by another 0.0025 ETH. Pretty much the same as the CL rewards reduction they have from delaying it.
Obviously, these numbers are very rough. One would need to do a proper analysis of blocks delayed by timing games. But it looks like there could be an economical balance forming. Or in other words we might soon reach the point that delaying the block further hurts the proposer more than it helps them on average. Not sure if we are already there yet, but it looks like we do not need much lower MEV rewards to reach such a balance. And further reduction of the MEV rewards, then just shifts the balance in favor of a more resilient Ethereum network. If that is true, that would be great.

No one is going to talk about it because there's nothing new for ETH. There's little room for stablecoin adoption left, and anything changing from legislation won't make a positive impact on that adoption, and definitely not on price.
The con section highlights "tokenized securities under threat" -- as if they were a real use case for ETH. A cliche counter to the latter statement is "its real, look at JPMorgan! Look at BUIDL!" You're being disingenuous if you think that's fighting ghosts.
But anyway, for your mental health, step away from the PC, never review legislation unless it mentions ETH beyond a bill summary saying "for example, BTC, ETH, Solana utilized DLT" Traditional finance does not want to use tokenized assets, and only barely wants to use stablecoins. So stop reading tea leaves on what the politicians are doing and what it might mean for ETH.

Here is a clean, bulleted breakdown of the 2026 Year-to-Date performance.
2026 Year-to-Date Performance (as of Jan 15)
Solana (SOL): +13.40%
The clear market leader, outpacing both its crypto peers and every major equity index.
-XRP: +11.28%
Showing massive relative strength and holding a firm second place on the leaderboard.
-Ethereum (ETH): +10.90%
Breaking into double-digit gains as the ecosystem hits new staking milestones.
Bitcoin (BTC): +9.01%
Solid performance from the "heavyweight," comfortably beating the Nasdaq and Dow.
Russell 2000 (RUT): +8.17%
The strongest performer in the stock market, though still trailing the top four cryptos.
Dow Jones (DJI): +3.04%Steady but modest growth for the blue-chip sector.
Nasdaq (IXIC): +1.81%
The current laggard, showing that capital is rotating out of Mega-Cap Tech and into high-growth assets.
The Standout Trend
The most striking takeaway from this data is the Decoupling Ratio. Solana is currently outperforming all asset classes