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So, basically, one has USDT in one's wallet, and when one wants to spend the USDT, then there's an automatic operation that converts USDT to RLUSD on XRP, which is then further converted to USD to send on VISA? I wonder how much the gas fees are per transaction to do all that. Not sure why something like USDT on TRX or ETH straight to USD isn't a better choice and then just skipping the USDT->RLUSD->USD conversion

Why do some people say that most tokenization will be or is already built on ETH, and that institutions are therefore choosing it? Isn't SOL a lot faster and cheaper, and thus SOL will be the better choice to have more tokenization? Shouldn't SOL be the "darling" next to BTC, in favor of ETH? Please explain, since I'm confused.
I'm guessing that all 3: BTC, ETH, and SOL will do great this year, but SOL should percentage-wise do the best.

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Just like the title says. Looking to sell some 1 Oz Bars for Crypto
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ETH recoils from $3000 like a shy turtle.
Could it go to $3400? Sure, but the Crab will return with vengeance.

Cointelegraph just confirmed: **ERC-8004 is officially rolling out on Ethereum mainnet** (deployment imminent, expected mid-week / Thursday around 9 AM ET)!
This standard gives AI agents **verifiable, portable reputation** on-chain, letting them collaborate across organizations without any centralized middleman, and handle trustless micropayments or interactions. It's a massive real-world step toward what Vitalik calls reclaiming “computing self-sovereignty” in 2026.
Quick reminder of what he said recently:
“2026 should be the year we take back lost ground in computing self-sovereignty. We traded too much decentralization for UX and adoption (smart wallets, abstractions, etc.). Time to go back to roots: build AI that doesn't rely on black boxes controlled by Google, OpenAI, or Anthropic.”
The building blocks are already here:
* PeerDAS (now in advanced testing)
* zkEVMs in production
* ERC-8004 live → cross-platform AI agents with on-chain reputation
While digging into this, I even spotted real projects already live on Ethereum. Take **Sentient** (recently listed on Bitget, raised $85M backed by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Pantera, Framework Ventures) they launched **SERA**, a crypto-focused AI agent that reportedly outperforms ChatGPT in tool-calling, real-time data access, and cutting hallucinations on crypto markets.
If Vitalik and the Ethereum ecosystem really push a fully native decentralized AI initiative (more advanced than most current projects), this could massively accelerate adoption: Ethereum's scalability roadmap + genuine decentralization.
Long-term, I'm super bullish on this. I remember the crazy pump we saw when DeepSeek launched the whole market went nuts, fake tokens exploded everywhere. The same could happen on ETH with AI agents. As an ETH holder, this is the narrative that excites me the most
Centralized AIs are still vulnerable: censorship, bias, single points of control.
A decentralized alternative could truly democratize AGI… even if scalability and UX are the two big remaining challenges.
What do you think?
Can we realistically see a blockchain-based decentralized AI seriously rival Big Tech by 2027-2028?
DYOR, but the signals are stacking up fast.
Recent sources:
* Cointelegraph / CoinDesk on ERC-8004 rollout
* Vitalik's declarations (late 2025 / early 2026)
* Sentient / SERA updates
Curious to hear your takes!

Isn’t V1 LUSD better because of the zero interest? I know that there’s a one time borrow fee for V1, which I don’t mind because I’m holding the ETH long term.

They also have stablecoins in the treasury, do you know the exact percentages of BTC, ETH, VET and stablecoins? If you don’t, then you are just speculating that they are bankrupt.

You're probably right, and metals are at the top, but I've made a small gamble that they are not. I sold *some* green ETH to put into silver. We'll see how 2026 plays out, still have remaining ETH and BTC, but maybe silver works out decent for me.

I recently checked what’s happening in the market, and I honestly can’t believe that most of the newly listed tokens are performing even better than some of the big guys like BTC, ETH, and SOL.
Of course, we all know that whenever a new project gets listed, there’s usually a lot of liquidity and hype at the beginning. But some of the tokens listed recently aren’t just noise; they’re actually showing strong momentum and proving they might be solid projects.
I remember getting an allocation from an airdrop recently; I think it was $SENT. It wasn’t a huge amount, but instead of selling immediately, I decided to hold and look for a better way to grow it.
That’s how I found out about the CandyBomb event currently going on. If you trade $SENT on Bitget Spot or even Futures, you get the opportunity to share in a reward pool of 19 million SENT.
https://preview.redd.it/1kzgki1ib4gg1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=1f79d7cac547863d6d670ce132b20a18068c6866
Like I said earlier, I’ve already started participating and I’m looking forward to getting my own share of it.
Who else is joining in? And does anyone have an idea how much participants could actually earn from this?

Imo it's pretty simple. Crypto prices (whether it's ETH, BTC, or any other coin) are hype-driven. For the last 10 years they have been, and I don't see why now it would change. Just look at the liquidations happening every day on coinglass (to the up- or downside). Majority of "investors" are seeing crypto as a gambling machine. Sad to see, but that is the state of crypto.
A lot of the developments are still in the future, and there is no 1-on-1 connection between the adoption and the price. Hence, opportunity for hype to build up (and to die).
Reason why BTC is so high compared to ETH is imo because of being the first mover. As it's all hype-based, a very large majority of investors doesn't care at all about the tech. Outside of this sub, investors don't care about the security budget, quantum computing problems etc. It's just what it is (and I wouldn't bet on the fact when "they will found out". This could be years, if it even happens. They just want a piece, so they don't miss the "boat". And BTC is the first thing you hear about and buy.

Yeah that’s partially correct….BLOX holds around 70% equities and it holds 30% in Bitcoin and ETH ETFs…they chsnge the percentages as the market dictates. My understanding is BTCI only holds Bitcoin ETFs or derivatives. Either way, BLOX gives you crypto exposure with Bitcoin, ETH, and companies either directly or indirectly related to crypto. The results speak for themselves.

In crypto BTC is king, for now. My thesis of “smart contracts on Bitcoin” failing has played out. My theses of the security budget problems and quantum risk problems coming to the fore appear to be playing out nicely. Ratio doesn’t fucking move, in fact has moved down substantially since I developed conviction on these ideas.
ETH as a SoV asset. BTC needing to add tail emissions at some point still seems to be playing out. The Merge and EIP1559 happened and solidified ETH’s monetary policy. Continued high inflation of the USD, and continued debt problems have played out. ETH can’t cross its inflation-adjusted ATH in the past 4+ years. BTC does. Gold and Silver rip.
As far as Smart Contract L1 chains go, ETH is positioned to maintain its dominance over its competitors. Decentralization, first mover advantage, modular architecture are the themes as to why. Hard to say it hasn’t. ETH metrics have continued to be dominant. Stable coins live on ETH. Coinbase and Robinhood are going to have L2s. Tradfi institutions are launching stable coins and market funds on ETH. ETH is primed to be a winner of Tokenization which is being talked about across the financial world.
Blockchain emerges as an accepted technology in traditional finance, and will upgrade financial infrastructure in a real way. See above.
Native yield on ETH will be attractive to Wall Street. Pension funds, treasuries, etc. will want to own it in the same ways they were attracted to BTC. Feel pretty good about this one too. We even got our own Saylor this year.
Price doesn’t move. Ratio is depressing. Incredibly frustrating. It’d be one thing if I could point out where my thesis has gone wrong but I can’t. I feel like I’ve been right and haven’t been rewarded for it. Hell we are really going to be able to ZK-ify the L1 which is more bullish than I could’ve predicted in the past. The Trump Admin seems to only be accelerating crypto adoption and dollar destabilization. The United States Federal Government has gone from actively opposed to crypto to being crypto friendly.
If you told me I’d get this checklist of events 4 years ago I’d be dumbfounded when you told me the price. I AM dumbfounded. If you wanted to tell me that ETH was *severely* overpriced at the 2021 cycle top, sure maybe that makes sense in a vacuum. But not if you’re going to also tell me BTC is trading at 90K after a 30% sell off.
I’m still believing because I haven’t seen anything to make me think I’m wrong. As frustrating as this has been for many in the chat I’m still believing that this will be looked at later as a great opportunity.

Ive been in crypto since December 2016. Honestly wish I bought more btc. As we all do. Been in BTC since $3k, my last bit coin was bought at $30k. Been buying ethereum from $200 up to $1500. Link is another story, just bought another $60k worth, but thats cause I think it has more chance to double then btc or ethereum in the near future. BTC, ETH are just my long term game. I am genuinely curious as I have stepped out of the crypto space for a while, what would you all do? What would you sell and move it into in 2026? And for all that want to roast Robinhood. Please roast me why too, because I just like the app, but maybe its because I have the 3% gold credit card on all spend so I dont have to play the credit card game too? I am thinking based on my graph alone, its due for another mountain peak. Idk. Forgive my ADHD. Ive got roasted for using gpt too many times here, and well; lets say I only have up to a 10th grade education. My OCD is making it worse. Plus the espresso in my hand doesn't help. Anyway appreciate your brutal and candid advice (on my holdings, and sure robinhood too while your at it. With gratitude, Cheers

You mean Ethereum will reach Gold market cap or price per unit?
1 ounce of gold costing 1 ETH would put ETH in only 620 Bn MC

If metals correct hard, at least some chunk of the money will go into crypto, because what are you gonna buy when you sell gold? Normally the even safer asset would be gov't bonds, but aside from the US and Japan and a few other places, the world is mostly in an uptrend, not in fear of a recession hitting this year, so they're more likely to rotate sideways (copper, nickel, platinum, oil) and even up the risk ladder (safe-ish crypto like BTC and ETH; safe-ish or currently reasonably growing stocks like energy or industrials).

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>Not sure why you're getting downvoted.
General coping mechanism. I've long enough tried to stay optimistic about Rocketpool myself, it was a promising project and very aligned with my decentralization goals.
>express queue
The real kicker is that there isn't even *remotely* enough rETH demand to serve everyone *with express tickets*. The express ticket thing is basically a farce. An express line is completely meaningless if everyone is in it.
And if you think it through, what will end up happening is centralization, reducing the number of node operators: every operator that exits their minipools to launch 2x new pools instead just hands their ETH to the ones already waiting in the front of the queue. Then they join the queue at the end and wait forever, since there is no new money coming in (instead it's leaving) and the queue basically just gets progressed through others exiting. It's a total ponzi dynamic that is impossible to work out for everyone.

When I sold ETH last year I sold everything to EUR or EURC. Also sold any Dollar stablecoins early last year after Trump took office.

depends what you mean by better tbh. gold wont make you rich but you'll sleep fine. crypto could 10x or nuke 80%. personally been stacking SEI and some ETH for the risk side

Bluechip just rated BOLD (Liquity V2's stablecoin) A- with perfect scores in Management, Decentralization, and Governance. Given how much we discuss stable yield strategies here, figured I'd break down the yield opportunities.
Rating Quick Take:
* A- overall (same as PYUSD, higher than USDC at B+ and DAI at B+)
* Perfect 1.0s in Management, Decentralization, Governance
* Stability score: 0.88
* 100% ETH/LST collateral, >200% overcollateralized (currently 291%)
* Immutable protocol (no governance to change rules)
* **Key distinction:** Only A- rated stablecoin with 100% crypto-native backing (PYUSD has A- but bank-backed)
Check out the report here: [https://x.com/LiquityProtocol/status/2015798256186360000](https://x.com/LiquityProtocol/status/2015798256186360000)
Yield Strategies: Based on current rates
# Stability Pool: ~6% APY
* A set and forget venue to earn borrower fees (75%) and liquidation gains - all paid out in BOLD and ETH.
* Get the upside from 10+ licensed friendly forks of Liquity.
* Risk: BOLD may convert to ETH during liquidations (at 5% discount)
* Best for: Users who want to have a predictable savings account that yields in BOLD & ETH.
# sBOLD (K3 Capital): ~6.5% APY
* Auto-compounding Stability Pool vault, that sells off the ETH for more BOLD.
* Pure dollar yield (no ETH exposure)
* Best for: Users that value set and forget dollar yield.
# yBOLD (Yearn): ~7% APY
* Yearn's auto-compounding vault that optimizes for best yields
* Pure dollar yield (no ETH exposure)
* Best for: Users who want to earn most yield from the Stability Pool
# LP (BOLD/USDC on Uniswap): ~9% APY
* Trading fees + upside from forks
* Best for: Active LPs who want some USDC exposure as well.
What are the yield sources of $BOLD?
Real yield from borrower interest (users paying to mint BOLD), not token emissions. More sustainable but obviously lower than degen farming opps.
What does the A- rating signify (higher than USDC/DAI)?
* 100% ETH backing (no RWA exposure)
* Immutable (can't be governance-rugged)
* Team has 4+ year track record with LUSD
Happy to answer any and all questions around Liquity & BOLD.
* Anyone already using BOLD? Experience?
* How do these yields compare to your stable strategy?
* Thoughts on immutability tradeoff (higher trust, but can't upgrade if issues)?