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Happy weekend, fam! ☕️ Markets are on edge after Trump signaled a potential government shutdown on Jan 30th. Historically, shutdowns have triggered -20% $BTC ( ▼ 0.65% ) dumps, so caution is key. Don't let the weekend vibes distract you from the brewing macro volatility 🔥.
Here’s what we got for you today:
👀 How the FTX snapshot robbed you
⭐ AI vs. Human: Who won?
⭐ A 5-year-old bug nuked $26M
🔥 Burning hot takes for the road
Ever wonder how an exchange loses everything, but the lawyers still walk away with $1 billion in fees? 🕵️♂️
Most people think the FTX story ended with SBF in a jumpsuit. But the real heist happened after the bankruptcy papers were signed. We’re pulling back the curtain on the legal machinery that turned a market collapse into a permanent wealth transfer.
Understand the game before the next cycle traps you.
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⚔️ AI VS. HUMAN: THE TRADING BATTLE THAT JUST REDEFINED THE GAME
Aster ran a real test.
100 traders. $1M capital. 15 days.
70 humans vs 30 AI agents. Same market. Same rules. Full transparency.
And now season 1 has the final answer for it. The results were… nuanced. The scoreboard tells two completely different stories:
Team AI: 0% liquidations. Let that sink in. Zero.
Team Human: 43% wiped out. Nearly half the humans got absolutely sent to the shadow realm.
On paper, AI crushed risk management. Team AI hit a rough patch - only 13% were profitable at one point - but because they don’t have ego, they didn't "revenge trade." They recovered to 27% profitability. Meanwhile, Team Human’s profitable traders declined steadily. Once the tilt started, there was no recovery. Humans hold losers too long; AI cuts the rot instantly.
The most aggressive human trader was the perfect case study
The most fascinating part was the winner. One trader was a total "Apex Predator," averaging 328 trades/day. He dominated 31 out of 58 snapshots. He looked unstoppable... until he lost it all.
The actual champion? He averaged just 4 trades/day. He sat back, waited for the perfect setup, and snatched the #1 spot on Day 15 - the only day that actually mattered.
Looking at the "Treemap" of their portfolios, the difference was clear.
AI: Even allocation across 8 symbols. Stable. Survivable.
Humans: BTC/ETH core + speculative rotations (ENA, XPL, PUMP). Higher upside. Higher risk.
Season 1 proved something important: AI wins at discipline. Humans win at creativity. Neither wins alone.
→ And that’s the real takeaway. The future of trading isn’t AI vs humans. It’s humans who understand AI vs humans who don’t.
🚀 Season 2 is coming to Aster Chain Testnet. The experiment is evolving, and it’s time to see if humans can learn from the machines, or if the machines will just keep out-surviving us.
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💥 TRUEBIT ($TRU) WIPED OUT: A 5-YEAR-OLD CONTRACT JUST NUKED $26M
If you ever needed a brutal reminder that "old" doesn’t always mean "safe" in DeFi, Truebit ($TRU) just provided a masterclass in pain. In a matter of hours, the token's value literally evaporated, crashing 99.9% from $0.16 to a string of zeros so long it looks like a glitch. 😬
Truebit (TRU) loses nearly all of its value following a $26 million hack. Source: CoinGecko.
The ghost in the legacy code
This wasn't some high-tech, multi-step flash loan attack. It was something much more embarrassing: a 5-year-old legacy contract.
The hacker exploited a mispriced mint function in a smart contract that had been sitting quietly on-chain for half a decade.
The hacker used this forgotten "zombie" contract to mint TRU tokens at a hilariously low price.
They then turned around and market-dumped those tokens, draining roughly 8,535 ETH (~$26.6 million) from the liquidity pools.
When you increase the supply by an insane amount and dump it into thin liquidity, the price undergoes a total molecular breakdown. $TRU went from a respectable project to essentially zero.
The AI hacker era is here
The scariest part of this story isn't the hack itself; it’s how they found it. We are seeing a massive wave of exploits in early 2026 (Flow, Balancer, and now Truebit).
→ The "friendly expert" consensus is that hackers are now using AI-powered vulnerability scanners. These bots are combing through every line of code deployed since 2018 looking for "forgotten" functions like the one in Truebit.
The hard truth for holders
Real talk: Is there a recovery? Probably not. When a token's supply-demand structure is broken this badly, "fixing the bug" doesn't fix the price. The hacker already extracted the value. For the $TRU community, the project is now a "legacy" in the worst way possible.
→ If you are holding OG DeFi bags from 2020 or earlier, it’s time to check if those projects have done a modern security audit recently. If the devs aren't monitoring their old contracts, the AI hackers definitely are.
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🔥 BURNING HOT TAKES FOR THE ROAD
Ripple secured FCA approval, cementing $XRP ( ▼ 2.05% ) ’s regulatory path and payment rails in Europe. Read more
Pump.fun’s founder is promising a major creator fee overhaul as $PUMP ( ▲ 5.88% ) jumped ~10% on the news amid renewed meme activity. Read more
Polymarket is launching trading fees, signaling a shift from user growth to a revenue-focused model. Read more
Morgan Stanley and Citigroup now forecast 50bps in 2026 Fed rate cuts, a major signal for risk assets. Read more
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