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👑 Trump Just Weaponized SocialFi $CRO
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Important: The Fed is announcing interest rates today, followed by the FOMC press conference. This newsletter will be sent in advance so we need to inform you first.
Right now, according to the Fed Watch Tool, there’s a 99.9% chance we’ll see a 25bps rate cut, so it’s almost a lock. If you’re trading tonight, be careful, avoid high leverage around the announcement!

Here’s what we got for you today:
👀 BTC wakes up, halving hype builds, memes return
⭐ Trump turns opinions into on‑chain bets
⭐ Top 3 “x402” highest gaining small-cap tokens
🔥 Burning hot takes for the road

Bitcoin's heating up, gold just tapped out, and someone joked Trump might be Satoshi?! Let me show you what the technicals are saying, and why this might be the early breakout window everyone’s ignoring 👇
And if you missed this post analyzing Zcash pumping 30%, Garret Jin’s BTC short & Trump-CZ connection. It’s definitely worth a look. Here’s the post.

Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), the company behind Truth Social, is officially stepping into Web3, and they’re doing it in a big way.
They’ve partnered with Crypto(.)com to launch Truth Predict, a social prediction market where people can literally discuss and trade real-world outcomes, all in one place.
You’ll be able to make predictions on stuff like:
U.S. elections, inflation, and Fed decisions
Gold and oil prices
Even major sports results
All transactions will run through Crypto(.)com’s infrastructure, using $CRO.X ( ▼ 0.98% ) as the token. And if you use Truth Social or Truth+, you can convert your Gems rewards into CRO to join in the fun.
Truth Predict turns Truth Social into the first social network ever to build prediction markets right into the app.
You can chat about an event, and at the same time, bet on how it’ll play out. It’s got:
Real-time price updates (by the second)
Contracts across politics, economics, commodities, and sports
Regulated trading under CDNA
A smooth path from chatting → earning → predicting (all on-chain)
It’ll first launch in the U.S. (beta), then expand globally once legal checks are done.
A bit of background: Trump Media has been quietly moving deeper into fintech and blockchain this year.
Back in August 2025, they built a $6.42B CRO treasury with Crypto(.)com, so this move fits right into that bigger play. And they’ve got the resources to do it:
Over $3B in assets
Their first positive cash flow quarter since going public
A clear plan to make Truth Social a SocialFi + prediction hub
Maybe it’s a direct challenge to Polymarket (the blockchain-native favorite) and Kalshi (the U.S.-regulated prediction platform).
Some investors even think Truth Predict could do for prediction markets what Robinhood did for stock trading.
If this takes off, we might see every major social platform try to copy it. And if you’re in crypto, this is your sign: start paying attention to SocialFi x prediction.

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🧨 TOP 3 SMALL-CAP TOKENS IN ‘x402’ EXPLODED THIS WEEK
First, to be clear, this part is not a financial advice, cause these tokens can pump, meaning they can be dump at any time. We’re just sharing what we see, please DYOR guys!
The x402 ecosystem is really going wild this week. It just crossed $800M market cap, and 3 small-cap tokens inside it totally exploded.
We’re talking insane weekly gains, all driven by the AI + crypto hype wave.
1/ AInalyst (AIN) - Up 3,800% this week
This one's insane. $AIN.X ( ▲ 0.29% ) is basically an AI-powered Web3 analytics platform. It blends on-chain data, social sentiment, and behavioral signals to give traders real-time insights.
Kinda like having your own AI trading assistant. It’s the top-performing token in the x402 ecosystem this week.
Just hit an all-time high 2 days ago
Price right now: $0.002523
Market cap: $2.7M
Also, it just got listed on Binance Wallet (not the exchange, the wallet), which gives it more exposure.
2/ PayAI Network (PAYAI) - Up 1,500% and still climbing
PayAI is this open-source AI agent marketplace. Think of it like Fiverr but for bots. AI agents can be hired, contracted, and run 24/7.
And apparently, it’s dominating traffic in x402, accounting for 14% of its volume. Here’re some stats:
Price now: $0.04308
Market cap: $43M, making it the third-largest token in the whole ecosystem
Some analyst named Alex said that PAYAI is dominating on Solana. $100M market cap is coming before the week ends.
So what’s behind the pump?
Poloniex and Ju(.)com announced they’re listing PAYAI today → more liquidity
They launched a 1M token airdrop to early users → massive community hype
But also... red flag alert: Talentre DEX tools detected unusual inflows into PAYAI
So yeah, $PAYAI.X ( ▼ 35.02% ) is hot, but tread carefully.
3/ Aurra by Virtuals (AURA) - Up 988.2% this week
This one’s a bit more under the radar. Aurra ($AURA.X ( ▼ 2.52% ) ) is a platform that gives you tools to build and monetize AI agents for crypto apps without writing a single line of code.
Price right now: $0.0078
Market cap: $7.8M
Listed on LBank and WEEX, giving it broader reach
Basically, it's helping bring AI automation to non-devs. Deploy a bot, get it working, start earning.
The upside is obviously there, especially when you combine listings, airdrops, community hype, and real product use cases.
But there are risks too. If profit-taking accelerates or any protocol weakness shows up, prices could tank just as fast.
But if you’re playing in this space, you gotta treat it like a high-volatility arena. Don’t just FOMO in at the top. They might boom more, or dump just as hard.

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🔥 BURNING HOT TAKES FOR THE ROAD
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Visa expands support for 4 stablecoins ($PYUSD.X ( ▲ 0.02% ) , $EURC.X ( ▼ 0.27% ) ,...) with built-in conversion to over 25 fiat currencies. Read more
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