🚫 ETH CEO Said NOO!

While most people were busy watching James Wynn, a low-key wallet quietly printed real profit from thin air (and billions in volume). They didn’t even bet on market direction. They used a boring strategy… that beat the game!

Here’s what we got for you today:

• ⭐ 5 Things You Shouldn’t Miss

• ⚠️ Ethereum’s Co-founder Warns: Worldcoin is Killi …

• 😳 How Hyperliquid Trader Turns From $6.8K to $1.5 …

• 🤡 Meme Of The Day

⭐ 5 Things You Shouldn’t Miss

📱 Pump.fun dropped its long-awaited 2.0 mobile app packed with Movers Feed for real-time trending tokens + ‘Tap-to-Ape’ for one-tap token buying + Built-in news tab to track headlines and hype. But $PUMP.X ( ▼ 1.18% ) token isn’t moving. At all. It looks more like a ghost token right now.

🔥 After Trump called Canada’s new tax on US Big Tech a “blatant attack” and threatened tariffs within 7 days, he cut off all trade talks on Truth Social. But then, Canada officially cancelled the digital services tax and are now rushing to reach a trade deal, just ahead of the G7 summit. Market reaction: Green shoots return.

🚀 Metaplanet just added 1,005 BTC (worth $108M) to its holdings, pushing its total to 13,350 BTC. It’s now officially ahead of Galaxy Digital and CleanSpark, and sitting at #5 globally. Yes, just 3 months ago, they only had 3,350 BTC. Its stock ($MTPLF ( ▲ 0.1% ) ) jumped 9% in the first hours of trading today.

👀 James Wynn is back… He just opened a massive short on $BTC.X ( ▼ 0.6% ) with 40x leverage, same high-risk style as always. One small move up and boom, liquidated. But if BTC dips even a little… it could be a fat payday. You already know how James plays. All or nothing. Watch his wallet.

😂 Arthur Hayes praised EtherFi like he’s their biggest fan… then cashed out over $1M. His alt wallet sent 2.46M $ETHFI.X ( ▲ 4.04% ) (~$2.21M) to Binance. He bought this batch back in April with only $1.19M. Back in Dec, he hyped up Ethena… then unstaked and dumped $8.48M in $ENA.X ( ▲ 0.58% ) on Binance, too. When Arthur starts tweeting love, check the wallets!

⚠️ Ethereum’s Co-founder Warns: Worldcoin is Killing Your Online Anonymity

Ethereum’s co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, just raised a serious red flag about digital identity platforms and especially Worldcoin ($WLD.X ( ▲ 0.63% ) ), which quietly rebranded to “World” in October 2024.

Even if the tech sounds cool or futuristic, we need to think carefully about who runs it, and what it could become.

😳 Is Online Anonymity Dying? Vitalik Thinks So

He just dropped a serious warning about the future of digital identity and it’s aimed straight at Worldcoin (now renamed “World”).

Vitalik’s concern: Worldcoin is building a system where “every person has one ID.” Sounds organized, right? But here’s the problem → It kills anonymity, which has always been a core value of both the internet and crypto culture.

If this kind of ID system becomes the default, we’re heading into a world of mass biometric surveillance, where everything you do online is tied back to a single, public identity.

Even though Worldcoin says they use Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) to protect privacy, Vitalik says that’s not enough.

→ Because once your actions are always linked to one public ID, privacy becomes optional and eventually, impossible.

What’s at stake:

• Losing the ability to be anonymous

• Losing the freedom to have multiple digital identities

• And giving up control over how and when we reveal who we are

⚠️ Real Risk: A Single ID Could Be a Single Point of Control

Vitalik’s also painting a very real picture of what could happen if “one person = one ID” becomes the norm:

• Political Surveillance
  If all your online activity is tied to one identity, governments or powerful groups could track you with ease. No more private browsing, no more pseudonyms — just a full-time digital record of who you are and what you do.

• AI-Powered Tracking
  With advanced AI behavior tracking, real-time data analysis could get scary fast. Your habits, searches, transactions — all logged and analyzed, possibly without your consent.

• Forced Disclosure
  If there's only one ID, employers or apps could pressure you to link all your accounts or expose your full digital history. That means no separating personal, work, and anonymous identities.

And yes, even if systems use fancy tech like Zero-Knowledge Proofs to "protect" your privacy, Vitalik says the core risk remains.

Privacy shouldn’t depend on trust in platforms. It should be a built-in right, not a feature you have to hope survives.

🛠️ Vitalik’s Solution: Identity Without Losing Privacy

In fact, he’s spent years working on ways to verify who you are without giving up your freedom or privacy.

But he rejects the idea that a one-size-fits-all model like Worldcoin is the only way to fight spam or fake users (like Sybil attacks).

Instead, Vitalik suggests a diverse identity system, one where you choose how to verify yourself, based on the situation.

Examples of what you could use:

• Your social graph (friends or network)

• A passport or email

• Biometric data (if you want to)

• Your crypto wallet

• Or any other “proof-of-personhood” method

You decide what to reveal, when, and in what context, not some company forcing you to tie your entire life to one ID.

Vitalik believes no single platform should dominate the identity game. Choice, flexibility, and privacy should always come first.

👁️ Worldcoin Goes Global While Privacy Fears Grow

Right when Vitalik warned about the dangers of biometric identity, Worldcoin is doubling down, expanding faster than ever.

Here’s what’s happening 👇

a. Mass rollout in the US

Worldcoin just launched in 6 major cities: SF, LA, Miami, Atlanta, Nashville, and Austin.
They raised another $135M and plan to bring iris-scanning “Orbs” to 180 million Americans. Yeah, 180M.

b. World Card is coming

They're testing a Visa card that will let users spend $WLD.X ( ▲ 0.63% ) like cash. Launch expected by end of year.

It’s also integrated with big names like Stripe, Circle, and Kalshi → a real push into mainstream finance.

c. Now on... Tinder Japan

Worldcoin teamed up with Tinder Japan to verify that users are real humans. This is the first major dating app to use biometric ID nationwide. Starts in Japan, but who knows where next.

d. Gamified identity: “League of Humans”

Partnering with Razer, they’re launching a gamer-focused campaign blending real human ID and online competitions. World ID could soon be tied to how you log in to your favorite game.

e. Orb Mini for the Global South → To scale in developing countries, they launched Orb Mini - a small, low-cost iris scanner. The goal? Reach hundreds of millions of people with no current digital ID.

Meanwhile, the token isn’t keeping up. Despite the expansion, WLD is struggling, trading at $0.92, and still under key resistance.

😳 How Hyperliquid Trader Turns From $6.8K to $1.5M. No Directional Bets

Someone just pulled off a massive win on Hyperliquid, and they did it quietly. Using wallet 0x6f90…336a, this trader turned just $6,800 (funded in early Feb 2024) into over $1.5 million.

No chasing pumps. No risky long/short plays. No wild leverage games.

What’s wild is they didn’t even bet on market direction, they likely used smart, neutral strategies. Real profits 👇

1️⃣ Andrew Tate vs James Wynn: When Crypto Leverage Goes Very Wrong

If you’ve ever thought of going all-in on crypto leverage, this might change your mind.

In just a few days, Andrew Tate and James Wynn both became cautionary tales of what not to do on Hyperliquid, a popular decentralized trading platform.

Andrew Tate just lost $583,000 on a leveraged ETH trade. He placed 76 trades, won only 27, and blew up the rest with 25x leverage. His wallet now? Allegedly down to just $4.

The worst part? He flexed a 138.5% gain on X (Twitter) to promote his referral code. But blockchain sleuths immediately exposed the truth: the 138% win was fake, and he was deep in the red.

On the flip side, James Wynn lost $87 million in a brutal liquidation streak. He once had it all. But his famous $100M long on BTC and a 10x $PEPE.X ( ▲ 2.82% ) trade went sideways. One bad move erased millions.

This isn’t just about bad trading. It’s a DeFi lesson:

• On-chain data doesn’t lie.

• Over-leveraging (10x+) increases your liquidation risk by 40%.

• And on DEXs like Hyperliquid, there’s no safety net. Just smart contracts and raw volatility.

Things got so bad that Hyperliquid had to reduce leverage limits:

• BTC: from 50x → 40x

• ETH: from 33x → 25x

2️⃣ While James Wynn Lost $100M… This Trader Quietly Printed Millions

While the spotlight was on James, someone else was quietly winning big.

→ Wallet 0x6f90…336a has done over $20.6 billion in trading volume in just a few months. But here’s the twist: they weren’t chasing price 👇

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