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I finally understand why some people in the community have become quieter and quieter. It's not that they've left the circle, but they no longer need to prove their presence. Because they are already receiving $USDC. Last week, I asked a friend why he hadn't tweeted recently, and he showed me his wallet records. Several $USDC deposits, all from @RallyOnChain's campaign rewards. I asked him what it was, and he said something that left me silent for a long time: "Are you still chasing points?" The fact is: Rally is now paying creators with real $USDC. Not airdrop promises, not point redemptions, not project tokens that will crash. It's stablecoin, already in the wallet, happening right now. The mechanism isn't complicated: you write content and submit it to active campaigns. The AI smart contract on GenLayer scores the content from multiple dimensions including quality, originality, accuracy of information, and genuine interaction. If it meets the standard, $USDC is sent directly to your wallet via Base and zkSync Era. Funds are escrowed on-chain, and every distribution is verifiable. No fan count threshold. An account with 500 followers writing well can still beat a 50,000-follower account with low-quality posts. The AI doesn't care who you are, only what you wrote this time. Think about what I've been doing in the past six months: chasing points on dashboards, waiting for airdrop snapshots, writing ambassador threads that no one reads. Meanwhile, some people have already received several rounds of real $USDC on Rally. This information gap makes me uncomfortable. New paid campaigns keep launching, and not many people know about it yet. But every week, more people discover this. I’ve stopped chasing points. How about you?

Hayes is always quite outspoken whenever he speaks. This time at Consensus 2026, he bluntly said: the crypto industry doesn't need regulation, and Bitcoin's value is basically unrelated to regulation. The core factors determining the price are just two things: technological reliability + fiat liquidity. The latter is the real driving force. I checked the examples he gave— Obama's quantitative easing, Trump's "helicopter money" drops, and during Biden's term, Yellen replaced long-term debt with short-term bonds, releasing about $2.5 trillion in reverse repo funds. Every monetary expansion cycle corresponds with a significant rise in Bitcoin. To be fair, this logical framework does explain why prices don't necessarily move after every "positive" news, but the market gets excited once liquidity loosens. Regulatory news can be hyped, but the fundamental logic driving price increases still depends on the Fed's balance sheet. $BTC

While scrolling through Twitter, I saw someone mention $TAIJI and casually checked it out. I didn't have much expectation at first. But the more I looked, the more I felt the treasury design had some cleverness. Transaction tax, NFT funds—all go into the treasury. The project team doesn't touch this money. If the price drops, the treasury steps in to buy back and support the price. If it rises, tokens are directly burned to reduce circulation. It's like an automatic regulator always running. The NFTs aren't just selling small images. Each costs 500U, and what you buy is mining power. Holding it lets you pre-mine 20% of the tokens. Don’t want to play within 7 days after launch? Burn the NFT, get 500U back, and the mined tokens are yours to keep. The worst case is breaking even plus some free tokens. I think this bottom line is acceptable. There’s also a DAO mechanism. Every month, the community votes on which new coin to incubate. It’s not just a single project, more like a platform continuously launching new content. Whether it can keep running depends on execution. But this framework itself is far more thoughtful than most single-coin projects. Whitelist in mid-May, launch at the end of the month. Interested folks can check it out~ This is not investment advice, DYOR. @TAIJIbsc

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3 trillion dollars, I need a moment to process that. I checked, Coinbase's spot trading volume since its inception is about this scale, while Uniswap, a single protocol running on the Ethereum mainnet for 7 years, has reached this volume. Uniswap was called a "Ponzi scheme" and a "runaway pool" for a long time in its early days, but now with a historical cumulative trading volume of 3 trillion dollars, honestly, it basically stands as the biggest testament to the DEX path. No matter how expensive Ethereum mainnet Gas is, or how much the user experience is criticized, the on-chain volume that should happen hasn't decreased at all. This thing isn't hyped up; it's fueled by real money. $UNI $ETH

After submitting a piece of content last week, I casually browsed other submissions under the same campaign. Then I saw a post whose viewpoint, structure, and even examples were almost identical to what I wrote, just with a few words and word order changed. My first reaction was anger. The second was to see how this platform would handle it. I reported this situation to the community. Two days later, that account was manually removed by the @RallyOnChain team. It wasn’t automatically detected by an algorithm; the team reviewed the feedback manually and then took action. This incident gave me concrete trust in Rally’s anti-cheating mechanism. Not because it’s perfect, but because you can see it in action. Looking deeper, the design of the Minimum Sorsa Score makes it difficult for such plagiarizing accounts to survive long-term. Even if they register new accounts and start over, without a stable history of content quality, they can’t pass the reputation threshold or earn rewards. Manual removal solves the immediate problem, while the Sorsa Score addresses the long-term issue. Both short-term and long-term measures are in place. What does this mean for original creators? It means the time you spend researching and thoughtfully writing won’t have its rewards stolen by a copycat who just changes a few words. When you know your originality is protected, you’re willing to keep investing effort into creating original work. And these are all features already implemented based on community feedback, not just “future visions” written in a whitepaper. Have you ever had your original content taken and reposted with just a few words changed? How did that feel?

This wave of the anti-quantum sector is indeed strong. I checked the CoinGecko data, and the anti-quantum sector has a 24-hour increase of 22.4%, leading all sectors. Specifically, ZEC is up 26.7%, GEEQ is up 7.4%, and STRK is up 6.7%. The zero-knowledge sector is up 18%, ranking second, while the privacy coin sector is up 12.6%, ranking third. To be honest, the differences in the increase within the sector are quite large, with ZEC standing out alone, while the other two have relatively restrained increases. Whether this differentiation is due to capital rotation within the sector or simply ZEC leading the pace remains to be seen based on the subsequent on-chain capital flow. The narrative logic of the anti-quantum and privacy tracks is different; being chosen by capital simultaneously indicates that the market is looking for relatively low-position narrative directions... Let's watch the show. $ZEC $STRK $GEEQ