crypto-revelatio

DOJ Investigates Crypto "Revolving Door" in Government
The Justice Department has launched an anti-trust probe into allegations that Trump-appointed crypto advocates secured regulatory exemptions via political donations while serving in key roles at the Treasury and other agencies.

teddit

fun fact: @woj.eth drinks 5 to 6 shots of espresso a day

i know this because i sit next to him five days a week

what’s your go-to cocktail or drink order?

asking in case i find myself at a bar waiting for you

🚨 ALERT 🚨 Just checked the #BTC order book at 9 AM UTC - that MASSIVE 80k to 72k resistance zone? GONE. Poof. 💥

BUT WAIT - 78k is LIT 🔥 Whales are THROWING DOWN like it's the Super Bowl of crypto! Buy walls thicker than a Marvel superhero's plot armor. 💪

NGL fam, these big players deserve a salute 🫡 Their diamond-handed energy? Legendary status.

LFG! 🚀 Bulls charging HARD this morning.

"YOLO mode activated again! 🚨The crypto whale that previously made $9.28 million in profit on Hyperliquid with 50x leverage is all-in on ETH again!

Just put in $34.85 million in USDC as collateral💸Current positions:
• 79,351 ETH ($150 million) long
• 50x leverage 😱
• Entry price: $1,884.4
• Liquidation price: $1,859.4
• Floating profit: over $2 million (currently)

Tracking address👇
https://hypurrscan.io/address/0xf3F496C9486BE5924a93D67e98298733Bb47057c

This venture capitalist will either retire on a private island or fail miserably. Place your bet!🍿"

Base

I'm a Speculator-Pragmatist (3.0, 3.0) on the Onchain Alignment Chart! Check out your position:

golf

Music

"Here are some classic Flack songs to remember her by—a voice that never stopped killing us softly."

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-roberta-flack-songs-1235278153/compared-to-what-1235278162/

This should be an easy one. There's a small 🎁 if you decode this cast

cb8fc3df9c60bb33e48e2785ca5b1e826c9465cf23316cd4462d67ecc4abe277

Zora

Books

Welcome @amelie!

Alexandria Labs (alexandriabooks.com) builds infrastructure for authors and publishers to release ownable, un-bannable, un-censorable e-books with web3.

She has agreed to do an AMA for the /books channel.

Reply with your questions (please make sure to tag her so she can easily find them)

Farcaster

Introducing my first iOS app, Scout Reader for Farcaster 📱

As a long-time Farcaster user, I built Scout to stay better connected to my favorite casters. It’s an RSS-like iPhone and iPad app with organized feeds, offline access, and on-device search—no wallet required.

👉 Download now: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6740188182
👉 Explore features: https://scoutreader.app/
🧑‍💻 More on why I built Scout: https://murdo.xyz/2025/01/21/announcing-scout.html

Reviving the "primary address verification" FIP.

When we wrote this a year ago, it seemed like a good idea to allow only EOAs as primary, since SCWs may not be deployed everywhere. Now I am much less sure since most modern smart accounts have crosschain counterfactual addresses.

Should we leave this up to the user, who can verify smart contract addresses at their own risk?

https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/141

announcement time: super is joining warpcast

we are joining forces with @dwr.eth and @v to build farcaster into the most important social network on the planet, together

farcaster has never been stronger and i’m grateful for everyone who helped us get here

below is the story and what is happening next

fc-updates

Our current plan

1. Grow the number of daily active users on Farcaster

2. This benefits creators because they have a larger potential audience

3. This also benefits developers because they have a large potential user base

4. Super joining Warpcast allows us to invest more time on growth (no. 1)

5. Base bringing Farcaster into Coinbase Wallet—an app that has millions of existing users—helps with growth (no. 1)

6. We’re working on several big growth initiatives—both product-led (Woj will be helping with this!) and marketing / sales led (more announcements here soon!)

7. We’re investing more time in outbound messaging. You’ve likely seen our X / Twitter account get more active recently. Will be doing more here as well.

Super excited to have @ted join the team!

She took a bet on Farcaster early, did an amazing job with FarCon, Dev Day and a bunch of other growth initiatives last year.

She's going to be working with me to help accelerate growth and outbound marketing.

LFG!

Hing

@gings