Markets and Trading Writer
Whatsertrade is a full-time crypto trader and writer at DEXTools News specialising in market cycles, technical analysis, and trading psychology. The focus is practical trading: reading market structure, managing risk, and applying on-chain and chart data to real decisions, written from the perspective of someone who trades.
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Compare the best Bitcoin wallets of 2026: Ledger Nano X, Trezor Model T, Coldcard, BlueWallet, Sparrow, Wasabi, Samourai, Casa, Unchained, BitBox by security, privacy and price.
Complete 2026 guide to Solana memecoins. Pump.fun mechanics, top tokens, narrative families, brainrot meta, alien coins, risks and trading tools. Links to 30+ satellite guides.
Complete 2026 guide to brainrot memecoins. Italian brainrot (Tralalero, Tung Tung, Bombardiro), alien meta (GLORP), Moo Deng, Hoppy, the TikTok flywheel, AI content production and trading.
Cardano DReps approved the Leios proposal on May 25, 2026 with 84% support, unlocking 27.7 million ADA from the treasury. Leios is Input Output's research-grade throughput upgrade aiming to push monthly transactions from 800,000 to over 27 million by 2030. Testnet activates June 23, 2026. Five additional Input Output proposals also passed including 11.8M ADA for Plutus improvements. The Pogun BTC DeFi proposal failed at 32.4% support.
Cycles, the open clearing protocol founded by Cosmos co-founder Ethan Buchman, announced a $6.4 million funding round on May 21, 2026, led by Blockchange Ventures with Coinbase Ventures, Compound VC, Primitive Ventures and angels participating. Total raised: $8.7M. The company is launching Cycles Prime (institutional clearing, Lynq and FalconX as anchor partners) and Cycles Pay (stablecoin payments) on a shared multilateral netting architecture.
$WOLF deployer ($250M ATH) ends 2-year dormancy to mint $HOPPY on Solana pump.fun. +600% in 24h. Boy's Club lore, deployer risk and token data here.
Virl.fun, a Solana-native AI launchpad that turns viral TikTok and Reels trends into Pump.fun-ready memecoin packages, produced its first $900K+ runner with $TRALALERO. TRALALERO topped Pump.fun's new USDC pair feature. Native token $VIRL trades at $0.00434, $4.34M market cap, $3.2M 24h volume after KuCoin Alpha and Moonshot listings on May 20, 2026. Influencer @nobrainflip bought 11.6M $VIRL ($37.87K).
DAO governance is often presented as decentralized decision making. Tokenholders vote on proposals, protocol changes, treasury spending and risk parameters. But
Revenue Concentration vs Revenue Diversity: Why One Income Stream Can Make Protocols Fragile Crypto traders often look at protocol revenue to judge whether a pr
DeFi lending protocols need risk controls. Without limits, users could deposit too much of a risky asset, borrow too much against unstable collateral or create
Blockchain networks often use transaction count as a sign of adoption. If transactions are increasing, it may look like more users are active and the network is
South Korea's KoFIU dropped the travel rule threshold from 1M KRW to zero, requiring full identification on every crypto transfer between VASPs.
