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The Pi chat is finally growing up. For years a lot of $PI talk was price and speculation. Lately it has shifted to the stuff a real network needs. User verification, mainnet migration, and merchants actually accepting Pi. That shift lands right as Pi holds its first Ecosystem Summit. It streams on YouTube from 17 to 19 November. Technical demos, new features, developer chats, and both founders on screen. Then on the 19th they kick off a new hackathon with a $200,000 prize pool to get developers building on $PI. One catch. A summit and a prize pool do not equal apps overnight. Real merchants and real usage still have to show up after the stream. But $PI is putting money behind the one thing it has always needed. Real apps and real adoption.

Kaspa is getting its own dollar, and the team says no one can freeze it. It's called KaspaDollar, or KSD, and its whitepaper just went live. Centralised stablecoins can freeze your money. Circle froze USDC in the Tornado Cash contracts in 2022, and Tether blacklisted over a billion dollars of USDT in 2025. KSD is built differently. There's no company taking revenue, no developer fee and no admin key. It's backed only by $KAS, and the price feed is voted on by Kaspa's miners. To attack it, a miner would have to damage the very coin that pays for their machines. They skipped gold and ETH on purpose, because those would depend on a custodian or another chain. The catch is that this is still a whitepaper under review, not a live product. But a dollar secured by the same miners that secure $KAS could become the foundation for Kaspa DeFi.

Want $CKB without ever touching a centralised exchange? Now you can swap for it straight with another person. Swap Book, built by Luso Crypto Labs, just went live on testnet. You can trade $CKB for USDC, ETH or even Bitcoin with no exchange account, no bridge and no wrapped tokens. You lock your coins in a vault on their own chain. The other person locks theirs under the same secret. When one side claims, the other can claim too. If anyone stops halfway, both vaults refund after a set time. The book only matches offers. It never holds your coins or your keys. This matters because UTXOSwap shut down and Force Bridge is gone, so there's no live mainnet way to do this without a custodian. The catch is that it's testnet only, swaps are capped at about one dollar, and it only works with Cellula Wallet for now. For $CKB holders, this one is fun to try, and the team wants feedback. @LusoCryptoLabs

Your $ZEC transactions are private, but until now your wallet's server could still see your IP address. ZODL, the Zcash wallet, just fixed that with its own servers using Oblivious HTTP. Your wallet's requests go through an independent relay run by Cloudflare or Fastly first. The relay sees your IP but can't read the request. ZODL can read the request but never sees your IP. No single company sees both. It's on by default for everyone, with zero setup. The catch: it's not a Tor replacement. If the relay and ZODL were both forced to hand over data, they could still be linked. You can keep Tor on as well, and ZODL supports both together. Update to ZODL 3.20.0, rolling out now on Android and iOS. $ZEC privacy just got stronger at the network level too.

gm frens. Privacy, stablecoins, robots getting paid. What a time to be in crypto.

The founder of Cardano just said a new token could "absolutely" flip $ADA. That token is $NIGHT, from Midnight, Cardano's privacy chain, built by the same team behind Cardano. The idea is privacy that still plays by the rules. Zero-knowledge proofs keep your data private while still proving whatever a regulator or app actually needs. Charles Hoskinson calls it a "rising tides" effect. If Midnight grows, it pulls brand new people into Cardano and lifts $ADA with it. He says he can't see one growing without the other. Private but compliant might be what finally brings a fresh wave into the ecosystem. The catch: flipping $ADA is a huge claim, and right now it's the founder's opinion, not a result. Whether $NIGHT flips anything or not, compliant privacy is a narrative I can see growing fast.

One handle to receive BTC, ETH or stablecoins. It's already live on $CKB. Cellula launched .cell handles on September 21st. One handle lets you receive $CKB, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Lightning or USDC instantly. It links to your X, GitHub or Bluesky profiles and works like a digital deed with an avatar that evolves. Refer someone and you earn ten percent on every handle they claim. There's more in testing too: a Cellula Wallet for browser and Android with Fiber for fast transfers, Cellula Checkout so merchants get paid straight to their own node, and an AI assistant that routes Fiber payments with a quick confirmation on your phone. A governance proposal now wants to bring this to mainnet with a public liquidity provider for Fiber, a shared hub for developers. The catch: most of these tools are still in testing and the proposal hasn't passed yet. If you follow $CKB, Cellula is one to watch. @cellula_id

Ronaldo's Last Dance 23 years. That's how long Cristiano Ronaldo has worn the Portugal shirt, and this weekend against Denmark could be one of his last. The emotion will be huge. I think Portugal start fast and take the first half, but Denmark are tough and organised. I'm expecting a tight 1-1. My pick: Portugal to win the first half, draw at full time. Then Spain vs England in Madrid. Kane, Bellingham and Rice against Yamal, Rodri, Cubarsí and co. Spain won 3-2 at Wembley in September, and at home I think they dominate. My pick: both teams to score No, and over 2.5 goals. Both bets are already on my @Dexsport slip. No sign-up, no KYC, just connect your wallet and bet with $BTC, $USDT, $BNB and more. Deposits and payouts go straight to your wallet. The catch: this is betting. Only stake what you can afford to lose. I'll show you how both bets land after the games. go.dexsport.io/rypto

CZ just said your bank is in a worse spot than crypto. The founder of Binance said it right after the biggest hack in crypto history hit his own exchange. His logic is simple. Binance and the $BNB ecosystem are some of the most attacked targets on the planet. If even they can get hit, the banks have no chance, especially now that AI is making hackers smarter. There's a part nobody likes to admit, though. When a bank gets hacked, it can rewind. It's their ledger on their computers, so they reverse the payments and restore the balances. A blockchain can't do that. Once it's done, it's done forever. Nobody can sneakily edit it, but there's no undo button either. Here's the catch. Crypto is drifting back towards bank-style control anyway. The biggest stablecoins, USDC and Tether, can freeze your money, and they already have. CZ is right that security is everyone's problem now. Whether you hold $BNB or stablecoins, you can't fully have no takebacks and a safety net at the same time.

Gm to everyone still building when the charts are boring

While crypto Twitter argues about Litecoin, Vegas just quietly picked it. The Sahara on the Las Vegas Strip is being called the first Strip casino to let you fund gambling with crypto. Out of thousands of coins, they chose three. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin. When a Vegas casino picks the tiny handful of coins it trusts for real money, $LTC makes the cut. Not because of hype. Because it is fast, cheap and reliable. Which is exactly what Litecoin was built to be. One catch, so nobody gets it twisted. You are not betting $LTC at the roulette table. You take crypto to the cage, they convert it to dollars, and you get chips. Crypto is the on-ramp, not the chips. It is run by BurraPay, approved by Nevada's gaming regulator. So while the online narrative keeps flip-flopping on $LTC, the real world keeps quietly choosing it. That matters more than the noise.

$KAS just turned five, and the fair launch still stands out. Kaspa launched in November 2021 with no pre-sale, no ICO and no insiders getting a head start. Just proof-of-work, like Bitcoin, built to be seriously fast with BlockDAG. Five years on the numbers are proper. Over 2.4 billion transactions. 587 million blocks. Getting on for 600,000 wallets. The biggest stat though. It survived. $KAS made it through some of the most brutal years crypto has ever seen, the kind that wiped out hundreds of projects. And it is not standing still. Developers are pushing toward smart contracts and stablecoins, which would open Kaspa up to a whole new world of apps. One catch. Those new capabilities are still being built, not fully live as everyday apps yet. Happy birthday $KAS. Surviving five years as a fair-launch proof-of-work chain is rarer than the hype cycle admits.

You shouldn’t need to hand over your birthday just to prove you’re over 18. That’s the kind of problem Midnight is built to solve, and the idea behind $NIGHT is simpler than it sounds. Built by Input Output, the company behind Cardano, Midnight focuses on keeping sensitive information private without making it impossible to verify. Public blockchains can expose transaction details to anyone. Midnight takes a different approach using zero-knowledge proofs. It’s maths that lets you prove something is true without revealing the information behind it. Prove you meet an age requirement without sharing your birthday. Prove you have enough funds without showing your whole balance. That’s selective disclosure. Share what’s needed, not everything you have. $NIGHT is the main token. Holding it generates DUST, the resource used to pay for network activity, which replenishes over time. Here’s the catch. Privacy technology alone doesn’t make an application secure or compliant. How it’s built and handles information still matters. The opportunity for $NIGHT is practical privacy: services that can check what they need without collecting every personal detail. $ADA

Gm crypto friends, im going to need nice strong coffee to start this week