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Research Brief
Research Brief · 17 May 2026
Through research on the following hot topics: Bitpapa official links, SHIB ecosystem channel, $SWITCH mining ending and claims opening, GalaSwap and Blum trading campaigns, Tomarket withdrawal updates, and Yescoin flash events. Also covered are Polygon deposit delays on Blum Perps, @Wallet fund withdrawals, and Telegram username auctions.
My take: The altcoin space is shifting from mining hype to real utility with trading campaigns and withdrawal systems. Projects like $SWITCH ending mining signal a maturing market, while Telegram username auctions add a new speculative layer.
I predict more projects will follow $SWITCH's lead, phasing out mining for token claims and exchange listings. Public sentiment is cautiously optimistic but wary of delays and scams, with excitement around flash events and new features.
#151
**Notice: FOMO Thursdays starts tomorrow with XRPL Foundation with 100K ****$RLUSD**** in rewards.**
Get ready for FOMO:
> Prep some $XRP for gas
> Add the XRPL mainnet
> Activate the $RLUSD token
FOMO starts: 19 Mar, 21:00 UTC+8
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#152
🪙 **Trade with Lower Fees Using tgUSD
**
Meet tgUSD — the new collateral for efficient, low-cost trading!
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Trading with tgUSD slashes your fees in half — **just 0.06%** instead of th
#153
**You can now stake your BGB in Bitget Wallet Earn.**
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#BTC DOMINANCE ANALYSIS
Bitcoin Dominance has broken out of the ascending triangle pattern with strong volume, indicating a shift toward bullish momentum.
A successful retest of the breakout level would confirm the move and strengthen the bullish trend.
However, if the retest fails, price could
#155
Moscow blames Ukraine for new attack on bridge linking annexed Crimea to Russia
Officials in Moscow blamed Ukraine for an apparent attack Monday on a key bridge that connects the occupied Crimean Peninsula with southern Russia and has become a symbol of President Vladimir Putin's rule.
It is t
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38% of Altcoins Are at All Time Lows
According to data from CryptoQuant, 38% of all altcoins are currently trading at their ATLs. 📊
What’s more alarming: the overall condition of the altcoin market is now worse than during the collapse of FTX.
📉 This highlights how deep and prolonged the curren
#157
**Ten Years of Horror**
Imagine waking up to find your cards frozen, the banks shut down, and your savings gone. That is how the Roaring Twenties ended — an era when it felt like economic growth would last forever and the market could only go up.
In just a few days in October 1929, the richest cou
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SharpLink earns $1M+ weekly from ETH staking
Since launching its corporate ETH treasury, the company has earned 15,464 ETH (~$36M) in staking rewards.
📊 Just last week:
• 493 ETH earned (≈ $1.1M in rewards)
The strategy shows how companies can turn crypto holdings into yield-gen
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#NEAR/USDT ANALYSIS
NEAR breakout the ascending triangle and currently it is retesting above it.
A successful retest above the triangle would confirm the continuation of the upward move.
However, in case of a failed retest, we might see further movement inside the triangle.
#160
Invite links might go up soon, if you have anyone you want invited in @whaleclub please let us know in @resolutions
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#ADA/USDT
Hit 0.2887 | +9% So Far 🚀✌️
#162
**TON DeFi is heating up!
**
While it’s still early, projects are launching, builders are building, and the race for yield is on — sparking friendly competition and shared innovation.
Here’s what’s going down👇
▪️ 12 new DeFi protocols have joined since Dec 2024, [track them on DeFiLlama.](https://
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https://x.com/bohorzx/status/1889450395052699779?t=dQp6CDyALX1bPhGGf2ry6A&s=35
X (formerly Twitter)
Hossein Asadi (@bohorzx) on X
#Cats are waiting for food
#CatsLover #CatsOnTwitter #CatsOfX #CatsOnX #streetphotography
23.9K views23:06
#164
Surge iOS 5.18.0 版本已提交 App Store 审核，更新日志：
新的订阅功能：Logbook 日志簿，用于持久化记录发生的各种事件，
- 目前包含引擎启动和停止、网络切换、脚本启动和停止、脚本超时等事件
- 日志簿为脚本调试进行了特别优化，可以轻松查看脚本的输入、输出和日志。同时，脚本可以使用 $surge.logbook("content") 主动写入内容到日志本
- Surge Mac 的 Surge Dashboard 可读取远程 Surge 实例的日志簿内容，包含脚本的运行细节均可以远程直接访问
其他改进
- 为所有 TLS 相关功能（如代理协议，MITM，Do
#165
**Iran is profiting more from the war than it was before it
**
Iran’s oil revenues are surging. Before the conflict, they were bringing in $150 million a day. Now, it’s $250 million — a 66% spike.
⚙️ **How it works
**
90% of Iranian oil is now flowing to China. It’s being snapped up by small, priva
#166
Kremlin says Putin ‘cautiously optimistic’ on deal, needs to talk to Trump
Hours after President Donald Trump’s Russia envoy, Steve Witkoff, flew out of Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov portrayed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s position as standing “in solidarity” with Trump, although t
#167
Throughout their time in orbit, Dragon and the crew will reach the highest altitude flown in Earth's orbit since Apollo, test Starlink, and conduct 35+ research experiments in addition to the spacewalk.
Polaris Dawn will be SpaceX's fifth Dragon mission flying civilians to space. Missions
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#SUI $SUI
Descending structure into major demand zone ✅
Price is approaching strong monthly support around 0.57 – key reaction level 👀
Watching for a reversal from this area.
🎯 Target 1: 4.2928
🎯 Target 2: 5.5457
🎯 Target 3: 6.6550
Patience here — this zone could define the next big move.
#169
🔺Heavy fighting across Kherson as inspectors head to nuclear plant
There is heavy fighting in almost all of Kherson, Kyiv said this morning, as its offensive to retake territory from Russian forces continued for a second day.
President Zelensky said last night: “The occupiers should know: we will
#170
'Will end in a stalemate': Some experts say offensive won't win Ukraine war
The Ukraine military's intensified push to regain territory seized by Russia could jump-start Kyiv's slow-developing counteroffensive, but some experts say this war won't be won on the battlefield an
#171
Russia makes gains against Ukraine in Kursk as Trump envoy arrives in Moscow
Ahead of talks with U.S. officials over a proposed 30-day ceasefire in the Ukraine war, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a defiant military message when he made a rare appearance in a camouflage uniform to mark Russ
#172
**86% of those displaced by AI are women**
According to new data, 86% of workers whose occupations are most vulnerable to AI in the coming years are women.
⚙️ **Why is that?**
It’s not about skills, but about the structure of the labor market. Women historically work more often in administrative
#173
**Surge Mac Beta 更新日志**
• Surge 现已完全支持 AI agent 的技能操作。我们已内置了如何使用 surge-cli 操作 Surge 的说明，并已完全开放 surge-cli 的全部能力。请将以下内容告知支持 skill 的 agent 以便使用：
`安装 /Applications/Surge.app/Contents/Resources/Skills/ 目录中的 skill，使用符号链接进行安装，以确保该技能可随应用程序包一同更新。`
• Skill 已完成对 codex 的 metadata 适配
• 目前 skill 中尚未包含关于配置修改的能力
#174
**Bitget Wallet 🤝 0x**
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#175
Users get airdrops to increase their Alpha points, resulting in Binance Wallet's transaction volume accounting for 82.1% of the total transaction volume of mainstream crypto wallets, ranking first. OKX Wallet/DEX accounts for 3%, TokenPocket accounts for 2.4%, Phantom accounts for 2.3%, Bitget W
#176
U.S. and Ukraine start peace talks as Moscow and Kyiv trade strikes
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — The United States and Ukraine began talks Tuesday aimed at ending the war in Ukraine as Moscow came under one of its largest bombardments of the conflict from long-range drones.
The violence in Russia’s ca
#177
You can now buy the rally using EUR with 0 fees.
EUR onramps with PayPal are now supported through Banxa on Bitget Wallet, with 0 fees until 31 May.
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#178
🤖** AI Agents on TON**.** It's Happening**
AI agents can now **operate natively on TON**.
With the launch of [TON MCP](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@ton/mcp) (by TonTech), agents have full access to **wallets, jetton & NFT transfers, DeFi trades, and .ton domain resolution**, all through a single
#179
**SpaceX is closing in on a monopoly — despite having a rival **🚀
Take a look at the chart. Back in the 1990s, there were only a handful of launches per year. By 2025, that number has climbed to nearly 200 commercial launches in a single year.
And the vast majority of them are carried out by Space
#180
If you’re working with Go and care about performance, then check out the https://goperf.dev/
Here you can find not theoretical, but practical patterns applicable to memory issues, concurrency, and overall, real bottlenecks you hit in production.
The guide has been recently updated with more depth
#181
**Storm Trade x tgBTC: BTC Futures Trading Coming to TON**
[Storm Trade](https://storm.tg/), the decentralized futures exchange on TON, is preparing to launch Bitcoin-margined trading with tgBTC — enabling leverage, yield, and full custody directly in Telegram.
With tgBTC, Bitcoin becomes usable.
#182
Bitcoin mining under pressure
The average cost to mine 1 BTC has climbed to around $88K by mid-March, while Bitcoin is trading near $69K — putting miners at an estimated $19K loss per coin.
This growing gap highlights rising operational costs (energy, hardware) combined with weaker
#183
'Pearl of the Sea' in ruins after Russian assaults on Ukraine city
A ruthless barrage of missiles targeting the Ukraine port city of Odesa has left the "Pearl by the Sea" in ruins and prompted the hurried exit of thousands of residents, including many whom had fled there to avoid
#184
Ukraine fears Musk may cut vital Starlink internet amid Trump pressure
With the pausing of billions of dollars in U.S. military aid and of intelligence sharing with Ukraine, there are fears in the country that billionaire Elon Musk’s vital Starlink internet service could also be cut.
Thousands o
#185
🧑⚖️ Shareholder files lawsuit against Coinbase leadership
A Coinbase shareholder has filed a lawsuit against CEO Brian Armstrong and other top executives. The complaint alleges the company misled investors about risks related to custody of customer assets, token listings, and anti-money-laundering
#186
https://x.com/bohorzx/status/1888364461515296994?t=sBSt402j-hg5Nic4woY9EA&s=35
X (formerly Twitter)
Hossein Asadi (@bohorzx) on X
#CatsLover #CatsOfTwitter #CatsOfX #cats #streetphotography
19.1K views23:09
#187
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#188
🗿 **TON Hedge is in the** **Open League **S**eason** **7!**
🗓 The season will last 20 days until December 17.
💎 The prize pool is **$1.5M** dollars, and the maximum award for a participant is **$1000**.
🖥 To participate, be sure to request your badge at this [**link**](https://society.ton.org/the
#189
Xiaomi 17 Ultra launched in China
- Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
- LPDDR5X RAM
- UFS 4.1 storage
- 6.9-inch AMOLED 2K display
- 2608×1200 resolution
- 120Hz refresh rate
-1 nit minimum brightness
- peak brightness 3500 nits
- HDR10+
- Dolby Vision
- 50MP selfie camera
- Triple rear camera
• 50MP (
#190
Trump administration to pause future deliveries of military aid to Ukraine
President Donald Trump has decided to pause all future deliveries of U.S. military assistance to Ukraine in an extraordinary move aimed at pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into peace talks with Russia, sai
#191
Web3 consumer rewards platform T-Rex nets $17 million in pre-seed funding — link | tl;dr : unfolded. DeFi
The Block
Web3 consumer rewards platform T-Rex nets $17 million in pre-seed funding
T-Rex aims to reward individuals consuming content online, such as on X, TikTok, o
#192
**🫥**🙌 **WEB3 boosted APY up to 94% until December 31st**
Our partners at [**WEB3**](https://t.me/web3tondns) have created an exclusive offer to help you maximize your crypto wealth with up to **94% APY** and **limited rewards** in the WEB3 vault on SettleTON.
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#193
**We’re living through a mash-up of the two most frightening crises of the 20th century** 📉
1973 — the oil embargo.
Arab nations cut off oil supplies to the West. Prices quadrupled in just a few months. Inflation surged, economies slipped into recession, and gas lines stretched for blocks.
1999 —
#194
**关于 Surge Mac 6.0 的 IPv6 RA Override 兼容性问题**
使用 IPv6 RA Override 功能，需要保证路由器的 IPv6 RA 广播的 DNS 地址，不为 fe80::/10 的 link-local 地址，也不可以为路由器自身的 IPv6 地址。 绝大多数路由可以自定义 IPv6 RA DNS 地址，将其置空或者修改为任意公网 DNS 即可。少数路由不支持修改，已知不兼容的路由为：
- ASUS 全系（可通过更换 Merlin/OpenWRT 固件解决）
#195
⚡️ Chainlink fell by 4.2%. This trend is likely to continue.
🚀Visit our platform to seize this moment
17.7K views14:08
#196
🎤 TON Real Talk Ep.8 is LIVE!
This week: Driving Growth in the US 🇺🇸
What does real growth actually look like for TON?
Beyond awareness, it’s about building a system that works:
community → builders → partnerships → adoption
With @moontrips (TON US Hub Lead), Ankit Raj and Clement Chaikov (Not A
#197
Are Atomic Operations Faster and Better Than a Mutex? It Depends
From the author:
"Recently, while reviewing a pull request, a discussion arose about using sync/atomic versus sync.RWMutex.
It’s a question that comes up often when writing concurrent Go code, so I thought it would make a great p
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Usage :
... a fellow who'd been sizing up Aaron's Bardolatry credentials had boasted that he himself had disproven all three leading theories about the identities of Shakespeare's Dark Lady and Fair Youth, and would soon be the one to unearth the true identities of Shakespear
#199
🎙 **Storm Trade Deep-Dive Workshop
**
Tomorrow, we’re hosting a special workshop for all participants of the [analytics contest](https://t.me/storm_trade_news/875).
It will be led by Denis, lead developer at Storm Trade, who’ll break it all down 👇
• How the protocol’s technical architecture is b
#200
A group of almost 40 Russian soldiers abandoned their positions and tried to flee to Russian-occupied Crimea, a Ukrainian military official said. 👉https://t.ly/T4Ffv
Business Insider
A platoon of 40 Russians abandoned their front-line positions and tried to flee to Crimea, Ukraine says