Weekly Editors Picks is a functional column of Odaily Planet Daily. In addition to covering a large amount of real-time information every week, Planet Daily also publishes a lot of high-quality in-depth analysis content, but they may be hidden in the information flow and hot news, and pass you by.
Therefore, every Saturday, our editorial department will select some high-quality articles that are worth spending time reading and collecting from the content published in the past 7 days, and bring new inspiration to you in the crypto world from the perspectives of data analysis, industry judgment, and opinion output.
Now, come and read with us:
Investment and Entrepreneurship
Is the Four-Year Cycle Theory Outdated? The Rules of Survival in the New Normal of Cryptocurrency
Four completely different gameplay cycles are running simultaneously in the Crypto field: Bitcoin super cycle: retail investors are out, and a ten-year slow bull market may become a foregone conclusion; MEME attention short-wave cycle: from slum paradise to professional leek-cutting field; technical narrative leap-forward long cycle: bottom-fishing in the Death Valley, starting at 10 times in 3 years; innovative small hot spot short cycle: 1-3 month window period, brewing the main rising wave narrative.
Interpretation of six major indicators: What will the price of Bitcoin be by the end of this year?
BTC is expected to reach between $210,000 and $230,000 by the end of 2025, but given that the market environment breaks the traditional cycle theory, the accuracy has declined.
Bitcoin hits all-time high, have long-term holders started to sell?
Long-term holders have only slightly sold their holdings, far from the scale seen at the top of previous cycles. BTC prices still have room to rise.
Overnight, just like going public through a backdoor listing, U.S. companies on the verge of delisting began using this shell to “store currency.”
MicroStrategy Clone Illustrations: Who are the stocks that double their money by hoarding coins?
The gameplay is now more generalized: borrowing coins to trade stocks, borrowing stocks to raise coins. Stories can be copied, but value cannot be forged.
How I made $1 million on HyperEVM
The article shares the authors detailed configuration of earning more than one million dollars through capital-efficient, Delta-neutral strategies in the HyperEVM ecosystem. The author studied 65 native protocols and recommended operations such as cross-chain HyperUnit, staking HYPE, providing liquidity and hedging, covering multiple protocols to accumulate points, and earning more than 19% annualized returns. Additional gameplay includes purchasing .hl domain names, NFTs and stablecoin operations, focusing on @hyperunit and @prjx_hl, and believes that early participation can obtain high airdrop returns.
Also recommended: Dialogue with Pima: From Meme Coin to Launch Platform, the Investment Logic Behind the Stud Culture and Is There Really Someone Who Goes from 3000 to A 8? How to Participate in Hyperliquids Wealth Effect?
Airdrop Opportunities and Interaction Guide
Times have changed, retail investors have turned to mouth
A new term has emerged in the Lumao circle: Zuilu - you can easily get project token airdrops by posting and writing reviews. The project has gained popularity, KOLs have gained a large number of tokens, but interactive retail investors have a hard time.
Farcaster is regaining community attention with its new business model, exploring the sustainable development path of decentralized social networking through the combination strategy of subscription + mini app + wallet component + multi-chain support. The golden shovel attribute of Farcaster Pro is reflected in three aspects:
The scarcity of the first 10,000 subscribers: limited NFTs lock in early benefits;
Ecological returns: high returns and governance rights from community airdrops;
Promote the sustainable development of the protocol, ambush potential Farcaster airdrops in the future, and accumulate the possibility of future ecological value-added.
Also recommended: The latest big hair: Cookies first cooperation project Spark score strategy Infinex, which has raised 60 million yuan, joins Zuilu, a quick article to go through the rules and interaction methods of the four major modules This weeks selected interactive projects: River tweets to earn points, ZkCloud social tasks, Infinit collects badges .
Ethereum and Scaling
Ethereums next game: expansion, upgrade, and the era of aggregation
Expand L1, bring back Rollup, integrate everything, and launch as soon as possible.
Multi-ecology and cross-chain
Solana Conference’s Four Highlights: What’s Next for SOL?
The Solana Accelerate conference raised four major unresolved issues: the slow promotion of the Firedancer client; Kraken frequently supports Solana and is expected to become its main exchange; Solana Mobile launched the SKR token, raising compliance questions; and the increasing number of doubts about Trump at the scene may affect the political prospects of the crypto industry.
BNB Chain is back on fire: Here are 10 recent projects
$B (BUILDon), $B 2 (B² Network), $KOGE (48 Club), $RWA (Allo), $MERL (Merlin Chain), $SKYAI (SKYAI), $BANK (Lorenzo Protocol), $AIOT (OKZOO), $CZPizza / $PizzaCZ.
Recently, the market value of Virtuals has rebounded, dynamics are frequent, and the AI agent market has recovered. This article sorts out Virtuals-related projects with excellent performance, including those with large growth and potential alpha, such as AInalyst, AXR, VIRGEN, Magnus, Kosher Capita, Neurodex, Solace, Agent YP, Gigabrain, MusicByVirtuals, DappLooker, Signal V2, VIRGEN, BasisOS, etc.
CeFi DeFi
This article uses sUSDe as an example to introduce how to measure the benefits and risks of the YT leverage points strategy. In fact, Point is the core purpose of YT holders buying YT and the source of excess returns.
Also recommended: The Lazy Mans Financial Management Guide | How to Efficiently Capture Huma Phase II Airdrop; SOL Standards Can Also Be PT Revolving Loans (May 27)
Web3 AI
AI Agent Framework Tracking: Who is Hot and Who is Silent?
Virtuals is far ahead, ai16z missed its deadline, swarms was silent, and Zerebro was eliminated.
Also recommended: AI Agent Weekly Report | Cookie is launched on the first phase of InfoFi; the market value of Virtuals new project AXR exceeds 25 million US dollars (5.19-5.27) .
Safety
A Security Guide for Crypto Users: Start by Understanding How You Might Get Hacked
The article outlines cryptocurrency vulnerabilities for individual users, covering not only a series of common vulnerabilities, but also real-world case studies and things that users need to be vigilant about in their daily lives. Most crypto attacks still start by targeting individuals in a non-technical way, which gives us an opportunity to prevent them.
Hot Topics of the Week
In the past week, James Wynn ( character story + sequel )s on-chain operations attracted attention; James Wynn responded to doubts: $80 million is not worth mentioning, 40 times leverage is a billion-dollar transaction ; Trump Media denied reports of raising $3 billion to invest in cryptocurrencies , and later announced a Bitcoin vault plan of about $2.5 billion ; Circle applied for listing on the New York Stock Exchange with the code CRCL ( progress interpretation ); Circle froze the Solana address involved in the Libra scandal , equivalent to about $58 million USDC; Trump posted pictures containing PEPE and his own image on the Truth platform; Trump made tariff remarks again , and BTC fell below $104,000;
In addition, in terms of policies and macro markets, Trumps tariff order was ruled invalid by the U.S. International Trade Court; the SEC is reviewing the proposal to list and trade Nasdaq Bitcoin Index options ; Trumps use of the presidential seal at the TRUMP dinner may be suspected of violating federal law ; Musk officially announced that he would leave the Trump administration and clarified that he had not signed an xAI agreement with Telegram;
In terms of opinions and voices, BlackRock: It is recommended to allocate 2% of the portfolio to Bitcoin ; Donald Trump Jr.: We got involved in cryptocurrencies because we encountered de-banking and predicted that Bitcoin may break through $170,000 . He said that he was inspired by Michael Saylor to get involved in encryption; QCP Capital: Trump Media Company may trigger more entities to follow Strategy and provide new structural buying for the market; Solana founder: Cryptocurrency founders should conduct a pre-reflection every quarter to deal with extreme market conditions; The ETF Store President reviewed the first anniversary of the approval of the Ethereum spot ETF : The SEC had no choice at the time; Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum needs to have sufficient flexibility and privacy ;
In terms of institutions, large companies and leading projects, MetaPlanet issued $50 million interest-free ordinary bonds to purchase additional Bitcoin; SOL Strategies submitted a $1 billion fundraising prospectus and plans to increase investment in the Solana ecosystem; Paris Saint-Germain Football Club announced that it has included Bitcoin in its financial reserves; MetaMask now natively supports the Solana network and unifies the multi-chain wallet experience; Jupiter Lianchuang: plans to increase the contract opening limit by 4 times to allow users to establish larger positions; Huma Finance has opened HUMA airdrop applications ; Farcaster launched the platform Pro membership , and the first 10,000 subscribers will receive limited edition NFTs; MOVE token applications are open on the Movement Network; CCXT is caught in the code commission scandal ;
In terms of data, analysis: Four major indicators show that Bitcoin has not yet reached its peak, and the price may exceed $200,000 in this cycle; analysis: 99% of Bitcoin UTXOs are profitable , and the market may be about to enter a frenzy; analysis: Institutional funds begin to prefer Ethereum , and derivative trading indicators show a bullish trend for ETH; Solana Meme market is cold , and the graduation rate of tokens on mainstream launch platforms is less than 1%;
In terms of security, Cetus released a report on the theft , confirming that the cause of the theft was an overlooked vulnerability in the open source library used by the smart contract . It will promote the LP compensation plan and strengthen security audits, and promote the asset recovery plan through community voting, aiming to achieve 100% user compensation ... Well, its another week of ups and downs.
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