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Daily Edition · Page 7

THE DAILY INDEX

Technology, AI, software, security, crypto and business

MARKETS & BUSINESS

TLDR Crypto

TLDR Crypto

COINBASE Q4 REPORT

Coinbase has reported record trading volumes alongside 9 consecutive quarters of native unit growth, all-time high USDC market cap and on-platform balances, and 4x increase in US derivatives market share following its 24/7 perps launch and Deribit integration. The exchange has secured partnerships with five major global banks, including JPMorgan, Citi, PNC, and Standard Chartered. Six months after announcing its "Everything Exchange" vision, Coinbase has launched prediction markets, begun offering 24/5 stock trading, and integrated millions of Solana assets into its DEX.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 4 min

TLDR Crypto

X TO LAUNCH ‘SMART CASHTAGS' FOR REAL-TIME CRYPTO AND STOCK DATA

X will roll out “Smart Cashtags” in the coming weeks, letting users tap tickers in their timeline to view live price charts, related posts, and direct trading links for stocks and onchain assets, including smaller-cap tokens. While X will not execute trades itself, the feature deepens its push into financial services alongside X Money. It comes with strict API rules aimed at curbing crypto spam and bot-driven manipulation.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 4 min

TLDR Crypto

PREDICTION MARKETS FOR HEDGING

Vitalik Buterin argues prediction markets are converging toward unsustainable "corposlop" (short-term crypto price bets, sports betting) and should prioritize hedging as the core use case. Prediction markets on price indices for all major goods and services could be used as a type of hedged currency, with local LLMs generating personalized baskets representing each user's expected future expenses. The system requires interest-bearing denominations like wrapped stocks or ETH rather than fiat, and could incorporate autonomous agents for more accurate and full-time information gathering.

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TLDR Crypto

CRYPTO CAN KILL INTERNET GODS

Tech platforms have built "psychological extraction machines" that monetize user behavior while harvesting data value, creating a digital caste system where users generate content unpaid. Crypto is "Dharma through Code" – cryptography as an immutable mathematical truth that enables decentralization to redistribute power from centralized platforms back to individuals through private key sovereignty. Rather than viewing crypto as a speculative casino, treat it as an ark for building parallel societal infrastructure governed by mathematical laws instead of corporate algorithms.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 5 min

TLDR Crypto

THEIA - 2025 ANNUAL LETTER

Theia's 2025 annual letter highlights returns generated purely through asset selection in a challenging environment where BTC returned 35%, but median tokens dropped 60-80%. The fund's thesis centers on crypto evolving from speculative "digital gold" to functional financial infrastructure, evidenced by stablecoins facilitating trillions in annual transfers and onchain lending protocols like Maple and Morpho surpassing $100B. Investment focus areas include governance innovation through prediction markets and futarchy (MetaDAO), alongside emerging AI-crypto infrastructure for agent identity, payments, and coordination.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 6 min

TLDR Crypto

PREDICTION MARKETS MUST STOP CATERING TO “DUMB OPINIONS”

Vitalik Buterin warns prediction markets are “over-converging” on short-term, dopamine-driven bets dominated by uninformed retail gamblers and risks collapse in bear markets, urging platforms to pivot away from speculative gambling. He proposes turning markets into AI-powered hedging tools. These would enable personalized, regionally indexed baskets that offset real-world costs and could be denominated in productive assets, potentially replacing fiat-pegged stablecoins.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 2 min

TLDR Crypto

EVERYTHING IS MARKET

Markets are evolving from outputs into infrastructure, resembling "markets as APIs" that produce real-time data through adversarial competition that's costly to fake, unlike conventional APIs returning stored information. The pattern is already emerging in production: Coinbase's Borrow/Earn products query Morpho's onchain lending markets for rates, while Polymarket odds appeared at the Golden Globes and correctly predicted 26 of 27 winners. There is a "DeFi mullet" implementation model (fintech front-end, DeFi back-end) using permissionless markets as regulatory forcing functions, with the vision extending to one billion traders plus AI agents consuming markets as programmatic infrastructure.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 6 min

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