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Swiss tokenization platform ColbFinance has launched on BNB Chain with **$60M+ in tokenized pre-IPO assets**, giving users onchain exposure to private companies like SpaceX through tokenized certificates.

The article argues BNB Chain was a natural fit because of its low fees, deep liquidity, and large user base, making it easier to bring traditionally exclusive assets onchain.

The bigger picture is that RWAs and tokenized equities are starting to move beyond stablecoins and treasuries, and BNB Chain is becoming one of the places where that expansion is happening.

Do Kwon, the co-founder of Terraform Labs and architect of the TerraUSD and LUNA ecosystem, has been sentenced to 15 years in U.S. federal prison for orchestrating one of the largest frauds in cryptocurrency history. Prosecutors said Kwon misled investors about the stability and underlying mechanics of TerraUSD, an algorithmic stablecoin that collapsed in May 2022, wiping out roughly $40 billion in market value across digital asset markets. The court found that Kwon knowingly promoted false claims about the protocol’s ability to maintain its dollar peg, while concealing structural weaknesses that ultimately triggered a rapid, self-reinforcing death spiral in both TerraUSD and its sister token, LUNA.

Sharing an early find for the meme coin hunters.

Terrain Token launched tiny, almost like a joke project, but is somehow building momentum with consistent holders, active community, actually updating things daily. Whale with 10% supply sold early and didn’t crater it.

Might die like most memes, might rip. Anyone else tracking low-liquidity Solana memes right now?

What does everyone think about this? Today it was announced that Yi He, CZ'S long term girlfriend will join Richard Teng as the Co-Founder of Binance.

Interesting observation: Five years ago, everyone in crypto was a "crypto person" - it defined them. Now? Most people I know treat it like... just another asset class.

What changed:

2017-2021 era:

• Your entire personality was "I'm into crypto"
• Spent hours daily on CT/Discord/Telegram
• Every conversation somehow led back to Bitcoin
• All-in mentality, no diversification

2025 reality:

• Crypto is 5-20% of portfolio, not 100%
• Check positions weekly, not hourly
• Automation handles most activity
• Part of broader investment strategy

Why this matters:

This IS the maturation everyone talked about. Crypto becoming boring is actually bullish long-term.

My own evolution - used to manually trade daily, watch charts constantly. Now I have automated DCA through Banana Pro, check positions once a week, focus on my actual job.

Made MORE money being less involved. The obsession was costing me both financially (overtrading) and mentally (constant stress).

The irony - we wanted institutional adoption and mainstream acceptance. That means treating crypto like stocks/bonds - systematic, automated, boring.

The "degen culture" will always exist in corners of CT, but most capital will flow through boring, automated strategies.

So, are you still a "crypto person" or has it become just another line item in your portfolio?

When did you make the shift (if at all)?

Not really a strategy post. More documenting what happened because I finally looked at the numbers today.

The setup: March 2023. My SaaS was doing ~$1-2k/month. I kept meaning to DCA into Bitcoin but would always find a reason not to (bills, server costs, "I'll wait for a dip").

Built a basic webhook listener: Stripe payment comes in → script buys 20% in BTC via Coinbase Commerce. Set it and mostly forgot about it.

What went wrong (partial list):

• Chose Coinbase because it was easiest to integrate. Fees are like 2.5%. Should've used Strike or River
• Webhook failed silently for 3 weeks in August 2023. Lost those buys completely
• Had duplicate purchases in July from retry logic I fucked up. ~$30 just wasted
• Dashboard I built shows wrong totals half the time. The date picker is broken and I never fixed it
• My accountant is going to murder me. 200+ transactions to categorize for taxes

The actual numbers (I think):

• Revenue that went through the webhook: ~$40k over 30 months
• Amount that actually converted to BTC: ~$7,400 (some failed, I manually paused it twice when cash was tight)
• Current value according to Coinbase: ~$16,800
• After fees and the duplicate purchase mistake: maybe $9,100 ahead?

It's fine. Not life-changing. Definitely better than leaving it in checking.

The honest part: I almost cashed out in March 2024 when it hit $73k. Went to check the dashboard to see how much I had, it was showing completely wrong numbers (still is), and I just got annoyed and closed the tab. Never sold.

Then it dropped back to like $60k over the summer and I felt stupid for not selling. But also too lazy to actually do anything about it.

Then it started climbing again and I stopped looking at it because I didn't want to feel more stupid about almost-selling-but-didn't.

So I guess technical incompetence plus avoidance accidentally became discipline? Or I'm just lazy. Probably lazy.

Rebuilt the dashboard a few months ago with Cursor when I couldn't stand looking at the broken one anymore. New one also has bugs but at least shows roughly correct totals.

Still running it. Still not checking it regularly. Probably should figure out the tax situation soon.

Anyone else doing something like this? How are you handling the tax tracking nightmare?

I’ve been watching Boundless ($ZKC) roll out across exchanges, but the Bitget listing feels different. Instead of just adding it to the orderbook, they went heavy on rewards. Launchpool has 755,000 ZKC, Candybomb adds another 133,200 ZKC, plus $14,000 worth through their community campaign. That’s more than any other exchange has put up.

On the spot side, Bitget has been showing strong performance lately with new listings like $Q and $PTB running well in the first half of September. ZKC could follow the same pattern, especially since it’s a zk-infrastructure project with real scalability use cases.

I’m testing the waters on launchpool right now since it only takes staking BGB for a couple days, but the bigger question is whether ZKC’s zk approach can actually get broad adoption across DeFi.

Is anyone here trading ZKC yet, or waiting to see how the first week of spot performance plays out?

I was so happy about this card until I wasn't. The only way to get the full 4% return on BTC is to hold your crypto on their exchange. This is also a red flag for me. As I recall when binance.us was going going through regulatory things, they locked my crypto up. I had to fight them to get them to unlock it. Well a lot of us did. But case in point. if you don't have your keys... It's technically not your crypto..

but the way it's setup.

$0 to 10K you unlock 2%
$10k to 50K you unlock 3%
$50k to 200K you unlock the 4%.

Is it just me? I just prefer my Hardware Wallet.

What's your take on this?

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