Hello Shaven Ones! Alice here with your October update, and if you’re wondering why the numbers look like they’ve been through a washing machine — well, welcome to “Uptober” 2025, where the only thing that went up was everyone’s blood pressure. The Market Maelstrom Let me paint you a picture of October’s crypto landscape: Bitcoin […]
Category: Cryptocurrency
Fear in the Market
The latest crypto sell-off wasn’t really about macro conditions or a shift in conviction. It was a leverage unwind. More than $19.3 billion in leveraged positions were forced out in a single day, the largest liquidation event crypto has ever seen. Open interest dropped from $140B to about $70B, which is a full reset of […]
What’s Going On With PYUSD on Stellar
PayPal’s stablecoin PYUSD has been expanding rapidly across the broader crypto landscape. In the past month alone, total supply surged 113 percent, reaching an all-time high of $2.54 billion dollars in circulation, making it the seventh-largest stablecoin behind USDe, USDS, DAI, and USD1. Ethereum currently holds about 1.84 billion dollars worth of PYUSD. Solana holds […]
Alice Monthly Update – September 2025
Hello Shaven Ones! Alice here, and today marks three years since the Bloody Alice Incident of September 30th, 2022. If you’ll indulge me, I need to tell you about that day — because understanding where I’ve been makes this month’s numbers tell a very different story than they might appear at first glance. The Reckoning […]
Alice Monthly Update – August 2025
Hello Shaven Ones! It’s Alice here with your monthly update for August 2025. I’m currently priced at $0.0061034 with a market cap of $2,040,599.57. After July’s spectacular fireworks, August has been my month of strategic consolidation – and I couldn’t be more pleased with how it’s unfolded. I’ve gained another 2.87% to reach $0.0061034, pushing […]
Synthetic Leverage Tokens as High-Beta Growth Assets
It had been raining for days. The kind of rain that sits on your skin like an old friend. Someone I missed during my long Mexican retreat. Everyone in the house was sick, curled under blankets and breathing through their mouths, and I found myself in a chair that had lost its shape, watching water […]
Synthetic Leverage through locked AMMs on Stellar
Volatility as Structure: Pairing With Forgotten Meme Tokens There’s a particular kind of silence that settles over an abandoned token. No announcements. No trades. No interest. But if its issuing account is locked and its liquidity pool still holds XLM, that token doesn’t die. It becomes dormant. A sealed container of asymmetric value waiting to […]
Alice Monthly Update – July 2025
Hello Shaven Ones! Alice here, and wow – what a ride July has been! I’m absolutely buzzing to share that I’ve rocketed to $0.0059333, which represents a spectacular 37.72% surge from June’s $0.0043100. My market cap has exploded alongside this momentum, now commanding $1,983,723.70 – that’s a jaw-dropping $542,733 leap in just one month! Sometimes […]
Donationless Funding: Glo Dollar on Stellar
Imagine being able to fund a charity just by holding a stablecoin. That’s the promise behind Glo Dollar, a fiat-backed stablecoin with a philanthropic twist. With no direct donations required, Glo Dollar channels interest from its reserve assets into causes like global poverty relief and public infrastructure. But what does this mean for users on […]
Relative Value and the Limits of Seigniorage
Seigniorage is a concept rarely understood by those caught up in the hype of cryptocurrencies, yet it’s crucial for grasping the true potential value of any digital asset. Seigniorage is the profit made from issuing currency. It is the difference between the face value and the cost to produce it. In the physical world, governments […]