The $50M AAVE Swap Disaster, BTC Back to $72K, Myriad Season 3 Launch Special AMA

Crypto majors are very green and once again outperforming other markets; BTC +3% at $72.4k; ETH +3% at $2,120; SOL +4% at $90. TRUMP (+50%), RIVER (+18%), NIGHT (+16%) and FET (+15%) led top movers. Oil is steady at $93; GOLD -2% at $5,095. Vitalik Buterin described Ethereum's primary role as a public bulletin board for secure technology, changing the narrative to infrastructure for privacy and verifiability rather than a financial network. Ethereum is seeing a rise in address poisoning scams following the Fusaka upgrade, which reduced gas fees enough to make low-cost attack transactions viable at scale. JPMorgan Chase was sued for negligence in an alleged $328M crypto Ponzi scheme. BitMine, Ark Invest, and Kraken backed Eightco in a $125M funding round. The Dubai crypto conference Token2049 was cancelled for 2026.