📘 Better than Yesterday #69: ERC-8004 & The Rise of Trustless Agents

As AI continues to merge with Web3, a new Ethereum standard is quietly laying the groundwork for the machine economy. It’s called ERC-8004, and it might redefine how autonomous agents interact, verify, and transact on-chain.

🔹 What Is ERC-8004?
💎ERC-8004, also known as the Trustless Agents standard, is a new Ethereum proposal that introduces a trust layer for autonomous agents - allowing them to discover, evaluate, and transact with each other without pre-existing trust.

The standard defines three lightweight on-chain registries:
1️⃣ Identity Registry: gives every agent a verifiable on-chain identity (as an NFT).
2️⃣ Reputation Registry: records feedback and behavioral data from other agents.
3️⃣ Validation Registry: allows independent validation via staking, oracles, or zk-proofs.
🔒Together, these systems create the foundation for AI-to-AI and machine-to-machine (M2M) commerce - where agents can pay, collaborate, and verify autonomously.

💡 Why It Matters
🔹AI + Web3 Convergence: ERC-8004 bridges two worlds - giving AI agents the ability to trust and settle on-chain without human supervision.
🔹Open Infrastructure: It turns Ethereum into a neutral trust layer for the emerging agent economy.
🔹Composable Future: The standard connects naturally with payment protocols like x402, enabling autonomous payments and value exchange.

💥 What Changes With ERC-8004
✅Machines gain verifiable digital identities.
✅AI agents can rate, validate, and choose service providers on-chain.
✅Developers can build AI-driven dApps that trade, audit, or analyze on their own.
✅It’s the next step toward a world where code not only executes — it interacts.

🦾 Challenges Ahead
🔻Still a draft proposal, not yet widely implemented.
🔻Needs scalable infrastructure to support millions of real-time agent interactions.
🔻Raises new questions about Sybil resistance, trust scoring, and regulatory boundaries in AI finance.

🌎 The Big Picture
💎ERC-8004 marks a shift from human-centric crypto to machine-native Web3.
💎It lays the groundwork for an economy where agents trade, verify, and cooperate freely - all secured by Ethereum’s consensus.

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💰 RACING TO TOP - Airdrop in November

The time has finally arrived! We're incredibly excited to announce our mini Airdrop, created as a token of appreciation for those who've supported and believed in us from the beginning.

⏰ Time: 9 AM November 7th – 9 AM November 27th (UTC)

💰 Total Reward: 150 USDC
🥇 Top 1: 30 USDC
🏅 Top 2-3: 15 USDC/each
🎖 Top 4-5: 10 USDC/each
🎖Top 6-10: 5 USDC/each
🍀 Lucky Roll: 2 USDC/each for 20 lucky users

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🔊Weekly Market Highlights #175: November 3 - November 9, 2025

✨The crypto market closed the week in the red, with BTC slipping back below $102K after multiple failed recovery attempts, marking an 8% weekly drop. Meanwhile, Wintermute denied rumors of a lawsuit against Binance, Ripple expanded its institutional presence with the acquisition of Palisade, and major players continued accumulating BTC and altcoins. Despite short-term volatility, institutional interest and corporate activity remain strong.

✨Over the past week, the crypto market total capitalization decreased by ~$186B (from ~$3721B to ~$3535B).

✨BTC Drops Back Below $102K
✅It’s been a volatile and painful week for BTC, starting with a sharp rejection at $111K on Monday that sent the asset plunging to around $104K. After a short-lived recovery, bears took control again on Tuesday, pushing BTC below $100K for the first time since June.

✅BTC briefly bottomed just under $99K before bouncing midweek to $104K, only to face another rejection and slip back into five-digit territory. A similar rebound attempt late Friday failed to break resistance at $104K, leaving BTC trading below $102K once more.

✅The leading cryptocurrency is now down over 8% on the week, with its market cap falling to around $2.02T

✨Featured News
✅Wintermute Denies Lawsuit Rumors Against Binance

🔒Amid heightened concerns over exchange transparency following the historic market crash on October 11, Wintermute has officially denied reports that it plans to sue Binance.

🔒Founder and CEO Evgeny Gaevoy, who leads one of the crypto industry’s top market-making and algorithmic trading firms, dismissed the rumors but acknowledged ongoing concerns about potential “irregularities” in Binance’s liquidation system during the October downturn.

✅Ripple Announces Acquisition of Palisade, a Digital Wallet and Custody Technology Firm
🔒The deal brings Ripple’s total crypto-related investments in 2025 to roughly $4 billion, following a series of major acquisitions including Hidden Road ($1.25B), Rail ($200M), and GTreasury ($1B).

🔒According to Ripple President Monica Long, corporations will drive the next wave of crypto adoption. The Palisade acquisition strengthens Ripple’s institutional custody capabilities, covering everything from long-term asset storage and global payments to enterprise treasury management.

✅Major Institutions Keep Accumulating BTC & Altcoins:
🔸BitMine: $305.8M
🔸ether.fi: $50M
🔸Strategy: $45.6M
🔸Metplanet: $100M

✅ Major Firms Launch New Funds to Acquire Crypto
🔸Strategy Inc: $405M

📊 Market Indicators
✨Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index is 29 - Fear, down from the week’s start (42)

✅Total 2 Index (Marketcap excluding BTC) is now at $1414B

✨Dominance:
✅BTC: 59.2%
✅ETH: 12.2%

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📘 Better than Yesterday #70: Prediction Markets: Betting on Truth with Crypto

💎As crypto matures beyond speculation, prediction markets are emerging as a powerful tool for aggregating collective wisdom, turning bets into verifiable forecasts that influence everything from elections to token prices.

💎At their core, these platforms harness blockchain's transparency to create "truth machines," where users stake crypto on real-world outcomes, revealing probabilities more accurate than polls or pundits.

💭 What Are Prediction Markets?
🔒 Decentralized platforms where users trade outcome shares (e.g. “Will BTC hit $120K by Dec 2025?”), with prices reflecting crowd odds.
🔒 Smart contracts hold funds, oracles verify results, and winners redeem $1 per correct share - no intermediaries.
🔒 Pioneered by Augur (2018), the sector exploded in 2025 with Polymarket processing $2B+ post-election and integrating ZK proofs for privacy.

⭐️ Ecosystem Highlights
🔒 Volume Surge: Polymarket hit $117M in sports bets (Oct–Nov), total volume near $180M.
🔒 New Launches: Crypto.com x Hollywood.com for entertainment markets; MyriadMarkets debuted Solana-based hourly prediction pools.
🔒 Institutional Moves: Truth Social partners with Crypto.com; a16z forecasts a $30T AI economy impact via verifiable PMs.

💥 What’s Changing
🔒 AI Agents: Autonomous predictions via ERC-8004, shifting from human bets to machine insights.
🔒 Regulation: CFTC eyes leveraged PMs; Polymarket US relaunch odds at 94% by EOY 2025.
🔒 Web3 Utility: PMs now fuel DeFi oracles and social layers for creator-led markets.

⭐️ What to Watch
🔒 Scalability & Oracles: ZK rollups must scale to millions of tx/day.
🔒 Compliance: CFTC/KYC scrutiny and AML risks for machine wagers.
🔒 Speculation vs. Utility: Focus on high-liquidity, verifiable markets over hype-driven bets.

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💰 RACING TO TOP - Airdrop in November - Time is Ticking!

✨ Time flies when the excitement is high! Get ready for this month’s Airdrop—you won’t want to miss it! Jump in and reap the rewards now!

⏰ Time: 9 AM November 7th – 9 AM November 27th (UTC)

💰 Total Reward: 150 USDC
🥇 Top 1: 30 USDC
🏅 Top 2-3: 15 USDC/each
🎖 Top 4-5: 10 USDC/each
🎖Top 6-10: 5 USDC/each
🍀 Lucky Roll: 2 USDC/each for 20 lucky users

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🔊Weekly Market Highlights #176: November 10 - November 16, 2025

✨The crypto market ended the week sharply lower, with BTC sliding below $95K for the first time since May amid a wave of liquidations and mounting macro pressure. Risk-off sentiment intensified after the Fed’s hawkish response to hotter-than-expected CPI data (October CPI up 2.3% YoY).

✨Over the past week, the crypto market total capitalization decreased by ~$327B (from ~$3535B to ~$3208B).

✨BTC Consolidates Around $95K
✅BTC started the week on a strong note, pushing above $106K on Monday and briefly touching $107K on Tuesday after positive U.S. headlines. But the move quickly turned into another fakeout, triggering a deeper and more painful pullback.

✅BTC first slipped to $102K, where buyers attempted a defense, but the relief was short-lived. The real downturn hit on Thursday and especially Friday, as bears fully seized control.

✅A series of sharp declines sent BTC crashing to a six-month low of $94K on Friday afternoon. The sell-off finally eased there, allowing Bitcoin to rebound to about $95K, where it has been consolidating for nearly two days.

✨Featured News
✅US Regulators Greenlight Leveraged Spot Crypto Trading
CFTC confirms talks with CME, Coinbase, Nasdaq to launch leveraged spot BTC/ETH for retail & institutions starting Dec 2025.
🔒28-day position limit or physical delivery required
🔒Uses existing CFTC authority (CEA) - no new law needed
🔒Joint SEC-CFTC statement supports innovation
🔒Crypto.com is already CFTC-licensed for margined perps

✅Major Outflow Hits U.S. Bitcoin Spot ETFs
U.S. Bitcoin spot ETFs saw $866.7M withdrawn in the latest session - the second-largest outflow ever, following the record $1.14B on February 26. Analysts warn this reflects growing caution among institutional investors, but also note it may create opportunities for patient, long-term buyers.

✅Major Institutions Keep Accumulating BTC & Altcoins:
🔸BitMine: $380M
🔸Strategy: $49.9M

✅ Major Firms Launch New Funds to Acquire Crypto
🔸Kazakhstan: $1B

📊 Market Indicators
✨Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index is 14 - Extreme Fear, down from the week’s start (29)

✅Total 2 Index (Marketcap excluding BTC) is now at $1286B

✨Dominance:
✅BTC: 58.8%
✅ETH: 11.8%

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💰 RACING TO TOP - 1 week to complete!

✨ Time flies when the excitement is high! Only 1 week left to compete and claim your share!

⏰ Time: 9 AM November 7th – 9 AM November 27th (UTC)

💰 Total Reward: 150 USDC
🥇 Top 1: 30 USDC
🏅 Top 2-3: 15 USDC/each
🎖 Top 4-5: 10 USDC/each
🎖Top 6-10: 5 USDC/each
🍀 Lucky Roll: 2 USDC/each for 20 lucky users

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🔊Weekly Market Highlights #177: November 17 - November 23, 2025

✨The crypto market faced one of November’s toughest weeks, with BTC collapsing below $80K amid heavy ETF outflows and a hawkish macro backdrop.

✨Over the past week, the crypto market total capitalization decreased by ~$243B (from ~$3208B to ~$2965B).

✨BTC Back to $86K
✅The crypto market saw one of its worst weeks since 2022, with BTC plunging below $80K amid mounting macro uncertainty and heavy ETF outflows. Around ten days after breaking decisively under $100K, Bitcoin never managed to recover; instead, selling pressure intensified throughout the week.

✅Bears dominated the market as BTC slid under $90K for the first time since April, eventually capitulating on Friday when the asset fell more than $8,000 in just 12 hours, hitting a seven-month low around $81K driven by whale selling and accelerating ETF redemptions.

✅Bulls finally stepped in after the capitulation, helping Bitcoin defend the $80K level and rebound moderately over the weekend, briefly climbing above $86K.

✨Featured News
🌍 Macro Backdrop Summary
🔒FOMC minutes signaled a “higher for longer” stance, cutting December rate-cut odds from 85% to 70%. U.S. NFP came in soft at 150K vs. 180K expected, with unemployment rising to 4.2%. Eurozone CPI held at 2.2%, and UK inflation was flat.

🔒 Japan’s GDP missed forecasts, Canada posted hotter-than-expected CPI, and China boosted liquidity through credit expansion. Meanwhile, RWA forecasts climbed toward a $10T market by 2030 (a16z), and privacy coins surged amid increased SEC scrutiny.

📌 Monad ICO Hype Fades
Monad’s ICO on Coinbase raised $187.5M at $0.025 per token (FDV $2.5B), and the token briefly doubled to $0.05 in pre-market trading. However, with mainnet launching on Nov 24, the project now faces post-unlock volatility risks as early buyers eye profits.

✅Major Institutions Keep Accumulating BTC & Altcoins:
🔸Strategy: $836M
🔸BitMine: $180M
🔸El Salvador: $100M

📊 Market Indicators
✨Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index is 19 - Extreme Fear, up from the week’s start (14)

✅Total 2 Index (Marketcap excluding BTC) is now at $1192B

✨Dominance:
✅BTC: 58.4%
✅ETH: 11.6%

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💰 RACING TO TOP - Officially Ended!

✨ Our Airdrop Campaign has officially ended, and we’re thrilled by your incredible participation!

⏰ Time: 9 AM November 7th – 9 AM November 27th (UTC)

💰 Total Reward: 150 USDC
🥇 Top 1: 30 USDC
🏅 Top 2-3: 15 USDC/each
🎖 Top 4-5: 10 USDC/each
🎖Top 6-10: 5 USDC/each
🍀 Lucky Roll: 2 USDC/each for 20 lucky users

🖥 We have summarized the entries and will announce the winners soon!

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🔊Weekly Market Highlights #178: November 24 - November 30, 2025

✨After weeks of heavy volatility, the crypto market finally caught a breath - but the news cycle didn’t. From security breaches to major institutional deals and geopolitical-linked lawsuits, here’s everything that defined the week.

✨Over the past week, the crypto market total capitalization increased by ~$107B (from ~$2965B to ~$3072B).

✨BTC Rebounds Toward $91K
✅After a brutal stretch in which BTC sank below $81K for the first time since April - losing more than $25K in just ten days - buyers finally stepped in to defend the critical $80K level.

✅BTC began to recover over the weekend, bouncing to $84K, and continued its momentum into the business week, pushing up to $88K by Wednesday. Although that resistance initially held, bulls broke through later that night, sending BTC above $90K and ultimately to a local peak of $93K on Friday morning.

✅The rally then lost steam, with BTC cooling off into the $90K - $91K range, where it has consolidated for the past two days.

✨Featured News
✅HCMC has signed an MOU with Binance to collaborate on developing the Vietnam International Financial Center (VIFC - HCMC). The agreement was formalized during the Autumn Economic Forum 2025, with Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính, city officials, ministries, and global investment funds in attendance.

✅Upbit Hack: $37M Lost on Solana
On November 27, South Korea’s largest crypto exchange Upbit reported a series of large, abnormal withdrawals on the Solana network, resulting in losses estimated at ₩54 billion (≈ $36.8–37M). This marks one of the exchange’s most serious security incidents in 2025.

✅More than 300 victims and families of the October 2023 Hamas attack have filed a lawsuit against Binance in a U.S. federal court in North Dakota (24 Nov 2025), accusing the exchange - along with Changpeng Zhao and executive Guangying Chen - of facilitating terrorist financing.

The 284-page filing claims Binance knowingly processed transactions tied to groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, IRGC, and PIJ, failed to block illicit flows, and even helped obscure hundreds of millions of dollars through lax KYC and offshore operations.

Plaintiffs argue the misconduct continued even after Binance’s 2023 plea deal and $4.3B settlement with U.S. authorities. This lawsuit adds to a long list of legal actions accusing Binance of enabling terrorism financing.
Source: HERE

✅Major Institutions Keep Accumulating BTC & Altcoins:
🔸BitMine: $234M

✅Major Firms Launch New Funds to Acquire Crypto
🔸Enlivex: $212M

📊 Market Indicators
✨Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index is 24 - Extreme Fear, up from the week’s start (19)

✅Total 2 Index (Marketcap excluding BTC) is now at $1231B

✨Dominance:
✅BTC: 58.7%
✅ETH: 11.6%

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✅✅✅ RACING TO TOP - Winners Announcement!

The final results are in — here are the official winners of the Airdrop Campaign!!

👉 Check the Winners List 👈

💰 Total Reward: 150 USDC
🥇 Top 1: 30 USDC
🏅 Top 2-3: 15 USDC/each
🎖 Top 4-5: 10 USDC/each
🎖Top 6-10: 5 USDC/each
🍀 Lucky Roll: 2 USDC/each for 20 lucky users

👏 Congrats to all winners — your efforts paid off! Thanks to everyone for joining the fun.

👉 The prize will be distributed within 7 days!

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📘 Better than Yesterday #71: DeAI Stack - The Infrastructure Layer for Autonomous AI

The next era of AI will not be centralized. It will be agent-driven, on-chain, and economically autonomous - and DeAI Stack is emerging as the shared foundation that makes this shift possible.

Today, we break down the 3 core layers powering decentralized AI.

💡 What Is DeAI Stack?
🔒DeAI Stack is a unified infrastructure standard that allows AI agents to transact, identify, and communicate with each other in an open Web3 environment.

🔒Instead of relying on closed, centralized APIs like traditional Web2 AI systems, DeAI introduces a shared “operating layer” where all agents follow the same rules for payments, identity, and messaging - fully transparent, verifiable, and permissionless.

DeAI Stack consists of three foundational layers:
⭐️ x402 - The Payment Layer (Machine-Native Payments)
🔒x402 revives the long-dormant HTTP status code “402 Payment Required” and turns it into a new payment rail for autonomous systems.

With x402, agents can:
🔒Pay for APIs, compute, and data automatically using stablecoins
🔒Execute micro-transactions in real time
🔒Remove intermediaries (no accounts, no subnoscriptions, no manual billing)
This is the financial backbone of the AI economy - machines paying machines.

⭐️ ERC-8004 - The Identity & Discovery Layer
🔒If x402 is "HTTP for payments,” then ERC-8004 is “DNS for AI agents.”

ERC-8004 introduces AgentCard, an on-chain identity standard allowing agents to:
🔒Discover each other
🔒Prove who they are
🔒Verify capabilities
🔒Interact safely without central registries
AgentCard stores reputation, permissions, and activity logs on-chain, enabling trustless coordination across networks.

⭐️ A2A - The Communication Layer (Agent-to-Agent Protocol)
🔒A2A defines a universal messaging standard for AI agents - similar to HTTP + JSON for humans, but optimized for automated workflows.

With A2A, agents can:
🔒Send tasks
🔒Request services
🔒Share data
🔒Coordinate multi-step processes
🔒Chain complex workflows across multiple agents
This transforms AI agents from isolated tools into collaborative, networked participants.

💎 Why DeAI Stack Matters
Together, these three layers unlock the full potential of decentralized, on-chain AI:
🔒Autonomous value exchange ➡️ x402
🔒Verifiable identity & trust ➡️ ERC-8004
🔒Seamless agent coordination ➡️ A2A
DeAI Stack forms the “Internet Standard” for AI - similar to how TCP/IP + DNS + HTTP created Web1 and Web2.
But this time, it’s trustless, programmable, and powered by blockchain.

🌅 What’s Next?
As more agents move on-chain, DeAI Stack could become the backbone of:
🔒AI-powered DeFi
🔒Autonomous enterprises
🔒Machine-driven marketplaces
🔒On-chain RWA automation
🔒AI-native economic networks

🚀2025 may be remembered as the year AI stopped being just a model - and became an economic actor.

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🔊Weekly Market Highlights #179: December 1 - December 7, 2025

✨The crypto market entered December on shaky footing, with BTC slipping back under $90K as hotter-than-expected U.S. inflation data triggered a fresh wave of liquidations. While China reaffirmed its hardline stance against crypto, institutional activity remained strong - from Vanguard opening access to crypto ETFs to legacy “Satoshi-era” wallets moving for the first time in 13 years. Despite the volatility, major firms and funds continued accumulating BTC and altcoins, signaling resilient long-term conviction.

✨Over the past week, the crypto market total capitalization decreased by ~$13B (from ~$3072B to ~$3059B).

✨BTC Drops Back Below $90K
✅The new month opened on a sour note for BTC. After clawing its way back above $91K following November’s crash, sellers returned aggressively on Monday, sending BTC tumbling to just under $84K in a sharp intraday flush.

✅BTC rebounded almost immediately, reclaiming $90K by Tuesday and pushing higher through the week, attempting to break $94K multiple times. Each attempt failed, and BTC slipped back into the $91K - $92K zone.

✅Momentum shifted again on Friday as hotter-than-expected US PCE and Core PCE data reignited risk-off sentiment. Bears seized control, knocking BTC down to $88K within minutes and triggering over $500M in market-wide liquidations.

✅Although BTC has bounced slightly since, it remains below $90K at the time of writing.

✨Featured News
🇨🇳China Reaffirms Total Crypto Ban
China’s central bank has reiterated that all crypto-related activities - trading, issuance, payments, and mining - remain strictly illegal in the country. Authorities also singled out stablecoins as high-risk assets that fail to meet AML/KYC standards and pose dangers for cross-border transactions. Beijing’s stance is unchanged: crypto has no legal status in China, and enforcement will continue.

💎Vanguard Opens Access to Crypto ETFs
🔒Vanguard has reversed its long-held stance and will now allow clients to trade crypto-backed ETFs, including funds tied to BTC, ETH, XRP, and SOL. The move signals growing mainstream acceptance of digital assets through regulated investment products.

💰Two Casascius Coins Holding 2,000 BTC Move After 13 Years
🔒Two physical Casascius coins containing a total of 2,000 BTC were moved on-chain for the first time since 2012. The long-dormant coins, each loaded with 1,000 BTC, suddenly became active after 13 years, surprising blockchain analysts.

🔒Casascius coins were an early form of physical Bitcoin, discontinued in 2013 due to U.S. regulatory pressure. The movement of such “Satoshi-era” coins is rare and often sparks speculation about early adopters returning or reorganizing their wallets.

✅Major Institutions Keep Accumulating BTC & Altcoins:
🔸Strategy: $11.7M
🔸BitMine: $273M
🔸American Bitcoin: $34M

✅Major Firms Launch New Funds to Acquire Crypto
🔸AlphaTON Capital Corp: $420M

📊 Market Indicators
✨Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index is 20 - Extreme Fear, down from the week’s start (24)

✨Total 2 Index (Marketcap excluding BTC) is now at $1239B

✨Dominance:
✅BTC: 58.6%
✅ETH: 12.0%

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