Good now revolutionaries — Evan Mann and Alex Popovic bring you a packed Monday as Will heads to Mexico for a well-deserved vacation. The show leads with the story dominating crypto Twitter all weekend: World Liberty Financial, President Trump's DeFi protocol, deposited five billion WLFI tokens onto the Dolomite lending protocol to borrow roughly $80 million in USDC. The problem? WLF controls both sides of the transaction, depositors who supplied the USDC can no longer withdraw their funds due to a 98% utilization rate, and WLF's own GPT-written tweets managing the fallout accidentally admitted to the whole scheme. Evan and Alex walk through why this is mechanically identical to the FTX playbook: mint a token, use it to drain other people's money. Justin Sun showed up to performatively complain. Nobody is getting held accountable.

Then the show pivots to something actually useful: a clinic on how to research a crypto project yourself. Evan and Alex walk through CoinGecko, Tokenomist, Bubble Maps, Etherscan, and Arkham Intel — showing how to check token holder concentration, read onchain data, and verify claims before trusting anyone. Hyperliquid gets a deep-dive too: what it is, why its revenue numbers are extraordinary, and the legitimate controversy around its validator concentration and the Jelly incident.

Closing headlines: Solana's SF billboard, the BitTensor top subnet leaving over centralization disputes, and an update on Bitcoin's quantum resistance — turns out a hash puzzle trick may make BTC transactions quantum safe without any fork.

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