Uniswap (UNI)

Uniswap's UNIfication: Flip fee switch, burn UNI with 0.05% vol (est. $450M/yr rev), nuke front-end fees, UNI +35% to $7.80. Gov vote Dec, Labs/Found merger. DEX king cashes in on $5B+ daily swaps. Ethereum's tollbooth tolls louder, Bitcoin's P2P? Free forever.

Dug into @megaeth's testnet over the weekend, and honestly, it's the first time in ages I've felt like on-chain execution might actually feel... normal. Not the clunky, gas-guzzling waits we're all numb to on mainnet Ethereum, but something that clicks with real intent. Bridged over a small bag, fired up Infinit's agentic stack those AI swarms coordinating yield pulls from 200+ sources without me babysitting and split a mock TVS on AlignerZ just to see the vesting morph into this liquid, bond-like primitive. Surreal how discounted future tokens start streaming unlocks you can arbitrage on the fly, all while the chain hums at sub-millisecond blocks and 100k+ TPS. No lag, no second-guessing if your strat timed out. What hits different here isn't just the speed metrics everyone parrots. It's how it forces apps to rethink composability without the old L1 baggage. Legacy chains like Ethereum? They're moats crumbling as liquidity chases these hyper-performers. Megaeth feels built for the "Great Migration" shift value bleeding from infra tokens to revenue machines like $UNI or Polymarket. I watched a simple hedging flow execute in what felt like real-time finance, not some delayed oracle prayer. And with backers like Electric Capital and Hashed pouring into layers like Infinit, it's clear builders are betting on this as Ethereum's actual upgrade path, not another sidechain sideshow. If Monad's the culture magnet pulling in the wild experiments, @megaeth is quietly engineering the backbone where those experiments scale without breaking. I've seen enough testnet teases fizzle into mainnet mediocrity, but this one's got that rare momentum pre-deposits refunding cleanly after hiccups, ecosystem cooks like netizens and mega rafia stacking real TVL signals. It's not hype; it's the kind of infra evolution that could flip how we value chains entirely. You bridging yet, or still waiting for the next Solana sequel?

I've only ever lost money in crypto, and when I made 20k from the uniswap airdrop I lost it all in about 3 months.

Remember how I casually texted a friend if he ever made a transaction on Uniswap back in 2020. And just like that he earned $12,000 with the smallest of efforts. Good times.

> be Shayne Coplan > born 1998 in New York City > obsessed with code and crypto before you can legally drink > take computer science at NYU > drop out after freshman year in 2019 > realize “prediction markets” >> homework > read Robin Hanson, Hayek, whitepapers > decide truth markets shouldn’t stay in PDFs > start building from a bathroom on the Lower East Side > launch @Polymarket June 2020 at age 21 > laptop on a laundry basket, “bathroom office” as HQ > no cofounders, no safety net, just smart contracts and conviction > 2022: CFTC hits you with a $1.4M fine + U.S. ban most startups die there > you pivot offshore, keep it crypto‑only, keep shipping > 2023: quiet grind year > Titan sub implodes, Polymarket odds go viral world sees markets price reality faster than the news > 2024: U.S. election supernova > Polymarket handles billions across races & events > becomes the de facto scoreboard for what the internet actually believes > then 6am, November 2024 > FBI at the door, devices seized, federal probe opened > you tweet “new phone, who dis?” and go back to building > spend 8 months under investigation > instead of hiding, you buy a CFTC‑licensed exchange (QCEX) for $112M > build the legal bridge back into the U.S. > Sept 2025: CFTC gives the green light > Polymarket is officially allowed to relaunch in America > Oct 2025: plot twist > ICE - owner of the New York Stock Exchange - writes a $2B check > Polymarket valued around $8–9B > your 11–12% stake makes you the youngest self‑made billionaire on earth at 27 > Nov 2025: the “supercycle” > UFC broadcasts fan prediction scoreboards > NHL, PrizePicks, PPA & MLP bring markets into stadiums > Yahoo Finance and Google surface Polymarket odds next to stock charts > MetaMask, Rabby, Debank, Zapper, Zerion, World App make trading one click > Uniswap and Chainlink power the onchain rails > Forbes daily cover calls you “the prince of prediction” > 60 Minutes calls you in to explain why markets are beating experts > be Shayne Coplan > go from broke dropout selling your stuff for rent to building the Bloomberg Terminal for the internet’s collective mind

The current airdrop environment has gone sour. Looking back to the beginning of the year, you could get decent airdrops by just doing a few interactions, with projects like UNI, ENS, APTOS having low requirements. But now it’s completely different; project teams treat "airdrop users" like "serfs," with terrifyingly long task lists, and the rewards at the end are pitifully small, sometimes even defaulting on them. Honestly, the quality of airdrops has been declining since the beginning of the year. Especially in the past few months, there are few good opportunities from new projects, and old projects’ airdrops are stingy; the whole airdrop market has hit rock bottom. Now we can only hope that once the market improves, a few conscientious projects will launch a decent wave of airdrops. If that doesn’t happen, we’ll have to adapt. After all, you go where the money is; being too stubborn in this market will only lead to elimination.

Reduced uni position and set buys on major supports https://t.co/oMl3jiQFm2