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​​🦸 Know your heroes in person $BTC added 8,69% this week and touched $87K at one point, its best level since January. Good week all round, and these three decided green wasn't green enough: 🥇 $AURORA +292,32% 🥈 $AIOZ +62,39% 🥉 $GRASS +48,03% Choose your fighter ⚔️

​​Anyone who put $2K into $AURORA last week is looking at $9,390 today That's 369,5% in seven days, and another 17% came in over the past 24 hours. The trigger traces back to Zcash. Aurora Intents, the routing system the project runs, handled $19M of the volume in a Zcash NFT auction and came out ahead of everyone else doing it. That put a NEAR-based project that's been building since 2022 back in front of a market which has spent two months obsessed with privacy. Whales have been buying heavily for several days now, with over $350K going in. Maybe it's time to take a closer look at $AURORA 👇

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​​Feels good man 💚 $PEPE is up around 45% on the week and was the best performer in the entire top 100 yesterday, climbing 27,2% in a day. Market cap is back above $2,1B. Some of that is the market doing the work. Bitcoin cleared $85K for the first time since January, money rotated into riskier assets, and memecoins took the biggest share of it. The rest is on $PEPE's own chart. A golden cross formed this month, which is the average price over 50 days crossing above the 200-day average, and traders read it as the trend turning up. Whales bought $560K worth yesterday, and around 6,9B tokens left exchanges the same day, which usually means holders are moving coins into their own wallets. One analyst floated a 220% extension from here with no timeline attached (not financial advice). In Lord Kek we trust 🐸 Swap $PEPE on ChangeHero 👇

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​​$BRETT got the job because the people on Base decided he had it 🐸🔵 Brett comes out of Matt Furie's Boys' Club, the same underground comic that gave the internet Pepe. Somebody turned him into a token on February 24, 2024, as a fan tribute, half a year after Base opened to the public. The launch left nothing for insiders to sit on. 85% of the supply went straight into the liquidity pool, 10% to a treasury and 5% to an exchange wallet. The contract was renounced so nobody could change the rules later, and the liquidity was locked for a year. Nothing was reserved for a presale, so all 9,91B tokens that exist are already circulating. A takeover on X pushed Brett's mentions up 206% in a month. The market cap climbed from roughly $4M in late February 2024 to $1B by June, the first memecoin on Base to get there, and Dogecoin had needed years to reach that number. By December it was above $2,1B and the seventh-largest memecoin anywhere, past $BOME and closing on $BONK. Coinbase's CEO gave it a nod with a profile picture change, and Matt Furie referenced the character himself this summer. A comic character who mostly dances and plays video games ended up as the unofficial face of Coinbase's chain 💙 Swap $BRETT on ChangeHero 👇

​​A week ago you could buy a "yes" on the CLARITY Act passing this year for 35 cents on Polymarket. After the Senate vote, the same share was worth 5 🔮 That's the whole idea of a prediction market, and right now it's one of the fastest-growing corners of crypto. Polymarket, which Shayne Coplan started in 2020 out of a bathroom office, got up to $2B from the owner of the New York Stock Exchange last year, is in talks to raise at a valuation above $20B, and has passed $1B in annualized revenue. In July its international and US platforms, together with rival Kalshi, traded a record $50,6B combined. Here's how it actually works 👇 Every market is a yes-or-no question about a real event, and every share pays $1 if its side wins and nothing if it loses. So the price reads as a probability: a 'YES' share at 42 cents means the market sees a 42% chance, and the 'NO' share costs the remaining 58. Nobody sets the odds. Prices move because people buy and sell to each other, which also means you don't have to wait for the ending. Buy 100 'YES' shares at 40 cents, watch the news push them to 55, sell, and you've made $15 before anything is decided. It works the other way too, and selling early is how people cut a loss before it turns into a total one. When the event is over, someone proposes the result and puts up a deposit behind it. If nobody disputes it within about two hours, the market settles, and winning shares can be claimed for $1 each. A few things worth knowing before you try it: ➡️ You're trading the wording as much as the event. Vague terms like "soon" or "significant" invite disputes, so read the resolution rules before you buy. ➡️ The price is the crowd's current guess, not the true odds. In a thin market a single large order can push it around. ➡️ Polymarket runs on USDC on the Polygon network, and USDC on Ethereum won't work there. Sending it from the wrong network is one of the most common mistakes, so make sure yours is on Polygon first, you can swap straight into it on ChangeHero. ➡️ Access depends on where you live, and the rules can change, so check yours before opening a position. The full guide covers the rest, from order books and fees to where Polymarket sits legally 👇

​​$TROLL carries 18 years of internet history, and the last two are the most interesting 😏 1️⃣ The face was drawn in MS Paint by an 18-year-old Carlos Ramirez, a college student from Oakland, sketched the grin on September 19, 2008 for a comic mocking trolls on 4chan's video game board. It went on to become the universal symbol of the thing it was making fun of. 2️⃣ Its creator made over $100K from it Ramirez registered the copyright in 2010, and licensing fees and settlements, including Trollface shirts sold at Hot Topic, brought him up to $15K a month at the peak. He enforced it hard enough to get a Nintendo game pulled from the eShop. 3️⃣ The community bought the rights, and it opened the door to Coinbase In 2025 $TROLL holders secured an exclusive worldwide license for Trollface in crypto. Ramirez turned down $50K first, and the final six-figure deal was funded by ten large holders pooling SOL. Part of the reason was listings, since big exchanges can be wary of tokens using someone else's IP, and last month Coinbase added $TROLL. 4️⃣ It went 73x in four months $TROLL hit its lowest price of $0,00387 in April 2025 and its all-time high of $0,2826 that August, when the market cap reached $283M and holders passed 44K. 5️⃣ Nobody can change the rules anymore The contract has been renounced, so no one holds the keys to mint more tokens or change how it works. Practically the entire 1B supply is already circulating, with no unlocks waiting down the line. Swap $TROLL on ChangeHero 👇

​​A week ago the Senate buried the CLARITY Act and Bitcoin dropped below $75K. Today it's close to $85K, its highest level in 8 months. Here's what happened in between 👇 Regulators decided not to wait for Congress. Two days after the vote the SEC issued an "innovation exemption" that lets tokenized US stocks trade on public blockchains without registering as an exchange. The next day the CFTC sent two draft crypto market rules to the White House, a clear sign that what didn't make it into law will come through the regulators instead. That's when prices took off, and $BTC climbed above its 50-week average for the first time in ten months, a line many traders use to tell a bear market from a bull one. On top of that, a pile of bets on the price falling sat between $83K and $86K, and as they were force-closed, the buying pushed the price even higher. Now it all comes down to $85K. For months that level was the floor Bitcoin bounced off, and now it's the ceiling where sellers are waiting. If Bitcoin breaks through and holds, the path higher opens up. If it gets rejected there, a pullback is on the table. Does Bitcoin hold $85K? 🔮

​​$LAB is built for traders tired of juggling five open tabs 🧪 It's the token behind LAB, a platform that plugs into the trading tools people already use and pulls trading, analytics and asset management into one place. $LAB powers its rewards system, and earlier this month the team burned 1% of the supply as new integrations and apps went live. $LAB is now available for swapping on ChangeHero 👇

​​📊 This week's crypto recap Bitcoin climbed to its highest level in 8 months, pushed up by US regulators deciding not to wait for Congress. Fear & Greed: 76 - up 8 points and now officially in extreme greed territory 🟢 $BTC $84,582 | +8,69% 🟢 $ETH $2,730 | +8,33% 📈 Gainer of the week: $NEAR NEAR gained 74% over the week on the back of the privacy boom. Around $1,5B worth of Zcash has moved through its network, the money locked in NEAR's privacy apps passed $70M, and trading volume more than doubled in a single day 📉 Loser of the week: $H Humanity fell 18% after a hack forced the project to warn users away from its bridge and liquidity pools and move the token to a new contract. On top of that, 266,47M tokens are set to be released onto the market on September 25 What do you think next week brings?

​​$2,000 in $EDGE a month ago is $4,686 today, a 134,3% move. The token sits behind EdgeX, one of the perpetuals platforms that's been growing fastest this year. Circle Ventures backs it, and Circle picked it as the flagship perp venue on Arc, the chain that launched this month with BlackRock, Visa and Mastercard among its validators. Swap $EDGE on ChangeHero 👇

​​We went through this week so you don't have to 👇 ➡️ Privacy turned out to be the only sector in crypto still trading above its October 2025 highs, up around 213%, while the rest of the market sits well below where it was ➡️ The CLARITY Act failed its procedural vote in the Senate, coming up short of the 60 needed to move forward, and the odds of it passing in 2026 have dropped to 7% ➡️ $BTC is at $78K and $ETH at $2,500, meaning the market didn't collapse after the CLARITY vote failed and the Fed raised rates ➡️ Circle launched the Arc mainnet with BlackRock, Visa and Mastercard among the validators, a new L1 built for payments, tokenized assets and institutional finance ➡️ The US moved closer to writing a Bitcoin reserve into law after a House committee approved the ARMA bill 28-21, which would create a strategic BTC reserve under the Treasury with a minimum 20-year holding period ➡️ Ripple is adding $XRP payments to the AI standard built by Stripe and Tempo, as part of a new developer toolkit ➡️ Zcash holders voted to cut block times from 75 seconds to 25 while keeping the Bitcoin-style halving schedule unchanged ➡️ Solana more than tripled the amount of data that fits into a single transaction, opening the door to heavier operations like multi-signature setups, corporate wallets and privacy-focused apps

​​🏆 Weekly Heroes are here $BTC is at $78K and up 1,3% on the week, which is impressive given the Senate killed the crypto bill and the Fed raised rates for the first time since 2023. These three did better: 🥇 $UNI +53,3% 🥈 $ARB +48,4% 🥉 $NEAR +44,1% Every hero needs a holder 👇

​​$ZEC went from 82nd to 7th by market cap in a year 🛡️ Here's what happened: Everything in crypto is trading below where it sat at Bitcoin's peak last October, except one sector. Privacy coins are 213% above that level according to Glassnode, while the median altcoin is 58% below it. Zcash is doing most of the heavy lifting, it holds around 62% of the sector and is up 2,496% over the past year, a climb of 75 places in twelve months. In early September $ZEC passed $1,000 for the first time in a decade. It's sitting around $1,140-1,200 now. Three things got it there 👇 1️⃣ Grayscale turned its Zcash trust into a spot ETF on August 25, the first one in the US for a privacy coin, and it pulled in over $500M within two weeks. That means anyone can buy exposure through a normal brokerage account without touching a wallet. 2️⃣ Then the traders betting against it got caught out. Between $35M and $46M of those bets were wiped out in a single day, and closing a bet like that means buying, which pushes the price up further. 3️⃣ Running underneath both is a simpler idea, that privacy is worth holding as insurance rather than as a feature. The clearest sign of how far that idea has spread came on September 16. The CLARITY Act died in the Senate, the whole market fell, and $ZEC finished the day up 5%. Privacy spent years as the part of crypto regulators wanted gone. It's now the one sector trading above last year's highs, with a ticker on the NYSE to match. Swap $ZEC on ChangeHero 🔄

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​​Somebody dropped $40K on $BRETT in a single buy 🐸🫵 For a token this size that's a serious order, and it landed while the memecoin sector has been warming up again. Base's biggest frog is getting his share of it. Whoever that was, they're feeling pretty based about it 💙 Hop in 👇

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