The Crypto Cafe with Terence/Crandorz

well, looks like the war has resumed as well. Not looking good on macro wise.

USDT flipping ETH in market cap 👀

Zcash recently had one hell of a rally, but that's been wiped out now after this was reported and the token crashed 57% just yesterday because of a critical bug. While it's slightly recovered now, those who chased its prices probably saw massive losses. Overall market has been really weak too. Even HYPE has dropped quite a bit now (even though not as drastic as Zcash) https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/zcash-zec-price-crashes-57-094720227.html

Bitcoin recently dipped below 70k again. While the S&P500 are hitting record high, can't say it's the same for crypto One recent news was due to MSTR and Michael Saylor apparently selling off some BTC which spooked the overall market, with some even claiming the ponzi scheme may come crashing down. (All speculation here in my opinion so far, no hard facts but just seeing what people are saying) Is there a chance this may go further south? Always possible. Weak markets, combined with fear, plus crypto taking a backseat thanks to AI, further downside can be expected. However one token is not like the other.. 👀

One of the biggest hype in the recent markets is stock trading on chain, 24/7. Seems like Binance is riding on that trend too. Check it out here https://www.binance.com/en/stocks-landing

One of the biggest hype in the recent markets is stock trading on chain, 24/7. Seems like Binance is riding on that trend too. Check it out here https://www.binance.com/en/stocks-landing

While the rest of the market may be sleeping.. HYPE has been outperforming the rest of the market. Why? Primarily it has made its name to be the top DEX in the world now for perps, and has continued to do so for awhile now. Other things? Some talks about bring stocks to on chain to hyperliquid to trade 24/7 has been going around Whatever it is, doesn’t seem like this was a random pump that might dump. All i can say there was good discounts on it for awhile. Continue to monitor this 👀

Well we got a new fed chair that Trump has pushed for awhile now. Will Trump finally get the lowered rates as he wanted? I guess time will tell https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/13/kevin-warsh-wins-senate-confirmation-as-the-next-federal-reserve-chair.html

If you answered LUNA or UST, you are absolutely right! What happened to one of the biggest coins at that time what really history in the making, as I covered a lot of what happened back in those years too. You can see here and take a look at history by clicking what I quoted and what exactly went down (with what I reported in this channel too) Personally, I losted about $30K in this incident (as seen later after the claim page helped me to calculate). A lot of lessons that I've learned since then such as being more wary instead of blindly investing in hyped projects, moving majority of my funds to cold wallets (due to massive exchanges fallouts after LUNA like Celsius, FTX), and not putting all your funds in one place. Looking back, this was really one of the craziest periods i've experienced in crypto so far and is still is really. The crypto market has evolved a lot since then, with this being the biggest lesson that Algo stablecoins isn't exactly 100% foolproof, and having 19% yield on a stablecoin is really unstable (pun intended lol)

4 years ago, the world faced this coin that changed the entire crypto landscape. Do you still remember what it is?

Lesson learned: don’t get margin called 🤔

What's been happening still: a massive blame game with the remainder of the $195m still at large. Here's a few more of what happened besides the Arb freezing recently today https://x.com/thedefiedge/status/2046574418810605673

Meanwhile Aave has frozen deposits and withdrawals for rsETH due to this situation so far. WETH also has been frozen across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Mantle, and Linea. (Only Ethereum has been unfrozen so far, but the rest still remain frozen) A full incident report can be seen here: https://governance.aave.com/t/rseth-incident-report-april-20-2026/24580 https://x.com/aave/status/2045593585966252377 https://x.com/aave/status/2045944827510939696

Some of the funds on Arbitrum (about 1/4) were frozen so the hackers make it out with lesser. Also side update, apparently North Korea is behind this hack as well https://x.com/arbitrum/status/2046435443680346189 (PS. you can see the hacker's positions over here: https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/entity/cc627a5c-0409-4494-8753-2febb2f3ff0d)

We’re just witnessing 2026’s biggest DeFi hack so far now Ongoing exploit as KelpDAO rsETH bridge got exploited not too long ago where the attacker minted about $290m worth of rsETH through LayerZero. The attacker started to borrow against places like Aave and compound as well, making these protocols stuck with bad debts. This is an ongoing case still.

Also... Did you do this? If so... claim time is here! Managed to snag 5th tier which is easily the top 1% so should be a higher allocation. You'll need to register your airdrop (with about 5 days left) if not you'll forfeit your entire allocation. Make this a priority to register especially if you farmed it. Therre's a small SOL fee to pay which is roughly around $6.30 at the moment. (~0.07 SOL) Official twitter post: https://x.com/solsticefi/status/2044043691036488003 Website to register: https://registration.solstice.finance/

Also... Did you do this? If so... claim time is here! You'll need to register your airdrop (with about 5 days left) if not you'll forfeit your entire allocation. Make this a priority to register especially if you farmed it. Therre's a small SOL fee to pay which is roughly around $6.30 at the moment. (~0.07 SOL) Official twitter post: https://x.com/solsticefi/status/2044043691036488003 Website to register: https://registration.solstice.finance/

haven't been reporting about the war because i'm pretty sure everyone's kinda caught up to it at the second. So far it's just pretty ping pong over the past 1-2 months so far, but right now another prospect of a deal again. Seems like the pattern keeps repeating, and then some negative sentiments by Monday, then it repeats again. However market seem to be dulled to the war already, even with the VIX dropping on the stock market recently... unless Trump throws another curve ball (How many have we had over the past year? Probably lost count already) https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/trump-iran-war-peace-talks-pakistan.html

Very recently DOT saw a dip because of a recent hack on Hyperbridge. basically minted DOT out of thin air and dumped on Ethereum for $237k. Crazy stuff. https://x.com/the_smart_ape/status/2043572703949472095/photo/1 (Follow up on why: https://x.com/Phalcon_xyz/status/2043601549893738970)

Crazy to see the amount of projects closing up recently. Just saw this list again and saw quite a few credible projects that seem to have dried up funds too. The last 1-2 years has been brutal for most projects tbh. Usually ICO or airdrop leads to the token price dump to oblivion, then the project goes up in flames. Only one that really survived was Hyperliquid. If not, most projects that i've seen go to 0.. or at least 90% of it. Too many projects, too little funds, and a volatile economic climate combined... doesn't bode well usually. If you have funds in these projects, take them out asap. https://x.com/Defi_Scribbler/status/2040051531223814163