Crypto

When it comes to cryptocurrency, most people imagine one scenario: buy Bitcoin and wait for it to go up in price. This is indeed the most well-known way to interact with digital assets, but it is far from the only one.

If you ask what makes a crypto project successful, the answer usually comes down to the usual set: strong technology, competent tokenomics, well-known investors, aggressive marketing. All of these are important. But these are obvious factors, and that is why they explain almost nothing. Hundreds of projects do them, and only a few survive.

The cryptocurrency market in Ukraine is growing rapidly: according to international analysts, our country is consistently among the top 10 countries in terms of crypto activity among citizens. Along with the popularization of digital assets, the number of fraudulent schemes targeting ordinary Ukrainians is also growing. The Ukrainian cyber police records hundreds of calls related to the loss of funds in cryptocurrency every year, and the real number of victims may be much higher, because not all people contact law enforcement agencies with requests to investigate such thefts.

Ми, айтівці, схиблені на автоматизації. Чи не так? Якщо якусь дію треба повторити двічі — ми пишемо скрипт. Ми автоматизуємо деплої, тести, збір логів і навіть замовлення кави. То чому б не автоматизувати власні фінанси?

August 2024. Bitcoin loses almost 30% in three days — not because of a stock market crash or a regulatory ban, but because the Bank of Japan raised its interest rate by a quarter of a percent. Part of the market was operating in a mode of reduced summer activity. Liquidity was noticeably lower. The market simply had no one to put out the fire. That's when I realized: summer in crypto is not a pause or a rest. It's the season when the market becomes most vulnerable to any stimulus. A thin shallow water where an ordinary wave turns into a tsunami. But there is a nuance. The same market subtlety that in August 2024 turned a minor macro signal into a collapse, in another context gives the completely opposite effect - a sharp, uncontrolled upward movement. The question is not whether it is a "weak" or "strong" summer. The question is in what state the market enters this shallow water. That's what we will talk about.

This morning, Bitcoin briefly dropped to levels around $61K, however, unlike ETH and SOL, it did not renew its local lows.

While most companies are debating whether to implement AI in development, some already have six months of statistics. WhiteBIT is one such case.

In March 2026, Mastercard paid $1.8 billion for British company BVNK. The press release is full of the usual corporate talk about stablecoin infrastructure and expanding capabilities. But during a call with investors, an analyst asked why the company didn’t build an analogue on its own. The Mastercard representative’s answer is worth remembering: because it would take «quite a long time.»

There has been a lot of talk over the past two years about AI agents—programs that don’t just write text or generate images, but make decisions on their own, have personal access to user tools, and execute chains of actions. And almost as much talk about the future of digital products not just in agents, but in AI agents on blockchains—decentralized proxies. But the truth is that most AI agents don’t need blockchain.