The Biggest Single DeFi Loss Ever + Bitcoin's Weekly Breakout | Ep 473

Goodnow revolutionaries—

Will opens with the weekly Bitcoin chart and the news you want: a strong close above the 200-week EMA, breaking out of the golden pocket in play since February. Short-term target $73,500, path to $79K and potentially $87K if it holds. The Friday dip was one news event—the bombing of Iran's Kharg Island—and the weekly chart never flinched. Rule of thumb: double Bitcoin's percentage move for ETH and SOL, triple it for meme coins.

The Ethereum Foundation drops a 38-page mandate around CROPS—censorship resistance, open source, privacy, security—as preconditions for all protocol decisions. Alex reads it as healthy proactivity. Also: Glamsterdam, the upcoming hard fork targeting MEV fairness, and why Fusaka's blob fee structure finally ties ETH token demand directly to layer two activity.

Then the $50M Aave story. A fresh Binance-funded wallet breezed through multiple slippage warnings, tried to buy 3% of Aave's token supply in one shot, and walked away with $36K. MEV bots sandwiched it in the mempool—Titan Builder alone extracted $34M straight to Coinbase. Alex explains why DeFi worked as designed and why the whole setup looks a lot like the insider trading patterns we've seen out of DC all cycle.

Katana's KAT TGE is March 18th. Terms quietly changed—token valued well below the implied $1B FDV, exit tax raised from 25% to 80%. If you pre-deposited or hold VCAT, bring questions to the community before the TGE. Plus: Clarity Act dead for 2026, CBDC ban through 2030, and how to exit a cold storage position step by step.

Watch on YouTube → https://youtube.com/live/ENHYiaeJEi0

LINKS
Ethereum Foundation mandate: ethereum.foundation
Aave post-mortem: x.com/aave
Cowswap post-mortem: x.com/CoW_Protocol
Katana: x.com/KatanaDefi
River.com (buy Bitcoin, support the show): rumshq.com/recommendedtoolsdeals
Tax Tools: rumshq.com/recommendedtoolsdeals

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