Bybit’s recent sponsorship of the Crypto Content Creator Campus (CCCC) in Bali was quite literally a cannonball. Sun-drenched beaches, Web3 wizards, and a decentralized creator revolution in the making – the aesthetics were glorious. Over 150 content creators, plus big names like Solana and TON, all converging to build the...
It may look like the crypto world is up to their necks in regulations, isn’t it? You hear it everywhere: KYC, AML, taxes... the walls are closing in. Privacy is dead, it seems—a quaint notion from the early cypherpunk days. Curious how a learning platform like Ellyx could help? It’s...
In the rapidly changing world of Web3, it is crucial to understand the impact and future of these new decentralized platforms. Until recently, the metric du jour has been Total Value Locked (TVL). TVL is growingly seen as a flawed metric. FakeBollinger.com has an exclusive preview explaining why Total Value...
Imagine this: Sarah, a 35-year-old graphic designer, finally decides to dip her toes into Web3. She’s seen the incredible investment returns, the world-changing technology, the hope of a decentralized future. She buys some ETH, ready to explore. But then… bam! Or she’s slapped with gas fees that exceed her monthly...
Web3 currently sits at a peak TVL of over a trillion dollars. Sounds impressive, right? How much of that value can you truly access today at the point you need it? Probably a fraction. That, my friends, is the trillion-dollar mistake. We're celebrating hoarding, not flow. In doing so, we’re...
Founded in 2023 by Grigore Roșu, Pi Squared addresses the growing issues of fragmentation within blockchain infrastructure. The company rounds this out by emphasizing the importance of trust to address existing barriers. Roșu, the founder of Runtime Verification and a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois, has...
We’ve all been seduced by the allure of high APYs. We go all in on crypto only to find out its collateralized and stranded in a DeFi protocol, leaving us feeling more like digital serfs than financial revolutionaries. This isn't the Web3 we were promised. The dream behind that ideal...
Are you tired of waiting for the big bad world to change the way you think it should? Like the "house" always wins? I get it. I really get it. You work hard, save diligently, but the returns seem paltry compared to what the real players are making. They’re tux,...
Imagine this scenario – you walk into a typical bank and are offered an opportunity to put your money in savings. You can only use that money at their own retail branches! Sounds ridiculous, right? That’s exactly what’s going on in Web3—unproductive capital deployment toward the boom and bust cycle....
TVL has traditionally been the metric used to measure adoption in Web3 projects. It's simple: add up all the assets locked in a protocol, and boom, you have a number that supposedly reflects its value. But here at FakeBollinger.com, we don’t do that flimsy junk surface analysis. TVL is broken,...
