18 Aug 2026, 19:05 UTC61 views7 reactionsread 18 August 2026 23/50. Where did the whole idea of giving people tokens for using a product even come from? A lot of it goes back to Compound.
Imagine launching a new crypto product. Nobody knows you, there’s barely any money in it, and users aren’t showing up. Then someone has a brilliant idea: “Why don’t we just give people tokens for using it?” Sounds a little like a bribe. In 2020, it turned out this could become an entire indu…
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17 Aug 2026, 20:34 UTC164 views11 reactionsread 18 August 2026 22/50. Christie’s sold a JPEG for $69 million. And suddenly, NFTs became serious business.
In early 2021, NFTs still looked like a strange toy for crypto enthusiasts. You could buy a digital image that anyone could open, save, and send to a friend. So why would anyone pay for it?
The answer came in February 2021, when Christie’s put a piece by Beeple up for auction. It was a digital collage made from 5,000 images t…
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16 Aug 2026, 19:52 UTC220 views14 reactionsread 18 August 2026 21/50. Axie Infinity paid players more than minimum wage. Then everything collapsed.
In 2021, a small Vietnamese studio turned a monster-battling game into a global phenomenon. During the lockdowns in the Philippines, thousands of people spent hours playing Axie Infinity and earned real money for it. In July 2021, CoinGecko estimated that an active player could earn around $1,665 per month. For many, this was no lon…
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15 Aug 2026, 12:19 UTC223 views13 reactionsread 18 August 2026 20/50. Solana lost 96% of its value, was declared dead and came back with a dog meme.
When FTX collapsed in late 2022, Solana was one of its biggest casualties.
FTX and Alameda were deeply connected to the Solana ecosystem, and after the collapse, SOL lost roughly 96% from its peak. Crypto Twitter was already writing the obituary. Many people assumed the network was finished.
Then came a Christmas gift.
The communi…
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14 Aug 2026, 08:02 UTC218 views12 reactionsread 18 August 2026 19/50. HODL was invented by a drunk forum user at 3 a.m., and then the word became the language of an entire industry.
In December 2013, a forum user wrote a long, emotional post about why he was not going to sell his Bitcoin during a crash. At one point, he meant to write HOLD, but accidentally typed HODL instead. The mistake should have remained just a mistake, but the crypto community quickly adopted it.
HODL be…
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12 Aug 2026, 22:01 UTC254 views12 reactionsread 18 August 2026 18/50. Binance turned BNB from a trading fee discount into a loyalty program worth tens of billions of dollars.
When Binance first launched in 2017, BNB was a very simple token. You held it on the exchange, paid your trading fees with it, and got a discount. For Binance, it was a straightforward way to get active traders to buy the token and keep their money inside the platform.
But then Binance came up with someth…
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11 Aug 2026, 22:04 UTC354 views13 reactionsread 18 August 2026 17/50. Bored Apes could not beat CryptoPunks on history, so they changed the rules of the game.
In 2021, CryptoPunks were already legends. They had appeared back in 2017, people in crypto recognized them instantly, and some collectors treated them almost like digital artifacts. So when Bored Apes arrived, it seemed like they had only one option, try to make a better-looking collection and hope people switched.
But …
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9 Aug 2026, 21:00 UTC441 views13 reactionsread 18 August 2026 16/50. Coinbase built Base without launching a token and turned its users into its biggest advantage.
When Coinbase launched Base in 2023, the Ethereum Layer 2 market was already crowded. Arbitrum, Optimism, and dozens of other networks were competing for developers, users, and liquidity, and most of them were trying to win in roughly the same way, promising faster transactions, lower fees, and a token that might be…
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8 Aug 2026, 20:43 UTC410 views12 reactionsread 18 August 2026 15/50. MicroStrategy was a boring $1 billion software company until Michael Saylor bet everything on Bitcoin.
In 2020, MicroStrategy was a perfectly successful IT company that sold enterprise software and was worth around $1 billion. The problem was that the market did not expect anything particularly interesting from it. The company had been moving in roughly the same direction for years, its business had stayed mo…
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7 Aug 2026, 08:01 UTC392 views13 reactionsread 18 August 2026 14/50. Terra built a nearly $40 billion ecosystem around a single number: 20%.
Imagine your bank tells you, “Deposit your money with us, and we'll pay you 20% a year.” You'd probably assume it was a scam. But just a few years ago, that exact promise brought millions of people into crypto.
At the center of this story was one number: 20%. To be precise, Anchor actually paid 19.45% APY, but the entire market simply re…
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6 Aug 2026, 20:42 UTC390 views13 reactionsread 18 August 2026 13/50. NBA sold basketball highlights for over $200 million a month, even though you could watch them for free on YouTube.
Some things seem impossible to sell. Like a short video that's already available on YouTube. But then the NBA started selling game-winning shots, LeBron dunks, Curry three-pointers, and other iconic highlights, and within a few months this idea was generating more than $200 million in monthly tr…
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