➥ Project Spotlight - Week 24/2026 Here are 9 handpicked projects you'll want to explore. ➢ @koshmoney ➢ @browserbase ➢ @MNX_fi ➢ @tradeonpear ➢ @brookwellapp ➢ @PlayKintara ➢ @Loafmarkets ➢ @Lexur ➢ @tradeonhunch Powered by @getmoni_io and @_dexuai Below you will find brief summaries for each. Let's dive in! … — 📌 | Kosh KOSH is a simple app that gives freelancers and creators in Asia a USD account. You can receive payments from clients around the world, hold your money in stable USD, spend it globally with a card, and earn yield on your balance. … — 📌 | Browserbase Browserbase helps AI agents use the real internet. It gives agents reliable browser access so they can log into websites, click buttons, fill forms, and complete actual tasks online. … — 📌 | MNX MNX is an exchange on @megaeth focused on AI-related things. You can trade assets or prices connected to AI companies like Anthropic, memory stocks, and H100 GPUs. It’s still early but has been teasing trading on big upcoming events like the SpaceX IPO. … — 📌 | Pear Pear is building a social prediction market app. The goal is to let you trade prediction markets from different platforms in one simple account, see what others are trading in a feed, and automatically get the best prices. It focuses on “trading your instincts” in a more social and easy way. … — 📌 | Brookwell Brookwell is an app that lets you earn DeFi yield on your money while still using it to pay everyday bills like rent and expenses. It makes moving between stablecoins and regular cash simple and seamless so your money can work for you without getting stuck in DeFi. … — 📌 | Kintara Kintara is an isometric MMO game where you play to earn. Players can buy, sell, and trade items using the $KINS token, complete quests, and make real money. The game recently showed strong activity with players earning over $18,000 in a single day and rare items selling for around $10,000. … — 📌 | Loaf Loaf is building a platform to trade property RWAs (real estate) on-chain with good liquidity. It’s still in private beta and run by people with traditional finance experience. … — 📌 | Lexur Lexur built by @lexurlabs is building a social trading platform for Solana perpetuals. It adds social features so traders can follow each other, share ideas, and trade perps on Solana in a more community-driven way. … — 📌 | Hunch Hunch is a unified trading terminal for prediction markets. It brings together markets from Polymarket, Kalshi, Hyperliquid and others into one clean interface with better tools and discovery.

Decentralization and OSS are going to win. Maybe this is the whole point of decentralized, open-source infrastructure, and maybe it is the alarm clock we have been ignoring. Anthropic just had to flip the switch globally on Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after a U.S. export-control directive dropped. One policy memo leads to a worldwide shutdown, for everyone, everywhere, including their own employees outside the U.S. If you are building long-lived or high-stakes agent pipelines on a centralized frontier model, you are implicitly accepting regulatory risk and uptime risk as part of the stack. Mock crypto all you want, but it has been quietly stress-testing answers to this exact failure mode for years: - Permissionless coordination - Incentivized storage and compute - Decentralized inference - Verifiable work, forkable systems - And more My bet: China is not waiting. They are already monetizing momentum. DeepSeek, Qwen (Alibaba), Kimi, Zhipu/GLM, MiniMax, and peers are pushing open weight models at a blistering pace. They routinely climb to the top of Hugging Face charts and ship into production because they are inexpensive, runnable on prem, and easy to tailor. Depending on the tracker, they are approaching about 30% of global “useful” AI traffic, often at 4x or more lower cost than comparable US offerings. And every high profile shutdown or hiccup, with Fable 5 as the latest, reinforces the narrative: closed API access is a single point of failure, while open weights buy sovereignty, portability, and staying power. Next, the wave is teams shipping and coordinating around decentralized checkpoints, especially across: - Decentralized compute - Training networks and frameworks - Tokenized agents and agent economies - DeAI plumbing: privacy, storage, data rails, oracles, and more However, China’s regulatory posture around crypto makes it a long shot for them to dominate permissionless, crypto native stacks (think Bittensor like subnets, tokenized agent layers like Virtuals, or on chain coordination). But their open weight models are the perfect high octane input for the rest of the world’s decentralized machine. Again, Decentralization and OSS are going to win.

Nockchain is taking on the question most L1s sidestep: What if Proof-of-Work weren't just a furnace? What if the effort that secures the ledger also generated real, reusable output? That's the bet behind @nockchain. Most chains optimize for higher TPS, more DeFi, or ZK layers. Nockchain flips the premise: The bottleneck isn't blockspace. It's verifiable computation. — ➠ WHAT IT IS Nockchain is a Layer-1 blockchain built around Zero-Knowledge Proof-of-Work (ZKPoW). Instead of miners hashing random data, they generate zero-knowledge proofs. Their latest whitepaper frames this as a distributed market for verifiable computation: → Miners supply proofpower → Apps consume proofs → The L1 settles truth The goal: make the work behind security useful for a broader proof market. — ➠ WHY IT MATTERS Traditional PoW has one obvious criticism: the energy cost is real, but the work isn't useful outside chain security. Nockchain's answer: make proving itself the work. Not computation for the sake of computation, but computation that creates verifiable certificates. Demand for proofs may grow across: → AI inference → Private payments → Sealed-bid auctions → Confidential trading → Identity and reputation → Credit markets → Cross-venue settlement If these workloads need trust-minimized verification, proof generation becomes an economic resource. — ➠ HOW IT WORKS Nockchain keeps the base layer minimal. Apps run off-chain as NockApps, execute their own logic, then settle back to Nockchain through proofs. The flow: → Users submit intents → NockApps execute heavy logic off-chain → Proofs show the result was valid → Nockchain verifies, orders, and settles Unlike Ethereum, validators don't re-execute smart contract logic. The design is: → Execute off-chain → Prove correctness → Settle on-chain The chain only needs proof that the steps were valid. — ➠ BASE LAYER DESIGN Nockchain uses a UTXO-like model built around Notes. Instead of account balances, users hold spendable notes containing assets, spending conditions, provenance, and app-specific metadata. Spending conditions are expressed through Nockchain Intent Script—a smaller, bounded language for: → Signature checks → Hashlocks → Timelocks → Burns → ZK proof verification Complex logic is pushed into NockApps, keeping the L1 conservative. — ➠ PROOFPOWER, NOT HASHPOWER In Nockchain, the critical resource is proofpower, the network's aggregate capacity to produce valid proofs. Consensus follows a heaviest-proof chain rule. The security model is still thermodynamic. An attacker still needs to out-compute the honest network. But the work is oriented toward proof generation instead of arbitrary hashing. The shift: → $BTC turns energy into hash security → Nockchain turns energy into proof security — ➠ ALETHEIA UPGRADE Nockchain started minimal with "Dumbnet" (basic UTXO functionality). The major upgrade: Aletheia, activated at block 65,500. Aletheia introduced: → ASERT per-block difficulty adjustment → Faster target blocks (600s → 150s) → Unified issuance schedule → Deterministic coinbase split → Protocol fund for future PoUW development This made the chain more responsive, predictable, and aligned with the PoUW roadmap. — ➠ AI COMPUTE NETWORK The next catalyst: AI Compute Network upgrade. This introduces a matrix-multiplication Proof-of-Useful-Work puzzle, one of the core operations behind AI training and inference. If this works, Nockchain mining could connect to external AI compute demand. The vision: → Miners produce proofs → Applications consume proofs → $NOCK becomes the settlement asset There's also a merge-mining angle, where multiple computation protocols could contribute useful proofs while securing the same chain. Recent Pearl-related discussion shows both the opportunity and debate around how GPU-based AI compute networks might plug into Nockchain's security model. — ➠ NOCK TOKEN NOCK is the native asset, designed as hard-capped programmable sound money and the unit of account for Nockchain's compute market. Supply cap: 2³² NOCK (~4.295 billion) → No premine → No founder allocation → No VC unlock → All issued through mining Each NOCK is divisible into 2¹⁶ nicks for precision. Post-Aletheia rewards: → 80% to miners → 20% to protocol fund (for future PoUW development) → Transaction fees go to miners. — ➠ RISKS The biggest risk: the compute market is still mostly a thesis. Visible activity centers around mining, proof generation, and basic settlement. DeFi metrics remain negligible. Other risks: → Useful compute demand may stay theoretical → Developer mindshare may stay with EVM and ZK L2s → Early emissions may create sell pressure → Protocol fund needs transparency → AI Compute upgrade execution matters → NockApps need product-market fit Architecture alone isn't enough. The market needs real buyers of proofs. — ➠ BULL CASE Nockchain becomes more than another PoW chain. If the AI Compute Network ships, matrix-multiplication proving gains real demand, and NockApps find use cases, proofpower becomes an economic resource. Nockchain wouldn't just be securing blockspace. It would be coordinating a market for verifiable off-chain computation. NOCK becomes the monetary layer around proof supply, settlement, and compute-market demand. — ➠ BEAR CASE Useful work stays theoretical. Mining continues, but external demand for proofs doesn't materialize. Builders prefer EVM chains, ZK rollups, or existing AI compute networks. Early emissions create sell pressure before the ecosystem has real activity to absorb it. Nockchain remains technically interesting but economically unproven. — ➠ THE TAKE Nockchain is asking a deeper question than most L1s: Not just "How do we secure a chain?" But "What should the security work produce?" If Nockchain is right, Proof-of-Work doesn't have to stay trapped in the security versus wasted energy debate. It can become a market for useful, verifiable computation. That's the thesis. Now the network has to prove there's real demand behind it.

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I’m starting to suspect the next breakout onchain perp narrative won’t be another new crypto ticker. It’ll be equities. Specifically the equity markets that already have real, sustained global tailwinds. Korea fits that bill. Korean stocks have been one of the strongest equity themes lately, powered by the AI and semiconductor upcycle. Samsung and SK Hynix aren’t just “local champions” anymore. They sit right inside the global AI supply chain. → Memory → HBM → Data center buildout → Hyperscaler pull-through → AI infrastructure spend Which is why Korean stock perps landing onchain feels like more than a routine “new market added” post. You have seen me posting a lot about GRVT and now via @grvt_io, you can now trade Korean equity perps like Samsung, SK Hynix, and Hyundai right next to crypto and other markets. To me, that’s the real inflection: Onchain trading is expanding from crypto-only speculation into genuine global market access. More asset classes, same rails, closer together, easier to rotate between. The timing is also notable because GRVT is running its Team Trading League. Instead of trading in isolation, I can spin up a team, pull in friends, trading circles, or my community, and compete as a unit. It’s pretty straightforward: → Jun 11 to Jun 30 → create or join a team → trade during the competition window → team rank = average ROI of the top 10 eligible traders → prize pool starts at 5,000 USDT and scales with volume → lucky draw for anyone with $100K eligible trading volume So, why waiting? Start your trade now and join my team in the post below ⤵

PSA: I’m getting in early on @Predictstreet I’ll keep it simple: the World Cup is one of the few moments where the entire internet turns into a prediction market. - Everyone has a team they’re convinced will go far. - Everyone has a matchup they “already know” the outcome of. - Everyone has a pre-tournament narrative they won’t shut up about. And that’s exactly why the ADI Predictstreet momentum makes sense. Predictstreet is the official on-chain prediction market partner of the FIFA World Cup 2026, built inside the @ADIChain_ ecosystem. Because instead of firing off hot takes and letting them disappear into the feed, you can actually back your conviction on-chain via Predictstreet and let that activity stack up over time. Prediction markets shine when they’re attached to massive real-world events where information keeps moving. The World Cup is basically the perfect environment: attention, emotion, arguments, and a 24/7 storyline engine, from squad lists and injuries to group-stage chaos. - Every match rewrites the narrative. - Every upset shifts the market. - Every late winner flips sentiment instantly. - Every underdog run creates a fresh angle to price. That’s why Predictstreet feels like a native layer for World Cup prediction activity. It takes all the tournament noise and turns it into something measurable: participation, progress, and a public track record. --- ➥ How to Participate? Step one: Claim the ADI Predictstreet SBT Card. It’s a dynamic Soulbound Token that works as your identity inside the platform. You just need to: → Connect your X account → Answer 3 quick questions → Claim your Predictstreet Card → Enter the dashboard → Open daily packs → Earn points → Complete prediction tasks → Climb the leaderboard So, are you positioning yourself for The World Cup already?