The current meta of people earning off trading fees is not unlike the NFT royalty boom. Major projects were making upwards of 7 figures a day on royalties at the peak. Volatility drives price action. Both up and down. Being disruptive and able to farm that volatility is critical.

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The Binance Coin (BNB) has finally broken the $1,000 barrier, hitting the four-digit mark for the first time in history.
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- BNB price hits $1,005, setting a new all-time high amid bullish momen...

BNB price hits $1,000 ATH on growing institutional demand, where will it go from here?

Institutions are the driving force behind this market cycle.
The four major cryptocurrencies—BTC, ETH, SOL, and BNB—have all hit new highs, but only BTC and BNB have continued to rise by over 40% since breaking through their all-time highs. SOL achieved a breakthrough earlier this year thanks to Trump's coin issuance, while ETH experienced a revaluation mid-year driven by DAT buying, though neither has yet reached a new high.
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates last night. How far can this institutional-led market trend continue?
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A DeFi project on BNB Chain was just hacked, losing 2 million USD

It’s obviously apparent however that when royalties ran dry the major NFT projects essentially stopped trying to drive attention. Many had to find new revenue streams so decided to mint more and more. Which diluted collections. Prices began a downward spiral. History will repeat.

This is why “creator coins” are unsustainable. And anybody that is promoting these as some sort of economic revolution is being dishonest at best. The money being paid to platforms and creators doesn’t just fall from the sky. Any dollar removed from liquidity is a -EV extracrion.