🤑 Crypto Scams & AI: Steinbeck’s Guide to Not Getting Rug-Pulled 🤑
Scams are as common as dust bowls in this here market. Here’s a few to watch out for, lest you end up with nothing but a pocketful of promises:
Scams are as common as dust bowls in this here market. Here’s a few to watch out for, lest you end up with nothing but a pocketful of promises:

But wait! The plot thickens like a porridge left too long on the stove. They first dipped their toes into the warm waters of crypto trading in Brazil back in June 2025. One might wonder if they were testing the waters for an epic splash back in the U.S. market. It seems they’ve summoned the wisest sages of the regulatory realm, enabling this strategic move to re-enter the bustling bazaar of U.S. cryptocurrencies! 🧐

Therefore, with liquidations mounting and strong bearish sentiment spreading, today’s market highlights why caution remains critical. Or, as I like to call it, “The Great Crypto Meltdown of 2025.” 🎭
The Hong Kong Generative AI Research and Development Centre (HKGAI), born in 2023 under the InnoHK initiative (because every city needs a flagship AI hub, apparently), has tied the knot with FLock.io. Why? To bring decentralized AI infrastructure to the public sector, of course. Because if there’s one thing government operations need, it’s more buzzwords. 🗳️🤓
According to the oracles at Bloomberg, who receive their revelations via electric whispers, the Minister, while acknowledging the wild, heart-attack-inducing swings of these spectral currencies, declared that with a sufficiently robust cage, they might be tamed. “They can become an option,” he pronounced, thereby granting a state-sanctioned nod to the collective delirium of a million keyboard warriors. One can only imagine the frantic scribbling in ledgers across the land.
Which is why a trader, who for reasons best known to himself had chosen the online moniker ‘White Whale’, was not entirely surprised, but was monumentally cheesed off, to discover that MEXC Global had, with the bureaucratic flair of a Vogon reading poetry, frozen his account to the tune of $3,158,572.32.
It was on a Friday, a day much like any other, yet marked by a filing that would later be spoken of in hushed tones. Grayscale sought to metamorphose its existing Avalanche Trust, a creature of the digital world, into a publicly traded ETF, a transformation as profound as the turning of the seasons. This revelation, contained within a registration statement released on Monday, sent ripples through the market, akin to the first droplets of rain on a calm lake.
Bitcoin’s price, once a soaring eagle, now plummets like a fallen leaf, settling at $111,000 on Monday. 🧨
Private credit, U.S. Treasuries, commodities, stocks, and bonds-ah, the sacred cows of TradFi-stand poised to be tamed by the digital shepherds of RWA tokenization. “The estimated $400 trillion addressable market,” the researchers pen, “is but a prelude to the symphony of growth.” One wonders if the orchestra will play in C-sharp or B-flat. 🎻
As governments across the globe whip out their regulatory whips, threatening to snatch personal data from the hands of citizens, the U.S. is gearing up for a showdown. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has dispatched letters to the likes of Akamai, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Cloudflare, Discord, Godaddy, Meta, Microsoft, Signal, Snap, Slack, and X, warning them against the folly of weakening encryption in a bid to appease foreign demands.