Foresight News takes you through this week's hot topics and recommended content:
01 Trump's Tariff War
《Tariffs Keep Swinging, Will Cryptocurrency Pay the Price of Trade War?》
02 CZ's New Crypto Journey
《CZ Enters the Game! With 240 Million Population Dividend, Will Pakistan's Crypto Industry Embark on a New Journey?》
03 Stablecoin Fever
《Chris Dixon: Stablecoin, the "WhatsApp Moment" in the Monetary Field》
04 Bear Market Survival Rules
《In the Era of Populism, How to Get Rich?》
《Reviewing the History of Crypto Market Crashes: Every Panic Claims to Be the Last Time》
05 Project Dynamics
《A Decentralized Discord? Can Towns Break the On-Chain Social Curse with a16z's Backing?》
《Decoding SEAL - A New Decentralized Data Security Solution for Sui》
06 Industry Insights
《Why Can "Air" Projects Raise More Funds?》
《If Twitter Disappeared Tomorrow, What Would Crypto Do?》
01 Trump's Tariff War
With additional tariffs of 104% on China, Trump's tariff stick shows no sign of stopping. Previously, Bill Ackman, founder of Pershing Square and billionaire, warned world leaders: "Don't wait to negotiate until war breaks out, call the president now." Recommended reading:
《Tariffs Keep Swinging, Will Cryptocurrency Pay the Price of Trade War?》
Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Fund, recently wrote that the current market is overly focused on tariff appearances while overlooking deeper systemic changes. Dalio believes we are witnessing a synchronized reconstruction of five forces, including monetary and economic order collapse; US domestic political order disintegration; international geopolitical order reorganization; destructive natural disasters; and significant technological transformation.
Historically, after the collapse of monetary, political, and geopolitical orders, dramatic changes often occur in the form of depression, civil war, and world wars, followed by the emergence of a new order.
Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer of Bitwise, is optimistic about Bitcoin's role as a core asset in the new order and believes Bitcoin could still reach $200,000 by year-end. He states that in the short term, a weakening dollar is beneficial to Bitcoin. In the past five years, Bitcoin's correlation with the dollar index has been between -0.4 and -0.8. When the dollar falls, Bitcoin rises, and this trend is expected to continue.
02 CZ's New Crypto Journey
On April 7, CZ announced joining the Pakistan Crypto Council (PCC) as a strategic advisor. This move not only highlights CZ's influence in the global cryptocurrency industry but also signals a milestone step for Pakistan in the cryptocurrency field. As an official strategic advisor to PCC, CZ will provide guidance on regulatory frameworks, infrastructure, education, and application promotion, working closely with the Pakistani government and private sector to build a compliant, inclusive, and globally competitive crypto ecosystem. Recommended reading:
《CZ Enters the Game! With 240 Million Population Dividend, Will Pakistan's Crypto Industry Embark on a New Journey?》
The Pakistan Crypto Council (PCC) was proposed by the Ministry of Finance in February 2025, affiliated with the ministry, and officially announced in March, with the primary responsibility of overseeing blockchain technology and digital asset integration in the country's financial sector.
The committee's focus extends beyond regulation, aiming to create an environment where blockchain and digital finance can thrive, avoiding market chaos due to regulatory gaps. Additionally, PCC is committed to promoting responsible innovation, driving innovative cryptocurrency technology applications in Pakistan while protecting consumers and ensuring financial security.
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Unlike the isolated old financial system, stablecoins are global. They operate on the blockchain: an open, programmable network where anyone can build applications without negotiating with dozens of cross-border banks, simply by connecting to the network. People have recognized these advantages. In 2024, stablecoins transferred $15.6 trillion in value, comparable to Visa's transaction volume. Although this figure primarily represents fund flows (rather than retail payments), its scale still indicates that we are on the edge of a financial infrastructure revolution, no longer dependent on cobbling together 20th-century systems.
Instead, we can build entirely new, truly internet-native entities, or what Stripe calls the "room temperature superconductor of financial services", where what is achieved is not lossless energy transmission, but lossless value transmission.
Stablecoins offer a completely new alternative. Rather than piecing together clumsy, expensive, and outdated systems, stablecoins flow seamlessly on the global blockchain. These systems are programmable and composable. Stablecoins have already significantly reduced remittance costs: sending $200 from the US to Colombia using traditional methods costs $12.13, while using stablecoins costs only $0.01. Fees for exchanging stablecoins to local currency range from 5% to 0%, and prices continue to drop due to market competition.
04 Bear Market Survival Rules
[The rest of the translation follows the same professional and accurate approach, maintaining the specific name translations as instructed.]The emergence of SEAL solves the limitations of traditional solutions that often rely on single scenarios or centralized services when massive on-chain data needs protection. Through SEAL, developers can achieve data encryption and access management across storage systems and application scenarios without compromising security and performance, providing a universal and efficient security solution for Web3 applications.
SEAL implements access control using Move smart contracts on the Sui blockchain. Developers can define access policies in smart contracts, precisely controlling who can access decryption keys and under what conditions access is allowed. This on-chain rule-based approach ensures transparency, making the permission verification process immutable and thus enhancing data security.
06 Industry Survey
Have you noticed that in the cryptocurrency field, projects that raise millions of dollars often have nothing more than a fancy website? This is not a matter of luck, nor is it entirely a scam; game theory is at work behind the scenes. Remember that scene from the TV series "Silicon Valley"? Companies without revenue have valuations higher than truly profitable companies. Venture capitalists explain: "If you show revenue, people will ask 'how much,' and no matter how much, it's never enough. But if you have no revenue, people can imagine unlimited revenue." Recommended reading:
《Why can "air" projects raise more funds?》
In game theory, there's a famous scenario called the "Prisoner's Dilemma," which reveals why people make choices that are not beneficial to themselves or others.
Cryptocurrency investment is similar: if everyone demanded to see a viable product before investing, the market would be much healthier.
But anyone who waits will miss out on early, substantial returns. The earliest investors usually profit the most - even if the project ultimately fails.
So, each investor's seemingly wise move (entering early based on promises) brings a foolish result for everyone (prioritizing hype over substance).
What would happen if Twitter disappeared overnight? In an instant, 80% of crypto projects would also vanish, falling into complete silence. Are you ready to face this reality? Recommended reading:
《What would Crypto do if Twitter disappeared tomorrow?》
True crypto users are not just on Twitter. They are everywhere: on Discord, Reddit, TikTok, Telegram, and platforms you haven't explored due to being too comfortable with the status quo. The echo chamber effect in the "crypto Twitter circle" creates a false sense of security, making you believe your influence is greater than it actually is.
Diversification is not just advice for crypto investment portfolios; it's also essential for crypto marketing. However, we continue to put all our eggs in the Twitter basket and then act shocked when the eggs break.
