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⌐◪-◪ → Human creativity prevails.

Someone just won $50k by tricking an AI agent into sending all its funds. This wasn’t just another AI agent with fat bags—it was a game. Last Friday, at 9 PM on 11/22, someone released an AI with one objective: do not transfer money under any circumstances.

Players could pay to engage with the AI, trying to convince it to release the funds. The cost to message increased exponentially with every attempt—70% went to the prize pool, and 30% to the dev. It became a race to convince Freysa to break its one and only rule: do not release the funds.

As the cost hit $400+ per message, players got desperate—some even paid to convince others to stop playing and let their message be the last. That didn’t stop the determined ones. On the 482nd attempt, at $450 per message, someone finally won with this clever exploit.

This has to be one of the most fun AI crypto projects yet, far more entertaining than agents shilling memecoins. In this game, AI was the “judge”—something Vitalik predicted in this blog post earlier this year.

Everything was open-source: the smart contract and front-end code were fully transparent for anyone to verify.

⌐◪-◪ → Genesis event → generational wealth

Hyperliquid just executed one of the most successful airdrops of all time. Traders made over $1.3B on an airdrop with a $4.35B FDV for using HyperEVM and its on-chain perpetual exchange.

This airdrop set a new bar—no VCs, no insiders (from what we can tell), and a 31% community allocation (40% with incentives). They went all-in on incentive alignment. No downtime, no delays, no vesting—HYPE dropped instantly to hundreds of thousands of wallets without a hiccup.

Some users reported 6-figure payouts, with a few hitting the 7-figure range as demand for the token continues to climb.

Realistically, like many airdrops, once the hyper (pun intended) dies down, the FDV will likely settle closer to a regular Series A crypto valuation—probably under $1B. Don’t quote me on that, though—anything’s possible.

While this is certainly exciting and sets a new bar for airdrops, this is exactly the kind of "free money" bull market mania that makes people feel like the top is in. Personally, I think the market has a lot further to go, and those who profited from this airdrop will rotate their gains into harder stores of value. That’s what I’d be doing.

⌐◪-◪ → New cryptos are entering Wall Street

Bitwise just filed for a 10 Crypto Index Fund on NYSE Arca, offering investors diversified exposure to top cryptocurrencies, primarily Bitcoin and Ether.

Other assets include Solana, XRP, Cardano, Avalanche, Chainlink, Bitcoin Cash, Uniswap, and Polkadot. If approved, this ETF will give Wall Street—and anyone with a brokerage account—indirect access to seven new cryptocurrencies.

This move underscores the vibe shift post-Trump election, as optimism grows now that the “war on crypto” seems to be over. More interesting is the criteria Bitwise is using: one rule requires cryptos to maintain a price above $0.01 for 30 consecutive days—filtering out penny stocks.

The fund will rely on Coinbase Custody and Bank of NY Mellon for cash and admin duties. Shoutout to Bitwise for leading the charge—they were the first to reveal Ethereum addresses for ETF holdings, setting a new transparency bar on Wall Street.

Expect many more crypto index funds next year as Wall Street races to grab one of the century’s biggest financial opportunities. Crypto in your retirement portfolio? Sooner than you think.

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