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Cardano’s ADA and Pi Network’s PI have both posted staggering losses over the past year and are among the worst-performing cryptocurrencies during the current bear market. Their deteriorating condition has stirred anxiety among industry participants and perhaps some fear that their prices could collapse to $0. We asked three of the most widely used AI-powered chatbots which of these tokens they consider most likely to experience such a crash this year.

PI Carries The Heavier Shadow 🕷️

According to ChatGPT Pi Network’s native token whose valuation recently neared its record low is significantly more likely to collapse to $0 in 2026 than ADA. It claimed that the former has weaker liquidity a shorter operating history much greater future supply expansion and a price that is already hovering close to its historical bottom. The chatbot also touched on existing problems inside Pi Network’s ecosystem that could negatively impact PI in the near future. “Any prolonged technical problems delayed migrations regulatory pressure or loss of community confidence could have an outsized effect on the token. For PI to approach $0 investors would probably need to see several problems occur together continued supply growth weak application demand declining exchange liquidity stalled development and a broader crypto market sell-off” OpenAI’s platform stated. ChatGPT noted that ADA has also been on a massive downfall lately yet it highlighted its ability to survive previous bear markets and outlined its vast community base. It also pointed out that the majority of its eventual supply is already in the market which makes the dilution risk far less than PI’s. The chatbot did not rule out the possibility of a further collapse for ADA given the current conditions but claimed that reaching practically zero would require something much more destructive.

Whispers From Other Oracles 🌑

Perplexity agreed with ChatGPT’s theory that PI carries the higher risk of sliding to $0 sometime this year but argued that a literal collapse to such territory looks improbable for either token. “As long as there is any bid from speculators community members or exchanges the price will be >0” it claimed. For its part Google’s Gemini added a different angle to the discussion flagging several Pi Network-related problems that the other chatbots didn’t mention and that could drag the price even lower. Among the main ones are the accusations from multiple industry participants that the project is a pyramid scheme rather than a true decentralized network. Additionally it pointed out that leading crypto exchanges like Binance and Coinbase still refuse to list PI which could be interpreted as another red flag. In conclusion Gemini said “While ADA may experience price swings driven by broader crypto market trends its structural liquidity and established ecosystem make an absolute crash to $0 extremely unlikely. In contrast Pi Network is far more vulnerable to severe price collapse or liquidity failure.”

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Lido is shifting the core of its staked ETH into those bigger post-Pectra validators where operators finally have to risk their own capital too 🌑.
The vibe is collapsing thousands of tiny 32 ETH ones into way fewer massive ones instead.

Massive ETH Shift to New Validators 🖤

Ethereum’s Pectra hardfork bumped the max effective balance up to 2048 tokens via 0x02 credentials and Curated Module v2 now handles them natively.
This touches the permissioned operator layer that’s always carried over 90 percent of Lido’s staked ETH covering more than 265000 validators and over 8 million ETH worth about 16 billion.
Reports show the market tightened with revenue slipping roughly 25 percent while Lido’s share of all staked ETH eased from over 28 percent in 2024 down to just over 24 percent in December 2025 🕸️.

Operators Now Bonding Their Own Assets 🔮

Trust alone isn’t enough anymore so operators must lock their own ETH as collateral that gets slashed on failure or mistakes 👁️.
Their bond stays lighter than in the open modules because they’re still viewed as more reliable and the update cuts needless DAO votes on small admin stuff like address swaps 🌹.
The whole migration will stretch across months thanks to Ethereum’s exit limits and Lido figures the offline time will burn around 738.5 ETH in lost rewards with 117 days as the theoretical minimum while six months feels realistic 🦇.
Everything stays spooky cute in this defi evolution with operators finally having skin in the game 🕯️.

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Crypto figures are warning that government control over what AI systems can know or discuss could create a dangerous precedent after Erik Voorhees argued on X on July 28 that states should not decide what forms of intelligence are safe 🖤 The post landed in the middle of a fresh debate over how much oversight AI companies should accept a debate that picked back up after Anthropic laid out its own position on open-weights models 🌙

Voorhees Raises Red Flags on State AI Interference 🦇

Voorhees a longtime Bitcoin advocate and founder of the ShapeShift crypto exchange posted his comment after Anthropic published a statement from CEO Dario Amodei pushing back on claims that the AI giant was advocating for the banning of Chinese open-weight models 🔮 Amodei insisted that his company has never advocated a ban on open-weight models and argued that such systems can provide value for developers businesses and researchers when they do not have dangerous capabilities 💀
According to the executive Anthropic’s main concerns involved authoritarian governments developing advanced AI for military or surveillance uses along with the possibility of misuse in cyberattacks or biological threats ✨ The company said it supports restrictions on access to advanced chips and action against industrial-scale distillation as well as safety testing for highly capable AI systems 🕸️
The Information recently reported that the Trump administration was finalizing a framework for AI companies to voluntarily submit their most advanced models to the government for testing But Voorhees was not having it saying that allowing governments to define acceptable AI knowledge could expand beyond its original purpose 🖤
In his post he walked through a hypothetical progression starting from a seemingly reasonable rule against discussing bioweapons then dangerous weapons generally then anything contrary to public health and public safety then anything that undermines financial solvency and ending with the banning of unapproved encryption and a requirement that AI not obstruct government orders 🌙 Civilization must not permit the state to determine what manner of intelligence is safe he wrote adding that only the United States has the cultural character to resist that outcome over time and if it fails then nowhere will it be preserved 🔮

AI Oversight Sparks Wider Crypto Community Pushback 🦇

Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz replied to Voorhees’ post with Yes this Exactly this showing support for the argument XRP community member Bird also responded asking The moment someone gets to decide what knowledge is safe where does it stop 💀 The same tension over who gets to police AI showed up earlier this month when Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis proposed a federally backed body to test and certify frontier models before release an idea that OpenAI’s Sam Altman called thoughtful and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella welcomed as a way to keep any model from doing serious harm ✨
However Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong rejected the idea arguing that a new body would just add another approval process on top of existing regulators Why design regulation around a hypothetical problem he said pointing to fraud tort and consumer protection laws that already exist as being enough cover for any harm that might be caused by a model 🕸️

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After several months of underperforming the self-proclaimed Dogecoin killer finally posted a decisive rebound over the weekend. However the pump was short-lived as the bears quickly intercepted the move and dragged the price down.
The enthusiasm faded while a well-known analytics platform outlined when the next buying opportunity might emerge.

Late Retail Fomo Hits Hard 🕷️

Just a few days ago Shiba Inu recorded a sudden 35% price jump to reach a two-month high of around $0.00000582. Some potential factors that may have acted as catalysts for the significant revival include a whale that has resumed accumulating after more than half a year of inactivity as well as the notable resurgence of the burning mechanism.
The bulls though lost momentum and SHIB currently trades at roughly $0.000004631 representing a nearly 20% decline from the local high. The analytics platform Santiment noted that amid the rally there were 52 whale transactions in a single day the most since March 31.

“Activity strongly suggests larger holders took profits into strength” it added.

On the other hand retail investors joined the party too late and chased the excitement near the top “giving whales the liquidity needed to reduce their exposure.”
According to the entity the smart approach with meme coins is to cash out when retail FOMO spikes and re-enter once the crowd turns hostile and calls the token a scam.
It seems like X user Crypto King had followed these rules. On July 26 the trader noted the double-digit price increase the whales’ accumulation the exploding burn rate and rising volume to open a short position.

“These euphoric pumps have a habit of trapping late buyers… but the market loves proving people wrong” they said.

Future Moves Await 🌑

As mentioned above SHIB lost its traction while the broader cryptocurrency market flashed in red again which could lead to a further downfall for the meme coin in the near term.
The rising amount of tokens stored on exchanges serves as another warning. CryptoQuant’s data shows that the figure has been constantly rising over the past several days reaching a two-week high of around 86.7 trillion units. Such a development suggests that many investors have abandoned self-custody and flocked to centralized platforms thus increasing immediate selling pressure.

The stalled activity on Shibarium is also worth mentioning. The layer-2 scaling solution designed to foster the advancement of Shiba Inu’s ecosystem was once considered among the primary catalysts that could trigger a price increase for the meme coin. However after an exploit in September last year the protocol saw a sharp decline in usage dropping to merely hundreds or thousands of daily transactions.

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