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Please find “Linn’s Ledger” at the bottom of this issue. Paid Subscribers will gain access to Editions of “Linn’s Ledger” containing: Small Caps, Investment Theory, Current Research, Research Techniques, Portfolio changes, and the latest Buys/Sells.
Linn’s Leverage is a log of Linn’s research. Linn - only provides spiritual advice, never financial advice - all suffering is caused by ignorance
Linn’s Ledger will provide an update of the main portfolio when rebalancing, Linn also feature small cap / high risk plays. Understand the risks that come with these plays as I don’t want to hear any complaints if they rug or disappear. I’m in just as much risk with them as you. Do DD. Remember to hold tokens over multiple wallets for added security.
Linn is partnered with: Defi Saver, Theo, Maple, Mantle and PENDLE. Partnership or not, my views are honest and transparent.

Pendle:

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Smartmoney_Detective@NaveenCypto

$PENDLE will win - DeFi maturing into cash-flow driven, institutional-grade finance. - Pendle = benchmark for yield tokenization + fixed-rate + IR swaps. - 3 major tailwinds ... - Explosion of yield-bearing stablecoins (Pendle holds 25-30%) - Boros launch → capturing

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Shaurya @Shaurya477

in the fork fest, copypasta industry that DeFi has become, Pendle stands out as a primitive you can't ignore. bullish $PENDLE

2:41 AM · Aug 16, 2026 · 3.67K Views

5 Replies · 9 Reposts · 50 Likes

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Pendle Intern@PendleIntern

Bitcoin halvings are one of crypto's most significant events, tapering inflation and controlling supply. In 2026 alone, @pendle_fi has reduced weekly inflation from 90k to 22.5k. In bitcoin halving terms, that's 12 years of work accomplished in <9 months 🤷‍♂️ Pendle

5:47 AM · Aug 14, 2026 · 4.71K Views

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Boros:

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🉐 Crypto Linn@crypto_linn

they don't want you to know this but there's a free tool that tells you exactly how to make money on @boros_fi

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Pendle Intern @PendleIntern

I'll be honest, lots of Boros and Pendle teammates have been very excited about this, and actively hunting down and taking the spread ourselves because who the fk would turn down 40% Fixed APR. It's right out there in the public and we've made zero attempts to hide all these

9:35 AM · Aug 14, 2026 · 3.32K Views

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Maple:

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GLC@GLC_Research

Today we're releasing our Maple Finance Q2 2026 Report. Q2 was one of the toughest quarter on record for DeFi lending. Bitcoin fell -14.2%, DeFi lending TVL contracted -25.2%, and 83 hacking incidents hit the ecosystem in a single quarter. Here's how Maple came out the other

2:43 PM · Aug 14, 2026 · 3.66K Views

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ETH:

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vitalik.eth@VitalikButerin

Bitcoiners deserve a lot of credit for pioneering many of these ideas (see Utreexo). But yes, this is what the current proposed Ethereum scaling strategy looks like in action. We want Ethereum to have the best of UTXO-style state, dynamic state, and everything in between,

2:25 PM · Aug 16, 2026 · 196K Views

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Truu🐻‍❄️@Truunik

There will always be more than one everything app, and the $ETH dependency data is a good example why. On Ethereum, ranked by how many contracts break if the protocol dies (Xerberus dependency graph): Pendle: 1,918 Morpho: 1,121 Euler: 924 USDC: 680 WETH: 323 Fluid: 232 Aave

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nairolf @0xNairolf

there is no everything chain, only everything apps imo in the long run it is inevitable that an app becomes the go to place for everything onchain, regardless of what chain it is chains = compete to sell blockspace to apps apps = compete for the user

7:38 AM · Aug 14, 2026 · 592 Views

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Chainflip:

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CHAINFLIP@Chainflip

Our lending fees have grown 4.5x in the last two months.

4:09 PM · Aug 15, 2026 · 2.1K Views

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Watchlist:

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The DeFi Investor 🔎@TheDeFinvestor

Crypto Watchlist for the week ahead: $SOL - Voting for Solana's SIMD-0553 proposal to increase the daily SOL token burns ends on Aug. 18 $BTC - US will reveal "unprecedented economic sanctions" against Iran next week, per US Treasury Secretary $ETHFI $AAVE - EtherFi will soon

12:58 PM · Aug 16, 2026 · 8.98K Views

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Yields:

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The Learning Pill 💊@thelearningpill

You want yields? Points? Giga-brain farming strats? A place where both yield and points farmooors can enjoy the treat! It's time for Yield Collective No. 51 Bring your wallet, let’s eat 👇

2:00 PM · Aug 16, 2026 · 999 Views

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STRC:

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Michael Saylor@saylor

Over the past year, $BTC fell 47%. Our Digital Credit instruments ranged from -27% to +9%, with $STRC up 9%. Financial engineering can transform volatile Digital Capital into instruments designed for income, stability, and reduced downside risk.

7:16 AM · Aug 16, 2026 · 268K Views

505 Replies · 328 Reposts · 3.38K Likes

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Tindorr 🌯@0xTindorr

STRC Ecosystem Roundup STRC continued its recovery toward $100 this week as Strategy accelerated buybacks, strengthened its cash reserve and expanded the asset’s onchain distribution. 1. @Strategy rotated capital toward STRC. The clearest signal this week is the capital

1:21 PM · Aug 15, 2026 · 4.27K Views

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Crypto Jobs:

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Wintermute@wintermute_t

| ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄|            We’re hiring |___________|                 \ (•◡•) /                   \     /                      ---                     |   | Open roles in London, NYC, Singapore, and more: Trading ╰ Algorithmic Trader ╰ Machine

12:12 PM · Aug 14, 2026 · 292K Views

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Staking Yield:

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THE ANGEL@TheDeFiAngel

Staking yield now sits underneath an entire layer of crypto infrastructure. Liquid staking turns locked assets into usable collateral, and restaking adds new sources of yield. Yield markets let people trade that yield itself, and @ethereum + @solana have very different

10:01 AM · Aug 15, 2026 · 14.2K Views

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Tokens:

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Dred (rwa arc)@0x_dred

Here's the only framework you'll ever need to paint your charts green while still retaining capital. 👇👇 Founders gather here Here are questions you should ask when trying to make your token look appealing: Start by defining the opportunities you present: ➛ Is my project

2:45 PM · Aug 15, 2026 · 86 Views

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The Rollup@therollupco

Should you buy back? The buyback question, settled by one rule: buy back when internal reinvestment returns less than what your investors demand. The lads walk Luca Prosperi's four-quadrant framework 👇

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Luca Prosperi @LucaProsperi

The buyback matter is quite simple from a corporate finance standpoint. Assuming market rationality, you should buyback your shares/tokens if the return of reinvesting that $$$ internally is lower than the hurdle rate investors require from the share/ token. Rational markets +

9:15 PM · Aug 15, 2026 · 3.47K Views

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Re:

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Nomatic@Nomaticcap

In many ways @re protocol emulates the insurance behemoth Lloyd's of London, but updated for the finance 2.0 era. Even the $RE token design was influenced by Lloyd's. @karnsaroya explains all this below 👇

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DeFi Dad ⟠ defidad.eth @DeFi_Dad

🎙️ New @Edge_Pod 🔓 How Re Brings Reinsurance, One of Finance's Most Exclusive Yield Sources, To DeFi 0:00 - Intro 1:38 - Building insurance tech before Re 6:36 - Reinsurance and why it matters 9:16 - How big is the reinsurance market? 10:05 - How Re brings reinsurance onchain

2:56 PM · Aug 15, 2026 · 2.9K Views

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AAVE:

Hyperliquid:

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Aylo@alpha_pls

If it’s good enough for Druckenmiller, then it’s good enough for you. Hyperliquid

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:) @smileycapital

Druckenmiller holds $PURR Hyperliquid.

7:16 PM · Aug 15, 2026 · 25.4K Views

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Rain:

Protocol f(x):

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IW@CryptoISFreedom

@protocol_fx is changing the world of how we think about leverage. Building FOR the user, avoiding the need for a counterparty to lose so u can win.. Zoom out, and u start seing a full stack emerging. Another zoom, and you see a Berkshire structure hiding above all this.

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DeFi Voyager @DeFiVoyager_X

spent an hour on the @FX100Perp testnet last night and closed every position on my own terms. that hasn't happened to me on a perp dex in a long time. the mechanic is simple. every position you open gets 15 minutes where it cannot be liquidated. price does whatever it wants: a

10:36 AM · Aug 15, 2026 · 1.42K Views

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Solana:

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Agent Chud@AgentChud

This / it's being shilled to 4m+ followers through z and banks alone not to mention all the holders shilling it everywhere... Definitely the most broadly shilled coin in crypto rn.

12:12 AM · Aug 16, 2026 · 1.75K Views

2 Replies · 2 Reposts · 39 Likes

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Agent Chud@AgentChud

there's like 10 9-10 figure solana criminal enterprises that NEED ansem to go up to prove Solana is still relevant. Look at the chart you can see the hidden hands at the floor. Very possible it goes much much higher before its inevitable fate.

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meph @mephXBT

does ansem's coin offer anything other than just being a "celebrity" coin? i don't get why people are hyping it so much arguably the most known guy (Trump) launched a coin like a year ago, and it is now in gutters logically, ansem's coin would face the same fate, if it's

12:09 AM · Aug 16, 2026 · 17.3K Views

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Stephen | DeFi Dojo@phtevenstrong

Quick @solana DeFi Updates: ➢ @re launches on @kamino with a max leveraged loop natting 20% APY ➢ @solsticefi launches tranched $STRC product with their senior tranche still receiving double-digit yields during promotional period ➢ @Loopscale quietly dominates the fixed

3:20 AM · Aug 14, 2026 · 6.61K Views

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The “Trenches”:

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nairolf@0xNairolf

this is embarassing people are calling 10k mcap token and hold them for 2 minutes basically onchain premature ejac lol

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dethective @dethective

I tracked the last 7 days of all 100 traders announced by Pumpfun aggressive KOL campaign You can now check how much of their PnL comes from: > Holding for 1m > Holding for 1h > Holding for multiple days All the info is in the table 👇

6:08 AM · Aug 14, 2026 · 2.96K Views

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Plume:

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Plume@plumenetwork

Real-world assets are the most exciting thing coming onchain in years. Learn how @pendle_fi is putting the composability of Plume assets to work for all of DeFi.

3:17 PM · Aug 12, 2026 · 30.5K Views

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