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Even Satoshi Nakamoto would have to pay homage to the God of Wealth.
Source: TechFlow (Shenchao)
Every year on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Xiaobing gets up early and heads to the Tianxia No.1 God of Wealth Temple on Beigaofeng in Hangzhou.
He thought he would be squeezing in with aunties and uncles. Instead, when he arrived, he found that amid the thick incense smoke, everyone kneeling there was a familiar face.
On his left was a well-known whistleblower KOL; on his right, a community operator behind a trading “plate.” Nearby were several rising stars of the tech scene who usually talk nonstop about “decentralization.” At that moment, however, they were all bowing devoutly, knocking their heads against the ground with resounding thuds. In that instant, algorithmic consensus and Federal Reserve policy signals meant nothing compared to the three sticks of incense in their hands.
In recent years, metaphysics has become a “prominent discipline” in the crypto world. If you are still staring at candlestick charts, it means you are a classical retail trader. The real veterans are now studying birth charts.
One crypto trader well-versed in macro indicators eventually turned to metaphysics as well. He recently calculated Bitcoin’s bazi and came to a grim conclusion: fire clashes with the wealth vault, and 2026 (the Year of Bingwu) will be Bitcoin’s darkest hour. I was startled enough to immediately check my wallet. Luckily, there was nothing in it to begin with.
Even so, this trend is hardly new. Alen, a partner at crypto VC y2z Ventures, once said bluntly that one of the fund’s core competitive advantages is “reading faces.” In the past, due diligence focused on code audits and business models. Now it starts with whether the founder looks like they have a “money-losing face,” followed by whether the project’s name clashes with feng shui.
On a recent trip to Shenzhen, it became clear that traders and KOLs no longer rely on data terminals as their standard equipment. Standing behind them is often a “feng shui consultant.”
You may laugh, but this approach does work in crypto. Xiaobing knows the owner of a Hong Kong–listed company who is a devout feng shui believer, donating real money to temples—possibly more than the company spends on R&D.
The result? Call it feng shui attracting benefactors. Starting in 2023, he began buying Bitcoin and made hundreds of millions of dollars by accumulating it. Later, riding the narrative wave of DAT (crypto treasury reserves), the company’s stock price doubled again. Everyone knows this is survivor bias, but it does not change the fact that he made a fortune.
There are counterexamples as well. A whistleblower KOL known for a frog avatar also consulted a feng shui advisor, who told him not to trade recently. He ignored the advice, scratched his trading itch, and played derivatives anyway—ending in a clean and total liquidation.
This phenomenon is not purely superstition.
Traditional land-based civilizations emphasize farming: sow one seed in spring, reap thousands in autumn. The core is certainty. But what do maritime civilizations face? Storms and unknown seas.
Why do people along China’s southeastern coast worship Mazu? Not out of ignorance, but because on the open sea, beyond experience and technology, you need something more.
At its core, the crypto market is a modern version of the Age of Exploration—facing bottomless waters and sudden storms. Humans are like this: the greater the randomness and volatility, the stronger the need for a supernatural psychological anchor.
When candlestick charts fail, and a single tweet from Musk, Trump, or CZ can move markets, feng shui becomes the final psychological line of defense. This is not ignorance; it is an instinctive human response to extreme wealth volatility.
After all, when your assets can fluctuate by 50% in a single day, you have to believe in something just to sleep at night. As for whether the God of Wealth understands blockchain—does that really matter?
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Mixin has launched USTD-margined perpetual contracts, bringing derivative trading into the chat scene.
The privacy-focused crypto wallet Mixin announced today the launch of its U-based perpetual contract (a derivative priced in USDT). Unlike traditional exchanges, Mixin has taken a new approach by "liberating" derivative trading from isolated matching engines and embedding it into the instant messaging environment.
Users can directly open positions within the app with leverage of up to 200x, while sharing positions, discussing strategies, and copy trading within private communities. Trading, social interaction, and asset management are integrated into the same interface.
Based on its non-custodial architecture, Mixin has eliminated friction from the traditional onboarding process, allowing users to participate in perpetual contract trading without identity verification.
The trading process has been streamlined into five steps:
· Choose the trading asset
· Select long or short
· Input position size and leverage
· Confirm order details
· Confirm and open the position
The interface provides real-time visualization of price, position, and profit and loss (PnL), allowing users to complete trades without switching between multiple modules.
Mixin has directly integrated social features into the derivative trading environment. Users can create private trading communities and interact around real-time positions:
· End-to-end encrypted private groups supporting up to 1024 members
· End-to-end encrypted voice communication
· One-click position sharing
· One-click trade copying
On the execution side, Mixin aggregates liquidity from multiple sources and accesses decentralized protocol and external market liquidity through a unified trading interface.
By combining social interaction with trade execution, Mixin enables users to collaborate, share, and execute trading strategies instantly within the same environment.
Mixin has also introduced a referral incentive system based on trading behavior:
· Users can join with an invite code
· Up to 60% of trading fees as referral rewards
· Incentive mechanism designed for long-term, sustainable earnings
This model aims to drive user-driven network expansion and organic growth.
Mixin's derivative transactions are built on top of its existing self-custody wallet infrastructure, with core features including:
· Separation of transaction account and asset storage
· User full control over assets
· Platform does not custody user funds
· Built-in privacy mechanisms to reduce data exposure
The system aims to strike a balance between transaction efficiency, asset security, and privacy protection.
Against the background of perpetual contracts becoming a mainstream trading tool, Mixin is exploring a different development direction by lowering barriers, enhancing social and privacy attributes.
The platform does not only view transactions as execution actions but positions them as a networked activity: transactions have social attributes, strategies can be shared, and relationships between individuals also become part of the financial system.
Mixin's design is based on a user-initiated, user-controlled model. The platform neither custodies assets nor executes transactions on behalf of users.
This model aligns with a statement issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on April 13, 2026, titled "Staff Statement on Whether Partial User Interface Used in Preparing Cryptocurrency Securities Transactions May Require Broker-Dealer Registration."
The statement indicates that, under the premise where transactions are entirely initiated and controlled by users, non-custodial service providers that offer neutral interfaces may not need to register as broker-dealers or exchanges.
Mixin is a decentralized, self-custodial privacy wallet designed to provide secure and efficient digital asset management services.
Its core capabilities include:
· Aggregation: integrating multi-chain assets and routing between different transaction paths to simplify user operations
· High liquidity access: connecting to various liquidity sources, including decentralized protocols and external markets
· Decentralization: achieving full user control over assets without relying on custodial intermediaries
· Privacy protection: safeguarding assets and data through MPC, CryptoNote, and end-to-end encrypted communication
Mixin has been in operation for over 8 years, supporting over 40 blockchains and more than 10,000 assets, with a global user base exceeding 10 million and an on-chain self-custodied asset scale of over $1 billion.
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