WYDE Weekly | May 1, 2026
April 21: Aaron and Martin sat down with GM Farcaster discussing the path to a billion meals.
April 23: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced revisions to IRS Form 990 (501(c) annual report) targeting fiscal sponsorship arrangements.
April 27: Y Combinator partner Garry Tan called for AI investment in low-pesticide agriculture.
April 28: BitMart listed $EAT and launched the 30-day Trade-to-Feed competition. Up to $4.4M USDT in trader rewards.
April 28: USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins flagged 14,000 SNAP recipients in a single state registered as owners of luxury vehicles.
April 29: Pump.fun and donate.gg launched Charity Coins, routing memecoin creator fees to verified nonprofits.
April 29: Chan Zuckerberg Biohub committed $500 million over five years to the Virtual Biology Initiative.
April 29/30: $EAT dropped 27.4% in a single 4-hour window after the listing as early holders took first liquidity but snapped back 41% the next day with 12,500 meals.
April 30: USDA renames and relocates across America and SNAP follows suit.
May 1: EAT Street Team applications opened. Five teams across America. Up to $15K in payouts. Apply at apply.eat.ong.
End of May: The $EAT Card ships. FDIC-insured, runs on Visa rails, and routes interchange fees back into $EAT purchases that grow the cause pool.
Also this week: Cause-partner conversations advancing with Happy Doggo and Soi Dog on a potential second cause coin. Aaron and Martin are in Miami next week for ConsenSys, then heading to the Crypto Polo Cup with Luna PR. 33,000 meals funded total — up roughly 8,000 in seven days, the largest weekly jump since launch.
[NEW PODCAST] Aaron & Martin join GMFarcaster (Starts at 26:29)
🔨 The Build
Four standalone shipments, all tied to the same fee mechanism, all funding the same meals counter.
📑 The Trust Collapse Got Louder
The donation tech that was supposed to fix charitable giving spent the week defending itself in court and answering follow-up letters from 22 state AGs.
🌾 Innovation is Outpacing Institutions…Again
Iran will charge oil tankers $1 per barrel in Bitcoin to pass the Strait of Hormuz.
🥡 The Government Seeks to Clean Up the Food System
----------The federal point of contact for downstream organizations now sits in Indianapolis, Dallas, Kansas City, Raleigh, and Denver. Total SNAP enrollment dropped from 42.8 million to 38.5 million year-over-year. Regional food banks, school nutrition programs, and grant recipients should plan accordingly.
📊 Crypto This Week
The macro held. BTC and ETH chopped within recent ranges with no major US policy news to move them. The $EAT cycle was the story we were closest to. Roughly $1 million in volume routed through the WYDE Impact Exchange in 72 hours, four times typical pace, funding an estimated 12,500 meals during the volatility window alone. Up candle, down candle, doesn't matter. The meals counter only goes one way.
🍽️ $EAT
Meals funded: nearly 33,000 (up ~8,000 in seven days, the largest weekly jump since launch). Trade $EAT • CoinMarketCap profile • Live impact metrics.
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Trade $EAT: wyde.org/eat
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$EAT CA: 0x680bc6ed5c7222e2f29bdbc87f8e8f3400d8ce04
💳 The $EAT Card
Ships end of May. FDIC-insured. Visa and Mastercard rails. Interchange fees route back into $EAT purchases that grow the cause pool. Every swipe funds meals. The Street Team gets the card first. Public rollout follows. Cardholder waitlist is open at eat.ong.
📖 The New Money Order
Two technologies are quietly rewriting every business model on earth. Yours is on the list.
Aaron's new book, The New Money Order: The Business Leader's Guide to Programmable Money, AI Agents, and the Financial System That Replaces Everything You Know, ships May 9, 2026. If the last 18 months have convinced you that AI, agents, programmable money, and tokens are reshaping the competitive map, this is the operator's guide to what happens next.
✉️ Join
Three things we are looking for. Cardholders for the end-of-May rollout (waitlist at eat.ong). Creators for cohort one of the EAT Street Team (apply.eat.ong). Verified hunger-relief organizations to claim a listing on the Hunger Network (eat.ong/claim/start). All free. All open right now. Reply to this email or join the Telegram for early access. Join the waitlist →
We came into the week as a token. We left it as a category.
🔗 Links
Trade $EAT: wyde.org/eat
Trade $EAT on Coinbase: https://www.coinbase.com/price/wyde-end-hunger-base-0x680bc6ed5c7222e2f29bdbc87f8e8f3400d8ce04
Buy $EAT merch: eat.ong
$EAT on Coingecko: https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/wyde-end-hunger
EAT Card Waitlist: eat.ong
GTM War Room: gtm.eat.ong
DexScreener: dexscreener.com
Follow on all socials: https://linktr.ee/wydeorg
Disruptors for Good podcast: https://www.causeartist.com/wyde-crypto-impact-exchange/
Token Unlocks and Rewards Official announcement: https://x.com/wydeorg/status/2001562658949206255
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This is informational content only and not financial advice. Token values fluctuate based on market conditions. Impact outcomes depend on nonprofit execution and trading volume. WYDE (Wyoming Decentralized Exchange Association) operates as a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization. $EAT is the first cause token on the Impact Exchange. Trading fees fund verified nonprofits through transparent on-chain governance.