AJ
@ajbanon
General Partner @serotonin_hq Building http://SE.RO
OpenAI is not the AI company of the future. They will be remembered as the Yahoo of AI. The entire senior team is gone. Either started their own company or poached by bigger tech. Corporate structure is a mess. It may not be FTX like fraud, but it will wipe out way more investor…
We see this happen all the time. Both through MM agreements and through CEX listing agreements. Massive problem in the space. Wipes out a ton of invested capital which reduces the rate of innovation/adoption of crypto.
One area of crypto mkt structure that seems very opaque and weird to me still is market maker <> token issuer / foundation relationships. I would guess this is responsible for a lot more issues than it gets credit for. Feels like in the last year there have been several "our…
$4 trillion of $500 trillion means we are 0.8% of total liquid global assets. If you think you missed the party, we have another 15-20 years of this transformation before every asset lives onchain. Long road ahead. Lots of work to do.
🔥 BULLISH: Total crypto market cap hits $4 trillion for the first time ever today.
It's always funny to see new people try the same ideas over and over again each cycle. Timing is so important and there are a lot of great founders in crypto that were just too early. We're going through the let's tokenize everything phase right now. Most will be too early
Treasury companies will start as bag holders. Phase two will evolve into eth/BTC financial companies that engage in borrowing/lending, trading strategies, etc. You can bet on long term value appreciation + income generated with the balance sheet.
🎯 Delta neutral is one of the most thrown around terms in crypto. Normally when people pitch it to me, I immediately associate them with retardation.
don’t worry folks, it’s all delta neutral
Dinari has the potential to capture a market as big, if not bigger than stables. 50%+ market share and just getting started.
Not all Tokenized Stocks are created equal. @GabeOtte of @DinariGlobal breaks down the stark contrast between xStocks and what Robinhood is doing in the EU. “xStocks is not an ownership of the stock... It’s just kind of tracking roughly the financial upside.” It’s not 1:1.…
Love @avax and @franklinpayroll partnering on payroll and bill pay. Avalanche is doing awesome work recently on regulatory, tokenization, and also picking up the fund partnership with @vaneck_us and @vaneckpk 🔥
We’re happy to bring compliant, onchain, crypto payroll, bill pay, and revenue mgmt to the @avax ecosystem! The Avalanche builder community is inspiring and we’re glad to get to be a part of it now.
Moving in the right direction here. I finally stopped getting messages from people I told to buy Coinbase stock.
The market is trying to find out how valuable @coinbase's regulatory moat is worth. The answer is 12 years and that is not priced in. Imagine having a monopoly on the US crypto market for the next decade. Brian Armstrong will be one of the wealthiest people in the country.
There's never been a better time to be in crypto but few worse times to be a crypto startup.
There is nothing more frustrating than working with and advising a company for 12+ months, you get them to market reasonably, they hire sketchy MMs, pay sketchy exchanges and tank all that work within 30 days of launching the token.
Crypto has evolved from a VC backed industry to an institution backed industry. Everyone who is expecting the same cycles as before is going to miss.
Crypto treasury companies are in the first inning. Saylor will go down as the greatest trade of the century. But many more will clean up. We like $BTBT as the next one up with Ethereum picking up institutional steam as the largest beneficiary of the tokenized economy.
I was just asked if I'm in Italy for business, it literally didn't occur to me that any business is done in this country. I could trip over more business in a coffee shop in Williamsburg. Italy is just a place where Americans spend money.
The best launch will be @solstice_io. Solana needs better defi that allows its users to grow capital sustainably and outpace solana inflation. I expect it will be a quick run to $1bn TVL when it prints its APY numbers.
Best upcoming mainnet launch in next few months will be ___?
Last night I saw a girl swap her pants for a guys shorts so he could get into the club. Never met before and she didn't hesitate. Belief in humanity has never been higher.
Incredible growth from @maplefinance. I think this is going to scale to $6bn+ in TVL and probably doing $40m+ ARR by EOY. It is currently our largest position @serotonin_hq.
New all time high monthly revenue @maplefinance. $15.5MM ARR and revenue growth of 248% in just the last 3 months. All signs pointing to trend acceleration