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I'm so happy my friends landing into good teams. Good people win, always.

Some personal news 🙌 I’m super excited to share that I’m joining @dragonfly_xyz to build out portfolio support! Thrilled to be working with some of the most brilliant folks in crypto and excited to learn from powerhouses @casatay @hosseeb @tomhschmidt and the whole team!

holy shit

Getting back into long-form writing: excerpt from @LayerZero_Core's Q2 2025 Protocol Update Letter to Investors What started as solving fragmented assets became infrastructure for largest wealth transfer in history. $ZRO

there’s one thing people in crypto should be focused on and it’s acquiring tradfi users. that’s it

City that entirely runs on random gold rushes, gets yet another one

2/ Securitize has named @redstone_defi its first and primary blockchain oracle provider for tokenized products, including: I. BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL), II. Apollo Diversified Credit Securitize Fund (ACRED) III. Future tokenized funds.

THE UNICORN HAS ENTERED THE COMPOUND! Here’s what to expect from @unichain on v3: - Dynamic Tokens: LP token collateral 👀 - New Plays: Neutral vaults to stack yield. - New Homeland, for idle uni v4 liquidity. and we are just getting started! Powered by @redstone_defi.

Hot take: Williamsburg has now overtaken West Village and Soho as the most sceney neighborhood in New York.

imo, at this point it doesnt matter if youre a user, dev, vc, trader, influencer, or anything else. as long as your plan isnt to max extract and leave, then one of your main priorities should be working together to purge the people who are dragging our reputation through the mud…

biggest risk to crypto’s success long-term is giving more power to short-term grifters. the issue for normie influencers and politicians is that they’re by far the easiest target. this is why we see so many grifty teams around them, making them launch extractive memecoins, etc.

SCOOP: Daniel Penny Gets Hired by Andreessen Horowitz “Daniel acted with courage in a tough situation,” said @a16z partner @davidu in a statement explaining the hire. thefp.com/p/exclusive-da…

Also we just gonna ignore this quote lol

now seems like a good time to remind everyone that crypto is not american, does not depend on american exceptionalism, and in fact is a bet on declining nation-state hegemonies unlike just about every tech you’ve ever encountered, crypto is global, open-source, and open to all

I wish people in this industry would channel the energy they spend promoting their own brand into mentoring others and giving back to newcomers entering

2025 will be the year of the Oracle Wars. The entire oracles vertical is misled by the false narrative that one blue giant controls the entire industry. The market will reveal the truth. Monopolies can't and won't thrive in crypto.

it's still mind-blowing to me how far non-chainlink oracles have come over the last 2 years in a sector that was effectively a monopoly prior oracle diversity is a good thing, it makes the whole ecosystem more fault-tolerant

hot take, exposing multiple bridging routes to users is overrated users don’t want to choose between several options and make a million micro decisions They want it to Just Work

RedStone is a cross-chain oracle platform that delivers data feeds to blockchain protocols supporting both push and pull models, serving over 100 clients and securing $5B+ in assets. I've known @Marcin_Kaz13 + team for a number of years, excited to be building w/ @redstone_defi…

Chipped launches on two major e-commerce platforms this week. The problem with this space’s idea of ‘scale’ is that it is theoretically horizontal, it’s the same users using more platforms While we are onboarding your mothers and sisters 🫶