Amit Mishra
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Amit Mishra
@Amit_Defi
Web2 gave me skills, Web3 gives me headaches (and hope)🚀 Shift Manager @Dominos & Ambassador @rootstock_io @arbitrum
prayagraj ,India Joined Ekim 2021
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Who Am I?
The fee users pay to process transactions on networks like Ethereum.
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Amit Mishra retweeted
The VDEX x @TheArena trading competition just wrapped up.
$15,000 in prizes distributed, with $6,500 in prizes going to the PnL leaderboard:
Top 3 PnL:
🥇 @turkunerv
🥈 @thecryptoturk
🥉 @matthewjmalek
This is what trading on VDEX looks like.
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On This Day In 2004, Brian Lara Smashed 400* Against England 🔥🐐🫡
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Crypto solved the gap!
Sandeep | CEO, Polygon Foundation (※,※)@sandeepnailwal
My maternal grandfather was a house servant in Mumbai. Every time he had to send money back home to my grandmother and kids, he had to walk 3-4 km to reach the nearest post office. Home was a small village near Dwarhat in Uttarakhand, which didnt even have road access back then, the closest road came much later and was still about a km away from the village. And sending that money wasnt a quick errand. He had to take half a day off, sometimes a full day, just to stand in long lines at the post office and send a "money order". The maalik he worked for would get pissed about it and cut his Sunday leave, and Sunday was the only day he had off in the entire week. He paid a fee that wasnt cheap for him, and even when everything went smoothly the money would still reach days later. That was the reality of being poor, you had to toil just to move your own money. The fees were somewhat manageable because India had a nationalised postal service, but they were still harsh for a guy like my grandfather. The delays were the worst part. If a money order got stuck for a week or two my grandmother would end up borrowing wheat and dal from neighbours, especially in peak winter when supply was already tight. Sometimes during strikes or disruptions he had to trust random intermediaries to carry the cash for him. You just didnt have many other options. And this isnt some old story. The global average cost of sending remittances today is still around 6-7%. Thats what the poor are still paying just to move their own money across a border. Now someone can send dollar stablecoins across borders in seconds for less than a cent, no bank sitting in between taking its cut. In Latin America, Africa, Southeast Asia, stablecoins are already becoming part of how people actually live. When your own currency is devaluing year after year, nobody has to sell you on the idea, you just want something stable you can hold and send whenever you need to. My Nanaji deserved this convenience 50 years ago. Billions of people still deserve it today. Thats why @0xPolygon wants to move all money onchain 💜
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Good morning ☀️
My trading strategy:
Buy high
Sell low
Learn lesson 😅
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Some Polygon numbers to end the week:
- Stablecoin supply $3.6B (ATH)
- 35% of global stablecoin market share on Polygon
- 713M stablecoin txns in March (highest month ever)
- 3 mainnet upgrades in 4 months
And its only April! Back in NYC next week, lot more coming 💜
GIF
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1 bitcoin price
April 8, 2026: $71,449
April 8, 2025: $77,518
April 8, 2024: $73,243
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Good Morning ☀️
Checking charts before brushing teeth.
Trader priorities
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Amit Mishra retweeted
Amit Mishra retweeted
A faster, simpler way to move assets across chains🔥
@aori_io is now live on Rootstock.
Its intent settlement protocol brings cross-chain liquidity routing to Bitcoin DeFi, letting users move assets across networks without the usual multi-step bridging process.
✔️No manual bridging.
✔️No multi-step routing.
✔️Lower costs.
✔️Faster capital movement.
For Rootstock users: a simpler route to external liquidity across @ethereum, @base, @arbitrum, and @Optimism.
For Aori users: direct access to Bitcoin-secured DeFi — lending, trading, and Bitcoin-secured finance strategies on Rootstock.
Aori has already settled $600M+ in volume. Now that liquidity connects to the Bitcoin smart contract ecosystem.
USDT0 live at launch. rBTC and more to follow. More details in the link below 👇
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Amit Mishra retweeted
Top 10 Ecosystems by Capital Raised in Q1 2026
• @0xPolygon — $612M
• @plumenetwork — $288M
• @ethereum — $165M
• @solana — $164M
• @base — $64.6M
• @BNBCHAIN — $33.0M
• @SonicLabs — $25.5M
• Bitcoin — $25.2M
• @HyperliquidX — $21.2M
• Cross-Chain — $20.5M
Polygon leads with $612M across 2 rounds, with Polymarket as the top deal. Polymarket is reportedly in discussions for a new round at $20B valuation - the prediction market is now Polygon's most valuable application, holding $428M TVL and driving the network's activity surge.
Plume at #2 with $288M across 4 rounds, driven by BlackOpal's $200M facility for tokenizing Brazilian credit card receivables on Plume's RWA chain.
The gap between Polygon and Plume tells the story of Q1: prediction markets and RWA infrastructure are where the serious capital is going.
Data source 🔗 @CryptoRank_io
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Amit Mishra retweeted
The real story of Rootstock isn't 80% of Bitcoin's hashpower, 100% uptime, or zero hacks in 8 years.
It's the question @dieguito asked over a decade ago that started it all: “Bitcoin serves the wealthier 15%. But what about everybody else?”
Watch Still Early, a short documentary on how BTCFi can be for everyone.
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Amit Mishra retweeted
Today is Satoshi’s birthday. And a reminder of what Bitcoin was meant to be.
Rootstock was built to take that vision further, turning Bitcoin into something that can actually be used.
We’re launching BTCFi Week on Rootstock to show what that looks like.
Who's ready?
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Amit Mishra retweeted
Amit Mishra retweeted
"This launch just trades one centralized middleman for another," says Richard Green, VP of Rootstock Institutional.
@dlnews
Institutions don't want a shinier wrapper. They want decentralization.
The infrastructure for that already exists. 3,000 days of uninterrupted operations, over 30% of all BTC-secured finance activity happens on @rootstock_io.
Rootstock creates a framework for treasury teams to transform Bitcoin from inert reserves into functional capital without adding new trust assumptions or operational risk.
More in the article linked in the comments.
DL News@dlnews
Circle announces plans to debut wrapped Bitcoin for institutions. Here’s what it means dlnews.com/articles/defi/…
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Amit Mishra retweeted
🏏 47K+ mystery balls unlocked already…
And the game’s still on.
Big rewards on the field — $1,000,000 up for grabs.
All you need is your squad and a few smart moves.
Don’t just watch the game. Play it.
Follow @BinanceForIN for more updates!
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