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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!

When institutional allocators talk about deploying onchain, the conversation rarely gets stuck on yield. It gets stuck on back office admin functions, compliance, reporting and transparency. Excited to partner with @Securitize Fund Services to answer that for @upshift_fi: auditable NAV, investor-level allocation transparency, audit-ready data.

@Duderichy literally me whenever I'm out there

don’t text I’m in a very good place rn (California)

@DeFiAzog Hi

Alright gang anyone in Croatia / Bosnia / Albania / Montenegro ?

Two weeks ago, when Drift was exploited for $280M, @aave founder Stani publicly mocked them, saying “this is not DeFi” In a twist of irony, today AAVE has been hit for $280M+ with the same method, likely by the same attackers... Karma is real. Grave dancing is bad. 🤯

everyone was quick to shame @cindyleowtt when the hack happened. where are all the haters now that Drift managed to organize funds BEFORE retrieving the stolen money?

I am aggressively Californian and there’s nothing I can do about it

@jonbma @artemis lfg

Dear Crypto, It took us 4 years to admit the hard truth: tokens don’t make sense and value enabled by blockchains accrues to equities. We built @artemis in 2022 to bring fundamentals to crypto. We succeeded spectacularly. The best liquid token funds use Artemis. However, most tokens that don’t have strong revenue are down only. Along the way we pioneered stablecoin analytics, app-level revenue tracking, and comparing blockchains across real KPIs. We were jeered as normies for focusing on revenue in crypto and trying to figure out what's real. Turns out the normies were right. Revenue and Free Cash Flow is what matters. Today we announce the launch of Artemis II: The open investment terminal for ANY and EVERY investor who wants to be smart. It's the terminal I wish I had when I left the hedge fund industry in 2022. It's the terminal I wish my Yeh Yeh had when he was investing to try and feed his family of 7, and the terminal @anthonyyim’s Dad wished he had when he was trying to break into Wall Street. The first sector we’re tackling is Digital Finance. It’s for the fintech investor —the ones comparing Robinhood and Hyperliquid, drilling into Circle CPN vs Stripe Tempo on the same screen, comparing Polymarket and Kalshi incentives. Next is AI, then Energy, and beyond. Link below. Reach out if you want to build with us. Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Lose, Jon & Anthony

Today marks a new chapter for @DriftProtocol x @tether, built on resilience and trust. We will be coming back stronger than ever, and giving our 110% every time.

After April 1, we put our heads down and committed to making this right for our users and partners. Today, we're announcing a collaboration with @tether and other partners, through which they are proposed to contribute up to $147.5 million combined to support user recovery and facilitate the Drift Protocol relaunch. The collaboration is structured around a clear, revenue-driven recovery mechanism designed to prioritize users from day one through a revenue-linked credit facility, an ecosystem grant, and loans to market-makers. During the initial phase of the collaboration, a substantial portion of exchange revenue, together with committed support capital, is intended to fund a dedicated user recovery pool. The willingness of @paoloardoino, Tether and our partners to commit real capital to Drift’s recovery says something about the strength of what we've built and what we're building next, as well as our shared vision to scale the Solana DeFi ecosystem together. We are committed to continuing to provide transparency rooted in accountability as we build Drift back stronger in the coming months, and have outlined initial steps towards relaunch and user recovery in this Incident Recovery Update: drift.trade/updates/incide… Full details from @DriftProtocol: businesswire.com/news/home/2026…

Today, Drift is announcing a collaboration with @tether and other partners totaling up to nearly $150 million to support our commitment to a relaunch with USDT at the center, and a path to user recovery. These funds encompass a $100M revenue-linked credit facility, an ecosystem grant, and loans to market makers, designed to fund a dedicated user recovery pool. Learn more 👇

@ThinkingBone +1 been telling u this

real

@ThinkingBone Holy shit they read you to filth

@tracybbd we're all rooting for you🫶

Never heard the term “grave dancing” until today. 
Usually I can appreciate dark humour, but this isn’t one of those moments. This is real loss — for all users, for the team building on us and for the team. Real people, real money. Thinking of everyone affected. I’m here if anyone needs support but please refer to @DriftProtocol for most accurate updates

every exploit is our industry's collective loss. reminder to never dance on someone's grave

April fools doesn’t hit the same living in a misinformation epidemic

@domdotx @LayerZero_Core legend, rooting for you

After 2.5 years at @LayerZero_Core, I’m stepping away to build. Grateful doesn’t begin to cover it. What a ride. I joined as employee #50. When I left: → Grew to 150+ person team → Shipped V2 of the protocol (modular security, horizontal composability, etc) → Token launch at $3B valuation (a16z & Sequoia co-lead; first time ever) → Onboarded 700+ incredible partners (stablecoins, RWAs, chains etc) → Built Zero blockchain (100x improvements to network, storage & compute) I fully believe LayerZero will be one of the most consequential blockchain companies in the world. @PrimordialAA, @ryanzarick, @caleb_banister, @Bakxys, & @MaybeMaxPower - thank you for setting the standard. To the team (and now friends) - wouldn't trade it for the world. To our partners and community - the relationships we have built are for a lifetime. Now, a story most people haven't heard. 48hrs before LayerZero's TGE, the office was buzzing. It's 2am and the last thing I wanted to do was commute home just to come back 6hrs later. So naturally, I asked the new product guy (we’d known each other for a month), @0xmitvh, if I could crash on his couch 😂 2:30am, we're talking. "The office energy is electric" "The team is dialled" Talking about how one day we wanted to build something the same way. We agreed that night, whenever the time came we had an idea we were convicted on, we would drop everything and go all in. Two years later, that moment arrived. And you best believe it was none else than for prediction markets. But the experience right now isn't great. Open any prediction market app today. You are hit with categories, subcategories, charts, order books. 40 cents, 60 cents. Pages of the "what" but never the "why." Give this to the regular joe and he's lost. What if markets came to you based on your interests, before you even knew you cared? What if instead of charts and order books it was content; entertaining, informative and backed by real money? That is what we are building. Meet @pulsepredicts. The Prediction Media Application. Where Markets Are Media. The world is going to consume information differently in the future. We intend to be the reason why. ;P

good question! i'm the founder, here are some answers typed hastily: 1. this is built in a way that's outside of anyone's control by deploying this entirely on a blockchain, anyone can access it, interact with it, and build on top of it. because the protocol is openly accessible and its core logic cannot be changed by any one person or entity, third-party developers can build on it with confidence. thus, someone around the world can build their own website and plug into the same shared prize pool. when they do, they earn 100% of revenue. our goal is for a million online storefronts to sell tickets, not just our own. we can't localize our app perfectly for every country om the world, but developers in each country can do so. this is live, we've got many sites already selling tickets to our shared prize pool! 2. we solved a chicken and egg problem to kick this off to build a big prize pool, you need to sell tickets. to sell tickets, you need a big prize pool. instead, we allow anyone to offer "insurance" and earn payouts. more info here: x.com/megapot/status… 3. the timing is right with better infra and stablecoins many of our players don't know anything about crypto, and don't need to know, the crypto is all abstracted under the hood. 500 million people hold stablecoins now, and we make it easy so you can just send funds to an address from any app, and instantly receive a ticket 4. ultimately, this is an early stage consumer startup these are just a few of the many things we do differently. but it's going to be a ton of execution work, not just innovation, to make this scale globally

I’ve been working on Megapot for two years. It started as an experiment, then players from 124 countries showed up, we paid out 19 jackpot winners, and the jackpot crossed $1M. Today, we’re announcing our $5M round led by Dragonfly

@mattgurbiel Congrats Matt!! Very well deserved :)

I just got promoted to VP of Business Development at RedStone. It’s been 4 incredible years and the journey was anything but smooth. Year 1 - I had no idea what I was doing. I was the first non-technical hire. No clients, no revenue, no playbook. I spent most of my time writing tweets and trying to figure out how to explain what RedStone was to people who had never heard of us. Half the time I wasn't sure I could explain it to myself. Year 2 - I got humbled. Did hundreds of calls. Most of them ended in "No". I had to learn from the rejections. What are we missing? What did the prospect need that we couldn't see? Those questions changed how we built the product and we finally closed our first clients. Year 3 - I learned that doing the work and building a team to do the work are completely different skills. Learnt to structure 3 business lines and helped take RedStone from scrappy startup to one of the most renowned oracle providers in the industry. Year 4 - I realized the playbook needed to change again as we are going upmarket. Learning enterprise sales from scratch. Asking harder questions about how we build a scalable business. My team is 9 people now. I'm sitting on more calls than ever ('be a student of what you sell'), giving direct feedback, holding everyone (including myself) to a higher standard. I’m proud of what we’ve achieved so far: - 200+ B2B clients across 110 blockchains - $8 billion of user funds secured, in the most important DeFi protocols - Became primary oracle for BlackRock BUIDL, Apollo ACRED, and HamiltonLane SCOPE via Securitize - And many other things I can't fit here A lot has changed over these 4 years, but one thing remained the same: our clients genuinely enjoy working with us and client satisfaction has been high throughout. That’s the thing I'm most proud of. Thank you @MarcinRedStone and @kuba_redstone for the trust! And to my Team: none of these achievements would have been possible without you. This win is yours as much as it's mine. Year 5 starts in 2 months, and RedStone is becoming the complete data and risk infrastructure layer for DeFi and institutions. We’ll be discussing our institutional-grade products at EthCC next week. If you want to know more, come find me. A bit of 'how it started/how it is going' below:

@danielgolliher “Americans should never come to Europe,' she said, and tried to laugh and began to cry, 'it means they never can be happy again. What's the good of an American who isn't happy? Happiness was all we had.”

Optimism is the American Way. Often people think of optimism in one of two ways: (1) as an unsubstantiated hope that things must get better, or (2) a "definite optimism" that is borne out by a contemplation of the facts. I embrace both of these, in their proper time and place. Primarily, I am an advocate of #2. If reality gives me hope for betterment, then by God I will strive for it. And in any darkness where the light doesn't shine, the task is to find a match. In no world ought one give in to the demands of small-minded acceptance of current circumstance. But the American DNA has a particular twist on optimism that is revealed, surprisingly, in historian Daniel Boorstin's view that "the colonies were a disproving ground for utopias" ("The Americans: The Colonial Experience, 1958). Each of the several colonies were founded on a vision, and in each case that vision ultimately did not endure upon sustained contact with reality. Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth colonies were created to bring about a renewed godly society; both ultimately lost their religious organizing zeal, and inspired new colonies (Rhode Island) who pursued the same thing, only to also fail. Maryland was originally a safe haven for Catholics that was inundated with Protestants. Virginia was chartered with a vision of bringing English society to the new world, but quickly found itself unable to even survive. And yet. And yet the first Americans forged ahead, their original visions lying in shards around them, to create a new society nonetheless--one adapted to their context, steeped in a tradition of self-government, and still hopeful for the future. When their plans failed to connect with their ideals, the Americans instead adjusted course and kept sailing. We see this over and over again in the nation's history. This is the whole story of our Constitution. After the Treaty of Paris ended the Revolution in 1783, America proceeded to fail. The Articles of Confederation did not work. And so a new course was charted in our Constitution--which itself has failed, and been renewed, multiple times. The American view of optimism, my view of optimism, assumes that plans laid against ideals will most definitely shatter. The optimism does not rely upon the plans succeeding fully or permanently, but in the assurance that one can make new plans and adjust course. American optimism does not live in our ends, but in our methods. Not in the attainment of happiness, but in the pursuit of it. Our Constitution's Preamble begins: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union..." American optimism takes perfection as our present state, but qualifies "perfection" with "more." You could think of this as a contradiction of terms, like "very unique." But "more perfect" reveals the American view of optimism--we hold certain truths to be self evident, we pursue ideals, we view our project as the most noble and just, and assume that it falls short nonetheless. And that we can do something about that. Fundamentally, the American optimist is the one who meets every "even though?" with an ardent "even so!" The American optimist places their faith in their character, their ability to act, and in the noble pursuit, acknowledging that nothing can be guaranteed, but that no great thing can be won permanently anyway. To be an American optimist is to be in pursuit. To look up and out. To win, lose, renew, and win again. American optimism is the only way I want to live.