Max Widmer 🟪

DAS quickly looking like the best / highest signal event in years.

We're growing our sales team at @Blockworks 🚨 Link + details below:

if you know who all these people are you need therapy

@LehmanBrother42 @blockworksDAS See you there, Chris!

Crypto friends: see you all at @blockworksDAS next week.

Socrates in 460 BC: “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Marcus Aurelius in 150 CE: “You have power over your mind—not outside events.” Augustine of Hippo in 400 CE: “Do not go outside; return into yourself. In the inward man dwells the truth.” Marc Andreessen in 2026:

This is wild. 143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon. They were actually building one of the largest real-world visual datasets in AI history. Niantic just disclosed that photos and AR scans collected through Pokémon Go have produced a dataset of over 30 billion real-world images. The company is now using that data to power visual navigation AI for delivery robots. Players didn't just walk around with their phones. They scanned landmarks, storefronts, parks, and sidewalks from every angle, at every time of day, in lighting and weather conditions that staged photography would never capture. They documented the physical world at a scale no mapping company with a fleet of vehicles could have replicated on the same timeline or budget. Niantic collected this systematically, data point by data point, across eight years, while users thought the only thing at stake was catching a rare Charizard. The most valuable AI training datasets in the world aren't being assembled in data centers. They're being built by people who have no idea they're building them.

this is actually insane > be tech guy in australia > adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live > not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4 > pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA > feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold > zero background in biology > identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets > design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch > genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own > need ethics approval to administer it > red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine > 3 months, finally approved > drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection > tumor halves > coat gets glossy again > dog is alive and happy > professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?” one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline. we are going to cure so many diseases. I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

Banger essay by @WillManidis

@litteralyme0 😂

How i feel buying a kebab from my local muslim

Been feeling this the past few days. The scale has officially tilted and we’ve entered a new era

We are quickly approaching "fire marshals are going to be mad at Bennett" levels for DAS NYC Get in while you can

the importance of a guest of this stature speaking at a crypto conference in 2026 cannot be overstated 14 days until @blockworksDAS

@dlawant @Matt_Hougan @marcryptonio @marcarjoon Let's go @dlawant!

If you want to understand the crypto-tradfi convergence, this is the room you want to be in. We’ve got the buy-side covered (@Matt_Hougan), the sell-side (yours truly), and the DeFi frontier (@marcryptonio), with @marcarjoon keeping the gears turning. Launching tomorrow: @BWInflection by @Blockworks

We're less than three weeks away from @blockworksDAS NYC. Crypto's growing up fast. The Institutions are here DAS NYC is where it all converges. Join us at the @javitscenter March 24th - 26th to see speakers like @JasonYanowitz and @robbiemitchnick break down our onchain future. Grab your ticket below if you haven't already. Prices go up this Friday. WIDMER20 gets you 20% off. blockworks.com/event/digital-…

Really excited to get this new show off the ground! Inflection point represents the.... inflection point the crypto industry is going through right now as it transitions from a retail speculation thing to an institutional asset class. I fundamentally believe the next 5 years will look nothing like the last five and I'm excited to have @Matt_Hougan @marcryptonio @dlawant @marcarjoon all on board and unpacking this phase shift. Give the account a follow!

@lukeburgis Great piece, Luke. Appreciate you cutting through the noise.

In December 2025, former US Senator @BenSasse announced that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. That's the primary topic for this @UncKnowledge conversation about mortality, faith, and what truly matters when time is short. Talking to host @P_M_Robinson, Sasse reflects on "redeeming the time"—holding ambition lightly, loving family more deliberately, and resisting the urge to make politics or professional success the center of life. The discussion also covers Sasse's thoughts on the failures of Congress; the dangers of a fragmented, attention-starved republic; the crisis of higher education; and the moral challenges of technological abundance. He speaks candidly and movingly about regret, forgiveness, prayer, and suffering—arguing that while death is a real enemy, it does not get the final word. Watch the full conversation on X:

@fejau_inc Zynn o'clock.

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It’s time for the industry to grow up and we’re laser focused on leading the charge.