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@rf_extended @extendedapp 👏🏼

Extended end of Q1 update [TLDR] - Multi-asset collateral launching soon - TradFi expansion accelerating (>25 markets live, partnership coming, focused on distribution via TradFi brokers) - Becoming more institutional-ready (pricing methodology, trading workflows) - Building decentralised, high-throughput sequencing [Product] The team has completed development of multi-asset collateral margin. It is now in the testing phase on testnet and undergoing smart contract audits. We expect to launch at the end of April or early May, with support for wBTC, ETH, USDT and potentially EURC as collateral, subject to underlying liquidity. In Q1, we also doubled down on our TradFi offering, expanding to 25+ equities, indices, FX markets and commodities with competitive liquidity. We are currently finalising an agreement with a major TradFi broker, which will both broaden our offering and help bring in flow. The other priority for the team is making Extended more institutional-friendly across both product and trading: - Improving the definition and transparency of fair reference pricing for TradFi markets, with a consistent and clear methodology: spot-based references for equities and FX, and futures-derived pricing for commodities and energy - Introducing and better communicating institutional-grade features such as MPC wallet workflows, API key-only trading, and our sub-account architecture In addition: - With multi-asset collateral, we have built native spot markets (required to process liquidations of non-USDC balances). These will be released shortly after the cross-asset rollout. - The team is progressing towards decentralising sequencing via an application-specific chain built on a high-throughput implementation of full BFT consensus (targeting ~50ms block times and hundreds of thousands of transactions per second). This architecture introduces an app-chain layered on top of our existing zk-enabled stack, enabling decentralised matching and related services while preserving existing security guarantees. More details and timelines will be shared soon. Importantly, this design enables Extended tokenomics and revenue accrual to the token. [Growth and community] Our strategy remains consistent: - Stay open to feedback - Continuously iterate on the product - Encourage organic usage - Do not do paid marketing or paid deals - Focus on long-term sustainability and value creation Over the past quarter, we have gained stronger conviction that demand for perpetuals is increasing among traditional players, driven by 24/7 trading, higher leverage and deeper liquidity. As a result, we are doubling down on business development with TradFi brokers (fintechs and trading platforms). This is a long-term effort, but we believe it will be a key driver of sustainable growth. We also have several important integrations with trading terminals coming up, both retail and institutional. [Team] Over the past quarter, we hired 3 new team members and are now a team of 14. As we move towards decentralising sequencing, we expect to grow to 18-20 people in the coming months. [Market and exchange metrics] Nothing unexpected: January saw all-time highs across key metrics, followed by a broader market slowdown in February and March. All Extended metrics are public: dune.com/extended/exten… From our perspective, short-term market conditions are less important than long-term trends. What matters is that the market we are building in continues to grow and there is room for new players. We strongly believe this is the case: - price discovery for TradFi assets is likely to increasingly shift towards perpetuals. More on this here: x.com/rf_extended/st… - DeFi continues to gain share versus CeFi - Regulatory clarity is improving across both the US and Europe

@markoilico send it ser

If you're now designing or redesigning a website, this will help you a lot. I recently curated the best hero sections, footers, social proof and other website parts because I got tired of having 15+ tabs open (even with Mobbin). Giving it away 100% free. Comment on this post, and I'll send a Figma link to your inbox!

@DeRonin_ Since prompt outputs are essentially universal - a commodity - the real competitive edge is already gone. Anyone can pay $200/month for Claude. What matters is the human strategic thinking behind certain actions. Human judgment and intuition aren’t code… at least not yet.

🚨 BREAKING: 50% graphic designers were fired after this release:

@carson3068 🔥🔥🔥

Most AI-generated frontend isn't bad. It's worse than bad. Introducing npx skills add carson2222/skills --skill design-exploration

@ded__cat 👀

40 $HYPE distributed to $DEDCAT stakers today. Total distributed: 121 $HYPE in 3 days.

@DanDeFiEd damn, always on point 🍝

Current mood: full send. Rysk it all.

@shiftprotocol_ @extendedapp @Starknet @StarknetEco shifting more

TVL Milestone extUSD just reached $1m TVL As we increase the cap to $1.5m, we want to thank all the users that are depositing in the protocol and are part of our journey. Keep notifications on for the next two days.

@shiftprotocol_ @extendedapp Shifting more

Our extUSD Vault is one of the easiest and best way to get upside exposure to @extendedapp success: - 10% stablecoin yield - up to 20% when including Extended Points - Additional 10% extra Extended Points Only 250k of TVL before the vault hits the next cap!

@AliGrids B - way less busy, no need for that kind of colors, especially in this context w/out any other choices

Would you click -A or B ?

@ryskfinance ALL

2025 was Rysk’s most important year. So far.

5/5 When the system responds fast (sub-400ms), users stay in flow. If real work takes longer, show immediate feedback: pressed states, optimistic UI, skeletons, progress. Perceived performance is a UX feature.

4/5 Working memory is limited. Don’t force users to “hold” info across steps. Chunk content, group related fields, use clear headings, and keep key context visible.

5 practical mental models that will reduce friction in your product 🧵

@seyii___ @Lovable lovable

Shipped some new landing pages for @Lovable ❤️ Loved working with such an amazing team in the past couple of months. There's so much more to come. 🔗 lovable.dev

@minus1_12 👀

Early christmas present from my team. Pre-release of bots via the thalex API. A few things I like about this. (1) It's simple and declarative. You can run market making bots or delta hedgers with <100 lines because the heavy lifting is abstracted in a single method call. (2) Thalex runs it for me. If I fire up a bot on a local machine, then log off, the bot will keep running, and I can use the GUI to kill it if needed. (3) Bots have no latency. Price signals are generated from within the matching engine which means the orders are by design faster than the fastest market maker. Bots will live in the interface of course, but we'll maintain an API version for power users who want to add logic to how these run, or unlock things we won't allow on the GUI. These bots can be run already both on test and prod.

@nicolas4vx @paradex @tradeparadigm congrats g

Today marks my first work anniversary at @paradex and @tradeparadigm I'm so thankful to be part of this and extremely excited for what's next I’ve never been around a team this locked-in. Everyone’s stupidly motivated: no ego, no bullshit, no tolerance for half-assing anything. More importantly, we’re all in the trenches together. I don’t feel like I’m working 'for' anyone, we’re all pulling the same way, and it’s insanely motivating. Most places in crypto sprint to the next TGE or VC term sheet. Here, the vision is bigger than current narratives, bigger than a DEX, bigger than crypto markets. There are no shortcuts, no short term metrics focus. We’re building something meant to outlast the noise, and the further we go, the more obvious it becomes. 'Hustlers dont stop they keep going' Paradexio

@nicolas4vx @paradex @tradeparadigm pushin p’