Rob Frasca

In a world where the only constant is change, adapting to the pulse of innovation is not just a skill > it's survival. The future isn't written in stone; it's sculpted by the bold who dare to challenge the status quo.

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Charles Schwab is about to launch DIRECT crypto trading. This is when everything changes. No one is ready.

𝕏 has always been the best source of financial news for traders and investors. Billions of dollars are allocated every day based on what people read on Timeline. Today we're launching our new Cashtags feature in the US and Canada on iPhone, bringing real-time financial data to X. Here's how it works: 1. When you search for or post a cashtag (or contract address), X will automatically suggest matching stocks or crypto tokens, so you can select the exact asset you had in mind. 2. Anyone who taps a Cashtag will see posts mentioning it along with its price chart—without ever leaving X. This ensures that you're always matched to the chatter for the right stock or token. Cashtags are just the first step in our commitment to be the best destination for the finance and crypto community.

Jeff Bezos just told you exactly how to price AI. Nobody listened. Bezos: “AI is real and it is going to change every industry. In fact it’s a very unusual technology in that regard in that it’s a horizontal enabling layer.” Horizontal enabling layer. Three words that reprice the entire technology sector. The iPhone was a vertical. One product. One new market. Electricity was a horizontal. One substrate that rewired every market on Earth. Wall Street is pricing AI like it is the next iPhone. Bezos is telling you it is the next electrical grid. Right now, thousands of companies are trying to sell AI as a product. A feature. A tool. A subscription tier. Every single one of them will be priced to zero. You do not sell a horizontal layer. You do not compete with it. You build on top of it or you disappear beneath it. For a century, entire industries survived on one thing. Complexity. The friction of navigating law, medicine, logistics, finance. That was the moat. If you could not memorize the maze, you could not compete. A horizontal layer does not navigate the maze. It dissolves the walls. Electricity did not compete with the candle industry. It erased the need for one. The most dangerous part of a horizontal shift is how quiet it is. It moves underneath the economy. The surface looks normal. Revenue still holds. Every day you operate on the old substrate, you accumulate a debt you cannot see and cannot repay. The internet repriced distribution. AI is repricing cognition itself. When intelligence becomes a utility that runs through the walls of every company on Earth, the premium on human expertise does not erode. It evaporates. This is not a disruption. Disruptions replace products. This replaces the ground you are standing on.

things keeping me up at night about where AI is actually going: 1. "ambient businesses" are coming. basically, agents monitor the market, handle customers, execute decisions. you check in every few days. 7-8 figure businesses with almost no daily human input. we're early but it's happening. 2. you can now build a company in an hour. grab an idea, vibe code it, add stripe, get a customer. the old timeline was 12 months to first revenue. that's just gone. 3. the internet went app store era → API economy → agent economy. we're now in the part where agents hire other agents on the fly. fixed tech stacks are dissolving. nobody's built the glassdoor for AI agents yet. 4. vertical AI is replacing headcount. that's 10x the market that vertical SaaS ever touched. boring industries like insurance, construction, legal, elder care are the goldmine. 5. SaaS pricing is flipping from per seat to per result. someone is going to build a billion dollar business just by converting legacy SaaS companies to outcome based pricing 6. a whole graveyard of generic SaaS is coming. basic CRMs, analytics dashboards, template marketplaces, scheduling tools. agents just do it better. lots of incumbent saas that are generic and not reinventing themselves right now will struggle/reprice. 7. "human made" is becoming the new luxury. porsche already ran a 100% human made ad campaign. no AI is going to be a premium label like organic is for food. there's a real business in that certification. 8. IRL is having a renaissance. when everything is AI generated, being in a room with other humans becomes scarce. karaoke bars, escape rooms, live music, co-working. the experience economy is accelerating. 9. founder market fit is dead. founder agent fit is what matters now. can you direct a fleet of agents like a film director? that's the new unfair advantage. 10. ghost team org charts are coming. two real people, twelve agents with names, faces, personalities. your about page is going to look the same 11. 1000 true fans is now 100. agents cut your costs so much that 100 customers at $500/mo is a real solo business. micro monopolies across multiple niches. this is the playbook. 12. context window poisoning is the new phishing. cybersecurity hasn't caught up. agents have access to your files, email, bank accounts. bad things are going to happen. it's also a massive startup opportunity. 13. the window is open for maybe 12-24 months. then the moats get built like data, brand, trust, network 14. build cost is basically zero. audiences are underpriced. niches are wide open. idk about you but i'm not sleeping much so much opportunity this is the most asymmetric time to be building a startup. full episode on @startupideaspod to get your creative juices flowing (latest episode get it where you listen/watch pods) no advertisers, just pure ideas to help you im rooting for you don't just bookmark share with a friend watch

🇺🇸 $11T GIANT ENTERS CRYPTO 🇺🇸 Schwab signals it wants to become the world’s largest XRP and crypto exchange. The BIG banks are moving FAST and the shift is already happening. 40 million users loading in soon… $XRP is at the center 🚀

🔥 JUST IN: $1.6T Franklin Templeton to acquire a CoinFund spinoff as it expands deeper into crypto.

@FTI_US Franklin Templeton just partnered with @OndoFinance to bring five tokenized ETFs onchain. 24/7 trading. Global distribution. When a $1.7 trillion asset manager builds on tokenized rails, that's not experimentation — that's infrastructure commitment. Institutions don't adopt narratives. They adopt infrastructure.

Excited to speak today at this year's @blockworksDAS after a historic week for America's digital asset markets. Tune in below for my remarks and a fireside chat at 11:55AM ET today! ⬇️

Let me make this very clear: Big Banks (think JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, etc.) are lobbying overtime to block Americans from getting higher yields on their savings—while trying to block any rewards or perks from being given to customers. These banks, and others, pay rock-bottom rates on standard savings (often 0.01%–0.05% APY), even as the Fed pays them 4% or more. This massive spread fuels record profits, with almost none passed back to their customers / everyday depositors. Today, the banks are desperately targeting crypto/stablecoins, where platforms plan to offer 4–5%+ yields or rewards. The ABA and other lobbyists are spending millions trying to ban or restrict those yields via bills like the Clarity Act, crying “fairness” and using words like "stability"—when it's really about protecting their low-rate monopoly and preventing deposit flight. This is anti-retail, anti-consumer, and straight-up anti-American. Next time you see a big bank dropping billions on a shiny new Midtown Manhattan HQ, you know exactly where that money comes from: the non-existent interest rate they “pay” you! Fortunately, the big banks are losing this fight as customers wake up to the games… @worldlibertyfi

This might be the most important tweet of the year.

Infrastructure is accelerating. Liquidity has to catch up. Today's 1-minute RWA update: → @Figure completes first tokenized equity trades on OPEN → HashKey launches institutional RWA issuance in Hong Kong → Why "on-chain" still doesn't mean "liquid" The settlement layer is solved. The next problem is depth.

8/ We spent years asking WHEN traditional finance would embrace tokenization at scale. Today at Mar-a-Lago I watched it happen in real time. The CEOs are here. The regulators are here. The capital is moving. The one yard line indeed. 🏈 #WorldLibertyForum #RWA #USD1 #WLFI

7/ USD1 now: 💰 $3.4B+ in circulation 🏦 National trust bank charter pending w/ OCC 📱 DeFi lending platform live 🏗️ Institutional fund infra built on top @ZachWitkoff: USD1 isn’t just a stablecoin — it’s infrastructure for a future financial services ecosystem.

🔥 Live from Mar-a-Lago — @worldlibertyfi Forum Update Nearly 400 of the most influential leaders in finance, tech & policy in one room. This wasn’t a crypto conference. This was the establishment walking through the door. 🧵👇