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Elaine

@big3small

Your friendly crypto host & producer. Fmr @realvision. @scmpnews + @amanpour. Forever bitter about not being cast as Cho Chang

Bag Area, SF 参加日 Ocak 2010
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Elaine
Elaine@big3small·
@pmarca 😭😭😭 idk what else to use
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Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸
Overheard in Silicon Valley: "LinkedIn is prison for middle managers."
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Real Vision
Real Vision@RealVision·
"Hope for a 50% correction. Keep buying SPY at cheaper prices for 5 to 10 years." - @PeterLBrandt Most investors are chasing trades. The ones who win are doing the opposite. Agree?
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Elaine@big3small·
@samanthawyap Omg I literally just replied. Will block 😭
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Samantha Yap@samanthawyap·
PSA: My Telegram was compromised with user ID @ samanthawyap. There’s an impersonator that’s reaching out to my contacts, so please do not engage with it on TG.
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wuki 🌞
wuki 🌞@Wuki·
Imagine a Disney princess walking into the club and dropping the most fire dj set of all time
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EarthNFTs 🐅👩🏾‍🚀
This afternoon, Micah stood in front of a room full of kids and told them to chase their dreams. Tonight, Micah is a New York Times Bestselling Author. That’s the story right there. 🙌📚
Micah Johnson 👨🏾‍🚀🚀@Micah_Johnson3

📣📣📣 AKU IS A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ And #50 on the USA TODAY LIST out of ALLL BOOKS (Dr. Seuss, DragonBall Z, ALLLL BOOOOKS!!! 📣📣📣

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Coinbase 🛡️
Coinbase 🛡️@coinbase·
An overview of our Q4 and full year 2025 financial results. With something extra to keep you focused.
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Alex
Alex@AlexOnchain·
come and join my team at coinbase must haves: - spends too much time on twitter - deep understanding of crypto/CT - top-tier content creator - direct communicator - proactive + ambitious - fast learner - can talk to real people if that sounds like you, link to apply below
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Real Vision
Real Vision@RealVision·
Happy birthday to our favorite connoisseur @RaoulGMI From Michelin stars to Olive Garden. From Albariño to Bud Light. From Jamón Serrano to Doritos. A true man of culture 🥂
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Elaine
Elaine@big3small·
@arjunsethi We should have made a video with you explaining the Power of DeFi and why it matters to the average investor
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Arjun Sethi
Arjun Sethi@arjunsethi·
There has been a lot of discussion about DeFi yields and whether products should even exist when users can go directly to protocols. It is a fair question, but it often skips over how financial systems actually scale and why most people do not interact with infrastructure directly. DeFi protocols are powerful. They create real yield by removing layers of inefficiency in traditional finance. But protocols are infrastructure, not products. Infrastructure does not onboard users on its own. Products do. Before getting into why that matters, it helps to look at the numbers plainly. The numbers Most traditional bank savings accounts today pay roughly 0.3% to 0.6% APY. On a $100,000 cash balance, that is approximately $500 per year. With DeFi Earn, USD equivalent deposits can earn between approximately 4% and up to 8% APY today, depending on the strategy selected. At the same $100,000 balance: At 5% APY, the annual return is about $5,000. At 8% APY, the annual return is about $8,000. That is a 10x to 16x difference compared to a typical bank savings account. Those numbers are not theoretical. They are available today through different DeFi strategies. The natural question is why banks cannot offer similar outcomes. The answer is structural, not philosophical. Banks fund themselves with short term liabilities like deposits that can be withdrawn immediately. They invest those funds into longer-duration assets like loans and bonds. This creates a persistent assets and liabilities mismatch and a duration mismatch. When interest rates move or liquidity tightens, the value and timing of assets and liabilities diverge. Because bank balance sheets are opaque, these risks are often hidden until confidence breaks, at which point the failure becomes sudden and systemic. This pattern is not new. It has repeated for decades precisely because opacity delays truth, and delayed truth creates panic. DeFi systems work differently. DeFi protocols are transparent by design. Assets, liabilities, collateralization ratios, and liquidity conditions are visible on chain in real time. There is no ability to quietly defer losses or mask balance sheet risk. That transparency does not eliminate risk, but it makes risk observable early and continuously. Transparency alone, however, is not enough. Someone still has to choose which protocols to use, diversify exposure across strategies, monitor utilization and liquidity, respond to smart contract upgrades or market stress, and set guardrails around concentration and duration. When individuals go directly to protocols, they take on all of that responsibility themselves. Products exist to take that burden off the user. When someone uses DeFi Earn with @krakenfx or any other provider, they are not paying for the yield itself. They are paying for risk management, protocol selection, continuous monitoring, custody and security infrastructure, operational resilience, reporting, and accountability. Those costs do not disappear in decentralized finance. They either sit with the individual or with a professional operator. For most people, the real choice is not between 5% and 8%. It is between earning close to zero in a bank, managing complex DeFi risk on their own, or earning materially more through a product that abstracts complexity and manages risk on their behalf. This is how adoption actually happens. Protocols do not onboard the next hundred million users. Products do. And products require entrepreneurs, capital, engineering, compliance, and long-term accountability. That is the role companies like Kraken are playing with DeFi Earn. Not promising magic yield, but taking transparent financial infrastructure and turning it into something real people can safely use. That is how financial systems evolve. Try it, give feedback: kraken.com/defi-earn
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Elaine@big3small·
@JonahBlake What streaming service do you recommend?
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Jonah@JonahBlake·
An unscripted honest take on where I think the next big content creator will come from and how AI is changing everything about the creator economy It’s me sitting with my coffee for a few minutes thinking about it
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Penny@Money_Penny·
Love all my @RealVision people. RVCG 2026 Miami
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Elaine@big3small·
@DefiDfyn It’s how we’re gonna knock on ya door
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Farokh@farokh·
Everybody is focused on building for the America consumer, and that’s fine. Myriad will win in Asia, period.
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