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Hi, I’m Azat (azat) CTO & Co-founder at @gobar_protocol. Web3 degen with a product brain. It’s my first long post and a lot changed after my Linked In era. We didn’t just come back. We rebuilt. What started as a simple tipping idea became a small ecosystem for creators on Solana. 1) What’s live and growing • gobar - goal-based tipping for creators. Set a goal, share a link, watch the bar fill in real time. • USDC on Solana, non-custodial, instant settlement. • Leaderboards, notes, live progress so supporters actually feel the win. New modules are coming to expand creator tools and analytics. 2) Early traction • Product Hunt launch, first creators already collecting. • Community p2p page implemented • Onboarding more Web2 creators with Web3 rails. • Shipping fast, iterating faster. 3) Why I care about ICM Internet Capital Markets flipped the script: less pitch decks, more on-chain support. Community as the first investor. gobar is my take on that - simple, transparent funding for specific goals. 4) Past lives (so you know where I’m coming from) • TrueHold - Co-founder & CEO. Non-custodial crypto card for online and in-store payments. • Lure - Co-founder & CEO. MedTech platform for sexual health education with interactive content and AI support. • Wargaming - Frontend/UI. Built and optimized interfaces for major game events and launches. • BAK Development - Software dev. Internal tools for ops, inventory, employee tracking. • APPLEBRO - first company at 18. Grew a hardware repair chain to 5 shops, sold at 23. 5) About me I like fast loops, clean UX, and on-chain truth. I study behavior and communication to build products people actually use. 6) IRL • Hybrid training: strength + endurance. • Completed a marathon and a half-marathon. • Longest ride so far: 120 km on the bike. The same discipline I bring to training is how I ship product: consistent volume, progressive load, no excuses. If you’re a creator, a Solana builder, or exploring ICM, my DMs are open. If you read this far, tell me your name, where you’re from, and what you’re building outside Web3. Let’s connect real people behind the screens.💤

Rebranding isn’t a new logo. It’s a new agreement with the market. If the product and behavior stay the same, the new identity just makes the mismatch easier to notice.

Outstaffing isn’t about cutting corners. It’s about removing hiring friction while keeping control over the work.

Tomorrow, the calendar resets. The work continues, but with sharper focus and better questions. Wishing everyone a strong start to the new year. Clear goals. Meaningful work. And progress that actually matters. Happy New Year.

Short-Sightedness At the end of the year, it’s customary to look back and set goals for the next one. But we are obsessed with the past and the next few quarters. Which model is topping benchmarks right now. Which AI slop went viral on Twitter this week. Almost no one seriously asks where the world is heading in 20 or 25 years. Yet the changes are already in motion. And they are not reversible. Demographics, economics, AI, climate, geopolitics — all of it is moving forward by inertia alone. There are credible forecasts that by 2050 the world will be significantly older. Fewer workers. More debt. Governments will spend trillions trying to reverse declining birth rates and rebuild economic systems for a reality that no longer looks like the 20th century. Automation will eliminate routine work. Anything that can be automated will be. What remains valuable will be what AI cannot do well. Finance will move deeper on-chain. Crypto will stop being exotic and become infrastructure. Global markets will grow harsher, more competitive, less forgiving. Healthcare will become more precise and far more expensive. AI will diagnose conditions before symptoms appear, but access to the best treatment will turn into a political and social battleground. People will live longer, and that longevity itself will create new tensions. Cities will continue to expand while entire regions contract. Climate pressure will accelerate migration. Conflicts will not disappear; they will simply become more technological. Space will stop being science fiction and start being serious business. The future will be large, uneven, and uncomfortable. In a world that increasingly behaves like a zero-sum game, having a clear position and clear values will once again become a rare competitive advantage.

Great conversations at Solana Breakpoint 2025 in Abu Dhabi 🤝 Had a really good chat with the Solayer team exciting to see what they’re building and to exchange insights around the Solana ecosystem. Events like this are all about meaningful connections and real discussions with builders. #Solana #Solayer #Breakpoint2025 #Web3 #Blockchain #Networking

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Breakpoint 2025 was crazy @SolanaConf @solana

gobar is coming to Breakpoint Abu Dhabi. Our founder @howeeveerr will be on the ground - ping him if you’re there!

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@Route2FI oversold

Have barely seen anyone posting price targets for altcoins this cycle. Did we just stop dreaming bigger or are alts simply cooked.

“The thing that happened with AGI and pretraining is that in some sense they overshot the target. You will realize that a human being is not an AGI. Because a human being lacks a huge amount of knowledge. Instead, we rely on continual learning. If I produce a super intelligent 15 -year -old, they don't know very much at all. A great student, very eager. [You can say,] ‘You go and be a programmer. You go and be a doctor. Go and learn.’ So you could imagine that the deployment itself will involve some kind of a learning trial and error period. It's a process as opposed to, you drop the finished thing.” @ilyasut

Finite and Infinite Games Some human activities resemble games with clear rules, boundaries, and endings. In these finite games, the goal is to win: sports, negotiations, career races. They have defined objectives and a moment when everything stops and results can be measured. But there are also games without an endpoint relationships, friendship, parenting, creativity, the search for truth. These infinite games have no winners, no final whistle. Their meaning lies in continuation, not conclusion. In a marriage, for example, no one ever declares “victory.” Living it is the process itself, not the final score. When we treat life as a short game, we chase immediate gains. It’s like choosing between two boxes: if the goal is instant profit, the hand reaches for both. But when we see ourselves as part of a long game, where the reputation of our choices matters, we act differently. The same logic applies to cooperation. As long as we believe the road ahead is long, honesty is more profitable playing together yields more than grabbing a last-minute win. But when someone decides the game is ending soon, they start trying to save themselves alone, and trust collapses. The most unsettling situation is expecting a long game while someone else plays a short one. In relationships, it feels like anxious acceleration: as if they care less about being with you and more about extracting a result. That mismatch is what we sense as “strangeness” or “dishonesty” a short-game strategy where a long game should be. Our intrinsic motivation naturally aligns with infinite games—things valuable for their own sake. External rewards push us into finite games with scoreboards and prizes. But finite games exist within larger ones, and when we forget the larger game, we lose our grounding. Short games are necessary they help us finish things. Long games give direction and meaning. The key is to remember the latter while playing the former. Then winning won’t cost you your relationships, and when one round ends, there will still be someone to walk with you into the next.

Second edit from NYC. We are in negotiations with some important stakeholders for gobar. Stay Tuned.

DeFi is too hard for normies Aave app has $1M insurance per user earning 6.5% APY on your cash sent right from your bank or card. just use Aave

Do we need a new design? Minimalism vs Neo-Brutalism

To Launch your first goal you just need 5 things: 1) Title: “New mic for my podcast” 2) Amount: $250 3) Deadline: 7 days 4) Image: the exact item 5) Description: “Upgrading audio to improve episode quality” Post the link. Let fans fill the bar. #gobar

How we choose what to do with our lives We grow up, move from grade to grade, pass exams, apply somewhere because that’s what everyone does. And then one day we reach adulthood and realize: we don’t even know what we want. So here’s a simple question: Imagine money doesn’t exist as a criterion. No “be realistic,” no “secure the basics first.” Just you and the feeling of how you want to live. How would you spend your days? Most people start with what’s expected: “I want stability. Something normal.” But give them a moment without rushing, without lecturing about reality and their voice changes. Suddenly there’s a desire to paint. To write. To work with horses. To move somewhere quiet and teach others what they know. Their tone softens, their movements slow down because they’re touching something that actually matters. And then fear steps in. “Artists don’t earn money.” “Writers stay unknown.” “No one needs poets.” “Working outdoors isn’t a job.” We’re taught from childhood to think about payment, not meaning. And so the paradox: People spend their lives doing things that bring them neither warmth nor interest. Wake up → go where you must → do what you must → come home and numb the fatigue. Not living for what they love living just to repeat the same cycle tomorrow. This becomes a chain. They teach their kids the same. Kids grow up and pass it on again. And no one stops to look inside and ask: is there something else? But here’s the truth: Anything you genuinely love eventually unfolds. If someone walks in the direction their attention naturally flows, they slowly become a master. And mastery always finds a way. So the question stays short, but everything depends on it: What do you truly want?

eth going back to $1k

Officially sweatshirt szn. Who needs one?