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@AriEiberman We are osnetwork.com

The neobank problem with building using only USD stablecoin onramps is that you force every other currency to marry a single FX rate to “enter web3.” It’s an unnecessary hurdle. Instead: onramp 1:1 to a local stablecoin and then orchestrate the best onchain FX. Who is building this?

@SamBroner Congrats @SamBroner ! Connect with you guys soon as we have Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia and Asia connectivity 💪

london is sandboxing stablecoins under the FCA washington is leveraging them to achieve dollar dominance tokyo just put a yen stablecoin onchain hong kong wrote an entire ordinance just for stablecoin issuers stablecoins are going global, and we're here for it

Unitree Spring Festival Gala Robots —a Full Release of Additional Details 🥳 Dozens of G1 robots achieved the world’s first fully autonomous humanoid robot cluster Kung Fu performance (with quick movement), pushing motion limits and setting multiple world firsts! H2 made striking appearances at both the Beijing main venue and the Yiwu sub-venue, clad in the Monkey King’s heavy armor and riding a “somersault cloud” played by B2W quadruped robot dogs, delivering New Year blessings from the clouds.

Reforge 2026

If you’ve been to #ConsensusHK before, you know that real value also shows up at side events 👀 During @consensus_hk 🇭🇰, @web3harbour and our members are involved in a wide mix of events designed to bring builders, founders, policymakers, and ecosystem leaders together in the most open, collaborative way possible. 🏛️ institutional & policy sessions 🧑‍💻 builder meetups & pitch events 🍽️ ecosystem dinners 🔒 smaller, closed-door rooms Different formats. Different audiences. Same upside: real conversations. We’ve pulled together a live list of #W3H-related side events. Save it. Share it. Check back. 👀 👇 🔗#gid=638834677" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… #Web3Harbour #DigitalAssets #SideEvents

Just move to Shenzhen. It will change your life. BTW, this is where Robotuo’s new robotics center will be.

5 years of building @JarAppHQ with belief, grit, and millions who trusted us. @agNishchay

@AnilAgarwal_Ved My condolences to you and your family.

Today is the darkest day of my life. My beloved son, Agnivesh, left us far too soon. He was just 49 years old, healthy, full of life, and dreams. Following a skiing accident in the US, he was recovering well in Mount Sinai Hospital, New York. We believed the worst was behind us. But fate had other plans, and a sudden cardiac arrest snatched our son away from us. No words can describe the pain of a parent who must bid goodbye to his child. A son is not meant to leave before his father. This loss has shattered us in ways we are still trying to comprehend. I still remember the day Agni was born in Patna on 3 June, 1976. From a middle-class Bihari family, he grew into a man of strength, compassion, and purpose. The light of his mother’s life, a protective brother, a loyal friend, and a gentle soul who touched everyone he met. Agnivesh was many things - a sportsman, a musician, a leader. He studied at Mayo College, Ajmer, went on to set up one of the finest companies Fujeirah Gold, became Chairman of Hindustan Zinc, and earned the respect of colleagues and friends alike. Yet, beyond all titles and achievements, he remained simple, warm, and deeply human. To me, he was not just my son. He was my friend. My pride. My world. Kiran and I are broken. And yet, in our grief, we remind ourselves that the thousands of young people who work across Vedanta are also our children. Agnivesh believed deeply in building a self-reliant India. He would often say, “Papa, we lack nothing as a nation. Why should we ever be behind?” We shared a dream to ensure that no child sleeps hungry, no child is denied education, every woman stands on her own feet, and every young Indian has meaningful work. I had promised Agni that more than 75% of what we earn would be given back to society. Today, I renew that promise and resolve to live an even simpler life. There was so much life ahead of him. So many dreams yet to be lived. His absence leaves a void for his family and friends. We thank all his friends, colleagues and well-wishers for always being there for him. Beta, you will live on in our hearts, in our work, and in every life you touched. I do not know how to walk this path without you, but I will try carrying your light forward.

I really enjoyed @danwwang year end letter - and highly recommend a read. Here is my favorite paragraph: danwang.co/2025-letter/

.@heyibinance takes the stage to speak on @yzilabs demo day!

@DrProfitCrypto Any thoughts on ZEC @DrProfitCrypto ?

The #Bitcoin plan everyone asks about: Bitcoin hit the low of the current box Sideway move starts in box till 2026 In 2026, next leg down starts to 60k region Bottom will be in September, October 2026

The ehthos of @projectb_global - Player, Partner & Owner. Oh….and International from the start👇

In light of @sequoia 's changes, here is some thoughts: early stage founders' reliance on relationships is rapid decreasing/demnishing in the world of AI. Our internal agentic investment partner Ava caught ~95% of ALL projects fund raised in 2025 so far, and on average ~160 days ahead of the announcement. this is a crazy data point if you think about it - and what we realized is that overwhelming amount of them had online footprints BEFORE even talking to VCs prior to AI taking off, and I mean this is recent, maybe starting in 2nd half of 2024 - even the best founders needed a team to build a prototype. now they can ship on the weekend. and what do they do in tandem? they create website, twitter, linkedin, and more interestingly, they incorporate earlier (yes, some of this info is actually public) so if you are an early stage VC, and you still rely on your "relationship network", you are not going to win. its a scary world, but it opens up for new opportunities. My prediction is that we will see less massive unicorns, but we will see a lot more smaller unicorns - and there is a sweet spot for sizing early stage ventures more strategically.

@balajis Why not co-exist? Why does Western interpretation think China is out to “rule the world”? Is it always “winner takes all”? Fundamentally all governments and network states are here to serve people.

Democrats underestimated Republicans, and lost the meme war. Republicans underestimated China, and are unfortunately losing the trade war. And some in China may underestimate the free Internet, where choice can triumph over force. This requires some explanation. Let's go. (1) First, as a reality shill, we should stipulate that modern China is perhaps the most physically formidable country to ever exist. Visualize a young Bolo Yeung from Bloodsport. It's #1 in electricity, cars, steel, ships, and countless other industries. No country can realistically win a war against today's China, especially in its own backyard, especially over Taiwan. They can just outbuild everyone else: (2) And the US on some level now recognizes this. Secretary Hegseth noted on the Shawn Ryan pod that Chinese hypersonics can sink all US aircraft carriers in the first 20 minutes of any Taiwan straits conflict[1]. The CEO of Raytheon admitted[2] the US couldn't practically decouple from China. The former Secretary of the Navy, Carlos del Toro, stated[3] that one Chinese shipyard can produce more ships than the entire US Navy combined. And the Pentagon's own $400M study[4] showed that much of the US military is actually made in China: (3) This may be why the US is currently effecting a shouting retreat. Even as the military is rebranded to the Department of War, US troops are reportedly[5] being pulled back to actually focus on homeland defense and the war within. And even while there's posting about annexing Greenland and invading Canada, in reality European NATO is being asked to fend for itself. Basically, the words are about expanding American real estate, but the reality is that America is withdrawing from the world: (4) Now, some will say this isn't a bad thing. After all, America is a republic, not an empire! OK, but the business model of the US is money printing, which is premised on the continuation of global empire. That's because dollar inflation is global taxation, since the inflationary dilution is currently spread across billions of global dollar holders. However...as US troops come back and US tariffs go up, the de facto tax base for dollar inflation shrinks from ~1-3B globally to just 330M Americans. That 67-90% drop in tax base will cause a huge drop in American living standards. We're in the middle of this now; gold and digital gold are smashing all time highs[6], because the dollar is crashing through all-time lows. (5) Moreover, because the sovereign debt crisis is underway in America, Western Europe, and Japan at the same time, you're seeing a simultaneous fall of all parts of the empire at once. As you can see from the graphs below, yields are high in the US, Germany, Japan, UK, Italy, and France...even as they're falling in China...and even as the world economy has decisively moved to Asia: (6) So, we are essentially in the midst of the fall of Rome[7]. For the first time in 500+ years, the world's dominant military power is no longer Western. While the shift towards Europe took hundreds of years, the shift back to Asia took just a few decades. It happened so fast that many don't realize that the world economy has already moved back to Asia. (7) Many Westerners are still in various stages of denial about this fact, or the fact that the US government is insolvent. Elon is our best guy, and gave it his all, and he's already recognized[8] that it's over ("did my best"). But there's still residual romanticism about America's ability to re-industrialize. (8) In many ways, MAGA still identifies as a manufacturing superpower, and they just don't want to hear that it took 45+ years of grinding in factories for China to get where it is, and that 45% tariffs won't return America overnight to the economy (let alone the demographics) of 1945. There may be a post-dollar path to rebuilding, but it'd be like Russia's post-Soviet path. And the first step in that path would look more like deregulation and special economic zones[9], rather than tariffing away America's access to raw materials and machine tools. (9) Anyway, I want to skip over the dollar collapse part of all this, because it'll be an unfortunate denouement to what was once the greatest empire of all time. Let's skip ahead to the next question of: what force could possibly rise to balance China after the dollar ends? (10) Well, after the Roman Empire fell, Christianity endured, and was eventually the seed for civilizational rebirth. Similarly, after the dollar empire ends, the Internet will endure — and could be the seed for civilizational rebirth. (11) Think of the progression from European Christendom, to the West, to the Internet. Each such shift was a geographical and technological and demographic change[10]...but most of all it was a change in self-understanding. (12) We already know on some level that the Internet is the most powerful force in the world. It manages 99% of transactions and communications, it's upstream of every politician and election, it controls everything from smart locks to autonomous drones, and it's even in front of your face right now. (13) Nevertheless, because it's currently[11] intangible, the Internet is still underestimated. The Chinese state does actually get it on some level, which is why they built the Great Firewall as a hard digital border that keeps out foreign ideas (and foreign drones). But post-Maoist China doesn't really have an ideology that's built for export. Chinese nationalism does make intuitive sense to ~1.4B Chinese, so it has sufficient scale to coordinate huge numbers of productive people domestically...but the other 7B+ globally will need something else. (14) That is: China is a goods exporter, but an idea importer. After all, its three major operating systems of Buddhism, Communism, and Technocapitalism were imported from India, Europe, and America respectively. To be fair, China did fork these operating systems, and made them their own (eg: communism with Chinese characteristics), and China does have an impressive 5000+ year history of arts and literature. But for whatever reason, Chinese culture mainly exports visual vibes (eg TikTok, Hong Kong cinema, glowing cities) rather than verbal ideas. (15) So, because China doesn't export a conceptual operating system that anyone in the world can adopt and fork, there will be a post-dollar ideological vacuum that's only incompletely filled by a return to nationalism. Many need something higher than the mere earth, and the cloud is something higher. The next Rome, the next Britain, the next America, the next universalist society — that will arise from the Internet, which after all is uniform rule-of-code. (16) Finally, to @JZ281C's point...these Internet societies cannot and should not physically confront China or (as they put it) interfere in China's internal affairs. Against the Chinese drone armada, you'll still need some residual local deterrence, but the Internet will mainly need to rely on Gandhian non-violence, invisibility, agility, encryption, and decentralization. You just can't take on a superior physical force in the physical world. (17) Still, because the Internet is intangible it will be underestimated, and this underestimation is itself a strength. The invisibility of the Internet, the dismissibility of it, is the English-compatible version of hide your strength and bide your time. Despite the fact that billions spend much of their waking lives on the Internet, it's still not thought of as the primary organizing principle of their life. This underestimation gives us room for the long rebuild on Internet First[12] principles. (18) Specifically: the Internet will not be able to take on China in the physical world, but it will generate universalist ideas that appeal to many Chinese (and non-Chinese) people. It will therefore provide many alternative ideologies to Chinese nationalism outside China, whose collective strength may balance (not beat) China. (19) How does this play out? We could see a billion-person Chinese superstate, and a thousand million-person network states. If one is a vegan village and the second a carnivore community and the third is a biohacker borough, these societies are mutually incompatible with each other. Moreover, their governing ideas can't all be imported into China as their moral premises are different from Chinese nationalism. So these network states become alternatives to China, balances to China, without needing to fight China. (20) We'll know they're a balance if Chinese nationals voluntarily choose to exit to one of these 1000 startup societies, as an alternative to the 100s of polished Chinese cities. They might do this for much the same reason one chooses a startup over Google: because of the upside, the choice, the variety, the editability. (21) Yet at the same time the mere existence of these alternative societies around the world wouldn't provoke China. And China wouldn't gain from conquering them, as they'd want to avoid the expensive Roman/British/French/Soviet/American failure mode of endless military intervention. Even if it did conquer some, it couldn't really conquer one thousand, if new startup societies kept popping up every day. (22) In other words: ideas are upstream of men, code is upstream of drones, private property is private keys, and the keyboard may yet prove on par with the sword. The creation of alternative societies is one model for how the Internet may eventually balance China.

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@bryan_johnson Do you have a natural solution for grey hair?

Genetically, I should be bald. But I’m not. I've worked very hard to maintain my hair....I've tried a lot of things over the years to stop hair loss and grow strong healthy hair. I’ve injected PRP and dutasteride into my scalp way too many times. That hurts like hell and I don’t think the PRP helped at all. I tried a lot of other things too and few if any actually work. So my team and I built our own solution. It’s the most advanced formulation I’ve seen. It’s now available if you want to give it a try. Like all things with hair, you need to be consistent for at least 4 months. Here’s what’s in it and why I’m excited about it.

@MelMattison1 @SuperGrok can you explain what @MelMattison1 is indicating? Floating up or floating down or stay flat?

SPX floating in range now...

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"choose one of these four quadrants that you can travel to for the rest of your life and cant go to the other 3"