Maxim Galash ๐ก๏ธ| Coinchange.io
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Maxim Galash ๐ก๏ธ| Coinchange.io
@maxgalash
Tailored crypto investment products @coinchangeio. Engineer, previously GP @bgsventure , co-founder @itmhouse. Proud Husband & Dad of 3
Toronto ๊ฐ์
์ผ Mayฤฑs 2012
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Consensus ... is the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved.
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Maxim Galash ๐ก๏ธ| Coinchange.io ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
Stablecoin supply hit $315B, but the real story is buried in the data:
USDC is flipping the script on USDT, bots run 76% of volume, and $28T in quarterly flows just surpassed Visa + Mastercard combined.
The infrastructure era is here.
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The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.
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Maxim Galash ๐ก๏ธ| Coinchange.io ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
This is huge for Aave and DeFi. Central banks are notoriously skeptical of onchain systems, yet the Bank of Canada conducted a full systemic research review on Aaveโs resilience. The conclusion was that DeFi works remarkably well.
"Our analysis suggests that lending without traditional intermediaries is viable in a technical and operational sense. Aave V3 successfully matches borrowers and lenders, enforces collateral constraints through smart contracts, and maintains solvency without relying on trust, identity, or centralized enforcement. The system operates continuously, transparently, and with minimal overhead, demonstrating the potential of protocol-based credit markets."
Future of Finance.
RYAN SฮAN ADAMS - rsa.eth ๐ฆ@RyanSAdams
New Bank of Canada report on Aave is mostly favorable, they're basically saying yeah, this DeFi thing actually works, and we now have data to prove it. A central bank endorsing a bankless bank. We're getting there.
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Definition of a company is "the system of relationships which comes into existence when the direction of resources is dependent on an entrepreneur."
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Thereโs a distinctive signature to authentic people: they prefer meaningful conversations with a few over shallow exchanges with many. Their love is demonstrated rather than declared. Their words and actions align, even when no oneโs watching. They bring a quality of presence that makes you feel truly seen, and carry a sense of peace and joy that doesnโt depend on external validation.
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Running small business is all encompassing endeavor with so much focus and concentration of energy that propels wealth across local neighborhoods and increases national GDP. Nourish entrepreneurs ๐
David Senra@davidsenra
My conversation with Tony Xu (@t_xu), co-founder & CEO of @DoorDash. 0:00 DoorDash MVP in 43 Minutes 1:39 How Delivery Worked in 2013 3:17 Small Business Roots and Insight 5:48 Why Restaurants First 8:24 Palo Alto vs San Francisco 11:03 Early Customers and Unit Economics 15:22 YC Summer Three Questions 19:50 The Hidden Complexity of Delivery 22:02 Competing on Invisible Details 23:54 Chaos Data and Experiment Loops 30:58 Trust Reset Every Day 31:30 Stanford Game Meltdown and Refunds 34:41 Scaling Through Experiments 37:37 Customer North Star Metrics 40:10 CEO Customer Support Habit 42:55 Anecdotes Versus Data 46:52 Eternal Mission Local Economies 50:09 Turning Data Into Merchant Growth 59:12 New Products Beyond Delivery 1:01:14 Autonomous Delivery Strategy 1:05:06 Hiring Rhodes Scholar Navy SEALs 1:12:46 Driver Switch Experiment 1:13:42 Who Delivers and Why 1:15:33 Hiring for Action 1:18:07 Earned Secrets via Experiments 1:20:01 Money vs Problem Solving 1:21:18 Thousand Days of Hell 1:26:04 Staying Sane as CEO 1:30:07 Ignore the Stock Price 1:31:44 Two Operating Systems 1:35:17 Internal Venture Stage Gates 1:38:17 Learning from Founder Peers 1:42:29 Jiu Jitsu Lessons 1:44:37 AI Changes the Loop 1:47:01 Data Needs Action 1:48:24 Closing Thoughts Includes paid partnerships.
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Public housing, grocery stores, telecom providers, gas stations and much more in NDP socialstic utopia land ๐๐๐คฏ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐
Marc Nixon@MarcNixon24
BREAKING: Avi Lewis winning SPEECH YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY ๐
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The Sting@TheStingisBack
James Tolkan has died at 94. "Son, your ego's writing checks your body can't cash." - Top Gun (1986) This scene is a masterclass in movie shorthand. In seconds you get Maverickโs attitude, his history, how he flies, and the entire setup. And Tolkan absolutely nails it.
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Computers process rules. The brain does something different, it generates โwhat ifโ simulations. It imagines futures that donโt exist. It models other peopleโs inner lives. It explores many paths simultaneously until one reaches somewhere worth going.
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If everyone follows the same bestselling startup techniques, everyone ends up building the same company and, with no differentiation, most of those companies fail. The truth is, anytime someone insists on a method for how to build a successful startup, you should do something different
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When you need to execute a known procedure, algorithmic thinking is superior. But when you need to navigate something unprecedente, an unfamiliar village, an anomalous patient, a geopolitical crisis with no historical precedent, the algorithm has nothing to select from. It needs options to exist before it can rank them. Storythinking is what makes them exist in the first place.
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Doing it wrong in new ways teaches more than doing it right in the same old way.
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The more automatic your competence, the less available you are to the anomaly that doesnโt fit. And the anomaly is where the next breakthrough lives.
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The experts had built neural pathways so efficient they could execute without thinking. And execution without thinking is the enemy of discovery.
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Keep your head in the game ๐ช
Jason Gallagher@jga41agher
One of the best ads I've seen in a while. So good.
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@GaspvdAbogado Very well said, the real end consumer use-case might never become one ๐ค
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Something similar happens with traditional currency markets (forex): over $9.6 trillion moves daily according to the latest BIS Triennial Survey (2025) and the vast majority reflects speculation and hedging, not real trade in goods and services.
Those $390 billion in real payments simply didn't exist five years ago. The "useful" volume is growing, even if it does so in the shadow of an ecosystem dominated by traders and bots.
The question is: how long before real-world use becomes the dominant part of the equation?
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Of the roughly $35 trillion in annualized stablecoin transaction volume, only around $390 billion represents genuine end-user payments such as vendor invoices, cross-border remittances, payroll, and card spending. The rest is trading activity, internal fund shuffling, arbitrage, and automated smart-contract cycling.
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