bolaji.eth
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bolaji.eth
@0xCntrl
degenpreneur. building for creators & agents @chainfren. biz @gmi_gg


I'm 33 and I think Claude Code is melting my brain. For 6 months straight I've had 5-6 terminals open at once, waiting on responses just to smash "enter" 90% of the time. That's the whole job now. And it's doing something to me. A few friends and I keep circling back to the same thing in conversations: none of us feel as sharp as we used to. Maybe it's just us. But I keep wondering how many other people in their 30s feel it too. (And yeah: this is a me problem, how I lean on the tool, not the tool itself. Doesn't make the effect any less real.)


Just vibe code slop and get it into production. Go as fast as you can. Later models will make the architecture beautiful in 6 months. That's not your job, human.



Circle’s Developer Grant program backs founders using USDC, Arc, and the Circle Developer Platform to solve real-world financial access problems. In the first 2026 cohort, 8 teams building on Arc are focused on challenges across Africa and the Global South, including payments, FX, remittances, merchant checkout, and stablecoin-native banking. Here’s who they are and what they’re building. @BlockradarHQ is the infrastructure layer many of these quietly depend on. One API that can handle wallets, AML screening, gasless transactions, and multichain liquidity so teams don't have to rebuild those components themselves. @kolan_xyz gives non-US individuals a real USD account backed by USDC. Freelancers and remote workers in 50+ countries across the Global South can receive, hold, and spend dollars. @myazahq is collapsing Africa's fragmented payment rails into one layer. Send money quickly across 21 African currencies, pay bills, hold a virtual USD card, and access business payouts. @ArrelTechnology built a plug-and-play USDC checkout for African merchants. Accept any CCTP-supported stablecoin via a payment link, auto-sweep to your treasury, and offramp to local currency. @payritHQ lets African users send and receive in their local currency while USDC handles settlement behind the scenes. No FX spread, no T+3 delays, just near-instant cross-border payments that work the way people expect them to. @ViFi_Labs is building the onchain FX exchange that emerging markets have been missing: a DEX designed specifically for stablecoin-to-stablecoin swaps in NGN, BRL, and COP with near-zero slippage. @usesfxmoneyapp started with one corridor: African students in Turkey sending money home. It's now a full USDC neobank with dollar accounts, free international transfers, and a card product, built for the African diaspora. @flezpay tackles an important issue for the Global South. In volatile currency markets, static price tags go stale overnight. The team developed AI-powered QR codes that update prices in real time, with USDC and fiat accepted at the same counter. The full story of what these teams are building and what it tells us about where stablecoin adoption is actually happening is on the Arc blog: arc.io/blog/arc-as-a-…





i’m curious as to what this update means for the brands and companies who have already/are spending huge budgets on marketing strategies that are informed by the now outdated x algorithm. surely this has some ripple effect to how people will be discovering content and services now.







