Dave C

Up 📈 or down 📉, the journey continues— the best time to build is NOW! 💪 Honored to present our latest thesis on the main stage at @festival_web3 in Hong Kong this week, engaging with some of the industry's brightest minds. The resilience of the @ton_blockchain community continues to inspire us daily. True builders shine in any market condition! 🔥

@blinkdotnew Claw

Introducing Blink Claw - the first platform to hire unlimited AI employees that run your business 24/7. 180+ AI models included. Gmail, Slack, LinkedIn, HubSpot - one-click connect. No API keys, no $600 Mac Mini. Reply "Claw" + RT. Your first agent is on us. ($50 - 200 creds)

💳 Mastercard acquired BVNK for $1.8B. It's not buying tech. It's buying TIME ⏰ Seven weeks before the deal, Mastercard CPO Jorn Lambert told analysts stablecoins were "not currently a universal payments tool." Seven weeks later: largest crypto acquisition ever. The judgment didn't change. The window did. Stripe bought Bridge for $1.1B. Visa locked in Rain and Reap. Coinbase nearly closed BVNK at ~$2B before talks collapsed in November. The universe of independent, acquirable stablecoin infrastructure at scale is shrinking fast. Mastercard had to move before the window closed. ⏩ First movers can partner — their lead is already priced in. Second movers have to acquire, because partnership speed cannot close the gap. Some numbers: Stablecoin volume last 12 months: $46T gross, ~$9T real-payments basis — flowing through 0 cards. Mastercard's 2025 volume: $10.6T. In stablecoin payments cards specifically, Visa already commands >90% volume. Mastercard didn't just miss the first wave. It lost the consumer interface entirely. The $1.8B is the cost of buying back into the game. 🏇 Stablecoin market cap ~$320B in Mar 2026. Total 2025 volume >$33T, surpassing Visa's $16.7T. Payments-specific volume >$390B, 60% B2B, Asia-led 🌐, +72% YoY. Mastercard: $32.8B net revenue (+16%), $21.3T global volume, 3.7B cards, 19% market share. What BVNK brings: $30B+ annualised stablecoin payments, 130+ countries, enterprise clients including Worldpay and Deel. Targets $6.4T in total payments value across 154M wallets — 1–2 min settlement at ~8x lower cost than legacy corridors. The $300M in contingent payments signals Mastercard is buying future scale, not present revenue. BVNK is not standalone. It completes a stack: Multi-Token Network for settlement, Crypto Credential for identity, Paxos for issuance/compliance, merchant acceptance — and now BVNK's fiat-to-onchain bridge closing the loop. No other incumbent has this end-to-end. What this means: 1. Stablecoins become embedded infrastructure inside the world's second-largest payments network. 2. Payments go hybrid. Cards own the consumer interface. Stablecoins improve settlement — faster, cheaper, programmable. B2B and treasury flows are the immediate case. Next is 🤖 agentic commerce: AI agents need always-on, programmable rails. Stablecoins are built for that. 3. Cards aren't being disrupted — they're being extended. Virtual cards hit $674B by 2026. The touchpoint stays. What changes is what runs underneath. Mastercard is buying the right to own that layer, not rent it. #Mastercard #BVNK #Stablecoins #Payments #Web3 #Fintech #Crypto #RWA #DigitalAssets #Visa #creditcard

Game-changer: S&P licensing its crown-jewel index for perpetual futures on Hyperliquid—24/7 trading on-chain. TradFi meets DeFi at scale. Bullish for tokenized stocks, indices and derivatives? @HyperliquidX

@crypto20c_ nice guide bro

A plausible alternative to OpenClaw esp. for those less tech savvy

@marryevan999 AI

Your next ad agency isn’t human. It’s AI. Nano Banana + MakeUGC + Veo 3, this system generates scripts, UGC-style videos, and hundreds of ready-to-run ads daily — fully automated. - Cost per video: ~$1 - Production time: under a minute - Scale: instant - No $10K/month agencies. Just an AI-powered content factory running 24/7. Comment “AI” and I’ll send the full setup free. (Must be following.)

@Zephyr_hg NEWS

I never run out of content to post anymore. Built an automation that monitors 50+ news sources, scores articles for relevance, and writes social posts automatically. It finds trending topics in my niche before they explode everywhere else. Saves me 15-20 hours monthly and keeps me ahead of every trend. Comment "NEWS" and I'll DM it to you (must be following)

@lucainweb3 Sorry to hear that bro

The industry runs on Telegram and Telegram just locked me out twice in two weeks After the first freeze I did everything by the book - new SIM card, new phone number, fresh account from scratch. Used it through Consensus to rebuild my network. Then mid-call the same freeze message appeared again. Both accounts were premium with yearly subscriptions paid upfront, following all the rules. All my work groups, premium channels, years of conversations gone in an instant. I've talked to people at TON Foundation directly and even they can't do anything. You submit an appeal and wait for a response that never comes. If someone with these connections can't get a response, I can't imagine what it's like for someone just starting out who spent months building their network from scratch. We chose Telegram because it stood for privacy and user control. The anti-censorship platform. Now paying users get frozen with no explanation and no recourse. Maybe it's time we start thinking about alternatives. If you've been through this or know anyone who found a way back in, please DM me. @durov @telegram would love some clarity here.

Happy Year of the Horse 🐎🚀 May this Year of the Horse bring unstoppable momentum, clean execution, and strong conviction. Let’s gallop into 2026 with: • Real builders, not just narratives • Sustainable tokenomics, not short-term hype • On-chain traction, not just roadmap slides • Alpha that compounds, not vaporware May your blocks finalize fast, Your validators stay honest, Your treasury stay strong, And your runway extend longer than the next cycle. In bull markets — lead the charge. In sideways chop — keep building. In drawdowns — accumulate wisely. Let’s ship, scale, and build what actually matters. Wishing you momentum, liquidity, and long-term value creation in the Year of the Horse. 🐴

A major milestone for @animocabrands as we secure our VASP Licence from @varadubai — expanding our regulated presence and capabilities in the UAE and Middle East. Exciting step forward for our global institutional operations 🌍

@godofprompt Claw

OpenClaw hit 145K GitHub stars and became the fastest-growing open-source AI project in history. But 90% of people installing it have no idea how to set it up safely. That's why I built the OpenClaw Starter Guide. It covers: → Full architecture breakdown (Gateway, Agent, Skills, Memory) → 30-minute setup walkthrough for any hardware → Security hardening so you don't end up on Shodan → Memory upgrade prompt that makes your agent actually remember you If you want a personal AI assistant that actually does things, not another chatbot, this is the guide. Comment "Claw" and I'll DM it to you. (Must be following me to receive it)

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Cannot agree more @a16zcrypto AI makes everything cheap and fast → trust collapses → blockchains rebuild trust without sacrificing decentralization, privacy, or machine-native economics. AI dramatically lowers the cost of scaling actions and content creation, but it simultaneously destroys trust at scale (through easy impersonation, sybils, deepfakes, etc.). Blockchains provide the missing trust layer for an AI-native internet by: 1. Raising the cost of impersonation — via proof-of-personhood systems (e.g. making fake human identities expensive to generate at scale). 2. Enabling decentralized / self-sovereign identities — putting users in control and avoiding centralized single points of failure. 3. Creating portable credentials / "passports" for AI agents — allowing agents to carry verifiable reputation, permissions, and history across platforms without lock-in. 4. Supporting machine-scale micropayments — enabling low-friction, programmable, high-volume payments between agents and systems. 5. Enforcing privacy by design — using tools like zero-knowledge proofs to preserve privacy while still verifying necessary attributes.

@Zephyr_hg News

I never run out of content to post anymore. Built an automation that monitors 50+ news sources, scores articles for relevance, and writes social posts automatically. It finds trending topics in my niche before they explode everywhere else. Saves me 15-20 hours monthly and keeps me ahead of every trend. Comment "NEWS" and I'll DM it to you (must be following)

@aurexcoder0 Steal

@jonahlau_ congrats bro - looks dope

Babe wake up the new OpenCampus partnership just dropped And I actually look good in the pic

@minchoi the Terminator moment is here

It's over... AI is now hiring humans to do real world task for them, and pay them💀

See you at Consensus Hong Kong 🇭🇰next week! Look forward to catching up with you all #ConsensusHK2026

Digital assets are now fully integrating into traditional finance as @ysiu highlighted at the @wef which just wrapped up last week at Davos