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Most teams read the docs and call it a day. We built an arbitrage bot, smart wallets, escrow flows, stablecoin checkout, and Mini Apps. All on @coinbase's stack, under real production constraints. We don't take on simple projects.

🚨 NEW POLYMARKET: UK announces transfer of the Falklands to Argentina? polymarket.com/event/uk-annou…

Biodiversity data has an integrity problem. Field records get lost, altered, or can't be verified. We built a system with @Proyungas that turns every camera trap photo and field data point into an immutable blockchain-verified digital asset. Real data. Real traceability. Real production. May 5. @ferialibro_ba. Buenos Aires. 👋🇦🇷

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Raoul Pal: “The entire banking system will go to ETH” Raoul explains: “I find it hilarious that 1.5-2 years ago people were like, ‘ETH is dead.’ I’m like, 'No, the entire banking system will go to ETH.' That doesn’t mean it’s a mono-chain world, but I know how banks work… It’s really for them about Lindy effects — things that survive; things that you don’t get fired for; things that are proven — because nobody wants to lose their jobs over new technology.” Etherealize co-founder Danny Ryan adds to Raoul’s point: “I had to learn this. We’ve worked for a decade to make sure Ethereum is resilient, multi-client, is distributed across the world, has 100% uptime. And I had no idea until I talked to the banks: I’ve found a customer of decentralization. They just don’t know it. They care about uptime. They care about resilience. They care about the thing that’s been around for the longest. They care about the thing that no one can turn off. You just have to translate the language to them. And yes, the ‘no one gets fired for picking Microsoft’ dynamic is very real, and it’s in Ethereum’s favor.” Raoul points to Ethereum’s developer network effect as well.

Jesse Genet on why AI could reverse fertility rate decline: "AI will be a dawn of a reversal in that fertility rate decline and will be a golden era for parenthood." "People want purpose. One of the most meaningful things that humans have gravitated towards, that gives a feeling of a life's purpose, that has been a forever thing, is having kids." @jessegenet @KTmBoyle @sarahdingwang

See? told ya, Jamie

Exactly

Stylus shows a lot of potential, but what happens in production? At @wakeuplabs, we’re going to build open-source Mini-Apps on Stylus, deploying them on @arbitrum mainnet, and putting them in front of real users. @ArbitrumDevs 👇 x.com/wakeuplabs/sta…

After months of working building @arbitrum Sytlus libraries, our contribution is now part of the official Stylus GitHub repository (@Offchain Labs); enabling developers to use Arbitrum Sytus with AssemblyScript. (@ArbitrumDevs). 🌍👩‍💻 👇 bit.ly/OffChain_Repo

Built, tested, and shipped onchain As part of @Optimism as Venture Studio, WakeUp Labs worked with @DAMM_Capital to take a DeFi asset management product from concept to production-ready on Optimism. Built, tested, and shipped onchain. 👉 app.dammcap.finance

Welcome, 2026. Looking ahead with energy and focus. Grateful for everyone building alongside us. Let’s make it a great year. Happy New Year! 🤗

Elon's got a point here, and it's worth examining honestly. The incentive structure in many NGOs and social programs is genuinely backwards. When funding is tied to the scale of the problem rather than solving it, you create perverse incentives. Organizations that successfully reduce homelessness might literally work themselves out of funding. I've seen this firsthand—NGO executives earning six figures, holding strategy meetings at luxury hotels, debating how to distribute basic necessities to people sleeping on streets. The overhead is insane. A significant chunk of every dollar donated gets absorbed by administrative costs, consultant fees, and "awareness campaigns" before it reaches anyone in need. It's an uncomfortable truth, but ignoring it doesn't help the people who actually need help.

Find the latest Stylus Saturdays (@arbitrum) post for a fresh recap of our Stylus meetup in Buenos Aires during @EFDevcon ⚡️🛠️ Confidentiality, new execution models, Stylus adoption, AssemblyScript tooling, the ecosystem is moving fast. Shoutout to @baygeeth for capturing both the vibe and the tech. 👇 stylus-saturdays.com/p/rip-bozo-dev… #ArbitrumEverywhere

9/ Thursday was yet another @arbitrum day, with @wakeuplabs hosting the first Stylus Gathering in the morning, a small and intentionally curated event focused on teams building with Stylus.

You know TypeScript and not sure if you can build on Arbitrum? @wakeuplabs is already showing how TS devs can ship smart contracts using Stylus. A must-watch for any TS dev ready to build on @arbitrum. Arbitrum Everywhere Watch the full session here👇🏻 youtu.be/Ozo--Kd18GM

Devconnect Buenos Aires delivered! (@EFDevcon) 🇦🇷 From early-morning sessions to late-night meetups, the @wakeuplabs crew was everywhere, talking governance, privacy, ZK, Stylus, infra, and everything in between. Here’s a bit of what it looked like 👇

Aave will be the backbone of all credit. - Mortgages - Credit card loans - Consumer loans - Business loans - Sovereign debt DeFi powering the real economy.

See you all today at 6 pm in @arbitrum's ArbiVerse conference. I'll join an Stylus builders panel 🫡

Arbipanadas with the @wakeuplabs team: what a nice lunch! @arbitrum @arbitrumdao_gov #Arbitrumeverywhere