Adam Draper ⏻

@sserrano44 buy.

The world is healing

Radiant's Tori Shivanandan: "Electrons are to Space Force what jet fuel is to the Air Force." @torishiv, President and COO of @RadiantNuclear, on the reason America lost the ability to iterate on nuclear and the reactor going to Buckley Space Force Base 18 months from now. 00:52 "Digging the hole is where you lose control of cost and timeline, so Radiant put a one-megawatt reactor in a box that comes back to the factory for refueling" 04:26 "Radiant was founded to colonize Mars but pivoted to Earth after realizing the American grid is broken and behind-the-meter power is the fix" 06:34 "45% of Americans experienced at least one power outage last year and the wildfires in California are largely attributed to grid performance" 09:09 "Data centers can pay for their own power, leaving behind the boring American business already running on the fragile grid" 11:11 "First reactor goes to Buckley Space Force Base because electrons are to Space Force what jet fuel is to the Air Force" 12:35 "Peak power charges hit 25 to 55 cents per kilowatt hour in a quarter of the US and it's still getting worse" 13:33 "Winning nuclear looks like shipping the 100th reactor to a US military base and having it be as second-rate news as a SpaceX launch" 17:15 "America woke up to the fact it was buying uranium enrichment from Russia and China and threw $900 million at domestic HALEU supply" 20:29 "The full-power test at Idaho National Lab runs five phases from component testing to a 150-hour endurance test with no operator in the loop" 24:33 "Oil and gas gave America abundance and now nuclear microreactors are the next atoms for prosperity everywhere on Earth and among the stars"

The liberator of crypto

Read about it here: theblock.co/post/408761/sb…

Our Acceptance Letter to @shobtc and Gerry Eng the founders of @coinhako in May of 2014. These two ended up being some of the most resilient founders we have ever met. Congratulations on the acquisition by SBI Holdings. Can't wait to see what your next chapter looks like!

@12isHeem @brian_armstrong My Dad. Brilliant.

@AdamDraper Been wondering this question. Was it you or your pops that gave @brian_armstrong the Coinbase man name?

High integrity always wins. Yusho and Gerry played the long game and we are so excited for their next chapter.

So many funds won't touch non-US startups. Today, we have some delayed K-1s because we're waiting on PFIC reporting from a few international companies. Ironically, we also received a large cash distribution today from an international investment. Great founders are global 🌏

So much detail. If we are going to get to "Mass Manufacturable" we have to get those details right! The team @RadiantNuclear knows it. Thanks for writing this @torishiv

@WilliamFurness @BoostVC @GusDomel LFG

@AdamDraper Not a small part, Adam. You and @BoostVC bet on this when it was literally still on the whiteboard. Grateful to be building it with you and @GusDomel !

Health is changing. Excited to be a small part of it. Bold changes abound.

Holy guacomole.

@brian_armstrong I did.

Sentiment negative, but you all bought Bitcoin today.

lots of conversations about base over the last week. wanted to share my candid take after a week of listening and a lot of reflection over the last 6 months. first off - in case it’s not obvious, the first quarter of 2026 was a punch in the face. I spent 2024 and 2025 making a two pronged bet to bring base to the world: (1) builders would unlock the next wave of crypto adoption; (2) adoption would be driven by new onchain-native social experiences - creators, content, messaging. imo we made the right bet on builders, but obviously the wrong bet on social. builders did drive the next wave of crypto adoption - prediction markets, perpetuals, stablecoins - but social was not at the center of it. in fact, the entire social side of the market that many of us had been building towards - farcaster, zora, miniapps, and yes, creator coins - disintegrated completely. I was wrong - whether it was timing wrong (is $ansem a creator coin?) or fully wrong, only time will tell, but regardless, i was definitively wrong. the collateral damage was pretty bad! and this year has been an exercise in eating shit. we realized how our focus on social had meant that base had fallen behind in key areas that were now increasingly critical - we had perps (shoutout avantis!) and prediction markets (shoutout limitless!), but both were well behind scaled competitors. and we had a lot of room to improve in unlocking base as a platform for tokenization and payments that really worked for enterprises. people lost confidence, and CT spectators reminded me weekly of all of my mistakes as often as they could. it felt bad man, still feels bad. but if there’s one thing i’ve learned from the last decade of building in this space, it’s that when things feel the worst, the best thing to do is just put your head down and build. so that’s what i’m doing. I refocused my time and attention back to the chain away from the app, started writing code again, shipped a bunch of stuff (azul, beryl, b20, privacy, ledgers) and questioned a bunch of my assumptions: does crypto need social to grow? does base need an app? can base be bigger than coinbase? I thought for a long time that social was the only thing that could drive the sort of viral growth to get crypto to a billion people. unsurprisingly, I now believe that’s wrong. It’s clear that better money is more than enough - we are seeing this live with stablecoins, predictions, perpetuals, tokenization and i only expect it to accelerate. I am now focused on bringing a billion people onchain just by making global finance actually work. on the app, my focus is on building base into the blockchain for global finance. to that end, i’ve handed the base app back to the coinbase mothership, where my now good friend @cobie will be taking it from here to make it the best damn app for onchain you’ve ever seen, including expanding beyond the base ecosystem in ways that tbh i won’t love as the leader of base. it’s incredibly hard to grow a decentralized network inside of a big public corporation. and i feel like much of the discourse on CT over the last week is downstream of this. the following things can be true: (1) base (and i) love memes and (2) brian probably won’t ever bullpost memes on the tl (this activity is illegal once you’re over 40 years of age). it’s weird and we’re working through it as we continue to decentralize base, which has been our commitment from the beginning. we’re going to build base into the blockchain for global finance and do everything we can to be the place that the world’s money settles over the next century. we will surely have formidable competitors (welcome robinhood and stripe!) and people may abandon our cause, but we welcome the competition and believe it’s our duty to win the respect and commitment of those who rally to our banner.  in 2026, this concretely means three things: winning trading, payments, and agents. [continued in the reply]

If you make a big reactor smaller, you can make a product that is mass-produced – which means it becomes extremely reliable and economical. No construction projects with giant holes in the ground. Just power, wherever you need it.

@0xArdito @BoostVC @RadiantNuclear 🤫

@AdamDraper @BoostVC @RadiantNuclear Admit it Adam, you just want the stable nuclear powering for your Iron man suit 😅

I'm excited about the rise of all the nuclear companies. I think it's an infinite market size. At @BoostVC we believe @RadiantNuclear is something special. Energy abundance is imminent. Atoms for prosperity.

@VCBrags Love it Like burning man, GLP-1s and branded vests —- take it straight to the veins.

@AdamDraper VCs love being on lists. No denying that.

Hey @VCBrags... can you do that thing you do.

Thanks.