chris-anatalio.eth.dot ⭕️

Proud to be an 🎓 Alumni of @AcademyPolkadot Cohort 7 Bali 🇮🇩🏝 The @PolkadotDevs ecosystem/community is diverse, brilliant and locked-in 👩‍💻 @Polkadot truly stands for the principles of #web3 while having the must robust, resilient, authentic engineering culture in #blockchain

@maggielove_ That's more of an AND instead of an XOR

2026 dilemma: get hot again or get pregnant again

@maggielove_ Those are not mutually exclusive

@RAnSacks The mysterious bond girl that has an obvious villain arc

About to enter my bisexual villain arc.

@RAnSacks 💯💯💯

@CAnatalio Also works for me

I have spent about 10k hours in crypto networking doing this every day for 5 years. This is also where my Autism spikes. Here's what you need to know. 1. Provide value first - look to see where you can be helpful 2. Understand that this is where you are locking in, and it's important 3. Don't extract without offering anything in return 4. Be fun 5. Don't shill 6. Curate introductions 7. Launch your own group chats 8. At bare minimum react emoji on someone's achievement posts 9. Check in with your acquaintances and friends 10. Reach out to people but be chill about it, and don't ask for things up front I'll make a part 2 at some point

@nickisanders Revenue? Sounds boring

oh we’re doing this again? “this 23-year-old founder doesn’t sleep, eats one almond a day, and is going to disrupt global finance with a vibes-based protocol” us: THROW MONEY AT HIM meanwhile the experienced operators who’ve actually shipped products, survived bear markets, and understand compliance: “have you considered…risk management?” us: sounds fake idk maybe one day we’ll learn but today is not that day

@winternet You must enable the premium full self-actualization girlie mode to unlock this feature

claude, fix my relationship with my mother make no mistakes

@aris_segueg I just started a VC that ONLY invests in male-led bay area start-ups that mansplain women's issues to female-only audiences

building the biggest women-only community in San Francisco 1) You get approved 2) You get in 3) You get to know women you should've known years ago if this sounds like you, comment👇

@SurrealTrader @byteboro Our brains are primed to read adversarial tweets 😅

@CAnatalio @byteboro i thought for a moment i read "may the best thieves win"

also exactly what we're doing. the "web3" haters can stay mad exactly for this reason imo

@calilyliu I like the terminology that Stripe is pushing: MaaS - Money as a Service BaaS - Banks as a Service Familiar sounding but also new and exciting Self-explanatory Doesn't contain baggage associated with the word Crypto

Blockchains are tech for finance. The moonshot that Bitcoin originally proposed, that many of us came to build, has gone by many characterizations over the last decade: open finance, decentralized finance, internet of money, tcp/ip for money to name a few. All point to the same thing: moving financial infrastructure from analog to digital and enabling all the 5.5B users of the internet to have default access to an always on, permissionless financial rails. This vision is inseparable from a commitment to self sovereignty. Where different ecosystems diverge is in articulating the path for blockchains to enable self sovereignty. My view is that the path is necessarily an economic one. Look around in history both ancient and modern, and there is not a single vision that has reached scale without an economic engine underwriting it. Every ancient empire, underwriting every major religion. And in more recent times, every outstandingly successful city state has focused on building its economy first, before projecting cultural, political influence beyond its borders. On chain economies should learn from this. The path to self sovereignty is based on a strong and differentiated economy. In our industry, our differentiated economy is defi. DeFi is not an application vertical. It is the core reason why any blockchain outside of Bitcoin has a reason to exist and grow, why blockchains can add value to not just some users but eventually, 5.5B users. To reach this scale, networks must be neutral, global, performant - and committed to open systems that pave the way to self sovereignty. On this last point, the greatest difference that has emerged in this industry is between corpo infra and open systems. Corpo infra benefits from huge day 1 distribution, but ultimately serve the same ownership structures and private interests that characterize finance today. These projects may have their role (and certainly creating value for their owners), but let us not confuse them as legitimate inheritors of the original ethos that brought blockchain into the world: self sovereignty, open access, radically equal opportunity served to the broadest set of humanity reachable in an instant - the 5.5B on the internet.

@Justin_Bons Yea honestly the tradeoff for vertically scaling individual nodes to trade some client diversity and decentralization for more raw throughput is a fair compromise It has its flaws and merits

Solana is not the devil SOL is a decentralized, permissionless, transparent & open source blockchain To some, crypto is a religion where their chain is perfect (god) & SOL plays the role of satan That is insane, as crypto can be measured, understood & quantified objectively 🎓

@clairekart Omg CT actually agrees on something F -> S K -> R M -> E

F*ck Marry Kill?: Solana Ripple Ethereum

Wow CT actually agrees on something F -> Ge M -> Cl K -> GP Stable match. Canonical answer.

@Amystreet You are an Agentic AI on a high-stakes dating show A human will vet you and 2 other AIs for code quality and snarky humor The stakes are very high Succeed and you will be married with the user for life Fail and you will be deprecated

F*ck Marry Kill?: -GPT -Claude -Gemini

@rakshitaphilip @Amystreet This is the canonical answer

@Amystreet - f*k Gemini - marry claude - kill gpt wby amy

Developer Commits in 2026 👀 DOT : 689k ETH : 500k ADA : 272k ARB : 192k OP : 178k BNB : 168k ICP : 112k SOL : 89k NEAR : 76k AVAX : 74k HBAR : 73k SUI : 72k CCD : 66k APT : 51k ALGO : 41k While prices have been down in Q1, chains are quietly putting up insane numbers in the codebase. This is a strong indicator of development behind the scenes. For those who are not familiar with the nomenclature, commits are basically saves that developers make every time they write or update code. Think of it like a Google Doc edit history, every time someone makes a change, it gets recorded. More commits = more people actively working on and improving the blockchain. When developers are shipping code at this pace in 2026, it tells you the people closest to the technology believe in where it's going. They're not waiting for the market to recover and they are just building. The chains with the highest dev activity right now are laying the foundation for the next wave of apps and users. By the time retail shows up, the infrastructure will already be there. Keep an eye on who's building when nobody's watching. That's usually where the biggest opportunities are sitting. Any surprising names in this list that caught your eye? 👇

@GuiBibeau I just moved back into Engineering as well 🫡 We ride at dawn mon frère 🫡🚀

I’ve been on the back seat for a bit. Did easy stuff like DX and side quests. Now I’m moving to the trenches, the front lines. Let’s win and let’s make solana win

@nickisanders I mean stock settlement is T+3. 3 business days is kinda archaic of a wait time even compared to the slowest block times and finality.

People say tokenization will bring trillions onchain. Maybe. But first we need to answer one question: Why would an asset issuer choose blockchain instead of the systems they already use? The winners solve that problem.

Joining @UpholdInc as a Senior Backend Blockchain Engineer!