David Goose

@arjunkhemani @zkDragon go Dev!

Zcash Network State. @zkDragon on the architecture of freedom. 100+ builders and creators. $10k+ in ZEC prizes. Onward.

@leomschwartz @theinformation congrats!

Thrilled to share that I'm joining @theinformation in early May! As a longtime (and constantly envious) reader, I can't wait to be part of the team

@whosknave Congrats on the new gig! They’re lucky to have you

re-entering my sources' DMs after 5 months of sidequesting

@GwartyGwart never change Gwart

The hardest part of being in crypto is pretending to care about agentic payments

@GarretJShaw @RobinhoodApp Massive congrats! They’re lucky to have you

Some personal news: I've joined @robinhoodapp to lead crypto communications! Having worked with the team for the last few years, I'm excited to continue helping democratize finance for all. Drop a note with inquiries - DMs open!

@0xSpaydh @aaronxkong Sorry to hear this. Congrats on everything you and team achieved!

Today, I made the incredibly difficult decision to transition Neutron to long term support. It is never easy to close a 4 year + chapter, and I wish we had been able to deliver more successful outcomes to all who bet on us as a team and project. Yet I'm tremendously proud of our team, our work, and our consistent drive to maintain our integrity and transparency, even in tough times. All in all, we shipped infrastructure that secured >$100M TVL, facilitated close to $2bn in trading volume, and never lost a user dollar. We pioneered a more integrated / opinionated approach to building blockchains and L1 ecosystems, which is now being validated by industry-defining projects such as Tempo and Hyperliquid. I am also tremendously grateful for all of the help and support we received throughout the journey - from our partners, backers and community - and for having the opportunity to work and learn alongside you each day for the last 4 years. For now, my priority is to return as much value as possible to all stakeholders: teammates, users, builders, and backers. To this effect, over the next few months, I'll continue to shepherd the remaining work to make Neutron safe and sustainable without our active involvement longer term. Thank you all for your time, and for believing in us.

@sunnya97 @martinezzart @dogemos +1 I like this idea too

@martinezzart This is a great idea. I think @dogemos has also been thinking along these lines

@mikedotexe This is awesome, thanks for sharing!

@thisisPatDuffy @Cyclops_inc @AlexWilsonTGB @dcjmgmt @LindsayWysocki Congrats brother, excited to see what you guys are cooking up!

I’m excited to announce that today we’re officially launching @Cyclops_inc, the stablecoin and crypto platform for Payments Companies. @AlexWilsonTGB and @dcjmgmt are my Co-Founders and @LindsayWysocki is our COO. More on the team later but, for now, let me tell you about what we’ve built. Backed by @Shift4, @CastleIslandVC, and F-Prime, Cyclops is the stablecoin and crypto platform for payments companies. We’re on a mission to 10x the rate at which the top payments companies adopt stablecoin settlement and crypto payments. We spent the last four years building stablecoin and crypto solutions from inside one of the world’s leading payments companies. In hours, we had a team of crypto payments founders and engineers, the buy-in and support of the leadership team and a mandate to build. With every resource you could possibly imagine, this effort still took years. We decided there had to be a better way. The stage is set. Merchants want to accept crypto. Payment platforms are announcing crypto capabilities. Regulatory clarity has arrived and the blockchains are built to support the wave. But when you start building, you discover the real problem: the crypto infrastructure is not designed for payments. As a payments company, you are left with an impossible decision. Either you spend $10M+ and 18 months assembling a team and building, or you stitch together 4-7 separate vendors - for custody, compliance, wallets, liquidity, conversion, settlement, reporting - and hope you like where you end up. Most companies are getting 6 months in before they realize they have to build an entire crypto company inside their payments company just to get this done. We built Cyclops to put an end to this problem - building the crypto and stablecoin infrastructure platform that exists exclusively for payment service providers, merchant acquirers, and payment processors. We're live with customers today. The payments companies that move now will own the market position, and Cyclops will be the key to claiming it and keeping it. If you're a payments company exploring crypto infrastructure, or looking for an upgrade, let's talk. Check out our announcement here: cyclops.io/post/introduci…

@AlexWilsonTGB @Cyclops_inc @CastleIslandVC @FPrimeCapital @Shift4 let’s gooo! congrats to you and Pat, always rooting for you guys 🫶

Today we're officially launching @Cyclops_inc and getting back in the startup trenches🚀 Backed by @CastleIslandVC, @FPrimeCapital and @Shift4, we're building stablecoin infrastructure for payments companys.

@crainbf @ChorusOne @bitwise Amazing, congrats!

I'm excited that finally the sale of @ChorusOne to @bitwise has closed and been announced! Over 50 of our brilliant people are moving over to Bitwise and becoming part of Bitwise Onchain Solutions. I'm incredibly grateful and happy with this outcome. Bitwise is an outstanding company and I've loved working with their leadership team @HHorsley, @hongkim__ and @teddyfuse throughout this process. Bitwise is building the dominant specialized asset management company for crypto. Aside from ETFs and other regulated products, they already have strong staking experience through their Ethereum operation and will now be in a formidable position to be the #1 player in staking and stablecoin yield / vaults as well. Over time, it became clear that consolidation was coming to the crypto industry and that staking is best delivered as part of a larger platform. Bitwise is the perfect home for that. Bitwise is also the right fit from a culture perspective. They combine deep passion for the industry, a dedication to research and a long-term oriented mindset. I have no doubt that a lot of the Chorus One team will be there for many years and have a big impact on the organization they are building. As for me, I'll be transitioning to an advisor role and will be supporting Bitwise going forward from the sideline. This is a long 8-year chapter that is coming to a close since Meher and I started the company at the dawn of Proof-of-Stake. There have been many ups and downs through this journey. We've had great successes and big setbacks. We were involved in launching the first testnets and mainnets from Cosmos to Solana. We did some of the earliest work on liquid staking and helped launch Lido. We made great decisions and terrible ones too. I'm grateful for all these years. I've learned more than I could have imagined, worked with incredible colleagues and am now able to have that work transition into something even greater. I want to thank the Bitwise team for their trust in us and valuing what we've built. I also want to thank all the people who worked at Chorus One over the years. And all the customers and partners who supported us. I also want to thank Paul McCaffrey and his fantastic team at KBW for their support in the process.

@SolanaFloor sorry to hear this, best of luck!

Today we are announcing that SolanaFloor will be winding down operations, effective immediately. Since its founding, SolanaFloor has worked to document and contextualize the growth of the Solana ecosystem. What began as a small X account grew into one of the most widely read and watched media platforms covering Solana. Following recent events impacting our parent company, Step Finance, we explored paths to continue operating but were ultimately unable to find a sustainable way forward. We are deeply grateful to our readers, viewers, guests, partners, and the broader Solana community for trusting us and being part of this journey. SolanaFloor will no longer publish new content, but our existing website, videos, and newsletters will remain available as an archive. Thank you for being part of SolanaFloor.

@hudsonjameson @poojaranjan19 let’s goooo, congrats!

I am excited to announce I have joined the ECH Institute Board! Looking forward to what the future brings for ECH :) Special thanks to @poojaranjan19 who has been stewarding ECH for many years. Thank you for your hard work and I look forward to working with you and the rest of the board.

@zkDragon very cool. great stuff as always guys!

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@tayvano_ thanks for everything you do! look forward to seeing how you apply your skills next

Well I just learned the MetaMask offboarding process is the most MetaMask thing in the entire world 😅 I’m so sorry to everyone I was mid-convo with Also, I’m not going anywhere From now, I will just scream FUCKIN’ METAMASK with you. Instead of defending the indefensible. 💖

@hudsonjameson you’re the goat, any team will be lucky to have you!

I am looking for full time work in one the following roles: - Ecosystem/Community Management - Strategy and Operations - COO - Governance - Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Feel free to DM or contact me through my website: hudsonjameson.com/about/

@svabhishek Thank you for everything Sistla! Always rooting for you

Been a long time coming and we're mentally prepared as a team but I had to share this. It hurts coz there was money, effort & time that was spent in: > explaining ppl about Cosmos more than OmniFlix > to talk to those that believed in the Cosmos eco & whatever was possible with the infra in the eco > thinking through solutions in a Cosmos-native way > working to produce media, in the end for who/what? > building within the eco & sometimes only for the eco > avoiding family to focus on what was "important" (never do this, ever) > trying to explain to ppl what we were upto > all while the entire userbase of the eco was less than the subscribers of the first YouTube channel that used our Media DePIN infra === To think there's no more OmniFlix in the Cosmos eco hurts but we push forward with @FLIXdotFUN

@hemu_rahman @interval_news dude amazing!

Just hit 2nd place on the App Store @interval_news

@jon_ator @Morpho @osmosis Congrats!! They’re lucky to have you Jon