Laura

Four years ago, my husband and I started writing online. No product. No customers. No clue what we were building. $200 articles for a grant-funded Web3 ecosystem site. We knew it wasn't a sustainable business model. We didn't know what we were good at, or what we should be doing instead. We kept going anyway. Year two, I cut my corporate software job to 80%. I used the home-office hours to go all in on what we were building. In the male-dominated field I worked in, this move was unusual. For a woman in that field, it was more so. My husband went further. He's a doctor. He cut his practice to 20%. We were each pulling two jobs. The corporate one. The other one. A year later, it had a name: The Founder's Voice. Founder-led communication for Web3 founders. Year four. Full-time. Clients we chose. Calendars we own. And a one-and-a-half-year-old son. This @thejustinwelsh line is the one I keep coming back to: We're making more than the old salaries, on work that's ours. That was the goal. (Thanks Justin for naming it cleanly)

This is why founder-led marketing is the only marketing that still works, especially in crypto. People invest in the vision of the founder. If the founder isn't visible, on X, on stage, in the conversation, there's nothing to draw conviction from. There's no vision and no leader to follow. Founders who hand this whole work to a marketing team are asking the market for conviction they haven't shown up to earn. That's not how the world works now.

This pod is about an app that's best described as an ONLY POSSIBLE ON @SuiNetwork APP Literally you can't build this onchain on any EVM chain or on @solana w/ @_smbrian co-founder @codanetwork & @_StudioMirai Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 6:30 What Brian is actually excited about on Sui 8:30 Bitcoin → Ethereum → Sui: what each brought on-chain 11:00 Music as objects: capturing songs the way Ethereum can't 13:00 "Please store this info off-chain" - the @solana 🔴 red flag 15:00 How Brian is using Walrus and Seal 18:00 Transparency: why on-chain matters for artists 20:00 Streaming apps hoard your fan data 23:00 What Coda actually is 24:30 Sound vs music 28:00 How artists react when you pitch Web3 to them 30:00 The NFT era did real damage 36:00 How payouts for artists work 38:30 Coda's distribution strategy 42:00 What launch day looks like 44:00 One dev + Claude Code = a team of 8 46:30 Why the next hires aren't engineers 47:30 Coda business model 49:30 Advice to builders thinking about quitting 52:30 Wrap

moving money should be as free and instant as sending a message. that's what we tried to build at meta. this year, we ship it on @SuiNetwork 🔥

If you're in crypto right now, this is the time to do everything you can to stay and build. The builders who stay through this are going to win. Listen to @funkii

On May 3rd 2026, #Sui monthly emissions drop by over 50%. 🔥 We will be celebrating the 3rd yr anniversary of Sui. Lots to share in Miami. See you there.

.@funkii put $100K of his own money in, shipped 5 protocols solo, and hit 8 figures in revenue. with no team, no grants, just conviction. The full conversation on why he's building on @SuiNetwork 👇 Timestamps: 0:00 — Intro 0:55 — Funkii's background & going all-in on Sui 3:00 — How he discovered Sui 6:30 — Why Move is safer than Solidity 9:00 — Sui developer experience vs other chains 12:00 — Is Sui still early? 14:30 — Mission 69B: the company behind it all 17:00 — What’s Faith 20:00 — Tide: revenue-backed fundraising 25:00 — Why crypto is here to stay 27:30 — AI agents & crypto payments 33:00 — Walrus, Deep Book & the full Sui stack 36:00 — Cannibal: a permissionless Polymarket on Sui 40:30 — Distribution & growth strategy 42:00 — Sui's breakout moment 44:00 — Funkii's favorite Sui project

Most marriages collapse 2 years after the first baby — because nobody warned them it would feel like climbing Everest in flip-flops with no map. Erica Komisar: If you tell couples “parenting is a gentle little hill,” they collapse when the real mountain hits. But if you say: “Expect exhaustion, no sleep, brutal hardship — but the view (joy, love) is worth it. We’ll train you,” they can survive it together. Lies about how “easy” or “magical” it is destroy relationships when reality arrives. The 2–3 year post-baby period is the highest-risk window for divorce — not because love dies, but because unrealistic expectations + sleep deprivation + zero preparation = emotional breakdown. Parents of young kids: What was the biggest “nobody warned me” shock after baby arrived? Or if you’re expecting — what are you most bracing for? Your honest stories 👇

“You can’t love children too much.” Gabor Maté flips the “mama’s boy” stereotype on its head: A landmark study followed newborns and how their mothers related to them. Most moms were attuned and loving. Some were distant. Some were extra doting and coddling. 35 years later? The adults who turned out most independent, successful, and self-actualized were the ones who received super abundant love from their mothers. Maté’s takeaway: The real “mama’s boy” isn’t created by too much love—it’s created by anxious love. When a mother coddles not because the child needs it, but because she needs it to soothe her own anxiety, the child absorbs that anxiety. It’s not excessive love that creates dependency… it’s unresolved parental anxiety being downloaded into the child. Clip from this 52-second gem — Maté dismantling the myth with science and compassion. Ever notice how the most confident people often had parents who were unapologetically loving? Or seen how anxiety can quietly pass down generations? Your thoughts — drop them below.

we're entering a time where the architecture decisions made years ago are about to get stress-tested in ways most chains aren't ready for this is my prediction: when agentic finance really takes off, you're going to see a mass extinction event for a lot of outdated smart contract platforms this will not be a slow decline or a gradual loss of market share. this will be a mass extinction event the kind where the environment changes faster than the organism can adapt. that's what agentic finance is going to do to these chains because agents don't transact like humans they are operating at machine speed, across thousands of parallel actions, continuously the throughput demands of that world will make today's peak loads look trivial so if your infrastructure was designed around scarcity, around managing congestion rather than eliminating it, you're not going to be able to patch your way out of that i have always said this: scalability isn't a feature you add later. It's either in the foundation or it isn't and the chains that don't have it in the foundation are going to fall behind and eventually become irrelevant @SuiNetwork was built with the foundations to scale and thrive in a world where machines transact and this year we're pushing even harder to bring all the features necessary to make Sui the true hub of agentic finance. you're not ready for what we're cooking for Sui

Seems like @SuiNetwork is doubling down on payments. The free tier makes dollar transfers cost nothing at the protocol level. The private payments layer handles confidential settlement without exposing transaction data onchain. Sui Dollar is the stablecoin built specifically for this stack, with yield routed back to the network rather than an external issuer. Together they form a self-contained payments architecture. @MystenLabs seems to be closing every gap that makes blockchain payments impractical for real use. Right move at the right time!

If you’re struggling to grasp what @ikadotxyz truly unlocks, this pod is for you @NanakNihal, co-founder of @humntech, tells the story of how his team created a category-defining product (@WaaPxyz) by leveraging @ikadotxyz and @SuiNetwork It’s a clear example of what’s possible when you combine Ika and Sui Timestamps: 02:11 meet the founder 04:18 @humntech product suite 07:53 impact of @humnpassport acquisition 10:04 ai and proof of humanity 12:01 why @waapxyz exists 16:34 discovering @ikadotxyz 19:23 @stripe's acquisition of @privy is a self-custody wake up call 21:14 b2b launch strategy 23:00 why b2c wins 24:35 universal wallet vision 27:24 human network explained 31:09 building on @suinetwork 32:05 future use cases and adoption 36:04 can wallets have banking app like security?

Can we get @finkd to choose @SuiNetwork?

The endgame was never chains pretending to be one chain. It's one chain with synchronous atomic composability that scales horizontally. That's @SuiNetwork.

There is a certain amount of pragmatism in this tweet. BUT @privy is far from being the secure, self-custodial solution most people assume it is. And @NanakNihal is the best person to tell you why all these wallet-as-a-service products, including Privy and @Web3Auth, are deeply flawed products. Btw, full podcast with Nanak on @humntech and @WaaPxyz going live next Monday.

I get the frustration When people say they don't care about decentralisation it can feel like they're missing the whole point why this space exists. But I think the real question isn't whether you care about decentralisation. It's what happens to your product, your users, and your data when one entity holds all the leverage. Decentralisation solves a specific problem. It removes the ability of any single party to control, censor, or capture what you've built. How much you need depends on what you're protecting and who you're protecting it from. At its core decentralisation is risk management. The sooner we talk about it that way, the better the conversation gets.

WAAP is one of the most innovative products in crypto rn, built on @ikadotxyz and @SuiNetwork by @humntech Here’s @NanakNihal breaking down what WAAP is And why a cutting edge product like that was only possible through Ika and Sui

Moving money should be as free and instant as sending a message. That's what we envisioned @Meta This year, we make it real on @SuiNetwork, with full privacy

Making payments free and instant is hard. Making them free, instant, and private on a decentralized network is an entirely different level of engineering challenge. The good thing is that the core pieces have been shipping on @SuiNetwork over the last 3 years. it's a massive undertaking but it seems like the groundwork is done Now it's about bringing it all together. IMO if there's one team in crypto with the engineering depth to deliver this, it's @Mysten_Labs