Justin Stables

@azeemk @KINGJARED300 @roryandmalshow @KYDLabs @ForbesCrypto @SOBs unfollowed

One of the constant themes in my writing for Forbes over the past year has been exploring where entertainment and culture are headed through the lens of digital assets. Last week, I attended a Drake album listening party hosted by @KINGJARED300 at SOB’s in NYC. The event sold nearly 600 tickets and completely packed the venue. Drake wasn’t there, though I did get a chance to chat with Rory from the Rory and Mal podcast, who’s also pictured here. What stood out to me is that this was an unofficial listening party with no involvement from OVO, yet it still sold out. Jared represents a new wave of creators building real businesses around fandom and community. He’s been a dedicated Drake fan for years, built an audience around that interest, and has now hosted multiple successful Drake-themed parties across the country. You might be wondering what any of this has to do with digital assets. The platform powering these events is KYD Labs, which uses blockchain technology on the backend. When people talk about empowering curators through blockchains, this is the kind of thing I’ve always been excited about. Not speculative memecoins or forced crypto integrations, but seamless consumer experiences where the technology quietly enables new business models in the background. That’s what makes this interesting to me. Jared is effectively building a scalable community business using infrastructure most attendees probably never even think about. I’m excited to write more about this because I think the next generation of cultural curators will look a lot like this, with blockchains powering the rails underneath it all. Article coming soon. Also, Iceman is album of the year by miles 🧊🧊🧊.

@grahamfergs @SamExotic3

What are the most interesting stablecoins? Working on something.

@0xcryptotax @grahamfergs 🫨

@grahamfergs UST - there is no second.

@ajwarner90 @Offchain IPO wen

Ecstatic that our vision for the future of @Offchain is now public. Our goal is to provide the infrastructure to power the programmable economy. Software has disrupted every major industry over the last twenty years. Information, communication, and recently stablecoins have made immense progress on this front on the payments side. Finance is not immune to this disruption and Offchain is best situated to enable this change. The @prylabs team is an industry leader in consensus, ordering and security. It’s an honor to work alongside them in their work for Ethereum. The @arbitrum team leads in execution technology and ecosystem growth. Arbitrum platform has the most liquid L2 and the most customizable stack for a performance, compliance and other needs of institutions. No other platforms can offer this wide range of support. The @zerodev_app team has been pioneers in account abstraction, smart accounts and is razor focused on providing the best UX for the programmable economy via onchain experiences. Our enterprise team and incredible research arm lead by @EdFelten are well-positioned to build off our core products and enable organizations access to our technology in a way that works for them. We are here to to use our human capital (hence the name Offchain), to power the worlds onchain experiences. This story is just beginning.

We're now Offchain. A new chapter focused on powering institutions as they move onchain. What we’ve built across @arbitrum, @prylabs and @zerodev_app is coming together into something bigger. This is just the first step. Stay tuned. offchain.io

“We definitely noticed something in Securitize that was a little bit different.” BlackRock’s Max Stein shares why the world’s largest asset manager tokenizes with Securitize.

Excited to be announcing our integration with Keyring, where we'll be serving as a liquidator on their RWA positions, warehousing the duration on our books to facilitate efficient secondary RWA liquidity This is how DeFi wins!

If you’re choosing strategies based on APY alone, you’re missing the most important aspects of DeFi. Today, Sentora is launching Smart Yield to address exactly that. 🧵

At what point do we just give up and hire the North Koreans to build the protocols for us. They’re clearly better at this than we are.

@krugermacro @justinsuntron @scottmelker It do don’t it

@justinsuntron @scottmelker Sounds illegal

This Is World Tyranny, Not World Liberty Financial — Here's Why This proposal has been packaged as a "governance alignment signal" and a "long-term commitment," but strip away the packaging and what you have is one of the most absurd governance scams I have ever seen. Let me break it down. I. Vote Against and Get Punished — Classic Coercion Tactic This is not a legitimate voting exercise, not even close.  The design of this proposal is a logical trap: anyone who votes against it has their tokens locked indefinitely with no unlock path whatsoever. In other words, if you oppose this proposal, you get punished. This is not voting. This is coercion. What kind of democratic process rewards agreement and imprisons dissent? II. Voters Have Been Selectively Frozen Out I personally hold approximately 4% of the voting power, yet my tokens have been frozen and I am forced out of this voting process. I am not alone. A large number of holders with significant voting rights are in the same position. Meanwhile, the team controls the power to freeze tokens — they decide who can vote and who cannot. What does this mean? It means the outcome was determined before the vote even began. This is not a governance vote. This is a performance where the police have already barricaded the doors of parliament and only let their own people inside to raise their hands. The voter pool has been purged. Only yes votes remain. The result of such a vote carries no binding force whatsoever. III. All Actual Power Has Been Seized by Anonymous Actors The actual control over the WLFI smart contracts lies in the hands of a 3/5 anonymous multisig and a single anonymous guardian EOA has the power to blacklist addresses holding WLFI. Let me emphasize — anonymous. This anonymous multisig can override any vote result and execute any operation directly at the contract level. The so-called governance proposals, on-chain votes, and community discussions are nothing but theater. Real power has never been yielded to anyone but themselves and it’s laughable that they try these tricks to fool the community. The bottom line is this, the power sits with anonymous wallet addresses whose owners nobody knows or can verify. This is not decentralized governance. This is dictatorship wearing the mask of a DAO. IV. Voters Must Identify Themselves, but the Rulers Are Anonymous — Worse Than Tyranny Here is the most ironic part: WLFI requires every participating voter to complete identity verification, electronically sign acknowledgements, and meet compliance eligibility requirements. You want to exercise your rights? Show your face first. But who are the guardian and multisig signers who hold the power of life and death over the contract? Nobody was told and there is absolutely no transparency.  While the governed must identify themselves, the governors with absolute power are anonymous. Your voters must register, submit to scrutiny, and be vetted and dictated how to vote— while your dictators won't even show their faces. V. A Naked Violation of Property Rights Worth Billions of Dollars Let us not forget the real stakes of this proposal: this is not some trivial parameter adjustment or protocol upgrade. This vote seeks to decide the unlock schedule for billions of dollars in assets, the reallocation of governance and vesting rights, and most extreme of all, the permanent destruction of billions of tokens. This is a naked expropriation of holders' property rights. In an environment where voting against the proposal is punished, where large numbers of holders have been frozen out of voting, and where actual control rests with anonymous wallets, using this sham vote to decide the fate of billions of dollars in assets? This is not governance. This is a sham and flies in the face of what this protocol was meant to be. No society governed by the rule of law would permit this. In traditional financial markets, any asset disposition of this scale would require rigorous regulatory review, independent board approval, and minority shareholder protections. Here, a few anonymous wallets get to decide everything. The permanent burning of tokens means holders' property is irreversibly destroyed, no compensation, no recourse, no due process. This has gone far beyond the realm of so-called "decentralized governance." This is a systematic violation of property rights. Conclusion I repeat that this proposal is not governance. It is an exercise of power by the selected few who are carefully engineering a further power consolidation and property expropriation operation. Dissenters are punished for voting no. Opponents are frozen out. Actual control lies with anonymous wallets. Those who exercise their rights must prove their identity while the fate of billions of dollars in assets is decided by a sham vote. This is not what decentralized finance was meant to be, results produced under these sorts of conditions carry no legitimacy, should not have binding force, and should not be recognized. I call on all WLFI holders to see this proposal for what it truly is, to voice their opposition across all public channels, and to reserve all legal rights of recourse.

might be just enough to get me to actually use polymarket...

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We mapped the full tokenization stack. Standards, platforms, $620M+ in RWA collateral, and why T-bills are out, and gold is in. Onchain allocators are rotating on macro. A new report with @CredoraNetwork shows what’s actually happening in the RWA stack in 2026 🧵

@RobAnon Big brain

$137.7M lost and only $9M recovered. That’s the state of DeFi exploits so far this year. Security isn’t optional anymore and Firelight is building it.

A working group with likeminded folks interested in collaborating to further the adoption of RWAs. DM for link to join.

1/ Few in crypto or traditional finance understand that in order to effectively distribute securities onchain, they must behave like DeFi-native assets. Or at least as much as possible within the confines of the law. Here's how we're doing this at @Securitize. 🧵👇

@derek_hsue @Archive_Pod @keoneHD @monad Welcome back to the content game

Launching a new podcast today! Filmed at our NYC office, each episode of @Archive_Pod focuses on a founder or operator who has built an important crypto business/protocol. The first episode is with @keoneHD, founder of @monad. We dive into Keone’s upbringing, the early days of Monad and the journey to raising the seed round. Plus, we talk about recruiting + scaling the team, and the philosophies they used to launch and grow the network. Here's what we discussed: 0:00 - Intro 0:42 - Altitude 1:32 - Monad's Launch 4:25 - Keone’s early life and interests 16:52 - Where Keone’s work ethic came from 19:52 - Working at Jump and how the culture passed on to Monad 24:26 - Starting Monad 30:05 - Raising the seed round for Monad 32:29 - Growing the Monad community and open-sourcing code 36:35 - How Keone hired for the early team 44:07 - The future of Category Labs 51:26 - Which metrics is Monad focusing on 1:00:24 - Building a base of loyal and passionate users 1:07:45 - The personality of an L1 founder 1:13:46 - Founders that Keone looks up to 1:18:34 - Day in the life of Keone 1:23:57 - The endgame vision for Monad