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Major areas where the financial system still needs an update: 1. Tokenization of real-world assets - Real estate, stocks, bonds, funds, etc. onchain for instant settlement, fractional ownership & massive distribution. 2. 24/7 Global trading - Pooled global liquidity, every asset, every person, with great leverage and capital efficiency. 3. Next-gen payments - Near-instant, low-cost global transfers using stablecoins, including for Agentic payments. 4. AI-powered risk, credit, compliance, and advice - Better decisions, less fraud, and broader access to capital. Everyone gets access to a great financial advisor. 5. Innovation friendly regulation - Move from one-size-fits-all to risk-based rules that encourage innovation and competition instead of stifling it. 6. Expanded access - Open protocols that reduce middlemen and self-custodial wallets to expand access to everyone with a smartphone. 7. Capital formation - Low cost and turnkey for anyone to raise money for a good idea, increasing the number of startups. 8. Sound money - A refuge from inflation, when discipline is lost in fiat money. Jobs not done until we get these working for all. Will require lots of tech innovation and policy work to get there.

BREAKING: The SEC is set to release its so-called "innovation exemption" for tokenized stocks which will pave the path for trading digital versions of securities, per Bloomberg. Details include: 1. In a "surprise move," the SEC is leaning toward allowing the trading of tokenized assets 2. These tokenized assets would be tradeable on decentralized crypto platforms 3. The move could "reshape the landscape of the American stock market" 4. This would also be one of the US' biggest shifts into crypto infrastructure yet Tokenized assets are rapidly expanding.

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Kalshi raised $1B at a $22B valuation led by Coatue, with participation from Morgan Stanley, Sequoia, a16z, and others. In 2018, we were two kids who loved math, markets, and debate. And we had a dream: build the next generation financial market, where we capture a broader set of questions and harness the power of the masses to price them better than Wall Street. Kalshi was born to fulfill that dream. Today, most of these questions are traded indirectly, priced through imprecise proxies or negotiated bilaterally in opaque, restricted, relationship-driven markets. But thanks to our incredible community of users who make our markets work, Kalshi has the opportunity to change that by turning historically fragmented and untradeable risk into open, liquid, and standardized markets. We’ve seen this movie before. When interest rates, currencies, commodities, and crypto moved from dark to lit markets, volume did not just migrate: access expanded, new use cases emerged, and the opportunity grew by orders of magnitude. Today, Kalshi represents over 90% of US prediction market volume and the majority of activity globally, with annualized volume growing to $178B over the past 6 months. What started as retail is quickly becoming institutional — hedge funds, asset managers, prop firms, and insurers are beginning to trade, provide liquidity, and hedge real-world risk directly. The scope and scale of prediction markets are just beginning to take shape. We’re using this new capital to accelerate the institutional adoption underway — unlocking trillions in capital to facilitate active trading and risk management. Prediction markets are moving from early adoption to core financial infrastructure. This is just the beginning.

Diamond prices have been in a free fall, down 50% since 2022

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Ghana's SEC just admitted 11 companies into a 12-month crypto regulatory sandbox, the first operational move since the VASP Act passed in December 2025. This is bigger than it looks. Most African countries are still debating whether to regulate crypto. Ghana passed the law and launched the sandbox within 3 months. The 11 companies: Africoin, Koinkoin, Hyro Exchange, Goldbod, Vaulta, Xchain, among others, can qualify for full licenses in just 6 months if they're compliant. Meanwhile Nigeria has paused new admissions to its own sandbox while it restructures oversight between the CBN and its new VARA framework. Ghana's playbook is simple, and it's working: → Legalize first → Test under supervision → Open full licensing to everyone With 3M+ crypto users already in the country, the demand was always there. What was missing was the structure. Now we have both. The regulated crypto era in Ghana isn't coming. It's here. 🇬🇭

“If you want to make money within the animal sector, you should prepare yourself to sustain what you started” - Adu Ababio Link to full conversation below 👇🏾 #ebeghanamatter #statsgh

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Been saying this for years especially for African companies! So many amazing companies can’t access global public markets due to this. Onchain is the only way to go🚀💪🏽

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The smartest business move I've seen this year: Guy charged a law firm $15K to build an "AI document processor." His actual process: 1. Uploaded docs to Claude 2. Gave it a prompt 3. Set up a Zapier automation 4. Sent invoice Time: 45 minutes Profit: $14,950 But here's the part that fucks with me... The lawyers KNEW it was simple. They saw him do it. They could've done it themselves. They paid anyway. Why? Because they bill $500/hour and couldn't be bothered to learn Zapier. This is happening everywhere: - Dentists paying $8K for appointment automations - Restaurants paying $12K for inventory alerts - Accountants paying $6K for invoice processing The intelligence gap isn't about intelligence. It's about people with money having zero interest in learning tools that people without money master out of necessity. The entire consulting industry is built on this gap. If you don't see this gap everywhere now, you're either blind or the one getting invoiced. Am I missing anything?

Two Nigerian Brothers, Maxwell Maduka and Nathan Nwachukwu, design, manufacture and sell drones. Their Company TerraHaptix, is Africa's largest drone manufacturing facility and is located in Abuja, Nigeria.

Stablecoins are global money.

Mark Cuban (@mcuban) just laid out the BIGGEST opportunity of the next decade: helping companies actually implement AI. (bookmark/save for later) no-fluff breakdown below 🧵

Brian Armstrong on what he learned about management from Balaji Srinivasan “Balaji is a brilliant guy. He’s probably one of the top couple smartest people I’ve ever met in my life,” Brian begins. “He was briefly the Chief Technology Officer of Coinbase. He came in through an acquisition and did some amazing work. And he taught me how to manage a totally different type of person.” Brian continues: “Balaji is kind of unmanageable. He’s what some people might call a ‘free radical’ within an organization. He kind of bounces around, absorbing vast amounts of information — even things that aren’t his responsibility — and occasionally he would come back to me with these incredible insights.” Brian gives one funny example: “At one point he came back to me and said, ‘These are all the salespeople that are making more revenue than their salary, and these are all the people that are not.’ And the first thought I had was, ‘You’re not supposed to have access to anybody’s salary. How did you get that?’” Balaji replied, “Don’t worry about it. I found it in some database that I wasn’t supposed to have access to.” The next question Brian asked was, “How did you connect that all up?” The previous week Brian asked the data team to connect Salesforce to Coinbase’s salary data so they could start running some reports to have more accountability. But it was supposed to be a three-week project. Balaji responded, “Oh well I couldn’t sleep this weekend, and I just knew something felt off. So I had to code it up and put it all together.” When the data team completed their analysis three weeks later, they confirmed that Balaji was 100% right. “He was continually doing things like that,” Brian explains. “And he’s incredibly high in disagreeableness, which I learned from him as well. He would go into a team and ask, ‘Why isn’t this functioning well?’ And he would suffer no fools. He would not be afraid to go in there and turn half the people on a team — whether he had the permission to fire them or not… He was a very contrarian figure. I’d say about once a week someone would come into my office and say, ‘I can’t work with Balaji. He’s causing so much collateral damage.’ And I’d say, ‘Yes, but he’s also generating an enormous amount of value and I need you to learn how to work with him.’” Brian knew Balaji wasn’t going to last forever at Coinbase because it was incredibly disruptive, but ultimately he taught Brian how to be a “turnaround CEO” when needed: “In the past I was opting a little more toward trying to be liked instead of being clear about what we’re doing, where we’re going, and what the bar is. He helped me become a better CEO and have a little more disagreeableness.” Video source: @stripe (2025)

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Happy 60th birthday, @PatrickAwuahJr! Today, we celebrate the man whose dream was the "ashesi" of Ashesi. A visionary, a builder, and a relentless believer in the power of African leadership. Here’s to a legacy still unfolding. #atAshesi