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Blockdaemon is at #Consensus2026 in Miami 🌴 🎤 Catch @konstantin11, CEO & Founder, on the Convergence Stage 💡 Institutional DeFi Surge: Infra Powering Wall Street Adoption 📅 Wed May 6 | 1:20 PM EDT 🗣 w/ @ShiftMarkets · @jito_labs 🎙 @margaux_nijkerk, @CoinDesk

We’re joined by three exceptional speakers for our upcoming Solana institutional staking webinar ‘What’s Shaping Institutional SOL Staking in 2026?’: Dr. Krisan Haria - Portfolio Manager, 21Shares Tim Garcia - Validator Relations Lead, Solana Foundation Hosam Abdelaal - Product Manager, Blockdaemon Join Blockdaemon, @SolanaFndn , and @21Shares on April 30 at 12 EST by registering today: blockdaemon.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

This fires me up. Aave in a tough spot. But this is why they will come out of this stronger. Stani is an incredible founder. Never bet against incredible founders.

I would have expected the market to start discerning between SaaS that is impacted by AI, SaaS that needs to evolve, and SaaS that benefits from AI. Analytical SaaS, Creative SaaS is in category 1, System or Record, Human workflow and Engagement and Productivity are in category 2 and Infrastructure SaaS and Cybersecurity are in 3. This constant paranoid reaction of the market will continue to create buying opportunities for the discerning.

Aave is my life's work and we're working nonstop to find the best possible outcome for users. I’m personally contributing 5000 ETH to DeFi United as we continue working together with partners on formalizing more commitments. I’m working to see this resolved and market conditions normalized as soon as possible. DeFi United.

In March, Blockdaemon delivered a 6.66% Solana staking PRR, outperforming the network average by 21 bps. Read the March Solana PRR Report for full validator performance data and Blockdaemon Solana updates.

Join us live on 30 April at 12 PM ET for What’s Shaping Institutional SOL Staking in 2026? With @SolanaFndn and @21Shares, we’ll cover: • Q1 2026 staking performance • Alpenglow, Firedancer & SIMD-123 • JitoBAM & Harmonic • SOL ETF momentum Register: blockdaemon.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

AI will not fix a company that cannot read itself. Most enterprise AI fails at the same point: the company is illegible to itself. Decisions live in meetings. Exceptions live in Slack. Ownership lives in tribal memory. I wrote about that here: substack.com/home/post/p-19…

Running a company: 2020: can you survive a pandemic? 2021: still here? we’re going to give all of your competitors $100m series A rounds. 2022: wow, you made it? okay, all engineers cost $600,000/year now. 2023: nice job! okay, SVB failed and we’re going to take away your bank account. 2024: a survivor I see. but can you pivot from ai to crypto to defense tech back to ai-enabled defense tech in a 12 month period to stay relevant? 2025: unfortunately all of your competitors have raised $2b series B rounds. oh and only 500 engineers are relevant and they cost $100m/yr each. 2026: well, well, well. you’re still in business? let’s deploy the thunderclap of godlike LLMs from the heavens so all of your customers can rebuild your app in 2 hours. can you survive?

Marc Andreessen: “This is the grand unification of AI and crypto” “I think AI is the killer crypto app… It’s now obvious that AI agents are going to need money. It’s already happening.” Marc explains: “My friends, who are the most aggressive users of OpenClaw, have given their Claws bank accounts and credit cards. And not only have they done it, but it’s obvious that they needed to do it… It’s just completely obvious. The number of people who have done that today is, I don’t know, probably 5,000 or or something. But it will grow. That’s how these things start.” Source: @latentspacepod (Apr 2026)

@lessin Palantir of Retards

LOL, Andreessen back to his old game of copying me without attribution months later ;)

At DAS NYC 2026, @TomZschach of SWIFT and @konstantin11 of Blockdaemon outlined what institutions will need from the next payments stack: trust, traceability, policy controls, and integration with existing rails. Read the full recap: blockdaemon.com/blog/das-nyc-2…

men in their 40s used to have cool midlife crisis but now they just have agentic workflows

@rohanpaul_ai Konstant.cloud does exactly that with a simple integration in a secure manner …

Coinbase CEO, Brian Armstrong: Some great insights on how they are using internally hosted AI Agents. "It’s connected to every Slack message, every Google Doc, and every Salesforce data confluence. Now, this is all linked up and the data is all aggregated, so you can ask these agents questions. Every team is using it—legal, finance, everything. It’s like the "Oracle of Coinbase." I’ve started to ask it things that go beyond just simple prompting, like "Hey, can you write this kind of memo for me?" I’m asking these AI agents now, as CEO, "What should I be aware of in the company that I might not be aware of?" It will tell me, "Did you know that there’s actually disagreement on this team about the strategy?" I realized I didn't know that, but the AI does because it can read every Slack message and every Google Doc. Tobi, who is on my board, calls this "reverse prompting." Instead of telling the AI agent what you want to do, you ask it what you should be thinking more about." --- From @theallinpod YT channel (link in comment)

Blockdaemon is adding @Morpho Vaults to Earn Stack, giving institutional clients access to onchain stablecoin, ETH, and BTC yield across Ethereum Mainnet, Base, and Arbitrum. At launch, this includes 50+ @gauntlet_xyz curated vaults across Prime, Balanced, and Frontier. More details are available in our latest blog. blockdaemon.com/blog/blockdaem…

All those years of refusing to learn excel and PowerPoint is about to pay off

Why don’t they just tokenize the oil in the Middle East and transport it across permissionless financial rails, thereby avoiding the Strait of Hormuz altogether

Institutions want to stake digital assets, but not at the expense of custody, governance, or compliance. Retail-native staking infrastructure simply doesn’t map to institutional workflows.