Umed Saidov, CFA

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THE RWA RACE HAS 5 REAL CONTENDERS. THE REST ARE NOISE. $52 billion in tokenized real world assets onchain. Growing 380% since 2022. Here's who's actually winning and why. LINK - The middleware monopoly. SWIFT, Coinbase, DTCC all run through Chainlink oracles. Every tokenized asset needs a price feed. LINK provides it. No competitor is close. ONDO - The product leader. 250+ tokenized stocks and ETFs live today. Tokenized Treasuries paying 4.8% onchain. BlackRock's BUIDL runs on Ondo rails. This is the front door for TradFi capital. AVAX - The institutional chain. $200B in NJ real estate tokenized on Avalanche. Japan's Progmat migrating $2B+. Custom subnets built for compliance. Institutions don't pick chains for vibes. They pick infrastructure. HBAR - The quiet winner. Santiment ranked it #1 blockchain for RWA development. Beat Chainlink. Beat Avalanche. Enterprise-grade with 10,000+ TPS. The most slept-on chain in the top 5. XLM - The payments rail. Amundi just launched tokenized funds on Stellar. MoneyGram built on it. Circle integrated it. While everyone debates L2s, Stellar is processing institutional money quietly. The RWA market will be $16 trillion by 2030. These 5 are building the rails. Everyone else is writing whitepapers.

Psilocybin made human cells live 50% longer. A new study has uncovered surprising anti-aging potential in psilocin—the active metabolite produced when the body breaks down psilocybin, the psychoactive compound found in magic mushrooms. In laboratory experiments, researchers exposed two human cell lines (skin fibroblasts and fetal lung fibroblasts) to a 100 μM concentration of psilocin. The results were striking: lung cells took 57% longer to reach replicative senescence (the point at which cells permanently stop dividing and accumulate damage), while skin fibroblasts extended their replicative lifespan by 51%. These findings suggest psilocin may slow fundamental cellular aging processes, possibly by lowering oxidative stress, enhancing DNA-repair pathways, supporting mitochondrial health, or dampening chronic inflammation—mechanisms that overlap with those targeted by leading experimental longevity drugs. The benefits extended beyond cell culture. In aged female mice (19 months old at the start, equivalent to approximately 60–65 human years), a single monthly dose of psilocybin dramatically improved outcomes. After 10 months of treatment, 80% of the psilocybin-treated animals remained alive, compared with only 50% of untreated controls. Treated mice also displayed markedly fewer visible signs of aging, including reduced fur loss and graying. This research marks the first direct demonstration that psilocybin/psilocin can influence biological aging itself, rather than solely producing psychological effects. The authors emphasize that the study used relatively conservative dosing and are now advocating for follow-up work with higher or more frequent administration, detailed assessments of immune, metabolic, and cognitive function, and investigations into whether the extended lifespan corresponds to genuine improvements in healthspan and quality of life. ["Psilocybin treatment extends cellular lifespan and improves survival of aged mice." npj Aging, 2025]

My fave Chuck Norris joke: Chuck doesn't flush the toilet, he scares the shit out of it.

February was unbelievable, folks. Can’t wait for April. 😆

Glad to hear they did this. Technically, they could have gotten away with it but that would have dealt a huge blow to their reputation and eroded trust in #Cardano. PS: Cardano generates highest drama per second.

Putin rn…

@RealSaidov Is a bridged asset where reserves sleep at the same issuer valid in that list? 🤔 It is a great needed palliative solution from one founding entity but… Is it really supported? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Where is #Cardano here?

When death came for Chuck Norris, it killed itself. RIP Chuck.

Utility beats political narratives. But as long as doge is ranked above Cardano, the rankings are a joke.

👀 you can front-run nation states…

Wow. What an insightful piece. Touches upon some of the most critical issues. As I have always said: you either evolve or you become irrelevant. $ETH is not the only chain that is trying to spin blatant weaknesses as a differentiating factor, btw. Others who take this path are equally doomed.

👀 Eric is punching above his weight.

How many have we lost like this?

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This is what I call real progress. Note that BitGo is one of the major custodians for institutions. Once you get them to support your initiative, the rest becomes easy.

@RuLooking4This2 @grok which chains prevent sandwich attack on the architecture level and are fast?

Well, if they wanna prevent Sandwich attacks, I guess there's only one real Blockchain operating system to consider. From Grok: "Sandwich attacks are an EVM-specific problem caused by the combination of public mempools, global state updates, and AMM pricing. Pure UTXO chains (Bitcoin) simply don’t have the infrastructure for it. Even extended UTXO platforms (like Cardano) are designed to be far more resistant than any EVM chain."

Which chain do you think they will build on?

SUI is prepared for massive agentic adoption

Iran's sun and lion flag has been raised on Iran's embassy in Copenhagen 👇 Several diplomats at the embassy, including the ambassador himself according to some reports, have applied for asylum in Denmark.