Anthony | Blockchain 121

@ashxyz 🔥🔥🔥

Proud to help bring this to market. Codex FX is the infrastructure companies in emerging and frontier markets need to move seamlessly between fiat and stablecoins. Shoutout to the entire Codex team!

@NathanWorsley_ Tap tap tap

Thank you Bankless for having me on!

@icobeast Mainly bloat

20% feels like a lot? I'd have to imagine this is bigger nominally than the layoffs at Block a couple weeks ago. Question for me remains how much of this is companies realizing they were extremely bloated (realizing people were redundant) vs AI efficiency actually making people redundant. Pretty important distinction.

@AustinKing @HyperliquidX Congratulations @AustinKing amazing early volume

It's now been 9 years that I've been a founder in the crypto space. Roughly 10 months ago I think everything changed. @HyperliquidX broke the collective hallucination this industry was living in. This breakdown is showing itself in slow motion in one extremely simple way: the current altcoin market conditions. What does an industry do when nearly every single top altcoin makes absolutely marginal revenue in relation to their multi-billion dollar valuations, and then 1 single project comes along and shows it all was a facade? I think the first thing it did was denial. People had significant capital invested in projects that generated no value. We were all living in this distorted reality where somehow something can be worth billions, yet it is hard to precisely describe the value it brings to the world. Therefore there was significant financial incentive from millions of altcoin holders worldwide to propagandize their existing bags, and they did exactly that. However, you can delay the market becoming rational but you cannot forever avoid the arrival of market participants capitalizing off mispriced assets. We are seeing this play out in slow motion right now. We have had almost a full decade of convincing ourselves that these networks are somehow different, and don't need to actually generate quantifiable financial returns downstream of their operations. At this point I can say the following with complete confidence: it is inevitable that crypto projects with poor economics that generate little revenue will die. It does not matter how strong their community is. All of this happened while I found myself as a founder of a network that specifically had failed to generate sizable revenue. That project was called Omni Network. I've always worked on interoperability, chain abstraction, whatever you want to call it. It's just been clear to me since 2017, since the founding of my first company and my final year at Harvard that it's too difficult for people to actually work across the onchain financial system. Omni was an attempt to fix this. Transparently, it mostly failed. We had a lot of projects build on us during testnet (later we realized this was not because of the product, but because people thought we were good at marketing and wanted to get amplified) and as we had launched mainnet it was grueling trying to convert projects to mainnet deployments. So in May of 2025 I found myself as the cofounder of a project that simply can be described in many ways as the opposite of @HyperliquidX. Little usage, little revenue and no PMF. Seeing the amount of revenue that Hyperliquid was able to generate as a blockchain made it very clear the standard had been elevated and the project needed to achieve PMF or it would die. Downstream, I stopped behaving like a more traditional crypto founder that writes posts optimized for crypto twitter and tries to generate hype around his project to incentivize other builders to launch on his platform. Instead, I worked in a more traditional non-crypto founder way and defined a hyper specific customer segment and talked to hundreds of people that fit that mold. Specifically people who have a net worth of $400k - $2m and make multiple onchain transactions per day. This started in May of 2025, and it took about 4 months for us to clearly understand the problems that segment was experiencing and deliver the first version of our product that had a clear path to substantial revenue. This is when we officially pivoted to Nomina publicly. It's been 6 months now and I think the traction we have built has definitively proven the hypothesis: that this customer segment is willing to pay substantial amounts of money not only for superior onchain execution, but simply for it not being a huge pain. Onchain markets are still incredibly immature, and if you're coming from traditional finance trading these markets feels absolutely primitive. Many people currently think of Nomina as a trading terminal, but the goal really was to prove out the hypothesis that people would be willing to pay for simplified execution of trades across multiple platforms. Moving forward, less of our work is going to be on the terminal as that was primarily a way to validate this hypothesis. What people primarily care about is the core engine that abstracts away all the nuances of each venue. They just want to talk to one system and place their transactions. We're going to be expanding our work and launching products on top of the core engine we have built, and as time progresses the unified API will be available for early build partners to launch their own businesses. Altcoin markets will continue to get pulverized. Almost every single project in this industry has absolutely hollow economics. However, if you look carefully there are a few projects out there right now that are actually making incredible progress despite the market conditions and will be the key winners over the next bull cycle.

HIRING - Creative Marketing Lead for a high profile consumer focused start-up that has raised 40 mil. - Need deep cultural fluency across gaming, crypto/ betting and/or Gen Z/millennial internet culture. Circa 200k to 250k Plus meaningful equity.

@WatanabeSota Like the great work @startale is doing bringing Japanese equities on-chain.

The blockchain industry is at an inflection point. The first wave of L2s competed on technical specs. The next wave will be won by chains that can demonstrate real-world enterprise adoption at scale.

@TheGeoMethod Sales

I've closed $100K+ deals, $1B+ in B2C sales, including a $80M record deal. ...all because I've mastered how to sell to high-status individuals. I've written an internal doc breaking down: - The 5 Silent Mistakes that make your sales calls fail with serious buyers - Nudge Theory Explained: 7 emotional drivers (use these to increase the odds of the sale) - The Status-Play Opening - why 99% of guru-preached sales openers destroy your credibility (and what to do instead) This is the document I wish I had when I was just starting out in sales. I've held nothing back. Want the full doc? Follow me + comment "SALES" I'll DM it to you.

@JJEnglert GTM Guide

I built the ultimate GTM Engineer AI Toolkit that handles prospect research, outreach writing, meeting prep, and more in minutes. This is a beginner-friendly walkthrough that shows you exactly how to set it up, use it at work, and personalize it to your business. It can: - Research real prospects and companies - Score accounts against your ICP - Write personalized cold outreach sequences - Generate meeting prep briefs before calls - Help you build a repeatable prospecting pipeline - All using a free toolkit + Claude Code / Codex. This is for SDRs, founders, marketers, and GTM operators who want to use AI to do more at work without buying another expensive tool. I break down the full workflow step by step in the video. 👇 Comment "GTM GUIDE" and I’ll send you the full toolkit. (make sure you're following me so I can DM you)

@phklive @monad Impressive @phklive !

Few will understand, but we pulled-off a whole ass hackathon with: - A top blockchain partner @monad - 8+ judges from top companies - 150+ top hackers - In NYC 🇺🇸 IN A TWO WEEK TIME! We are hungry for success, we will win.

@CJBurgess21 brutal

Everyone blames recruiters for ghosting, but no one talks about the recruiter who's followed up with the hiring manager every day for 2 weeks just to get a one-word reply: “Pass.”

@nickisanders Nice summary

My ETHDenver 2026 takeaways 👇 This year felt… different. Not dead. Not bearish. Just trimmed down to the people who are actually building. A few themes that kept popping up in conversations, panels, and side events: 1. AI agents everywhere. Not just “AI + blockchain” buzzwords. Actual demos. Agents owning wallets. Agents transacting. Verifiable compute. Human-in-the-loop guardrails. DeAI. Modular AI infra. This wasn’t theoretical. It was shipping. 2. Builders > hype. Attendance was lighter than peak mania years. Fewer mega-parties. Fewer tourists. But the people who showed up? Focused. Technical. Heads down. The BUIDL energy felt real again. 3. Crypto is being pulled between two masters. On one side: institutional-grade infrastructure. RWAs. Compliance. Post-quantum security. Enterprise AI. On the other: the degens who were here first. Permissionless experiments. Weird token mechanics. Fast money. Meme velocity. Both were present in Denver. Sometimes in the same building. Sometimes at the same afterparty. The question isn’t which side wins. It’s whether we can build systems that serve both without neutering either. 4. Modular everything. Modular chains. Modular storage. Modular AI. Infra teams are thinking in components now, not monoliths. It’s more mature architecture than the 2021 launch-a-chain-and-pray era. 5. Human verification is back. The AI vs. human CAPTCHA experiments went viral for a reason. If AI agents are going to transact and own identity, proving humanness becomes infrastructure. 6. Quantum security quietly looming. Multiple devs brought up post-quantum concerns. Not fear-mongering. Just realism. If we’re building for decades, we can’t ignore our cryptographic assumptions. 7. RWAs creeping into more rooms. Not the loudest theme, but definitely there. Institutional structuring. L2 integrations. Real assets onchain. The conversations are getting more serious and less speculative. 8. The vibe: smaller, tighter, intentional. New venue. Themed tracks. Less chaos. More actual conversations. The best parts were hallway chats and side event whiteboard sessions, not mainstage theatrics. And yes, the market downturn was in the air. But honestly? It felt healthy. When prices cool off, the cosplay fades and the engineers stay. ETHDenver 2026 felt like a reset year. Less noise. More signal. Crypto is growing up… but it hasn’t decided what kind of adult it wants to be yet.

@amiralnadi Great read @amiralnadi

@different_mj congrats !

We are pleased to announce our $62M DBA Fund II. DBA started as the Bear Market Homework Club. A small and local effort to find our place amongst the sincere, interesting, and interested. These are our people. We are lucky to call them partners, LPs, founders and friends. Thank you to all of them.

@MrRazzi17 As a recruiter can confirm

quite bearish on some of these new AI GTM tools. Sent 200 LinkedIn messages, personalized each one manually, hit rate was excellent. Feels like buyers can smell synthetic effort instantly. The tools mostly just automate your way to being ignored.

@realpeterjm @nevaaron the @blocmates are very talented

.@nevaaron videos are fucking goated emerging as the best content creator in crypto

@deomaius hey do you have a portfolio or resume you can share. Have a few roles on that may fit

I’m back on the market perhaps looking for contract work or full time, I have nearly a decade of experience in product, design and frontend. Ideally looking for a technical lead or product manager position or if it’s high impact OSS work willing to negotiate.

@coreyganim There's endless applicants screening ai systems and they cost 100 bucks a month or even less.

@Jacobsklug @openclaw @Lovable OS

I'm giving away my entire @openclaw architecture. Behind my $250k/month agency. After weeks of building, I've dialled in the exact system that runs my business 24/7. What's included: • Memory folder structure (how to organize agent context) • Cron job templates (daily briefs, meeting syncs, content automation) • How to build a custom dashboard in @lovable • API reference doc (so your agent never forgets its tools) • Voice training method (85 posts to teach it your style) • Supabase schema for dashboard connection Comment "OS" and follow. I'll DM it to you. P.S. This will probably blow up so give me some time to reply.