Aditya Chintawar

Getting here has taken a lot effort & commitment. Every product decision, every bug fix, every design iteration, every compliance discussion, every late-night push, every piece of launch prep has helped bring Kite to this point. That is what building from zero looks like. My team is my pride and this one is dedicated to the best team ever 💚

@Paqi_Asiya Golden advice !

My unsolicited advice if ur a neobank wanting to do physical cards: Kickstart the processes as soon as possible. Even if it’s later down the line to your GTM. That way you can pull the trigger when you’re ready. Also, customize the packaging. It doesn’t have to be elaborate or the most expensive option. But kick off that after your card manufacturer starts your card or during the same order as your physical cards. Packaging usually takes half the time, but it’s good to be prepared. This is how you can be flexible and capitalize on momentum when it’s needed. Have conversations early.

@0xshei Slowly slowly and then all at once is “very near”

@adityakiteapp I do imagine a world where everything can be on-chain for sure :)

All neobanks will soon become crypto neobanks And all banks will soon become crypto banks

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@AnandaniNisha They are more measurable as well

Tech roles are a 100% times more rewarding than non tech roles.

@johnbabodor If you are in Asia can try @KiteAppxyz !

After using several neobanks over the last few years, I recently decided to reassess my stack and phase out the ones that no longer fit my needs. My current use cases are pretty simple: salary, travel, savings, and everyday spending. P.S. I’ve processed over $100k through one of these apps. 🤐 Current mainstays: @roamapp, @useazza (living inside WhatsApp is underrated), @juicywayhq (probably my most trusted I’ve referred 10+ people), @Go_Karsa (all my card spending), @chippercashapp (still one of my favorite card products because it actually works), @eversendapp, @Nectar_finance, @piggyvest, @surgepay_io, and @useaccrue. Currently trying: @douxfinance, @kolan_xyz, @useaxra (really solid-looking product), @payy_link, @evolutionapp_, and @rail_finance (absolutely love this one so far). Keeping an eye on: @BankwithLoaf. One thing still surprises me: despite using so many fintech products, not one has offered me a physical card yet. 😅

Yes the gates are literally open

🚨BREAKING: Someone put $1.5M on England to ADVANCE to the World Cup finals over Argentina This pays out $2,730,946 on Polymarket

@LexSokolin @stripe @PayPal Consolidation maxxxx 🔥 Only Airwallex to fight with stripe then

If @stripe gets it done, the acquisition of @PayPal would be huge. Consolidation ftw

@ShubhAgrawal26 I would say multiplayer but with your yesterday’s self

it’s a single player game man. it always has been.

@vibhu @solana We love you for what @solana is doing, this would be another level unsustainable projects all over again 😂

This is probably a good spot to build a viral social app/game on @solana Wellspring of active capital & retail participants, not a ton of founders building here so less competition Base publicly ceded this category Perfect conditions for a new Pumpfun/Friendtech/DRiP etc. IMO

@jessepollak @emiliemc Glad to see @base focussed on building real money usecases and back in action with so many releases 🚀🚀

lots of conversations about base over the last week. wanted to share my candid take after a week of listening and a lot of reflection over the last 6 months. first off - in case it’s not obvious, the first quarter of 2026 was a punch in the face. I spent 2024 and 2025 making a two pronged bet to bring base to the world: (1) builders would unlock the next wave of crypto adoption; (2) adoption would be driven by new onchain-native social experiences - creators, content, messaging. imo we made the right bet on builders, but obviously the wrong bet on social. builders did drive the next wave of crypto adoption - prediction markets, perpetuals, stablecoins - but social was not at the center of it. in fact, the entire social side of the market that many of us had been building towards - farcaster, zora, miniapps, and yes, creator coins - disintegrated completely. I was wrong - whether it was timing wrong (is $ansem a creator coin?) or fully wrong, only time will tell, but regardless, i was definitively wrong. the collateral damage was pretty bad! and this year has been an exercise in eating shit. we realized how our focus on social had meant that base had fallen behind in key areas that were now increasingly critical - we had perps (shoutout avantis!) and prediction markets (shoutout limitless!), but both were well behind scaled competitors. and we had a lot of room to improve in unlocking base as a platform for tokenization and payments that really worked for enterprises. people lost confidence, and CT spectators reminded me weekly of all of my mistakes as often as they could. it felt bad man, still feels bad. but if there’s one thing i’ve learned from the last decade of building in this space, it’s that when things feel the worst, the best thing to do is just put your head down and build. so that’s what i’m doing. I refocused my time and attention back to the chain away from the app, started writing code again, shipped a bunch of stuff (azul, beryl, b20, privacy, ledgers) and questioned a bunch of my assumptions: does crypto need social to grow? does base need an app? can base be bigger than coinbase? I thought for a long time that social was the only thing that could drive the sort of viral growth to get crypto to a billion people. unsurprisingly, I now believe that’s wrong. It’s clear that better money is more than enough - we are seeing this live with stablecoins, predictions, perpetuals, tokenization and i only expect it to accelerate. I am now focused on bringing a billion people onchain just by making global finance actually work. on the app, my focus is on building base into the blockchain for global finance. to that end, i’ve handed the base app back to the coinbase mothership, where my now good friend @cobie will be taking it from here to make it the best damn app for onchain you’ve ever seen, including expanding beyond the base ecosystem in ways that tbh i won’t love as the leader of base. it’s incredibly hard to grow a decentralized network inside of a big public corporation. and i feel like much of the discourse on CT over the last week is downstream of this. the following things can be true: (1) base (and i) love memes and (2) brian probably won’t ever bullpost memes on the tl (this activity is illegal once you’re over 40 years of age). it’s weird and we’re working through it as we continue to decentralize base, which has been our commitment from the beginning. we’re going to build base into the blockchain for global finance and do everything we can to be the place that the world’s money settles over the next century. we will surely have formidable competitors (welcome robinhood and stripe!) and people may abandon our cause, but we welcome the competition and believe it’s our duty to win the respect and commitment of those who rally to our banner.  in 2026, this concretely means three things: winning trading, payments, and agents. [continued in the reply]

@KiteAppxyz Sums up everything we do 💚

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@nael_idrx Way to go bro! More power to you !

terima kasih Harian Kontan

@RobinhoodCrypto Chain got a massive start < 30 days >300K Daily Active Addresses >$1B Daily Spot DEX Volume (#3 among chains) >$300m of stablecoin supply +$40m Annualized Daily Fees on Robinhood Chain >$300M+ in TVL driven by Morpho, Uniswap, etc Please do not become another memecoin chain!

Solving real daily challenges of crypto natives is the only goal of @KiteAppxyz !

@CoinMarketCap @KiteAppxyz for Asia 💪💪

Which project is quietly setting up for a big run?

If you're going to download one money app in your life, make it Kite. Send, spend and store @USDC & @USDT0_to in 9 countries across Asia.

@sytaylor Massive unlock indeed, we want to soon get @tempo on @KiteAppxyz !

I don't think people realize how huge this feature is. Major institutions have avoided public Blockchains because bad actors dust known wallets from sanctioned addresses. Having a recieve policy means you can allow / blocklist any addresses. Huge unlock

It works everywhere! Always. Food, shopping, travel, subscriptions 🛍️