Alex Sicart Ramos

@MohammadSalhut Success is not a straight line up. It is how you deal with failure that determines your destiny.

Imagine building your chain your way, with payment-grade scale 🤔 [REDACTED] on March 23.

JUST IN: Mastercard launches global blockchain payments with Binance, Ripple and PayPal

The 20 millionth Bitcoin was mined yesterday. Now there are only one million new Bitcoins to be mined, which will take over 100 years. Decentralized, inflation-proof, global money.

Wallet creation, token transfers, swaps, onramps, and identity registration in a single tool. Supercharge an agent with onchain capabilities, all without custom integration code.

🚨LATEST: @0xPolygon says $2.4T in stablecoin transfers has settled on its network — more than the GDP of Brazil. CEO @sandeepnailwal says most people are still “sleeping on how much real money is moving through Polygon.”

Sometimes I look back and it’s almost funny. I repeated a school year. People thought I was slow. Projects that never went anywhere. Others that almost worked but collapsed because of bad partners. Broken relationships. A lot of chaos along the way. And yet today I feel deeply proud of where I am. Building a real product, with real clients, improving people’s lives. Even reaching break-even in our first year. Living a life I genuinely love. Failure has been one of the greatest things that ever happened to me.

More and more @gizatechxyz AI agents are choosing our @Morpho USDC Prime vault for yield.

Building a product where people who know nothing about crypto slowly discover the beauty of self-custody, real ownership, and Ethereum is kind of magical. Listening to their stories, teaching, iterating, improving the product every day. Quietly, without noise. That’s where real things get built.

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Most stablecoin stacks are five vendors stitched together. It works.. until volume grows, or something breaks. The Open Money Stack is built different, connecting fiat, wallets, routing, and settlement in one single integration. $2.3T has already moved through it. The rest of the stack comes soon. polygon.technology/blog/unrolling…

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The first trillion took years. The pace of the second one is the story worth telling: polygon.technology/blog/its-not-o…

This is Polygon Trails. Your users have funds. Just on the wrong chain, in the wrong token, with no gas. Trails aggregates every balance across every chain into one, and executes in just 1 click.

@satyanadella We use Microsoft 365 Copilot and GitHub Copilot every day. What would be game‑changing is a single, unified Copilot across work + code—shared context and shared actions from Teams/Docs to PRs and delivery.

Announcing Copilot Cowork, a new way to complete tasks and get work done in M365. When you hand off a task to Cowork, it turns your request into a plan and executes it across your apps and files, grounded in your work data and operating within M365’s security and governance boundaries.

$2.4 trillion is more than the GDP of Brazil. It’s larger than the entire market cap of the S&P 500 healthcare sector. It’s roughly what the U.S. federal government collects in individual income tax in a year. That’s how much value has settled through Polygon’s network in stablecoin transfer volume.

what if AI agents ran the government? i simulated US government officials as AI agents and let them pass bills turns out AI congress gets more done than the real one

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I think it's healthy for us in the Ethereum world to have a more bold and open mindset to many things, particularly on the application layer and on how we see ourselves in the world. We should not compromise on core properties: censorship resistance, open source, privacy, security (CROPS). We should not have "open mindedness" of the type that leaves people with no confidence of what security properties the L1 will still have one year from now. We should not ask ourselves questions like "do we really need light clients to be able to trustlessly verify correctness of the chain?". But especially on the layer of applications and Ethereum's interface to the world, we should be more willing to radically rethink various concepts and step outside our comfort zone. This includes issues of technological direction, eg. "what if AI basically means that wallets as browser extensions and mobile extensions are dead within a year?" One example last year was the shift to thinking about privacy as a first-class consideration, something we value equally to the other types of security. This implies a radically different Ethereum application stack, because the entire stack so far has not been built around privacy. Great, let's build a radically different Ethereum application stack! An example this year is the growing work on the networking side of privacy, both inside the EF and outside. It includes application-layer issues, eg. "what if the rest of defi is basically just universal futures markets on top of a good decentralized oracle and letting users self-organize on top of that?", and "what if the ideal decentralized oracle is just a SNARK over M-of-N small LLMs over zk-TLSes of some major news sites?" (BTW this is interrelated with the AI issue: one consequence of AI is that it moves "applications" away from being discrete categories of behavior with discrete UIs, and more toward being a continuous space, so "build fewer apps and rely on users to self-organize around them" should inevitably expand as a pattern) One example this year is rethinking from zero the role of L2s, and what kind of L2s are actually most synergistic and additive to Ethereum. It also includes culture. This is a big part of "the whole milady thing" for myself, @AyaMiyagotchi and others. Yes, it's a silly meme. Yes, I find the political takes of some milady partisans cringe and sometimes outright bootlickerish (though other milady partisans are quite the opposite). But the core underlying subtext, the message behind the message, is: rip off the suit and tie. If you have your suit and tie on, be willing to grab the nearest wine glass and spill it all over your suit and tie, so you have no choice but to rip it off and reclaim your body's full flexibility and freedom. Actually imagine yourself doing this the next time you get invited to a richpeopleslop formal gala dinner. Take the preconception that you are "respectable", write it down on a piece of paper, crumble it up and burn it. The psychological baptism of doing this leads to the intellectual baptism of unlocking greater creativity and expanding overton windows. For too long, our algorithm in Ethereum has been: we have this existing ecosystem, what's the logical next step to make it one step better? Now, our algorithm should be: we have this L1 that is amazing and will become more amazing, we have a growing array of tools, both those built within our ecosystem and outside it, what are the most valuable things to build, knowing what we know now? If YOU had to write the section of the 2014 Ethereum whitepaper that talked about applications, and take a first-principles perspective of what makes sense in defi, decentralized social, identity, and elsewhere, what would you write? At least take the step of marking all path-dependence concerns down to zero, pretend for a brief moment that the Ethereum chain today has exactly zero usage and you're the one suggesting or building the first apps, and see what comes out. Do this even if you're the one building today's existing apps. This is how Ethereum can grow back stronger.