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Yesterday we hosted the Institutional Ethereum Forum in NYC. A private, closed-door, invite-only for institutional execs. $250T+ in combined assets represented. Attended by leaders at: → DTCC → Swift → Euroclear → BlackRock → Morgan Stanley → Fidelity → JPMorgan → State Street → Mastercard → Visa → Stripe → PayPal → Nasdaq → LSEG → Broadridge → S&P Global → Moody's → Microsoft → EY → Invesco → Franklin Templeton → T. Rowe Price → Baillie Gifford → CoinFund → WisdomTree → VanEck → U.S. Bank → Western Union → Paxos → Consensys → Aave → Uniswap → Chainlink → Securitize → Ondo Finance → Paradigm → a16z → Dragonfly → Anchorage Digital And many more. Co-hosted by our friends at → @aave → @zksync → @arbitrum → @Optimism → @chainlink The institutions aren't coming. They're here. Ethereum.

Can’t imagine why Banks are beefing up equity research teams right now.

adrenaline on a thousand

@MSilb7 just you

🫡 we are so back areyougoingexponential.rhys.dev/msilb7

unstoppable

Focus is probably even more important now than taste AI will 10x your productivity but it will simultaneously hit you with weapons-grade nerdsnipes that consume 90% of your time

Haseeb reveals Naval’s advice that to make it in Crypto you just need to stick around “The smart people win early and check out. What’s left is the losers and the lazy people. If you just stick around long enough, you end up winning” “The guys who I came into this industry with, you wonder how you can ever compete with them. The reality is that if you stick around long enough they will beat themselves, you just to need have the work ethic and discipline”

accepting a bit of burnout right now

Somebody knows something.... Clarity Act signed into law just went vertical on Polymarket... 👀👀⬇️

Now that the costs of building tech products are rapidly lowering, there’s an inevitable shift in resource allocation to distribution, customer acq., and marketing. Similarly, we should expect to see rapid in-prod product iteration to begin taking place faster than the casual users can keep up with.

underrated product launch.

The consolidation and wash out in the long tail of crypto right now is only accelerating - as the broader focus and opportunity continues to shrink around trads. Morale is low. Liquidity continues to thin. And, net-new innovations are non-existent. The beatings will continue until morale improves.

can’t stop the claude team right now

@mert phantom and backpack for solana. desktop only due to scar tissue from myself and friends getting sim swapped.

i) what wallet do you use and why? ii) do you prefer mobile or desktop for your wallet?

@MSilb7 bro.

Optimizkm

@AdiSeredinschi @hinkal_protocol How is it?

been playing with it this morning don't understand how it works at first sight, but the UX is smooth and (after a few tries) it was not easy to find the correlations between my Send and my Receive great work @hinkal_protocol team!

@GSkrovina gud tweet

The price of authenticity and reputation is about to skyrocket

@jinglejamOP Big

LISTEN UP EVERYBODY! Today we're launching OP Enterprise. We all know that crypto is at the cusp of major mainstream adoption. Nearly every major enterprise has a crypto strategy. We're the only team that has successfully launched chains for multiple companies. We've packaged up all of our learnings into a product offering that will onboard the next wave of enterprises. OP Enterprise is production-grade blockchain infrastructure for companies that want to build businesses, not become blockchain experts. 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻. 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲. 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗲𝘀. — 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺 Here's what we keep hearing from enterprises: They're building on infrastructure where the incentives don't align with their own. They're competing for mindshare, fighting to keep users, working against platform economics that extract value from everything they build. Most blockchain platforms don't care if you're successful. Their focus is on their own TVL and metrics - not yours. You launch your stablecoin into an environment that competes with everyone else's stablecoin and hemorrhage capital to onboard your users onto a blockchain you have zero control over. And even if you decide to own your chain, you hit the real bottleneck—onboarding the ecosystem partners you need to go live. Stablecoins, oracles, bridges, wallets, indexers. Each negotiation takes months. Costs hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. Vendors pick off blockchain teams one by one. We've seen this movie before. Many times. — 𝗢𝗣 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝘅𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹 — When you own your chain, your infrastructure becomes a revenue-generating asset. Not a cost center. DeFi protocols deploy on your rails. The economic activity you enable accrues to you. This isn't about saving on fees. It's about owning the infrastructure layer where financial value is created. 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 — We've onboarded tier-one partners across 50+ production chains. They're already integrated, contracted, ready to deploy. We negotiate standard terms, manage costs down, and fast-track partnerships that would otherwise delay your launch by 6-12 months. We've done this work already. You don't have to. — 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗱: We run your chain end-to-end. 24/7 monitoring, incident response, security ops, upgrade orchestration. You focus on product. 𝗦𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗱: You operate, we support. Architecture guidance, security assessments, priority patches, direct access to core engineers. 𝗢𝗣 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘁: Start on our flagship public network with enterprise support. Graduate to your own chain when ready. Same codebase, seamless migration. First conversation to production: 8-12 weeks. — 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘀 99.99% uptime SLO 15-minute P1 incident response Up to 5B RPC requests/month with multi-provider redundancy 10 Mgas/sec baseline, 100+ Mgas/sec for high-volume applications Sub-200ms block times 20k requests-per-second burst capacity Stage 1 security with permissionless fault proofs Optional ZK fault proofs for faster finality — 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗻𝗼𝘄 The window for enterprise blockchain has shifted from "if" to "how fast." MiCA is live in Europe. US policy is stabilizing. The enterprises that spent 2023-2024 in exploratory mode are now greenlighting production builds. Enterprise deals are now a competitive space. When we talk to enterprises, we see everyone trying to help them come onchain. But the OP Stack is the only stack that has successfully brought and scaled multiple enterprises onchain. We've seen what works and what doesn't. We've earned this knowledge by building alongside the fastest-growing enterprises in web3. We've encountered every failure mode because we've been doing this longer than anyone else. At the end of the day, enterprises want to control their own economics. They don't want to rent infrastructure from platforms that compete with them. The OP Stack vision will win. Shared standards balanced with chain autonomy. — 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝘂𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱 — 50+ chains launched. Not pilots. Production systems serving millions. 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 — We control the entire stack. When we discover vulnerabilities, customers get patches within hours. Not weeks. 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 — Questions go to the engineers who wrote the code. Feature requests go to the people who can actually implement them. No translation layer. 𝗘𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘂𝗺 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 — We've worked on Ethereum's core protocol. Defined its scaling roadmap. Invented the L2 architecture that powers the industry. 𝗡𝗼 𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗿 𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸-𝗶𝗻 — Open source. Fork if you want. Most teams discover they'd rather work with us—but the choice is always yours. — Our first customers: Unichain — Uniswap needed their own chain. They chose us. Uniswap Labs operates Unichain with Mission-Critical Support—priority response for high-stakes moments where downtime isn't an option. Celo — Scaling mobile payments across Latin America and Africa. Millions of users. Celo operates their network with Mission-Critical Support, ensuring enterprise-grade backing in emerging markets. Different use cases. Same infrastructure. Same commitment to their success We are here today because partners like these rolled up their sleeves and built together with us. — 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 Fintechs building next-generation financial services Centralized exchanges launching tokenized products Payments companies building cross-border rails Financial institutions exploring tokenization and digital assets If you need infrastructure that performs without the operational burden—and you want to own your economics instead of renting them—OP Enterprise is for you. — OP Enterprise is a major focus for us in 2026. We have active engagements across fintech, exchanges, payments, and financial services. The direction is clear: the OP Stack is becoming the standard for the next generation of financial systems. This is the first of many announcements to come. If you're serious about building onchain, we should talk.