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Season 2 of Polygon grants is live! We spent months architecting the new season to be vastly improved from S1. Key points: 1. Big Ai focus 2. More Grant Allocators (GAs) for grant verticals/inflow/distribution 3. Faster response & distribution times 4. Improved UX Let’s go!

.@1inch now supports QuickSwap liquidity pools on Base 🟦 Now, every swap routed via 1inch, and any flow coming through aggregator-powered DEX experiences like Coinbase DEX, can be filled by QuickSwap liquidity. QuickSwap is becoming the liquidity layer on Base.

Ready for another dose of juicy Litecoin meta? The digital silver narrative's never been hotter. On tomorrow's The Aggregated 𝕏 spaces, join us and frens from the Litecoin and @LitecoinVM communities. 📆 Episode 155: March 27, 3:00 PM UTC x.com/i/spaces/1AJEm…

What other cool things can you do in DeFi? Use cases like borrowing using LP tokens, Prediction Markets position tokens as collateral, and more. Join tomorrow's The Aggregated 𝕏 spaces with @protofire and frens. 📆 Episode 154: March 20, 3:00 PM UTC x.com/i/spaces/1vJpP…

@CoinGapeMedia @QuickswapDEX @sameepsi @kalqix Not a flattering photo of Sameep lol.

🚨 Exclusive #ThoughtLeadership 🗣️ @sameepsi , co-founder of @kalqix and a core developer behind @QuickswapDEX , shares his vision for the next evolution of #DEXs. He points out that the biggest barrier in #crypto trading today is the UX gap between centralized exchanges (CEXs) and decentralized platforms (DEXs). “The massive UX gap between CEXs and DEXs is what drove me to start KalqiX,” he explains. KalqiX aims to eliminate this tradeoff by combining a CLOB (Central Limit Order Book) model with ZK-proofs, delivering both performance and trust. But the ambition goes beyond building just another DEX. KalqiX is also creating a white-label solution, enabling others to launch their own branded exchanges. 💡 The bigger vision: bring CEX-like ease with #DeFi level transparency, while empowering anyone to build in the #Web3 ecosystem. 👉 Follow for more #crypto #Web3 updates 🔗 Full op-ed in comments

LitVM is honored to welcome @SatoshiLite — the creator of Litecoin — as an advisor and investor 🔥 Charlie's vision created one of the most enduring and trusted networks in crypto — 14+ years and counting. Now he's helping guide the next chapter: bringing Web3 to Litecoin.

@Smokey_ Congratulations brother!

It’s official My wife and I will be having a baby girl in August.

LLM based AI is NOT conscious. I co-founded a company literally called Sentient, we're building reasoning systems for AGI, so believe me when I say this. I keep seeing smart people, people I genuinely respect, come out and say that AI has crossed into some kind of awareness. That it feels things, that we should worry about it going rogue. And i think this whole conversation tells us way more about ourselves than it does about AI. These models are wild, i won't pretend otherwise. But feeling human and actually having inner experience are completely different things and we're confusing the two because our brains literally can't help it. We evolved to see minds everywhere and now that wiring is misfiring on language models. I grew up in a philosophical tradition that has thought about consciousness longer than almost any other, and this is the part that really frustrates me about the current conversation. The entire framing of "does AI have consciousness?" assumes consciousness is something you build up to by adding more layers of complexity. In Vedantic philosophy it's the opposite. You don't build toward consciousness. Consciousness is already there, more fundamental than matter or energy. Everything else, including computation, is downstream of it. When someone tells me AI is "waking up" because it generated a paragraph that felt real, what they're telling me is how thin our understanding of consciousness has gotten. We've reduced a question humans have wrestled with for thousands of years to "did the output sound like it had feelings?" It's math that has gotten really good at predicting what a conscious being would say and do next. Calling that consciousness cheapens something that Vedantic, Buddhist, Greek and Sufi thinkers spent millennia actually sitting with. We didn't build something that thinks. We built a mirror and right now a lot of very smart people are mistaking the reflection for something looking back.

What's happening with Web3 gaming? Is the narrative dead or poised for a big comeback? Tune in to Friday's The Aggregated 𝕏 spaces for more. 📆 Episode 153: March 13, 3:00 PM UTC x.com/i/spaces/1YxNr…

Join the @BitAngels Spaces to network with Founders and Funders for a discussion led by @AnthemHayek, @CryptoRocky and City Leaders to talk about RWA and other digital asset strategies. x.com/i/spaces/1kJzD…

LitVM Builders Program is now open 🔥 We're inviting developers to deploy on Litecoin's first trustless EVM rollup during our upcoming incentivized testnet. Build early. Shape the ecosystem. Get rewarded. 🌐 Learn more & register now: builders.litvm.com

AI just keeps getting better. From hype around AI Agents like @LobstarWilde to more sophisticated trading tools and infra, the industry's on the rise. Join tomorrow's The Aggregated 𝕏 spaces for details. 📆 Episode 151: February 27, 4:00 PM UTC x.com/i/spaces/1nGnR…

The buybacks keep rolling in. 2,584,500 QUICK tokens bought back in the last week 💰

@CryptoTimes_io @0xPolygon Beautiful.

⚡️NEW: @0xPolygon Powers Japan’s JPYC Stablecoin JPYC, a yen-backed stablecoin, is seeing real adoption on Polygon: • Merchant payments, wallets, card top-ups • Lending markets & curator-managed vaults • More $JPYC volume than all other chains combined Polygon enables fast, low-cost local currency settlements.

This premise is false. Bitcoin supply has nothing to do with the markets on top of it. People who hold paper Bitcoin take their own risks. Bitcoin supply is hard capped. This whole article is FUD meant to prey on people who don’t understand markets and who are looking for someone to blame for normal price action. Jane Street holding such small amounts wouldn’t even affect the market. This whole thing is complete rubbish. Markets always have people trying to take advantage of spreads, volatility, privileged positions etc. It has NOTHING to do with Bitcoins supply which is auditable on chain at any given moment on a 2015 smart phone by a 10 year old.

@1914ad If the bitcoin hard cap is only relevant if the market is honest on top of it then we are all fucked right? The market has never been or will ever be honest it is designed by insiders for insiders. That’s why it is there.

@1914ad You’re an idiot lol. Hedged positions have nothing to do with supply.

The 21M cap is now functionally irrelevant because Jane Street can generate unlimited phantom exposure to Bitcoin through derivatives that never touch the base layer and never appear in any public filing.

I read the entire article. This in no way equates to breaking the 21M cap. Who cares if someone holds Bitcoin + Bitcoin shorts for hedging. Everyone has the right to do so, and it doesn’t change the supply in the least. This is long worded silly FUD meant to scare people who don’t understand how this all works. Sure Jane Street sits in a privileged position within the ETFs and can make more profit trading Bitcoin than someone who doesn’t. That has nothing to do with Bitcoin supply. What an idiotic article.

QuickSwap's user base continues to grow, with 148,800+ DAU (Daily Active Users) and counting 📈 source: @tokenterminal

BitAngels x Web3Harbor at @consensus_hk 🇭🇰 was awesome!

I'm actually trying to do something even more ambitious: Create "cypherpunk principled non-ugly ethereum" as a bolt-on to the present-day system, in a way that's as tightly integrated and interoperable as possible, and then grow it over time, in the mean time making sure ethereum itself gains the cypherpunk and simplicity properties that just necessarily have to be system-wide (eg. censorship resistance, zk prover friendliness, consensus properties). Then, in 5 years (or maybe way sooner with AI coding and verification, who knows), we have an open pathway to turn the existing system into smart contracts written in the language of the new system if/when we want. Ethereum has already made jet engine changes in-flight once (the merge), we can do it ~4 times more! (state tree, Lean consensus, ZK-EVM verification, VM change)