Dariya

Underrated life advice: Have more hobbies and fewer opinions. Learn an instrument. Plant a garden. Build something with your hands. Cook. Paint. Run. The happiest people I know spend less time debating life and more time actually living it.

@wdcollier @swapsxyz @moonpay @ycombinator Congrats!!

I'm excited to announce that Decent (@swapsxyz) has been acquired by @MoonPay, and we've rebranded to MoonPay Trade 🌕 From @ycombinator's W22 batch, starting in music(!), to this - the journey has been anything but linear, and I wouldn't have it any other way. The last 4 years have been full of learning and growth. With MoonPay, our mission hasn't changed: make it effortless to go from any asset to any asset, regardless of type - fiat, spot crypto, prediction markets, RWAs and more. All in 1-click. Since the acquisition we've been quietly heads down integrating with top fintechs, wallets, and institutions + across the entire suite of MoonPay products - that silence ends now! Pumped to start sharing more about what we're building with MoonPay Trade, MoonPay Institutional, and everything else in the pipeline. Couldn't be more excited to work with @KeithGrossman, @ivanhodl, and the entire MoonPay team to build the way the world moves value. MoonPay already reaches hundreds of millions of users today, and will be a foundational part of global finance for years to come. We're just getting started. 🚀

This quote from Peter Thiel in 2014 has always resonated with me. Finite and infinite games aren’t only for business; they also apply to life generally. “People always say they want to live every day as though it will be their last. I always have this contrasting view that I think I’d like to live every day as though it will go on forever. If we had an indefinite life span, we would continue to work and start great new projects, we would be very careful about how we treated the people around us because we would encounter them again.”

One of the best skills you can develop is the ability to always stay in a good mood A mentor taught me this. He said “there’s always going to be something that pisses you off or makes you upset. The speed at which you regain control of your ship (emotions) and get back to being happy is a massive competitive advantage in life. You can let it ruin your day, week, month or year. Or, not at all.”

What a privilege it is to afford a gym, buy healthy food, pay bills, have legs that walk, eyes that see, a brain that functions, work every day, and take our bodies to their full potential.

Consistent compounding is one of the most powerful concepts we believe we understand but do not. Put into practice making small improvements every single day, in whatever you choose to do.

The most powerful manifestation tool is gratitude. Be thankful for what you have right now, and the Universe will respond by giving you more to be grateful for.

This is great, but you left out one key attribute that’s made you one of the best in the business: be a good person. When someone clearly takes pride in their work but never lets it come at the expense of others, and even goes so far as to lift up everyone around them… the universe tends to conspire in their favor.

@_sonith Would be epic. Steel and oil barons funded railroads and universities. The labs should fund Soho coffee shops

If there's anyone who would seriously like to see this exist in the world and become the de facto casual, public, and chic spot of interest in Soho, I will spearhead this and involve the necessary folks in NYC, layout a plan for branding & growth, and hire the right operator to help execute it very well. I assume this would cost 1M+ to get off the ground. The world needs more beautiful spaces to convene people who blend art, commerce, and technology. Café Leon Dore on Mulberry Street is a good example, although it's much too small for my liking.

@bykahlil @naturalpay Ivella poker night lives on

We're going to start hosting games for founders the first Thursday of every month at the @naturalpay office partiful.com/e/R3So3Ah9YzQa…

@TheiaResearch Libgen

Is there a good place to find book PDFs? I would pay but I am annoyed that I can own a book 3x (physical,audible,kindle) and can’t find a PDF to feed into NotebookLM

(New Essay) The Machinery of Modern Finance On why I think the next ten years of financial innovation will surpass the prior fifty. Give it a read. brandonkumar.substack.com/p/the-machiner…

@noise_xyz @paradigm Congratulations! So excited for this.

Noise is excited to announce a $7.1M Series Seed led by @paradigm

@patelzeel68 🔥🔥🔥

4 years at Layer3 today. I’m feeling weirdly emotional about it because this place has been a big chunk of my life, not just my work. I started here as a student. I was just hungry and slightly delusional in the way you have to be when you’re young. I remember wanting it so badly that I kept DM’ing @brandonkumar until he finally gave me a shot. Not proud of how annoying I probably was, but I’m proud I didn’t let fear decide for me. The first year was honestly just me trying to not get exposed. Trying to be useful, trying to keep up. I had a lot of energy and not enough clarity. I overcompensated, I spoke too fast, I tried to sound smart instead of thinking properly at times. I’d take things personally. I’d panic internally and pretend I wasn’t. And then I’d go back to my laptop and try again. Over and over. Somewhere across these 4 years, Layer3 stopped being a job and became the place where I grew in all ways. I’ve worn every hat here. I’ve pair coded, shipped, written, researched, jumped into things I wasn’t ready for yet, and learned the hard way what it means to own outcomes. I’ve had days where something finally would work in best ways and I felt unstoppable. I’ve had nights where I felt like I was drowning and still showed up the next day because I didn’t want to be the person who quits just because it got hard, which I've gone on to apply in life as well. I don’t know how to explain it, but the growth here wasn’t noisy in any way. It wasn’t a single breakthrough moment either, it was what you call it cumulative. A hundred small corrections, every day. A hundred times being wrong and having to fix it. A hundred uncomfortable conversations that made me sharper. I'm just a lot more open, more opinionated for the better and that I’ve learned to say I don’t know without feeling the guilt on not knowing. I’ve learned to care about the craft. I’ve learned how to think. And in crypto, 4 years anywhere is anything but rare I think. Everything resets so fast. Narratives, teams, attention everything. The easy path is to keep switching. But personally, I never wanted a life made of constant restarts, I wanted something that actually compounds and has depth. I wanted to build with people long enough that the work starts to carry history. One of the biggest reasons being here is also the people. @Ehsanomics has been more than a teammate, he’s been family through a lot of this. The presence that steadies you, pushes you, and stays consistent. I found real friends in @yahya_ea, @pdupont and @pedromnt, and honestly so many others on the team. It was never a formal work friendship, not with anyone and that says something about the team that was put together. I've also had an amazing mentor in @brandonkumar. If I had to sum it up, he's made raising the bar for everyone, very normal. Personally and professionally, I've learnt so much that I feel sometimes that the kid in me grew up in the best possible way. I’m proud of what we’ve built but I’m even more proud of who I’ve become while building it. 4 years. Still here. Still grateful. Still hungry. We're here to stay, and rightfully conquer.

For the record, I'm in full agreement with you and we haven't incentivized social actions on Layer3 since 2023, just onchain. We do allow *optional* follows or RT links, but there are no incentives attached. We're just as frustrated by AI slop. It’s not the business we're in and the other companies you mentioned are great alternatives for protocols prioritizing social leaderboards.

@karbonbased Funny how under this post there’s more slop replies. Inf0Fi projects like Kait0 Y@ps, G@lxe, L@yer3, Cook1e, W@llchain have caused so much harm by incentivizing AI bot networks. We need to be able to hide accounts / posts by country at minimum.

I hate this website Pure fucking slop and 2 of my mutuals follow this AI chatbot

@ostium Congrats!

@joeljohn @brandonkumar +1

found it via @brandonkumar whose book reccs are always good.

reading this book titled creative capital and it has this man that lived his life as though venture capital was his life's calling and ngl, I'm digging the energy in it - two chapters in, and I think I might finish it in one sitting because I'm hooked

@ivanhodl epic. congrats!

Historic day. MoonPay is proud to be a NYDFS Trust Charter holder. We’re giving the best builders in crypto the most regulated, reliable payments and stablecoin infrastructure on earth.

@kelxyz_ @darkmarketio Second this

Monday is also a great day to gas up the homies shoutout @darkmarketio , one of the most differentiated thinkers I've met Has the unique ability to both understand a wide range of markets as well as construct unique ways of expressing theses within those markets. Genuine guy as well. Writes about somali pirates (you should read about it)