@yebeyene Beautiful shared Red Sea both here and in your archipelagos!
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Hany Rashwan
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It's surprising how Egyptians know very little about Eritrea and its people. Our Egyptian friends:
Eritrea is the only true friend you have in Sub-Saharan Africa. Discover our beautiful country and people.
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@FootballSwissEN In your opinion, why were they so successful this year and last year?
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Soon, there will be major discourse about how a relatively unchanged team freshly promoted from the Swiss 2nd-tier was able to *easily* clear the field & convincingly win the title.
Thun deserve all their success but it is a pretty sobering day for the rest of Swiss football.
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@k0k1eth @swissborg 21shares wouldn’t have been what it is without CH 🇨🇭
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🇨🇭 Part two. Three more Swiss projects that most of CT never talks about.
Europe needed a regulated crypto platform that could compete with Coinbase. A team in Lausanne built it before anyone else tried.
@SwissBorg launched in 2017 and spent years solving a problem nobody wanted to touch.
How do you build a crypto platform that is MiCA approved, licensed across Europe, and still competitive on product with the biggest exchanges in the world?
Their Meta-Exchange aggregates liquidity across dozens of CEXs and DEXs and executes the optimal route automatically. They built a launchpad giving retail users access to pre-TGE deals previously locked behind VC relationships.
And they just closed a Mastercard partnership for a crypto debit card accepted at over 150 million locations.
Over 1 million users. While everyone watched the US exchanges, SwissBorg was building the infrastructure compliant crypto in Europe actually runs on.
Then in Zurich, two founders identified the single biggest blocker to institutional capital entering crypto.
It wasn’t volatility. It wasn’t technology. It was the absence of a regulated counterparty that institutions could legally trust.
Think about what banks were doing to crypto companies in 2017. Closing accounts. Refusing to onboard. Treating digital assets like financial crime waiting to happen. Most traditional banks are still doing this today.
@sygnumofficial went the other direction. They got a full Swiss FINMA banking licence, built every product institutions actually need, and opened for business as the world’s first regulated digital asset bank.
In January 2025 they hit a $1 billion valuation. By December they had partnered with BNY for USD settlement. Over 2,000 institutional clients across 80+ countries are now moving real capital through a bank that chose crypto when every other bank was running from it.
Most banks are still figuring out whether to let a crypto company open a basic account. Sygnum was already a bank.
Same city. Same year. A completely different angle on the same problem.
Hany Rashwan and Ophelia Snyder saw that institutional capital still couldn’t touch crypto directly. Pension funds and asset managers needed a regulated security they could buy through infrastructure they already used for stocks and bonds.
November 2018. Crypto had just lost 80% of its value. Every institution that had flirted with the space had quietly backed away.
Rashwan and Snyder listed HODL anyway.
@21Shares put the world’s first physically-backed crypto ETP on the SIX Swiss Exchange with $5 million in assets and zero guarantee anyone would care.
By mid-2025 they had surpassed $10 billion in AUM and held roughly one third of all European crypto ETP market share. In 2025 alone their secondary market turnover surged 56% to over $11.9 billion.
The US didn’t approve a spot Bitcoin ETF until January 2024. Switzerland had physically-backed crypto ETPs on regulated exchanges six years earlier.
Every time an institution buys crypto exposure through a regulated exchange today, the structure traces back to one product, listed in a bear market, by two people in Zurich who didn’t wait for permission.
One country. Three more companies. All building the rails the rest of the industry runs on.
Part three is coming 👀
Koki@k0k1eth
🇨🇭 One country quietly built the entire foundation of crypto. Here's how. In 2013 there was no crypto infrastructure anywhere in the world with no regulated brokers, no custody, no legal framework, almost nothing. A Danish software engineer named Niklas Nikolajsen moved to Switzerland, got obsessed with Bitcoin, and founded @BitcoinSuisseAG in a small town called Zug He built the first crypto brokerage. The first custody service. The first crypto company to ever work directly with a government entity in the town of Zug itself By 2017 his company had processed over $1.1 billion in ICO raises including Tezos, Zilliqa, and Bancor Today Bitcoin Suisse manages billions in client assets and runs Bitcoin ATMs across Switzerland The man built the entire crypto banking layer before most people had even heard of Ethereum Then in 2014 a 20-year-old kid named @VitalikButerin had a problem He wanted to sell tokens to fund Ethereum but no country in the world could tell him if that was legal. The US couldn't answer and Europe couldn't answer. Lawyers everywhere said it was too risky Switzerland said come here Buterin set up the Ethereum Foundation in a small house in Zug that the team nicknamed "Das Raumschiff" or The Spaceship in English. They raised $18.3 million in 42 days through a public crowdsale It became the first blockchain foundation in history. The legal template that every single major crypto project copied after - Cardano went to Switzerland. - Polkadot went to Switzerland. - Cosmos went to Switzerland. - Solana went to Switzerland. - NEAR went to Switzerland All because one canton of 30,000 people gave Ethereum a legal home when nobody else would Then in 2017 another team in Zug asked a question nobody had thought of before What if a hardware wallet looked like a bank card? @Tangem built a wallet with no screen, no cable, no USB port. You tap it to your phone and sign transactions. The private key generates inside a Samsung EAL6+ military-grade chip during setup and never leaves it. Same security technology used in biometric passports Then they built the Tangem Ring. Same chip, same security, but it's a ring on your finger. A full hardware wallet you wear on your hand Then they launched Tangem Pay. A non-custodial Visa card built directly into the app. You spend USDC through Apple Pay and Google Pay but your funds stay onchain at all times. Only the exact amount needed for each purchase leaves your wallet at the moment you tap. No custodian holding your money with no pooled accounts. 2025 revenue: $61.3 million. That's a 102% increase from the year before. For a hardware wallet company most of crypto Twitter has never even mentioned One country of 9 million people gave Bitcoin its first regulated broker, gave Ethereum its legal home when the rest of the world wouldn't touch it, and built the most innovative hardware wallet ecosystem that exists today Switzerland didn't just adopt crypto but it literally the infrastructure the industry runs on. And this is only part one 👀
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My daughter just told me a bunch of Egypt facts and then said "many secrets still lie beneath the sands of Egypt" lol
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Started dating 6 years ago today.
Moved in together 5 years and 363 days ago.
Thought the world might be ending back then. It turned out great!
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Ophelia Snyder@OpheliaBSnyder
During our second week in Zurich, @hany and I were mapping out growth targets: 5 million. 10 million. 50 million in AUM. Then Hany said: "What about 10 billion?" I thought it was ludicrous. We had zero at the time. 7 years later, we passed it. The ridiculously ambitious targets are the ones worth setting.
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The price of Zcash is essential for the sustainability of our mission of freedom. Working to support the price of Zcash is morally good.
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Big day for @BoostVC LPs 👀
@hany and @OpheliaBSnyder have built @21shares into an incredible business and smart move by @FalconXGlobal to buy.
Was their first VC check 8 years ago.
They made their first ever pitch come true: ‘make buying crypto as easy as buying a stock’ 🚀
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The pattern is clear. Open protocols beat closed systems. Email killed postal monopolies. TCP/IP killed telco cartels. HTTP killed CompuServe. Now: stablecoins kill banking rails. Same movie, different industry.
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@BasedHeqaKhasut Some very fun reading you may enjoy:
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@BasedHeqaKhasut Oh you’re missing out. It’s exceptional and not so inaccurate.
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@lessin These are great points.
Agreed that the world is becoming more mercantilist. The 1500–1700s was the last time the West was this mercantile, before the Industrial Revolution?
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How to financially value power in a mercantilist world (it isn't just DCF)
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@nic_carter EQT is an interesting pick.
Why? Data centers PE exposure you think?
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I’ve been telling yall to copytrade him for months now
bubble boi@bubbleboi
BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨 LEOPOLD ASCHENBRENNER HEDGE FUND SITUATIONAL AWARENESS MAKES OVER $1 BILLION DOLLARS IN A DAY ON NEWS OF NVIDIA INVESTMENT AND COLLABORATION WITH INTEL. SITUATIONAL AWARNESS IS NOW UP OVER 100% YEAR TO DATE.
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@jhartikainen as an Egyptian, I've always always always far preferred cold weather. know a lot of egyptians who feel the same.
is finland hot right now?
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Whenever discussion on hot weather vs cold weather comes up, I always remember how @hany once told me cold weather is better because you can always put on more clothes, but if it's hot you're just stuck with it.
I had never really thought about it in that way :D
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@MedManOG The people of Imbaba are wonderful men and women.
Here’s an alternative narrative, a video of a random Swedish tourist who walked through a neighborhood full of kindness and generosity and safety:
youtu.be/5X0sW0iHZ0s?si…
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Hany Rashwan retweetledi
Want to understand how BlockSensai is building crypto’s risk intelligence platform?
We just dropped our litepaper.
📘 Read it here → blocksensai.com/litepaper
See how we’re bringing clarity to crypto.
#Crypto #Web3 #BlockSensai #Litepaper #AI
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Excited to share what the team at 21co has been building! Introducing @BlockSensai - the risk intelligence platform for crypto. We monitor onchain + offchain sources 24/7, classify events in real time, and deliver institutional-grade insights for trading, compliance, finance, and operations.
Learn more and join the waitlist for early access: blocksensai.com
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@traestephens related: who exactly is comforted by a crackling fire on that tv they turned on for me?
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Has another ever, in the history of mankind, walked into a hotel room and thought “wow, it’s so nice that they put the TV on for me!”
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