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Data leaks & breaches are notoriously impossible to reverse, but leaks directly exposed to savvy developers and agentic data consumers...surely this is a feeble attempt by Anthropic to "put the genie back in the bottle" 🧞‍♀️🪔 bit.ly/4tmiFXS

Apple Fool's Day🍎💻️ Apple Inc. was founded on April 1st 1976, a date might be that of a jokester, though maybe just pure coincidence. Then again, when Apple launched it's first computer, the Apple-I, it chose to price at $666.66, so maybe no date nor digit was happenstance🃏

Retiring on-chain is getting one step closer with ERISA's proposed guidance on crypto 401ks bit.ly/4s4QziP

A Fannie Mae first, Better Mortgage is soon to offer token-backed mortgages through the largest mortgage guarantor of residential real estate in the United States. bit.ly/3NHHkHl

Stable may mean "firmly fixed" in the dictionary, but the distribution of stablecoins is anything but! With holder addresses up 30x & transfer volume up 16x, last year's Stable Summer is continuing to radiate heat into the Summer of 2026 🌞 bit.ly/4d47eiJ

Cursor: “We have frontier-level coding intelligence” Kimi AI: “Ummm…you have me” bit.ly/3NBZsSU

Early looks at Ripple's 2026 Digital Asset Survey indicate that stablecoins are becoming the go-to tool for corporate treasury. Another early forecast: Summer is going to be hot ☀️ bit.ly/4bBb5RP

Dennison's done both & I'm grateful. Any of course, if I can help y'all do the same via Stellar's Community Fund, Enterprise Fund, or other vehicles while I'm here...holla.

Moreso, inspiration for more builders & backers to stick their neck out and take risks, building into the future or at least putting your efforts toward more builders doing the same.

Just popping in to give all of the flowers I can to Dennison @ what he's led with Tally. I remember when I was at ConsenSys & he was at OpenZeppelin, musing about DAO tooling, which gave birth to Tally.

A protocol capturing over half of all messaging volume and 80% of USD moved between chains is quite the concentration. Now the real question is: do you see that as good or bad...and what's the proper response 🤔 ?

Friday the 13th 🧟‍♀️ ...Pi Day 🥧 ...Ides of March 🔪 Be careful out there this weekend; especially with the pies.

While doubling the valuation of your last round is always cool, raising the largest round EVER for a European startup is even cooler. $2B on $14.6B ain’t too shabby at all, Nscale 🆒 😎 bit.ly/47G7KQi

It's usually a rough rising to start the first Monday after Daylight Savings Time, having lost an hour. But Spring sprang early this Sunday & the time in unabashed warm sunlight has got me recharged like Kal-El on Krypton 🦸🏿 🌞 🌱

The future Of NYC’s 14th Street corridor is now...and I'm privileged to co-create that future alongside great collaborators & citizens across the City 🗽🤝🏾🏗️ bit.ly/4suddBS

Galaxy Digital’s Crypto/Blockchain VC Report tiered out the top returning investment categories as, no surprise: Still Strong - Trading, exchange, lending Still Growing - Stablecoins, AI, infrastructure Still Struggling- Gaming, NFTs, web3 consumer bit.ly/4u6Lfh0

In the AI gold rush, Perplexity is building picks & shovels...and I love it. Let's see if their search engine (flagship), browser ("Comet") and now their Computer (eponymous) strategies strike it rich ⚒️ 💰️ imforza.link/AtpbiuB

Tech Firms Aren't Just Encouraging Their Workers To Use AI. They're Enforcing It. bit.ly/4r1Rxf8

A $159B valuation may signal the last ripples of PayPal Mafia lore, ushering in the era of a Stripe Cartel for many years to come. bloom.bg/4cOwE3D