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@OndoFinance RIP Nate 🙏

It is with profound sadness that we announce the unexpected passing of Nathan Allman, Ondo's founder. Our hearts are with his family and loved ones. Nate’s brilliance, humility, and drive shaped every part of what Ondo is today. His belief in the power of technology to create a more open, accessible financial system lives on in everything we build. The impact he had on this industry, and on all of us personally, cannot be overstated. Nate also helped us build a durable organization with experienced leaders across all facets of the business. Ian De Bode, Ondo Finance’s longtime President, will serve as CEO. Ian has been leading our strategy, product, and day-to-day operations for over two years and has the full confidence of the leadership team. We will continue building what Nate started. That is the most meaningful way we know to honor him.

@Ostium Ostium!

This Ostium trader opened a ~$1,000,000 gold (XAU) position with only $9.7k in collateral today. 0.005% price impact. 100x leverage. Best place to trade gold onchain.

“Until death, all defeat is psychological."

The largest onchain oil trade we've ever seen just happened. One wallet. $75,908,900 WTI short across five positions. 0.0284-0.045% price impact. Up $1M+ in unrealized profits.

Ostium looking good here

@johnbabodor @blend_money @mannyornothing @BlockChainJimbo @criptolawyer Congrats mate!

Update: I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined @blend_money as Africa Lead. I’ll be building alongside one of the strongest teams @mannyornothing, @BlockChainJimbo & @criptolawyer to solve a painful problem for fintechs and neobanks. The last year of my career has honestly felt unreal. I joined Alchemy as the only African on the SDR team and left a far better operator than when I joined. Grateful to @glennonchain and the entire team for the experience 💙 Now comes Blend, a team I’ve admired for years. From the first conversation, the clarity, execution speed, and long-term vision were obvious. It genuinely felt like a project I should have been part of from day one. Why Blend? Over the last two years, my focus shifted heavily toward stablecoins. Not because of hype, but because stablecoins became a financial lifeline across Africa when local currencies failed, banking rails broke, and cross-border payments became painful. Fintechs solved access and movement of money. But most still lack the one thing that keeps users coming back to traditional banks: a savings layer. The problem is that launching compliant yield products is hard. You need DeFi expertise, treasury management, compliance infrastructure, audits, monitoring, integrations, legal coordination, and months of engineering work just to get to market. Most teams either avoid it completely or take on unnecessary protocol risk trying to build internally. Blend changes that. Blend is essentially plug-and-play savings infrastructure for fintechs, neobanks, wallets, and stablecoin products. One integration gives teams access to diversified yield infrastructure across tokenized T-Bills, RWAs, and institutional-grade DeFi strategies, fully non-custodial, compliant, and live in hours instead of months. No overhead. No DeFi team required. No custody risk. No massive integration cycle. Just a simple way to help users earn on idle stablecoin balances while creating a new revenue stream through yield spreads. My Mission: Ensure I provide value for fintechs & Neobanks across Africa, If you’re building a fintech/neobank product, we just opened a 15-partner cohort with integration support + 0bps for 90 days. And if you’re a regional lead for a chain or neobank, I’d love to work together to bring the best businesses onchain. To my new team, I can’t be bullish enough & the next few months will be explosive. 💚 LFG!

@ClaudeDevs omg you guys should just stop with this

Claude Code weekly limits are increasing 50%, now through July 13. Live now for all Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise users.

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ROAS is still important. It only becomes a problem when it’s the only metric you use to make decisions. I think of it as fast clock vs slow clock. ROAS moves on the fast clock. Organic share of voice moves on the slow clock. Long term, your business lives or dies by how that slow clock is trending, because the fast clock usually gets better as the slow clock improves.

Nobody cares what ur ROAS is. Show me ur brand search volume. If nobody is typing ur name into Google, u don't have a brand. U have rented attention. Turn Meta ads off for 72 hours and watch what happens.

@zzarakkk no it’s not… it’s as good as the person using it

At what point are people going to admit that AI is actually pretty shit

@tresmajestus @MarianKunde @higgsfield yup but “legally”

@jayraba @MarianKunde @higgsfield Well, they can’t, legally. The license would not allow it

Higgsfield releases Virality Predictor What does it mean: > Upload any clip up to 15s > Get viral potential, hook score & hold rate > See a heatmap of brain regions your clip activates > Pair with Ad Reference for recreated videos Available via MCP/CLI and on the platform.

@MarianKunde @higgsfield definitely built on it

@higgsfield Does this use the same concept as meta’s tribe v2 or way simpler ?

@flyest well said

hiring the right media person is probably the #1 area where most companies fail. what terminally online people read as a "vibe" is a combination of timing, themes, language and consistency. it's easy to tell if the person behind a brand account does their homework by the level of passion they put into crafting narratives. if the vibe is off, you know they're just clocking in for a paycheck. for companies in technical areas, this is even more important because these roles involve copious amounts of research. yes, we all use AI but actual brain work is required to find subtle connections across large datasets, connect the dots and weave a compelling story around it. why do you think top-rated researchers like @stacy_muur and @Route2FI were able to build defensible moats in the saturated "KOL" space? because with the level of care they put into their craft, they are able to START conversations. nobody's eating their lunch. certainly not those who just repeat what's trending and rely on their distribution to do the work. tldr: if you're hiring for a media role in crypto, get someone who does it for the love of the game. h/t Zeus for voicing this out. great read.

@gregthegreek good perspective and I’m all in on doing things the less popular way

Some really bad takes by people that have a tough time with narratives, and changing them. Raise your hand if you currently have a credit card, and it's a cashback 🦗🦗🦗 That's because unless you're a high spender, north of $10k per month, the cashback isn't great. At those rates, you also probably don't really notice the extra $200/mo you get back. This is why cashback is great for business with high spend. For consumers, it rolls over. Most of the time you use it offset your bill, and you kind of forget about it. That's also why most people opt for points programs to discount their travel (90% of the time you're doing it wrong) Remember if you're reading this, you're probably in the upper bracket of disposable income. Congrats. at the end of the day its something that probably doesn't even cross your mind. But you know what does? You know what makes you feel SO DAMN good. Gratitude. When the thing you're using says you know what, here you go, this meals on us. That hits so damn differently. You can get the predictable cashback as line item on your statement balance, or you can get this sense of gratitude that its going to something you do daily. I use Tuyo mainly for food, and yeah it feels fucking awesome this whole week when I've been getting meals back. The psychology of consumer behaviour is complex, but to dismiss this as something thats gambling or morally wrong for not giving you cashback is just stoneage thinking. I think this is a great way to innovate on spending, and I surely bet if you compare free items against your card spend you'll realize it lines up. Don't be an idiot and buy an xbox, just use a bank thats better then your brick and mortar

What’s the secret sauce behind viral marketing? Without humor or surprise, your sh*t is probably DOA. Think of any viral campaign; web2 or web3, it doesn’t matter. Two elements always stand out: Humor: Hooks people. It’s shareable, relatable, memetic. Surprise: Keeps them talking. It’s the “OMG, you won’t believe this” moment. The best surprises mix the expected with the unexpected. Take something familiar, flip one element, and you’ve got instant intrigue. Examples:👇 @OldSpice took a boring deodorant ad and turned it into absurd comedy gold. @solana flipped a dry topic around VCs into a viral hit with their “Build for users, not VCs” ad. Humor or surprise won’t guarantee virality, but without them? The odds are close to zero. Make people laugh. Shock them (in a good way). Bonus points if you do both.

@itstuyo is going viral for their launch and it reminded me of this post I made 2 years ago. still relevant

@itstuyo take the expected, mix with the unexpected and you will increase the surface area of virality x.com/jayraba/status…

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@ianlapham can confirm

After 2 months of everyday use, I can say that setting up a personal research engine is one of the highest-ROI things you can do if you like to learn and stay on top of things at the edge - Use a cloud-hosted agent, probably hermes or openclaw - Learn about memory systems and encoding (cognee is very good at this) - Build the right commands for parsing data and storing it (tag things properly, encode and save full text and key ideas) - Build recurring jobs so the system grows itself (rss ingestion, auto twitter scroll, newsletter following) - Build advanced skills that create connections between ideas, surface the most important info, and create digests for you automatically - Build search retrieval skills that actually pull what you need and don't forget or miss things Will change your life

@patfscott @0xngmi you all are goated

When he pitched me on working for DefiLlama, one thing @0xngmi said that stuck with me was that if DefiLlama didn't exist, it wasn't a given that there would be a wildly used free crypto analytics site. If that was the case, then teams that didn't raise VC funding would be at yet another disadvantage. And retail traders wouldn't have access to the same data as professional investors. And so, in some small way, a free analytics site makes the world more fair.

@Teknium this is great

Traditional cron jobs are great for silent tasks on a machine, and Hermes Agent cronjobs are great for extending that to your agent, but why not utilize the gateway and hermes' cron to access things that don't need to cost an agent's time across any messenger service you have connected? Just `hermes update` and ask your agent to setup cronjobs that need no agent in the loop, like running a systems diagnostic script that reports info to you every 12 hours, pulls in an RSS feed, and send it over to you on telegram, whatever you can think of, while saving a lot of money on purely programmatic tasks! If the script has no output, you wont get a ping either PR: github.com/NousResearch/h…