svendo
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EthCC[9] is officially a wrap 🫶
Thank you to every speaker, builder, sponsor, volunteer and attendee who made this week in Cannes unforgettable.
This community is something special.
And the big reveal: EthCC turns 10 next year 🎂
📍 12-15 April 2027, Palais des Festivals, Cannes
Save the date. See you there ✨
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only the paranoid survives:
i strongly recommend to read this excellent thread how this attack on drift was carried out:
Tay 💖@tayvano_
I beg everyone in crypto to read this in full. I expected this to be another case of social engineering, likely some recruiter/job offer shit. I was very wrong. And the depth of the operation and personas makes me think they already have multiple other teams on lock. 😳
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@Yhiskotech @singhabhinav would you care about an online USDT/USDC savings accounts, permissionless and in self custody with nice yields for your savings?
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@singhabhinav Nigeria isn't chasing crypto hype — we're surviving naira volatility with stablecoins as our real savings account. But holding USDT/USDC without easy spending for bills, merchants or suppliers? That's the painful gap.
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Nigeria is ranked #1 in global USDT and USDC ownership.
Not the US. Not the UK. Not Singapore.
Nigeria.
59% of Nigerian crypto users hold USDT. 48% hold USDC. More than any other country surveyed. India is third. Brazil close behind.
The reason is obvious once you see it: in countries where local currency loses 20–40% of value annually, stablecoins aren't a crypto product. They're a savings account. A dollar-denominated store of value that doesn't require a US bank account.
Here's what the data doesn't show: most of those stablecoin holders can't use their USDT to buy anything.
No merchant acceptance. No subscription billing. No automatic payment. No way to pay a supplier. They hold the dollars. They can't spend the dollars. They convert back to fiat every time they need to transact.
The gap between stablecoin adoption and stablecoin utility is most visible not in San Francisco or Singapore. It's in Lagos, Jakarta, São Paulo.
$308B in circulation. The people who need stablecoin commerce most have the fewest tools to access it.
That's not a distribution problem. That's an infrastructure problem. The rails exist everywhere. The billing layer doesn't exist anywhere.
That's who we're building for.
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@Cointelegraph The whole point of the De in DeFi is that you can't target humans in the first place.
Solana Inc. is no better than Celsius, trying to dress up CeFi as DeFi.
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@thealepalombo thank you for sharing interesting places on x. your coastal photo is not hyères. it seems to be villefranche, no?
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5/ HYÈRES, The Côte d'Azur That Time Forgot
This is France's oldest seaside resort. Before Nice. Before Cannes. Before Saint-Tropez.
Queen Victoria wintered here. Robert Louis Stevenson recovered here. Tolstoy wrote here.
Then the railway went to Nice instead. Everyone followed. And Hyères was left behind, with its medieval old town, its palm-lined boulevards, its private islands, and its 300 days of sunshine.
Their loss.
My French friend put it best: "Hyères is the Côte d'Azur for people who actually live on the Côte d'Azur." Not for tourists. Not for summer people. For year-round residents who know the difference.
Population: 58,000. A REAL Riviera city. €4,820/sqm average. Compare that to Nice (€5,500+) or Saint-Tropez (€12,000+).
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I'm Italian. After my thread on Italy's hidden cities blew up, a close French friend called me.
"You did Italy. Now do France. But don't embarrass yourself, let me 'elp."
We spent a weekend going back and forth. He'd suggest a city, I'd research it. I'd push back, he'd prove me wrong. By Sunday night, we had a list.
7 hidden cities in France that most people, including most French, will never think to visit, let alone move to.
No crowds. No tourist markup. Insane quality of life.
🧵
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listen: onchain, not on-chain. its like with online. not on-line.
Zach Pandl@LowBeta
It's official: "onchain" not "on-chain" Footnote 1 from SEC guidance yesterday
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Was wir an Regulierung nicht brauchen, muss weg. Es muss sich etwas bewegen in Europa und zwar im Grundsätzlichen. Und deshalb ist die Rolle der Bundesregierung in Europa ganz wesentlich: Wir sind Antreiber in Sachen Bürokratierückbau.
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“Every software company in the world needs to have a Claw strategy" - Jensen Huang, Nvidia
Indeed. This and more.
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@positivityofx ach gottle, isch des suess. danke fuer den schoenen start ins wochende. dir auch!
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Heat index was 110 degrees so we offered him a cold drink. He went for a full body soak instead
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@awasunyin you clearly want to live somewhere else, so whats stopping you?
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reasons why you shouldn't move to zug:
1. dating sucks
2. there are exactly 3 nightclubs, people who go there are either 18 or 50, nothing in between
3. eating out costs the same as eating out in the most expensive ski resorts like zermatt
4. very limited food delivery options, mcdonald's is at the top
5. you can't do laundry on sundays
6. no noise after 10pm
7. there's a church within 500m, no matter where you live
8. the churches ring the bell every hour
9. you can't skii on the zugerberg
10. the city name is incredibly confusing, specially if you speak to germans
Simon Høiberg@SimonHoiberg
Cortisol = low Pollution = low Taxes = low Zug, Switzerland 🇨🇭 💙
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great paper from @smartestxyz about defi, components and biz models:
G@smartestxyz
Today I am happy to post one of my longest working papers, the DeFi evolution over the last 9 years. From @Uniswap , @CurveFinance , @Balancer Evolution to the rise of @HyperliquidX this Paper covers all significant improvements in the last 9-10 years. I hope you enjoy reading this one. After the last papers were all TradFi approaches, this one comes back to our hometown, DeFi. (drive.google.com/file/d/1EAxEh3…)
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Germany is launching an alternative to Claude Code, it’s called Klaus Programmieren and it will run on sovereign ai system with chips made in Germany. The project is currently in the planning phase but the Federal Government has already committed a record sum of 50 Million Euros
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