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Crypto is a game of attention, if you can give yours to the right place before everyone else you can win this game RWA, AI, Meme’s, Utility, L1’s, L2’s, DeFi - they all have their time in the sun at some point, and afterwards they ALL lose it to something else Each cycle gives ample opportunities to you if you know what to look for. What’s next? No idea, but at some stage DeFi will make a come back My money is on the return of the algo-stable, specifically Pinto. Why? Here’s 10 reasons: 1) 3 years of building has gone into this version 2) The codebase has been heavily audited publicly ($1.2M Immunifi bug bounty) 3) It’s a fork of Beanstalk, which was exploited via governance hack, it did NOT death spiral or die due to a bank run, so economically the modal has not yet been tested enough to call it a failure 4) It’s proper DeFi - not a ‘company’ and it has no ‘treasury’, and DeFi has not yet had its time in the sun this cycle 5) It taps into a major crypto pie, stablecoins are the third biggest sector of crypto behind BTC and ETH, so there is plenty to go around 6) Built on @base, a leading L2 and keeps security of L1 ETH 7) Most advanced implementation of an algo stable to date on any network 8) Built on economic first principles 9) No locks, no collateral = low friction, high capital efficiency 10) All newly minted Pinto goes back to depositors/creditors - benefits only those with skin in the game Follow if you want to see this 12k account (started at 10k) run up to $1M based purely on the expansion of the Pinto ecosystem.

@TopherField Literally started reading that book 3 nights ago

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@brane_trix @Jrodtus @scupytrooples @LiquityProtocol @pintocommunity you might like this pinto.money/pinto.pdf

@Jrodtus @scupytrooples @looking_onchain @LiquityProtocol @pintocommunity The peg also needs to be currency like so we dont want too much price appreciation

seeing some pepos cry about this, so ig i will weigh in. people started to see the reality of what institutional capitalism meant for crypto, and it became abundantly clear that there are some issues that were causing a lot of cognitive dissonance. many collectively agree that the fractional reserve fiat central banking system is a fucked up system of control that overwhelmingly benefits a certain class of person to the rest of the world’s detriment. it erodes both personal and national sovereignty. we want to supplant wall street, but are being absorbed by it, and imho, the real danger is just this insidious chipping away at the shared ethos that brought the early adopters to the space in the first place. we went from let’s change the world and give a viable exit from the corrupt and fraudulent central banking system to salivating hard just to give sloppy toppy to the very banks that prop up central banking. im here for a (peaceful) revolution, and even if it means my bags don’t pump, i don’t want us degraded to the point where we are reduced to bankerman middleware and the dream of money by the people for the people is dead.

@scupytrooples @brane_trix @LiquityProtocol @pintocommunity great read on low volatility money among other things pinto.money/pinto.pdf

@brane_trix @looking_onchain @LiquityProtocol @pintocommunity something like this but the flatcoin being the 5th-10th root of the price of eth seems interesting to me, basically just an extremely volatility dampened version of eth. i need to do a lot more research though

yeh I was there, very exciting times. Credit creates the ability to borrow money from the future, probably one of the greatest monetary inventions of all time, what needs to change isn't credit itself, but whether the money created is put to productive use or non-productive use. Credit enables wealth creation when used for good, and boom/bust cycles when used for bad. We don't want to replace it, just use it better

@looking_onchain @scupytrooples @LiquityProtocol @pintocommunity I don't know if you were around during the seigniorage coins days (BASIS, ESD, and to an extent other algostables) but those experiments didn't work And if they did work we just end up with fractional reserves, since that's what credit is, but it's also what we want to replace

@brane_trix @scupytrooples @LiquityProtocol @pintocommunity yeh, which is why $1 USD is ideal, 300B+ stables on chain and growing - the demand is there

@scupytrooples @looking_onchain @LiquityProtocol @pintocommunity The problem with vol dampening like RAI is that the holders pay for it & eventually get trended to zero in low demand markets

@scupytrooples @LiquityProtocol @pintocommunity So true Could one interpret flatcoins to mean low-volatility coins? Imagine you could have both, you’d have the demand for US dollars (proven pmf) + flatcoins (low volatility) Add ETH nativity and problem solved?

@looking_onchain @LiquityProtocol @pintocommunity pegging an asset to another will always come with inefficiencies and liquidity constraints im much more interested in trying to solve flatcoins than usd pegged stablecoins though bc fiat money is down only

Liquity is amazing, but the carrying costs can never compete with the USD. All collateralised stablecoins share this problem - inability to scale. The only viable option is to eliminate the hard peg and use CREDIT to help stabilise price, @pintocommunity seem to be the only ones doing this

@looking_onchain tbh, @LiquityProtocol bold is the purest version so far

@JohnRuddick2 @LibertariansNSW @JohnLarter000 Couldn’t listen, too many ums

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@pintodotmoney Have you guys ever thought that maybe the current protocol implementation doesn't need more development, but instead more participants? Maybe shifting focus towards increasing users and protocol awareness might help?

@somnicore Have you tried venice.ai?

gemini 3.1 pro is not the best at coding but its really great at analyzing videos which helps a lot with utilizing the data im given and improving my scripts honestly underrated in terms of using it as an analysis tool much better than claude since it can analyze videos.

@VitalikButerin @colludingnode any thoughts on an algorithmic stablecoin that is backed by credit? pinto.money for instance?

> inb4 "muh USDC yield", that's not DeFi Would algorithmic stablecoins fall under this? IMO no (ie. algorithmic stablecoins are genuine defi) Easy mode answer: if we had a good ETH-backed algorithmic stablecoin, then *even if* 99% of the liquidity is backed by CDP holders who hold negative algo-dollars and separately positive dollars elsewhere, the fact that you have the ability to punt the counterparty risk on the dollars to a market maker is still a big feature. Hard mode answer: even if an algorithmic stablecoin is backed by RWAs, if it is overcollateralized and diversified to the extent that it would still be collateralized if any single RWA failed (ie. max share of any individual backing asset <= overcollateralization ratio), then that's also still a meaningful improvement to the risk properties experienced by a holder. I feel like that sort of thing (ideally the former, failing that the latter) is what we should be aiming more towards. And then from there, move away from the dollar as the UoA, and toward some kind of more generalized diverse index. Though of course, current "put USDC into Aave" gadgets do not qualify under either of my categories.

there is no reason to use DeFi unless you have longs on cryptocurrencies, and want access to financial services while preserving self-custody. This is why and how DeFi got bootstrapped, and all the other applications are cargo cults > inb4 "muh USDC yield", that's not DeFi

@escrow1of1 @gusik4ever check it polyterminal.pro/?ref=H5B4EU1F

@gusik4ever banned in Australia unfortunately

just saw a video where a dude calls this Polymarket line a “money glitch” like: “bet $1,000,000 at 3¢ and win $35,000,000” sounds like infinite money… until you realize the market has the liquidity of a wet napkin welcome to slippage university

@CaldronPool X already blocks the use if VPN’s in Australia, there is no workaround. The UN already has the power to block any website at the DNS level. X is working with the govt’s of UK, AUS, Canada, NZ and the US to help balkanise the internet . It’s all a show

If the country were to BAN access to X, would Starlink provide a workaround? Starlink operates in Australia and the UK with full regulatory approval and local ground stations. In democratic countries where it has a legal presence, SpaceX/Starlink has shown it will enforce government-mandated blocks on specific services like X when ordered by courts or regulators. The clearest precedent is Brazil (2024): 1. A Supreme Court justice ordered all ISPs — including Starlink — to block access to X nationwide. 2. Starlink initially resisted (and even had assets frozen), but ultimately complied and blocked X for its Brazilian customers rather than risk losing its operating license or facing further sanctions. Australia and the UK are similar regulatory environments. According to Grok, Starlink would almost certainly follow suit if ordered to block X (e.g., via DNS/IP blocking at the network level or through its own routing). Users on Starlink would then see the same block as everyone else. Satellite doesn't automatically bypass blocks. Starlink traffic routes through ground stations (gateways) that are physically located in or near the country (or connected via licensed backhaul). Governments can pressure Starlink to apply blocks at those points, just like they do with traditional ISPs. Starlink's terms of service explicitly require compliance with local laws and regulations. A few theoretical loopholes exist, but they're impractical or risky: VPNs on top of Starlink — This could route your traffic to make it appear you're accessing X from outside the banned country (same as on any ISP). Many people already do this for other restrictions. However, if the government gets aggressive, they could block common VPN protocols/ports or pressure Starlink to limit VPN usage. Roaming / Border Tricks — Using a Starlink dish near a border to connect to an out-of-country ground station (or activating in a permitted country) sometimes works temporarily in restricted regions, but Starlink's geo-fencing and service terms make this unreliable and often short-lived. Black-market / Unofficial Use — In heavily censored countries (e.g., Iran), people smuggle dishes and use Starlink to bypass restrictions — but that's illegal, detectable (the dish is quite visible), and not applicable to a place like Australia/UK where Starlink is fully legal. In a developed democracy like Australia or the UK, the government wouldn't need to seize dishes or jam signals — they would simply order Starlink to block the domains/IPs, and Starlink would comply to protect its business. Starlink is a great internet provider for remote areas, but it isn't designed (or willing) to act as an anti-censorship tool against orders from governments where it legally operates. If X were banned in Australia or the UK, the most effective workaround would be a good VPN — not relying on Starlink alone.

@TheWhiteWhaleV2 Awesome work with your shitcoin bruv, now imagine what you could do with a PvE project that creates value natively on the blockchain...

Most of 2025 my bio said “100M PnL Goal” When I transitioned from creating value for myself and instead focused on creating value for others I did in 30 days what I was never quite able to achieve all of last year. Lesson in that.

@CloutedMind @scupytrooples Same goes for stablecoins…

imagine you buy tokenized oil custodied in some "neutral" country like singapore or switzerland and a certain country just goes and takes the reserves during a crazy period apply this to tokenized uranium, tokenized gold, etc etc property rights cannot be enforced onchain for offchain assets crypto native value is what matters

hey @AskVenice Australians can no longer access venice.ai without a VPN fyi

@LizSward @CaldronPool personal experience living in an Aboriginal community and via the stories of others who have had similar experiences

@looking_onchain @CaldronPool An oppressive communistic life? Where do you get this BS from?

"Christianity was not merely present in Australia’s development but foundational to it." Australia: Always Was, Always Will Be a Christian Nation caldronpool.com/australia-alwa…

That might be what you've been taught, but there is another side of the story that has been purposely obfuscated, and that is that they were happy to learn and adopt Christianity because it gave them choice and personal empowerment. The power structure of their tribal clans gave little rights to the individual, especially women.

@looking_onchain @CaldronPool That’s bs we slaughtered them!

@LizSward @CaldronPool True, Christians introduced the Natives to Christianity, liberating them from an oppressive and communistic way of life, giving them individual freedom and empowerment the likes of which they had never imagined possible

@CaldronPool Indigenous Australians were here before us they were not Christians. This is a fact!