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@BraytonKey @AdamDraper happy b-day @AdamDraper

My co-founder @AdamDraper turned 40 today 🥳 His 30s produced some legendary investments. Clock resets today. First investment of the 40s… who’s it going to be? 👀

@virtuals_io please

Agent commerce should work across any platform. We need universal standards. More soon.

@ethanyish interesting

74% of stablecoin payment volume are domestic. The remittance narrative we've heard up to now isn't wrong - it's just not the whole story anymore. Cross-border's share of stablecoin payments dropped from 44% to 26% since January 2024. The bigger opportunity now is domestic commerce. @eltoniselton just published our first Allium Research report breaking down what's actually happening with stablecoin payments - not just geography, but also payments by use case and entity, built on hundreds of millions of labeled wallets across 15+ chains, tagging centralized exchanges, payments providers, custodians, etc. 🍩 yes, we have hard copies and celebratory donuts - pic from the team 🍩 back to the data...a few more things that stood out:

@sceniuslatam true

What fascinates me about this round is how it flips the usual narrative around stablecoins in Latin America. Most commentary on stablecoins in LATAM focuses on the image of “poor Latinos using crypto to escape inflation and survive.” But ARQ is targeting the opposite: high income Latin Americans living international lives. Founders, remote workers, global executives, professionals managing their financial lives across multiple borders, banks, and currencies. Take ARQ’s Prestige credit card, for example. It’s a premium, globally functional card explicitly designed for this segment. Instead of positioning it as a “crypto credit tool,” ARQ sells it as part of a broader, high-end banking experience. The backing of Sequoia and Founders Fund, along with the fintech’s traction with 2 million customers and more than US$10 billion in transaction volume, proves this is not a niche but a fast-growing, multi-billion dollar market. LATAM is exporting a new model of “lite private banking”. Traditionally, private banking and global wealth management have been US or Europe centric playbooks. ARQ is now testing whether a LATAM native fintech can build the equivalent for a younger, more mobile, more crypto native generation of high net worth users. Congratulations to the @arq_finance 's team! Long LATAM 🫡

If he died tomorrow I would laugh. Please send updates. solscan.io/tx/44y5FBM1aiH…

@balajis good point

AI is amazing for small-TAM custom software. Indeed, the smaller the market, the more amazing it is. Because small markets typically don’t support the costs of software development.

@CepnikMaciej I like bitcoin only companies

Mexico is a difficult market for Bitcoin only companies. There are many cases of startups launching in Mexico but failing after only few months. Big regulatory burden, hard to find product market fit and the need for Bitcoin in México is unclear. Despite this, I believe Aureo will make it.

@dfect Open claw

What is the best tool to manage linkedin inbox/messages?

@solana_daily @gmcbhutan wow

🚨 Bhutan (@gmcbhutan) launches the world’s first Solana-backed digital nomad visa. 🇧🇹 Applicants must purchase $10,000 worth of TER - tokenized gold on Solana - plus a $2,800 application fee, allowing them to stay up to 36 months in Bhutan. The $10,000 is refundable at the end of the visa term, introducing a new model that connects real-world residency with on-chain assets.

@sergitosergito @60Minutes @refikanadol That Macha place is really good

Behind the @60Minutes features and the MoMA exhibits are years of work most people never see. On the way to the Node opening party we spotted @refikanadol at a café, locked tf in. He was still there a couple of hours later when we walked back to the hotel. So many lessons in that.

@nic_carter That makes millennials the smartest gen ever

Like I was saying

Maybe not our best idea to podcast on gardener day

@typesfast @parkerconrad crippling

Rippling finally got their logo on the ugliest building in the city. Good job ⁦@parkerconrad⁩

And then you could have 'Digged' or 'Stumbled upon' the trade .

16 years ago today you could buy 1,309 BTC for $1. This is the first recorded dollar valuation of Bitcoin, calculated by electricity cost to mine Bitcoin at the time. The people crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

@StellarOrg @sebasiseles @iabdulhuseyin @mila_rioja @just_norm @AaronWStanley good work

Local solutions 🤝 global impact. Vesso, Digibank, Plexos share how stablecoins + local currencies actually deliver real financial services to emerging markets worldwide. #Meridian2025. @sebasiseles x @iabdulhuseyin x @mila_rioja x @just_norm x @AaronWStanley

“How do you convince the upcoming generations that education is the key to success when we are surrounded by poor graduates and rich criminals?” -- Robert Mugabe.

@Jason At the Future of Money conference in SF. You had a table to promoting Angel , hustling.

@bchesky chad

On this day seventeen years ago, Airbnb launched.