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@nbaschez Apollo Bagels 🥯 get the full works

I am also headed to NYC today. I have heard bagels are good, maybe not LA-good, but good. Where should I go?

@base Credifi spotted 🤭

Introducing Base Batches Cohort 003: The top 12 out of 1,100+ teams. Building across AI, DeFi, payments, and prediction markets for 7 weeks. It all culminates in a Demo Day in San Francisco to pitch top investors Meet the cohort and read more about our selection process:

Builders no longer have to fight to borrow against the companies they built This should have existed 15 years ago Sorry for the delay

If startup relies on Bill Crosby for lawyering services don’t respond or comment

hello @EthCC

Excited to lead the new @CFTC Innovation Task Force. Under @ChairmanSelig, the ITF will provide clarity to builders by advancing the @CFTC’s innovation agenda across crypto, AI, & PMs. Clear rules of the road will ensure the new frontier of finance is built in the US 🇺🇸

For far too long, Americans have awaited clear guidance on the status of crypto assets under the federal securities and commodities laws. @SECPaulSAtkins and I are committed to fostering a regulatory environment that allows the crypto industry to flourish in the US with clear rules of the road. With today's interpretation, the wait is over. Read the @CFTC and @SECGov's joint agency action ⬇️

CFTC’s Market Participants Division today issued a no-action letter to Phantom addressing the application of IB registration requirements to developers of self-custodial wallet software. cftc.gov/PressRoom/Pres…

if you feel like you’re in a pressure cooker don’t worry i feel the same way it’s not ai psychosis, it’s your subconscious understanding that we’ve gone through a regime change and we’re unlikely to return but pressure and competition is core to free markets and you have agency over the future yes you can check out and touch grass but i believe that it is a privilege to have the opportunity to compete and help shape the future

I’d like to share a story of a startup that’s fought their way to PMF through empathy, insight, and sheer determination. @SgtPepperNFT and the @kettlepay team have been at it for 4.5 years. They started out as an NFT aggregator and pivoted to a luxury watch marketplace before their current focus. In that process, they built out a large network of watch retailers and wholesalers and discovered that stablecoins are a massive part of their business. They had an insight; they discovered a secret. (cc @m2jr) After interviewing a hundred watch merchants in NYC’s 47th St. Diamond District, they found out that ~half are using UDST on Tron via TrustWallet to conduct wholesale transactions and some had millions of dollars just sitting in their hot wallets. Take that in for a second. Realizing this, the team pivoted their product to what it is today - a payments app that allows merchants to send and receive high value stablecoin transactions around the world in a safe and compliant way. To bootstrap usage, these chads literally went door-to-door in every building in the diamond district to onboard merchants. Most were initially not interested, but their hustle was respected in a market that is infamously trust and relationship based. Within 3 months, they’ve onboarded over a hundred merchants and supported tens of millions of dollars in payment volume. All of this with just a PWA btw, which is generally a great sign that they’ve struck a nerve since frankly the app isn’t super polished (cc @eladgil). If you ask 10 random watch shops on 47th street today, half of them will have heard of Kettle - they’ve become the “crypto guys” of the diamond district. Furthermore, these merchants are now calling it their “crypto checking account” and referring their network - over 75% of their volume is via referrals. The cohort analysis is beautiful - incredibly sticky D30 retention and volumes and balances ramping up monthly. I used to think that the biggest startups started with the biggest ideas (cc @kareemszaki) but now I appreciate the startup that starts in an overlooked and fragmented market as a beachhead and expands from there. @slashapp started with sneaker flippers, and Kettle started with watch flippers. If you’ve read until the end, give Sean a follow, shoot him a DM, or ask me to connect you.

@NTFabiano cool research, but watch this horse on skis x.com/shitpost_2049/…

Addiction to short-form videos reduces brain activity in the frontal lobe weakening the ability to focus.

@calcom great ad. just made cal.com/mikevp thank you!

@terrry it’s Techdollar time.

Sat down with @shanefanx on his social media and founder journey! Topics: 1:25 25M views in 24 hours 4:44 How he gained viral-sense 6:54 Posting 30-50 videos everyday 11:37 Instagram Success 13:54 Juggling social media & companies 15:06 Being bullied after immigrating to America 18:11 Graduating Berkeley at 18 23:28 Uncertainty in college 29:04 How Lucy Guo changed his life 34:19 Do you regret the founder path?

Excited to share that I've been appointed CEO of Greenlane Holdings, with a sharp focus on our Berachain Digital Asset Treasury strategy. We're building a $BERA accumulation engine around the unique PoL mechanics of Berachain. We're just getting started🐻⛓ globenewswire.com/news-release/2…

Honored to join to the @CFTC at this historic time in America’s Golden Age & sincerely thank @ChairmanSelig and his Chief of Staff for placing their trust in me 🇺🇸

@masonnystrom @credifi

If you’re building anything related to unsecured credit on blockchain rails my DMs are open.

@auctsy gm - pls dm.

gm to all crypto bros, KOLs and influencers.

I am honored to be nominated by President Trump to serve as the 16th Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. With the President’s leadership, a Great Golden Age for America’s Financial Markets and a Wealth of New Opportunities stand before us. I pledge to work tirelessly to facilitate Well-Functioning Commodity Markets, promote Freedom, Competition and Innovation, and help the President make the United States the Crypto Capital of the World.

Why build on Berachain? From drones to credit to e-commerce the Build-a-Berathon winners are showing what’s possible. Join the founders of @hb_drones, @credifi, @changetodayorg, and Scrambled live with Smokey on Twitter tomorrow, Sept 17th at 12pm ET/4pm UTC.