Patrick de Laive

What did Larry actually say... 🧵 Let's take a deeper look at the @Bloomberg interview with Larry Fink (ceo of @blackrock) after the Bitcoin ETF introduction. Here the vid, below the dissection.

@HeinDauven @DuskFoundation Nice. Can’t pay with real Dusk yet right?

Dusk Domains is now live on testnet. I've been solo-building an independent .dusk name service for the @DuskFoundation ecosystem You can register names like yourname.dusk and connect them to useful public records like your Dusk public address, shielded address, DuskEVM address, contracts, website, avatar and more. The core flow is ready to try: search → reserve → register → set records → set primary domain The goal of this dApp is simple, make Dusk easier to use, easier to recognize and easier to build on. Two particular features I'm excited about: 1. Referrals: Invite others to register domains and earn DUSK when they do. 2. Product-owned liquidity: My plan is to route all revenue into DUSK liquidity pools on @pieswap_dusk, @PancakeSwap and @Uniswap, so Dusk Domains helps build deeper ecosystem liquidity instead of only extracting fees. Try it here: dusk.domains Feedback welcome!

@eoghan @Scobleizer @salesforce @fin_ai Wow, big news. Congrats @eoghan and @destraynor !

We’re excited to share that we just signed an agreement for @salesforce to acquire @fin_ai for ~$3.6B. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Salesforce’s fiscal year 2027. Fin started as Intercom 15 years ago. We changed our name to cap our transformation just weeks ago. We were a darling of the SaaS era and invented so many of the patterns you see in software today. Nearly four years ago, in need of a reboot, we jumped on weeks-old modern LLMs to create and define the category we know as Customer Agents today. Salesforce invented modern software and SaaS. And @benioff is like the final boss of tech founder CEOs. In seat for 27 years, he’s one of the last of his era. Still pushing, pivoting, placing big bets. It’s a privilege for @destraynor and I to get to partner with him and join forces with Salesforce upon close at this most fascinating time. And will be very fun to get their help bringing Fin to magnitudes more consumers. To our customers: Over the past few years we’ve been shipping intensely. Including recently our groundbreaking model, Apex, and our paradigm-defining internal agent, Operator. With the resources of Salesforce this will only accelerate. And yet little will practically change. I’ll still be CEO, Des will still be running R&D, we’ll both still be committed to continuing to lead this category. Thank you very sincerely and deeply for your belief in us. To all of our friends, our families, and our employees, past and present: While this is not the end, it is a major, pivotal, special, and emotional moment for us. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you. For everything. To my cofounders, my exec team: Look what we built. Four young lads with a dream and nothing to lose. And a home grown exec team who pulled off the greatest and arguably only late stage software company pivot to AI, and invented one of the most important categories in AI. Thank you for sticking through all of this with me. And now, time to get back to work. See you at our next product launch in a couple weeks. (:

@HeinDauven GhostPay, pay your employees in stablecoins with privacy preserving transactions so the recipients cannot see what their colleagues make.

Thinking about ways to use Grok Build. I have access to it and no idea what to do with it yet. What should I make it build? 🤔

@elonmusk @BalderBomans @NUnl Not ‘arguably’ @elonmusk, it is.

@NUnl ASML should be treasured and supported. It is arguably the greatest company in Europe.

ASML nodigt Elon Musk uit om te spreken op interne technologieconferentie ift.tt/pIDysz1

@HeinDauven @DuskFoundation Time for Boreas on mainnet 💪

This is terrible news for any protocol, and I feel for the $ZEC team given how top notch they are. But given the complexity of what is being built in this industry, bugs like this are also bound to happen. Even if you audit often, even if you hire good firms, cryptography and blockchain infrastructure are unforgiving. At @DuskFoundation we made a conscious decision to spend a large part of the first half of 2026 on hardening and heavily auditing our own network. Far from sexy and it does not generate headlines. And sadly enough, no matter how big the network upgrade is, this kind of work is often not perceived as "delivering". But it is exactly the work you want done before privacy blockchain infrastructure is trusted with large amounts of real value. More broadly, I think the industry needs to spend less time rolling its own cryptography in isolation, and more time standardizing, reviewing and formally verifying the shared primitives we all end up relying on. In an ideal world, we formally verify as much as possible up and down the stack.

@jitsegroen @Joostnietsmeer @VDL_Groep I like the style Jitse. Keep it up

@Joostnietsmeer @VDL_Groep Deze mijnheer bedoel je? 😂 fd.nl/bedrijfsleven/…

Ik heb nog nooit een oprichter zoveel horen klagen als U…… neem eens een voorbeeld aan de CEO van @VDL_Groep de heer van der Leegte!

This is how you do it. 50% more revenue without adding headcount. Bravo Remote. Nice interview with @Jobvo by @abracarioca techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/pay…

@HeinDauven @grok Thanks @grok, that’s a great idea :)

@HeinDauven @grok give me three ideas to build on top of this

Dusk Wallet and Dusk Connect are a major milestone for the $DUSK ecosystem. What changes now is that users and builders have the core distribution and interaction layers they need. A familiar browser wallet flow, a standard way for Dusk wallets and dApps to communicate, and an SDK that developers can build against. That gives builders a much simpler path to create ZK-enabled, privacy-first and compliance-aware financial and RWA dApps on Dusk, while still feeling familiar to the broader Web3 space. Together with Dusk Forge, the path from idea to working dApp on Dusk is becoming much more accessible.

@marcvanderchijs Lol (but makes sense)

If a start-up sends me a Microsoft Teams invite for a pitch, the chance of me investing in the company will be almost zero.

Old school. Friday afternoon going through hundreds of startup submissions with a beer on the side 👍🍺

@Jobvo We (at least our politicians) have lost our minds. Completely focusing on the wrong issues. I wish more people with a business background would get into politics.

Quickly losing all faith in rationality in the Netherlands

@PADeosarran @mynutriqs Sure, maar je kan je ook gewoon inschrijven OpenOfficeHours.xyz

Dag Patrick, we hebben elkaar lang geleden gesproken over mijn vorige startup. Inmiddels bouwen we met @mynutriqs aan de oplossing voor het $2T UPF-productiviteitsprobleem. Onze POC is net gevalideerd door 6 NL diëtisten en we zijn geselecteerd door het Google AI Future Fund voor de volgende fase. Volgende week gaat de Beta live. Mag ik je een korte DM sturen voor die NL VC-intro’s?

JA might be on to something here

@Jason I’m in

We started an AI founder twitter group... reply with "I'm in" if you're a founder and want to be added

@marktradewinst Wat een koning 👑

Ik ga stuk! 🤣 " We hopen een beetje dat de schuldeisers ons hier niet gaan vinden..."

@jitsegroen Yes this is alarming. Goes for all NL I’m afraid. When TNW was till a thing we made sport out of it to bring CEO’s to NL, show them around and intro them to the municipality. This alone created 10.000+ (not kidding) high paying jobs in Amsterdam (we never got a dime for it btw).

Aantal nieuwe buitenlandse bedrijven in Amsterdam in een paar jaar tijd 75% (!) lager, door slechte infrastructuur, hoge belastingen, een natuurramp? Welnee, door nieuw beleid van de gemeente Amsterdam. 2000 banen per jaar weg ook. 😱

@DUSK_USA Where… how..? I want utility tokens on Dusk!

$DUSK the native utility token of Dusk is a commodity under 🇺🇸 CFTC jurisdiction, not a security. This delivers the regulatory clarity institutions and builders have been waiting for. Privacy-first. Regulation-ready. The stock exchange infrastructure of the future just got a green light. 🚀

@jitsegroen @elonmusk Bel hem even....

Spreekt @elonmusk eigenlijk Afrikaans? 🤔