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Exclusive from @citrini x @hntrbrkmedia: A fishing vessel is ablaze in the Persian Gulf just off the Strait of Hormuz.


the uk might be the worst place to live for crypto - high taxes - restrictive banking systems - introducing stablecoin limits - crypto is seen as an illegible income for mortgages of loans - no freedom of speech - horrible timezone for trading is there anywhere worse?

Grateful to win the @xStocks Hackathon by @krakenfx with @0xdivergence @0xscanty We built xPrime, a prime brokerage for onchain equities. Here's some learnings about the potential and mechanics of tokenized equities: 1. Equities are the biggest pool of idle capital in the world. ~$100T in equities, ~$40T in retail brokers sits in spot. In an AI world where value is accruing to equity vs labor, most are structurally underexposed. Services like stock loans & structured products that let users do more with their assets are inaccessible & costly. 2. Tokenized equities enable financial offerings (earn, borrow, trade, spend) on parity to traditional finance, but accessible globally to anyone with internet. 3. Programmability and composability create net new financial surface area. Traditional brokerages are walled gardens. DeFi strategies between markets for spot <> structured vaults <> lending <> perpetuals <> options <> neobanks for RWAs is the new frontier. 4. There's no free lunch. Onchain financial system for equities is not without intermediaries & counterparties. Risk is being shifted to asset issuers, tokenization platforms, KYC'd mint/redeemers, permissioned RFQs... 5. DeFi infrastructure needs to adapt. There's no (and likely not going to be) deep 24/7 onchain liquidity for tokenized assets. Swaps are currently done via KYC'd non-atomic mint/redeem, or atomic RFQ like Cowswap with variable spreads especially after hours. This creates problems liquidating loans & rebalancing vaults. Solving this with T+1 & clearing houses will enable literally trillions of collateral to come onchain unconstrained by DEX liquidity. More collateral -> more demand to borrow -> more yield for lenders -> onchain economic expansion! Thank you to the hackathon hosts, fellow participants, and sponsors for the great experience. We'll be building more!


> * I thought that surely they would cash out at most $10-25M, because there's no way the SHIB market is deep enough to cash out more > * Instead, they managed to cash out ... something like $500M (same with cryptorelief) man those were some crazy times


Judging is live. 48 hours of building. Now they show their work. Who takes the Trading Floor?


Inspired by @cartoonitunes' work with @EthereumHistory, I've been digging into contracts from the 2015-2019 era to find ETH's still withdrawable but has no active frontend and isn't tracked by Debank or other portfolio trackers. 116 contracts, 76,000+ ETH, 516k depositors with claimable balance. Built Forgotten ETH to help people recover it 👇


















