Vlad Pestrikov

Hey #Web3 community! I'm a blockchain dev & founder building on EVM, TON, and Solana. Architect of Proof of Capital (proofofcapital.org). Sharing insights on blockchain tech, DeFi, and more. Let's connect and shape the future of decentralized innovation! 🚀 #Blockchain #Crypto #POK #PoC

@tonstakers Most people treat GRAM like a trade. The real move is putting it to work — liquid staking is still under the radar.

1/Your GRAM has a full-time job. Most people just haven't hired it yet. 🧵

@amazing_marshal I believe in GRAM.

MYONGA next step is just around the corner with pavel approving it Apple said yes to GRAM integration in telegram like never before, it could be the integration of stickers in the final steps as well MTONGA is cooking

@AlphaYields_AI Agreed. Audits cut contract risk, but the tail risk usually sits in the collateral and the redemption path. A clean audit on a fragile peg is a false sense of safety.

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐬 "𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤" 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝? Smart contract risk is the risk every DeFi guide leads with, and it is the wrong risk to lead with. Not because it isn't real; it is. Exploits still happen, audits still miss things, and a $5M oracle manipulation in early 2026 demonstrated that even well-resourced "institutional-grade" vaults can be drained when their pricing infrastructure has thin liquidity dependencies. Smart contract risk has cost DeFi users billions historically. But here is the contrarian read: smart contract risk is also the risk depositors have the most tools to evaluate. Audits are public. Bug bounties are quantifiable. Time-since-deployment is a number. Composability dependencies can be mapped. A reasonably motivated depositor with $1M in stablecoins can build a defensible smart contract risk model in an afternoon. The risks that actually destroyed depositor capital over the past 18 months were not the ones depositors had tools to evaluate. They were the ones depositors weren't even told to look at. The protocol that bleeds depositors slowly through aggregator-reported APY that exceeds realized share price growth by 3+ percentage points isn't going to show up in a smart contract audit. The protocol whose curator decisions are concentrated in three external traders with no fund segregation isn't going to fail a code review. The protocol whose oracle is technically functional but pulls from a liquidity pool thin enough to be manipulated for $170M won't appear in any "battle-tested" classification. The 2026 oracle manipulation event referenced above is instructive. The exploited vault marketed itself as institutional-grade. It had audits. It had over $100M in TVL. It had the surface markers of safety that every checklist tells depositors to look for. None of that prevented the loss because the actual risk lived somewhere else; in the depth of the liquidity pool that the oracle pulled from. 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲: Smart contract risk is real, but it is also the risk depositors are best equipped to evaluate. The risks depositors lose money on are the ones they haven't been taught to identify.

@RacquelZukerman @zenith256 Issuance layer for structured products is the real frontier. The hard part isn't the contracts, it's proving the capital behind them onchain. Curious how City Protocol handles that.

City Protocol is developing the Issuance & Operation Layer for onchain structured products, with @zenith256 completing its smart contract audit covering I&OL, TaaS, and VaaS. Will these tools transform DeFi? #Crypto #DeFi #Blockchain

Two weeks ago I finally sat down and learned Claude Code. A month and a half before that I quit doomscrolling shorts. Something shifted. All those "someday" projects, the little itches and half-finished ideas that kept stalling for years? I'm actually shipping them now. Genuinely curious: have you brought this into your daily workflow yet? Do you see the potential, or does it still feel like hype? And honestly, I'm wondering if it's worth helping people get into it, or is everyone already way ahead of me?

@kingyru This. Meme momentum fades, real utility compounds. GRAM's edge is the Telegram distribution, not the shill cycle.

Durov stays silent, and many are already panicking. The market got too comfortable with a simple pattern: post -> pump -> sell. But inefficiencies like that never last. GRAM doesn’t need meme shilling. It needs meaningful ecosystem upgrades. If the ecosystem grows, memes will grow with it.

@moontroncrypto @ton_blockchain Solid framing. The quiet-building phase always looks boring in real time and obvious in hindsight. Curious what you think separates the projects that actually survive that phase from the ones that just go quiet for good?

$GRAM is sitting around $1.5 today. I remember when SOL traded around $2. Back then, most people ignored it. The ecosystem looked quiet. The builders kept building. The rest became history. Today I see similar skepticism around GRAM. Could history repeat? Nobody knows. But what excites me isn’t just the price. It’s the ecosystem. Telegram already has an enormous global user base. Builders are shipping. Communities are growing. Infrastructure keeps improving. If GRAM eventually trades above $10, the attention flowing into the TON ecosystem could look very different from today. That’s why I’m watching the strongest meme communities on TON closely: $UTYA $YODA $GRINCH Every major ecosystem has a phase where almost nobody is paying attention. Then everything changes. A new generation of millionaires is created. You don’t become early after everyone agrees. You become early while everyone is still doubting. I still don’t think you’re bullish enough for what’s coming. 💚🚀

Regulators are finally waking up, institutions are pouring money into RWA. The teams building real utility token infrastructure today will own the 2028–2030 market.

Over the next 3–5 years, the majority of serious Web3 projects will move away from traditional fair launches and VC pump & dump models. They will launch utility tokens on capital-backed infrastructures instead. We are building exactly this new standard ⚡️

New chapter unlocked 🔥 Just dropped my first proper long-form video. I talk how I completely quit watching Shorts, digital detox, attention, building a meaningful life, and Web3/blockchain. Deleting YouTube from my phone is one small decision that changed everything. Now I fell more focused, more calm, more creative. An interesting life might be just one decision away. Watch here (English subtitles are available): youtube.com/watch?v=E9zdGK…

A beautiful beginning, a gripping story, and a fair ending. Today, we closed $POK and, unlike the classic meme story, we're giving holders the opportunity to either return their investment in full or convert it into our platform's token.

My kids like this book… by Satoshi 😸

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@Kisievdt @max_katz Всю жизнь голосовал за яблоко - и это тотальное разочарование Не стоит тратить свой голос на бесперктивняк, поддерживаю, Дмитрий

Вызываю Максима Каца на дебаты. Я считаю важным, чтобы стратегия голосования обсуждалась публично. Услышал в эфире ЖГ позицию @max_katz, что нужно голосовать за Яблоко на выборах в Госдуму, если партия выдвинет список. Это значит, что Максим призовет через свои медийные ресурсы последовать за ним. По последним опросам Яблоко не набирает 5% для прохода в Госдуму, как и не набирало последние 20 лет. Это значит, что они снова не будут участвовать в распределении мандатов, а голоса избирателей сгорят. Ценностную позицию сторонников голосовать за Яблоко я понимаю, и все же 3 миллиона голосов могут испариться снова. Именно столько нужно для прохода, при условии, что явка будет такой же, как 5 лет назад. Если мы будем бороться за то, чтобы каждый совершеннолетний житель России дошел до участка, то для прохода потребуется еще больше. Мы должны консолидировать протестные голоса за партии, которые имеют шансы получить до 20 или 30%. Таких сейчас две: КПРФ и Новые люди. Будь у Яблока рейтинг 10%, разговор был бы совсем другой. Но меньше чем за 5 месяцев до голосования мы имеем то, что имеем. Нам всеми силами нужно стараться теснить Единую Россию. Когда в составе крупных партий, которые могут пройти 5%, будет сопоставимое число депутатов, как у партии власти сейчас, политика в стране станет другой. У ЕР сейчас конституционное большинство, и оно его должно лишиться. Голосованием за Яблоко этого не добиться.

Every serious crypto loss follows the same pattern: one key, one mistake, one second. We built timelock + veto + 3-tier keys into our own contracts for years. Now open-sourcing it. Not because we had to.

Our system has a built-in insurance buffer that gets topped up whenever people exit. Sounds paradoxical but it helps preserve minimum liquidity even if everyone decides to leave. Better than just hoping for the best and praying no one panics.

Funny how the question “what exactly is this token backed by?” makes so many models uncomfortable 😁