Adrian

@mrpunkdoteth Sign me up captain

Making a group chat on X for Robinhood memes. Who wants an invite?

@SebMontgomery x.com/redactedadrian…

Who has better than this? This was a JSON file... And I didn't even know what that was back then

Wow. There's an 'I survived FTX' class

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BREAKING: Tokenized equities saw a record $3.4 billion in volume for the month of June. This marks +279% month-over-month growth and +1,400% year-over-year growth. The growth was primarily driven by SpaceX's record IPO and surging demand for 24/7 trading. Furthermore, the Solana network now accounts for over 90% of volume traded in these assets. A substantial amount of this volume growth has been driven by Jupiter, the largest onchain platform in the world, which has seen MoM volume growth of +56%, with ~60% of tokenized equity volume happening during off hours and weekends. Tokenized asset growth is exploding.

JUST IN: Tokenized asset spot volume grew from $2.69B in Q1 to $5.7B in Q2 on Solana

@CashAnvil Continue building the financial rails of the world 💪🏻

I put my entire life into Cardano. My time, my expertise, my savings. I’ve literally gone all in, and for over 5 years now. No salary for 3 years, along with my co founder, and every payroll was paid on time. This isn’t meant as a guilt trip just context towards my reality. I forced my cofounders to envelope the ‘entrepreneur mindset’ and make sacrifices to make our vision of Anvil work. I thought we were in good company in Cardano. A bunch of scrappy, smart people who are building the future financial rails of the world. Unfortunately, not everyone was living like starving entrepreneurs and looted our community/treasury while keeping cushy salaries. Now the price is in the teens…and we can’t even get contracts on Cardano to sustain our business, with no indication that change is coming, all community business proposals are not passing atm. I gave up my 30s for this. I had a great career trajectory making solid money. I don’t regret the decision I just wish it went different. Believe it or not, we didn’t make many stupid decisions, we were responsible with salaries, and ran very lean operations. Did we fail? Or did Cardano fail to flourish and create real opportunity? I bought Ada, I believed in the token. I dropped my 401k on it. Held it religiously for 5 years, all to sell at .16 so I don’t lose my house? It’s insane lol was I supposed to sell on everyone’s heads? I thought being a believer was the whole point now I just feel like a sheep. I don’t even have the 100k Ada required anymore to go straight to the treasury. The only thing I can think of that hurt worse were my kidney stones. This is the most defeated I have felt in a long time. And now I’m watching 8 months of hard work and relationship building get thrown away. Can’t get a hold of half the DReps otherwise you come off as annoying. Didn’t do a Japan tour? Good luck! I had to waste 6 days explaining to one of our top DReps why the product needs Cardano. He basically said we didn’t need to use blockchain or cardano. Instead of explaining the value we create I gotta convince our top DReps why a project chose to build on Cardano? 🤯 Im not perfect but I damn sure tried to be! Answered everyone promptly, reached out to DReps, and did our best to listen/apply feedback. I show up everyday. Can someone explain to me why I should keep trying to build here? I’ve legit lost everything but my wife who isn’t getting any happier with me. Today is the first day I work towards getting my life back. IDK exactly what that means but I’m done feeling like this for nothing.

@SuperteamAU @gray_chromatic @Samsung @BabyBunting @SolanaFndn @sortedAUD g'day Gray

For half a decade, solana/web3.js has been how developers, apps and users interact with Solana. Today, we're giving it the upgrade it always deserved: Web3.js 3.0. A package with the API you already know, rebuilt from the ground up on Kit.

btw, ~64% of all new market primitives are currently being built on @solana. Solana is the home for innovation and new financial narratives!

@robustus 10ktps with $0.005 burn would be $1.5b a year in burn. Visualize how to get there

Self hosted Solana AMM trading infra - give this to your agent

Cooked this vid for #bitcoinpizzaday 🍕👨‍🍳

1/ Agave 4.0 is now recommended for mainnet validators. XDP for Turbine, QUIC-only TPU ingestion, faster replay stage, and a long list of feature-gated SIMDs activating during the cycle. Here's what's changing 🧵

At some point, you have to ask yourself whether Hyperliquid is anything more than an unregulated Robinhood. I have asked myself this countless times, and my answer has mostly been yes. I kept betting on HL because regulation felt far away, and that distance was where the asymmetric bet lived. The gap between what the product could do and what regulated players were allowed to do was the trade. Calling HL disruptive today feels like a stretch. It is a strong product, but structurally it is more of an unregulated fintech/brokerage than a new financial primitive. Its main disruption is regulatory arbitrage. Decentralized? Not really. Self custody? Debatable. The only truly disruptive thing in this sector was perps, and perps existed long before HL. Spare me the @’s calling me a retard, a noob, stupid, etc. Just play along with the argument so you can shut it down..... If you add Robinhood’s regulatory burden to Hyperliquid, what makes HYPE disruptive, and how does HYPE win?

We just had the first successful Alpenswitch on our Alpenglow community cluster! The @solana finalization time improved 100x. Thanks to everybody participating. Watch it live: ag.validblocks.com …ommunity-status.stakingfacilities.com

BREAKING! this just in: 30% of pumpdotfun (around 30 people!) were laid off April 1, and received slaps in the face for severance. Remote+UK, mostly. In total they were all due significant % the company AND tokenshare in equity, when vested. .. .. .. .. .. scumbags. laid off by -email- cowards.

Crypto is paying a high price for years of altcoin scams and grifts. It can feel like a toxic industry where very little value is created. It's easy to feel disillusioned and wish you were focusing on AI-related trading, businesses, or working at a startup in that sector. Many companies and investment firms have already begun the rotation out of Crypto. Don't let your apathy make you unproductive; it's your personal responsibility to continue learning about the world. If you feel the call of the wild, then go. For the ones brave enough to stick around, not only will the risk-reward be as asymmetric as it's been in recent history, the concentration of upside in a handful of assets will make it EASIER to generate massive returns. There is less capital looking at Crypto exposure than ever before. This all changes with a rapid repricing in Bitcoin this year, which I believe is inevitable. For a long time in Crypto, nothing felt buyable due to an excess of capital being forced to deploy in a sector with limited opportunity. We're in a new regime now. We're reaching a similar level of apathy that I felt during 2019 and 2022. I almost quit Crypto to go back to TradFi. It's no surprise those were the years where I generated the bulk of my returns (sans Hyperliquid). Outside of trading, if you're passionate about the space, companies that are still building during this period will be positioned to take advantage of the inevitable reacceleration of this industry. Working at top-tier companies in the space is more accessible than ever due to a shortage of people entering the field. Don't undervalue your time.

50% reduced rent, ~4x increased txn size, 2x more cpi calls, 66% larger blocks and 150ms finality (alpenglow). All this while still having decentralization, censorship resistance, and a burgeoning privacy ecosystem. Solana in agave 4.1 is leagues ahead of any competition.