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The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen. Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders - have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope AI estimation). Everyone outside that group feels like they can work their well-paying (but <$500k) job for their whole life and never get there. Worse yet, layoffs are in full swing. Many software engineers feel like their life's skill is no longer useful. The day to day role of most jobs has changed overnight with AI. As a result, 1. The corporate ladder looks like the wrong building to climb. Everyone's trying to align with a new set of career "paths": should I be a founder? Is it too late to join Anthropic / OpenAI? should I get into AI? what company stock will 10x next? People are demanding higher salaries and switching jobs more and more. 2. There’s a deep malaise about work (and its future). Why even work at all for “peanuts”? Will my job even exist in a few years? Many feel helpless. You hear the “permanent underclass” conversation a lot, esp from young people. It's hard to focus on doing good work when you think "man, if I joined Anthropic 2yrs ago, I could retire" 3. The mid to late middle managers feel paralyzed. Many have families and don't feel like they have the energy or network to just "start a company". They don't particularly have any AI skills. They see the writing on the wall: middle management is being hollowed out in many companies. 4. The rich aren’t particularly happy either. No one is shedding tears for them (and rightfully so). But those who have "made it" experience a profound lack of purpose too. Some have gone from <$150k to >$50M in a few years with no ramp. It flips your life plans upside down. For some, comparison is the thief of joy. For some, they escape to NYC to "live life". For others still, they start companies "just cuz", often to win status points. They never imagined that by age 30, they'd be set. I once asked a post-economic founder friend why they didn't just sell the co and they said "and do what? right now, everyone wants to talk to me. if i sell, I will only have money." I understand that many reading this scoff at the champagne problems of the valley. Society is warped in this tech bubble. What is often well-off anywhere else in the world is bang average here. Unlike many other places, tenure, intelligence and hard work can be loosely correlated with outcomes in the Bay. Living through a societally transformative gold rush in that environment can be paralyzing. "Am I in the right place? Should I move? Is there time still left? Am I gonna make it?" It psychologically torments many who have moved here in search of "success". Ironically, a frequent side effect of this torment is to spin up the very products making everyone rich in hopes that you too can vibecode your path to economic enlightenment.

Swatch closing all its UK stores and many French ones on a release day for “public safety”… says a lot about the state of security in those countries lol

Thanks Claude for the Sharpe

The $290M rsETH bridge exploit appears to be the result of a compromised 1-of-1 DVN configuration on @LayerZero_Core The sole validator was @LayerZero_Labs itself, meaning one forged transaction from a single entity was sufficient to drain the entire bridge In other words, a single point of failure (either private key or 3rd party RPC compromise) I flagged this centralization risk years ago, unfortunate that it took an exploit for the issue to get broader attention

🔥 BIG: Chainlink partners with SIX Group, operator of the Swiss and Spanish national exchanges, to bring €2+ trillion in European equities data onchain.

Dogfooding Opus 4.7 the last few weeks, I've been feeling incredibly productive. Sharing a few tips to get more out of 4.7 🧵

If you think crypto is bad UX try banking in the Caribbean (esp grenada) - sending $5’000 from XCD to USD - $50 of transfer fees + a spread you have never heard of - banks loses the transfer - charges $200 to investigate - doesn’t find anything - money gone That’s why we need crypto more than ever

Same for “build your free Bloomberg with cc”

The amount of “how to build a Polymarket trading bot with Claude Code” content is insane 😂 Nothing says edge like thousands of people deploying the exact same bot

Trying to get Claude Code and Claude Cowork to work together for ops workflows. Cowork is better for clean, well-designed docs. Claude Code is better for research and updating markdown across files. But running both creates duplicate folder systems, fragmented context, and Cowork seems to compact memory every 3 prompts. Anyone found a setup that actually works? (Feel like having the same root for both will make smth explode)

And this CRE skill may help you get that up and running quickly 😜 skills.sh/smartcontractk…

And many more templates to help you get started with Chainlink Runtimes Environment here: docs.chain.link/cre-templates

Prediction markets are everywhere right now. Two CRE templates if you want to build one: 1. AI-settled (Gemini): docs.chain.link/cre-templates/… 2. Data Feed-settled (BTC/USD): docs.chain.link/cre-templates/… Both open source, both cover the full flow.

Token Deficit Disorder (TDD) - a debilitating condition triggered by hitting your Claude Code usage limit at 2am mid-refactor

Claude feature drops feel like live sports now

We’re excited to announce that WisdomTree (@WisdomTreeFunds), a global asset manager with $130B+ AUM, has adopted Chainlink to bring institutional-grade NAV data onchain to power subscriptions and redemptions for its CRDT tokenized fund on Ethereum. prnewswire.com/news-releases/… The WisdomTree Private Credit and Alternative Income Digital Fund (CRDT) is a tokenized private credit fund that provides exposure to a diversified portfolio of liquid private credit and alternative income instruments, tracking the Gapstow Liquid Alternative Credit Index (GLACI). By bringing the CRDT fund’s NAV data onchain via the Chainlink data standard, WisdomTree can enable subscriptions and redemptions through its Prime and Connect platforms, while ensuring that the fund maintains institutional-grade transparency, auditability, and interoperability with the broader digital asset ecosystem. With verified NAV data available on Ethereum via Chainlink, DeFi protocols and institutional platforms can also now reference CRDT’s valuation in smart contracts, unlocking new use cases across lending, yield aggregation, and automated portfolio management.

We’re excited to announce the launch of the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE)—the all-in-one orchestration layer powering the next massive leap in the adoption of onchain finance. blog.chain.link/chainlink-runt… CRE is already being adopted by the largest financial institutions and top DeFi protocols to simplify how they build institutional-grade smart contracts that enable the next stage of our industry 🧵⬇️