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@marek_ @Celo @usat @ethereum @Featherlend launching morpho vaults

Some exciting recent @Celo community highlights: 🦸 @USAT announces that it is coming to Celo, the first chain after @Ethereum 🚅 Celo Core Co releases CELOccelerate: Celo Tokenomics Proposal that moves sequencer revenue to Celo holders, does a retroactive burn, increases the minimum base fee, and more 🟨 Celo celebrates its 1st anniversary as an Ethereum L2 🥳 with special appearances by @VitalikButerin, @SreeramKannan, @JillGun @JorgenArnesen, @Web3_data, @LehmannLorenz, @BoqDan_, @Lsquaredleland, and @Ben_Chain 🪪 @selfxyz and @GoogleCloud announce a USA₮ distribution from Google Cloud to anyone verifying their humanity with Self 🍴 @cLabs shepherds the Jovian Hardfork, the first Celo hardfork of the year 🤖 @Virtuals_io joins Celo to power agentic commerce on Celo with the Agent Visa Program bringing liquidity, DeFi incentives & real users to bots building on Celo t_ @TokenTerminal reports ~90% of the 100k XAUt0 holders are on Celo via @SquidRouter ₮ @Tether on Celo reaches 5M+ weekly USD₮ Users and 7.2M+ USD₮ tx 📲 @MiniPay posts another Real Stories, Real People, Real Payments video, explaining how app benefits 🥧 @growthepie_eth releases research report on Celo’s first year as an Ethereum L2 🟧 @FP_Block and @selfxyz team up for their event at @EthCC with conversations about production-ready systems 🧶 @TextileProtocol and @Empowa_io team up to fund an alternative housing finance product built around income flexibility, designed for informal markets in Africa 🚢 @CeloDevs announce Proof of Ship monthly builder program is back on April 1 📱 @Valora announces plans to integrate @selfxyz's phone number mapping and sybil resistance standard 🗳️ Celo Governance Proposal 285: Celo’s Next Chapter: Opera Proposal to Transition from Distribution Partner to Network Stakeholder passes ☕ @EspressoSys and Celo kick off @EthCC with a coffee meetup ♻️ @CeloPublicGoods announces the Real World Agent Hackathon V2 winners with 6K awarded in USDT 👷 @CeloDevs releases video on Building AI Apps on Celo 🪪 @selfxyz partners with @EFDevcon to enable India Early Bird tickets for $99 to all residents of India 🇮🇳 What did I miss?

I remember trying to force myself to use C++ to do the same things I could do 100x faster in Python. I just couldn't do it. Not because it was hard, because there was no point for that particular problem. There are obviously still many important and useful usecases for C++ today, but the needs have changed over time. Abstraction is a good and natural thing. It's a core human capability that has given us our entire civilization and allows us to progress technologically. When assembly hit, the machine coders disliked it. When C++ came around, the C/Assembly people disliked it. C++ people still often dislike Python. It's definitely okay to be sad about change, and Mo's take here seems super human and genuine, recognizing mostly that times are changing, but the argument is false. Mo is not useless. Mo just needs harder problems to solve.

There have always been casinos in crypto. The first viral application on Bitcoin was Satoshi Dice (2012). The first viral smart contract on Ethereum was King of the Ether Throne (2015), which was basically a hot potato ponzi scheme. Once you have programmable money, the first thing people will do is gamble and play stupid games. It's human nature. There's always been a hot casino in crypto. Always. The ICO casino, the DeFi food coin casinos, the NFT casinos, and now the memecoin casino. It evolves over time, but gambling is deeply ingrained in human nature. Literally as soon as humanity invented writing (ancient Sumeria in 3000 BC), there's records of people gambling. The casino is shiny and gets a lot of attention on social media (it's where fortunes are quickly won and lost, and it's easy to convince yourself that this is your lucky break), but if you only pay attention to the shimmer of the casinos, you're missing the bigger story. The story I originally got into this industry for, that sounded like sci-fi to me ten years ago—that crypto is a better substrate for finance, that it will forever alter the nature of money, and that the balance of power between individuals and governments will be permanently changed—that story is actually happening. Bitcoin is challenging nation states. They are now buying it on their own balance sheets. Stablecoins are bending monetary policy. Central banks are scrambling to respond. Permissionless smart contracts like Uniswap and AAVE are now bigger and more valuable than unicorn fintechs. The world is warping around crypto. Maybe it took longer than you thought, but transformative technologies almost always take longer to diffuse than you think. I thought generative AI would completely transform the job market within a couple years, but three years after ChatGPT, it still doesn't show up in GDP or employment stats. It's hard to change the world. Takes work. The industrial revolution began with the commercialization of the steam engine in 1781, but even the industrial revolution didn't have any impact on productivity, employment, or wage growth until 1830—that's 50 years later. The Internet, as we all know, took 20+ years. Did you think we'd be displacing all of finance, the most regulated and governmentally sensitive industry in the world, in the span of just 5 years? If you're despondent that you were working on a memecoin L2 or whatever and didn't get rich, take a deep fucking breath. This industry doesn't owe you that. And yet, all this spiritual capitulation on the timeline, believe it or not, is healthy. A forest only stays robust when it periodically sheds the deadwood. Without occasional fires to clear it out, decay spreads and the whole forest rots. It's a harsh reality, but the only way to keep growing is to clear out whatever's no longer contributing. All this negativity on the timeline needs to flush out one way or another. Let people keep shuffling out, and the air will clear. Either these people must change their minds and refocus on the future, or they need to leave so the rest of us can do our jobs. Because the job is not yet done.

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What chain is Feather going to first? Hint: If you check the Top 100... they're in there.

Feather is joining the Morpho Ecosystem. Morpho as immutable, neutral onchain loan infra is ideal for creating customizable earn/borrow products. Like @Shopify made it easy to spin up e-commerce, Morpho makes it easy to spin up financial solutions.

Out of stealth. Into a new chapter. Follow @Featherlend. The gateway to the Internet of Lending, powered by Morpho. Massive partners to come. $SHD and SILK w/ opportunity to be part of the journey. Devs cooked ➪🪶 Existing products will remain and be maintained on Secret.

The day has finally come to reveal what we've been up to for months! It's a new beginning, and I could not be more excited!!

@Featherlend @MorphoLabs It's a new beginning. So excited for this!

Revealing Feather🪶 Feather is a gateway to the internet of lending, powered by Morpho ( @MorphoLabs ) We provide⤵️ ☑️Simple yield ☑️Easy borrowing ☑️Accessibility for all Our mission? Connect millions of people to the internet of lending.

It’s the calm before the storm

@TaraBull808 Rollercoaster tycoon Honorable mention: Stronghold

People who used a computer between 1990 - 2010, what’s the most memorable computer game?

@l_woetzel @Lolcha11 The end is the beginning

@Lolcha11 ⚫️⚫️⚫️ The end is the beginning, we're coming

😎😎😎 $SHD

@Shade_Protocol Let’s go!

Big things coming in August. First hint revealed 👁️

Buckle up!

@0xMagmar Let’s go!!!

This is a post to all the Cosmos builders. First off, you are complete badasses for believing in the Cosmos vision. You have true grit to still be here. Cosmos has been the most ambitious and challenging experiment in crypto. We are building the only credible Internet of Blockchains. We are actually decentralized. We have the widest-used blockchain stack in the industry, and building your own blockchain is extremely hard. Given where the market is, and the reality of available liquidity, a lot of teams in Cosmos (like everywhere) are second guessing themselves. VCs are not deploying much, anywhere. There is a flight to quality, and to assets with fundamentals. A lot of teams are thinking of how to approach, and whether to bet on, the new era of Cosmos. I want to personally say, we are changing everything about the ecosystem behind the scenes. In our new position, we are radically changing how we fund, support, and incubate teams. We are bringing in external investment, and supporting teams in-house. We are ravenous, and we are deeply committed. And we will fight for you, and with you, if you join us. We cannot lift all boats. There are so many teams we will not be able to support, that probably deserve it. But we are committed to making the best teams in Cosmos shine and become massively successful. Our strategy has been to focus on the success of the Cosmos Hub as the benchmark for the ecosystem. We want to build it into an incredible platform that onboards new users, provides magical services to app chains, and become the best place for new products to grow up. This will give users and investors a clear entry point, and give us the ability to grow more chains in the ecosystem. Everything we do, we do to grow the Internet of Blockchains. If you are in Cosmos, this is the time to take off the gloves. This is the time to fight for your product & community, and to make a fuck ton of noise. This is the time to get down to fundamentals, accelerate what's working, and cut everything - and anyone - else. A simple product that does one thing 100% well is infinitely more valuable than doing 10 things at 80%. Focus on simplifying your onboarding experience, your branding, your best feature. And if you are a founder, be a goddamn founder - do not blame your ecosystem. Missing liquidity? Go market and take it from Ethereum. Missing users? Take a flight, close Twitter, and market your product door-to-door. There is an entire world to be onboarded to the decentralized internet, and we need to work with real people to build something they want to use. No one is stopping you from growing - try different things, be bold. Crypto is called the Wild West for a reason. If you want new energy, this is the time to leverage ATOM and its community - one of the largest and oldest communities in crypto - to supercharge your application and adoption. Speaking for the ATOM community, we are incredibly excited to use and try new things. We will be your ally, and you will not have to build this alone. Cosmos has been fragmented for a long time, but as we come together - and if we rally around the Hub - we are unstoppable. Liquidity, users, and attention is attracted to unity, and this is our chance to stop infighting, bite our lip, and align. We've already learned the lessons that Ethereum, Solana, and everyone else are just learning now with their fracturing ecosystems. If we can do this, we can level up and execute a turnaround people will remember for decades. In the coming months, we will launch the first-ever permissionless VM and ecosystem on the Cosmos Hub. We will bring liquidity, and incentives. It will be deeply integrated with ATOM. We will incubate and launch incredible new applications that use Eureka to natively distribute to users and capital on every ecosystem. And we will support any application built on the Hub to then become their own L1 application. It's time to build a new Cosmos. We will use the Hub to unleash the builders, and we would love you to be one. Mag