TETHER HAS QUIETLY AMASSED AROUND 140 TONS OF GOLD
Tether has quietly amassed around 140 tons of gold—worth about $24 billion—making it the largest known private holder outside banks and governments. The crypto giant is buying 1–2 tons per week, storing bullion in a former Swiss nuclear bunker, and plans to expand into gold trading.
Its purchases have made it one of the biggest new buyers globally, contributing to gold’s surge to record highs above $5,200 an ounce. Tether is also backing its gold token (XAUT) with physical metal and expects it to reach up to $10 billion in circulation.
The company says it views gold like a central bank reserve asset and sees growing demand as trust in fiat currencies weakens.
Would we sell Remotion? 🤔
We’ve had a few serious acquisition reachouts for Remotion over time.
Excluding the sketchy offers, we had 3 reputable multimedia companies with 9-10 figure valuations reach out over the years.
If we were chasing the multimillion dollar buyout, we’d probably have it by now!
An acquisition wouldn’t mean the end of Remotion either. If it goes well it could thrive even more!
But I always act extremely protective. I have some huge concerns.
How would this affect my long-term motivation?
For the foreseeable future I don’t wanna do anything else, and I don’t wanna start over.
Part of the fun is the technical achievements, part of it is the entrepreneurial side!
Especially for the latter, we didn’t excel so far. We’re humbly profitable, but when we tell people about our achievements and then about our revenue, it’s way less than they would have expected.
In the current situation, getting acquired by and working for another company doesn’t feel like a win, it feels like giving up!
I still want to prove that I cannot just engineer but build a great team and business around it. It’s not too late and we are under no pressure.
Not yet being where I want to be is a big part of what keeps me going in the first place!
So even though I am 30 and still live like a student, it’s a no-brainer to me to reject the buyout :D
The journey is the destination, and I hope it has more to offer! 💕
Integrity has always been one of Hyperliquid's core values.
The house of all finance must be credibly neutral. This means no private investors, no market maker deals, and no protocol fees to any company.
The initial state of any blockchain is a crucial part of its story that can never be erased. The original ethos of Bitcoin was a permissionless network accessible to all. Hyperliquid's genesis distribution followed this spirit, going entirely to early users with core contributors excluded. The full distribution is verifiable onchain without obfuscation.
This principle of fairness frustrates a few users and builders who are used to special treatment. It means that Labs has zero tolerance for team members with integrity yellow flags. It means we do things the hard way as a community. But the world deserves a financial system owned by the people, where fairness to all users is in the DNA. Nothing else is worth building.
At @Polymarket’s current growth rate, running on a dedicated core chain and oracle stack would likely make more sense long term. The dependency on Polygon and UMA is becoming a bottleneck.
We need to talk about the reality of "Crypto payments" in India. It's currently a compliance hellscape—a choice between unlicensed Hawala (sorry, @P2Pdotme!) and a bureaucratic, blocked path.
I break down the PPI Trap, the US/UAE-India Hybrid loophole, and the ultra-complex "Standard" of compliant remittance, which is the only way platforms like @koshmoney can potentially operate legally.
India's crypto brain drain is real. The front door is bricked over.
Hyperliquid’s fully onchain liquidations cannot be compared with underreported CEX liquidations
Hyperliquid is a blockchain where every order, trade, and liquidation happens onchain. Anyone can permissionlessly verify the chain’s execution, including all liquidations and their fair execution for all users. Furthermore, anyone can verify the solvency of the entire system in real time. Transparency and neutrality are key reasons that fully onchain defi is the ideal infrastructure for global finance.
Some CEXs publicly document that they dramatically underreport user liquidations. For example on Binance, even if there are thousands of liquidation orders in the same second, only one is reported. Because liquidations happen in bursts, this could easily be 100x under-reporting under some conditions. Source below.
Hopefully the industry will see transparency and neutrality as important features of the new financial system, and others will follow.