1/ RWAs are the logical conclusion of stablecoins.
I've written a new piece that:
- Proposes a taxonomy for the different types of RWAs
- Discusses the adoption sequence of RWAs
- Outlines the issues that are preventing the continued adoption of RWAs
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https://t.co/mRPUjNaqbR
I don’t think Bitcoin is selling off because of MSTR
I think it’s being tapped to fund the market’s upcoming hot ball of money trades: SpaceX, Anthropic, whatever else everyone suddenly “has to own”
This means in the future, the correlation breakdown will itself become the fuel
This week we created a skill that lets you translate Ethereum contracts to Solana programs and actually make use of Solana architecture
So I built a tool to use that skill in your browser (and learn ETH -> SOL concepts along the way)
Check it out below! 👇
@nick_havryliak Spot on, Nick — 100% agree! Shouldn’t be US/EU or China, just do both
Bro, loving the energy but that epic night shot is actually Guangzhou (hello Canton Tower!). Shenzhen’s jealous. Still an absolute banger of a photo though! Keep killing it
Most people have never managed anyone. Those who have, most have never managed anyone smarter than themselves.
This is about to change for everyone. You will be surrounded by agents that are smarter than you, working for you 24/7. In a world of cognitive abundance, your understanding becomes the bottleneck.
You can genuinely delegate a lot of cognitive work now. This is not sci-fi. It's already permanently changed the texture of knowledge work.
But the less you understand what your agents are doing and how they're doing it, the less you will be able to get out of them. This is why it's still important to understand things like software, coding, economics, math, statistics, game theory. Not because you need to DO them (you don't), but you need to understand what's easy and what's impossible.
Try to be as smart as your agents. You will inevitably fail, but you don't need to get all the way there. You just need to become smart enough to manage things smarter than you.
Follow-up on non-English token-inefficiency with more model-language pairs:
- Chinese is cheaper than English on major Chinese models
- Gemini and Qwen provide least non-English tax
- Anthropic has the highest tax by far; Kimi is next
- Hindi is the worst-covered language here, despite its massive speaker base
Circle Ventures is purchasing $AAVE tokens because strong DeFi infrastructure does not build itself. Aave is helping to shape the future of onchain finance, and we’re backing that ecosystem and the entire community built around it.
DeFi United
We use our treasury to support the growth of the Solana economy. That is, definitionally, DeFi.
But economies don’t exist in isolation. For Solana to be healthy, all of defi has to be healthy.
We like competition. We compete hard. But if we zoom out, we’re all pushing toward open finance and open systems.
We’ve deployed our treasury into Solana DeFi for many years. We supported Tether’s recovery plan for Drift.
In moments like these, it’s important to show up for the broader ecosystem too.
That’s why we are lending USDT into @aave for the first time to support their recovery efforts, and we will also be bringing $AAVE to Solana this weekend.
DeFi United
A proposal for Lido DAO to contribute to @aave’s coordinated rsETH relief effort has landed on the Research Forum following this week’s Kelp's rsETH LayerZero bridge exploit.
The proposal authorizes a one-time, capped contribution of up to 2,500 stETH to a dedicated relief vehicle, solely as part of a fully funded recovery package. The proposal is designed to reduce broader ecosystem spillover and support an orderly resolution for affected users.
DeFi United. Read more below:
https://t.co/6RsmdW2R6t