Alexander Lovekraft

Crypto growth manager 🌱 | market takes & onchain trends | threads on what's moving, why it's growing & where it's all heading

[Alexander Lovekraft @AlexLovekraft]

@allpaypayz Stables are the future of money

[allpaypayz @allpaypayz]

AI Payments Are Getting Their Own Open Standard

The @linuxfoundation has officially launched the x402 Foundation, bringing Coinbase’s internet-native payment protocol under open governance.

@Visa, @Mastercard, @stripe, @AmericanExpress, @Adyen, @Fiserv, @Shopify, @Google, @awscloud and @Cloudflare are among the companies supporting the initiative. The protocol allows AI agents, APIs and applications to initiate payments directly through web interactions using cards or stablecoins.

This is a significant step toward machine-to-machine commerce becoming a real payment category rather than an experimental concept.

But enabling autonomous payments is only the first layer. Providers will also need to solve authorization, compliance, transaction monitoring, dispute management and infrastructure resilience.

The payment stack is becoming more programmable, but also more complex. For merchants, access to multiple reliable providers and rails will become even more important as AI-driven commerce grows.

[Alexander Lovekraft @AlexLovekraft]

@monokern @allpaypayz @pymnts Yes, especially considering how fragmented, slow, and opaque the PSP market still is

[Alexander Lovekraft @AlexLovekraft]

@bronwallet Thanks for reminder

[Alexander Lovekraft @AlexLovekraft]

@durov Thank you for fighting back for us💪🏼

[Alexander Lovekraft @AlexLovekraft]

@saintniko What projects are moving in the right direction in terms of marketing, in your opinion @saintniko?

[Alexander Lovekraft @AlexLovekraft]

@GREEND0TS That’s part of the reason why crypto marketing sucks.

[Alexander Lovekraft @AlexLovekraft]

@0xJonnyDee Yeah, I know it from firsthand experience.

[Alexander Lovekraft @AlexLovekraft]

So true

[Jonny Dee @0xJonnyDee]

Founders: Why is marketing so poor in crypto?

Also Founders: Hires one person to:

Write articles
Manage the community
Promote project Partnerships
Design and edit videos/images
Run all social media channels
Organise events
Handle email marketing
Develop the overall marketing strategy
GTM strategy of a TGE.
Create memes to go viral every time
Vibe code new systems to take their job in the future.

Did I miss any?

[Alexander Lovekraft @AlexLovekraft]

@bronwallet That's cool!

[Alexander Lovekraft @AlexLovekraft]

Prediction markets are an ideal product–technology fit for the blockchain space.

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🔥 LATEST: Polymarket Open Interest is nearing the highs of the elections in 2024.

[Alexander Lovekraft @AlexLovekraft]

Here are my top 5:

1. Don’t be too greedy and take profits.
2. Monitor your positions daily if you hold altcoins so you don’t miss a big green candle.
3. Use different wallets for different purposes: one for daily use and another for long-term holdings.
4. Don’t ignore yield opportunities while holding.
5. Don’t let the market influence your mood.

[Alexander Lovekraft @AlexLovekraft]

@Abellcymeg The world is a crazy place thanks to politicians

[Alexander Lovekraft @AlexLovekraft]

@HumansNoContext But tbh is just a legacy of centralised economy, where some sectors and places for artificilly overcapitalized such as subways, while other sectors were undercapitlized.

But eventually centralised contorl over economy just leads to the overall decrease in economic output.

[Alexander Lovekraft @AlexLovekraft]

@HumansNoContext NYC is more fun

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@Defi_Warhol Having formal tax legislation is not the same as actually paying those taxes. In some high-tax countries, you can easily withdraw your crypto without paying any taxes.

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@iluminatibot Legend

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@bronwallet iPhone

[Alexander Lovekraft @AlexLovekraft]

@bronwallet Waiting for quantum technology to appear to unlock the device

[Alexander Lovekraft @AlexLovekraft]

@bronwallet A fiat on/off ramp would be very cool to have