ChainStar

Blockchain tech provider
Offering digital asset exchange, liquidity solutions,
and Dapps & wallet services.

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[ChainStar @ChainstarCloud]

The guy who made a billion bucks... just by replying to a tweet.

Meet Ryan Graves.

• He hit up Travis Kalanick on Twitter back in 2010
• Became Uber’s first-ever employee
• Scored 5% equity—that’s now worth $1.4 billion

Crazy, right? Here’s how one tweet changed his life forever:

[=ryan graves= @ryangraves]

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[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

⚡️ TODAY: Chainlink launches Data Streams for US equities and ETFs, delivering real-time pricing for tokenized RWA across 37 blockchains.

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🔥 LATEST: El Salvador continues to buy BTC daily, now holding 6,250 BTC worth $739M.

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🚨 BREAKING: Standard Chartered becomes first global bank to offer institutional trading for $BTC and $ETH.

[ChainStar @ChainstarCloud]

⚡️ LATEST: Ethereum Community Foundation launched to push $ETH to $10K by funding ecosystem growth and burns.

[ChainStar @ChainstarCloud]

🚨 JUST IN: DeFi Development Corp. to raise $100M via convertible notes to buy more $SOL and repurchase stock.

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Great to see progress on powering regulated use cases with USDC on Coinbase. This is the first time we’ll see USDC used as collateral in US futures markets - and we will work closely with the CFTC to make this happen.

https://t.co/KpBVBCoaLa

[ChainStar @ChainstarCloud]

JUST IN: Coinbase CEO shows off their new credit card that gives up to 4% bitcoin back on every purchase 👀

[Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine]

$106,000 #Bitcoin 🌕

[ChainStar @ChainstarCloud]

🚨 JUST IN: MetaMask adds support for the Solana network.

[Solana @solana]

The fox has arrived 🦊

Millions more users, now just one click away from Solana. Welcome, MetaMask!

[Sui @SuiNetwork]

Doubling down on Sui security. A thread 🧵

The root cause of the Cetus incident was a bug in a Cetus math library, not a vulnerability in Sui or Move. But the impact on users is the same. We need to take a holistic perspective and step up our game on supporting ecosystem security.

[ChainStar @ChainstarCloud]

Microsoft’s integration of Space and Time into its Fabric platform provides developers with real-time, verifiable blockchain data from #Bitcoin, #Ethereum, and #Sui networks.

[Space and Time @spaceandtime]

📣 Just announced at #MSBuild: Space and Time indexed blockchain data will be integrated with @Microsoft Fabric.

As part of the integration, Microsoft developers will be able to access Space and Time indexed data from Bitcoin, @SuiNetwork, and @ethereum through Fabric.

[ChainStar @ChainstarCloud]

🔥 BULLISH: Dubai to accept crypto payments for government services via Crypto.​com, advancing its goal of becoming 90% cashless by 2026.

[ChainStar @ChainstarCloud]

#Bitcoin is now above $105K 🚀

[ChainStar @ChainstarCloud]

$Sui is integrating Stacks and sBTC into its ecosystem.

[Sui @SuiNetwork]

sBTC is coming soon on Sui!

Holders of the 1:1 programmable Bitcoin asset can earn yield, lend, and trade their BTC via sBTC, bridging two worlds into one. 🟧

With @Stacks' sBTC, the Sui ecosystem has even more ways to tap into the $2T in BTC liquidity for DeFi — fast, scalable, and no centralized intermediaries.

[ChainStar @ChainstarCloud]

💳Mastercard Unveils End-to-End Stablecoin Capabilities, Will Launch Card With @okx

[OKX @okx]

Excited to share that we have partnered with @Mastercard to launch the OKX Card, making stablecoin spending easier for millions. 💳

Together, we're bringing digital assets into daily life!

Read more from @CoinDesk 👇

[ChainStar @ChainstarCloud]

⛓️OKX to Launch OKX Pay Wallet and Financial Card: A Long Journey Toward Compliance from Wallets and DEX Aggregators to Payments

[Star_OKX @star_okx]

We will launch OKX Pay Wallet next week. It’s a road to billion users crypto adoption! Looking forward to try it! @okx @wallet

[ChainStar @ChainstarCloud]

💡 Chainstar offers multi-layered cybersecurity protection to help users safeguard their assets from hackers. Whether you're an individual user or an enterprise, our technology solutions can enhance your on-chain security.

👉 Learn how to protect your assets now: https://t.co/QTNzKHjfHB

[ChainStar @ChainstarCloud]

🚨 ALERT: XRP Ledger Foundation discovers a security breach in the JavaScript library used to interact with the XRP Ledger that could steal crypto private keys.

[ChainStar @ChainstarCloud]

Final Thought:

He didn’t wait for permission.
He didn’t overthink the perfect moment.
He just showed up—with confidence.
And that made all the difference.

[ChainStar @ChainstarCloud]

He remained on Uber’s board until 2019—when the company went public at a ~$75B valuation.
Graves sold over $41 million in stock during the IPO window.

[ChainStar @ChainstarCloud]

Then he launched Saltwater Capital—his personal investment firm.

Now, he backs early-stage founders solving real-world problems.
Companies like: • Metromile
• Pachama
• GPX
• And more.