$EGLD was nearly $500 in 2021.
Today it's trading near cycle lows.
The price has changed.
The technology hasn't.
If market sentiment turns bullish again, don't be surprised if @MultiversX finds its way back onto everyone's watchlist. 👀
BREAKING:
The EU just banned cash payments over €10,000.
And will require ID for all Bitcoin transactions starting 2027.
The same EU that's losing the stablecoin war to America.
The same EU whose German Chancellor called it a "world champion of over-regulation."
Is now tracking every Bitcoin transaction above a certain threshold.
Cash banned above €10,000.
Bitcoin requires ID.
Gold can still be bought anonymously.
The EU isn't fighting financial crime.
It's fighting financial freedom.
While America proposes zero capital gains on Bitcoin.
While UAE builds crypto banks with zero restrictions.
Europe is building a financial surveillance state.
And calling it consumer protection.
2027 is closer than it sounds.
Something hits different about being in the Valley as a builder, not a tourist.
You walk past companies burning $10M/month on infrastructure that doesn't scale. Then you remember your team shipped adaptive state sharding from Eastern Europe with a fraction of that.
We didn't have the ecosystem. We didn't have the hype cycles. What we had was a bet: solve the hardest problem first, and everything else follows.
7 years later: 434M transactions. Zero downtime. A full agentic commerce stack. Instant finality settlement protocol and regulated stablecoins in the pipeline.
Built from Europe. Competing globally.
Still doubting it? Read this again.
CEE nations Poland 🇵🇱, Romania 🇷🇴, and Bulgaria 🇧🇬 are top 5 globally in Informatics Olympiad total medals won.
Expect more AI superpower companies like @elevenlabs or @OpenAI coming out of the region in the coming years.
Incidentally CEE is where I invest via @smokvc 💪🏻
I just personally purchased $1 million of Tesla stock.
Here are the four reasons why:
1. Never bet against @elonmusk - he is the greatest entrepreneur of our generation.
2. Self-driving will be the standard - $TSLA has the data advantage and the best technology.
3. Robotics & AI is massive TAM - humanoid robots is likely the biggest market a company could go after and Tesla will be a leader here.
4. Option value on Elon Inc - there is an increasing chance of Elon merging SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla.
So much of investing comes down to finding the best people and just giving them money.
250ms full finality. Fully decentralized. Soon live.
Most people don't think this is possible. That's only because they don't understand the mechanisms in place.
MultiversX just made it real.
The last upgrade introduced two key elements:
First, single-slot finality.
Once 2/3+1 of the consensus group vote, a block is final and irreversible. This now happens without a confirmation block for intra-shard txs.
Second, Equivalent Consensus Proofs (ECP).
Now anyone can finalize a block after seeing enough votes. NOT just the selected leader.
This avoids extra latency via round trip time, shaving off 100-200ms or more.
Internal tests show average finality time of ~88ms. Add global latency of ~140ms plus a small buffer, and you're at 250ms for full finality.
Why does this matter?
Because finality speed is the difference between Web3 apps that feel sluggish and Web3 apps that can actually compete with Web2.
Real-time payments. High-frequency DeFi. Gaming. Enterprise adoption.
All of that requires speed without sacrificing decentralization or security.
No other blockchain I'm aware of can top that.
If you know one, I'm listening.
Is it possible to scale to millions of TPS with 80ms finality on a decentralized network?
Most people would say no.
The physics don't work. The latency alone makes it impossible.
Yesterday's Supernova demo proved them wrong.
And here's the part nobody's talking about yet. ⬇️
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MultiversX's Supernova upgrade just had its first live demo yesterday and hit numbers that even surprised the team.
With a goal of taking block time from 6s down to 600ms with instant finality, they showed that 600ms is just the starting point.
Reaching 400ms and even 200ms is very possible.
But wait, I thought you said 80ms?
Let me break down what this means.
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With the full release of Supernova dropping in the next couple months, MultiversX's block time will be lowered to 600ms.
Currently 6 seconds.
Soon 600 milliseconds.
That means a new block with transactions will be formed and finalized every 600ms.
Those transactions are truly final too. Since the last update, Andromeda, MultiversX released single slot finality.
No more waiting for confirmations like is required for most blockchains.
Confirmations? Huh?
Ok let's take a step back.
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When you submit a transaction, it is seen and confirmed by a group of validators.
In order for a chain to fully verify and confirm a tx is legit, it often takes multiple rounds or blocks.
Here's how MultiversX compares to many major L1:
📊 Ethereum
Block time: ~12s
Finality: 13 minutes (64 confirmations)
⚡ Solana
Block time: ~400ms
Finality: ~13 seconds (32 confirmations)
🔷 Cardano
Block time: ~20s
Finality: 1-2 minutes
🔴 Polkadot
Block time: ~6s
Finality: ~30 seconds
🟢 Algorand (one of the few with instant finality)
Block time: ~2.8s
Finality: Instant, no confirmations
⭕ Tron
Block time: ~3s
Finality: ~1 minute (19-20 confirmations)
⚫ MultiversX (with Supernova)
Block time: 600ms → 200ms possible
Finality: Instant, same shard
Cross-shard: ~1.5s average
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See the problem?
Everyone else is measuring finality in seconds or minutes.
MultiversX is measuring in milliseconds.
And they're not even pushing the limits yet.
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But that's not even the really impressive part.
Currently we are witnessing over 500ms of idle time on each block. But what does that mean?
When a round begins, a leader is selected with VRF (provable randomness), leader bundles the txs, 2/3rd +1 of validators sign, and the block is now irreversible, aka final.
This is taking on average 82ms right now:
⏱️ 1-5ms → Leader Selection
⏱️ 10-40ms → Voting
⏱️ 10-40ms → Signature aggregation
Total: ~82ms to FULL finality
That leaves 500ms+ of idle time.
Translation? The network can go even faster.
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Let's touch on a few things here.
First, the signature aggregation and broadcast is where some magic happens. Any honest node can aggregate signatures, verify >2/3 voting, and submit.
The Andromeda release introduced ECP which allows any validator to finalize the block, NOT just the selected leader. This removes single leader failure which is far bigger than most realize.
Read more here: https://t.co/mvedSauUtk
Second, with Supernova, execution now happens in parallel across nodes POST-FINALITY.
This is where typical network latency comes into play which currently is around 120ms for global distribution.
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So what's the big takeaway here?
The team set a goal of reducing block time from 6 seconds to 600ms and far outperformed even their own expectations.
MultiversX will soon see block times of 400ms or even as low as 200ms.
That is on top of instant finality so we are talking fully final intra-shard txs of possibly 200ms and cross-shard of ~500ms.
All on top of the first fully sharded chain that is capable of scaling to millions of TPS on minimal hardware, not server-grade machines.
A Samsung smartphone is currently validating blocks on the network to give you an idea of what's possible.
No other network can come close to touching that that I am aware of.
This is what is needed for a truly decentralized and scalable global network.
This is MultiversX.
🧩 $EGLD | THE FORGOTTEN GIANT
While the crowd chases noise, this chart quietly sets up for one of the cleanest macro reversals of the next crypto cycle.
Let’s break it down👇
You may not realize it now, but:
We are witnessing a once in a lifetime run in markets, driven by the intersection of one of the biggest technological revolutions in history, deregulation, and trillions of dollars of investment.
What a wild ride.
The summary.
- $100b of leveraged Longs on crypto on centralized crypto casinos
- Generic ETF rules announced so most digital assets can be wrapped as regulated ETFs.
- First ETFs approving next week.
- Casinos have to clear those longs or they get wrecked.
- Trump posts a perfect narritive they can use.
- Casinos rug the longs via well established and unregulated mechanisms.
Simple.
Issues:
- No regulations to prevent them from doing this.
- No accountability for them doing this.
- No blockchain was effected, crypto operated perfectly, but will bare the bad reputational damage again.
- Institutions once again get the discounts, retail loses.
- SEC was supposed to protect retail.