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For millions of contractors, a paycheck travels through exchanges they didn't choose, at rates they didn't set. Every stop costs something.

That ends today.

Introducing the Deel stablecoin wallet — hold earnings in DLUSD, be eligible to earn rewards, spend anywhere. All inside the Deel mobile app.

Get paid. Hold. Earn. Spend.

Launching today in Latin America, starting with early access in Argentina — APAC, MENA, and Africa to follow.

Thanks @Stablecoin, @privy_io, @tempo, @Morpho and @SentoraHQ for making this possible!

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The sweepstake, done properly. ⚽

Deel Kick Off is a free global prediction competition for everyone on Deel. $150,000 prize pool.

Wherever you work, whoever you support - you're in.

👉 https://t.co/rKELtZH85A

T&Cs apply. 18+. Participation may be restricted in certain jurisdictions.

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Get early access: https://t.co/U7sunZ0gyA

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Here's how @Akai_by_deel works:

Walk through a workflow once, and it builds every agent, connects them, and deploys. Each one triggers the next, and your team stays in control throughout.

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People who procrastinate are 16% more creative than people who start right away.

That's from a study by Jihae Shin and Adam Grant, published in the Academy of Management Journal. Participants were asked to generate new business ideas. Some started right away. Others were given five minutes to play Minesweeper first. Independent evaluators rated the procrastinators' ideas as more creative - as long as the task was already in their head before they delayed.

We're taught to start fast, move first, and avoid failure. But research on the most original thinkers shows the opposite:

1. Da Vinci spent 16 years of his life on the Mona Lisa.

He kept getting sidetracked — studying optics, dissecting human anatomy, experimenting with how light hits curved surfaces. Those detours changed how he painted light, how he blended shadow, how he built depth without a single visible brushstroke. The delay made the Mona Lisa what it is today.

Martin Luther King rewrote his biggest speech past 3am the night before the March on Washington. Still scribbling notes as he waited to go onstage. Eleven minutes into the speech, he abandoned his script entirely. "I have a dream", the four words that defined the civil rights movement, were improvised on the spot.

2. The failure rate is 47% for first movers vs 8% for improvisers.

Facebook came after Myspace. Google came after Yahoo. Warby Parker launched after other companies were already selling glasses online. They were slow because they were solving the right problem.

3. Firefox and Chrome users stay 15% longer at their jobs.

They also outperform IE and Safari users. It's not the browser. IE and Safari come preinstalled. Those users accepted the default. Chrome and Firefox users questioned it and went looking for something better. That instinct carries over into everything.

4. Warby Parker tested 2,000 names before finding the right one.

Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart produced hundreds of compositions to get a handful of masterpieces. Elon Musk was sure the first SpaceX launches would fail. He didn't expect Tesla to succeed. But not trying felt worse than failing.

The pattern: originals procrastinate, doubt their ideas, and fail constantly. They just refuse to let any of that be the reason they stop.

Insights from Adam Grant's TED Talk on the surprising habits of original thinkers.

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Creating is becoming easier. Getting people's attention is getting harder.

A breakdown of the data:

1. Books.

Weekly e-book releases on Amazon have more than doubled since ChatGPT launched - hitting 292K. The barrier to publishing a book is now 0. The barrier to getting someone to read it has never been higher.

2. Lawsuits.

17% of federal filings are now from people representing themselves. AI didn't just make content creation easier. It made professional services feel optional. People are walking into courtrooms armed with an LLM instead of a lawyer.

3. Music.

Deezer went from 10% AI-generated uploads to 44% in a year. Spotify purged 75 million AI tracks - that's half their entire catalog. But almost nobody's listening to any of it. AI music makes up less than 3% of actual streams. The supply exploded. The demand barely moved.

4. Science.

ArXiv submissions hit 77,621 in a single quarter. More papers don't mean more breakthroughs. It means more noise for actual breakthroughs to cut through.

The pattern is the same everywhere: supply is exploding, attention is fixed.

The number of readers, listeners, and reviewers have remained the same, but now we have more stuff competing for the same eyeballs.

The new scarce resource isn't the ability to create. It's the ability to cut through the noise.

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Full story on the blog ⤵️ https://t.co/Yt4008qJcH

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Money shouldn't lose value on its way to the person who earned it. Stablecoins fix that — and we've seen it firsthand: 10,000 contractors across 100+ countries already choose stablecoin payouts on Deel.

Now we've extended that to employees. Your team can now receive part of their net salary in dollar or euro-backed stablecoins.

Same payday, zero fees, no changes to how you run payroll.

Watch our COO, @DanWestgarth, walk through what this means for your team:

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The Class of 2026 mentions AI on their resumes 9x more than 2022 grads.

Two-thirds of those mentions aren't from Computer Science students.

They're the most AI-fluent workforce cohort ever, and they're being underestimated.

Our chief economist, @lcthomas1212, gathered a small group of labor economists from @Glassdoor, @GuildEducation, and @joinHandshake to unpack it over dinner.

Check out the full discussion on Deel Works here: https://t.co/uXESTLEFx9

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100% of Deel's ops teams run on @Akai_by_deel.

We didn't beta test Akai on customers, we ran it on ourselves first.

Now it’s your team’s turn.

See it in action at our webinar May 28 → https://t.co/x9FvDV3uNH

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The best founders don't wait for the world to come to them.

The Pitch by Deel (sponsored by @jpmorgan) started as a competition. What it became was something harder to put into words — a community of builders who refused to let geography be a barrier to funding.

689 registrants. 307 who showed up in person. 13 judges. And 5 startups who walked away with up to $1M investment and a network that'll last far longer.

ZEELY AI Inc., Smart Bricks, nybl, Acceler8, Alpic — these are the global winners. But every founder who stepped on stage this season won something.

This is what happens when you bring the world's best seed-stage talent into the same room.

Thank you to everyone who pitched, judged, attended, and cheered. See you at the next one.

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What does it look like when companies come together for a kickaround at the iconic Emirates Stadium? 🏟️

Something like this…

Motivational team talks, Ray Parlour style. Leadership skills tested beyond the boardroom. And team bonding taken to the next level.

We’re still processing. What a winning night!  🏆

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The uploading. The reformatting. The downloading. The checking. The re-checking.

It's not complex. It's just... tedious.
So we fixed it with Akai.

Record your process once → Akai maps every step, builds the connectors, and deploys agents that run it end-to-end on any system.

And your team stays in control, always.

Get early access to Akai → https://t.co/y2NFehjyuX

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Deel has handled immigration cases for thousands of companies. Now that expertise is inside your workflows. Meet Deel Mobility.

[0:18] — One system of record for immigration
Track visas, documents, and timelines across 75+ countries, all with real-time visibility.

[0:47] — Set up in minutes, not hours
Sync your HRIS or upload your team in bulk — no manual data entry.

[1:11] — AI-powered eligibility, upfront
A few details in, and you get visa recommendations and instant quotes before you commit.

[1:21] — Built-in proactive compliance
Automatic alerts for law changes, renewals, and right-to-work checks — so nothing slips.

[1:27] — Flexible execution
Manage cases yourself, bring in providers, or let Deel handle it end to end.

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The most stressful thing you do at work isn't your workload. It's switching between tasks.

In 2004, the average person could focus on a screen for 2.5 minutes before switching. By 2012, it dropped to 75 seconds. Today, it's just 47 seconds…

Researchers call this "kinetic attention" : our focus just flits from screen to screen, tab to tab, app to app. But we're everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

You've heard a million times that multitasking doesn't work. But what’s worse is it’s physically stressful.

A 2023 meta-analysis across 26 studies found that multitasking activates your sympathetic nervous system, the same fight-or-flight response you'd have to a threat. At the same time, it suppresses your parasympathetic system, the one that keeps you calm.

So every time you switch tasks, your body treats it like a small emergency. Do that a hundred times a day and no wonder you're wiped by 3pm.

The least stressful thing you can do at work is also the most productive: focus on one thing until it's done.

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Your employee in Berlin wants to be paid in stablecoins. Your employee in Austin wants direct deposit. Your payroll platform says pick one. 🪙

Deel doesn't.

10,000 contractors across 100 countries already get paid in stablecoins on Deel and today, we're extending that to full-time employees.

Fiat, stablecoins, or both. Each employee chooses. All within a single compliant platform.

Stablecoin payouts are now live in the Eurozone and US, with the UK and LATAM coming soon.

You choose how to fund payroll. Your employees choose how to get paid.

This is what payroll built around people looks like.

Read more 👉 https://t.co/3DEb3W2HCN