Laura

Web3 Enthusiast | Learning about Blockchain Tech & Ghostwriting for Web3 Founders⏐ Building the Founder's Voice &

[Laura @DiMoneymindset]

Four years ago, my husband and I started writing online.

No product. No customers. No clue what we were building.

$200 articles for a grant-funded Web3 ecosystem site.

We knew it wasn't a sustainable business model.

We didn't know what we were good at, or what we should be doing instead.

We kept going anyway.

Year two, I cut my corporate software job to 80%.

I used the home-office hours to go all in on what we were building.

In the male-dominated field I worked in, this move was unusual. For a woman in that field, it was more so.

My husband went further. He's a doctor. He cut his practice to 20%.

We were each pulling two jobs. The corporate one. The other one.

A year later, it had a name: The Founder's Voice.

Founder-led communication for Web3 founders.

Year four. Full-time. Clients we chose. Calendars we own. And a one-and-a-half-year-old son.

This @thejustinwelsh line is the one I keep coming back to:

We're making more than the old salaries, on work that's ours.

That was the goal.

(Thanks Justin for naming it cleanly)

[Sooraj @SoorajKSaju]

.@cesto_co is one of the most genuinely original ideas I've seen in crypto

It turns what you believe about the future into a basket of asset you buy in one click and hodl in your wallet

Powered by @ikadotxyz and @solana

Here's the podcast with @jasonrodrigues

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro
02:42 Meet @jasonrodrigues and @cesto_co
05:14 Finance Is Editorializing
13:09 Who Baskets Are For
14:30 How Do You Curate A Basket
17:01 Build a Basket With AI
20:26 Creators Monetize Baskets
24:18 Macro Shifts and Distribution
28:51 Why Blockchains Win
33:45 Shorting and Inverse Baskets
36:05 Under the Hood Self Custody
38:22 @ikadotxyz and Bridgeless Capital Markets
44:16 Privacy and Institutions
48:08 Choosing Chains: @solana vs @SuiNetwork
52:19 Vision Own the Basket Category
55:51 Founder Led Storytelling

[Sooraj @SoorajKSaju]

Any investment thesis can now become a basket of onchain assets, tailored to your conviction, held in your own wallet

That's what @cesto_co enables

Powered by @ikadotxyz

Podcast with @jasonrodrigues dropping soon

[Sooraj @SoorajKSaju]

.@kostascrypto on the cryptographic agile design that puts @SuiNetwork ahead of every other L1 in the post-quantum world

"We're the only one who can be so flexible. If @solana picks one algorithm and Bitcoin picks another, Sui can be compatible with both."

"I'm not afraid to debate @toly. It's good Solana is looking at this. But Bitcoin has a different strategy. Do you really believe Bitcoin will adopt a NIST algorithm without modification? That's not their culture."

"Even @adam3us is proposing SHRINCS, which is his own modification of Sphincs."

"Why is Sui different? Cryptographic agility."

"Ethereum natively allows only ECDSA. Solana only EdDSA. SUI supports both natively, and that's just the start. This is the architecture you need for a multi-algorithm world."

[Sooraj @SoorajKSaju]

.@kostascrypto on why blockchains need to start preparing for quantum safety now:

"All the major blockchains should have a proper cryptography team analyzing how they're going to transition into quantum safety."

"The bigger fear is doing it the wrong way and opening a trapdoor to break the system. "

"We can't just wake up one day and switch to new algorithms because we're afraid of quantum computers. It has to happen gradually, so the transition of addresses doesn't break TPS as people adjust to the slower, larger signatures."

"That's why we have to start now."

[Sooraj @SoorajKSaju]

.@SuiNetwork has a massive headstart and the most flexible architecture for the post-quantum and AI era.

This conversation with @kostascrypto tells you exactly why, and what every other chain still has to figure out.

If you hold anything onchain, watch this pod.

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro
6:00 What a quantum computer actually is (the 10-year-old version)
10:00 Quantum will be used for trading before it ever breaks Bitcoin?
13:00 Post-quantum algorithms (solved) vs hardware (decades out)
17:00 "If you think quantum breaks crypto by 2030, you can make free money"
19:00 Everyone missed this: AI is now researching quantum alongside humans
25:00 The post-quantum-algorithm debate: Falcon, Dilithium, Sphincs and why each chain picks differently 27:00 Why Bitcoin will ONLY adopt hash-based post-quantum algorithms
31:00 This is why Sui's architecture wins: 128KB transactions, native multi-sig, flexible authenticator
36:00 How Sui can natively support any signature scheme
40:00 The Sui-only algorithm: protect existing EdDSA addresses without moving a coin
44:00 Design philosophy: what Sui kept from Libra, and what it threw out
47:00 Why Sui can keep gas low even with post-quantum signatures
49:00 How Kostas first started working on this in 2016 at R3 Corda
51:00 Attending tech conference one day after his son was born: meeting @b1ackd0g , joining Libra
55:00 The bigger near-term threat: AI-aided attacks, not quantum
58:00 Why Mysten Labs is now sharing its security tooling with the community
1:02:00 Sui's $100K post-quantum bounty: break it, keep it

[Sooraj @SoorajKSaju]

Bitcoin's biggest threat right now is quantum.

6.9 million BTC including Satoshi's will be drained in under 9 minutes once a sufficiently powerful quantum computer exists.

and one man saw this coming.

new episode with @kostascrypto coming soon.

the man who shipped the first post-quantum signature scheme for blockchains in 2017.

8 years before Google validated the quantum threat.

[Laura @DiMoneymindset]

This is why founder-led marketing is the only marketing that still works, especially in crypto.

People invest in the vision of the founder.

If the founder isn't visible, on X, on stage, in the conversation, there's nothing to draw conviction from.

There's no vision and no leader to follow.

Founders who hand this whole work to a marketing team are asking the market for conviction they haven't shown up to earn.

That's not how the world works now.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

There's a strange inversion happening with trust.

We used to trust institutions and distrust individuals. Now we trust individuals and distrust institutions.

This is going to get more extreme as AI floods the internet with corporate sounding content and brands that all look the same because they're all trained on the same 200 references.

The more polished and institutional something looks, the less people trust it because it pattern matches to "generated".

The more raw, personal, and imperfect something feels, the more people trust it because it pattern matches to "real".

I'm noticing this. Maybe you are too.

[Sooraj @SoorajKSaju]

This pod is about an app that's best described as an ONLY POSSIBLE ON @SuiNetwork APP

Literally you can't build this onchain on any EVM chain or on @solana

w/ @_smbrian co-founder @codanetwork & @_StudioMirai

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro
6:30 What Brian is actually excited about on Sui
8:30 Bitcoin → Ethereum → Sui: what each brought on-chain
11:00 Music as objects: capturing songs the way Ethereum can't
13:00 "Please store this info off-chain" - the @solana 🔴 red flag
15:00 How Brian is using Walrus and Seal
18:00 Transparency: why on-chain matters for artists
20:00 Streaming apps hoard your fan data
23:00 What Coda actually is
24:30 Sound vs music
28:00 How artists react when you pitch Web3 to them 30:00 The NFT era did real damage
36:00 How payouts for artists work
38:30 Coda's distribution strategy
42:00 What launch day looks like
44:00 One dev + Claude Code = a team of 8
46:30 Why the next hires aren't engineers
47:30 Coda business model
49:30 Advice to builders thinking about quitting
52:30 Wrap

[Adeniyi.sui @EmanAbio]

moving money should be as free and instant as sending a message.

that's what we tried to build at meta. this year, we ship it on @SuiNetwork 🔥

[Sooraj @SoorajKSaju]

If you're in crypto right now, this is the time to do everything you can to stay and build.

The builders who stay through this are going to win.

Listen to @funkii

[Adeniyi.sui @EmanAbio]

On May 3rd 2026, #Sui monthly emissions drop by over 50%. 🔥

We will be celebrating the 3rd yr anniversary of Sui. Lots to share in Miami. See you there.

[Sooraj @SoorajKSaju]

.@funkii put $100K of his own money in, shipped 5 protocols solo, and hit 8 figures in revenue.

with no team, no grants, just conviction.

The full conversation on why he's building on @SuiNetwork 👇

Timestamps:

0:00 — Intro
0:55 — Funkii's background & going all-in on Sui
3:00 — How he discovered Sui
6:30 — Why Move is safer than Solidity
9:00 — Sui developer experience vs other chains
12:00 — Is Sui still early?
14:30 — Mission 69B: the company behind it all
17:00 — What’s Faith
20:00 — Tide: revenue-backed fundraising
25:00 — Why crypto is here to stay
27:30 — AI agents & crypto payments
33:00 — Walrus, Deep Book & the full Sui stack
36:00 — Cannibal: a permissionless Polymarket on Sui
40:30 — Distribution & growth strategy
42:00 — Sui's breakout moment
44:00 — Funkii's favorite Sui project

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Most marriages collapse 2 years after the first baby — because nobody warned them it would feel like climbing Everest in flip-flops with no map.

Erica Komisar:
If you tell couples “parenting is a gentle little hill,” they collapse when the real mountain hits.

But if you say:
“Expect exhaustion, no sleep, brutal hardship — but the view (joy, love) is worth it. We’ll train you,” they can survive it together.

Lies about how “easy” or “magical” it is destroy relationships when reality arrives.

The 2–3 year post-baby period is the highest-risk window for divorce — not because love dies, but because unrealistic expectations + sleep deprivation + zero preparation = emotional breakdown.

Parents of young kids: What was the biggest “nobody warned me” shock after baby arrived?
Or if you’re expecting — what are you most bracing for?

Your honest stories 👇

[Camus @newstart_2024]

“You can’t love children too much.”

Gabor Maté flips the “mama’s boy” stereotype on its head:

A landmark study followed newborns and how their mothers related to them.
Most moms were attuned and loving.
Some were distant.
Some were extra doting and coddling.

35 years later?
The adults who turned out most independent, successful, and self-actualized were the ones who received super abundant love from their mothers.

Maté’s takeaway:
The real “mama’s boy” isn’t created by too much love—it’s created by anxious love.
When a mother coddles not because the child needs it, but because she needs it to soothe her own anxiety, the child absorbs that anxiety.

It’s not excessive love that creates dependency… it’s unresolved parental anxiety being downloaded into the child.

Clip from this 52-second gem — Maté dismantling the myth with science and compassion.

Ever notice how the most confident people often had parents who were unapologetically loving?
Or seen how anxiety can quietly pass down generations?

Your thoughts — drop them below.

[Adeniyi.sui @EmanAbio]

we're entering a time where the architecture decisions made years ago are about to get stress-tested in ways most chains aren't ready for

this is my prediction: when agentic finance really takes off, you're going to see a mass extinction event for a lot of outdated smart contract platforms

this will not be a slow decline or a gradual loss of market share.

this will be a mass extinction event

the kind where the environment changes faster than the organism can adapt. that's what agentic finance is going to do to these chains

because agents don't transact like humans

they are operating at machine speed, across thousands of parallel actions, continuously

the throughput demands of that world will make today's peak loads look trivial

so if your infrastructure was designed around scarcity, around managing congestion rather than eliminating it, you're not going to be able to patch your way out of that

i have always said this: scalability isn't a feature you add later. It's either in the foundation or it isn't

and the chains that don't have it in the foundation are going to fall behind and eventually become irrelevant

@SuiNetwork was built with the foundations to scale and thrive in a world where machines transact

and this year we're pushing even harder to bring all the features necessary to make Sui the true hub of agentic finance.

you're not ready for what we're cooking for Sui

[Sooraj @SoorajKSaju]

Seems like @SuiNetwork is doubling down on payments.

The free tier makes dollar transfers cost nothing at the protocol level.

The private payments layer handles confidential settlement without exposing transaction data onchain.

Sui Dollar is the stablecoin built specifically for this stack, with yield routed back to the network rather than an external issuer.

Together they form a self-contained payments architecture.

@MystenLabs seems to be closing every gap that makes blockchain payments impractical for real use.

Right move at the right time!

[Sooraj @SoorajKSaju]

https://t.co/RJoyA1jOHS

[Sooraj @SoorajKSaju]

If you’re struggling to grasp what @ikadotxyz truly unlocks, this pod is for you

@NanakNihal, co-founder of @humntech, tells the story of how his team created a category-defining product (@WaaPxyz) by leveraging @ikadotxyz and @SuiNetwork

It’s a clear example of what’s possible when you combine Ika and Sui

Timestamps:

02:11 meet the founder
04:18 @humntech product suite
07:53 impact of @humnpassport acquisition
10:04 ai and proof of humanity
12:01 why @waapxyz exists
16:34 discovering @ikadotxyz
19:23 @stripe's acquisition of @privy is a self-custody wake up call
21:14 b2b launch strategy
23:00 why b2c wins
24:35 universal wallet vision
27:24 human network explained
31:09 building on @suinetwork
32:05 future use cases and adoption
36:04 can wallets have banking app like security?

[Sooraj @SoorajKSaju]

Can we get @finkd to choose @SuiNetwork?