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Doing what we do best.

[DonAlt @DonAlt]

Crazy to think that if Trump didn't launch his meme coins, didn't start new wars and didn't just do retarded shit daily

As in if he simply did nothing

He would've just completely won
People would call him one of the greatest
They even would've looked past the Epstein files
I legit think he mightve even gotten away with being president again after this term

But he had to go full retard and now he's gonna lose horrendously because of it

Everyone around him will probably be torched as well
All that from a totally winning position, mindboggling really

[Cobie @cobie]

I took over the baseapp a few days ago yeah (as well as trading products in Coinbase - the Coinbase app, Advanced trading, etc). I don’t run Base chain.

I think that typically CB has been a little bit in an ivory tower and a little bit distant from users, particularly crypto natives. I don’t think I will be able to fix that in a week, or maybe even a month. I can try and capture the voice of ppl onchain more and try and align ppl building things more closely w users. Obviously CB/Base has burned a lot of user goodwill w those users thru some unforced errors, including today.

Obviously I could simply not do any of these things and have a nice life instead. Lots of ppl, including og base supporters/trenchers, rly hate base rn - throwing myself into the middle of a hatred pile-on is clearly not the most optimal life choice. I am aware I am setting myself up to be blamed by association. So, I wouldn’t be doing this if I thought it were impossible.

I’m going to try and ship stuff that ppl like to use. Maybe ppl will hate what I do w the baseapp too, we will see how it goes.

[smolting (@wassie) @inversebrah]

ROFLMWOOOO

[Venice @AskVenice]

Hey 👋

[smolting (@wassie) @inversebrah]

Crypto History - an animation series by @wassie

Episode 1: The Origin of Wassies

Sponsored by @AwakenTax

[barney @barneyxbt]

a real flex in 2026 is ironically the opposite of everything we were told was a flex

the real flex is going off the grid.

getting married. having kids. going to church. being humble. believing in yourself enough to walk away from the script everyone else is following

we spent years thinking the flex was the car, the house, the title, the portfolio, the women.

but none of that matters if you’re miserable and never see the people you love

being present.

choosing peace over clout.

building a life that actually makes you happy instead of one that just looks good on instagram and twitter

the richest people i know aren’t rich in money.

they’re rich in time and freedom and they wouldn’t trade it for anything

[CoinGecko @coingecko]

$VVV saw a 7.5x growth in the past 3 months, pumping 18% today to $294M market cap.

Here's why it pumped:

🟢 Venice cut annual emissions to 6M VVV/year, improving scarcity.

🟢 VVV was integrated across several DeFi platforms as utility:
→ Aerodrome: Liquidity
→ Morpho: Collateral
→ Plena: Gasless swaps

[Avi @AviFelman]

History will look upon this war as part of the greater geopolitical battle with China.

Those who view it in isolation are missing the key point, which is that we are systematically dismantling the axis that opposes Western civilization, and that we are winning.

You don’t want to live in a multi-polar world. You want to take action today to reduce the casualties of the future. You want a return to unipolarity.

This has massive implications for your investments as well. We are watching closely, but a quick end to this war would remove significant uncertainty and the bull market can resume unfettered.

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

https://t.co/m2jsJuCX8k is already today this "unlinkable inference layer," a "VPN for AI"

Use any model (ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini/Grok) through Venice pseudonymously.

[barney @barneyxbt]

everyone seems to forget, in 1933 the us government literally made it illegal to own gold.

just straight up told citizens to turn it in at $20 an ounce or face fines and jail time.

they were broke and needed the reserves so they just took it

then after they collected it all they revalued it to $35. robbed you at gunpoint and marked it up 75% the next day
people act like government overreach is a new thing.

they confiscated the hardest asset on the planet from their own citizens because the balance sheet was underwater. this isn’t even ancient history that’s less than 100 years ago.

and somehow people still think keeping everything in a bank account under their name is safe.

[fooo @bitcoinpanda69]

Anyone who unironically melted down about not being able to date their AI anymore has revealed they experience love only in terms of what they receive/get from love

and do not love the actual object of their affection

They only "loved" ai as an abstract, externalized portion of their own pysche

Npcs, all of them

[DonAlt @DonAlt]

People in my comments always say stuff like
"Just let someone handle the hard stuff"

I don't know man
I hate not sleeping but wouldn't miss taking care of my children
I kinda like plucking weeds in the garden
It's meditating to mow the lawn

Inconvenience makes my life better

[Meltem Demirors @Melt_Dem]

if you watch what’s happening, someone is currently working overtime to manufacture consent around an SBF pardon

narrative rewrite being promoted with smaller accounts and propagated and spread by larger accounts

pardon by summer, mark my words

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Want to know why https://t.co/39PNLwYH8U doesn't have more brands?

With a few exceptions (already has a generic, not on formularies, soon to have a generic), CPD , and every pass through smaller PBM , can't buy branded meds that have a rebate, at a competitive price.

No one is asking for rebates equal to the big 3 PBMs.

We can't even get a " walk in off the street price." We actually had one brand say in a meeting they would give us a "walk in off the street price", then all the sudden they couldn't

I asked the CEO of a best selling branded med how many lives we would need to have covered before they would sell to the GPO we created, or to us in any manner, he said "half".

They couldn't sell to us until we covered half the lives the big 3 cover. He would lose placement on formulary tiers merely for offering us rebates. He couldn't afford to do business with us

This is not an efficient market. The big PBMs have threatened brands with loss of formulary positioning for their entire portfolios

This is why brand pricing continues to be high for employers

@PamBondi @AFergusonFTC

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

People are discovering that DIEM gets you access to all AI models for free, in both the https://t.co/m2jsJuCX8k app or API.

• Claude Opus 4.5
• GPT 5.1
• Gemini 3
• Nano Banana Pro
• GLM 4.7
• Many others

Buy at Aerodrome on @base

https://t.co/Oe6cu9tGDP

[Justin Banks @RealJGBanks]

$ASTS IS UP 57% AND $RKLB 84% THIS MONTH

DO NOT MISS THE REST OF THE SPACE RUN BELOW:

Space Infrastructure & Systems
$RDW - in-orbit manufacturing & space systems
$LUNR - lunar services, payload delivery, Moon infrastructure
$MDA - satellites, robotics, ground & space systems

Satellite Connectivity & Networks
$IRDM - mission-critical global satellite comms
$GSAT - spectrum owner embedded in Apple’s ecosystem
$VSAT - high-throughput satellite broadband

Earth Observation & Space Data
$PL - daily Earth imaging data layer
$BKSY - real-time geospatial intelligence & analytics
$SPIR - weather, maritime, aviation data from space

Defense & Strategic Space
$LMT - space-based missile warning & defense platforms
$NOC - national security space & ISR systems
$KTOS - autonomous, space-adjacent defense tech

Aerospace Manufacturing (Picks & Shovels)
$FJET - propulsion & aerospace components tied to space + defense

BONUS – Thermal / Power Bottleneck
$KULR - thermal management for space, defense, high-power systems

[mert @mert]

a brief history of blockchain

once upon a time, cypherpunks got sick of needing to use extractive middlemen to pay each other

they wondered how to get rid of these middlemen, but there was a problem

without a central party they could trust, how could they confirm that the money they received was legit?

in the physical world, we can confirm this because the bank issues the cash, and we trust the bank

we also trust physics, i.e that the cash that physically exists in our hands is really there and won't just spontaneously turn into ash

but on the internet, there are no such physics, and we also don't wanna trust this central bank

so how do we know that the person sending us money on the internet actually has that money and did not also just print more to send to other people?

well, instead of just letting the middlemen do the verifying, we instead have everyone verify everyone else's transactions

if the majority of us agree, then there's no problem

but now there's a new problem

now, everyone else always knows everything that we're doing, all the time, forever

we don't wan't that any more than people seeing all of our text messages since the beginning of time

this is a bug, this is http, this is not the correct solution

luckily, years after the 1st blockchain was created, we did find a solution

zero knowledge proofs!

with these, we can still verify and come to agreement without central trust *but without revealing all the details of every transaction*

in other words:

we go from http to https

we go from no clothes to clothes

we go from the bicycle to the car

anyway, this is a zcash bullpost

~ zynedine zidane

[Ebullition @EbullitionX]

I know @Zcash ($ZEC) is having a moment right now and @mert is helping spread the word, but as someone who came into this space and grew up with a diy/punk ethos, it's hard to watch @zooko in this and not want to go harder into it. If I could code, I'd be cypherpunk.

[mert @mert]

ZEC has been PoW mined, live, and distributed for *NINE* years, with every single holder in immense pain

there is literally no coin better distributed

(you are objectively stupid if you think this has "cabal" characteristics, I'm just very loud)

combine this with the fact it *actually* gives you encryption and sovereignty

combine it with the fact that there's a renaissance of new core talent working on integrations and improvements

combine it with the fact that crypto *must* have privacy as the world gets more and more draconian

combine it with the fact that it's less than ADA, LTC and many other useless coins

combine it with the fact that it has the same tokenomics as Bitcoin, but is just private

and then finish it off with the fact that one of the greatest cryptographers alive is shipping a 10,000x scale and perf improvement

this is the most obvious mispricing in crypto, and it's not close

what you're seeing here is the community using the power of crypto and public markets to breathe life back into the project

some may call this a "CTO" — I call it returning to the ideals of crypto

we're going to make privacy great again

becase we must

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

It's not just "court evidence" of course.

Your convos with OpenAI are forever exposed to:
- Employees
- By hackers
- Everyone to whom the hackers leak it
- Governments that simply ask for it
- And, soon enough, by adversarial AI systems that learn how to manipulate you in a thousand ways.

Try https://t.co/MtRCdjvnbU instead for privacy.

The only way to ensure privacy is for information to not be stored in the first place.