Cuzsport

crypto, gold, silver enthousiast, and lover of nature, society and engineering of things 🇨🇦

[Cuzsport @MartinP32066905]

@allthemoney @XMoney Me me

[Rémi D'Aoust @RemiDAoust]

PayPal was the test, 𝕏 Money is the end product. Full circle.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ ⭕️ 🔃

PayPal was never the final form.
In 1999 Elon started https://t.co/cjOyeozgIC with one goal: build the money layer for the internet.

The company got merged, rebranded, and turned into PayPal.
He got pushed out. The pure payments product won.

But the bigger vision never left.
Fast-forward: he buys Twitter, reclaims the https://t.co/cjOyeozgIC domain, and starts building the everything app.

Now 𝕏 Money is live.

The same ambition, finally realized.
Peer-to-peer, high-yield balances, the metal 𝕏 Card, no foreign fees, free global ATMs.

And the rails? @CrossRiverBank — the bank that’s been working with @Ripple since 2014. 😏👌

[Cuzsport @MartinP32066905]

@XRPCryptoQuebec @Xfinancebull @allthemoney Great advice indeed !!

[Cuzsport @MartinP32066905]

@RemiDAoust Ready for everything !!

[Cuzsport @MartinP32066905]

@RemiDAoust @beyond_broke Pareil pareil !

[Cuzsport @MartinP32066905]

@SamuelGrenier_ @SenWarren 🤘

[Dimitris Soudas 🇨🇦⚜️🇬🇷☦️ 13.12.1943 @DimitrisSoudas]

Si vous êtes debout, asseyez-vous.

Si vous êtes assis, allongez-vous.

Si vous êtes déjà allongé, accrochez-vous solidement.

Et si vous êtes déjà bien installé et que vous pensez avoir tout vu, cachez-vous sous le sofa.

Parce que ce qui s’en vient est tellement renversant, tellement difficile à croire, que même les plus sceptiques risquent d’en tomber de leur chaise.

Sérieusement. Prenez une grande inspiration. Vous allez en avoir besoin. 😳🤯
👇🏻

[Cuzsport @MartinP32066905]

@cryptomambi_ca @Tangem @tangem_spanish @aigarxyz @Ja_mbon @FuturFlo @BlockchaiNorth @sarah_n_crypto @JL_Pellerin @WinchesterXRP @RemiDAoust @Pizza_DAO Shoot I missed this event… wish I would have been there

[Crypto Mambi @cryptomambi_ca]

En Montreal, nosotros cambiamos pizza 🍕⚡ por nuevas conexiones, conversaciones épicas… y sí, algunos hasta se fueron con regalos de @Tangem, incluyendo cold wallets 👀 y más 🎁 🎁

A los que no vinieron… esta vez no solo se perdieron la pizza 🍕😏

Se perdieron la experiencia

[Rémi D'Aoust @RemiDAoust]

Much love to all crypto space ! ❤️‍🔥

Who knows where 👈
this all could lead us!
@Apex_Capital_CA
@AnodosFinance
@FlareNetworks

[Crypto Mambi @cryptomambi_ca]

Gracias a @sarah_n_crypto tuvimos un maravilloso encuentro en #montreal patrocinado por @Tangem @FlareNetworks @AnodosFinance donde pudimos intercambiar entre todos los diferentes proyectos, seguimos adelante sin miedo al éxito XRP Montreal Meetup

[Cuzsport @MartinP32066905]

@RemiDAoust @sarah_n_crypto @WinchesterXRP It was a great night ! Thanks again to @sarah_n_crypto and @WinchesterXRP for the awesome food

[Rémi D'Aoust @RemiDAoust]

Just wrapped up an epic XRP Montreal Meetup! 🔥

Huge thanks to @sarah_n_crypto & @WinchesterXRP and everyone who showed up — you made it a super memorable night and a great first step for future events. The energy was $FIRE 😉

Fingers crossed for that Tangem wallet + merch giveaway 🤞 Good luck for everyone

@Tangem @Flarenetwork @AnodosFinance
#XRPMontreal #XRPARMY

[Cuzsport @MartinP32066905]

C'est ce soir !!

🚀 XRP Montreal Meet-Up le vendredi 24 avril de 17 h à 19 h ! On se rassemble à Montréal pour parler XRP / Crypto &+ DeFi /

#XRP #Montreal #XRPL #CryptoQuébec #Flare #AnodosFinance #Tangem

@AnodosFinance
&
@Flare & @Tangem

[Rémi D'Aoust @RemiDAoust]

🚀 XRP Montreal Meet-Up le vendredi 24 avril de 17 h à 19 h !

On se rassemble à Montréal pour parler XRP / Crypto &+ DeFi / en mode décontracté.

Que tu sois newbie ou déjà bien impliqué, viens discuter, poser tes questions et rencontrer du monde de la communauté Québécoise.

Ambiance chill, sans bullshit, juste du vrai talk crypto.

👉 Inscris-toi gratuitement ici : https://t.co/41BZ57mo7R

Tag un chum ou une chum qui trippe sur le XRP, on veut remplir la place ! 🔥
#XRP #Montreal #XRPL #CryptoQuébec #Flare #AnodosFinance
@AnodosFinance & @Flare

[Cuzsport @MartinP32066905]

Venez chiller avec nous !!

[Rémi D'Aoust @RemiDAoust]

XRP Montreal Meet-Up le vendredi 24 avril de 17 h à 19 h !

On se rassemble à Montréal pour parler XRP / Crypto &+ DeFi / en mode décontracté.

Que tu sois newbie ou déjà bien impliqué, viens discuter, poser tes questions et rencontrer du monde de la communauté Québécoise.

Ambiance chill, sans bullshit, juste du vrai talk crypto.

👉 Inscris-toi gratuitement ici : https://t.co/41BZ57mo7R

Tag un chum ou une chum qui trippe sur le XRP, on veut remplir la place ! 🔥
#XRP #Montreal #XRPL #CryptoQuébec #Flare #AnodosFinance
@AnodosFinance & @Flare

[Mr. Man @MrManXRP]

🇨🇦Canada’s stablecoin framework is now in plain sight and up for discussion.

[Cuzsport @MartinP32066905]

@Coachjv_ Aliens, please make it the aliens !!!

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

What I read this week...

1) Mastercard Brings Circle and 85+ Firms Into Crypto Payments Push

Mastercard launched its Crypto Partner Program on March 11, bringing together more than 85 crypto-native firms, payments providers, and financial institutions in a formal collaboration group.

Participants include Circle, Binance, PayPal, Ripple, Gemini, Paxos, SoFi, Worldpay, Polygon, Solana, Fireblocks, and BitGo. Mastercard said the program is designed as a forum for product input, standards, and collaboration. The program helps shift digital assets from experimental side rails into production-grade integration with Mastercard’s 150+ million global merchant network and core card infrastructure.

The company’s stated focus is on practical payment use cases, especially cross-border remittances, B2B transfers, payouts, settlement, and other forms of money movement, where digital assets can add speed and programmability.

Mastercard’s explicit goal is to fuse the “speed and programmability of digital assets” with established card rails so payments feel seamless to end users. Circle’s inclusion is front and center with their Chief Commercial Officer, Kash Razzaghi, emphasizing in the accompanying Mastercard Newsroom interview that stablecoins (starting with USDC) are moving from trading/investing into payments and store-of-value layers, especially in high-inflation markets.

Circle’s role helps explain the stablecoin angle. The partnership explicitly aims to make stablecoin usage feel like typing an HTTP request, where users just send dollars, unaware of the blockchain layer beneath.

This marks an institutional tipping point at which crypto and traditional finance converge to upgrade the underlying financial infrastructure. After years of parallel tracks, regulation has cleared the runway, and giants like Mastercard are now betting that collaborative infrastructure will drive the next leg of growth through cheaper, 24/7, borderless transfers that approach zero marginal cost.

2) Yann LeCun’s New AI Lab, AMI, Raises $1.03B for World Models

Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) launched March 10, 2026, with a record $1.03 billion seed round at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation, making it Europe’s largest seed round ever. Founded by Yann LeCun (post-Meta) as chairman, the team also includes Alexandre LeBrun (ex-Nabla CEO) as CEO and Saining Xie (ex-DeepMind and Meta) as Chief Science Officer. The lab drew co-leads from Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital, and Bezos Expeditions.

AMI’s bet is that the next important AI systems will not come from scaling next-token prediction alone. Instead, it pursues world models built on LeCun’s Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA). This enables systems to learn from sensory/physical data, maintain persistent memory, reason causally, plan under constraints, and operate safely in the real world.

AMI targets robotics, manufacturing, transportation, and healthcare. Nabla (LeBrun’s prior company and LeCun’s investment) is the first partner to gain early access to agentic clinical AI.

This vision aligns with LeCun’s February 2026 arXiv paper “AI Must Embrace Specialization via Superhuman Adaptable Intelligence“, co-authored with Goldfeder, Wyder, and Shwartz-Ziv. The paper argues AGI concepts are misguided; human intelligence is specialized, not general.

It proposes Superhuman Adaptable Intelligence (SAI): rapid adaptation to surpass humans on any key task, plus tackling human-infeasible domains. SAI favors SSL and world models for grounded reasoning/planning, positioning AMI as a post-LLM path where breakthroughs come from architectural innovation rather than just more compute/data.

3) Netflix Makes Major Bet on AI Filmmaking Tools

Netflix announced on March 5 that it acquired InterPositive, the AI filmmaking technology company founded by Ben Affleck in 2022. The entire 16-person team (engineers, researchers, creatives) is joining Netflix, and Affleck is staying on as a senior advisor.

Financial terms were not disclosed at the announcement, but Bloomberg later reported the deal could be worth up to $600 million, making it one of Netflix’s largest acquisitions. The company had been operating in stealth, building tools specifically “by filmmakers, for filmmakers.” Netflix already piloted the technology on its own production “El Eternauta,” reporting 10x efficiency gains over traditional VFX pipelines.

InterPositive’s core innovation is per-film custom AI models: it ingests raw production dailies, trains a bespoke model on that specific project’s footage and style, then hands filmmakers an autonomous post-production engine.

The tool can relight entire shots, remove stunt wires frame-perfectly, reframe missed angles, enhance or generate backgrounds, insert VFX elements, and fix continuity errors, saving studios months and millions of dollars. Because the model is trained on the actual film’s data, outputs stay stylistically consistent and director-controlled rather than generic.

The acquisition gives Netflix an in-house post-production AI capability built around project-specific models and filmmaker-controlled workflows. In its announcement, Netflix framed the deal as “innovation for filmmaking, by filmmakers”, keeping human creatives at the center.

At the same time, Affleck described the tools as purpose-built for production environments rather than general-purpose generative media. That makes the transaction less about consumer-facing AI and more about integrating specialized production software into the studio pipeline.