Marco Palestra on his preferred foot:
๐ฃ "Yeah, I'm right footed. But since I was young, I like to play with my left, and I think I improved my left foot a lot in recent years. So maybe I sometimes prefer to use my left foot. So for sure, it's a good thing to have."
Anyway, thatโs Chelseaโs Australia/Asia tour finished
6-4 win vs Western Sydney
2-1 loss to Tottenham
1-0 loss to Juventus
3-0 win vs AC Milan
3-3 draw vs JDT
Back to London, Real Sociedad friendly at Stamford Bridge on Saturday, then the return of the Premier League
JUST IN: GARY CARDONE PERFECTLY EXPLAINS WHY #BITCOIN IS GOING TO $1,000,000 IN 30 SECONDS
"BTC IS A MONOPOLY PRODUCT"
"NO ONE CAN STOP ME FROM BUYING AS MUCH OF IT AS I WANT"
"I HAVE NO STORAGE COSTS.โ
โI CAN HOLD MY BTC FOR 1,000 YEARS AND NEVER PAY ANY FEES TO STORE IT"
"I LOOK AT BTC AND GO WOW"
SMART MONEY KNOWS ๐
A $15T asset manager. A 175-year-old payments giant. A billion transactions in seven days. Different sides of finance, all moving through one network. Solana.
Hereโs everything that happened this week:
๐ฐ Headline News
- @BlackRock filed with the SEC to issue tokenized BRSRV fund shares on Solana
- @WesternUnion launched its USDPT-powered Stablecard with @raincards across 37 markets
- Solana processed a record 1.01B non-vote transactions in a single week
๐ฐ Launches
- Take-Two Interactiveโs $TTWO stock went live on Solana via @sunrise, issued by @Backpack Securities
- @kamino launched Kamino Institutional Yield with an initial $25M Commodity Yield vault
- @AllUnityStable brought CHFAU, the first fully MiCAR-compliant Swiss franc stablecoin, to Solana
- @perena introduced Smart Borrow, powered by @hobba_io, to borrow without sacrificing yield
- @upshift_fi launched @sharpbytexyzโs RWA Ecosystem Vault, allocating to RWA cash flows including @onrefinanceโs ONyc
- @solomon_labs deployed the USDv program on Solana mainnet
- @phygitals debuted a Solana-native RWA mobile app
- @rarible opened its Solana marketplace, with @Claynosaurz as its first featured collection
- @metaplex added real-time quotes, Jito tipping, and MEV protection to its trading interface
- @nuketrade rolled out its public beta, bringing institutional-grade market-neutral strategies onchain
- @Alchemy shipped Solana Account Archive for querying account states at any historical slot
- @Titan_Exchange opened Titan Pro early access for CEX-style onchain spot trading
- @triton_one launched Riptide endpoints and Triton Shred Streaming with @DoubleZero
- @0xProject made its Swap API available on Solana
- @SaharaAI enabled Solana trading on @HeySorinAI via @OKX OnchainOS
- @TradeNeutral shipped Neutral Autopilot for automated strategy and yield optimization
- SIMD-0525 cut testnet target slot time from 400ms to 350ms, the first step toward 200ms target
- @SatRushIO debuted SatRush, a gamified Bitcoin-mining reward protocol
- @crittersquest launched Lucky Pick Mines on Solana
- @magicblock and @SuperteamTH opened applications for the MagicBlock Founders Camp
- Solanaโs poker series returns at Breakpoint 2026 and WSOP Bahamas following the @WSOP Solana Showdown in Vegas
- @SuperteamKorea set Solana Summit Korea for September 30 in Seoul
- @solanaturbine opened Q3 applications for its revamped Builders Program
- @spenders_club brings Solana Summer House back to LA on August 29 with @solanaspaces, @SolanaEvents, and @SolanaFndn
๐ฐ Milestones
- Solana captured ~$1.45B in July tokenized-equities volume, representing ~82% global market share
- Tokenized Micron ($MU) shares topped $530M in spot volume within six weeks of launch
- @ArcherExchange_ surpassed 1M trades on Solana
- WSOP Solana Showdown crowned its first bracelet champion, @rasmr_eth
- Frontier Traders crossed $1B in combined tokenized-equity spot and perps volume
- @Rosentica One Arena crossed $3.3M in volume across 7.5K matches
- @ShiftRWA crossed 1K unique tokenized-equity holders
- @CandyDigital recorded its 5,000th digital collectible sale
- @SolanaMBS marked five years since the Solana Monkey Business mint
- @xStocksFi crossed 190K holders on Solana
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THIS IS INSANE
๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ณ US national debt is now 2x the size of Chinaโs ENTIRE GDP.
US debt stands at roughly $40 trillion, while China produces around $20 trillion worth of goods and services per year.
๐ฃ Xabi Alonso: "We want to be versatile in our approach and system. I think we have the players to adapt to different ones because they understand how to support each other.
The principles are the same but the movements can change; we need to be unpredictable, we want to be flexible, and we want to have a threat."
Vibhu reveals one of the craziest startups building on Solana:
"JurassicFi is literally tokenizing dinosaur fossils"
"The dinosaur fossil market is on fire. A T-Rex sold for $50M at auction last week"
"A couple of weeks ago these guys raised $5.5M in two hours on Solana to collectively group buy fossils and put them in museums"
"What's really cool is it's not just a museum piece. Those fractionalized shares can also be traded freely so you kind of have a liquid market for natural history"
@JurassicFi@vibhu