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Flashback to when Sam Altman wanted to scan your eyeballs.

@jesusrburgoa and @Leonhitchens dug into Worldcoin's US launch with Tinder and Kashi, Ripple's $20B power play for Circle, and the EU coming for privacy coins like Monero. Plus an honest take on how the crypto narrative flipped from 2017 to today.

🎧 Replay the showdown: https://t.co/jTnqKcoT8R

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Rewinding to Episode 13 with Laura Ruiz-Roehrs, founder of Code Flight and the personal brand Suitcase Coder. She sat down with @Leonhitchens to share her journey from personal assistant to coding entrepreneur, the creation of her self-guided learn-to-code platform with its personalized discovery quiz, and her advice for anyone who thinks it is too late to switch careers.

🎧 Worth a second listen: https://t.co/LwcfzHk4az

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Rewinding to a story about turning generosity into horsepower.

Zac Brown sat down with Andrew Brooks of the Community of Automotive Professionals, the team behind CarFest SA, one of the largest free automotive festivals in Texas, where garages and volunteers come together to repair and donate vehicles for families in need.

🎧 Press play on the full conversation: https://t.co/3ot7giNtgq

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Rewinding to the week crypto grew up.

@jesusrburgoa and @Leonhitchens unpacked Trump's memecoin dinner with the top 220 holders, Coinbase teaming up with PayPal on PYUSD, and the Fed quietly pulling back its crypto guidance for banks. Utility, regulation, and Wall Street all in one breath.

🎧 Revisit the shift: https://t.co/dOVDPa5ERt

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The "one-prompt AI game" is a myth. 🛠️🎨
True game design takes curation, iteration, and, most importantly, human taste. AI is just the new paintbrush.
In our latest episode, @BuchoStan breaks down how @chaincraftgames is merging AI and invisible blockchain infrastructure to unlock safe, player-to-player game economies without the crypto jargon, with host @Leonhitchens .
We also dive into:
• Why Web3 needs to become a "boring background infrastructure."
• Tapping into the massive underground gamer asset market
• Why founders MUST step outside their feedback echo chambers

#AIDevelopment #Web3Gaming #IndieDev #ChainCraft #StartupLife

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Episode 12 is a special one. Long before he became CEO of @usemintlocke, @jesusrburgoa joined @Leonhitchens and Pablo Calvo to talk about Webssey, his social finance platform built on blockchain, and the road from small-town South Texas to tech founder.

This conversation kicked off JR's journey with The Boost Network. 🎧 Worth a relisten: https://t.co/rkeyfwmotl

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A throwback for any founder still figuring it out as they go.

Zac Brown sat down with Matthew Espinoza, Director of Launch SA, a partnership between the City of San Antonio and Geekdom that operates like a coffee shop for entrepreneurs, connecting founders to business advisors, programs like 1 Million Cups, and a network of more than 70 partner organizations.

🎧 Listen to the full episode here: https://t.co/LP8jcHollO

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Jamie Dimon dropped an F-bomb on crypto, Robinhood launched AI trading agents, and US crypto perps are officially legal. 🤯

In this week's episode, @jesusrburgoa and @Leonhitchens break down why the US retail market just fundamentally changed.

🧵 What you need to know:
1️⃣ Perpetuals Hit the US Legally: The CFTC approved Koshi's Bitcoin perps. Leon clarifies the game-changer: unlike traditional futures, perps have no expiration date. You can hold positions indefinitely. This is a trillion-dollar shift. 📈

2️⃣ Democracy is Now a Ticker: Koshi launched the $KAPOW$ Index to trade US political power dynamics. The catch? JR and Leon expose a massive math flaw that weights a tiny $500k market the same as a $13M market. (Whale manipulation alert 🐳).

3️⃣ Robinhood Goes "Headless": The future of trading isn't an app, it's chat. Robinhood just dropped AI trading accounts via MCP servers. You can literally text an AI to balance your portfolio while you sleep. 🤖

4️⃣ The $12.3M Warning: The SEC just busted a massive Texas crypto scam pulling investors in with fake AI bots. AI scams are up 4.5x this year. JR's rule of thumb: if someone guarantees 100% returns, run. 🚩

Notable Quotes

Leon: "If somebody's telling you 'give me $1,000 and I'll get you two grand,' you're either in a Ponzi scheme or someone is about to get screwed."

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Remember when crypto met geopolitics?

@jesusrburgoa and @Leonhitchens broke down Bitcoin's tariff whiplash, GameStop's $1.48B Bitcoin treasury bet, and MetaMask's debit card hitting Argentina. The week crypto stopped being digital gold and started becoming digital cash.

🎧 Rewind to where it got real: https://t.co/fALnh6qscv

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Circling back to Episode 11 with Ray Cantu, founder of ColdCALR (now Simmie Practice). He sat down with Pablo Calvo and @Leonhitchens to talk about using AI to train sales professionals through real-time simulations. Since this episode, the company won Geekdom's $20K pitch prize and landed in Capital Factory's portfolio.

🎧 One to revisit for sure: https://t.co/YWO78HVPJD

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Building robots. Building futures.

Zac Brown chopped it up with Thomas James of Zeo Infinite Robotics, a San Antonio nonprofit teaching students CAD, mechatronics, and teamwork through the Tech Gladiator Challenge, where kids design, build, and battle robots.

🎧 Lock in and listen: https://t.co/CAJhbkPmJt

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This was only the second episode and the takes were already sharp.

@jesusrburgoa and @Leonhitchens unpacked Circle's $20 trillion ambitions, stablecoin momentum, and whether Wall Street was finally ready to go all in on crypto.

🎧 Take it from the top: https://t.co/9QIxE8sSXG

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Before KeepTabz, there was this conversation. In Episode 10, Pablo Calvo sat down with Franklin Morris to talk about his journey from startups in San Francisco to mentoring at Geekdom in San Antonio, and why he bet on SA's tech ecosystem over Austin.

A great look at how one marketer's path led to building his own company. 🎧 Worth a revisit: https://t.co/262e80hWEU

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From one of the "top 10 dirtiest cities" to a community movement! 🧹✨

Edmund from @CProblemSolvers joins Beyond Giving with @ZacJordanBrown to share how they're cleaning up San Antonio one district at a time.

How YOU can help:
👉 Volunteer: Join a monthly district cleanup crew!
👉 Donate: Give via Zelle or https://t.co/3yFH0DqnWs to directly fund vital programs like downtown mobile restroom servicing fees.
👉 Lead: Apply for open board and committee seats.

🎧 Listen to the episode & get involved today:
🔗 https://t.co/RBuTIlQeta

#KeepSATXClean #BeyondGiving #SanAntonio #Nonprofit

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What if nonprofits had their own Y Combinator?

Zac Brown sat down with Drew Galloway, founder of BRIDGE, the first state-based democracy startup accelerator in the US. In just four years, BRIDGE has helped 36 organizations launch or scale and brought $9M in new funding to Texas.

🎧 Stream the full episode: https://t.co/3PtKDo23SV

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Is crypto officially entering its "infrastructure" era?

In our latest episode, @jesusrburgoa and @Leonhitchens break down why the market feels entirely different right now. Here are the 4 macro shifts you need to know:

1️⃣ The Bitcoin Disconnect: Sitting around $76.6k in "Fear" territory, BTC has matured. Price action is now driven by institutional capital, largely detached from traditional economic indicators and retail hype.

2️⃣ The Risk of Tokenized Stocks: 24/7 trading sounds great, but without traditional "trip wires," a weekend corporate hack could crater a company overnight. True tokenization will require an institutional framework (like NASDAQ-wrapped assets) to protect capital.

3️⃣ AI Agents Focus on B2B: Funding is flooding into crypto AI agents (Base Batches, Bankerbot). However, the real play isn't consumer retail; it's enterprise infrastructure, like automated API settlements and microtransactions.

4️⃣ Solana’s Alpenlow Upgrade: Targeting a Q3 rollout, this consensus overhaul replaces Proof of History and moves voting off-chain, dropping transaction finality down to an insane 120–150 milliseconds.

🔮 The Takeaway: Crypto is shedding its "degen" identity to become invisible back-end plumbing. In the future, your assets will be tokenized, and you won’t even know what blockchain is running them.

What’s your take? Is this institutional evolution good or bad for the space? 👇

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Where it all started!

@jesusrburgoa and @Leonhitchens sat down for the very first episode of the Social Ledger Report and kicked off what became 35+ episodes of real crypto talk, market breakdowns, and zero fluff.

🎧 Go back to the beginning: https://t.co/Gf33eeqQOB

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Before the rebrand, before GiveKit, there was NonprofitsHQ. In Episode 9, @Leonhitchens sat down with Zac Brown and Alberto to hear how they moved to San Antonio, joined Geekdom, and started building a platform to change how nonprofits operate.

Cool to see how far they've come. 🎧 Give it a listen: https://t.co/MWiutFAA8N

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