Joining @Nirvana_Fi today.
I came into blockchain a few years ago with optimism and ideals. Time to act on them.
Crypto's biggest wins right now look more like casinos than the censorship-resistant, permissionless finance most of us came here for.
Mayflower is building the opposite: rising-floor reserve markets, earned governance, mechanisms that actually protect holders instead of extracting from them.
Excited to ship.
@jameslavish What I donβt understand is how can I believe this chart is valid when I also believe that the inflation numbers that are reported are invalid?
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Onchain finance is open in name, unusable in practice.
DeFi has existed for a decade and all it has resulted in is an open financial system that no one with real fiduciary duty can actually use.
There are three main problems:
This is why we can't have nice things.
Monetary inflation of 15% since early 2025. But hey, reported inflation is ~3.5%. Sure.
Chart by the brilliant @TaviCosta
While April CPI inflation rose to 3.8%, inflation is much higher in many basic necessities:
1. Energy Commodity Inflation: +29.2%
2. Gasoline Inflation: +28.4%
3. Airfare Inflation: +20.7%
4. Energy Inflation: +17.9%
5. Electricity Inflation: +6.1%
6. Fruits and Vegetables Inflation: +6.1%
7. Hospital Services Inflation: +5.5%
8. Motor Vehicle Repair Inflation: +5.1%
9. Apparel Inflation: +4.2%
This has driven cumulative inflation since 2020 to +29%, meaning goods that cost $100 in 2020 now cost $129 today.
Inflation remains a major issue for Americans.
I've actually said this about student athletes since having experienced it in college.
Ball players with academic accolades are the best hire...but just an athlete and you have to wonder what it looks like between the ears.
Ken Griffin just revealed the only thing he actually looks for when hiring at Citadel.
Not your GPA. Not your pedigree. Not your internship list.
He wants one type of person: the athlete who excelled academically.
Here's why that combination matters to him.
The athlete knows what it takes to win. They've also felt what it's like to lose. That experience of pushing through both, and still showing up, is something you can't learn in a classroom.
The academic side tells him something different. It tells him the person knows how to manage their time. That they have the discipline to apply their mind under pressure. That when things get hard, they'll find a way through.
Griffin calls it perseverance and grit paired with high aspirations.
That's the profile he's building Citadel's AI team around.
Think about what that means for where the talent wars in finance and AI are headed.
The people running the biggest pots of money in the world aren't just looking for quants anymore.
For years, Atlanta residents could get fined for growing food in their own front yard. Now the city is home to the largest free food forest in America. π±π
Built on a former family farm in Browns Mill, the 7.1-acre space has over 2,500 edible and medicinal plants that anyone can harvest for free, in a neighborhood where the nearest grocery store is a 30-minute bus ride away.
The Mayflower wasn't a ship full of explorers chasing gold. It was a ship full of people who'd given up on a system that couldn't be fixed from the inside.
Before they landed, they wrote the Mayflower Compact. Forty-one signatures binding them to rules they made themselves, enforced by nothing but the document itself. No crown. No court. No appeals process.
The contract held because the math of survival required it to. That's the bet we're making. Markets that hold their contracts without anyone's permission. Floors that exist because the code says so, not because a foundation promises so.
A protocol where the rules are the rules, and they apply to everyone equally.
The Pilgrims didn't pick the Mayflower because it was the prettiest ship in the harbor.
They picked it because it was the one that could carry them through.
Same idea. New ocean.
Looking forward to what this project does in the future. Been following Nirvana for awhile and think it offers a novel concept you can't find in traditional markets.
100M volume. 9K users. 200K transactions.
Every token launched with a floor from day one.
No rugs. No extraction. Just markets that work.
This is what the AVM unlocks. See what you can build:
β https://t.co/oB41c9OLfi