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[xyz man - HOF @_xyzman_]

I’m excited to share HOF Studio’s new home.

we’re the crypto-native design partner of some of crypto’s best.

we help startups launch faster with branding, decks, product UI/UX, and web design.

fast, strategic, and effective design

[Tarun Mangukiya @TarunMangukiya]

Announcing KOSH, the USD account built for Asia.

87% of creators in Asia have been paid late. For many freelancers, getting paid has become one of the most stressful parts of their work.

We built @koshmoney to fix this, powered by @solana, @0xPolygon, @moonpay, and @privy_io.

[Solana Foundation @SolanaFndn]

Join @fabric_vc and @Wintermute_t for R[3]sidency × Construct, a 12-week accelerator for founders building at the intersection of crypto, AI, robotics, and emerging tech.

8 teams, $300K each, 12 weeks in London this fall.

Supported by @SolanaFndn and @SuperteamUK

[Fabric Ventures @fabric_vc]

The next generation of category-defining companies will be built by founders with conviction.

Introducing R[3]sidency × Construct.

R[3]05 is for standout founders building the Machine Economy across Crypto, Fintech, AI, Robotics and Quantum.

Built by Fabric Ventures and @wintermute_t, with @solana and continued support from @coinbase.

→ $300k investment
→ 12 weeks in London
→ Demo Day & investor roadshow in New York

We don't fund trends. We fund conviction.

Apply → https://t.co/3UGheRemPs

[Ian Tracey @ian_dot_so]

There's a blue ocean of problems in Applied AI that require more than something off the shelf.

Now you can get the domain expertise and velocity of @tryramp engineering inside your organization automating the toil of the financial back office.

[Anil Lulla @anildelphi]

models are the commodity. the harness is the moat.

its easy to rotate from GPT5.5 to Fable. your harness doesn't change. the memory of how you work, the skills built over time, those compound

our @NousResearch Hermes report now free for everyone to read
https://t.co/Ue3sEYgqlX

[Glenn Hitchcock @glennui]

Design is full of codewords. Knowing them changes what you can ask for, and what you can get back, whether you're working with devs, or an AI.

“tint this neutral color”, “fix this widow”, “nudge it to the optical center”

I wrote them down: https://t.co/aFyd5avj9o

[xyz man - HOF @_xyzman_]

@robbiepetersen_ @a16zcrypto Huge

[Ali Yahya @alive_]

Barbell strategy for killing it in an age of superhuman AI:

Simultaneously get as close to AND stay as far away from AI as humanly possible.

1. Get close — play with AI models, use them to help you think, ask them to teach you about the world, get them to help you create, work with them to write code, understand what makes them tick, embed them into your everyday life, have fun.

2. Stay far away — learn to tell stories, make eye contact, build a team, lead with courage, connect far-flung ideas, build lifelong friendships, debate persuasively, think forbidden thoughts, handwrite ideas, confess your fears, fall in love.

Spend less time trying to master mental transformations that are purely mechanical — building spreadsheets, analyzing trades, balancing accounts, writing code by hand, following playbooks, searching for needles in haystacks. These are the emerging no-man's land, squarely the domain of AI.

Venture to the extremes. That’s where all the fun is anyway.

[Sam Blond @samdblond]

The playbook to launching your startup:

Monaco launched less than 4 months ago. I work with our customers every day planning their launches. This is the high-level playbook we follow:

[Veeral Patel @vral]

the best product we built at ramp was the culture - this is the best articulation i've seen yet from krish @krrishd

[TBPN @tbpn]

BREAKING: @bchesky is launching a new AI lab to build models, focused on UI and design

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Building apps has never been easier.

With Sites, Codex can turn your work, ideas, and plans into an interactive website or app your team can explore, use, and share with a URL.

Rolling out to Business and Enterprise plans, before expanding more broadly.

[Peter / 1k(x) @pet3rpan_]

You can bet big on AI without directly investing in it.

A post-AI world and it's second order effects:

Content saturation → live only content
Virtual human-likeness → companionship economy
Post productivity free time → consumer entertainment
Mass unemployment→ future of work and new economies
Algorithmic burnout → human taste and curation as luxury
Knowledge commoditized → skill and apprenticeship ladders
Real time interactive media → personalized media entertainment
Productivity → solopreneur stack and one-person business tooling
Lowered cost of content → new challenger IP entertainment companies
Deepfake everything → verifiable trust and identity & private communities
Solved online productivity → analog social communities & in person events

[xyz man - HOF @_xyzman_]

@blendino @onemoarchance

[Solana Incubator @incubator]

@lagunacarta @solana @colosseum @a16zcrypto @alliance @solanalabs Cohort 5 applications are open! Learn more👇

https://t.co/OH4pd1CQhz

[Laguna 🌴 @lagunacarta]

Want to build on @solana? Here's how to get started 🥳

- Win a hackathon at @colosseum (past winners raised $650M+)
- Apply to @a16zcrypto CSX ($500k via SAFE)
- Join @alliance accelerator ($500k, ~7%)
- Get into @incubator by @solanalabs (3 months in NYC)
- Apply for a @SolanaFndn grant (~$40k avg)
- Grab a @superteam Instagrant (up to $10k, fast)
- Tap into @Kalshi Builder Grants ($2M pool)
- Ship a mobile app for @solanamobile dApp Store
- Get a @Circle developer grant for stablecoin projects
- Join the next @OnePieceLabs Solana bootcamp
- Build with @chainlink on Solana (up to $100k incentives)
- Launch using a token on @pumpfun, @MeteoraAG, @bonkfun or @BagsApp
- Raise a community round on @MetaDAOProject or @LaunchOnSoar
- Learn to be a dev in 20 hrs with @SolanaFndn Developer Bootcamp
- Go through @solanaturbine dev incubator
- Ship AI agents with @sendaifun Solana Agent Kit
- Find co-founders at @superteam chapters worldwide
- Earn bounties on Superteam Earn (https://t.co/L2Cc9w8HCW)
- Apply for a @MetaplexFndn grant
- Get a @wormhole xGrant for cross-chain projects
- Network at Solana Breakpoint and Accelerate (@SolanaEvents)
- Bootstrap distribution via @superteam creator database
- Enter @colosseum Eternal anytime ($250k pre-seed)
- Join @MonkeFoundry for community-backed funding (up to $10k)
- Hire great talent: https://t.co/oLmz8PANo5
- Start building: https://t.co/L0MzmHCD6n

[Haseeb ＞|＜ @hosseeb]

Honestly the pitch deck of the future should be: "copy and paste this megaprompt into your LLM. It will give you my pitch, give you interactive visuals explaining my idea (if necessary), and then go back and forth with you about what I'm building and answer your questions."

[AJC @AvgJoesCrypto]

Onchain gachas are going parabolic!

After setting new ATHs in spend volume in both March ($148.6M) and April ($184.0M), the sector is on pace to set another ATH in May ($211.2M projected). The top 6 TCG platforms by projected May spend:

1) @Collector_Crypt - $84.8M
2) @phygitals - $51.6M
3) @Courtyard_io - $50.6M
4) @Beezie - $15.8M
5) @mnstr - $4.5M
6) @renaissxyz - $3.8M

Crypto's next breakout application is here.

[xyz man - HOF @_xyzman_]

@AvgJoesCrypto @Collector_Crypt moar @onemoarchance

[Yan Liberman @YanLiberman]

We recently led the round for @tori_finance, a protocol bringing institutional delta-neutral yield strategies on-chain, unlocking return amplification, composability, and access that traditional finance can't offer.

Today we sat down with @0xNox_eth to go deep on the podcast:

• How the carry trade actually works and why FX hedging spreads persist.
• How positions survive a 30% currency drop.
• The security architecture, from NAV oracles to lessons from recent DeFi exploits.
• Why this yield was previously gated behind 8-9 figure balance sheets.
• How real-time on-chain transparency actually works under the hood.
• And how tokenization turns a strong baseline yield into something significantly more powerful.