One noteworthy paper from last week pointed out that the security focus for financial agents is shifting from “whether an individual model is reliable” to “how erroneous or malicious signals propagate through the entire system and ultimately reach the funds.”
One day, when everything has finally settled, I’d like to sit down and write a little piece—to say goodbye to the past and set out again toward the future.
I hope that somewhere along the road ahead, I’ll meet a few truly exceptional, like-minded people, and that together we can explore, grow, and go further in the field of financial AI.❤️
At the same time, it spreads love. Not just loving animals, but loving every little part of this world.
If even those who once went down the wrong path can still have love in their hearts, what reason would anyone else have not to follow?❤️
I suddenly thought, if the animals in shelters aren’t adopted, let prisoners in prison take care of them.
The animals would have someone to accompany them and care for them, and the prisoners would have the little animals’ companionship, making it easier for them to reform and have better mental health.❤️
And after prisoners around the world return to society, they will very likely voluntarily help animal welfare organizations promote animal protection worldwide.
I think their strength and influence should not be underestimated.
I suddenly thought, if the little animals in shelters aren’t adopted, let prisoners in prison take care of them. The little animals would have someone to accompany them and care for them, and the prisoners would have the little animals’ companionship, making it easier for them to reform and have better mental health.
Let two lives temporarily forgotten by society accompany each other, and help each other find their way back into society.❤️
La casa en Nepal que lo resistió TODO y se mantuvo firme para salvar a toda una familia, llegó un momento en el que todos los espectadores pensaron que no resistiría, pero no fue así, hoy esa familia tiene una historia que contar y esa casa quedará como referencia de que los milagros existen.
#Nepal
Kraken isn’t tweaking the financial system.
It’s rebuilding it.
While others talk about “bridging TradFi and DeFi”, @krakenfx is actually shipping it :
A single account, where your salary, your card, your stocks, your crypto and your DeFi yield finally live in the same place.
Here’s how everything connects 👇
🏦📊 Kraken & @krakenpro
Kraken is your all-in-one financial hub. In a single account you can:
- Buy, sell and trade hundreds of cryptos
- Earn yield through staking and lending
- Trade tokenized stocks (xStocks) 24/7, use them as collateral or with margin
- Use Kraken Pro for pro-grade charts, advanced order types and an AI assistant that helps you analyze markets and build strategies
All of this in one interface: from simple investing to serious trading.
💳 Krak & Krak Card
@Krak = next-gen money app / current account.
Krak Card = the linked debit card.
Key features:
- Spend from 600+ assets (fiat + crypto) with automatic conversion at the point of sale
- Choose the spend order, even split a single payment across multiple balances
- Cashback up to 2% depending on your average balance across Krak + Kraken + Kraken Pro
- Personal IBAN to receive your salary
🔥 Salary Match:
- If you have your employer pay your salary into your Krak account, Kraken “matches” up to 1% of that salary every month.
- Up to €250/month, €3,000/year.
In practice: you give your employer your Krak account details, and every eligible salary deposit automatically triggers this bonus.
⛓️ Ink (@Inkonchain / Ink Chain)
Ink = Kraken’s Ethereum Layer 2.
Why it matters:
- EVM compatible: all Ethereum wallets and tools work on it
- Fast and cheap transactions
- Direct withdrawals Kraken → Ink
- Native DeFi ecosystem: DEXs, lending, liquid staking, RWAs, and more
Ink is Kraken’s official onchain layer: where the ecosystem moves from CEX to real DeFi.
🧩 Kraken Wallet / onchain wallets
Beyond the exchange account, Kraken is pushing toward:
- Integrated or compatible self-custody wallet
- Native support for Ink and multiple networks
- Access to DeFi vaults, tokenized assets, onchain payments very easily
The idea: move from “I have a Kraken account” to “my entire financial life (fiat + crypto + DeFi) runs around Kraken/Ink”.
🔗 How it all connects
- You trade crypto, xStocks, futures on Kraken / Kraken Pro.
- You receive your salary into Krak, spend with the Krak Card, earn cashback and up to 1% Salary Match.
- You move part of your assets to Ink to access DeFi (yield, lending, liquidity, RWAs, etc.).
- You use Kraken wallet to interact with protocols, all while staying inside the Kraken ecosystem.
Result: a complete stack linking
🏛️traditional finance (account, salary, card, stocks, ETFs)
🔗decentralized finance (L2, DeFi, tokenization, RWAs)
All through a single account
🚀 Who else offers this much, with so few fees?
And you really think the Kraken ecosystem is not about to explode?
The narrative is clear:
Kraken is moving into every corner of finance and revolutionizing each one at the same time : exchange, stocks, tokenized assets, payments, card, salary, Layer 2, DeFi… all wrapped into one ecosystem that feels almost too easy to use.
On top of that, one day, the $INK token will likely launch.
Those who have been faithfully using Kraken’s services (trading, staking, Krak Card, Salary Match, Ink, Kraken Wallet...) will probably be rewarded.
Just imagine receiving even 500 $INK
If $INK one day reaches heights similar to binancecoin:native from @binance, that alone could change a lot of lives.
Now might be the time to position on the degen side, Ink already has its own playground forming: NFTs, @inkyswap vibes ; the kind of culture that usually precedes big runs.
$EVINK is the memecoin play on all of this: community-driven "community is everyth-ink", tied to the Ink/Kraken story, and built for the degen crowd.
Then come some others OG coins and NFTs like @KrakMask, @RektInk, @BertOnInk and others you should definitely take a look at.
I think Ink has already taken your suggestion into account, making sure that long-term participants and people who consistently contribute to the ecosystem are recognized, not just the biggest capital providers, while also giving the community a stronger sense of belonging.😊
I hope $INK will cook for those who participated in the academy not just whales providing liquidity
You will need to provide a $50k± in Tydro to get 1 point
I tested the new Kraken Wallet (prev. Beholder), it's gonna be the most used kraken product.
Ofcourse, my first app transaction had to be a swap to $KRAKMASK, 'twas instant and gasless
According to team member @0xsubugatai, earliest users get $INK points.
Try the app too? 👇
@0xIraiva If you don’t even have any points, why do you care when the TGE happens?
Accumulating more points makes a lot more sense than constantly pushing for a TGE.
Being indecisive and jumping from one thing to another will only leave you with nothing.
.@KrakenPro is now a listed broker on @TradingView, bringing Kraken’s spot liquidity and execution directly into the terminal.
That same execution, liquidity, custody and compliance stack is available to Payward Services partners.
All in one integration.
The biggest flaw in what you wrote is that you make “issuing 19 million fewer SOL would bring at least a 1.03% increase in valuation” sound like a certain, mechanical formula.
You also reduce “whether a vote is rational” to a single valuation threshold, simplifying what is fundamentally a multivariable decision problem into a single-variable comparison. This is a deeper flaw. Of course, that does not necessarily mean your conclusion is wrong, but when the key variables cannot be determined, yet you describe one choice as the only mathematically rational outcome, I think that is more like publicly gambling.
It seems that many people randomly voted no for Solana disinflation velocity at last second instead of having any discussion under a false facade of thinking it somehow preserves extra revenue through yield for them
The math is that if you believe avoiding an extra 19M SOL being printed can affect valuation by as little as 1.03%, it'd be more profitable to vote yes, even as someone who relies on inflation yield, not to mention the mimetic element for new capital
The people who prefer the quantity of the asset vs the value of it should immediately move to Venezuela and let other SOL holders know how that works out
It is mathematically nonsense to vote no to preserve miniscule marginal inflation revenue unless you believe that inflation is less than a 1% factor in the valuation of an asset
You also reduce “whether a vote is rational” to a single valuation threshold, simplifying what is fundamentally a multivariable decision problem into a single-variable comparison. This is a deeper flaw. Of course, that does not necessarily mean your conclusion is wrong, but when the key variables cannot be determined, yet you describe one choice as the only mathematically rational outcome, I think that is more like publicly gambling.