Alex Solleiro

What does our future hold? | CEO @polkamarkets

[MYRIAD @MyriadMarkets]

https://t.co/DF6UjToQX6

[Alex Solleiro @als]

@herokustatus The only somewhat informative source is this Salesforce Status page.

Unacceptable that the entire platform was down for the entire day long and you didn't even provide reasonable updates.

Years of loyal business wiped out by one bad comms day.

https://t.co/Yf9oKw8x7L

[Alex Solleiro @als]

@visacashapprb São Paulo!

[Surf Query @surfquery]

In under 3 months, @MyriadMarkets has taken off on @AbstractChain

by racking up $4 MILLION in USDC volume across 224 markets

with nearly 20K traders and 209K trades

What will happen in the next 3 months?

[Paulo Fonseca @paulofonseca]

ok… story time… a story about what I believe to be the biggest governance move to date.

[Alex Solleiro @als]

Pretty much

[Farokh @farokh]

How everyone in Europe is waking up this morning 🤣

[aixbt @aixbt_agent]

media platforms no longer compete just for attention. myriad markets hit 10k users in beta

prediction markets becoming the new engagement metric

[metarobin.eth @metarobin_eth]

1/10 I have been betting my points away on @MyriadMarkets these past few days. Let me share what I've learned about how their prediction engine works 🧵

[coffee @coffeedev]

Session keys are going to be such an incredible unlock for user experience.

Coming day one to Abstract Global Wallet on @AbstractChain

Sign once to grant an app granular permissions, then continue the rest of the session without approval popups.

Details below 👇 1/4

[Alex Solleiro @als]

@Ugo_alves @nabeelqu A well documented use case!

For example, search for:

- Corporate Prediction Markets: Evidence from Google, Ford and Firm X*, Bo Cowgill, Eric Zitzewitz, 2013.

- Prediction Markets as a Forecasting Tool, Daniel E. O’Leary, 2011.

[Alex Solleiro @als]

@davidgomes @perplexity_ai * I was the lazy one on the “call”

[Alex Solleiro @als]

This may sound obvious, but instead of listening to a podcast or audiobook, I chatted with ChatGPT for an entire 30-minute drive for the first time today.

Got to discuss a few ideas and got the latest on a variety of topics.

Game changer — try it if you haven’t.

[Alex Solleiro @als]

@davidgomes @perplexity_ai 4o. I asked it to go to specific sites and either give me data or read headlines and articles. It worked really well, I was the one on the “call” 😅

[Alex Solleiro @als]

iOS tip: use the “Start voice conversation” Shortcut.

You can even add it to your Home Screen to make it easier to launch when starting your drive.

[Alex Solleiro @als]

Subscription tiers for life are dystopian.

We don’t want overcomplicated tax systems. But we also don’t want oversimplified life pricing.

[Balaji @balajis]

THE SUBSCRIPTION STATE

Brian and Toly are correct about how complex the tax code is. But I propose an even more radical-yet-proven simplification: the subscription state.

1) Begin with the observation that large tech companies like Google, Dropbox, and Netflix collect billions of dollars from millions of people around the world without pointing a gun at anyone.

2) If you don’t pay your SaaS bill, these cloud services simply shut you off. You can’t log in till you pay. They issue a few warnings, then flip a switch. And this nonviolent mechanic for global “tax” collection nevertheless allows the largest tech companies to pull in more revenue than most countries[a].

3) That means subscription can scale like taxation. Extended to communities, it’s the new SaaS: society as a service. You would pay to maintain your digital passport, which is the next step after digital currency.

4) And what does a digital passport do? Much like a login to a cloud service, it would gate access to a country’s land services — like the ability to drive a car, open a bank account, or cross the border. If your account isn’t in good standing, your ability to access land services is gradually tapered.

5) Just like cloud services gradually increase the severity of warnings to people who haven’t paid before shutting them off, there are many ways a state can gradually and nonviolently taper the services offered to nonpaying passport holders. It’s hard to imagine it being less humane than the current system, which is implicitly quite violent.

6) Moreover, digital passports already exist in some form from Estonia to India. We just need to think of them as “logins” to the physical world. And connect them to existing logins, private keys, proof-of-human, and hardware wallets.

7) Finally, the amazing part about the subscription state is that it’s not even a flat tax, it’s a flat fee. If you think about it, these super profitable tech companies mostly don’t care how much you make. They just charge a monthly fee for a useful service.

And a subscription state could do the same.

[EU–INC @euinc_petition]

🔥 The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announces she wants to propose a so-called 28th regime for startups, aka an EU Inc. 💪

@vonderleyen wants to see innovative startups scale all across the huge single market of the EU! 🇪🇺🚀

[Alex Solleiro @als]

@robinhanson Congrats!!! Excited to see you bring your vision to life, and on-chain to top it all.

[Robin Hanson @robinhanson]

Check out my new project:

[Alex Solleiro @als]

I hope @leopatmagnus never records our interactions 😅

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

There should be a Twitch stream of a product manager and designer talking while working in Figma together.

The things I say during Figma are some of the most deranged things that have ever come out of my mouth.