Dean Patrick

AE @MelrosePR

@Stanford economics, ex-ConsenSys PM / IoTeX.

Founded early LP crypto fund in '17.

Author of God Money:

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@AnthropicAI 🔥

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@ground_onchain Great job team! Congratulations!

[Ground @ground_onchain]

Introducing Ground, the Money Infrastructure Company, supercharging banking and finance.

We have been quiet, building with design partners. Today, we launched out of stealth, alongside a $3.6 million pre-seed funding round, to embed onchain finance everywhere, starting with yield.

Ground turns any stablecoin or cash balance into a yield-bearing balance through one API. One integration provisions wallets, deploys into configurable on-chain yield sources, and emits ledger-ready accounting your end-user UI and internal systems can use on day one.

The bar is fintech UX, not blockchain UX. Yield should feel like a native balance feature, not a gas-and-retries engineering project. You pick allocations, set policies, and stay in control of funds. Ground hides blockchains and complex onchain mechanics.

Built for any financial platform or asset manager like neobanks, fintechs, corporate treasuries, and wealth managers. Founded by fintech and digital asset veterans from @stripe, @SuperstateInc, @hifibridge, and @compoundfinance. Backed by @BainCapCrypto, @paraficapital, @nascent , @robotventures, @chapterone, and Consonant Ventures.

- @rmcuming, CEO and @realsamyoon, CTO

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@OndoFinance Sorry to hear this. Condolences to all

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The capacity to translate deep wisdom from the past into modern language (regardless if you are a classically trained scholar), is valuable. I don't understand all the Holiday hate, but maybe I missed something 🤔

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

Ryan Holiday isn’t some Stoic guru btw. He’s been doing this for a dozen years and never even bothered to learn Latin or Greek. He made $10 million reading the Stoics in translation then repeating what they say at a 5th grade reading level to sell self-help books at the airport.

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@OlympusDAO Great work, team!

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Shades of the "Long Island Blockchain Corp."

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@sagrawal @poddotnetwork Love it 💪

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@sporadica Introspection, in this context, is confused with rumination.

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@signulll "high agency" is doing most of the work here, alas.

[Pod Network @poddotnetwork]

🎙️ pod on the @samkamani podcast.

@sagrawal talks about why today's markets are fundamentally unfair — across both centralized and decentralized exchanges — and how pod is rethinking market design from the ground up.

Full episode👇

[Murtuza J Merchant @murtuza_merc]

The 28% drop in hedge fund Bitcoin exposure looks like a retreat, but it is actually a structural cleanup. Most of that capital was just chasing the basis trade. Now that the arbitrage has dried up, the tactical desks are out.

The real story is the rotation. While the fast money exits, sovereign wealth and long-term advisors are still building. We are moving toward a much more durable ownership base that is less reliant on leverage.

https://t.co/VEuUiQTxlW

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@Zac_Aztec This is hilarious

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@laurashin @Unchained_pod Fascinating. That's around the original value of The DAO treasury. I was an initial investor and remember talking to Griff at the time. The old Code is Law debate, times have changed.

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@MuyaoShen Curious what kinds of stories would make you more excited?

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Re-read E.M. Forester's "The Machine Stops" and immediately ordered a dumb-phone. I'll see if I last. It feels like scheduling surgery to remove a tumor. The smartphone. That's the tumor.

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@antoniogm Not a thing? Three years ago I spent several months in SE Asia and the hostels were crammed with young people brimming with stories of robbery and wild risks

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It's interesting to see an increasingly powerful social tide shifting against short-form content.

Has the cultural entertainment pendulum reached the far end of its swing and is ready to return to balance?

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Sorry to sound old but brainrot did not begin with ChatGPT. Short-form videos are addictive by design, and too much exposure will fry your concentration, curiosity and joy in living. You need to be ingesting long-form content: novels, movies, essays, educational books and videos.

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Increasingly convinced that TikTok and short-form, endless feed video is where social media jumped the shark.

My nervous system and mind dissolve into muddled angst after each session.

Social media as technology for connection officially pivoted to pure, art-free distraction.

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Tolstoy and Gandhi became pen pals in 1909. In the last twenty years of his life, Tolstoy switched from writing about the aristocracy and Russian sociology to the spiritual virtues of the peasantry. Some of his post-1890 work is among the best spiritual writing since the Gospels.