kunz

bd @eigencloud | prev. @lidofinance @bitwaveplatform | thoughts here are my own

[kunz @DeFiYeti]

@Usoppu Singapore Uniform

[Dennison @DennisonBertram]

I burned $13,836 worth of Claude Code tokens in June.

The same work on open models: $3,106.

That's $10,730 left on the table — one month, one laptop.

So I built the instrument that shows you the gap. Open source, 100% local. Launching today 🧵

[kunz @DeFiYeti]

@chrispisarski Would love to see the skills and provide feedback

[kunz @DeFiYeti]

@coleywoleyyy 🫡🫡

[kunz @DeFiYeti]

Ethereum has always had the most credibly neutral base layer. What it lacked was a neutral home for institutions.

@ethereuminsti solves that. Independent, ecosystem aligned, and focused entirely on helping institutions navigate building on Ethereum.

Huge congrats @mariuslsmith @ismiMatthew @davwals 🎉

[Ethereum Institutional @ethereuminsti]

1/ Announcing Ethereum Institutional

An independent non-profit dedicated to accelerating the institutional adoption of Ethereum, its L2s, applications and overall ecosystem.

[kunz @DeFiYeti]

Excited to partner with @OpenRouter to bring Darkbloom's infrastructure and capacity to developers everywhere.

We look forward to scaling this partnership and supporting the ecosystem with high quality availability for @googlegemma Gemma 4 26B and @OpenAI's gpt oss 20b.

If you are looking to switch over to Darkbloom for private inference, please reach out to me directly.

[OpenRouter @OpenRouter]

New Free capacity on OpenRouter, served by @eigenlabs's Darkbloom: gpt-oss-20b and Gemma 4 26B

Start using the models today ↓

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America, a warehouse store. A fully roasted chicken costs five dollars, the raw chicken beside it costs seven, and I stood between them like a man between two truths.

Golden. Hot. Seasoned. Spinning in glory under the lights, in a line of its brothers. Four dollars and ninety-nine cents.

I checked the raw birds. Seven dollars. Pale. Cold. You must do everything yourself.

This is not commerce. Commerce does not move backward. Somewhere in this building, mathematics lies defeated.

I asked the man at the counter. "How is the cooked bird cheaper than the raw bird?"

"Been five bucks forever. They keep it that way."

"But the store loses."

"Yep. On purpose."

On purpose. I held my receipt with both hands.

In my land, a lord who lowered the price of rice in a hard winter was remembered for generations. They built him a small shrine. This store does it every day, with chicken, and tells no one.

A woman behind me grew tired of my reverence. "It's just a chicken, sir."

It is not just a chicken. It is a wound the merchant takes on purpose, so that anyone, on any day, with five dollars, eats like a lord. The bird is the message. The price is the vow.

I will confess: I bought two. I did not need two. The second was not hunger. It was gratitude, and it was delicious.

Some prices are not prices. They are promises.

I return every week now. I take one bird. I bow toward the deli, briefly, so as not to alarm the staff. They have begun nodding back.

The vow holds. The bird turns. Five dollars.

Long may it spin.

[kunz @DeFiYeti]

@TheRealDanSaedi and @justinsliao are democratizing what the best performance marketing agencies have had for years: understanding customer intent at scale.

Minerva feels like an agency-in-a-box powered by AI.

[Daniel A. Saedi (DataManDan) @TheRealDanSaedi]

AI can now read your customers' minds.

We raised a $20M Series A lead by 8VC & Lingotto to build this.

Introducing Minerva, built in collaboration with OpenAI:

[kunz @DeFiYeti]

Google proved a cheaper way to break Bitcoin's cryptography but kept the circuit locked.

Eigen opened the problem as a public benchmark.

72 hours later an open network of researchers and AI agents surpassed Google's reference point.

Google's own researcher said they should have just published openly. https://t.co/rJWgPMN6PB

[Sreeram Kannan @sreeramkannan]

https://t.co/2PNyFNV6Oi

[kunz @DeFiYeti]

Stablecoins are just the starting point. For real scale, banks need tokenized or ideally native deposits on a dedicated L1. This is exactly what @RichJWidmann @jmtromans and team are building with Universal Ledger.

By keeping deposits on-ledger, banks can leverage their core product lines and earn more through fractional lending rather than just facilitating transfers.

[kunz @DeFiYeti]

@stripe @mpp Let him cook @mattmurrs. Great for finding citi bike parking on a friday afternoon

[kunz @DeFiYeti]

@guywuolletjr @humafinance @crediblefin @creditcoop_xyz @ZynkLabs @Qiro_Finance Forgot to mention @KYDNimale and @KYDLabs! One of my personal favs since they're innovating in the ticketing space and growing their distribution at scale

[kunz @DeFiYeti]

@guywuolletjr @humafinance @crediblefin @creditcoop_xyz @ZynkLabs @Qiro_Finance been very impressed with these teams innovating in the payfi space

[kunz @DeFiYeti]

@bwein_ @SynchronicityHQ Congrats on the launch!

[Catalysis - Mainnet is live! @0xcatalysis]

Covered vaults are live.

Now let's talk about what vaults, risk parameters, and coverage means for institutions deploying into DeFi.

Tune in Thursday as Catalysis Founder, Abhi ( @xenowits ) hosts,

> Kunz @DeFiYeti (EigenLayer),

> Merlin @MerlinEgalite (Morpho),

> Mike @mkmassari (Credora), and

> Delz @jmo_mx (Gauntlet).

🗓 April 23 | 10AM ET | Join us using the space link below:

[kunz @DeFiYeti]

@AlfieJCarter Masterclass

[kunz @DeFiYeti]

@AlfieJCarter bible

[Sreeram Kannan @sreeramkannan]

https://t.co/6az3c2k5sa

[kunz @DeFiYeti]

@ryanli @SurfAI Let's chat

[kunz @DeFiYeti]

@chapello Congrats on the launch! How is the earn product structured, is it powered by on chain DeFi strategies and vaults or something else?