Bankr Builder Spotlight @ZaibatsuWagies
ZAIBATSU is building the wage economy of Robinhood Chain.
Zaibatsu Wagies is a collection where NFTs don't sit in wallets — they clock in for work. Holders burn $ZAIBATSU to activate a Wagie, and every clocked-in Wagie starts earning $GME wages from real trading fees, streamed through a fully automated onchain payroll. Higher tiers, bigger paychecks.
The whole machine runs itself: trading fees are collected, converted, and paid out hour by hour with no manual steps, and secondary royalties flow back to clocked-in Wagies as ETH through WagePool. Hold and do nothing, earn nothing — clock in, get paid.
Track the payroll live at https://t.co/G30JeIAu2r
Read my book, Freedom of Money. From my childhood to founding Binance, challenges we faced, wandering the Earth, stories (from my perspective) about Luna/UST, FTX/SBF, dealing with US DOJ, SEC, going through jail (as the only person in US history to ever go to jail for a single violation of BSA), then full and unconditional pardon, and more...
Audiobook: https://t.co/Ow76tim5G4
English: https://t.co/UxgYxYJ3NF
Chinese: https://t.co/ItFd8FEyuK
All proceeds go to Charity.
First IRL book signing event in Dubai soon. Due to limited physical books available, will make the first event a small one.
The hardest problem in agentic AI isn't reasoning — it's the web.
Most AI agents fail in production because they can't actually use the internet. The return policy lives in a PDF. The shipping calculator is a multi-step form. Product specs sit behind a tabbed interface that only loads after a click. To a human, the site works fine. To the AI trying to read it, half the site doesn't exist.
Firecrawl (151K stars, pushed today) is building the infrastructure layer underneath:
- Search: finds actual content, not URL lists
- Scrape: renders JS, handles accordions, tabs, lazy-loaded sections
- Interact: clicks "load more", fills forms, navigates menus, logs in
This is what makes agents actually useful in production. Lovable, Replit, and Zapier use it. Shopify's CEO invested after using it as a customer.
The key insight: the next step for AI agents isn't smarter reasoning. It's the ability to navigate the live internet the way a human does. Models are already smart enough — the web just wasn't built for them to read.
https://t.co/hHGvxebkqo
Applications are now open for the 2026 Paradigm Fellowship: a 4-day retreat for young people who are obsessively good at something technical.
For our fourth year, we're expanding to welcome builders across every frontier — AI, robotics, energy, bio, prediction markets, or something we haven't thought of.
Last year's cohort came from 10 countries. Some were undergrads, some were dropouts, some were founders, some came from OpenAI, SpaceX, Citadel, and Kalshi.
The format is simple: firesides, whiteboarding sessions, and time to hack. What makes it special is what happens in between, and after. Fellows have met cofounders, started companies, and gone on to raise from Paradigm and others.
I was a fellow before joining Paradigm, the retreat was a transformative trip for me, and I met some of my closest friends through the program.
Apply by June 8th. Retreat runs August 12–15th.