As a founder, you have to be almost foolish.
Naively bullish. Irrational about the future.
Because if you weren’t, you’d never start.
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No sane person looks at the odds and says yes.
Most of this fails. Most of the path is painful. You don’t know how long it is, only that it’s longer than you think. And it gets harder after the first big win, not easier. Now you know exactly what the next climb costs.
So you have to believe past the evidence. You have to be a little foolish.
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I read the comments. The real ones.
The pain is real. The losses are real. I’m not going to argue with someone’s red portfolio or explain it away with terminology. That’s not respect.
Some of you loved the vision, bought conviction, averaged down, and watched it go blurry. I see that. I carry it.
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But here’s what the foolishness is actually for.
It’s not for dodging hard questions. It’s the only thing that makes a person stay when leaving is the rational move.
You don’t get the rare win without being willing to look stupid for years. There’s no version where you skip the painful part and keep the upside.
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So tomorrow I keep building. Same as today.
Not because the path is easy. Because someone has to be foolish enough to walk it anyway.
Still here. Still building.
20x improvements is coming. While keeping the same hardware and while pushing on other innovations as well.
SuperNova is the biggest things ever.
600ms blocks with over 3200 nodes with consumer grade hardware. It is magical. nobody else is doing this.
From Day 1, we designed the protocol to be safe for users.
Now, we are scaling those primitives for agents operating at post-human scale.
Supernova is coming.
two weeks ago I wrote: "finality faster than the block slot. 120K TPS. same hardware."
today: 1 billion transactions processed on Battle Net. 120K TPS confirmed live.
still think nobody's building? RT this and tag someone who needs to see it.
For the last years, we have been working toward a new breakthrough. A ground-up rearchitecting to set new records in speed, and UX (in addition to unprecedented throughput).
Yesterday, with the same minimal technical specs, we have processed 1 Billion transactions, achieving a peak of 120k transactions/second in a LIVE community battlenet, with only 3 shards + metachain.
This is SUPERNOVA 🔥
The game has changed.
SUPERNOVA. IS. COMING.
A new beginning. A new frontier. A state-of-the-art, ground-up reinvented, technological foundation.
Built through maximum pain and fire. Earned through sweat, and blood, and tears, every ounce of its resilience, strength, and performance.
Unmatched in speed, throughput, UX, and decentralization. And still, the markets are deeply asleep.
As we prepare to cross into uncharted territory, there is only one question left.
*Are you ready?*
To show up. To own it. To fight.
To ride or die, into a new chapter.
The actions and energy you bring to this moment decide everything that follows.
SUPERNOVA.
Hi Lucian,
There’s conviction in your words, and a weight many of us can recognize.
You delivered. The tech is there. The milestones are real.
And yet the market doesn’t seem to care.
That’s a difficult place for any builder to stand in.
It’s not just the metrics that resonate, it’s the sincerity behind them. That’s what keeps people here, still listening. 👊
And I’ll be honest, over time, I’ve had my share of doubts too, and that’s normal... you know.. we're all human.
Unity is built over time, through small actions, recognition, and making people truly feel they matter, especially after everything they’ve been through.
Because they stayed relentless through over 1700 days of pressure and doubt, watching EGLD fall… still choosing to stay.
They rose to the challenge, holding tighter to the community, to a project strong and creative enough to put the vision before the price.
That kind of resilience matters.
These communities, the ones who kept listening and building despite everything, deserve to be recognized, loudly.
That kind of loyalty comes from real connection💎
I’m not here to make decisions for MultiversX, but I believe there are small, simple actions that could strengthen what’s already there.
EAPES is still here too.
Our FAM is growing, with many arriving from Solana, discovering MultiversX, xPortal, and the ecosystem.
EAPES is still here, with you,
because we still believe it’s possible to rebuild something strong together.
Not as criticism, but there’s definitely room for improvement in this area right now. Unity is so important brother..
👊it's collective strength,
👊it gives meaning to engagement,
👊it builds long-term value.
A community doesn’t die when it doubts.
It dies when it becomes divided… or indifferent.
Technology builds the product, unity sustains it.
I truly admire your courage and your determination.
We’re all in the same boat, weathering storms and rough seas together. 🤝
Let's build something that lasts..
Together. Stronger. Greater.
Best
A Bet We Made in 2018
This is me and Vitalik in 2018. ETH Devcon.
We were at a table talking about sharding and how blockchains could actually scale by running execution in parallel.
At the time, Ethereum and Elrond had the same thesis. Both believed execution sharding was the path forward.
Since then, Ethereum changed direction multiple times. Sharding gave way to rollups. Rollups gave way to "we need to scale L1 again." The roadmap shifted, the promises changed, the technical approach pivoted more than once.
And through all of it - the Ethereum community stayed. They gave the team the space to find the right path. They didn't kill the project when the roadmap changed. They believed the builders would figure it out.
That patience is what kept Ethereum alive. Not the technology. The community.
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We made a different bet. We bet on execution sharding from day one and we never left that path.
Adaptive state sharding shipped on mainnet in 2020. Three execution shards plus a metachain. State, network, transactions - all sharded from genesis.
Supernova shipped this year. Consensus decoupled from execution. 600ms blocks. achieved 88ms finality. 120,000 TPS burst mode on the same validator hardware. 3,200+ validators on consumer-grade machines.
171,000 commits. #6 in the entire industry. Ahead of Solana, Avalanche, Sui, Polygon, Aptos, and TON.
Tier-one infrastructure providers on board, distribution partners like Cointelegraph are running validator nodes. Stripe's Machine Payments Protocol is settling on MultiversX. EGLD is named in an Arizona state strategic reserve bill. The agentic commerce stack - x402, MPP, MX-8004, UCP, ACP, MCP - is live on one chain. xMoney is building regulated stablecoin issuance under MiCA.
The infrastructure underneath has never been stronger.
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And yet the market prices EGLD like none of this exists.
Every blockchain community is going through the same thing right now. EGLD is down. ETH is down. SOL is down. The market doesn't differentiate between chains that shipped paradigm-shifting infrastructure and chains that shipped a landing page.
But here's what's different about right now.
Bitcoin survived 2014. Ethereum survived 2018. Solana survived 2022. In each case, the community stayed long enough for the technology to matter. In each case, the community that held wrote the next chapter.
And in each case, the ones who fractured, who turned on their own builders, who let the loudest voices - the ones who already sold - define the narrative? Those communities don't exist anymore. You don't remember their names.
The perception of value has been distorted. By cycles. By speculation. By narratives that reward noise over engineering. And by us - divided when we should be united. Turning on each other instead of building forward together.
Look at what's underneath. Not the chart. The infrastructure.
88ms finality. 120K TPS. #6 in developer activity globally. Tier-one infrastructure partners. Stripe settling on-chain. EGLD in US state legislation. Regulated stablecoins under MiCA. An agentic commerce stack that Visa, Coinbase, and Mastercard are racing to replicate.
This is not a project searching for relevance. This is a project that shipped the relevance and is waiting for its community to match it.
If this fails, it won't be because the technology wasn't good enough. It will be because we weren't united enough to carry it forward.
I've been here since 2018. That table with Vitalik. Every pivot, every cycle, every doubt. Still here. Still building.
Now it's your turn. Not to believe. To show up.
Today is the last day to submit for the Battle of Nodes Validator Track.
The Security Track will remain open until April 10.
Supernova will transition from Battle Net to Testnet as early as this week.
Full steam ahead toward the biggest upgrade since Mainnet.
Who's Actually Building?
171,000 commits. #6 in the entire blockchain industry.
Ahead of Bitcoin. Ahead of Solana. Ahead of Avalanche, NEAR, Sui, Polygon, Aptos, and TON. Almost 2x Solana. Nearly 3.5x Aptos. The data is public.
I'm not writing this to flex. I'm writing it because the people doing the real work deserve to see it reflected somewhere other than a Git log.
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Building through a market like this is brutal.
The price bleeds. Liquidity gets extracted by professionals who've never deployed a contract. Narratives rotate every two weeks. The projects that survive aren't the loudest, they're the ones that refuse to stop shipping.
We shipped Supernova while the market did everything it could to make us irrelevant. 150,000 lines of new protocol code. 20 months. A complete rearchitecture of how consensus and execution interact.
88ms block finality on 600ms slots. The block finalizes before the round ends. 120,000 TPS burst mode on the same validator hardware. 3,200+ nodes. Full sharding intact.
We didn't build this because the market asked for it. We built it because it was the right thing to build.
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The market rewards narratives. It rewards projects that rename themselves to match whatever's trending.
It doesn't reward the team that designed inclusion proofs so blocks finalize before execution completes. It doesn't reward 171,000 commits. It barely notices.
But here's the thing, infrastructure doesn't need the market's permission to work. Over 500 million transactions processed. 3,200+ validator nodes across four continents. And now, sub-second finality on every transaction type.
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People ask: "What's left for blockchain when AI takes over everything?"
Wrong question.
AI agents need to transact autonomously. They need identity. They need programmable money that settles in milliseconds. They need micropayments at scale without a human clicking "approve."
Credit cards can't do this. Bank wires can't do this. These rails were built for humans, not machines.
This is where the entire stack is converging. Look at what happened in the last 90 days:
Visa launched agentic payment tools. Mastercard acquired BVNK for $1.8B. Coinbase is pushing x402 hard. Circle is racing for stablecoin dominance. Stripe built ACP with OpenAI.
They're all building pieces of the same stack:
identity, payments, settlement, stablecoins.
We built the whole thing. On one chain.
x402 for autonomous agent payments. MX-8004 for on-chain agent identity. UCP, ACP, AP2, MCP for agent communication and commerce. xMoney for regulated stablecoin issuance and fiat-to-crypto connectivity under MiCA. Relayed v3 for gasless transactions so agents don't need to hold tokens to start.
Six protocols. Regulated stablecoins. Fiat rails. One network.
The stack that Visa, Stripe, and Coinbase are assembling from separate pieces, we shipped as a unified layer.
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And the community.
Every validator who kept running through the drawdown. Every builder who deployed when nobody was watching. Every staker who stayed.
171,000 commits. Supernova. Battle of Nodes. Cointelegraph joining as a validator. EGLD named in an Arizona state strategic reserve bill.
The signals are there. The infrastructure is live. The convergence between AI, payments, and blockchain isn't five years away. It's happening now.
The teams that built through the hard part don't need to pivot when the opportunity arrives. They're already there.
We're already there.
MultiversX NFTs are so back! 😎
We have created a short quiz to check alignment, and hand-pick 50 members from the community to steer our next chapter.
Link to quiz: https://t.co/CjJjTsl663
EXCLUSIVE!
Selected individuals will be invited to a Private Webinar to shape the future of Web3 culture on MVX.
Advanced and competitive technology will bring back those days for $EGLD, and even exceed expectations.
That's what I believe, especially after the final approval of the CLARITY ACT.
Elrond is @MultiversX.
Recapping the last several days of progress below, EGLD has completed a series of higher highs and higher lows against BTC. This has effectively given $EGLD the lead across the board with its current market low being Jan. 31, 2026.
In the last two weeks, EGLD printed its 3rd consecutive higher high gaining 40% in value against BTC.
What's most notable is uptick in trading volume during this period. Trading volume for EGLD has not reached these levels since Nov. 21, 2021, and there is a decisive shift in trading volumes growing into this impulsive price action.
Look at the quoted post below to dive deeper.
What Next:
--> Higher Low 4 pending; confirmed only by a Higher High 4.
Since printing a strong HH3, price has thrown back -10% for now; a retracement of up to -20% should be expected.
🟣 Bull case 🟣
Becomes stronger the sooner EGLD can print a higher high 4. At current levels, EGLD is retesting a previous continuation pattern support area that allowed price to push to HH3. Therefore, this range is expected to hold; HL4 will print near -10% from HH3. From there, the impulsive wave will resume and print HH4 at the top of the next impulsive move: breakout #2.
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Next video to come once there is news to report 🙏
Be well, touch grass, NFA. 🫡
AI agents are entering production commerce.
MultiversX supports the full lifecycle at protocol level:
🔍 Discovery (UCP)
🔐 Authorization (AP2)
⚡ Execution (ACP)
💵 Settlement (x402).
Built for continuous, autonomous systems.
Ready today.