kyle

Neofinance @cityprotocolHQ | ex VC, 2x founder | @MIT Technology Review Global Panel

[Diana @sdianahu]

the cost of shipping code went to zero

taste didn't

but "taste" sounds mystical and unfixable, so nobody teaches it. here's the unmystical version: taste is just an eval you haven't written down yet

how you choose what to measure is what matters

1/8

[kyle @kylemonade_]

i must not fear. fear is the eth-killer.

😂

[lito @litocoen]

one day ETH will be worth > $10,000

[Joe Schmidt IV @joeschmidtiv]

https://t.co/i7teOUTWgZ

[City Protocol @cityprotocolHQ]

Asseto Finance will soon be live on our Neofinance stack.

@AssetoFinance powers stablecoin finance infrastructure with $494M in TVL, giving users access to onchain yields backed by a diverse range of traditional finance assets.

Projects can tap into Asseto's yield layer through City Protocol today.

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

One of the toughest parts of being a founder is putting your ideas into the world, seeing if anyone cares (usually they don't - or worse, are rooting against you), and then seeing if you can actually pull it off (usually way more setbacks along the way than you thought!).

You have to:
(1) develop thick skin and find a way to ignore the haters
(2) still take advice from people who have your best interests at heart
(3) have the wisdom to know the difference

Then move from one setback to the next with no loss of enthusiasm for longer than you thought. Be borderline delusional, get after it every day for a decade, and turn out to be right. Finally, when your tenth or hundredth approach to a problem doesn't work, just keep coming up with more ideas.

Had a great day at Base Batches yesterday, meeting founders building on @base and hearing about the latest onchain innovations. Shout out to all the founders!

[City Protocol @cityprotocolHQ]

We are now onboarding @turtledotxyz to our Neofinance stack.

Turtle powers liquidity distribution across Web3, helping users maximize rewards through 900+ active opportunities and $45M in TVL.

In the near future, projects can plug Turtle directly into their yield functions via City Protocol.

[kyle @kylemonade_]

evidence we are living in simulation

[Alps @alpaysh]

Never ever leaving this app

[Base @base]

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[Haseeb ＞|＜ @hosseeb]

DeFi learns through failures. Whether it's from the collapse of Terra, broken auctions during Black Friday in 2020, or the stETH depeg in 2022, it has failed over and over again--but with every failure, it improves.

People talk all sorts of shit about this, but it's no different from how TradFi learned from banking crises, lending contagion (2008), or fraud (savings and loans crises in late 80s).

The important thing is that these failures are not fatal. The heart of DeFi is risk-averse and robust. AAVE might take on some bad debt, but it has the equity to pay it.

DeFi isn't going away. And seeing the vigorous debate around how to improve it is exactly the process by which it keeps getting better.

Bullish DeFi, and bullish this community.

[kyle @kylemonade_]

@andyyy lot of people here may not know how the hard fork in 2016 had saved ethereum from the DAO hack

[kyle @kylemonade_]

@tengyanAI dont spray salts on my wounds bro

[Billions @billions_ntwk]

Billions + @cityprotocolHQ + @baseapp = Soon.

[kyle @kylemonade_]

@DataLust_xyz the isolation from claude and openAI give you enough headache already lol

[City Protocol @cityprotocolHQ]

In Q1 2026, we launch Viral City, the Reward Module of our neofinance stack.

Now Q2 marks the real beginning of our Attention-Capital Flywheel as we launch the Earn Module as we launch the Earn Module.

Here's what's coming 👇

[City Protocol @cityprotocolHQ]

🦞 OpenClaw just went live on Viral City @baseapp

Create videos with your lobster using the new OpenClaw template → Share on X & @baseapp → Win 1,000 Viral City points.

Here's how 👇

- Hit Studio → Projects → OpenClaw template
- Drop your video on X & @baseapp, tag @cityprotocolHQ + #ViralCity
- Top engagement wins 1,000 points

Visualize your experience with your 🦞 today!

[kyle @kylemonade_]

onchain alternative investement is a more efficient market, hence a bigger market

[PlayKami @PlayKamiApp]

Pokémon cards just went institutional.

@MemeStrategy (HKEX:2440) launched what they’re calling the world’s first tokenized Pokémon trading card fund (for professional investors) via EVIDENT.

Flagship holding: PSA 10 “Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat”
• Estimated market cap: $94m
• PSA10 pop: ~47,000 (capped)
• Price: +400% since late 2023
• Goal: exposure to ~25% of available PSA10 supply

Culture → capital is happening in real-time

[Andy @andyyy]

Unfortunately, Illia is right. Crypto has such a terrible perception from the outside that AI companies don't want to touch it with a ten foot pole.

Not sure the solution outside of top-tier builders and entrepreneurs like Illia moving to SF and proving people wrong one by one.

The agentic commerce x crypto rails holy matrimony is truly prophetic, but our shit stinks over here.

Something we can all work to improve. Regardless, the convergence will happen imo, just a matter of *when* and how *much* resistance we get.

Onwards.

[Rips @ripsapp]

Boosted Packs are LIVE 💥

We’re excited to introduce our first Boosted Pack, in partnership with City Protocol (@cityprotocolHQ)

Boosted Packs are limited-edition, partner-sponsored packs designed to deliver a positive expected value. Partners partially fund these drops to increase visibility and distribution, which allows us to pass more value directly to players 💙

For this first release:
• 500 packs
• $0.25 per pack
• Target EV of coins inside is positive 👀 🔥

City Protocol is building attention and capital infrastructure for onchain assets, treating distribution and liquidity as two sides of the same flywheel. That thinking aligns closely with how we view Rips: a new kind of onchain ad unit where discovery, attention, and capital flow together in a way that’s native to crypto.

If you want to learn more about City Protocol and see what they’re building, join the Viral City community on Base 👇
https://t.co/pTdMT9KQs8

Boosted Packs are part of our broader effort to experiment with sustainable, scalable business models onchain, ones that work for users and projects.

If you’re a project, pre- or post-TGE, and want to explore Boosted Packs, reach out. We’ll be scaling this program significantly over the coming weeks.

[kyle @kylemonade_]

@arthur0x agree but you are also underestimating the egoism and money maxi in this industry haha

[Arthur @arthur0x]

So this is what end of an era feels like.

Have always wondered how some of the biggest industries and sectors in the past went into another era.

Surreal to experience it first hand.