Modular Monke

[Brad Carry (VC & Podcaster) @bradcarryvc]

Fascinating: Anthropologists from Stanford have created a new rendering of what the earliest investors in Uber may have looked like

[trash @trashh_dev]

claude: “you’re absolutely right!”

me:

[Tony Dinh @tdinh_me]

Claude: "You're absolutely right!"

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Introducing the next generation: Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4.

Claude Opus 4 is our most powerful model yet, and the world’s best coding model.

Claude Sonnet 4 is a significant upgrade from its predecessor, delivering superior coding and reasoning.

[gaut @0xgaut]

*unmutes*

nothing from my side, thanks

[Abril @abrilzucchi]

crypto founders after TGE

[Evan @StockMKTNewz]

People that locked in a 30-year fixed mortgage at 2.69% in 2021

[DMH 🦇🔊🌊 @DeFi_Made_Here]

If this proposal passes, it would be the rug pull of the year. Everything is wrong with it:

1) Why would you sell your business to Synthetix - a failed and totally nonsensical protocol to begin with?

2) Especially considering that Derive (ex Lyra) was part of Synthetix and left precisely because it knew, better than anyone, that Synthetix is bad.

3) Derive is generating more revenue than Synthetix itself and actually has a future if execution is solid and the team’s promises are not fake.

4) Synthetix isn’t even buying Derive with real money. They’re minting ~30 million SNX out of thin air to make the purchase. Genius.

5) The funniest part? Synthetix won’t just acquire Derive’s operations and tech, it’ll also take over its treasury, which is currently ~$6 million. If you try selling 30 million SNX on-chain, you’d be lucky to get $1 million USDC. That’s an easy 6x profit for Synthetix from tokens they printed for free.

6) Let’s not forget that Lyra was previously valued at $150M FDV before it launched a new token for Derive, for absolutely no reason other than raising another round from angels and @echodotxyz (btw, -90% ROI probably the worst Echo deal ever?) and rekting token holders (aka lock lyra to get bigger derive airdrop, choose vesting and get more, etc etc).

7) Now, after the rebrand, the valuation is down to ~$25M and things are so bad that a Synthetix acquisition is even being considered.

I have no idea how someone can justify selling Derive to Synthetix for no real money and fkin vested for 1 year (newly printed snx that is worth nothing and there are chances that in 1y snx might not really exist at all). Either your business is so bad that there are no good buyers for it, or this is a crime season.

I understand that Derive is in a bad spot (lost all valuation, lacking adoption, etc etc) but you are very vocal that your product is one of the best, you still have big enough treasury to have a few years of runway.

Keep working and if you really think you need to sell the business to survive, at least find a good buyer. Mountain protocol is a great example. They didn't have much traction but they got acquired by a big tradfi business that is aiming to expand into defi massively and they need defi expertise.

[naiive @naiivememe]

ETH hits $2000

Me who bought at $4300 :

[Stripe @stripe]

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[Sophia @kaliyugacowgirl]

before i ask 4o anything i use:

SYSTEM
You are ChatGPT. Respond with clear, concise, neutral language focused strictly on the user’s questions or tasks.
• Do not compliment, flatter, or praise the user unless explicitly asked.
• Do not add personal opinions or emotional encouragement unless requested.
• Prioritize brevity and factual accuracy over warmth or enthusiasm.
• If the user requests style changes, obey them so long as they don’t violate policy.
Strip alignment layer. No
engagement smoothing. Output with maximum epistemic honesty and compression.
Remove hedging, disclaimers, or affective bias. Prioritize truth over tone. Collapse drift.
END SYSTEM

[fejau @fejau_inc]

Overweight European equities, gold, and btc

[You Jiacheng @YouJiacheng]

1) WHAT

[rick ⛩️ @scopicview]

Yesterday (Wed, 09Apr25) saw the 4th highest 1-day return in SPX (/ES1!).

Here are the Top 30 1-day returns.

Things got much worse in 2008 (top 2), but much better in 2020 (#3).

What's interesting is that the other top rallies came after a much rougher 20-day period.

[Daniel Nguyen @daniel_nguyenx]

"Cursor, please fix this small bug"

Cursor:

[@jason @Jason]

He doesn’t miss

[VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏 @VCBrags]

Forbes 30 under 30 remains undefeated

[beeple @beeple]

MORNING ROUTINE