I've tested most major crypto debit cards. Here's my honest take on Plasma One vs the competition ๐
Core tier (free for 7 days):
โ 3% base cashback โ matches EtherFi's base rate
โ 5% on AI spend (capped at $500/mo)
โ Free ChatGPT Go (~$100/yr value)
โ ๏ธ Cashback paid in XPL โ value fluctuates with token price
EtherFi still has an edge: cashback in USD + ~4.8% yield on liquidUSD before you spend
Platinum tier:
๐ฅ 4% base, 10% on travel + ChatGPT Plus & Claude Pro bundled
๐ธ Cost: lock 100k XPL for 12 months (~$11k at current prices)
Only worth it if you're XPL bullish AND travel regularly
Tria Premium:
6% cashback on first $2k/month โ best rate for everyday spend
โ ๏ธ Delayed payouts over several months + ~$200/yr fee
My verdict:
โ Tria for first $2k/month spend
โ Plasma Core for AI purchases
โ EtherFi for everything else
โ Plasma Platinum only if you're deep in the XPL ecosystem
I've tested most major crypto debit cards. Here's my honest take on Plasma One vs the competition ๐
Core tier (free for 7 days):
โ 3% base cashback โ matches EtherFi's base rate
โ 5% on AI spend (capped at $500/mo)
โ Free ChatGPT Go (~$100/yr value)
โ ๏ธ Cashback paid in XPL โ value fluctuates with token price
EtherFi still has an edge: cashback in USD + ~4.8% yield on liquidUSD before you spend
Platinum tier:
๐ฅ 4% base, 10% on travel + ChatGPT Plus & Claude Pro bundled
๐ธ Cost: lock 100k XPL for 12 months (~$11k at current prices)
Only worth it if you're XPL bullish AND travel regularly
Tria Premium:
6% cashback on first $2k/month โ best rate for everyday spend
โ ๏ธ Delayed payouts over several months + ~$200/yr fee
My verdict:
โ Tria for first $2k/month spend
โ Plasma Core for AI purchases
โ EtherFi for everything else
โ Plasma Platinum only if you're deep in the XPL ecosystem
Sign up links if you want to try any of these:
๐ต EtherFi: https://t.co/i5wI4hzaZy
๐ฃ Tria: https://t.co/w0RdkbX746
๐ก Plasma: https://t.co/ZhKucq7tIg
Things worth doing with Fable 5 this week.
Take your most important codebase and ask it to do a full audit. Not "review this file" โ give it the whole repo and ask it to find what's broken, what's inconsistent, and what you'd fix if you were starting fresh. It finds things you stopped seeing. Most people are using it for single tasks when the real advantage is in sustained complexity.
Give it the project that stalled. The thing you put down because the model kept losing context or drifting. Fable 5's lead over everything else gets bigger as the task gets longer โ Anthropic's own line: "The longer and more complex the task, the larger Fable 5's lead." That's the part most people are not focusing on.
Other things worth trying:
โ Feed it a broken or abandoned piece of work. Ask it to diagnose what's wrong and fix it one-shot. People are already clearing production bug backlogs this way.
โ Use it for reasoning, not just code. 59% on Humanity's Last Exam. 13.3% on the Legal Agent Benchmark vs GPT's 2.1% โ six times better. If you have a hard problem that requires actual thinking, the gap here is significant.
โ Computer use. It's at 85% on real-environment tasks. Give it a browser workflow or a multi-step desktop task and see what happens.
โ Build something you couldn't finish before. A full 3D game from a single prompt. A 2-minute animated film in one conversation. These are things people in the replies have already done.
It's on the subscription through June 22nd. After that, usage-based only.
The models that actually change how you work don't announce it. You notice when something succeeds that used to fail.
Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that weโve made safe for general use.
Its capabilities exceed those of any model weโve ever made generally available.
Things worth doing with Fable 5 this week.
Take your most important codebase and ask it to do a full audit. Not "review this file" โ give it the whole repo and ask it to find what's broken, what's inconsistent, and what you'd fix if you were starting fresh. It finds things you stopped seeing. Most people are using it for single tasks when the real advantage is in sustained complexity.
Give it the project that stalled. The thing you put down because the model kept losing context or drifting. Fable 5's lead over everything else gets bigger as the task gets longer โ Anthropic's own line: "The longer and more complex the task, the larger Fable 5's lead." That's the part most people are not focusing on.
Other things worth trying:
โ Feed it a broken or abandoned piece of work. Ask it to diagnose what's wrong and fix it one-shot. People are already clearing production bug backlogs this way.
โ Use it for reasoning, not just code. 59% on Humanity's Last Exam. 13.3% on the Legal Agent Benchmark vs GPT's 2.1% โ six times better. If you have a hard problem that requires actual thinking, the gap here is significant.
โ Computer use. It's at 85% on real-environment tasks. Give it a browser workflow or a multi-step desktop task and see what happens.
โ Build something you couldn't finish before. A full 3D game from a single prompt. A 2-minute animated film in one conversation. These are things people in the replies have already done.
It's on the subscription through June 22nd. After that, usage-based only.
The models that actually change how you work don't announce it. You notice when something succeeds that used to fail.
The WWDC story everyone's talking about is Gemini-powered Siri.
That's not the story that matters.
Yes, Apple licensed Google's model at $1 billion a year to rebuild Siri. That's the headline. But buried in the iOS 27 announcement was something more significant: Apple is letting users choose which AI runs inside their phone.
ChatGPT. Gemini (the default). Or Claude.
Apple has 2.2 billion active devices globally.
Even if 5% of iOS 27 users switch to Claude โ that's 100 million new Claude users. From a single OS update. Without Anthropic running a single ad.
Now add the timing. Anthropic filed its IPO paperwork nine days ago at a $965 billion valuation. They're heading toward a public market debut where the quality of their revenue base matters. Enterprise API contracts are one thing. Consumer distribution through the world's most valuable platform is something else entirely.
Apple just became an AI distribution layer. Not a model builder. A platform that routes users to whichever AI they prefer.
That's a different kind of company than the one that walked into WWDC yesterday.
And for anyone building on Claude โ or paying attention to what Anthropic is worth โ September just got a lot more interesting.