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stablecoins @FlexSuperApp

[Flex @FlexSuperApp]

https://t.co/t5jdViCsnW

[vince @pixelatedvince]

@zaidrmn @randombankguy

[vince @pixelatedvince]

😂

but also 🥲

[LilMoonLambo @LilMoonLambo]

Last night in NYC I saw this guy balancing Ethereum on his head

[vince @pixelatedvince]

my turn to glaze

have been super impressed with Shad’s knowledge and connections in the crypto and fintech space. can’t wait to build a bunch of cool products together @FlexSuperApp

[Shadman @randombankguy]

I got to spend the last 3+ years at Mercury doing what I loved - making sure Mercury became the go-to home for some of crypto's top companies. We believed in the folks building real companies in crypto, even when no one else did, and far before it became cool to be a bank in crypto.

I've joined Flex as Head of Flex Global & Crypto to focus on an even bigger mission: to bring world class financial products to millions of underserved businesses across the world.

Flex has quietly become a trusted partner to thousands of businesses in the US. Businesses that were told no by their banks, and whose needs were overlooked by banks and fintechs building for AI agents and 20,000 person enterprises.

With the help of design partners that are leaders in their industries, we're re-designing global banking* from the ground up, with stablecoins not as a product, but as infrastructure that amplifies years of banking rails, partnerships, and credit expertise.

More to come - super excited to join @zaidrmn, @defyneric, @jaredthomas, and the rest of the team. It's day 1.

*Flex is a technology company, not a bank :)

[vince @pixelatedvince]

the american dream

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: SpaceX welder who immigrated from Mexico & started with $10,000 in company equity expected to become a millionaire post-IPO.

[vince @pixelatedvince]

@Ryan_Triumph @TengriTheTruth hey bud, you’re saying RON dropped because of the Moku payout

but Moku payout was done in USDC, not RON

so the sell pressure on RON can’t be because of Moku because no one received RON

you know this right? you’re just trolling for fun? or you actually don’t get it?

[sudox @kmcnam1]

jfc....

[vince @pixelatedvince]

@defyneric 👨‍🍳

[eric @defyneric]

had a demo of our stablecoin suite earlier today

design team cooked on that one.

[vince @pixelatedvince]

@mattpocockuk i thought @garrytan had argued the exact opposite of this 🤔

[a16z crypto @a16zcrypto]

BREAKING: The Senate Banking Committee has voted to advance the CLARITY Act. Next stop: the Senate floor.

[vince @pixelatedvince]

@lilyjclifford directionally very bad

[vince @pixelatedvince]

anthropic looking to be the full stack OS for companies in general

if you’re a company, then you’re within anthropic’s ICP

coding, design, legal, security, finance, HR, payroll, accounting

they’re coming for all of it

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Anthropic courts a new kind of customer: small business owners https://t.co/WHeGtnJdmJ

[vince @pixelatedvince]

much more coming

[Flex @FlexSuperApp]

https://t.co/OBs4x1C2gl

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

This works really well btw, at the end of your query ask your LLM to "structure your response as HTML", then view the generated file in your browser. I've also had some success asking the LLM to present its output as slideshows, etc.

More generally, imo audio is the human-preferred input to AIs but vision (images/animations/video) is the preferred output from them. Around a ~third of our brains are a massively parallel processor dedicated to vision, it is the 10-lane superhighway of information into brain. As AI improves, I think we'll see a progression that takes advantage:

1) raw text (hard/effortful to read)
2) markdown (bold, italic, headings, tables, a bit easier on the eyes) <-- current default
3) HTML (still procedural with underlying code, but a lot more flexibility on the graphics, layout, even interactivity) <-- early but forming new good default
...4,5,6,...
n) interactive neural videos/simulations

Imo the extrapolation (though the technology doesn't exist just yet) ends in some kind of interactive videos generated directly by a diffusion neural net. Many open questions as to how exact/procedural "Software 1.0" artifacts (e.g. interactive simulations) may be woven together with neural artifacts (diffusion grids), but generally something in the direction of the recently viral https://t.co/z21CP5iQfu

There are also improvements necessary and pending at the input. Audio nor text nor video alone are not enough, e.g. I feel a need to point/gesture to things on the screen, similar to all the things you would do with a person physically next to you and your computer screen.

TLDR The input/output mind meld between humans and AIs is ongoing and there is a lot of work to do and significant progress to be made, way before jumping all the way into neuralink-esque BCIs and all that. For what's worth exploring at the current stage, hot tip try ask for HTML.

[vince @pixelatedvince]

came to this same realization myself and have shifted all of my curated documents to HTML. i’m also a power user of “make me 5 HTML options to pick from” that @trq212 describes

[Thariq @trq212]

https://t.co/MXt5XS4xBX

[vince @pixelatedvince]

whoa

[Zain Shah @zan2434]

Imagine every pixel on your screen, streamed live directly from a model. No HTML, no layout engine, no code. Just exactly what you want to see.

@eddiejiao_obj, @drewocarr and I built a prototype to see how this could actually work, and set out to make it real. We're calling it Flipbook. (1/5)

[vince @pixelatedvince]

can’t believe they went with “NewBird AI” instead of AIbirds

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Allbirds stock, $BIRD, surges over +200% after announcing they are pivoting from shoes to AI.

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

𝕏 has always been the best source of financial news for traders and investors. Billions of dollars are allocated every day based on what people read on Timeline.

Today we're launching our new Cashtags feature in the US and Canada on iPhone, bringing real-time financial data to X.

Here's how it works:

1. When you search for or post a cashtag (or contract address), X will automatically suggest matching stocks or crypto tokens, so you can select the exact asset you had in mind.

2. Anyone who taps a Cashtag will see posts mentioning it along with its price chart—without ever leaving X.

This ensures that you're always matched to the chatter for the right stock or token.

Cashtags are just the first step in our commitment to be the best destination for the finance and crypto community.

[vince @pixelatedvince]

will we ever get a (human) response from @circle addressing @zachxbt’s evidence-backed claims?

either take accountability and outline how you’ll do better, or refute them and back it up

the silence is deafening

[ZachXBT @zachxbt]

Circle has resulted in $240M+ directly funding North Korea across multiple hacks when you had hours to act for a clear cut case.

How is that compliance for USDC?

Stop acting as if you represent permission-less values you are a centralized stablecoin issuer and publicly traded company with an admin button to freeze.

Do not forget the times US law enforcement sent you the same request as Paxos, Tether, Techteryx in relation to Lazarus Group and took 5 months longer to respond.

No law says you could not freeze and your terms of service say you can freeze.

“Internet-native financial activity” moves in minutes for incidents while the ask of a court order takes days.

Instead you freeze 16 business hot wallet for a US civil case due to TRO that had incorrect tracing.

Your blog post contradicts itself in many ways and it’s clear you a leadership problem.