Peter Nadimi

GC @category_xyz | Monad builder | Ex-@aptoslabs / @Meta | tweets/likes ≠ legal advice/endorsements

[Matthew Prince 🌥 @eastdakota]

Welp, that happened faster than I predicted. Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history. https://t.co/2zX5bHdhsa

[Peter Nadimi @pnadimi]

Drop and give me longevity.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Men, take a break from whatever you're doing and see how many pushups you can do.

How many did you do?

It's a predictor of your heart disease risk.

. 20+ reps is linked to a 75% lower risk
. less than 10, you gotta get off dat ass

Data from 10 yr study of 1,104 men aged 21 to 66.

Pushups outperformed submaximal VO2max at predicting events, likely because pushups capture muscular strength and power on top of fitness, two of the strongest protective biomarkers known.

Limitations: the cohort was middle-aged male firefighters, so do not extend to women, older adults, or sedentary populations. The under 10 group was also older, heavier, and smoked more, so some signal is residual confounding by overall metabolic health.

[Peter Nadimi @pnadimi]

@kevtanggg @monad gmonad and welcome!

[Peter Nadimi @pnadimi]

Follow the signal, cut out the noise.

Another trading app migrates to @monad.

No better place to build the future of capital markets.

[HelloTrade @hellotradeapp]

HelloTrade is moving to @monad.

We remain focused on our mission to make global capital markets more accessible to everyone around the world. We’re excited to build alongside the Monad team, who share our vision of bringing this future to life at global scale.

Stay tuned for further updates as we continue progressing through Alpha testing.

[Peter Nadimi @pnadimi]

Best blockchain research team in the game and it ain’t even close.

[Category Labs @category_xyz]

We are thrilled to learn that 6 of 34 total accepted papers at this year’s Science of Blockchain Conference (SBC) were co-authored by Category Labs researchers, including some of our interns from last summer.

See 🧵👇 for details on the individual submissions and stay tuned for the presentations at the conference at Stanford July 27 - 29.

[Peter Nadimi @pnadimi]

Reading this while traveling internationally hits hard.

@bryan_johnson is not wrong about your body and mind taking a toll.

There may be some things in life worth taking such a hit.

The perspective gained from traveling outside of your home country is not replicable and is a medium to so many long term benefits that the short term impediments are easily outweighed.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Modern life has tricked us into thinking travel is good.

It's kind of barbaric for the body.

Last time I went to Asia we measured my biomarkers.

The data was bad…

+ 9 days for blood glucose stability
+ 9 days to re-entrain my circadian rhythm
+ 18 days for sleep architecture recovery

The research:
+ people who travel constantly for work (3+ wks a month) have measurably more anxiety, depression, and drinking problems than people who don’t
+ repeated jet lag is linked to memory-region shrinkage in flight crews
+ your immune system takes a hit. Dry cabin air dries out mucous membranes that block infection which can leave you more exposed to getting sick

This is intuitive because the body runs on a clock. Biological processes kicked off by another, with sleep + sun running the show.

Cabin altitude is ~7,000 ft. Hypoxia alone disrupts cortisol and suppresses nocturnal melatonin for hours after you land. Cabin humidity drops as low as 5% (drier than the Sahara).

If you’re budgeting your international trips: I’d suggest no more than once every 3 months. Evidence shows you need ~1 day per time zone to re-entrain, and east is worse than west.

Once Kate gets back she’s starting the female protocol. This also means she can’t travel internationally for at least a few months while we collect baseline measurement.

The body understands time zone changes as trauma.

I hope that this is my last international trip for a very long time.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

@romlib_ Crypto is a legit and indeed inevitable technology. Usually such things are net positive.

[Peter Nadimi @pnadimi]

The NFT Renaissance will be one to remember.

Not there yet but it will come.

No better place than @monad

[beeple @beeple]

BRING BACK NFTS

[Peter Nadimi @pnadimi]

@CoachDanGo Unless you’re referring to sweet potatoes, this is misinformation.

[Peter Nadimi @pnadimi]

.@lufthansa is like the German Spirit Airlines

[Peter Nadimi @pnadimi]

Damn.

Need Complex Kitchens in every city to do these cleanings.

[Complex Sneakers @ComplexSneakers]

.@sneakkyklean pulled up to the Complex office and gave our sneakers a spring cleaning 🧽

[Peter Nadimi @pnadimi]

I feel you, @pmarca.

Pretty much my experiece @category_xyz

[David Senra @davidsenra]

Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) on what it’s like to work at SpaceX:

“It’s like being dropped into a zone of shocking competence.”

“Everybody is ultra competent, and the reason everybody’s ultra competent is because if they’re not, Elon sniffs it out and fires them. He knows, ‘cause he’s talking to the people actually doing the work.”

“The best engineers in the world want to work for him, ‘cause he’s the one CEO like this who’s able to work with them as a peer on whatever the technology is.”

“What would be better as an engineer than being able to design a rocket engine with Elon Musk as your engineering partner?”

[Peter Nadimi @pnadimi]

Stablecoin ubiquity + tokenization of everything coming soon.

[Andy @andyyy]

Just met with a digital assets lead of a Tier 1 bank in NYC, here's the top takeaways.

1. They are "all-in" on stablecoins for payments and wanting to build fintech applications on crypto rails. Its a very clear usecase and easy sales pitch to most of their divisions internally and the value prop is easy to see: 24/7 global payments for a fraction of the cost of a wire transfer. Easy.

2. They are not thinking about perps and Hyperliquid. Not one bit. Perps and trading onchain is something that they understand is coming, specifically 24/7 markets, but when I brought up Hyperliquid, Lighter, Variational, was not really in their scope.

3. They are however interested in tokenization and see it as a credible threat to their business as it stands.

4. CLARITY worries them, and they are just *now* taking stablecoins seriously. Why? Well, of course, because the worry of losing customer deposits.

5. They are actively investing serious amounts of capital into fintech teams and neobanks, albeit they are very early and still trying to figure it all out.

[Peter Nadimi @pnadimi]

Amazing.

I didn't understand 95% of this video but by the end I was nearly in tears.

Congratulations (for achieving whatever was achieved), OpenAI.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Today, we share a breakthrough on the planar unit distance problem, a famous open question first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946.

For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids.

An OpenAI model has now disproved that belief, discovering an entirely new family of constructions that performs better.

This marks the first time AI has autonomously solved a prominent open problem central to a field of mathematics.

[Peter Nadimi @pnadimi]

Giga 🧠 researchers at @category_xyz keep pushing the envelope.

Innovation on @monad 📈

[Category Labs @category_xyz]

Category researchers and collaborators received a Distinguished Paper Award at IEEE S&P conference (@IEEESSP) for their paper related to private mempools.

The techniques introduced were ultimately leveraged in BTX, our latest state-of-the-art Batched Threshold Encryption (BTE) scheme.

Congratulations to our researchers: Amit Agarwal, Babak Poorebrahim Gilkalaye, @KushalBabel, @sourav1547, @PeterRindal

[Peter Nadimi @pnadimi]

State attempts to ban prediction markets only expedite the battle in the courts.

[Bobby Allyn @BobbyAllyn]

NEW: Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets https://t.co/0dkM6PxDkd

[Peter Nadimi @pnadimi]

The equivalent of picking up Lebron James in the AI free agent game.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

[Peter Nadimi @pnadimi]

Must admit that I didn't expect tokenized securities to move so quickly to market.

Buckle up.

[Bloomberg @business]

The Trump administration is poised to roll out a plan for trading digital versions of securities that could reshape the landscape of the American stock market as it continues to loosen the rules for free-wheeling crypto markets https://t.co/zj5OJg1CHf

[Peter Nadimi @pnadimi]

Prediction markets are proving to be incredible forecasting engines, but this new frontier requires guardrails.

Kicking off this initiative with NCPG shows @Kalshi’s commitment to responsible innovation.

Empowering retail traders through education is how we protect the longevity of these markets.

[Tarek Mansour @mansourtarek_]

We’re funding a new Financial Trading category within NCPG to advance trader health & safety.

While financial markets have different incentive structures than casinos and sportsbooks, there is still risk of irresponsible trading, whether it’s active stock trading, short-dated options, levered futures, crypto, or prediction markets.

NCPG’s initiative will invest in education and awareness of our responsible trading resources - self assessments, risk management, account limits, and more.

As retail participation in markets increase, we have a responsibility to balance free markets and individual responsibility with customer education and safety guardrails.

We want to set a new standard for the industry and hope other retail financial platforms join us.

https://t.co/jgHvHt9IEE