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Building @use_corn🌽

[saj @sajrajdev]

Four years ago, I quit my job as a field engineer and took a blind leap into crypto—with no experience and no real plan. What started as a search for meaning during the pandemic turned into the most challenging and rewarding journey of my life.

Here’s how it happened. 🧵👇

[saj @sajrajdev]

San José del Cabo is also part of "Cabo" and it is amazing. You should check it out, specially its art district on Thursdays.

Cabo San Lucas also has some beautiful spots and a rich local heritage.

I grew up in Cabo and trust me, there's more beyond the ill curated view you were sadly sold.

[Haseeb ＞|＜ @hosseeb]

The line "decentralization doesn't matter" is getting repeated more and more these days.

I recently broke out into debate on-stage with @masonnystrom about why decentralization was essential to prediction markets existing at all.

It got heated.

Worth the 5 minutes:

[Spada₿oom @Spadaboom]

People in our space took real risk early. Built real capital. And the products that are supposed to serve and benefit them are all limited by traditional banking infrastructure that wasn't built for them.

I’m one of those people.

Premium fiat-backed cards can't enable global access because their rails won't let them.

Crypto cards have the rails but not the access.

We built on different rails so we could deliver both. Premium access, globally, for the people the traditional system was never designed to serve.

[CORN @use_corn]

The access you've been missing.

Luxe · Dining · Travel · Events

https://t.co/KZonTbeOhv

[saj @sajrajdev]

@tallyxyz What a great run. Thanks for everything you did for the ecosystem and best of luck to the team!

[Spada₿oom @Spadaboom]

In January I shared where we were, what building the Corn network taught us, where real demand lives, and why stablecoins have become impossible to ignore.

What I didn't say is what we were already building.

We've been heads down since. Not talking about it. Not teasing it. Building it. Quietly.

I'm not sure how many more signs the industry needs. Every major fintech and payments company has or is in the process of adopting and integrating stablecoin rails. Stablecoins have graduated from experimentation to infrastructure serving hundreds of millions of people. That's not a narrative. That's a foundation worth building on.

For Corn to enter its next chapter, it has to close the door on the one before it. In order to dedicate the entirety of our focus and resources on what's next, we will be sunsetting the network over the coming months. We are proud of the work we did and who we built alongside, but infrastructure without sustained organic demand is a lesson, not a product.

What’s next for Corn isn't an evolution of what came before. It's a different product, for a different purpose, on a different set of rails. Something uniquely re-imagined.

This is the most convicted I've been over the last 10 years building in the space.

For anyone who's been here through the experimentation, the uncertainty, and the resets, I don't take that lightly.

Tomorrow you'll see what your conviction and belief helped us to build.

The future of Corn starts tomorrow.

[saj @sajrajdev]

😏

[CORN @use_corn]

What? Corn is evolving!

[Vitto Rivabella @VittoStack]

https://t.co/c29CNekR4V

[saj @sajrajdev]

Mexican cuisine is one of only 4 cuisines recognized as World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO, and for good reason.

It's extraordinarily complex and varied. Recipes shaped by ancient indigenous traditions and Spanish influence, with something for every taste. From fresh seafood like ceviche and aguachile, to dishes cooked for days like mole or cochinita pibil.

And contrary to popular belief, most of it isn't spicy. The heat usually comes from the optional salsa served on the side.

Also worth noting: Tex-Mex can be great, but it isn't Mexican food. If your idea of Mexican cuisine comes from Chipotle or Taco Bell, you haven't actually tried it yet.

I encourage you to fix that.

[🥥 𝙇𝘼𝙏𝘼𝙈 🥥 @TheLatamGuy]

I see Mexican cuisine criticized lately: 'India' of Latam, 'slop' food, etc.

Yes, like any country *some dishes are like this, but its simple (and imo best) dishes are tragically underexposed!

E.g. Aguachile: one of my all-time favorite dishes. Simple, healthy, delicious!

🇲🇽

[saj @sajrajdev]

Days like this hit harder and lonelier without CT to go to...

[saj @sajrajdev]

Markets will bleed, tourists will leave. But there's still so much to do.

World powers forced everyone to put their trust in the system and now they are carelessly wrecking it. The world needs trustless systems more than ever. The world needs crypto.

Let's keep building.

[Balaji @balajis]

I have never been more bullish on crypto.

Because the rules-based order is collapsing and the code-based order is rising. So the short term price doesn’t matter.

As international law breaks down, we will need not just onchain currencies, but onchain companies. As the post-war order breaks down, we’ll similarly need the post-internet order. States will fail, and the network will take their place.

We need internet capitalism, we need internet democracy, and we need internet privacy. So we need cryptocurrency.

[nicolas, 30 ans @nic_carter]

https://t.co/j7OZyqsTcx

[saj @sajrajdev]

A solid team growing the @pyefinance

[Pye 🥧 @pyefinance]

We’ve raised a $5M seed round led by @variantfund and @cbventures to build Solana’s first market for term-based staking.

Staking is evolving beyond set-and-forget delegation. Validators and stakers need clear terms, predictable rewards, and real price discovery.

[saj @sajrajdev]

@pyefinance @variantfund @cbventures This is huge. Congrats team!

[saj @sajrajdev]

@hosseeb Great take

[saj @sajrajdev]

Is this the first time that Mainnet base gas fee is under 0.1 gwei?

[saj @sajrajdev]

@elsultanbitcoin @eldoradoio Big fan of @eldoradoio already!

Interesting. So users don't tend to hold dollars (USDT) in the platform but rather use them as a pathway for cross-border payments from their original currency?

[saj @sajrajdev]

Stablecoins through neobanks are the Trojan Horse of crypto to the masses

[Hayden Adams 🦄 @haydenzadams]

Today, I’m incredibly excited to make my first proposal to Uniswap governance on behalf of @Uniswap alongside @devinawalsh and @nkennethk

This proposal turns on protocol fees and aligns incentives across the Uniswap ecosystem

Uniswap has been my passion and singular focus for the past 8 years. What started as a small side project is now global financial infrastructure powering thousands of applications with ~$1.8 trillion in annual trading

UNI launched in 2020, but for the past 5 years Labs has been unable to meaningfully participate in Uniswap governance, and has been greatly restricted in the ways it can build value for the Uniswap community. That ends today!

This restriction was in great part due to a hostile regulatory environment that cost thousands of hours and tens of millions in legal fees. Fortunately, the regulatory environment has shifted

This proposal comes from a strong desire to see the Uniswap protocol win as the global decentralized exchange for tokenized value

At a high level, the proposal:
1. Turns on protocol fees and uses them to burn UNI

2. Sends @unichain sequencer fees to the UNI burn

3. Burns 100M UNI from the treasury representing the protocol fees that could have been burned if fees were turned on at token launch

4. Introduces Protocol Fee Discount Auctions, a new way to improve LP outcomes and internalize MEV to the protocol

5. Introduces "aggregator hooks” which will turns Uniswap v4 into an onchain aggregator that collects protocol fees on external liquidity sources

6. Focus Labs on driving protocol growth and adoption, including a contractual agreement to only pursue initiatives that align with Uniswap governance interests

^ As part of this, Labs will stop collecting fees on its interface, wallet, and API to supercharge distribution and adoption of the Uniswap protocol

7. Moves Foundation employees to Labs with a shared goal of accelerating protocol growth, under a growth fund from the treasury

8. Move governance-owned Unisocks liquidity to v4 on Unichain and burn the LP position

I believe Uniswap protocol can be the primary place tokens are traded. This proposal sets the stage for the next decade of its growth

@Uniswap will ship relentlessly over the coming years and supercharge the ecosystem of developers, LPs, and traders building on top

I'm so grateful to the community that has made this all possible, and excited for what's next

🦄

[saj @sajrajdev]

@zerolore It will be so worth it!

[saj @sajrajdev]

@stats_feed Eating metal nails