President Trump has announced a Crypto Strategic Reserve consisting of Bitcoin and other top cryptocurrencies. This is consistent with his week-one E.O. 14178. President Trump is keeping his promise to make the U.S. the “Crypto Capital of the World.” More to come at the Summit.
Cursor (@cursor_ai): 0 to $100M+ ARR in 21 months.
Bolt (@boltdotnew): 0 to $20M+ ARR in 2 months.
Lovable (@lovable): 0 to $10M+ ARR in 2 months.
Which other products/companies are on this type of trajectory?
I am afraid that today real total liquidation is a lot more than $2B, by my estimation it should be at least around $8-10b. FYI, Bybit 24hr liquidation alone was $2.1B, As you can see in below screenshot, Bybit 24hr liquidations recorded on Coinglass was around $333m, however, this is not all of the liquidations. We have api limitation on how much feeds are pushed out per second. From my observation, other exchanges also practice the same to limit liquidation data. Moving forward, Bybit will start to PUSH all liquidation data. We believe in transparency.
DeepSeek just proved the 'worthless' GPT wrapper startups are actually the ones with real moats.
A week ago, nothing was more LOW status than being a 'GPT wrapper' startup.
But I think we're learning that's DEAD wrong. Turns out they were just early to the only game that matters
While DeepSeek, Meta, Anthropic and Microsoft battle over benchmark scores, these 'wrapper' companies have been quietly building the only moat that matters: interface loyalty.
Because of how big owning the LLM is for national defense and the economy, the next breakthrough model is always 2 weeks away. DeepSeek launches today, someone else drops a better one tomorrow.
But getting millions of people to make your product part of their daily workflow - that's the real barrier to entry. ChatGPT didn't win because it had the best model. It won because it was dead simple to use. And I think it has staying power because of that.
This is why all those AI startups we dismissed are actually positioned to win. They're not competing on model performance - they're competing on being the default way humans interact with AI.
Frontier models are becoming commodities. User habits aren't. While everyone obsesses over the next architecture breakthrough, the real game is being played in the interface layer. The moat isn't in the model - it's in being the tool people reach for without thinking.
Technology advantage is temporary. Interface lock-in is forever.
Keep shipping those wrappers, my friends.
Chers @YannBarthesOffi@Qofficiel,
J’ai regardé avec attention les 2 chroniques lunaires sur la #crypto dans vos émissions cette semaine.
Vous êtes bien sûr libres de choisir votre angle éditorial, et ce, même si cet angle est en décalage avec la réalité de notre entreprise qui soutient financièrement votre émission.
Toutefois, réduire la crypto à un memecoin de Trump et à quelques masculinistes torse nu sur Instagram, ce n’est ni de l’information, ni de l’infotainment. C’est tromper votre public.
Vous auriez pu parler des nombreuses voix dans la crypto qui ont critiqué le lancement du memecoin de Trump.
Vous auriez pu aborder le fait qu’aux Etats-Unis, les détenteurs crypto sont en majorité des jeunes et des personnes issues des minorités. Une bonne occasion de s’interroger sur les raisons de cette adoption.
Vous auriez pu évoquer les femmes qui utilisent la crypto pour payer leur avortement, dans un contexte où cet acte médical est devenu illégal dans plusieurs États américains.
Vous auriez pu parler du lobbying de la finance traditionnelle, qui ferme les comptes bancaires d’entreprises et particuliers utilisant de la crypto.
Mais pour cela, il faut effectivement faire des recherches ailleurs que sur X et Instagram. Il faut avoir le courage de ne pas se limiter à une critique facile des “crypto bros” en enchaînant caricatures et inexactitudes.
Non, la crypto, ce n’est pas un groupe de masculinistes musclés en débardeur.
Non, on ne peut pas “recevoir son salaire en bitcoin” (c’est interdit par le code monétaire et financier) et avoir un “problème de change”.
Non, Trump n’a pas “acheté une crypto en marque blanche”.
Non, les régulateurs des marchés financiers ne sont pas “commandés par Donald Trump”.
(Et j’en passe.)
On peut naturellement se moquer des communautés crypto et des memecoins… mais on peut le faire sans raconter n’importe quoi.
Je reste à votre dispo pour en discuter et vous montrer qu’on n’est pas tous des crypto bros ;)
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