edge compounds:
better infra/model and more capital → higher win rate and risk tolerance → tighter quotes, more flow, and more market share (very winner-take-all) → more capital to reinvest in infra/model
leaders pull away until microstructure changes or new products appear
I am a long-time admirer of @davidasinclair’s longevity research
also found it morbidly funny that D.A. Sinclair in @InvincibleHQ is a mad biochem scientist who believes humans are flawed and need fixing
praising sbf’s investment acumen is a category error.
managing capital within a mandate and risk parameters is completely different from punting with customer deposits like a shakespearean monkey.
A guy was paying $200/mo for Claude Max. His subscription burned through in 3 hours of work.
He bought a base Mac Mini for $599. Installed 5 local models on it. One command. One flag.
His office neighbors thought he was mining crypto.
He just taught the machine to sort messages, compress context, and keep the system alive while he sleeps.
At 4am Claude hit its rate limit. The local model picked up. In the morning he read the logs - everything worked. He didn't even wake up.
A team doing the same thing - that's 3 engineers and $15,000/mo on API costs.
He paid $599 once.
35 billion parameters on 16 gigs of memory. Everyone said impossible. One flag in one command proved them all wrong.
And people like him - there's only a handful so far.
i interned at sig 6 yrs ago when the sports trading desk had been around for 3
it was also early in covid when we talked about how a market on deaths could converge to truth about its severity (morbidly but quickly) as a public good
fitting to see sig on kalshi's $1B bracket
The $1 Billion Kalshi Perfect Bracket Challenge
$1 Billion for a perfect bracket
$1 Million guaranteed to the top scoring bracket
$1 Million to charity and scholarships
See the full rules and submit your bracket: https://t.co/oIRws6H3Jn
No purchase or deposit required. SIG Parametrics, LLC, a member of the Susquehanna International Group of Companies, is financially backing this promotion.
Season 1 of APR Boost has concluded.
We are distributing allocations to all eligible participants across direct interactions and ecosystem partner waves.
Looking forward to the next phase.
aprMON is now a Cross-Chain Token (CCT), powered exclusively by Chainlink CCIP.
@aPriori also integrated Price Feeds to secure its APR & aprMON markets.
We’re excited to roll out APR Boost.
A few things to note and add:
⌘
"65% goes to users who interact directly with aPriori’s products, using a fixed public formula."
Most incentive programs keep their scoring rules vague for good reasons, but we decided to open source ours completely.
We are unfazed even if people want to gamify or farm the system. We built APR Boost expecting users to optimize, but in all honesty, genuine activities alone should get you a long way.
Since $APR is already a liquid token instead of a points system, users can immediately get a sense of the value they are earning with their actions. We want to stay fully transparent while still growing the business in a healthy way.
Have fun: https://t.co/0ZCTYtPk7u
⌘
"The daily-updating dashboard goes live later this week."
The team is pushing hard to make sure the data is accurate and easy to follow.
⌘
We’ve assembled an amazing group of partners who will be sharing more about how $APR fits into their protocols. I’m genuinely grateful for their support.
⌘
Mainnet airdrop claim opens in 3 days, and you can check your status now. We originally planned for instant claims on day one, but launching on a brand new L1 takes more time to get everything fully ready.
This includes infrastructure, trading venues, and especially liquidity. The team will be working around the clock to make sure $APR pairs have enough liquidity across different venues through both incentives and a direct provision on the bid side with MON and USDC.
Once claim opens, the entire amount will be claimable instantly.
Our short term goal: when users claim, they should be able to trade or use a meaningful size of $APR directly on Monad without needing to bridge out.
Our long term goal: $APR becomes the most liquid asset on Monad.
⌘
When checking your airdrop status, make sure you connect your social, Discord, and EVM wallet so you do not miss out.
⌘
Looking forward to sharing more as we keep building. Thank you to everyone in the community who has been with us from the start.
We’re excited to roll out APR Boost.
A few things to note and add:
⌘
"65% goes to users who interact directly with aPriori’s products, using a fixed public formula."
Most incentive programs keep their scoring rules vague for good reasons, but we decided to open source ours completely.
We are unfazed even if people want to gamify or farm the system. We built APR Boost expecting users to optimize, but in all honesty, genuine activities alone should get you a long way.
Since $APR is already a liquid token instead of a points system, users can immediately get a sense of the value they are earning with their actions. We want to stay fully transparent while still growing the business in a healthy way.
Have fun: https://t.co/0ZCTYtPk7u
⌘
"The daily-updating dashboard goes live later this week."
The team is pushing hard to make sure the data is accurate and easy to follow.
⌘
We’ve assembled an amazing group of partners who will be sharing more about how $APR fits into their protocols. I’m genuinely grateful for their support.
⌘
Mainnet airdrop claim opens in 3 days, and you can check your status now. We originally planned for instant claims on day one, but launching on a brand new L1 takes more time to get everything fully ready.
This includes infrastructure, trading venues, and especially liquidity. The team will be working around the clock to make sure $APR pairs have enough liquidity across different venues through both incentives and a direct provision on the bid side with MON and USDC.
Once claim opens, the entire amount will be claimable instantly.
Our short term goal: when users claim, they should be able to trade or use a meaningful size of $APR directly on Monad without needing to bridge out.
Our long term goal: $APR becomes the most liquid asset on Monad.
⌘
When checking your airdrop status, make sure you connect your social, Discord, and EVM wallet so you do not miss out.
⌘
Looking forward to sharing more as we keep building. Thank you to everyone in the community who has been with us from the start.
@aPriori Results over rhetoric: any big talk or empty promises before a live product on mainnet are just fluff.
So, I’ll save everyone some time and let execution do the talking.
See you Monday on Mainnet.
@aPriori Results over rhetoric: any big talk or empty promises before a live product on mainnet are just fluff.
So, I’ll save everyone some time and let execution do the talking.
See you Monday on Mainnet.
Fun fact: @aPriori raised from 2 Echo groups
1⃣ Voted in a TG chat by @lawmaster when Echo was still in beta; sold out instantly via Big Brain Collective
2⃣ Sold out via 4 Ventures by the amazing @cmsholdings
Built for the community since Day 1
Thank you for participating
Anyone that ever invested in a deal on Echo should be eligible for Monad airdrop. Sending instructions on how you can add your claim to their site shortly. Gmonad.
apriori raised $30m. that's 50% of all capital deployed across monad ecosystem. they're building mev-boosted liquid staking plus the dex aggregator. every monad transaction flows through their infrastructure. pantera hashkey binance labs imc trading backed this for a reason. q4 tge aligns with monad mainnet. infrastructure monopolies capture 10-30% of chain value. do the math on monad's $20b fdv.