Didier Deschamps is not in France's dugout today after travelling back home following his mother's passing.
Norway presented France assistant Guy Stephan with a bouquet of flowers in a touching pre-match tribute. ❤️
I hate Paris
I spent the last 4 days there, but I also lived there for around 2 years in total, so this is not a tourist opinion
Every time I go back, I have the same question:
Why do so many people accept living like this?
No air conditioning, too much insecurity, public transport that sucks, tiny overpriced apartments, noise, stress, dirt, and the feeling that the city is slowly eating your nervous system
Also, the two usual excuses don’t hold
1. If you are an entrepreneur, you say: “I need to be close to the ecosystem”
Nah, if you want a real global tech ecosystem, go to San Francisco or Shenzhen
Don’t stick to the BPI-subsidized environment
If you want to build in France with a better life, go to Nice: sea, mountains, airport, security, food, light, Italy next door, Monaco nearby
2. If you are an employee, you say: “Salaries and jobs are better in Paris”
Sometimes, yes
But €2,500 net per month in Paris is not a good salary
It is survival with a dedicated path to becoming the kind of guy who runs during the week and takes drugs in techno clubs on weekends to escape his 9 to 5
You pay insane rent, sweat in the metro, sleep badly, queue for everything, and live surrounded by communists and wokists
I don’t buy it
Please explain to me
France is hardcore mode for founders:
• Pay an employee $5K net → costs you $13K
• Make profit → 30% corporate tax
• Succeed → public calls you an exploiter
• Get famous → kidnapping becomes a real threat
No other country stacks the difficulty this high.
On va faire rouler nos 3500 milliards de dettes à 4%, un taux jamais vu depuis 2009 et pas un mot des politiques et sur les chaînes d'infos, tout le monde fait comme si de rien n'était.
Ça va être un carnage économique.
Tic tac tic tac...
“The best strategy is to do 100 things and hope that some of them work – and if they don’t, do another 100 things.”
- Economic sciences laureate Edmund Phelps on how to encourage entrepreneurs
Le chômage progresse pour le 5ᵉ trimestre consécutif et la croissance est nulle. Nos records mondiaux de dépenses publiques (57 % du PIB) et de prélèvements obligatoires n’ont jamais créé ni de richesse ni d’emplois durables : ils ont seulement nourri la bureaucratie et multiplié les entraves à l’encontre de ceux qui produisent.
Charges écrasantes sur le travail, normes et procédures administratives sans fin, fiscalité qui asphyxie l’activité, complexité qui bloque les projets et l’embauche.
Le pays réel ne demande qu’à travailler et à prospérer. Il est temps de lui en laisser les moyens : liberté économique, responsabilité individuelle, baisse massive des dépenses pour symétriquement baisser les charges sur l’emploi et les impôts sur l’investissement, simplification radicale.
Il n’y a pas de fatalité au déclassement de la France et l’appauvrissement des Français.
Une @nouv_energie est indispensable.
For years, I’ve watched the same pattern repeat itself: institutions rebuilding the same onchain infrastructure, from private blockchains to internal sandbox tooling, each operating in isolation. Fragmented systems. Disconnected. No shared foundation.
The issue was never a lack of products. It was the absence of rails: a unified layer where DeFi and real-world assets can truly converge.
That’s exactly what we’ve been building at @railnet_org.
Today, we’re launching the Railnet App, and I’m incredibly proud of what the team has delivered.
The Railnet App is a single interface for institutions and high-net-worth individuals to access managed and non-custodial strategies across BTC, ETH, and stablecoins from anywhere in the world, at the tip of a wallet. These onchain strategies combine real-world assets and DeFi while offering full position transparency, audit-ready data, and removing the need for institutions to build infrastructure themselves.
These strategies are managed by tier-1 regulated asset managers, including @CoinSharesCo and @monarq_mgmt by @FalconXGlobal, both live on the platform today.
This is only the beginning 🫡
→ https://t.co/K94nHxsoDO
We’re also revamping https://t.co/OjelmfCEzr
Isn’t it a real mystery why more people don’t want to move to Europe?
It’s such a great environment to build your career, start and grow a business, and raise your children safely.
> be lazarus group
> hack kelp dao for $292m rsETH
> don't dump it, pawn it on aave, borrow $190m clean ETH against it
> $8b tvl flees aave in 48h, first real defi bank run
> arbitrum security council freezes $71m (the only money ever recovered)
> push the remaining $175m into thorchain, pay the protocol $494k in fees for the service
> convert to btc, shatter into utxo confetti across thousands of addresses
> bridge to tron, swap for USDT
> chinese OTC brokers aggregate the flows, settle via unionpay, outside SWIFT, outside sanctions
> cash lands in pyongyang, funds the missile program
> 7 days, 9 protocols, all 100% public on-chain, nobody stops any of it, defi btw
Barry & Cosmos Labs on Cosmosis:
tl;dr: Right direction. Wrong deal.
@cosmoslabs_io is not rejecting the idea of a Hub DEX, but they are rejecting paying this much, in this structure, for @osmosis specifically.
Osmosis proposal is too expensive, too loose on incentives, and too uncertain on whether liquidity/revenue actually migrate to the Hub.
@BPIV400 the argument is:
don’t spend the community pool on a deal that still doesn’t prove value capture.
Source: https://t.co/WytHci8vsy
Router > Religion.
🫡
"À la naissance, on monte dans le train et on rencontre nos parents. Et on croit qu’ils voyageront toujours avec nous.
Pourtant, à une station, nos parents descendront du train, nous laissant seuls continuer le voyage…
Au fur et à mesure que le temps passe, d’autres personnes montent dans le train.
Et elles seront importantes : notre fratrie, nos amis, nos enfants, même l’amour de notre vie.
Beaucoup démissionneront (même éventuellement l’amour de notre vie), et laisseront un vide plus ou moins grand.
D’autres seront si discrets qu’on ne réalisera pas qu’ils ont quitté leurs sièges.
Ce voyage en train sera plein de joies, de peines, d’attentes, de bonjours, d’aurevoirs et d’adieux.
Le succès est d’avoir de bonnes relations avec tous les passagers pourvu qu’on donne le meilleur de nous-mêmes.
On ne sait pas à quelle station nous descendrons, donc vivons heureux, aimons et pardonnons.
Il est important de le faire car lorsque nous descendrons du train, nous ne devrons laisser que de beaux souvenirs à ceux qui continueront leur voyage.
Soyons heureux avec ce que nous avons et remercions le ciel de ce voyage fantastique. Aussi, merci d’être un des passagers de mon train.
Et si je dois descendre à la prochaine station, je suis content d’avoir fait un bout de chemin avec vous."
Jean d'Ormesson, L'enfant qui attendait un train