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[DRN @xDrend1]

@helium beach house was on another level.

[atis @atisonchain]

Every year, €1.3b flows back into Kosovo from people working abroad. It pays for rent, weddings, school, the mortgage back home.

And most of it still moves the slow, expensive way; through money transfer agencies (55% of it) that take a cut every single time.

This is exactly the problem stablecoins were built to solve.

Think of it as a tunnel under the corridor. Instead of cash crawling across borders through middlemen, value moves directly. Wallet to wallet, in minutes, for cents. Cheaper for the sender. Faster for the family. No 9-to-5, no banking holidays.

On paper, Kosovo is the perfect place to prove it. A young, diaspora-funded country, a fresh MiCA-aligned law, and €1.3B a year looking for a better route.

So why hasn't it happened yet?

Because a tunnel needs both ends to open.

The sending end is two countries: Germany and Switzerland make up 56.5% of inflows. The receiving end needs clean, cheap cash-out, bank access that doesn't get frozen, and people who trust the rails.

And the part that really stuck with me is that a stablecoin remittance has ~8 steps, but Kosovo's central bank can only see the last ones. So even where crypto IS moving money, it's invisible.

My honest takeaway from putting together this reportis that the economics clearly favor stablecoins.

What's missing is licensed operators, real banking, a working cash-out.

The law is finally live. The corridor is sitting right there. We literally have a full fledged market ready for someone to dominate it.

Silence is data, but we'd prefer transparency. Wen CASO register?

[DRN @xDrend1]

@hodluppod Let's keep these coming so the weekend gets more interesting :)

[hodl up @hodluppod]

We're tired of AI slop. So we made a comic... using AI.

Featuring @zachxbt!

[hodl up @hodluppod]

The blockchain is becoming a transformative technology that aims to bring the whole world onchain.

Despite all kinds of use cases, trading remains the king when it comes to volume.

We sat down with @0xSimonJones and discussed how @reya_xyz is contributing to that. Dive in!

[hodl up @hodluppod]

Security is number one when it comes to crypto, and it should be treated as such- the past few months just proved that.

We sat down with @buda_kyiv, Co-Founder of @hackenclub and CEO of @core3io, and discussed how the next generation of security and audits will look. Dive in!

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@hodluppod @Davidareising @LotusFi_ Missed on the beers but now enjoying the episode :)

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@hodluppod @Keycard_ @glgrau love seeing up and coming builders on web3

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@hodluppod @Cryptic_cm @session_app Great energy from @Cryptic_cm and an amazing discussion from you guys

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@hodluppod @Trezor One of the Og's with the newcomers

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The EthCC episodes are still rolling out. Every conversation we record makes it even more obvious that Web3 is the future https://t.co/9OIlkhbmkN

[DRN @xDrend1]

@hodluppod @Scrypt_Swiss this ep is full of french riviera vibes

[hodl up @hodluppod]

Institutions are coming onchain - and that's not necessarily a bad thing since institutions = capital.

The real question is: do we have the infrastructure to welcome them?

We sat down with Sylvan Martin from @Scrypt_Swiss and discussed everything they’ve built… and why.

[hodl up @hodluppod]

Hodl Up[3] from EthCC[9] featuring Cake Wallet

We forgot about one of the most important visions of Satoshi: privacy.

We sat down with @sethforprivacy and talked about that specific thing- including @cakewallet and the future of our industry.

[hodl up @hodluppod]

DOGE came, saw, and is not done conquering.

The doggo was hiding in the shadows during the last memecoin cycle- building.

@MyDogeCEO gave us a lot of alpha on what they are building with @DogeOS.

2026 is the year of the DOGE.

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@hodluppod @MyDogeCEO @DogeOS This is the century of the DOGE

[DRN @xDrend1]

@atisonchain @dretoshi @EthCC I was there through the episodes and can't wait to hear them one more time

[atis @atisonchain]

gm!

1. the world is a tradable market- and it's coming onchain.

2. with the most recent hack, it seems that teams in our industry don’t put that much emphasis on security. but they must.

these are my biggest takeaways from this year's @EthCC in Cannes.

lots of alpha will be dropping this upcoming week w/ @dretoshi 🎞️

[DRN @xDrend1]

@hodluppod @dretoshi @Mercuryo_io @ashtokyo @soultaker_eth lfg.. ethcc episodes will keep coming now💚

[DRN @xDrend1]

@atisonchain @KASTxyz We’ve got the drink card, the casino card, and the silver card just to make sure we can afford the flight home... maybe

[DRN @xDrend1]

@atisonchain @dretoshi @hodluppod @EthCC By the looks of it now @dretoshi is onchain