You Spoony Bard!

[MetaMask 🦊 @MetaMask]

AI and web3 meet at the point that matters most: data.

$VVV is Venice’s token on Base, built with a specific job: connecting a wallet to private AI inference.

Here’s how it works 👇

[Hyperliquid @HyperliquidX]

Manual borrows are live on Hyperliquid
Portfolio margin and manual borrows use the same underlying HyperCore infrastructure, with $269M in assets borrowed today.

Users can supply HYPE and BTC as collateral to borrow quote assets (USDC and USDT). Borrowed quote assets pay interest, and supplied quote assets earn interest, with rates set by utilization.

[Joseph Lubin @ethereumJoseph]

For over a decade, our teams helped build the foundations of Ethereum. MetaMask grew out of that work with a simple bet: people should be able to interact with Ethereum directly and control their own assets.

Ten years later, MetaMask has become the world's most widely used self-custodial wallet. And self custody has become a foundational primitive for our ecosystem, and soon for the world. The original MetaMask vision has grown into something much bigger.

We're building MetaMask into a place where people can hold, spend, trade and grow their money on open rails, while remaining in control.

Becoming an independent company gives MetaMask the focus to take that vision much further.

[MetaMask 🦊 @MetaMask]

Today, MetaMask begins its next chapter as an independent company.

Consensys Software Inc., the company behind MetaMask, is rebranding as MetaMask, fully focused on the consumer platform. The protocols and institutional infrastructure businesses, including Linea, are becoming a newly formed company that will carry the Consensys name forward. 🧵

[Rico Go | Ricardo Gorski @ricardogorski]

Leaving Germany 🇩🇪 at 19 y/o was the best decision of my life as an entrepreneur.

I started my first business in 2014. I was too young to register it, so I had to create an "Einzelunternehmen" under my mother's name.

But she was working 3 cleaning jobs at the time. The moment she became "self employed" on paper, the state cut her benefits & raised her health insurance by 350€ a month.

That was my first lesson in German entrepreneurship. You get punished before you earn anything.

Nobody in my family is an entrepreneur. There was nobody to ask. I just felt the inner desire to build something.

On Instagram I saw the people who "make money online". So I saved 5.000€ and flew to Bali.

Every café I visited in Bali was full of young people working on laptops. In German cafés you only see old people with newspapers, complaining about the weather.

That is when I knew I was finally surrounded by the right people.

I made great connections, scaled my online business & actually made some money.

After I hit my first 10.000€ month, I flew back to Germany to set up the tax thing properly.

But again, nobody to tell me what to do. A local tax advisor recommended me to open a "real company".

25.000€ minimum capital to incorporate. But 10.000€ of it was gone within weeks on lawyers, tax advisors, notary & accounting.

And just then the real shock arrived:
> Corporation tax 15%
> Trade tax up to 17%
> Solidarity surcharge on top of the tax
> Income tax up to 45%
> Capital gains 25%

Add further taxes, fees, contributions and private health insurance of 600€ a month & you have a "Kostenapparat" that eats more than 50% of everything you make.

Then the paperwork. There were endless forms for registrations, exemptions, permits, licenses & regulatory frameworks that I needed to fill out, which then signed me up for things I didn't even know existed.

I paid a yearly fee to the "Industrie- und Handelskammer". A club I never joined & that I was not allowed to leave. I still don’t get it today.

I paid 18,36€ every month for state television even though I never watched TV.

I even paid 8% church tax because I was baptized.

But it gets even worse.

In Germany your revenue is public. Anyone can look up what you make with a simple name search on North Data.

So your competitor looks up your financials, checks your website & sends you a 5.000€ legal warning over a GDPR issue.

That's what I hated about German business culture.

Most Germans are not focused on improving their products. They focus on pulling down other businesses, with the power of lawyers.

This is literally a business model in Germany.

But then, a German friend told me that he moved to Cyprus. He paid 1.000€ to incorporate a Cyprus Ltd. & his tax rate is 12.5% while living by the beach.

I flew to Cyprus to see it with my own eyes.

I fell in love with the island lifestyle immediately, met his lawyer & said "F*ck it, let's do it".

Closing the German GmbH cost me another 5.000€. Of the 25.000€ I put in, barely 10.000€ came back out.

Anyway, I didn't care. I knew I would make it back within a few weeks in Cyprus.

And since then my life looks like this:
> Sun every day
> 15% total tax rate
> No letters from the tax department
> No legal warnings about GDPR
> No church tax
> Just pure focus on actually running my business

My biggest learning 7 years after leaving Germany is this:

The silent killer of life quality & business growth is not even the tax rates. It’s the opportunity cost.

Every hour spent on bureaucracy is an hour not spent on enjoying life or working on the business.

And the German government knows what is happening behind the scenes. They know smart money is leaving in record numbers & this is costing them billions in tax revenue.

Shortly after I left, they actually tightened the exit tax. It now also taxes unrealised gains.

Which is so ironic: Because instead of focusing on making it more attractive to stay, they are making it harder (& more expensive) to leave.

Typical Germans.

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

America is winning the crypto race.

CLARITY gets us over the line.

[MetaMask 🦊 @MetaMask]

you do nothing. your money goes up.

what more is there to explain? ⤵️

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

A couple of things on this:

1) More markets moving towards 24/7 is a good thing for global finance - crypto has been an excellent trail blazer and forcing function on this

2) Tokenized assets are about much more than 24/7 trading. There are >4B unbrokered people in the world that can’t get access to the best financial markets in the world. Moving assets onchain vastly improves access and utility

Tokenization and onchain assets are the future of finance

[You Spoony Bard! @youspoonbard]

@seyong @KyleSamani nah my dude you have a $1 minimum fee for ticket sizes < $200. $100 that's 100 bps, $50 that's 200 bps, etc.

[All About Berlin @aboutberlin]

A sudden 20% drop in traffic, despite a stable position in search. Google is pushing AI overviews more aggressively, which is pushing the websites it was trained on further down.

At this pace, All About Berlin will not survive into 2027.

[MetaMask 🦊 @MetaMask]

are your stablecoins still just sitting there?

turn them on and have them earn up to 6% APY for you.

👇

[MetaMask 🦊 @MetaMask]

📁 MetaMask
┃
┣ 📁 Money
┃ ┣ mUSD
┃ ┣ Money Account
┃ ┣ MetaMask Card
┃ ┣ Earn
┃ ┗ Send
┃
┣ 📁 Trade
┃ ┣ Swaps
┃ ┣ Perps
┃ ┣ Prediction Markets
┃ ┣ Memecoins
┃ ┣ Stocks
┃ ┣ RWAs
┃ ┣ Bridges
┃ ┣ Buy & Sell
┃ ┗ Rewards
┃
┣ 📁 Wallet
┃ ┣ Extension
┃ ┣ Mobile
┃ ┣ Portfolio
┃ ┣ Hardware Wallets
┃ ┗ Snaps
┃
┣ 📁 Security
┃ ┣ Transaction Simulation
┃ ┣ Scam & Phishing Detection
┃ ┣ Malicious Address Warnings
┃ ┣ Approval Revoking
┃ ┣ Spending Caps
┃ ┣ MEV Protection
┃ ┗ Open Source
┃
┣ 📁 Networks
┃ ┣ Ethereum
┃ ┣ Bitcoin
┃ ┣ Solana
┃ ┣ Robinhood Chain
┃ ┣ Linea
┃ ┣ Base
┃ ┣ Arbitrum
┃ ┣ Optimism
┃ ┣ Polygon
┃ ┣ BNB Chain
┃ ┣ Avalanche
┃ ┣ Monad
┃ ┣ Sei
┃ ┣ HyperEVM
┃ ┗ MegaETH
┃
┗ 📁 Agent Wallet
┣ CLI
┣ SDK
┣ Guard Mode
┣ Beast Mode
┣ MFA
┣ Multi-Agent Accounts
┗ Delegation

🦊

[kb (lil florida) @kryptobaby777]

Can I say something controversial?

I really like using MetaMask

[MetaMask 🦊 @MetaMask]

Make money moves with the MetaMask Money Account. 💸

Earn, trade, and spend without leaving your wallet.

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[Yagi @sa_vatsa]

@Kimi_Moonshot Kimi just cooked opus 4.8. my guess next open weight from China will be Mythos+

[MetaMask 🦊 @MetaMask]

Robinhood Chain is now live on MetaMask.

Swap, bridge, and manage your tokens (and memecoins) now ⤵️

[MetaMask 🦊 @MetaMask]

MetaMask just turned 10 years old. 🦊

To celebrate, we made you a little something:

https://t.co/RCUpaBF9eU

[Onchain @bigonchain]

Honestly as far as consumer app goes, we’ve got to give @MetaMask a shoutout at how far they’ve improved their UI/UX.

A year back I would not have recommended this to a normie but now I def would, 9.5/10.