Lily Liu
@calilyliu
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president @solanafndn | board @anagramxyz @ledger @inside_r3
Joined April 2009
Enjoyed the vision of @calilyliu from @SolanaFndn • @solana is a tech for finance: speed, costs, programmability and liquidity • stablecoins are a safe haven with many utilities • building close relationships with governments and institutions Solana is well positioned now
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At this point, the NYT playbook is old and tired. Its ideological agenda masquerading as “news” and “journalism” was found out long ago. Here is the TLDR on NYT world view: Innovation, achievement, and ensuing wealth creation are inherently bad, extractive, and oppressive.
INSIDE NYT’S HOAX FACTORY Five months ago, five New York Times reporters were dispatched to create a story about my supposed conflicts of interest working as the White House AI & Crypto Czar. Through a series of “fact checks” they revealed their accusations, which we debunked
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This is the math which millennial and younger generations have intuited in their adulthoods. In Asia, the last generation built wealth through real estate. But the gains are gone, and there are no scale accessible assets with scale and upside available to this generation. ie
You mathmatically can't compound your way to wealth anymore... 20 years, 7% returns, 3% inflation, 40% taxes -- best case you 1.5x your investment. That is why the kids YOLO it... plain and simple.
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Here are the two most important realities in crypto, hiding in plain sight. Obvious to anyone who looks and sees. Yet still treated as contrarian. Seen by millions every day, understood by few: 1/ Good tech → good market cap Open the Cryptocurrencies tab. Who actually has the
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We support our builders and community everywhere they are, including at @binance Blockchain Week (where we are sponsoring). On Dec 3, I will be on stage with @_richardteng and @bgarlinghouse
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Agree on emphasizing the importance of seeing exponential opportunity. Disagree on the position that revenue doesn’t matter. If we want to expound on tech learnings, all of the exponential early stage metrics ultimately manifested in revenue - it just took a decade or more to
In Defense of Exponentials I used to tell founders, the reaction you are going to get to your launch is not hate, it’s indifference. By default, nobody cares about your new chain. I have to stop telling them that now. Monad just launched this week, and I’ve never seen so much
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We are Layer33: A collective of 25 independent @Solana validators committed to maintaining network decentralization. Our mission: ensure 33% of stake remains with independent, high-performance operators. 🧵👇
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the ghost chain became the ftx chain became the nft chain became the dead chain became the memecoin chain became the everything chain
🚨BREAKING: Memecoin trading volume now accounts for under 5% of @Solana's daily DEX volume, the lowest share since memecoin activity accelerated two years ago. Despite the drop, Solana DEX volume remains higher than all other Layer 1 and Layer 2 blockchains.
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evil ultra-extractive monopolistic megacorp....onchain who is building this?
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Solana Foundation and GITA joined forces to accelerate innovation, talent, and tech growth in Georgia.
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Not sure who needs to hear this.... AuM is not TVL Seeing bulge bracket banks publish research which use AuM and TVL interchangeably 😅
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a proud moment professionally and personally. Solana has signed an MoU in Georgia to support local talent and innovation. After years of contributing to the Solana ecosystem, seeing this come to life in my home country means a great deal. Just a small sign of what’s ahead.
Solana Foundation and GITA joined forces to accelerate innovation, talent, and tech growth in Georgia.
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Convergence
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@divine_economy I'd rather have best in class UX and a large audience of users than more chains Solana doesn't need EVM
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Solana prop amms are incredible, consistently better price execution than coinbase
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Question I hear every day: "By when should we do xyz thing" The answer is always the same: "Yesterday" Very simple!
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