In many countries, it’s difficult to send and receive money without losing significant value to fees and middlemen. Crypto offers a different vision for international payments and I’m thrilled to share our co-lead investment in @0xdirichlet & the remarkable team at @sphere_labs

RT @blknoiz06: payments is one of the blatantly obvious usecases where blockchains are substantially better than existing systems. super bu….

gamification is dead. focus on making your users rich.

if he can repeat, I may have to move back. this is too good.

payments don’t converge, they localize. another great update from the team @sphere_labs.

RT @maybe_cmeister: NGL @sphere_labs is by far the best product ive ever used in crypto, withdrew a reasonably successful lawyers networth….

RT @TopoGigio_sol: The single greatest commercial success story from this era of Solana will be @sphere_labs . Crypto muses about disruptin….

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RT @jia_DeFi: 1/.🏗️ 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲. Decades ago, PC Canlas started as a solo contractor in the Philippines. Tod….

RT @0xdirichlet: Every time I think back to the heyday of NFTs and otherwise very serious and legitimate adults rationalizing spending $50,….

pump raised a seed round in 2024 and less than 18 months later they announced plans for a token at 4B. early stage crypto vc is not going anywhere.

Tokenized securities are the largest opportunity in crypto. The cryptoeconomy runs on network effects. Without enough users and volume, there’s no liquidity, no security, and few reasons for anyone to stick around. Despite its global reach, crypto’s network effects have felt

RT @CrumpledJumper: The path of every jump shot that's bounced off the rim this postseason.

In 2024 we had Celebrity Coins, and today, we have Internet Capital Markets (ICM). With each meta, we experience another wave of new entrants and angry crypto enthusiasts. As always, we see a few genuinely good actors, but mostly grifters and mercenary users looking to extract

RT @pasternak: Here’s a demo of the upcoming Believe API — going live shortly. The goal of the Believe API is to make it easy for builders….

RT @alexgedevani: important to distinguish between revenue quality vs velocity . rev debates reminds me of this great read by @jonmoore202….

RT @0xMert_: have heard from several people disillusioned with the state of crypto. I've never once felt like this in my time in crypto, so….

Vampire attacks have failed to sustain new entrants because short lived incentives don’t expand demand. We end up with more competitors fighting over the same pie. zkTLS are a cool example of how we can repackage crypto primitives to expand our potential buyer base.

Buffet realized competing on capital efficiency in commoditized industries leads to a race where no one wins. I think the same will be said for many L1 investments today. The new baseline is no longer speed or TVL. It’s about incentivizing applications