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Unemployed Prev: Diplomat @SolanaFndn I write sometimes at https://t.co/NZeapsJQ7y
NYC
Joined April 2009
So since crypto is dead what are we going to call what we do? Candidates: Internet Financial System - @TheiaResearch Open Finance - @multicoin Finance 3.0 - @NorthIslandVC Internet Capital Markets - @solana / @akshaybd [insert other options?] I vote Internet Financial
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(New Essay) The Machinery of Modern Finance On why I think the next ten years of financial innovation will surpass the prior fifty. Give it a read. https://t.co/nqwJW6riwh
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Observe the durability of the cash generating casino businesses in crypto (e.g., $PUMP, $SHFL, and $HYPE)
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My take on $PUMP It is one of the extremely few tokens in crypto that has a meaningful non-zero floor. Though whether it's a bid right now, I am not sure. I lean no atm, but it is certainly on the watchlist. Comes down to 1) how you value the current core memecoin casino
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Some of my takes on what's Over-rated / Under-rated / Fairly-rated in crypto below. Around for a bit to give quick take on any topics for those with questions. Over-rated - Payment chains as value accruing protocols: they will be very useful and highly utilized. They will be
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In light of market carnage and extremely smart people leaving the industry, I figured I would explain why I (an admittedly much less smart person) am choosing to stay (and perhaps why you may want to as well!) https://t.co/k4BF1t7gOk
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A lot of discourse on crypto twitter would be clearer if we separated usefulness of something from value accrual to an asset e.g., @VitalikButerin's vision for $ETH is incredibly useful. Does not mean $ETH is worth much "institutional adoption" (tokenization, stablecoin
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Crypto markets didn't want to let metals have all the fun "we're pros at nuking too, and we can do it on the weekends"
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Also shout out to @jnwng @Pedromiranda @tamgros @_JerryLi @tiffdong @drebaglioni (to name just a few) who went through so much of this journey with me and made it awesome
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Life update! Today is my last day at the @SolanaFndn. I joined the @solana team almost 5 years ago because I was inspired by the vision of an open, neutral, and unified coordination layer for all of finance. And it's been the most amazing (and totally crazy) experience of my
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Neat to see metals play out just like crypto Gold -> Silver -> long tails metal -> nuke BTC -> ETH -> shitcoins -> nuke
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I’ll take the other side of this. There are defi businesses, not many, that are all-in on their tokens (eg @maplefinance , @Morpho ) and worth owning (at the right price)
Defi tokens dying one after another. After the current Aave saga, they all deserve to anyway. There are no tokens worth owning other than some L1s and stables.
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100% @dsundheim talked about this cropping up in equity markets as well in last recent years 'Irrational' upswings in price result in overpayment of current employees at the expense of future employees And that can really hurt a team's long term outcomes
Crypto was previously great for amassing large amounts of personal wealth very quickly since you can sell tokens much earlier than you can sell equity in a company It is a remarkably poor substrate to build a real business for the exact same reason
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Just watched @vidor_solflare and @bqbrady talks at BP. Great talks and very curious to tinker with both products! One underlying assumption from both that I kind of disagree with tho: @bqbrady's point that "Natural language is sweeping the consumer interface landscape."
One issue I see with almost all Defi "agent" apps - they make users do the work. User has to ask about a token, suggest an action, etc. etc. Better UX - agent does the work. E.g., every AM agent suggests two trade ideas, and lays out research underlying the thesis. User just
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