Vertical integration cutting out Raydium. Pump wants to keep liquidity & fees within its own eco. Raydium's own new launchpad shows an increasing competition between the two companies. Solana volumes are still driven by memes $.

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Theory: Life speeds up as we age because each year becomes a smaller % of our life. At 7, a year is 14.3% of your life. At 30, it's just 3.3%. You'd need over 4 years at 30 to match the impact of one year at 7. Takeaway: Spend your time meaningfully and doing what you believe in

Value creation oversimplified into 2 levers... 1) More efficient (cheaper/faster/easier/more reliable) way to do something 2) Net newness - doing something that couldn't be, or hasn't been, done before (that people want*)

Good day to have some xSOL Hylo

There is a big difference between risk and uncertainty. Something can be very low risk but high uncertainty. It just means that you don't know if it will work but the downside is low to none. That's called asymmetry.

"Cynics get to be right, but optimists get to be rich." Cynics are right 9/10 times that something won't work. Optimists might be wrong 9/10 times.. but it only takes being right once.

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Very curious to see what names are in the top 10 of the S&P in a decade from now... It won't look the same as it does today

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Always multiple S curves happening in diff pockets of the market. AI infrastructure is ~3 years into the S curve. Other AI sub sections are much earlier. I don't know how long the infra one goes but that's the first obvious one before others can even start. Just like fiber and

Legacy financial firms coming on chain will bring privacy back into focus.

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If you want a glimpse into what an AI abundance scenario could look like, look back to COVID. Gov stimulus, rates at zero, money flowing freely, ppl were at home and had time to pursue their own interests/hobbies, creative and health spaces were booming. It may not be too diff.