Venture returns is based on power law, so is the payments business. Having the next Stripe ($90bn) in your portfolio would 100x the fund Take a look at the market cap of these public payments companies: - Visa: $700bn - Mastercard: $500bn - PayPal: $65bn - Block: $50bn -

Can you imagine? Arbitrum teleports above base, trenchers move to $arb, all speculative crypto activity is suddenly on arbitrum. Sequencer fees skyrocket to the tune of 10x, $3m/week and $150m+/year in $ARB buybacks minimum All of a sudden $ARB is the only place to be.

Arbitrum is for Everyone, Everywhere 😌 Arbitrum

WE'RE NO WHERE NEAR ONCHAIN STOCKS IN THE US Lots of hype over the past few weeks. Not to be the bearer of bad news, but there is one huge blocker for anything onshore: it's called Reg NMS Let me explain 🧵⤵️

Institutional partnerships are usually closely guarded by confidentiality agreement. We’re only getting started and scratching the surface ! 🤝

The old playbook of banking on a tier-1 CEX listing is DEAD! It is increasingly important for projects to build up mindshare/attention pre-TGE through high quality distribution channels. The community wants to hear the founders side of the story - what the long term vision is

MR SHIFT 🦁 Ryan De Souza the perfect attention positioning similar with our strategy as well - pre-tge projects + post-tge blue chips 🫡

Stablecoin economy looking good on Balancer v3 via Stables Labs The ocean on Arbitrum is vast and liquidity will always be available for all your DeFi needs DeFi Everywhere. Arbitrum Everywhere

loudio exposes people's willingness to leverage their social capital for the hope of outsized financial rewards. this sort of experimentation is good and fun (oftentimes cringe) to watch people clamor for attention.

Tldr - gasless transactions for :

⚠️ Ignore if you're not a DeFi team. I believe it is incredible important for DeFi teams to share their learnings in public through such Post-Launch Recap. Granular data on traction across chains and insights from user research, marketing, and BD help teams build in public and

El Dorado is bringing real users on chain. One million at a time. Forget 10x, let’s 100x!

Enjoyed recording this episode of the Getting Real podcast with Kony 🟠 GAIB | Hiring from GAIB 🟠 | AiFi 1/ Dive into why tokenize GPUs makes sense onchain 2/ What the ideal customer profile looks like and why would anyone hold these assets onchain 3/ The developer experience on Arbitrum and

Here’s the math to become a decent yapper/KOL (>10k followers) Assuming you gain 1 follower per tweet on average, you’d need 27 tweets per day on average to hit that in a year. That’s 1 per hour And if you want to achieve similar results in 1 month, you have tweet once

Unpopular opinion: Most top traders you see on your timeline can’t beat the annualised returns from holding spot BTC or farming stables without going up the risk curve

TL actually useless today

Solana tx fee update: at current rates, Solana dumps ~$4.7B in $SOL a year on hodlers to artificially subsidize decentralized transaction fees to avg ~2¢/tx. …real Solana avg tx fee without subsidies is 10-20¢/tx varying by TPS (note, this doesn’t include rampant top validator

Let’s not forget the ArbiFuel program that’s currently ongoing! It’s FREE if you want to experiment with payments or stablecoin related use cases Here’s some ideas on what to build - x.com/_ryandesouza/s…

This week we published: Stablecoins: The Practitioner’s Guide. With contribution from Steakhouse Financial BlackRock Tether Bridge and many more. Here were the key takeaways: 🧵