Elect this man to the Special Council! One of the highest integrity and likeable guys in our industry.

Unsurprisingly, Gary's views on crypto changed once he needed Elizabeth Warren's help to get him Treasury Sec. It isn't about fair and sensible regulation for Gary, never was.

The crypto credit market needs regulation to mature Frank Chaparro and Clearpool (launching Ozean🌊) CEO Robert Alcorn analyze the current state of crypto's credit markets and what is needed for growth. theblock.co/post/235282/cr…

🧵some alpha on how to utilize on-chain data and NFT loans to prepare for potential price movement after MonkeDAO🍌 SMB gen3 reveal As per Marqu research on Flipside 📊, 77% of the barrels haven't touched marketplaces, their owners didn't sell, and they hold to reveal 👀

ArDrive just got TURBOCHARGED⚡️🐘 We shipped ArDrive v2.6 - our most streamlined version to date 🥳 Using Arweave now happens entirely within ArDrive🐘 v2.6 introduces wallet generation, seed phrase login, & Turbo - a payment & bundle upload service for ArDrive & the permaweb.

It's been so amazing to work with and watch everybody launch amazing products on top of LayerZero Labs over the past year -- but man am I excited to roll out some of the hard work we've put in. Nothing better than building 💪💪

Today Telegram Messenger published a new Standard Privacy Policy governing how Bots and Mini Apps handle user data. Here are the most important items for TON builders utilizing bots & TMAs:

France’s arrest of Pavel isn’t just assault on freedom of speech, but also an assault on underserved groups that Telegram/TON have empowered. In the last year: 1 - Content creators: 50% rev split to channel owners from TG ads 2 - Clicker players: Airdropped over $600M to 11M+

Some people saying this is related to Pavel - it is not. Growing pains of becoming a lindy chain, processing high loads from airdropping $550M+ in value to the community through the Dogs Community 🦴 token issuance. Likely past 24 hours has seen largest DAUs in TON history.

US/Europe remain canonical reg regimes for crypto given importance of their tradfi market structure.. but Asia and MENA will be innovation hubs with govs attracting dev activity through friendly policies. Importance of TG/TON for blockchain distribution will accelerate shift.

Rev streams like ads help Web 3 apps create rev-backed, sustainable, economies. Many tokens do *too much* - governance, incentives, speculation, etc. and are backed by too little revenue. TON/TG is a natural place to implement ads models as TGs social graph can be monetized to

Web 3 builders have lacked the go-to-market tools that their Web 2 peers enjoy. TON/TG fixes that ✅

More and more builders are using TG/TONs social graph to scale their user bases. By using TG Stars they can utilize TGs social graph while adhering to Apple's guidelines on in-app purchases.

Worth noting that defi applications like borrow/lend, perps trading, etc do not "unlock features or functionality within the app" and are therefore outside the scope of Apple's in app purchase guidelines.

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Largest airdrop event in crypto history happens in 6 minutes - 130M potential claimers. Extreme strain on TON blockchain becomes another proof point in the chain becoming lindy.

Top 5 wechat mini-games are all mid to hardcore games. TON/Telegram gaming ecosystem heads from hypercasual -> midcore as monetization primitives & advertising options become mature. Delabs Games🐞$GAME team leading the way.