Since Covid, engineers could make $$$ doing contract work for multiple companies You could not hold a full time job and make more than many FT engineers (at least on cash) But most contract work is highly spec'd and well defined ...perfect for AI Back to full time jobs it is!

"The payments network is modeled on an approach where financial intermediaries can join the network and intermediate for end users and businesses... a sender is able to find the best route, best cost, best delivery SLA with partners that are connected to this" Intents ftw!

Freedom is more important than safety

The backdrops of all of these Cannes talks are nuts This is not the cypherpunk way These locations are the definitions of legacy wealth We're here to create global opportunity across socioeconomic boundaries Not concentrate it where it already exists Come on now

Yup, and the opportunity cost to solving is high Margins for solvers are extremely thin, it's almost the definition of a perfectly competitive market And if you're an active fund with $10m+ there are opportunities to "partner" with protocols across DeFi and make 50%+ APY

This fixes solver fragmentation and seriously changes the solver landscape Zap USDC wherever the solver needs it rather than maintaining balances across many chains

Has anyone converted from iPhone to a Nothing phone? Curious if there are any surprising limitations outside the typical move from ios to android

When you're trading on a DEX, do you like seeing recent trades others have made on that pool? Does it impact the way you trade? Or is that just useless UX slop

Matt Levine readers will find this obvious, but retail will not Still, a structured note like this can provide legal synthetic exposure -- the user just needs to be made aware of that there is counterparty risk and it doesn't actually represent ownership But most won't care

Today, I'm joining the Omni Network marketing team as their new Social Media Manager. I found Crypto Twitter in 2019 chasing alt season. I remember interoperability being one of the buzzwords back then and now I am part of a team bringing that abstraction to blockchain and finance.

What should GMX have done differently to avoid an exploit? They have a $5m bug bounty program Many other teams likely have latent bugs yet to be discovered, can they learn anything from this?

Life before Death Strength before Weakness Journey before Destination

Consumer platforms have zero incentive to ship MCP servers Why would Twitter or Telegram let Claude read your DMs and respond from your knowledge base? User capture > ecosystem value The unlock is agents that operate desktops and don't need to ask permission

Hot take: I want a square-shaped iPhone

Forgot how good AI is. Here's a mockup: x.com/ttarsi_/status…

Looking for a gym buddy Requirements: - NYC based, willing to hit Flatiron/USQ a few times per week (potentially negotiable) - Flexible with time of day but preferably when it's less crowded - Highly competitive (down for friendly competition) - equinox membership I've always

The greatest feature of the US economy is the reward for risk taking. Google's Windsurf deal (and Meta's Scale one) gives us yet another classic case of the federal government intervening in complex systems without understanding second order effects. Acquihires are critical to

This won't be the last acquisition of a Cosmos company by one with TradFi appeal Maybe this is the path forward for many crypto native teams lacking PMF? Rather than all open source tech just being ripped off by Robinhood et al Natural fit: - Cosmos ecosystem has built

Matt Levine had a section on HYPE in his blog today. He probably doesn't know it has a P/E ratio lower than most tech stocks. hyperliquid

What's the best platform for identifying upcoming airdrops you might be eligible for?