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If you have some spare money + opportunity, instead of a material stuff like luxury car or watches, you should buy these imo: - A good mattress (better sleep) - A good PT + nutritionist, and a gym membership - More organic foods / minimally processed foods - Relocate to a place

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ICYMI, Nova just recently launched their NLP Vault with $1M for whitelisted users which filled very fast.

Besides AI, this week perps has been dominating the timeline and sparked new interest with Variational’s $50M Series A raise (led by Dragonfly, with Bain Capital Crypto and Coinbase Ventures). The on-chain perpetual futures space is heating up fast. Let's quickly dive in three

Who Gonna Tell Em.

Updated my list of 2026 protocol exploits. The numbers from January to May are grim, imo: → 52 incidents so far (roughly 2 protocol hacks/week) → $1.7M+ median loss per incident → $835M total stolen → $577M stolen by DPRK state-sponsored hackers → $165.4M frozen or seized

Hyperliquid

This is like Jeff working for Phoenix, 🤣

I just late about 2 hrs opening my e-mail. Kek.

Let me explain in plain English why this is big. Formal verification is a very strong way to check security. Normally, people test code by trying a bunch of examples and seeing if it works. The issue is: tests only cover the cases you think to try. Bugs can still hide in the

I’m sharing this because last week I met with a TradFi Sharia specialist, and my jaw dropped at how much untapped potential there is. It’s also clear that the RWA narrative will likely be what brings Sharia products on-chain, along with a new set of primitives, such as: -

More details on the mechanism here (or you can just see above infographic)

Not bad numbers. But personally, I’m a bit sad, because I know some of these inactive followers were my comrades back during DeFi summer. Some of them made it and retired (happy for them!), but many just quit crypto entirely and moved on. I’m not unfollowing them obv. I’m

Man, there are so many interesting crypto projects launching lately that I want to cover, but I have limited bandwidth. Anyone else feel the same? The bottleneck is time, not the projects themselves.

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Check my post here to understand about Pre-IPO and its ecosystems + risks that entailed.

Presumably, $SPCX is one of the most important Pre-IPO (or Options for some, since its unregulated) this year. We have seen what happened with $CBRS where price discovery happening on-chain before the IPO even started. It opened around $150/share (post-split adjusted) and

Honestly, this brings back memories of when bear markets hit post-LUNA. Instead of sitting idle, I poured all my negative thoughts into writing and building things, that’s where Eli5 was born. The thing is, you always have options in this life, but it takes time to figure out

Also check about Pendle RWA narrative in my previous article here: