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Any IL politician who voted for this "tax" knows it doesn't work, and is breaking the system because they hate their own voters. What are they doing to actually improve your life? To understand the world and make it better?
Voters have the power. Start using it. Kick them out
So, for those of you who missed it, Illinois just dropped its draft rules for their no good, very bad Digital Asset Tax and, y’all, it’s a mess, especially for DeFi.
The proposed rules would treat a DEX (not an interface, the protocol itself) that charges a “protocol fee” as a “broker” that must register with the state, collect a 0.2% tax on the full value of every swap by an Illinois user, and keep each user’s address, IP, and W-9. Effectively mandated KYC.
It also requires brokers to keep customers’ private keys… I don’t even know where to begin on that one.
Essentially a worse version of the repealed IRS broker rule.
Thankfully @BlockchainAssn, @crypto_council, and the @DigitalChamber have sued the state, but we need a full court press on this from a political and policy perspective.
It’s my personal #1 priority, because I doubt Illinois will be the last to try this.
If a friend has a ledger, do they need to rip it open to confirm they are secure?
Asking for some friends
Define comfortable
This map is not for the lads (real men) wearing T shirts when it’s 48 outside
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M2 growth lined up much more closely with subsequent inflation before 1990. The relationship has weakened considerably since. That’s a lot of history to leave out of an inflation forecast
Tampa home prices rose 68% in the 2020–22 boom. They’re down 0.7% over the past year. Small comfort when you’re still saving for a down payment
Three months feels longer when you check your portfolio every morning
After the first Fed hike, the S&P 500 was down at three months in 5 of 7 cases. Up a year later in 6 of 7
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我们完成了3300万美元融资，PayPal Ventures 和 General Catalyst领投。
说来话长，我上学的时候专业是计算机，读研就是做AI方向的（在CV领域发过SCI论文也发过专利），那时候也开始炒币和研究项目。
毕业校招去了阿里做架构师，但始终觉得自己不适合写代码，想跳出互联网大厂的牢笼。
就这样，我在 AI 和 Crypto 行业反复横跳，今年年初机缘巧合之下，我加入了 @GoKiteAI 。
最吸引我的是团队：成员来自UC Berkeley、MIT、哈佛、牛津、Salesforce、Databricks、Uber、麦肯锡，这是一个有极高技术素养和卓越背景的团队（我本硕985代表了团队最低学历......）
最重要的，我能感受到他们不是在追逐热点，而是脚踏实地在构建能够改变世界的产品，拥抱真实世界的服务，走入人们的日常生活中。
这种纯粹的技术信仰和朴素的作风，正是我一直在Crypto行业寻找的。
现在有了北美最顶级的机构和资源加持，一切才刚刚开始...
Let's Fly the KITE. 🪁风筝
1/ We’re thrilled to announce our $18M Series A fundraise led by @PayPal Ventures and @generalcatalyst, bringing total cumulative funding to $33 million.
This funding fuels our mission to build the foundational infrastructure for the agentic internet – providing unified identity, governance and native access to stablecoin payments that enable agents to authenticate, transact, and coordinate securely without intermediaries.
We are incredibly grateful to our investors who support our mission: @PayPal Ventures, @generalcatalyst, @8VC, @SamsungNext, SBI US Gateway Fund, @vertexventures, @hashed_official, @HashKey_Capital, @DispersionVC, @AlumniVentures, @AvalancheFDN, @GSR_io, @LayerZero_Core, @animocabrands, @EssenceVenture, and @Alchemy.
A special thank you to our phenomenal angel investors: @EvanWeb3 (Co-founder and CEO, MystenLabs), Hao Min (VP, Circle), @edwinaoki (SVP, Nasdaq; ex- PayPal CTO of blockchain), Frank Chang (VP, Uber), @navinblockchain (CEO, Crystal Intelligence; ex-Ripple Managing Director), @BohanZhangOT (Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI), John Liu (Head of Product, AWS), @RosuGrigore (Professor, UIUC), Haiyan Huang (Professor, UC Berkeley), Sriram Vishwanath (Professor, Georgia Tech) and more.
Join us in building the future of the agentic internet.
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