Defining DeFi @_perceptive capital. 🗝 Keeper of keys @thejuntoxyz. Ex Goldman/ CEO Crescent Crypto Not financial advice.
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Ali Hassan Ξ 🇵🇸 retweeted
And who determines who the despots are?
And why stop at despots?
Is Iraq better after Saddam fell?
Framing this as a “if you don’t support this, then you are a despot supporter” doesn’t click for me.
US bombs. Innocents die, soldiers die. Then foreign corporations come in and rape all the resources. This is straight up imperialism.
And if you support downright imperialism then we have different values.
“I’m bombing you for your own good” argument doesn’t make sense to me.
Ali Hassan Ξ 🇵🇸 retweeted
You hired a crypto veteran.
Turns out he couldn’t define DeFi.
3 years in the industry, never touched a DEX.
That’s when I realized:
Crypto didn’t evolve. It split.
On one side:
Custody. Compliance. Capital.
Built for traders in Connecticut.
Crypto as the new Wall Street, only faster, cheaper, scarier.
On the other:
Quests. Games. Airdrops.
Built for a new middle class in Manila, Lagos, and Hanoi.
Crypto as identity, escape, second chances.
These aren’t layers of the same stack.
They’re different planets.
And the gap is only growing.
We recently hired someone who spent three years at a major OTC desk.
They’d never used Phantom. Didn’t know what Zora was.
Web3 was a “rumor” in their Slack.
And yet, they called themselves “deep in crypto.”
They speak capital.
Others speak culture.
They build for whales.
Others build for wallets.
Crypto isn’t one industry anymore. It’s a forked chain.
Wall Street took the ticker.
The rest of us took the rails.
@figma just filed to IPO.
Guess what was on the balance sheet?
Bitcoin, yeah…the famous bitcoin.
Not a token.
Not a wallet plugin.
Not a DeFi position.
Just Bitcoin.
They skipped Web3 entirely, and bought the safest corner of crypto with both hands.
We’re seeing something new.
Figma’s move isn’t an outlier. It’s a signal.
Meanwhile, wallets are spinning up like wildfire across the Global South.
Chasing quests. Airdrops. Identity. Access.
It’s not convergence. It’s a split.
Capital is stacking West.
Adoption is exploding East.
Two worlds. Two missions.
Same rails, very different trains.
Anyone else seeing this trend?
Because the fork isn’t coming. It’s already here.
Ali Hassan Ξ 🇵🇸 retweeted
Torab deserves a lot of respect, don’t know him personally, but I’ve been watching the whole Rushi fiasco unfold. From what I’ve seen:
- As BD, he genuinely tried to bring real ecosystem projects onboard. Gearbox included.
- And not in a half-assed way. Dude actually engaged, knew the projects inside out, and showed real interest. Rare stuff in this space.
- Then the whole MOVE mess blows up. He doesn’t disappear. He steps up, takes ownership, and pledges to do right by the community.
-Now he’s CEO, grinding to clean up one of the messiest situations in recent memory, when walking away would’ve been way easier.
Props where they’re due. Don’t think we’ve seen the last of Movement. 🫡
Ali Hassan Ξ 🇵🇸 retweeted
The news is out! Couldn't be more excited to announce that I'm back in the ring as a builder. Coming on as a co-founder to @0xMiden with our $25M seed fundraise being co-led by @a16zcrypto , @1kxnetwork , and @hack_vc .
I spoke to what must have been over a 100 projects in the past few months, but nothing came close to being nearly as exciting as what this team is building.
My co-founder @bobbinth is genuinely the most impressive person I've met in Web3 in the 13 years I've spent in this space. And this is no exaggeration. Brilliant, humble, and hustles like no other.
Vitalik brought him into Web3 and got him working at the EF years ago on zk, then he went to Meta where he led the zk team, and is a Polygon cofounder as well. When I say the most impressive, I mean it.
Privacy, scalability, and decentralization, with the ability to offer compliance. That's what separates Miden from just another blockchain. And we're going to be bringing institutions on chain with this.
If you're a builder in this space, I'd love to hear from you. My DMs are open.
Ali Hassan Ξ 🇵🇸 retweeted
We did the unthinkable.
One of the most consistent yields in all of finance - now fully halal.
Built on Solana, Shariah-compliant by default.
Powered by iASOL, our new LST: stake & unstake instantly.
The first step to halal-yield DeFi.
inshAllah Halal Solana Staking is live!
Great read for all my friends looking to get into crypto BD.
If you’re still on the fence…
Israel ordered Hannibal Directive on October 7.
Documents & testimonies obtained by leading Israeli newspaper Haaretz reveal today.
We along with @PulaRJS exposed this three months ago.
The western media ignored it then and will continue to ignore it now
Ali Hassan Ξ 🇵🇸 retweeted
Had a great meeting with @ilblackdragon and other NEAR team in Dubai and I left impressed with his insights and vision on the intersection of crypto & AI.
There are a lot of positive changes at NEAR over the past few months that haven't been fully priced in yet.
IMF cried, "Please don't do this to us, we've always been there for you!" 😂
NEW: 🇸🇻 IMF reportedly demands changes to El Salvador's #Bitcoin law for a $1.4 billion aid.
They're scared 🙌
Ali Hassan Ξ 🇵🇸 retweeted
“Nothing builds more loyalty than making your early community members rich.”
Never met any poor ETH maxis
Aside from the attention economy, I think another key factor contributing to the success of *some* of the recently launched memecoins has been their approach of having a high number of freely tradable tokens from the start.
For example:
- $WIF, $PEPE, $BODEN, and $NORMIE all have their market capitalization (mcap) equal to their fully diluted valuation (fdv), with their total circulating supply matching their maximum supply.
This setup benefits traders because they can trade these tokens without worrying about future token releases or inflation, which usually complicates trading decisions.
For retail degens this approach is ideal because you want as much of the community to get it's hands on the token (distribution). This approach offers the opportunity to invest at potentially low valuations if they get in early. Additionally, rewarding early members helps build a loyal community around the project. Nothing builds more loyalty than making your early community members rich.
Aside from memecoins, this begs the question what is the ideal token float at launch, for projects that have lockups and inflation?
Ali Hassan Ξ 🇵🇸 retweeted
> Sell all of our ETH.
> Tell Gary to drop the ETF FUD.
> Tell Gary to drop the security FUD.
> Hit em with the headlines.
> The plebs will panic sell.
> We buy up ALL the coins.
> Force the SEC to lose every case.
> Approve the ETF.
Thanks for playing.
