CryptoYOLO retweeted
In one week: ARK tokenized its venture fund, Binance's wrapped stocks cross $1B, and the IMF sizes tokenized equities at $2.3B against $152T of global stock markets. The category is at 0.002% penetration and already forcing the structure question: wrapper or native? Wrappers proved the early demand. I believe natively registered shares - like what @Figure is doing - are what institutions will actually hold.
CryptoYOLO retweeted
We’ve been growing $YLDS as a settlement layer for originators as we work toward atomic settlement. This week, a buyer paid in YLDS for the first time on Connect (the other side of the marketplace). Sellers first, now buyers. One step closer to atomic.
CryptoYOLO retweeted
Today we officially announce the launch of @HelloNavra. Our goal is to bring retail and institutional TradFi dollars over to DeFi by delivering better user experience, keyless self custody and enterprise control. The dollars will flow into products like @Figure's Democratized Prime, but also into other DeFi lending, borrowing and trading platforms.
Thank you to @RibbitCapital for leading this oversubscribed round!
I'm still performing my Figure duties as executive chairman and am excited about the synergies between the two companies. Figure joins @jump_ as first strategic partners.
axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/…
>sam altman: "we tried this because there were rumor on the internet"
>rumor: math professor close to solving navier-stokes
>the professor: using codex for a year
>openai: has all his logs
>checked every codex session tagged to N-S
>found the most promising one
>spun up 10,000 agents to finish the proof where he couldn't
>they got caught
>told the guy if you say anything you'll destroy your own career
>he ruins his career over this
>openai: "we did not see his work"
>also openai: "we cannot rule out that de-identified data from their usage helped improve our models"
they stole it lmao
CryptoYOLO retweeted
OpenAI announces the Navier-Stokes result and claim "they cannot rule out that de-identified data helped improve their models."
openai.com/index/navier-stok…
You're missing the core drama of the story: Tristan is softly accusing OpenAI of having stolen their result from Codex chat logs.
Tristan then claims OpenAI tried to threaten him to not publicly disclose this, and that they'd give him the Clay Prize ($1M) as the "closest humans to the problem" if he'd agree to disavow his co-author, @__alpoge__ , who is at Anthropic.
This is HBO-level drama, but with math proofs.
CryptoYOLO retweeted
This week, I'm releasing a 1 and a half hour conversation with @variational_lvs - Founder and CEO at @variational_io.
Lucas co-founded a hedge fund at 20 that Digital Currency Group acquired a year later, then walked away from that exit to build a firm that now sits second only to Hyperliquid in open interest and daily volume.
His argument: crypto rebuilt exchanges before it built brokers, and that architectural gap is what's holding on-chain trading back.
We talk about:
- Why order books work for a handful of liquid assets like BTC and $ETH but break once you try to list hundreds of markets
- How Variational aggregates liquidity straight from traditional finance instead of rebuilding 40 years of market depth from scratch
- Why Variational charges zero fees by keeping the market-maker spread inside the platform
- The architectural difference between Variational's RFQ, broker-like model and Hyperliquid's order book
- How Variational's daily volume went from $1 million to over $100 million within months of launch
- What swaps offer that perps can't - a flat, predictable carry cost instead of a funding rate that can spike overnight
- Why he raised $50 million in May specifically to get taken seriously by trad-fi institutions
- The two kinds of businesses he wants competed into extinction: high-fee brokers and predatory market makers
And much more...
Podcast out this week!
CryptoYOLO retweeted
Replying to @pulte
@pulte - I love what you’re doing with credit scores. Now let’s do it with MERS.
@Figure's DART is an alternative electronic mortgage registry service to MERS. DART lowers costs to originators (good). It reduces pledging and transfer costs (good). It eliminates annual mortgage originator audit and compliance costs (good). It supports digital/blockchain loan origination (good). And it eliminates a monopoly (good). DART will lower the cost of mortgages to consumers.
Many of the big banks and Figure loans already use DART today - it's a proven technology. Let’s get the GSEs on board. We just have to add DART as an approved registry in the seller servicing guides.
figure.com/dart/
What do you say?
CryptoYOLO retweeted
Replying to @Figure
@Figure kicked off September with a major milestone: closing our acquisition of Kiavi, the market leader in Residential Transition Loan (RTL) lending technology.
After three straight quarters of ~100% YoY organic growth as a public company, this marks our first major acquisition, and it gets us much deeper into the $2 trillion first-lien mortgage space.
~25% of U.S. single family housing stock is owned by investors, and Kiavi built the leading platform lending to this market. By integrating their capabilities with ours, we’re opening them up across our partner network, following the same playbook that drove our evolution from lender to marketplace.
This brings more high-quality, (now tokenized!) assets onto our marketplace, expands toolkits for partners, and broadens access for borrowers.
Two strong teams, one shared vision for modernizing finance with AI and blockchain. Now, the real work begins.
🔗figure.com/newsroom/company-…
Happy that @IonicDigital had a successful listing today with rising prices throughout the day. Finally, fellow #CelsiusVictims have the freedom to choose where to invest their money after Mashinsky stole it to invest in Bitcoin mining #TimeToMoveOn
Where’s the detail on the positions and proof of reserves? Frequent updates are needed, but maybe it’s just another rug
Main Street Update
We wanted to provide a further update on the remaining box positions, the minter, and the Morpho market.
The key point is that Main Street remains collateralized above 100% when valuing the remaining box positions at expiry. The boxes are expected to mature at $1, and our focus remains on liquidating them safely and efficiently as they move closer to expiry.
We are continuing to actively monitor the remaining boxes. As these positions get closer to expiry, pricing generally improves and we are able to exit more of them without taking unnecessary haircuts. Whenever boxes can be sold in a way that is accretive and does not harm overall backing, we will continue to do so.
As USDC is freed up, there will be two separate processes:
1. msY holders outside of Morpho
For msY holders outside of the Morpho market, USDC will continue to be added to the minter and used to support the pool. This allows users to continue exiting through the normal pool/minter process as liquidity is restored.
The minter will continue buying msY from the pool and redeeming/burning that supply over time. As more boxes are liquidated or mature, more USDC can be used to support this process, with the goal of continuing to reduce circulating msY supply outside of Morpho.
2. USDC lenders in the Morpho market
Morpho needs to be handled separately because of the way Morpho v1.1 works under extreme utilization.
Some looped borrowers are now accruing interest at very high rates. Over time, this can cause their debt to become larger than the value of their msY collateral, even when valuing msY at $1. This creates a technical bad debt issue inside the Morpho vault.
It is important to be very clear: users who lent $1 of USDC into Morpho should receive $1 of USDC back. The issue is not around the original principal that was lent into the market. The issue is the excess interest that has accrued on top due to extreme utilization.
That excess interest will effectively need to be sacrificed and remain as bad debt within the vault. This does not mean that lenders lose the dollar they originally lent. It means that the additional interest above principal cannot be safely paid out without creating unfair outcomes elsewhere.
Because of this, the msY collateral currently inside the Morpho market will effectively remain there and be treated as written off from the rest of the system. The portion of backing associated with that msY will instead be allocated to USDC lenders in the Morpho market through a dedicated claim process.
In practice, this means:
msY outside of Morpho will continue to be bought through the pool/minter and redeemed over time.
The circulating msY supply outside of Morpho will continue to be reduced as USDC becomes available.
The msY left inside the Morpho market will remain there as the residual written-off supply.
Morpho lenders will receive a separate USDC claim corresponding to the principal they originally lent.
Once the remaining boxes have either expired or been liquidated, and the final amount of available USDC is known, we will create a dedicated claim contract for Morpho lenders. This ensures the process is based on final confirmed numbers and avoids creating unfair outcomes between different groups of users.
The end state is designed to be clean: msY outside of Morpho is bought and redeemed through the minter until that circulating supply is reduced down, while the only remaining msY will be the written-off collateral inside the Morpho market. Morpho lenders will then claim USDC separately, and economically the system nets down as though the remaining redeemable msY supply has been reduced to zero.
We understand that this has been a stressful period, especially for users affected by the Morpho market. The team is working through this carefully and methodically to avoid rushed actions that could create worse outcomes.
The goal remains the same: continue liquidating boxes efficiently, restore liquidity through the minter for msY holders outside of Morpho, and ensure that Morpho lenders are able to recover the USDC they originally lent.
We will continue to provide updates as more boxes are liquidated and as more USDC becomes available.
CryptoYOLO retweeted
I got to go on Bloomberg today to talk about @Figure and the Kiavi acquisition. And unlike last time, I specifically avoiding shaving before the interview to eliminate the potential for cutting myself.
Hope you enjoy the listen - including my dig at the BofA analyst...
bloomberg.com/news/videos/20…
CryptoYOLO retweeted
Thrilled to share that @Figure just closed a $300M fully pre-funded securitization for loans on Figure Connect.
Institutional bond buyers committed to purchasing loans upfront at a fixed rate, delivering pricing and execution certainty for our partners before loans even close.
This is new ground as we work to build a programmatic liquidity rail mirroring Fannie Mae’s TBA market.
While we're glad to reach this milestone, it's just one step towards the future of the capital markets. We remain laser-focused on making steady, everyday progress to better support our partners and ecosystem.
CryptoYOLO retweeted
Strategy announces a Digital Credit Capital Framework designed to strengthen Digital Credit, enhance liquidity, preserve long-term Bitcoin exposure, and support long-term value creation. $MSTR $STRC strategy.com/press/strategy-…
CryptoYOLO retweeted
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So $FIGR filed no less than 3 securitizations in June,
totaling in $1.03B of collateral securitized in a month, nice.
I looked into the pre sale reports and sec due diligence to see if there's interesting 🧵
CryptoYOLO retweeted
For those interested, @figure filed for it's 10th ABS deal this year. I think that puts Figure behind JPM, on top of Wells Fargo and ahead of BofA for ABS deals in 2026. Banks need to get on the blockchain bandwagon here, or they will lose their dominance in the space.
sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/…
CryptoYOLO retweeted
Strategy has increased its USD Reserve by $300 million to $1.4 billion and plans to continue replenishing it to support the credit quality of its Digital Credit securities. We also acquired 520 BTC for $35 million, increasing our $BTC Reserve to ₿847,363. $MSTR $STRC strategy.com/press/strategy-…



















