At @VoltFiLabs you deposit a stablecoin and stay in dollars. The gold isn't your exposure, it's the engine. We capture the gold spot-futures spread and pay it back as dollar yield. In a post-GENIUS world where $300B+ in stablecoins can't earn yield from their issuers, that's a large and growing pool of dollars looking for exactly this.

I remember when I was a kid how exciting was every new Mario Bros launch. I kinda have a similar feeling nowadays when the LLMs launch new versions of their model. Today was Opus 5.5 day!

Awesome experience trading EWZ with @fomo on a Sunday night after Polymarket shows Flavio Bolsonaro ahead in next month’s presidential elections!

Bitcoin yield is getting simpler. stBTC is now live on Stacks, offering up to 2.6% target Bitcoin Staking yield that auto-compounds directly in BTC. That means your BTC position can grow over time without selling the underlying asset. Limited allocation, first come first serve.

Bitcoin doesn’t need to go up for your BTC stack to grow. At a sustained 6% annual yield, with the yield continuously reinvested and compounded, the Rule of 72 suggests your BTC balance could roughly double in 12 years. Zest just launched a levered stBTC vault targeting BTC-denominated yield. 1 BTC → ~2 BTC over 12 years, if that 6% yield persists and compounds. That’s the opportunity when Bitcoin becomes a productive asset. I am in.

$DOG will go to the moon

Been stacking @Stacks STX daily through @bitflow's DCA tool. Price ran 40% in four days and I'm still buying, just higher. Automated buying only feels good in one direction, and that's exactly why it works.

So far, this is the largest weekly rise in Bitcoin since the beginning of the last bull market. HODL.

White House Crypto Summit recap: • President Trump says US considers buying "sizable" amounts of Bitcoin & other crypto. • Trump calls on Congress to pass Crypto Clarity Act. • Trump says US is ensuring it remains the "undisputed leader" in BTC & crypto. • Hyperliquid HYPE pumps 15% to $69 after Trump says CFTC is working to bring it to US. • SEC Chair Paul Atkins says "we will ensure that the greatest advances of the technological frontier are realized right here in America." • Gemini co-founders say "America should lead in crypto and win in market." • Trump says he "ended the war on crypto once and for all."

If you follow Bitcoin DeFi, you should check @Stacks' Bitcoin bonds coming September 10th. It will let BTC holders lock Layer-1 Bitcoin and pair it with Stacks (STX) tokens to earn self-custodial BTC yield. That is yield on the best asset ever created.

I build on @Stacks. Over the past year the things that changed for us were not price-related: better tooling, more serious teams shipping, real infrastructure showing up. Ecosystems get judged on what gets built during the flat part, not the loud part. That is the only period where the answer is honest. Still building.

Crypto spent a cycle tokenizing assets and mostly skipped tokenizing the yield those assets produce. Giving someone gold exposure on-chain is a solved problem. Giving them dollar yield sourced from gold, while they stay in dollars, is the harder and more useful version. That's the thing I'm building. It took me a while to be able to say it in one sentence.

I do a lot of user interviews, one point I hear often is that people want their digital assets to work harder for them. There are $315B in stablecoins and most of it earning nothing. That is why I am building a solution for that at VoltFi. Deposit stablecoins, earn yield, redeem anytime.

Building a yield product from zero teaches you something fast. Distribution isn't the hard part. Depth is. You can get wallets. Getting the first meaningful ticket is a completely different problem, and nobody warns you that they're separate. Bitcoin DeFi is early. That's the whole reason to be here.

Happy 15!