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Stablecoin volumes have already surpassed Visa and in 2026 will likely pass ACH to become the biggest payment medium in the world.
Crypto is officially mainstream.
H/T @a16zcrypto
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Solana’s core team Anza said last night’s liquidation event was the network’s biggest stress test, reaching 100,000 TPS (transactions per second) while remaining fully stable.
Only 18% of Wall Street interns own crypto.
Just 7% hold $ETH.
At first glance, that looks bearish. But it’s actually bullish.
Think about it—these interns are the future analysts, traders, fund managers. If most of them haven’t touched crypto yet, it shows adoption is still in its earliest stages.
As institutions, governments, and new generations gradually enter, the market size grows exponentially.
Only 18% of Wall Street interns own any crypto.
And just 7% hold $ETH.
Sounds bearish? It’s actually the opposite.
When the next generation of financial analysts and traders barely touch crypto, it means adoption is still in its infancy.
The upside is measured in decades, not weeks.
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powell to cut rates
trump takes majority control of fed
money printer turbo mode
run up AI capex spend (north of $400B already)
U.S. gov takes equity stake in top beneficiaries (eg intel) propping debt with “americas finest”
GENIUS act turns crypto into largest U.S. treasury holder (already larger than Germany, UAE)
CLARITY act allows any american company to ico, drawing in even more foreign capital
*something breaks*
we crash.
but think we have a lot longer than people are estimating before things get ugly.
US knows AI is the only hail-mary so they have to send it.
I hope so Marty I hope so
The next internet applications will be run on single state global distributed super computer networks (high speed blockchains)
These systems will be sub 150ms finality settlement and represent rich object models of the worlds users, their messaging between each other and their interactions with the commercial economy, shared globally as a single instance of human mindshare. All on chain, secure and composable.
The magnitude of efficiency and innovation in functionality this delivers will start the next human evolutionary chapter.
Slow gen 1 and 2 networks cannot participate.
Roll ups are irrelevant.
Layer 2s are irrelevant and transitory.
Nothing off chain will be relevant.
All development of functionality will transition to these networks.
Web content, apps and messaging will be served directly from the chain, there will be a single identity object for every human, not 1000s of logins and versions of you and your data.
Anything important will be onchain, there will a wave of truthful state that sweeps through our reality disrupting law, finance, social media, content consumption, news, and AI agents will co-ordinate with the network to bring hyper efficiency to the human race at levels incomprehensible.
Developers will rebuild the antiquated web 2 internet functionality on chain with autonomous co-ordination between value assets, services and users. There will be no APIs it will all be on the super computer in one giant object model.
This reality is already here you are just not aware of it.
Look further than money.
Money was the first use case for the truthful technology. Ownership is next, then markets, ID and then every human construct that requires truth and verification.
We have only begun to understand the collision of LLMs, AI Agents and the high speed open source public distributed super computing networks.
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The middle class was built on homogenous stable jobs with long term viability
Jobs today are fragmented and insecure so a true “middle class” can’t exist as it’s no longer homogenous
The extremes then come to:
UBI
Taxing the rich
But neither will bring back a middle class
Without structural change we just whipsaw between voting extreme left & right with no solution until both sides of politics end up with communism or socialism
This is my longer term concern when thinking about the West - even with Trump trying to do things you can already see that Doge and other programs are hitting huge resistance
We need someone who is willing to die on the cross politically speaking to do whats needed where we think "this is not in his best interest but he did it for the people" - I think if we dont get that by 2032 we will be living in a serfdom
An the part that sucks about that is even if you are well off you cant escape it
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Replying to @sobczak_mariusz
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With regards to $TAO dTAO subnet tokens, it’s really important to understand that, even though some of them have run a good amount, is the following:
1) Their market caps, EVEN for chutes, are still very low.
If you’re a crypto veteran, then you know that a $100mm market cap is still considered EARLY on a good project.
Many of you own $TAO and I can guarantee that the large majority of you bought it way higher than a 100mm mkt cap. I started buying TAO at a $180mm-$200mm mkt cap. And I felt like it was a STEAL.
2) This rally hasn’t been broad based. It’s largely been driven by Chutes, Gradients, Nova, Targon, and a select few others.
Most subnet tokens are still sub $10mm mkt cap and many are under a $5mm mkt cap and have yet to truly break out.
Don’t fool yourself into thinking there are only 5-7 really great subnets that are worth buying. So many subnets are doing great work, building useful and revolutionary AI tools and services, and spending lots of time building in public and communicating with the TAO community.
It’s not 5-7 subnets that make Bittensor revolutionary. It’s going to be hundreds and then thousands of subnets, and the way they interact with and feed off each other that make it revolutionary.
3) We’re not even a full 90 days into this ecosystem being live. May 14 marks 90 days. If you think there is no more opportunity left bc it’s run a lot already, you are going to be very upset when the train TRULY leaves the station after this correction and breather period. We are going so much higher.
4) TAO is currently sitting at a paltry $2.9bb mkt cap. This is a $100bb mkt cap project minimum in the next 1-3 years.
The more interest and exposure $TAO gets, the more people buy TAO.
The more people by TAO, the more they will start to get exposure to the ecosystem and the subnets.
Eventually, that TAO will flow into subnets. They probably will be a lag time between when people buy TAO and when they start to invest in subnet tokens because it takes a little while to wrap your head around the whole thing.
But it’s coming and I’ll tell you why I know this for sure:
Because greed knows no bounds.
And the more people start to understand the opportunity there is in these subnet tokens at such low market caps, the more they will be willing to risk it for the biscuit. That’s just the way greed works.
Couple that with M2 rising exponentially rt now, an improving landscape across risk assets and bitcoin starting to fly as well as other alt coins starting to fly, and confidence will come back to the market.
There’s no way in hell that that confidence and sidelined cash is not going to find its way into the subnet ecosystem.
Look at what pump.fun accomplished with absolute garbage scam tokens? Billions were pumped into that garbage.
You don’t think that the best decentralized AI competitor to OpenAI, AWS and Google is going to be able to draw attention from the greater crypto markets and even institutional money as a he word keeps getting out?
This is the most obvious play since bitcoin was launched in 2009.
If you’re scared off by dips in the subnet tokens, it’s likely because you don’t fully understand what this ecosystem is and what’s coming. Know what you hold. When you know what you hold, dips are for buying, not panicking.
The more we dip, the more I will buy.
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i am once again asking if what happened to RAY was foreshadowing what will happen to SOL
1/ PumpSwap, the new native DEX from @pumpdotfun, is aiming to shake up Solana's DEX scene.
Pumpfun (bonding curve + PumpSwap AMM) captured 20% of Solana's total DEX volumes yesterday, hitting a new all-time high.
Could this uptrend continue? 🧵
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Is the *Fat App Thesis* correct?
L1s & L2s are racing to lower their fees to attract more apps/users
This highlights that value should accrue to apps, since they own the users
But WHO are the apps in crypto? Is it @aave, @Uniswap and @SkyEcosystem?
Or is it $COIN & $HOOD?
Coinbase & Robinhood have most of the users today along with the good UX and they can simply simply integrate into the "dapps"
We've already begun to see this with the Coinbase and Morpho integration. In that scenario Coinbase owns the users, not Morpho
Which means Coinbase can push the prices of Morpho downwards by threatening to use a competitor. Robinhood could do the same.
Coinbase mentioned on their earnings call that they are soon going to integrate a DEX (maybe its @aeroxyz, @Uniswap or something else). In this scenario, again Coinbase owns the user
As Coinbase integrates more dapps and provides more onchain usecases right in their app, there is no way onchain apps can compete with that UX and "interoperability"
Yes, in this scenario Coinbase doesn't provide self-custody, but its been proven time and time again that 99% of the world doesn't care about this (see @100trillionUSD moving his BTC into a BTC ETF for better UX as an example).
Also, even if ppl do care about it Coinbase integrates seamless UX with Coinbase app and Coinbase wallet, so it provides that feature too
While I beleive the *Fat-App Thesis* IS CORRECT
I think most "dapps" in crypto that we think of as the crypto apps, are actually just protocols disguised as apps and their fees will be diminished by the real crypto apps that control the users
The real crypto apps are @coinbase @RobinhoodApp @krakenfx @okx @binance etc. Maybe wallets like @MetaMask or @phantom can compete as the real crypto apps too
Either way, I think the REAL crypto apps are centralized companies providing the best UX and integrating into the onchain dapps
As a result, I think the REAL value accrues to these apps over the coming years. Things may change much farther down the road if the "crypto ethos" of self-custody become more and more important.. but I think we are still a long ways from that
Yes, this means bullish $COIN and $HOOD as they are the only investible options out of all the CEXs and wallets
Interested to hear any feedback or critiques on this thesis
$TAO market of markets focusing on AI infrastructure up 32% in the last week ($6.5B FDV)
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If you don't understand why Bittensor is better than everything else since Bitcoin, watch this.
Decentralized Minds, The Bittensor Revolution
Decentralized Minds, The Bittensor Revolution takes you on a thought-provoking journey through the evolving world of artificial intelligence.
As the narrative unfolds, it dives deep into the rapid evolving advancements of AI, the implications and the potential dangerous misuse by those in power. The film explores the ethical dilemmas we face, through compelling stories and insights it presents a hopeful vision for the future. It showcases how humanity can steer these groundbreaking technologies towards the greater good by embracing decentralized & revolutionary systems, like Bitcoin and Bittensor.
Featuring: @const_reborn @shibshib89 @mogmachine @WSquires @macrocrux @0xcarro @ProfFahdKhan @benzion_b @KeithSingery @JosephJacks_
#Bittensor $TAO
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5/ Total Bitcoin held by governments
Global governments now collectively own 2.49% of the total $BTC supply
1st is the US w/ 198,012 $BTC
2nd is China w/ 190,000 $BTC
3rd is the UK w/ 61,245 $BTC
The holy sh*t moment?
While global governments own 2.49% of the $BTC supply…
@saylor / @strategy own 2.53%!
(Leave some for the rest of us, fellas)
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1/ Stablecoins vs. @Visa
Visa: 67yrs old → 4.3B+ cards in use...
Stablecoins: 11yrs old → held across ~154.3M wallets
Despite Visa’s 56yr head start and 27x larger distribution…
Stablecoins racked up MORE TRANSACTION VOLUME than Visa in ‘24!
(That’s PMF baaaby)



























