onchain gold dealer @orogoldapp. mostly tweeting about tech & founder life.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Joined April 2009
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Excited to announce our $1.5M pre-seed round from some awesome investors & angels to redefine gold markets on @solana
More on @orogoldapp & fundraise 🧵
Usman S | Oro retweeted
My AI agents found an unmapped Maya site in Mexico, using LiDAR data from a NASA dataset.
72 hours from a random thought on vacation to a reply from Mexico's national archaeology institute.
What a time to be alive…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This site is not unknown or unmapped. Per Dr. Sarah Parcak, Dr. Francisco Estrada-Belli of Tulane University identified, researched, and published this site years ago.
bsky.app/profile/indyfr…
liberalarts.tulane.edu/anthropology/p…
Usman S | Oro retweeted
for all those coming to london for breakpoint, I have done you the courtesy of curating a list of recs from a local geezer (me):
angus steakhouse (literally the best steak you will have in your life)
côte brasserie (the closest you’ll get to paris without the eurostar)
m&m’s world
bella italia (authentic italian, better than rome)
the wetherspoons in leicester square (classic british pub experience)
Usman S | Oro retweeted
Tom Hiddleston says happiness is overrated and spending your life chasing it can actually make you unhappy
"Happiness is overrated. Meaning is underrated. Happiness is like a sunrise or a sunset. Bear with me"
"You're there. It's lovely. You're present with it. The sun's rising or the sun is setting. It's perfect. After 15 minutes, the moment is over and it's gone. Trying to sustain it is impossible because it's over"
"And a life spent chasing the permanence of that feeling will make you unhappy because you can't hold on to it. The moment you try to hold on to it, it slips through your fingers and is lost"
"Meaning is a structure that only you create in your own life, an architecture with your own particular spiritual fingerprint, whereby if you're going through a hard time, if you're going through challenge, struggle, obstacles, suffering or pain, only you know why you're going through it"
"You might know, this is hard now. I'm doing it for my kids. I'm doing it for my mom. I'm doing it for my future"
"And then it makes enduring the hard times bearable because you know what it means"
"And meaning - this is the take - meaning yields joy. Joy is deeper than happiness"
Usman S | Oro retweeted
Dubai has turned a public park into an outdoor co-working space, offering people the chance to work surrounded by nature for Dh50 a day.
Omar Al Mheiri, co-founder of Letswork, explains the idea behind the initiative
Usman S | Oro retweeted
Why We Ship: @cesto_co
"Anyone can access information. The opportunities behind it aren't as easy to reach."
@jasonrodrigues built Cesto so anyone can back an investment basket that reflects their worldview, simple enough that even his parents can use it.
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Muslims once financed the world’s trade without interest.
For the first time in centuries, we can return to that.
$2M+ deposited during our invite-only beta. Today, Goldsand is live on iOS and Android.
Halal savings built a new way: to beat interest, not settle. Here’s how ↓
Why do Muslims treat interest-free finance like a limitation, when history proves it's a superpower?
Around 1700, Mughal India produced roughly a quarter of the world's economy, about the share the US holds today.
The Islamic gold dinar was so trusted that European kings minted copies of it, Arabic script and all.
Muslim merchants financed trade from Spain to China through partnerships, profit-sharing, and trust.
Riba-free finance wasn't a handicap those economies carried. It was the engine that built them.
The real opportunity today isn't fixing a broken system. It's reigniting belief in one that already worked brilliantly.
Nobody opens a shawarma shop thinking, "It's halal, so Muslims will show up."
The food wins on its own merits:
Better taste.
Better price.
Better experience.
Halal is simply assumed. It's not the pitch, it's the foundation.
So imagine applying that same confidence to halal finance.
History already proved it can compete, not just comply. It can lead.
Once we truly believe 0% interest finance is better, we'll build something extraordinary again.
Usman S | Oro retweeted
The dollar side of a liquidity pair is a capital allocation decision.
For a long time, the choice was mostly limited to one or two stables with little differentiation. We settled on a default and stopped asking if things could be better.
Pairing with a productive stable improves net economics. Yield on the dollar side offsets the base rate cost of capital, reducing what MMs have to absorb or pass on to traders through spreads.
This will be obvious in hindsight.
More quote assets coming soon.
The dollar you pair with should pay you.
USDv puts the cash side of liquidity to work: 3.5% APY on the USDv portion, on top of swap fees.
For GOLD/USDv, LPs with @orogoldapp are now enjoying a 9.77% annualized yield (7D).
Usman S | Oro retweeted
Three years ago, I started Alif.
Today, I'm sharing the story behind why we're building it.
The World is Changing Hands.
alif.build/manifesto
Usman S | Oro retweeted
GOLD IS DEAD 💀
A startup just announced it’s found a way to manufacture gold at scale.
All they need is 735 gigawatt-scale fusion power plants and 6.1x the world’s estimated mercury-198 resources, to produce 1 year of normal Gold mining supply.
It’s so over.
Usman S | Oro retweeted
When should you worry about gold?
China has a deep vested interest in gold and will have serious inquiry into its potential. If Chinas monetary policy shifts away from gold verbally or there is signs they decide to stop accumulating id be concerned
Until then it goes in the bucket of fud
An by fud I mean just that every asset has a potential argument on why it will fail - it’s like calling for end of oil 50 yrs ago it may or may not happen and even if it does you can be far too early
Investing is within in our lifetime - you have to right size time horizons. It’s not enough to be right alone
Last month, we demonstrated high-rate alchemy: turning mercury into real, stable gold, beating CERN’s record by a factor of 10.
Last week, we enriched isotopes in the world’s most powerful plasma centrifuge, beating the Soviet record that stood for 40 years.
Now, we’re building a fusion reactor in San Francisco to achieve record power density.
Usman S | Oro retweeted
Comments from Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel on the case for #gold for central banks.
launch community coins against $GOLD
trade memes against $GOLD
send part of the rewards back to $GOLD holders
turn the oldest asset in the world into a reserve asset for internet markets
every coin deserves a gold standard
@LaunchOnSF
Introducing Community Coins.
Holding Solana community coins can now earn holder rewards from new memes paired with it.
Each meme launched in Community Mode shares 33% of its holder rewards among eligible community holders. The remaining 67% goes to the meme’s own holders.
$USELESS, $PENGU, $ZCAT, $ANSEM, and $NEET are up first.
Hold Solana's top memecoins, get rewarded.
Usman S | Oro retweeted
Every coin deserves a gold standard.
You can now launch coins paired with solana:GoLDppdjB1vDTPSGxyMJFqdnj134yH6Prg9eqsGDiw6A on @LaunchOnSF.
Stay golden.
We like our gold liquid.
You can now launch coins paired with $GOLD from @orogoldapp on StonkFun.
stonkfun.xyz/launch
Usman S | Oro retweeted
We like our gold liquid.
You can now launch coins paired with $GOLD from @orogoldapp on StonkFun.
stonkfun.xyz/launch
doing our job to bring some of these private markets in the gold industry
coming soon
Usman S | Oro retweeted
Yield bearing digital gold paired with yield generating USD on @Raydium
The tokenization supercycle is just getting started
When we started Oro, the thesis was never just “put gold onchain.”
Gold already exists onchain.
The bigger opportunity is building the market infrastructure around it: deeper liquidity, better capital efficiency and eventually an entire financial system around gold.
Our GOLD/USDv beta with @solomon_labs had LP yields reaching ~22% including USDv rewards.
Now we’re expanding that model to @Raydium and deploying a large chunk of our gold liquidity against USDv.
One more step towards making gold a truly liquid, productive asset onchain.