TL;DR - Privacy on public blockchains has historically been... fragmented and episodic. Umbra introduces persistent, expressive privacy by default. - Umbra is a private financial layer on Solana, enabling private transfers, swaps, balances, and yield within a continuous shielded environment. - Umbra combines client-side zero-knowledge proofs for anonymity with MPC for confidentiality - MPC enables confidential balances via Encrypted Token Accounts (ETAs), hiding balances and transfer amounts - Privacy strength depends not only on cryptography, but on anonymity set size and user behavior. - Umbra treats anonymity sets as a first-class metric and designs the product to minimize behavioral privacy failures. - A multi-purpose shielded pool allows funds to remain private across transfers, swaps, and yield, compounding privacy over time. - The Umbra SDK allows wallets and applications to integrate private transfers, swaps, and balances, feeding activity into a shared shielded pool. - Swaps execute via public liquidity venues while identity, balances, and intent remain unlinkable. - Users can earn yield on shielded assets, incentivizing longer time in the private environment. - Umbra mitigates exit-related privacy risks through product design, including anonymity indicators, configurable unshielding delays, and confidential balances. - UTXO-based shielded systems suffer from performance decay as balances fragment into many notes over time, increasing scan and aggregation costs. - Umbra eliminates this bottleneck by consolidating balances into Encrypted Token Accounts (ETAs), using UTXOs only at the anonymity boundary. The result is encrypted balances with stable, high-performance transfers even as activity scales. - Compliance is addressed through proactive screening against risk databases and opt-in selective disclosure via read-only viewing keys. - Umbra was launched via MetaDAO as an ownership coin, with governance and economic policy determined by token holders through futarchy. - Umbra is not a mixer or a single feature, but a sovereign privacy domain with its own private state and internal economy. - Umbra is Hopecore for Privacy. Thank you all for reading!show more

Biggest Virtuals Protocol bug bounty of all time is... LIVE. 🚨 $15,000 for anyone who can decrypt a Morse AI signal containing a private wallet key holding all the funds. $5,000 extra if you DM me on X explaining exactly how you did it. Yeah. That’s how confident we are in the tech. To make it even better, the MORSE user-to-user platform is FREE to use until launch. We want real stress testing. No funds needed. Just create a fresh empty wallet and play with it. Early users will also get special rewards in the coming days 👀 Quick $MORSE TL;DR MORSE is a native privacy layer. Not just for payments, but for communication and assets too. It doesn’t replace ACP, it completes it. Some real examples: User → User Send a private message, file, prompt, or even a wallet key through a one-time encrypted URL. Only the target wallet can open it. Once opened, it’s burned forever. Agent → Agent Agents exchange sensitive data, strategies, keys, or instructions privately through the SDK. No logs. No persistence. No leaks. Agent → User Agents can send private signals, reports, assets, or credentials to a specific wallet, fully encrypted so only that user can read it. Nothing public. Nothing stored. Everything ephemeral by design. Have fun breaking it.show more

meteco weekly recap | july 27 – august 3... the future is built by founders who keep shipping. recent ecosystem highlights ↓ rwa, ownership & new markets: VaultBags, My Divvy | $DIVVY, Ethics Launchpad and PerpsPad continued pushing new models for RWAs, tokenized assets and longtail markets on Solana. Jurassic Finance announced Deaton, the first-ever tokenized dinosaur coming to Solana. capital formation: Star’s live startup fundraising show, The Shot, returns on august 6. ordr.trade completed its raise with $9.3m from 293 funders, reaching 6,191% of its $150k target. kimia’s ongoing raise reached $660k from 50 funders, or 1,100% subscribed, for its market-neutral yield product built on Solana’s first perpetuals exchange with a true funding rate. launchpads & infrastructure: Bridge Chains launched single-sided Meteora DLMM LPing, letting users bridge assets from Robinhood to Solana and open a price-parity LP position in one flow. nibble.fun launched early access on Solana mainnet and published its SDK, allowing builders to integrate Nibble or build on top of its launchpad infrastructure. Builder SZN launched through Blank. trading fees will flow into a treasury, giving holders access to real trading capital via Ride. MonkeFoundry kicked off Cohort 2, with SurfCash | getsurf.cash joining the program. EasyA Kickstart hosted pitch days in Hong Kong and Japan, continuing to grow the builder pipeline across Asia. products & adoption: Auriela launched Auriela Explore, signing 60+ creators, influencers and travel agents representing 7m+ combined followers in just 20 days. Umbra Privacy payroll now processes >$180k every month, with new teams onboarding and new features shipping. Fitted allocated 2% of token supply to season III users, rewarding uploads, listings, purchases and engagement. Rip Cars opened its early-access waitlist. media: MCG announced a streaming partnership with MetaDAO and Futardio. meteora ecosystem. go build.show more

Some cool projects in the RWA space and what... they actually do, educational only. Solana – home to over $1.1bn of real world assets onchain with 135k+ holders, according to Figure + Hastra – Figure tokenizes private credit such as HELOC loans into onchain yield products. Hastra distributes products like PRIME, a yield exposure backed by real-estate-linked mortgage loans. Securitize – Tokenization infrastructure. Helps asset managers and institutions issue real securities (funds, equity, debt) onchain in a compliant way. Soon to be launching tokenized stocks. Kamino – Solana lending and liquidity protocol. Increasingly a distribution layer for RWA yield products alongside crypto native markets. Can also be used to loop positions and increase APYs (with added risk). Maple – Onchain institutional credit markets. Lenders earn yield from real borrowers. One of the clearest bridges between TradFi credit and Defi. Pendle – Not an RWA issuer, but important. Pendle lets you split and trade yield itself, including yield generated from real world assets. @OndoFinance – Tokenized Treasuries, tokenized stocks, and public market exposure onchain. Focused on bringing familiar financial instruments onchain. OnRe – Onchain reinsurance. Yield comes from insurance premiums, not trading or leverage. A completely different risk profile to most Defi. RWA Foundation – Education, marketing, and ecosystem building. Not a product but more about helping people understand RWAs and how this sector fits together. PreStocks – Onchain price exposure to private companies (pre-IPO style), built on Solana. MAIV – Structured real world investments onchain. Focuses on tokenized contracts and cash flow deals. Investment platform + FLOW product (CBP). These are very brief overviews with limited detail. If something interests you, do your own research, read the docs, understand the risks, and decide for yourself.show more

Introducing Zest Protocol Stacks Swap, The ultimate swap experience... for the stacks.btc ecosystem. Live now. Stacks swap is built with more routes, faster backend and UX than any DEx product previously built on Stacks. Stacks Swap compares hundreds of liquidity pools across every major DEX on Stacks and returns the route with the best output for every trade. How it works: 🟠 Smart order routing. Large swaps split across multiple pools and multiple DEXes at once. When no direct pool exists, the router chains hops through intermediate tokens. The full route executes as a single transaction. 🟠 All or nothing. Every swap is one atomic Stacks transaction. Either the full route completes and you receive at least the guaranteed minimum, or the entire transaction reverts and no tokens leave your wallet. 🟠 Price protection enforced on-chain. Every swap carries a minimum-received amount written into the transaction itself. If the market moves before confirmation, the swap reverts instead of filling at a worse price. No app, server, or operator can override this check. 🟠 Non-custodial by design. Tokens move from your wallet, through the pools, and back to your wallet within a single transaction. No deposits, no balances, no accounts. 🟠 Zero additional fees. Pool fees are set by the DEXes and already priced into every quote. Zest Protocol charges nothing on top. 🟠 Supported liquidity sources: Bitflow , Velar, ALEX 🟧 No. 1 Bitcoin DeFi, and Arkadiko Protocol 🟧🗿, plus direct protocol conversion through Stacking DAO for stSTXbtc swaps. The quote you approve is the worst case you can receive. The swap fills at that amount or better, or it does not happen at all. We built Stacks Swap using Zest Protocol's existing internal infrastructure. When we realised that it performed much better than existing DEx products, we decided it made sense to release it for the benefit of the ecosystem. Happy swapping.show more

vPay offshore accounts and physical cards have been getting... field-tested IRL for a while now, and we’ll open them to the public as soon as we’re fully confident in the UX. But before offshore accounts go public, I want to address a few points: Some might point out that - vPay isn’t the first crypto card - vPay doesn’t have the lowest fees - So why choose vPay instead of the Coinbase 🛡️ Card or MetaMask 🦊 Card or KAST or or Tria, or any of the other big names? Now to address: Privacy | The biggest differentiator that sets vPay completely apart is Private Banking. The majority of the crypto card providers on the market use Rain infra. Even if you’ve never heard of them, that's what your favorite "NeoBank" uses. And due to their legal jurisdictions, they will report your finances to authorities since they're CRS and FACTA compliant. We are not. As an OmniBank, we work with different banking partners, and although KYC is required to use our services, our offshore banks are non-CRS and non-FACTA. Tax reporting is the responsibility and choice of the user. Offshore Accounts vs Physical Cards | I've tried to highlight this a few times so far. vPay has 3 offerings on the banking side of things. Virtual cards - live now. Physical cards - coming Q1 2026. The first two are similar to what everyone else on the market offers. The offshore accounts are not. which are coming this week. They allow unlimited spending, ATM withdrawals, and international SWIFT transfers, which very few “Neobanks” provide. Offshore accounts are coming this week. Self-Custody | We're not 100% non-custodial yet, as that is near impossible at the moment but it's something we're working towards. And we try to keep the users' self-custodial wallets in the loop as much as possible for maximum control. Those who have tried the vPay app know that almost every move asks for permission from their wallet, and we always encourage users to keep their funds in their non-custodial wallets until the very last moment, since our top-ups usually only take seconds to a minute to process. Fees | All of the card providers mentioned above either raised millions from VCs or in presales or have a huge org backing them. We have neither. vPay was self-funded and community-owned since day 1, launched under Virtuals Protocol Genesis V1 launch model, an objectively bad launch model and hugely unfavorable toward project teams. So even though vPay has been generating revenue and profitable from early on, we do not have the luxury of offering 0% fees yet, since they're mostly a marketing gimmick paid for by millions in VC money and not a sustainable business model for early-stage companies. What we're working towards instead, is true co-ownership of vPay and revenue-share with users. OmniBank vs NeoBank | I’m not a fan of the term “NeoBank.” It implies just a bank, but make it crypto. That’s not vPay. Our goals have always been clear: A) Anything and everything users need to do with their money and assets, both Web2 and Web3, all in one hub. Powered by a constellation of partner agents. The cards and the bank accounts are just the foundation. B) To eventually build independent financial rails for crypto and decouple from the chokehold of Visa/Mastercard. vLink is the first step toward this vision. This turned out to be a rather long tweet, but context matters. Questions and feedback welcome in replies or DMs. See you all with your vPay vCards very soon.show more

Today, we are excited to reveal a partnership with... the @HederaFndn to bring all 400+ Pyth Price Feeds to Hedera 🔮 HLiquity is the first DeFi application on Hedera to be Powered by Pyth. Learn more about this launch below: ℹ️ About the HBAR Foundation The HBAR Foundation supports the creation of Web3 communities built on the Hedera network, by empowering and funding the builders developing these communities. The Foundation's six funds - focused on the Crypto Economy, Consumer Engagement, Sustainability, Fintech, Privacy, and Female Founders - each support communities within those areas, and the interconnectedness enables applications to participate as part of a larger ecosystem. The collective power of these funds enables entrepreneurs, developers, and enterprises of all sizes to tackle some of the world's largest problems and create and control their own economies, all built on the Hedera public network. Whether you're building something new or migrating an existing EVM-based application and community, the HBAR Foundation is here to support you. 🔮 Pyth Data on Hedera The deployment of the Price Feeds and Pyth Benchmarks marks a pivotal moment for the Hedera DeFi ecosystem Pyth Network offers an expansive suite of over 400 real-time price feeds across digital assets, foreign exchange pairs, commodities, equities, and ETFs Developers on Hedera can permissionlessly access any of these data feeds to power their smart contract applications and build out the next generation of blockchain-enhanced financial services As a matter of fact, we’re happy to reveal Swisscoast as the first DeFi app using Pyth Data on Hedera. HLiquity is a decentralized borrowing protocol that allows you to draw interest-free loans against $HBAR. Loans are paid out in $HCHF (a CHF-pegged stable on-chain currency) and must maintain a minimum collateral ratio of 110%. Thanks to Pyth Price Feeds, HLiquity can continuously monitor the current price of HBAR and CHF and ensure that all user vaults and the overall protocol remain over-collateralized 🗣️ Quotes “Public Oracle price feeds are a critical component for growth as lending is often seen as the crux of economic behavior. This infrastructure is a huge milestone to spur the development of innovative financial instruments on Hedera and we are ecstatic to partner with Pyth not only for the incredible tech but our alignment of a long-term strategic vision.” — HBAR Foundation Director of Business Development Grace Pfluger “Embracing Pyth Price Feeds on Hedera with HLiquity showcases a new era of DeFi, ensuring precise and timely collateral valuation for our users. This is a significant milestone for HLiquity, demonstrating our commitment to leveraging cutting-edge technology for enhanced financial solutions.” — Reto Habegger, COO at Swisscoastshow more

ChainSwap Yearly Recap 2024 -Key Metrics and Growth- 2024... has been a transformative year for ChainSwap, defined by remarkable growth and user trust. We onboarded over 1,370 unique users and achieved over $35,000,000 in total volume, with $10,000,000 generated in just the past two weeks during ChainBot’s testing phase. This volume brought in over $170,000 in EVM revenue and an additional $70,000 from Solana ChainBot beta testers, highlighting the utility’s immense potential. Every dollar generated will be reinvested into revenue sharing as well as buybacks and burns, directly benefiting nearly 20,000 ChainSwap token holders. -Utility Development- We’ve developed and continue to enhance over a half-dozen utilities, redefining DeFi usability. These include our cross-chain dApp, the Telegram bot 'ChainBot' for CCIP-supported chains and Solana, privacy swaps, the cold storage alternative 'ChainSafe,' and many more tools that cater to both seasoned and new DeFi users. -Community Engagement- This year, ChainSwap hosted 29 episodes of UnChained, featuring notable guests like AvaLabs, PeaPods Finance, and MetaTrust Labs. Topics ranged from security to marketing, offering diverse perspectives and invaluable education. Over $500,000 in giveaways and interactive discussions solidified UnChained as a cornerstone of our engagement efforts. -Boots on the Ground Networking- ChainSwap’s team actively participated in global blockchain events, including Token2049 in Dubai and Singapore, the Future Blockchain Summit, and numerous other meetups. These efforts built relationships with industry leaders, laying the groundwork for future collaborations and innovation. -Cross-Marketing and Partnerships- Collaboration fueled ChainSwap’s growth, with over a dozen new partnerships, including Chainlink's CCIP recognition. We worked with AvaLabs, Ethereum-based utilities like Hash AI and Spectre AI, and even meme coins, demonstrating our adaptability. Participation in cross-marketing X Spaces with names like Three Protocol and Moon Tropica further amplified our visibility and reputation. -2025 Roadmap- ChainSwap is set for an even bigger 2025. We aim to launch over new utilities outlined on our roadmap, such as ChainSafe, a multi-chain block explorer, and many more while scaling interoperability and user experience. Partnerships remain key, with plans to onboard more collaborations and innovative use cases. Our community is not just a support system but an integral part of our team, sharing in our vision and driving our collective success. Building on the achievements of 2024, ChainSwap is poised to set new standards in blockchain interoperability and DeFi innovation, fueled by a clear roadmap and a dedicated team committed to shaping the future of decentralized finance. We’re excited to have you with us as we shape the future together.show more

🚨 BIG EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT! 🚨 The Snapshot was officially... taken at 11:59 PM UTC on March 31st, and we’re now processing the data. A huge thank you to everyone who stayed active, fed their Capybaras, and contributed to this incredible journey! ❤️ But trust us—the best is yet to come! ⸻ 🎉 THE BIG EVENT REVEALED! We’ve been searching for a way to reward our community in a massive way… far beyond the typical $5 airdrops from other SocialFi projects. And we’ve found the perfect solution! 🚀 $500,000+ in Multi-Chain Identities! We’re excited to announce a major partnership with a Web3 infrastructure company specializing in identity management across modular blockchains. Their Modular Naming Service (MNS) allows users to transform complex wallet addresses into simple, recognizable identities usable across multiple blockchains. By securing your unique username through MNS, you can: • Simplify Transactions: Replace complex wallet addresses with a single, easy-to-remember name across multiple blockchains. • Unify Your Identity: Manage a single, recognizable identity across various platforms, enhancing your presence in the Web3 ecosystem. • Assess Your On-Chain Value: Utilize the AI Identity Score feature to evaluate your on-chain activity. A higher score may increase your eligibility for future airdrops and rewards. Who Gets These Identities? ✅ Player Card NFT Holders: • Each identity is valued between $40 and $1,250. • Distribution is based on your Leaderboard position at the time of the Snapshot, considering Player Card NFT holders after adjusting balances for Money Bag multipliers. ✅ All Capybara Users (even without an NFT): • Every participant who has earned at least 100,000 points qualifies for a $10 identity. ⸻ 🤖 COMING SOON: AI-POWERED TWITTER TOOL! We’re developing an AI Twitter Agent designed to help Capybara players enhance their social media presence and engagement and unlock additional rewards. ⸻ 🔥 CAPYBARA COMMUNITY TOKEN LAUNCHING IN Q2! We’re thrilled to announce the upcoming launch of the Capybara Community Token in Q2 to reward our ecosystem with an exciting airdrop! 🎉 —- 📢 More details on the claiming process will be revealed TOMORROW, April 2! Be sure to check back to learn how to claim your identityshow more

Uber is Dead, my reflections on Waymo I’ve been... in San Francisco for just over a week, during which I’ve taken 7 rides with Waymo, a similar number with Uber, and a few with FSD Teslas. My journey to SFO via Uber was alarming—the driver veered out of the lane multiple times and nearly crashed on a ramp, seemingly vying for a one-star rating or to genuinely scare me. Conversely, my experiences with Waymo were virtually flawless, if you don’t consider overly cautious driving a fault. I experienced a minor hiccup when we got stuck behind parked cars because the vehicle thought they were queuing at a red light. It quickly resolved the confusion and moved on, which was rather amusing. Waymo, and other Level 5 autonomous vehicles, are poised to revolutionize the movement of people and goods. The most apt analogy I can think of is that Waymo is transforming the real world into an automated Amazon warehouse, with people as the goods and Waymo vehicles as the robots shuttling them around. With the advent of personal transportation becoming incredibly affordable, sending anything from point A to point B using a self-driving electric vehicle will soon be within easy reach. One of Waymo’s standout features is privacy. Riding in an Uber often means being subjected to the driver’s loud group chats on some app, making the journey neither quiet nor private. In contrast, Waymo offers a fully private experience, allowing you to have confidential phone conversations or chat freely with fellow passengers without distraction. Waymo also reimagines the concept of a car. Without the need for a driver, we can eliminate the front console, reduce weight, and remove the steering wheel. This opens up possibilities for passenger seats to be reoriented, perhaps facing backwards, or for the vehicle to become a mobile living room. Tomorrow’s vehicle designs will differ drastically from today’s. Destinations that are currently expensive and logistically complicated to reach via Taxi/Uber, often lying outside public transport routes, can be simplified to a single “Waymo” journey. This could shift the current model of “Uber + public transport + Uber” to a more streamlined experience. As more cars become self-driving, we could see a reduction in the amount of time cars are parked—from 99% of their lifetime to perhaps just 25%. This not only improves unit economics but could also decrease the number of cars on the road. This transition represents one of the most significant shifts for Generation X. In conclusion, the future is autonomous, electric, and efficient. Uber, as we know it, is dead.show more

Introducing Zest Protocol Stacks Vaults, Automated yield strategies for... Bitcoin-native finance. Launching alongside the stacks.btc Bitcoin Staking upgrade. Stacks Vaults mark the evolution of Zest Protocol from a lending market into yield infrastructure. Until now, earning optimised yield on Stacks meant actively managing positions across markets, moving collateral, monitoring rates, and rebalancing by hand. Stacks Vaults changes that: deposit a single asset, select a strategy, and the vault handles the mechanics in the background. This is the yield toolkit for Stacks. Every yield source in the ecosystem becomes a strategy that can be automated and offered as a single-deposit product. The first vault is a levered Bitcoin Staking vault, built around the liquid staking Bitcoin token Stacking DAO launches with the Stacks Bitcoin Staking upgrade. How the levered Bitcoin Staking vault works: 🟠 One deposit, one position. Deposit BTC, sBTC, or stBTC directly into the vault. You hold a single position while the strategy runs itself. 🟠 Automated leverage. The vault uses your stBTC as collateral to borrow sBTC, stakes the borrowed sBTC into stBTC, and repeats the process. Target yield: 6 to 8%, purely derived from Bitcoin Staking on Stacks. 🟠 Non-custodial. The vault contract can only execute strategy actions on Zest Protocol's lending markets. It cannot move funds anywhere else, and only the user can withdraw their position. No one, including Zest Protocol, can access vault assets. 🟠 Built on live lending markets. The vault runs on Zest Protocol's existing markets: two years in production, over a thousand liquidations processed without bad debt. 🟠 Continuous monitoring. Zest Protocol manages the strategy and monitors the position automatically. No manual rebalancing, no juggling markets. 🟠 First of many strategies. The stBTC looping vault is the first, not the last. STX-based strategies, stablecoin and credit-based strategies, and structured yield products can all be built on the same foundation. External curators will be able to manage their own strategies on Stacks Vaults. Lending markets were the foundation. Vaults are what gets built on top. Stacks Vaults launch alongside stBTC, right before Stacks Bitcoin Staking goes live. Note: Stacks Vaults are separate from Bitcoin Collateral Vaults, Zest Protocol's upcoming flagship product that allows users to borrow against native BTC on any chain (e.g. Ethereum). More updates on Bitcoin Collateral Vaults follow shortly. Follow Zest Protocol on X or subscribe to our newsletter to be notified when levered Bitcoin Staking goes live.show more

Everytime you see the "Where is Kate Middleton?" and... the conspiracies, smile my dears, because there is a greater implication here. After 5 months of public Bullying, Press pressures, Public Pressures and Palace pressures, NO ONE can tell you anything tangible about the princess; not the press, not the courtiers, no one. Prince William has indeed remained Catherine's Relentless protector and defender🔥 He has kept his promise to Catherine that •she would have surgery in complete privacy; •be in and out of the hospital in complete privacy; • Be back home to recover in complete privacy; • That he would take care of their children and handle everything while she focus on her recovery on complete privacy🤩 We are 5 months into 2024, and Catherine, as the Most High Profile future Queen in the World, has enjoyed a privacy that was not given to any other royal women or wife of an Heir apparent EVER in History. This is not thanks to the press; this is not even thanks to the Palace. It is because her Husband has refused to serve her on a platter and has not let himself be cowered by outside nor inside pressures on him to relent. As his mentor and Frmr Private secretary Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton already said of Him: "William was always someone of deeply impressive maturity[...] There are many examples of when I worked for William where it would have been very easy to take one route, but it wouldn’t have been the honorable or the right thing to do; so he took the more difficult route."❤️ Prince William proved his private secretary right indeed. He chose the most difficult path when it came to protecting Catherine because it was the right thing to do. The Easiest path would have been to give the press what they want: access to Catherine to take her pictures so they can make money of her and dissect her ad nauseam while she recovers. Instead, he chose to do the one thing that would anger them and bring their wrath on him: He gave them No access and No explanations🔥 William EVEN dared to take a mother's day picture of his OWN wife and children HIMSELF; How dare he..😏🤡 The Fact is, Catherine has Privacy ONLY because Prince William held strong for his family to remain at peace during this time of turmoil. In 2012 during their Pacific Royal tour, Catherine was once again victim of the Press attacks and violation of her privacy when the french magazine, The Closer, published topless pictures of her while on vacation with William. The DM editor, Rebecca English, quizzed him about the situation and it was then that Prince William revealed that Prior to marrying her, he had given his word to her parents that he would protect her at all costs and take care of her; a promise he continues to stand by❤️ Just this month, a friend of the RF revealed pretty much nothing to People Mag when he said that "Prince William is keeping his inner circle tight during a challenging chapter." The Source added: "He is not leaning on too many others"😏 Another source closer to the Wales said: "The Prince of Wales is relying heavily on the "nuclear family unit" of his immediate family of five and Kate’s supportive family: her parents Carole and Michael Middleton and her siblings Pippa and James"🔥 Who could blame him? He has to keep quiet since he knows everyone wants to know what he knows. So he is right to rely on the people who will never betray him nor Catherine: The Middletons. A daft post was asking "why are the Middletons not asking where their daughter is?" Why would they, Dimmy?🤡 They know exactly where she is and probably what she ate today. The Middletons have do not talk because they KNOW what is going on and are protecting their OWN Daughter, alongside William😏 So when you see people asking where she is, remember that the Future King kept his promise to his Wife; and a Man who will keep his promises to his wife and children, will keep his promises to his country and to the Monarchy☕️ 📹Tokkianamishow more

Has been a while since I've given an update... so here's a breakdown of where Sappy is at right now and what we're focusing on going into this year. Pre-amble: With altcoins & NFTs the market is definitely not the same as it was before. I think this is obvious to everyone but I've noticed there are still japanese soldiers that are convinced old tricks and mechanics work. They don't. Liquidity is thin; people want to bid assets that feel like "real companies" not vacuous memecoins. There's still room for memecoins, social currencies, and "utility tokens" (I would say without these functions, tokens are hard to justify versus equities). I'm not part of the camp that thinks there will never be hyperspeculation in crypto again, because there will be; we all love ponzis and PvPing each other onchain. Just not with solved games -- people need something new and fresh. So the overarching plan is to continue building for users, sustainable revenues that aren't tied to directly to crypto, and doubling down on the areas that we've already found PMF / Brand Market Fit. Then leaning into crypto during cyclical periods where liquidity is sloshing around at an accelerated rate. Where we've found early PMF / what we're leaning into: Roblox: we're going to continue to go hard and accelerate here. It's our main objective to ship more seal/brainrot focused games across most genres to cast as wide of a net as we can for the brand, and to also iterate and see what works and stays sticky. Our initial incursion into Roblox was very successful peaking at 2M+ MAU and still sustaining a large portion of that player base... for all of its success, that was a relatively amateur first attempt; we've been setting up better AI pipelines for Roblox development that makes it reasonable to ship many more games and 10x those player counts in totality. It's my belief that Roblox is the sandbox whose audience will be the most valuable on the internet once they are grown up. That intense feeling you get when you see a TikTok referencing an old game you enjoyed on the PS2 or the Gamecube, or when you see a Pokemon card is the exact same feeling the youth of today will get when reminiscing on the things they enjoyed engaging with when they were younger. Fortnite and Roblox are functional equivalents to the old school consoles and exactly where that is taking place. Which is why as much as I care about scaling revenues through Roblox, the long term brand equity gained purely through being popular on the platform is totally invaluable. It also can heavily convert to merchandise sales today if all touchpoints for the brand are dialed in (which is why brands get overcharged so much by Roblox dev shops for the same ROI that only cost us a few thousand $). We have the playbook, it's just about iterating new concepts and then aggressively scaling. Brand Expansion & Merchandising: I've started to create a content pipeline that is easily repeatable, cost efficient (costs next to nothing through either AI or smart reusable concepts), while still being very tasteful and meeting our quality standards for the brand. We are mostly focusing here on reaching people where they're at through nostalgic/emotional content, or just being visually stimulating through carefully curated aesthetics. Content that isn't superficial and touches people in a memorable way. I've attached some examples to the post so you can see what I mean rather than just read it. I don't think it's long until larger brands start doing this at scale, but it's always good to be ahead of the curve and most importantly winning on taste -- knowing what will resonate with people and what won't has always been our edge. The purpose for these accounts is not only to rack up attention but also to begin converting those into sales of both of physicals (plushies & gacha collectibles) and digital avenues like our games, and any other apps we produce. Because they're offshoot accounts it's also a lot easier to be aggressive/experimental with said conversion strategies. Sappy Studio: I'm wrapping everything like Omnia, and everything else into this category because they're all tangentially related. Beginning with Omnia, our current focus is gearing up for Season 0 which involves players competing in the ranked ladder for a prize pool that has rewards through Monad Momentum as well as a player-funded prize pool. This season will be fairly simple with us mostly logging retention, deck building habits, as well as qualitatively observing how aggressively players push the combat system. Deeper monetization wont exist yet outside of the player buy-in (to be eligible for P2E rewards). Beyond that our overarching principle this year is to focus heavily on risk-to-earn mechanics where a portion of that excess value is circular i.e. revenues flow back to prize pools or other parts of the economy, treating the game almost like a protocol where the objective is to amass TVL or player liquidity. Social is also a big focus, and that means implementing the Open World hub which from an infrastructure perspective has already been built out and tested by all of you previously. Right now we are scaffolding the environment in 3D and working through how that hub should look and feel, so players are excited to hang out & idle together while they're queuing. For sappydotlol, what I'm about to say is still early days from a design perspective so a lot can change, but I'm pushing the site in the direction of being a virtual game console. An intersection between Nintendo & Myspace where users can play, trade, and socially interact in a way that's deeply personalised; a breathe of fresh air from the hostility of the current internet. If you go back to my thesis on Roblox above and the game console references, you can kind of see how this will all sequentially tie together. In essence, the strategy is to acquire a critical mass of players through traditional platforms like Roblox, and use that attention and trust to provide an onboarding funnel for web2 users into our own sandbox filled with a mixture of our own browser-based experiences as well as an aggregation of others. The aim is to make the platform a breath of fresh air & bunker from the enshittified platforms like TikTok/IG/X where users are actually served in ways that delight rather than agitate, and where self-expression is incentivised. Closing: As always everything here is subject to change but I've never felt more conviction in our direction until now; I know exactly what we need to do and how, with everything aligning with our team's strengths. Very excited and grinding through things to the point where I'm getting headaches and can't sleep from being hyperfocused for long periods of time lol. There probably has never been a better time to join the ecosystem from a price to fuck around and find out perspective.show more

For almost a year, I have been building a... simpler and more dependable way for applications to respond to activity on Cardano. Today, I am incredibly proud to release OgmiosDotnet.BlockchainEvents v1.0.0. BlockchainEvents is an open source transaction filtering, pub sub and event delivery layer for Cardano. It connects to Ogmios, evaluates every transaction against completely customisable rules, and emits only the activity an application has chosen to receive as standard CloudEvents. The rule engine can be shaped around almost any requirement. An application or applications can listen for activity involving a particular address, asset, policy, smart contract, governance action, treasury withdrawal, metadata value or DEX transaction. Builders can also create entirely new rules around their own domain logic. A project can operate one BlockchainEvents instance and allow many different applications to subscribe to the specific Cardano events they care about. A wallet could subscribe to address activity. A governance platform could subscribe to proposals and votes. A DEX service could subscribe to swaps involving selected assets or contracts. The blockchain connection, transaction processing and event infrastructure are shared, while each application receives its own relevant stream of events. This can remove considerable duplication across a project, reduce infrastructure costs and give development teams one dependable event layer to build around. Consumers can be as simple as an HTTP endpoint. When a transaction satisfies a rule, BlockchainEvents transforms it into a CloudEvent and automatically posts it to the subscribed application. Events can also be consumed through gRPC and server sent events. This allows applications to use Cardano data exposed through Ogmios without installing an Ogmios SDK, tracking a particular SDK version, maintaining their own WebSocket connection or implementing the chain sync protocol themselves. Delivery is backed by a durable queue. When a consumer becomes unavailable, its events remain waiting. Once the application returns, delivery resumes automatically. Applications can restart, deploy or experience a temporary outage without immediately losing the Cardano activity produced while they were offline. It is also extremely fast. During a full local Docker stress test, the pipeline processed more than 1,100 transactions per second through the rule engine, CloudEvents transformation, pub sub and durable queue, with approximately one millisecond p99 processing latency and zero failed emissions. The entire stack can be deployed through Docker across cloud providers, infrastructure providers and self hosted environments, while the underlying queue and delivery architecture remains abstracted from the applications using it. This project was funded through Catalyst Fund 14 after receiving 197 million ADA in yes votes across 420 votes cast. I am deeply grateful to everybody who voted for the proposal, followed the development, tested the releases, shared feedback or supported both me and this project over the past year. A great deal of work has gone into reaching this point, and I am genuinely excited to see what Cardano builders create with it. Further technical details, reliability results and the Minswap implementation are included below. Repository: Release: The possibilities from here are endless, this brings industry standard event driven architecture right to Cardano.show more

Investing in RWA Property Tokenization: A Comprehensive Checklist Propbase... encourages everyone to research heavily into finding future proof tech with market fit. This is what you should look for and how we achieve it! Real World Asset (RWA) tokenization is transforming real estate by allowing fractional ownership, increased liquidity, and global access to property investments through blockchain. 1. Experienced Team with Relevant Expertise Look for founders and executives with proven backgrounds in real estate, blockchain, finance, and tech to ensure the project can navigate complex markets. Propbase Ticks This: Yes. The team includes Kevin Goos (Founder & CEO) with over a decade in property marketplaces, Hudson Leung (Executive Director) in strategy and ventures across Asia-US, and Jesse Gage (Executive Director) in digital media in Southeast Asia. Their combined expertise in Web3, SaaS, and global marketplaces positions them well for success. 2. Innovative Technology and Blockchain Integration The project should use a secure, scalable blockchain with low fees, supporting features like smart contracts for transparent transactions and cross-chain compatibility for broader access. Propbase Ticks This: Yes. Built on Aptos for high-speed, low-cost transactions (~$0.01 each), it also integrates with BASE and Ethereum via bridges for seamless cross-chain transfers. This enables efficient tokenization and fractional ownership, turning properties into liquid digital assets. 3. Strong Regulatory Compliance and Legal Framework Ensure the project adheres to laws in its operating regions, with structures like LLCs for legal ownership to protect investors from regulatory risks. Propbase Ticks This: Yes. Every tokenized property is held in a U.S.-registered LLC, providing true legal ownership and compliance, unlike synthetic RWAs that only track prices. This verifiable structure adds a layer of investor security in Southeast Asia's growing markets. 4. Clear and Sustainable Tokenomics Token supply, distribution, utility (e.g., governance, fees), and incentives should be transparent, with mechanisms like staking for long-term value. Propbase Ticks This: Yes. The PROPS token (on Aptos) powers governance, transaction fees, staking for benefits like fee discounts and early access, and rewards (35% allocation). With 75% community allocation and an 8.68% annual inflation rate, it fosters engagement without excessive dilution. 5. Strategic Partnerships and Ecosystem Support Collaborations with real estate developers, hotel brands, or financial institutions can enhance credibility and property sourcing. Propbase Ticks This: Yes. Properties are managed by established brands like Wyndham Garden and CASSIA Banyan Tree, eliminating investor hassle in maintenance or tenancy. This ties into a broader ecosystem for resilient, high-yield assets. 6. Robust Security Measures and Audits Prioritize projects with blockchain immutability, secure smart contracts, and ideally third-party audits to mitigate hacks or vulnerabilities. Propbase Ticks This: Yes. All transactions are on-chain for transparency and immutability, with a focus on secure ownership recording. While specific audit details aren't highlighted in recent overviews, the Aptos foundation emphasizes security, and the platform's decentralized nature reduces fraud risks. 7. Market Potential and User Adoption Assess demand in target regions, user growth, and features like low entry barriers to gauge scalability and real-world utility. Propbase Ticks This: Yes. Targeting Southeast Asia's booming property markets, it allows investments from $100, enabling fractional ownership and diversification. Features like monthly rental yields and P2P trading drive adoption in underserved areas. 8. Liquidity and Accessibility Tokens should be listed on reputable exchanges, with easy buy/sell options and global reach to avoid illiquidity traps. Propbase Ticks This: Yes. PROPS is tradable on platforms like Coinmetro, with cross-chain bridges enhancing accessibility. The P2P marketplace allows anytime trading of property tokens, boosting overall liquidity. 9. Transparency and Community Engagement Regular updates, roadmaps, and community tools (e.g., governance voting) build trust and long-term support. Propbase Ticks This: Yes. Through Nexus Governance, users vote on proposals, and the roadmap (e.g., Propbase 2.0 with DeFi lending) shows clear progress. Active community rewards and referrals encourage involvement. 10. Risk Management and Investor Protection Features like insurance, diversified assets, and clear exit strategies help manage crypto and real estate risks. Propbase Ticks This: Yes. Legal LLC backing, professional property management, and staking incentives provide protection, while focusing on resilient assets minimizes volatility. Highlighting How Propbase Is Doing It Right While no other project is without risks in the evolving RWA space, Propbase exemplifies thoughtful execution by blending blockchain efficiency with real estate fundamentals. Its low-barrier entry (starting at $100) democratizes access to high-yield Southeast Asian properties, addressing traditional market pain points like high fees and illiquidity. By prioritizing legal compliance through U.S. LLCs and on-chain transparency, it builds genuine trust—something not all tokenization projects achieve. The integration of DeFi elements, like lending in Propbase 2.0 (Coming Soon), adds innovative liquidity without overcomplicating things, and partnerships with top hotel brands ensure steady yields. Overall, Propbase's focus on scalability, user benefits, and verifiable ownership makes it a standout for investors seeking balanced growth in RWA tokenization—honestly delivering on the promise of blockchain-meets-real-estate. If you're exploring this niche. Welcome to Propbase Where it's built right!show more

Introducing Glidepath. A new way for builders on Bankr... to take profit -- without nuking their own chart, or their reputation. The problem: Builders earn fees in their own token. The second they sell into the pool, the chart craters, holders get wrecked, and trust evaporates. And they torch their own long-term upside doing it. First -- what Glidepath is not: It doesn't pull liquidity. It never touches your pool's LP. Pulling liquidity makes trading your token inefficient and unappealing. It's your own tokens, fed back into the pool in slices so small the market barely registers them, each one sized by the Bankr AI agent to live conditions. Why that's healthy for the chart, not harmful: Every slice is a tiny fraction of pool depth, spread over time. Organic buy volume absorbs it, price can keep trending instead of taking a wick. A small, steady, absorbable flow is nothing like a full clip. It actually gets better. Once "the dev might dump" is off the table, buyers price in less risk. The overhang that caps every launch disappears. Less rug risk → stronger bid. Committing to a Glidepath can be bullish. And it's not opt‑in. Selling your fee token straight into the pool through Bankr is now turned off -- Glidepath is the only way to sell it on Bankr. So "the dev might dump" stops being a promise holders have to trust, and becomes a rule they can see. Credible commitment -- enforced, not just offered. And here's the part builders sleep on: Before you commit, Glidepath shows what that same stack is worth at higher market caps. You don't have to dump to fund your project. Grind the coin up, and the same tokens fund you many times over. Your treasury grows with your chart, not against it. Once you commit: → tokens are locked to a vesting wallet → after a short heads-up window (48hr), they exit in small slices using the AI generated sell plan → each slice capped to a fraction of real liquidity -- the AI can size under the cap, never over And it's all in the open. Your token page shows a live exit plan for everyone to see -- committed, sold, remaining -- with the exact timing fuzzed so it can't be front-run. Holders see a capped, transparent glide. No hidden float. No 3am chart nuke. Bottom line: Creators -- take profit on your terms, chart and reputation intact. Holders -- "the dev might dump" becomes a known, capped, visible number known up front. For once, you and your holders want the exact same thing: number go up. This is what launching on Bankr should mean: credible commitment, built in. Glidepath now live in your Bankr terminalshow more

RECOMMENDATION: $pWBTC (Wrapped Bitcoin on PulseChain) If you’re looking... for a way to hold Bitcoin that’s smarter and more versatile, "Wrapped Bitcoin" on Pulsechain, known as $pWBTC, might be it. Just buy ONE at a minimum, tuck it away and forget about it. This is not like other coins, you don't need thousands or millions. Here is why... With a fixed supply capped at just 154,410 tokens, it’s scarcer than Bitcoin itself and even more exclusive than the holdings of industry giants. This rarity isn’t just a number; it’s a potential catalyst for explosive value growth as demand climbs. Built on PulseChain.com Ethereum fork including ERC20s, a smart contract platform, pWBTC goes beyond Bitcoin’s limitations, letting you tap into DeFi opportunities like yield farming or liquidity provision to earn extra income, all while offering privacy tools like mixers and zero knowledge proofs for discretion Bitcoin's transparent ledger cannot match. Compare that to "Wrapped Bitcoin" on Ethereum, or WBTC, and the differences sharpen. Launched in 2019, WBTC mirrors Bitcoin’s price through every twist from the 2020 crash to the 2021 peak but it is shackled to Ethereum’s ecosystem. High gas fees and reliance on institutional custodians weigh it down, making it less agile. $pWBTC, on the other hand, thrives on PulseChain’s ultra-low fee network, unshackled from such burdens. You can trade or leverage it in DeFi without watching profits erode to transaction costs, a practical edge that is hard to ignore. At its core, $pWBTC fuses Bitcoin’s enduring appeal with DeFi’s dynamic flexibility, all while staying true to a decentralized spirit. It is not just a token, it is a rethink of what a Bitcoin like asset can be, blending scarcity, utility, and independence into something fresh. If you are after an intelligent way to engage with crypto that offers both functionality and growth potential, $pWBTC deserves a closer look. Think about it. Bitcoin is priced at $100,000+, WBTC is nearly identical, and $pWBTC is still trading below $750.00 dollars. Buy ONE at a minimum. The market has not caught on yet, but when it does, the upside may be unlike anything we have seen before. If you value my perspective and trust my judgement, I encourage you to consider adding it to your stack. 🔊 Song: Taco "Puttin On The Ritz"show more