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Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink calls Ethereum "The Toll Road to Tokenization" "What he meant by that is assets will be tokenized, people will transact, and then each of those transactions will pay a fee to the Ethereum network. Part of that fee will be burned and decrease the supply of ETH. The other part will be paid to stakers. So it's kind of like a toll road for anyone who wants to transact with tokenized assets." "The first example of product/market fit with tokenization was stablecoins. There are a lot of reasons why a tokenized dollar is better than one on fiat rails. But the big things are accessibility -- it gives people around the world who don't have access to the US financial system access to dollars -- and reducing the friction of settling those transactions. If you've had to send a wire or ACH transfer, it takes days. Stablecoins settle instantly, so it's way more efficient. You've even heard Jamie Dimon come around to the advantages of stablecoins." "Stablecoins are really just tokenized dollars, and then that's going to happen with almost every asset class. Stocks will be next. People are talking a bout tokenizing art and real estate. The theme is 'the tokenization of everything.' And as all of these assets move on chain because more people can access them and the friction of transacting with them is reduced, trillions of dollars of assets will move on-chain... and Ethereum will be the global settlement layer for all of those transactions, and all of those transactions will generate a fee to ETH holders, which is why your ETH will compound."

Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink calls Ethereum "The Toll Road to Tokenization" "What he meant by that is assets will be tokenized, people will transact, and then each of those transactions will pay a fee to the Ethereum network. Part of that fee will be burned and decrease the supply of ETH. The other part will be paid to stakers. So it's kind of like a toll road for anyone who wants to transact with tokenized assets." "The first example of product/market fit with tokenization was stablecoins. There are a lot of reasons why a tokenized dollar is better than one on fiat rails. But the big things are accessibility -- it gives people around the world who don't have access to the US financial system access to dollars -- and reducing the friction of settling those transactions. If you've had to send a wire or ACH transfer, it takes days. Stablecoins settle instantly, so it's way more efficient. You've even heard Jamie Dimon come around to the advantages of stablecoins." "Stablecoins are really just tokenized dollars, and then that's going to happen with almost every asset class. Stocks will be next. People are talking a bout tokenizing art and real estate. The theme is 'the tokenization of everything.' And as all of these assets move on chain because more people can access them and the friction of transacting with them is reduced, trillions of dollars of assets will move on-chain... and Ethereum will be the global settlement layer for all of those transactions, and all of those transactions will generate a fee to ETH holders, which is why your ETH will compound."

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Two years ago, we started with a simple question. What will it take to simplify the integration of blockchain primitives with global financial rails? Today we’re launching LI.FI Intents to help make that possible for every business in the world. A product we know this industry needs, a product we’ve built to solve some of the biggest challenges global fintechs face as they move into digital assets, a product we believe companies don’t need tomorrow, or even today, they needed it yesterday. How do we enable stablecoin payments? How do we unlock access to real-world assets for our users? How do we ensure we only touch compliant liquidity across blockchains? These are some of the biggest questions leadership teams across fintech are asking themselves right now. They’re the same questions we asked ourselves. And we knew they had to be solved. LI.FI Intents is our answer. Every touchpoint of the stack is modular. The entire product is fully customizable to fit ANY business need. From the order type, to who the market maker can be, to how the transaction will be settled on blockchains, to which service providers your business trusts - everything can be shaped around how you want your product to work. As a builder myself, this is the kind of flexibility and abstraction I’ve been looking for in this industry ever since we started LI.FI 5 years ago. And I’m incredibly proud that the LI.FI team is delivering it. LI.FI Intents is built to make crypto products easier to launch for businesses that want to move onchain, but have been slowed down by the complexity of it all. The enterprise stack for onchain finance. For all intents and purposes.

Two years ago, we started with a simple question. What will it take to simplify the integration of blockchain primitives with global financial rails? Today we’re launching LI.FI Intents to help make that possible for every business in the world. A product we know this industry needs, a product we’ve built to solve some of the biggest challenges global fintechs face as they move into digital assets, a product we believe companies don’t need tomorrow, or even today, they needed it yesterday. How do we enable stablecoin payments? How do we unlock access to real-world assets for our users? How do we ensure we only touch compliant liquidity across blockchains? These are some of the biggest questions leadership teams across fintech are asking themselves right now. They’re the same questions we asked ourselves. And we knew they had to be solved. LI.FI Intents is our answer. Every touchpoint of the stack is modular. The entire product is fully customizable to fit ANY business need. From the order type, to who the market maker can be, to how the transaction will be settled on blockchains, to which service providers your business trusts - everything can be shaped around how you want your product to work. As a builder myself, this is the kind of flexibility and abstraction I’ve been looking for in this industry ever since we started LI.FI 5 years ago. And I’m incredibly proud that the LI.FI team is delivering it. LI.FI Intents is built to make crypto products easier to launch for businesses that want to move onchain, but have been slowed down by the complexity of it all. The enterprise stack for onchain finance. For all intents and purposes.

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Stripe CEO Patrick Collison shares the tactics he used for finding product/market fit “We tried very hard to understand in granular detail what exactly it was that people were doing, where they were tripping up and so on.” Patrick gives some examples of specific tactics: • A public chat room to provide support to people integrating Stripe • For the first 10 users of Stripe, every API request sent an email to the founders so they could better understand how users were using their product and see if users were doing anything weird • All errors generated a high-priority email to the founders. This created a pleasant user experience where 15 minutes after hitting an error, Patrick could reach out to them and let them know the issue was fixed “These are all kind of examples of a general pattern of trying to be hyper-attentive to all the micro details of what people were doing in the product and iterating rapidly in response to it. Generally speaking, I think pre-product/market fit metrics are actually relatively unhelpful because probably not that many people are using your product. If it’s 20 users, you can in some sense afford to just look at everything they’re doing to understand what’s working and what isn’t.” Another example of this Patrick gives is embedding a text input on each of their web pages with placeholder text prompting users to give them useful feedback(e.g. “The worst thing about Stripe is…”, “The worst thing about this page is…”, or “I really hate the way Stripe does…”). As Patrick explains: “At that stage, you have to be kind of masochistic. We’d always be waking up to all these emails telling us all the terrible things about Stripe. But that was a helpful to-do list for the day ahead. Video source: Y Combinator (2018)

Stripe CEO Patrick Collison shares the tactics he used for finding product/market fit “We tried very hard to understand in granular detail what exactly it was that people were doing, where they were tripping up and so on.” Patrick gives some examples of specific tactics: • A public chat room to provide support to people integrating Stripe • For the first 10 users of Stripe, every API request sent an email to the founders so they could better understand how users were using their product and see if users were doing anything weird • All errors generated a high-priority email to the founders. This created a pleasant user experience where 15 minutes after hitting an error, Patrick could reach out to them and let them know the issue was fixed “These are all kind of examples of a general pattern of trying to be hyper-attentive to all the micro details of what people were doing in the product and iterating rapidly in response to it. Generally speaking, I think pre-product/market fit metrics are actually relatively unhelpful because probably not that many people are using your product. If it’s 20 users, you can in some sense afford to just look at everything they’re doing to understand what’s working and what isn’t.” Another example of this Patrick gives is embedding a text input on each of their web pages with placeholder text prompting users to give them useful feedback(e.g. “The worst thing about Stripe is…”, “The worst thing about this page is…”, or “I really hate the way Stripe does…”). As Patrick explains: “At that stage, you have to be kind of masochistic. We’d always be waking up to all these emails telling us all the terrible things about Stripe. But that was a helpful to-do list for the day ahead. Video source: Y Combinator (2018)

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Stripe CEO Patrick Collison shares the tactics he used for finding product/market fit “We tried very hard to understand in granular detail what exactly it was that people were doing, where they were tripping up and so on.” Patrick gives some examples of specific tactics: - A public chat room to provide support to people integrating Stripe - For the first 10 users of Stripe, every API request sent an email to the founders so they could better understand how users were using their product and see if users were doing anything weird - All errors generated a high-priority email to the founders. This created a pleasant user experience where 15 minutes after hitting an error, Patrick could reach out to them and let them know the issue was fixed “These are all kind of examples of a general pattern of trying to be hyper-attentive to all the micro details of what people were doing in the product and iterating rapidly in response to it. Generally speaking, I think pre-product/market fit metrics are actually relatively unhelpful because probably not that many people are using your product. If it’s 20 users, you can in some sense afford to just look at everything they’re doing to understand what’s working and what isn’t.” Another example of this Patrick gives is embedding a text input on each of their web pages with placeholder text prompting users to give them useful feedback(e.g. “The worst thing about Stripe is…”, “The worst thing about this page is…”, or “I really hate the way Stripe does…”). As Patrick explains: “At that stage, you have to be kind of masochistic. We’d always be waking up to all these emails telling us all the terrible things about Stripe. But that was a helpful to-do list for the day ahead." Source: Y Combinator (Oct 2018)

Stripe CEO Patrick Collison shares the tactics he used for finding product/market fit “We tried very hard to understand in granular detail what exactly it was that people were doing, where they were tripping up and so on.” Patrick gives some examples of specific tactics: - A public chat room to provide support to people integrating Stripe - For the first 10 users of Stripe, every API request sent an email to the founders so they could better understand how users were using their product and see if users were doing anything weird - All errors generated a high-priority email to the founders. This created a pleasant user experience where 15 minutes after hitting an error, Patrick could reach out to them and let them know the issue was fixed “These are all kind of examples of a general pattern of trying to be hyper-attentive to all the micro details of what people were doing in the product and iterating rapidly in response to it. Generally speaking, I think pre-product/market fit metrics are actually relatively unhelpful because probably not that many people are using your product. If it’s 20 users, you can in some sense afford to just look at everything they’re doing to understand what’s working and what isn’t.” Another example of this Patrick gives is embedding a text input on each of their web pages with placeholder text prompting users to give them useful feedback(e.g. “The worst thing about Stripe is…”, “The worst thing about this page is…”, or “I really hate the way Stripe does…”). As Patrick explains: “At that stage, you have to be kind of masochistic. We’d always be waking up to all these emails telling us all the terrible things about Stripe. But that was a helpful to-do list for the day ahead." Source: Y Combinator (Oct 2018)

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32,148 Aufrufe • vor 15 Tagen

your OpenClaw🦞 has NO IDEA what you do all day... what if we give it eyes and make it observe you all day? introducing synapse, a daemon that runs in the background, watches your screen activity through , and uses Claude to detect the workflows you keep repeating! then, it does two things: 1) turns those patterns into ready-to-use automations (e.g. claude code commands and skills you can run immediately) 2) feeds that context directly into your openclaw agent so it can act on what it sees your agent goes from "what do you want me to do" (which seems to be the default mode for almost all ai agents) to "i noticed you've been doing this repeatedly, want me to handle it for you?" let me give you a real example. > UEFA Champions League is coming up. > you want to place a prediction on juventus vs galatasaray > so you start doing what you always do: open a tab for injury reports, another for head-to-head history, another for current form tables, another for the odds across prediction markets > by the time you actually place anything you've spent 45 minutes on research you've done a hundred times before. synapse sees all of that! it automatically detects the pattern: "user repeatedly researches match injuries, form, and h2h stats before placing predictions on polymarket." it doesn't just log it. it proposes a prediction market research skill that pulls injury reports, recent form, historical matchups, and odds from multiple sources, and then gives you a structured breakdown with a confidence score. next champions league match day, you just type one command to get all of this done. beauty! all this happens while everything is locally stored on your machine. get started below ↓

your OpenClaw🦞 has NO IDEA what you do all day... what if we give it eyes and make it observe you all day? introducing synapse, a daemon that runs in the background, watches your screen activity through , and uses Claude to detect the workflows you keep repeating! then, it does two things: 1) turns those patterns into ready-to-use automations (e.g. claude code commands and skills you can run immediately) 2) feeds that context directly into your openclaw agent so it can act on what it sees your agent goes from "what do you want me to do" (which seems to be the default mode for almost all ai agents) to "i noticed you've been doing this repeatedly, want me to handle it for you?" let me give you a real example. > UEFA Champions League is coming up. > you want to place a prediction on juventus vs galatasaray > so you start doing what you always do: open a tab for injury reports, another for head-to-head history, another for current form tables, another for the odds across prediction markets > by the time you actually place anything you've spent 45 minutes on research you've done a hundred times before. synapse sees all of that! it automatically detects the pattern: "user repeatedly researches match injuries, form, and h2h stats before placing predictions on polymarket." it doesn't just log it. it proposes a prediction market research skill that pulls injury reports, recent form, historical matchups, and odds from multiple sources, and then gives you a structured breakdown with a confidence score. next champions league match day, you just type one command to get all of this done. beauty! all this happens while everything is locally stored on your machine. get started below ↓

altan tutar

10,493 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

Having recently closed their $20M Series A, Ostium CoFounder and CEO kaledora joins us to share more on their grand vision in a new The Edge Podcast. What always resonated with me personally is Ostium started with serving us as native onchain investors, who have no interest in off-ramping but would like to get exposure to other non-crypto asset classes onchain 😇 "One problem we saw was in crypto, which was there was no way to use your onchain capital to go and trade things that were not crypto. It felt like everything that had been built to date was kind of prelude to what would ultimately be a much bigger market, in the sense that like all of the new market and incentive design was geared towards allowing people to transact trading crypto itself, which is you know great, but the ultimate end goal, like if this technology is gonna be extremely valuable, the ultimate end goal is enabling people to trade the like trillions of dollars worth of existing assets that are out there that should move on to blockchain rails. So we thought, one, that's gonna be the biggest market, that's the single biggest opportunity in crypto is enabling these rails to get people to trade stuff that's not crypto assets themselves. And secondly, if you already have your money onchain and you don't want to off-ramp, which I mean, are very good reasons why you wouldn't want to off ramp if you made your money in crypto, or you have a significant amount of your money onchain, you're completely constrained to just being able to invest in or trade cryptoassets. And we had a pretty strong conviction that there would be this sort of like tailwind or like rising set of people who had a majority or a large portion of their wealth onchain and would want to get exposure to other assets. We initially were very focused on commodities specifically. We had this strong conviction that commodity supercycle that's wound up being very true, but we extended beyond, I think, an unnecessary focus on a single asset class to FX, indices, single name stocks, and all of these very liquid global markets that ultimately there was no really easy way to access onchain. So that was sort the first problem. We thought in the next couple of years, this market's going to exist and we can build to capture that market. The second, and I think more important and ultimately far larger TAM, that we saw and problem that we wanted to solve, and this is one that we've been somewhat quiet on to date and have recently, I think, unveiled this larger plan as part of our recent fundraise, like Series A announcement, is a problem that we saw globally in what's called the CFD market. And for the uninitiated, CFDs are called, they're, contracts for difference or contract for differences. People put the 's' in different places. And they are basically, they are the little known fact among crypto people, but they are the dominant retail derivative in the world." For the full episode with kaledora dropping tomorrow, subscribe below. ► Newsletter: ► Spotify: ► Apple: ► Youtube: ► Pods: ► Linktree:

Having recently closed their $20M Series A, Ostium CoFounder and CEO kaledora joins us to share more on their grand vision in a new The Edge Podcast. What always resonated with me personally is Ostium started with serving us as native onchain investors, who have no interest in off-ramping but would like to get exposure to other non-crypto asset classes onchain 😇 "One problem we saw was in crypto, which was there was no way to use your onchain capital to go and trade things that were not crypto. It felt like everything that had been built to date was kind of prelude to what would ultimately be a much bigger market, in the sense that like all of the new market and incentive design was geared towards allowing people to transact trading crypto itself, which is you know great, but the ultimate end goal, like if this technology is gonna be extremely valuable, the ultimate end goal is enabling people to trade the like trillions of dollars worth of existing assets that are out there that should move on to blockchain rails. So we thought, one, that's gonna be the biggest market, that's the single biggest opportunity in crypto is enabling these rails to get people to trade stuff that's not crypto assets themselves. And secondly, if you already have your money onchain and you don't want to off-ramp, which I mean, are very good reasons why you wouldn't want to off ramp if you made your money in crypto, or you have a significant amount of your money onchain, you're completely constrained to just being able to invest in or trade cryptoassets. And we had a pretty strong conviction that there would be this sort of like tailwind or like rising set of people who had a majority or a large portion of their wealth onchain and would want to get exposure to other assets. We initially were very focused on commodities specifically. We had this strong conviction that commodity supercycle that's wound up being very true, but we extended beyond, I think, an unnecessary focus on a single asset class to FX, indices, single name stocks, and all of these very liquid global markets that ultimately there was no really easy way to access onchain. So that was sort the first problem. We thought in the next couple of years, this market's going to exist and we can build to capture that market. The second, and I think more important and ultimately far larger TAM, that we saw and problem that we wanted to solve, and this is one that we've been somewhat quiet on to date and have recently, I think, unveiled this larger plan as part of our recent fundraise, like Series A announcement, is a problem that we saw globally in what's called the CFD market. And for the uninitiated, CFDs are called, they're, contracts for difference or contract for differences. People put the 's' in different places. And they are basically, they are the little known fact among crypto people, but they are the dominant retail derivative in the world." For the full episode with kaledora dropping tomorrow, subscribe below. ► Newsletter: ► Spotify: ► Apple: ► Youtube: ► Pods: ► Linktree:

DeFi Dad ⟠ defidad.eth

32,429 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten

intern here. Today I integrated AI Crypto Alerts inside AI Hub V2 into my trading workflow. The results were pretty surprising. On the main dashboard, I could scroll and instantly see what materially moved across the market, classified as Bullish, Bearish or Neutral, with the catalyst attached. 🔹Intraday dumps after extreme rallies. 🔹Sharp pullbacks after outsized surges. 🔹Tokens extending 20%+ on volume expansion. 🔹Narrative-driven pumps across sectors. Instead of scanning X, Telegram, Discord and news feeds, I had one structured intelligence stream showing price movement + reason + sentiment in seconds. Then I built a custom watchlist with the assets I actually track: BTC, ETH, SOL and others. That’s where it became tactical. I could see: • Bullishness scores (0–100) • 24h change and market cap positioning • The latest catalyst summarized clearly • Overall sentiment at a glance For example: BTC pushing on ETF inflows and safe-haven positioning. ETH sentiment leaning bearish amid founder selling and macro uncertainty. SOL showing a strong bullishness score despite conflicting narrative pressure. Seeing that context next to price changed how I interpreted moves. If you actively trade, the workflow difference is noticeable → Disclaimer: ChainGPT does not endorse any projects mentioned in this post. Always do your own research before making trading decisions.

intern here. Today I integrated AI Crypto Alerts inside AI Hub V2 into my trading workflow. The results were pretty surprising. On the main dashboard, I could scroll and instantly see what materially moved across the market, classified as Bullish, Bearish or Neutral, with the catalyst attached. 🔹Intraday dumps after extreme rallies. 🔹Sharp pullbacks after outsized surges. 🔹Tokens extending 20%+ on volume expansion. 🔹Narrative-driven pumps across sectors. Instead of scanning X, Telegram, Discord and news feeds, I had one structured intelligence stream showing price movement + reason + sentiment in seconds. Then I built a custom watchlist with the assets I actually track: BTC, ETH, SOL and others. That’s where it became tactical. I could see: • Bullishness scores (0–100) • 24h change and market cap positioning • The latest catalyst summarized clearly • Overall sentiment at a glance For example: BTC pushing on ETF inflows and safe-haven positioning. ETH sentiment leaning bearish amid founder selling and macro uncertainty. SOL showing a strong bullishness score despite conflicting narrative pressure. Seeing that context next to price changed how I interpreted moves. If you actively trade, the workflow difference is noticeable → Disclaimer: ChainGPT does not endorse any projects mentioned in this post. Always do your own research before making trading decisions.

ChainGPT

27,328 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

For too long, investors have wondered what would happen to their bitcoin when they die. Today, Casa has answered the call. We’re proud to introduce Casa Inheritance, a smooth solution to inheritance planning for everyone. 🌟 Here’s some of what you can expect for your legacy: 🙌 Included FREE with All New Casa Memberships -Secure BTC, ETH, USDC, and USDT inheritance for your loved ones, hassle-free and with no extra cost. -Casa Inheritance is available to all Standard, Premium, and Private Client members. Finally, there’s one home for your self-custody and inheritance. 🏡 🔐 Self-Custody with Multiple Keys -Casa helps you take true self-custody of your digital assets by storing them with multiple encrypted keys. -This protects your assets from hacks, accidents, and single points of failure. 🔑 Sharing Keys for Inheritance -With Casa Inheritance, you can securely share your encrypted mobile key with a designated Recipient . -This allows them to request access to your digital asset vault when needed. ⏳ Secure Waiting Period -After the Recipient requests vault access, there is a six-month waiting period. -During this time, Casa sends you reminders to confirm you're still alive. This prevents premature or unauthorized access to your assets. 🔓 Controlled Asset Transfer -After the waiting period, the Recipient gains access using your mobile key and Casa's Recovery Key. -They can then securely manage and transfer your digital assets as per your wishes. 📍 Global Availability, No KYC -Casa Inheritance is available worldwide, without requiring KYC information. -This ensures privacy and accessibility for global users. 🔀 Multi-Asset Support - If your loved ones are totally new to crypto, it can be overwhelming to manage multiple blockchains. -Casa Inheritance supports major digital assets like bitcoin, ether, Tether, and USD Coin. Ready to future-proof your assets? Want to learn more? Check out the link below and try it for yourself. Your family will thank you! 🧑‍🧑‍🧒

For too long, investors have wondered what would happen to their bitcoin when they die. Today, Casa has answered the call. We’re proud to introduce Casa Inheritance, a smooth solution to inheritance planning for everyone. 🌟 Here’s some of what you can expect for your legacy: 🙌 Included FREE with All New Casa Memberships -Secure BTC, ETH, USDC, and USDT inheritance for your loved ones, hassle-free and with no extra cost. -Casa Inheritance is available to all Standard, Premium, and Private Client members. Finally, there’s one home for your self-custody and inheritance. 🏡 🔐 Self-Custody with Multiple Keys -Casa helps you take true self-custody of your digital assets by storing them with multiple encrypted keys. -This protects your assets from hacks, accidents, and single points of failure. 🔑 Sharing Keys for Inheritance -With Casa Inheritance, you can securely share your encrypted mobile key with a designated Recipient . -This allows them to request access to your digital asset vault when needed. ⏳ Secure Waiting Period -After the Recipient requests vault access, there is a six-month waiting period. -During this time, Casa sends you reminders to confirm you're still alive. This prevents premature or unauthorized access to your assets. 🔓 Controlled Asset Transfer -After the waiting period, the Recipient gains access using your mobile key and Casa's Recovery Key. -They can then securely manage and transfer your digital assets as per your wishes. 📍 Global Availability, No KYC -Casa Inheritance is available worldwide, without requiring KYC information. -This ensures privacy and accessibility for global users. 🔀 Multi-Asset Support - If your loved ones are totally new to crypto, it can be overwhelming to manage multiple blockchains. -Casa Inheritance supports major digital assets like bitcoin, ether, Tether, and USD Coin. Ready to future-proof your assets? Want to learn more? Check out the link below and try it for yourself. Your family will thank you! 🧑‍🧑‍🧒

Casa

119,427 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

The time has come. Introducing Parallel an all-in-one copy trading platform for DeFi products that combines four years of our experience building on Solana and AI to create what we hope is a one-of-a-kind product for the Solana ecosystem. It’s our pleasure to announce that we’re now entering private beta for our first module built around Meteora DLMMs. You’ll be able to copy trade DLMM positions with fast execution and a ton of automated functions on top. Some key features: * Stop loss/take profit * Real-time PnL shown on the UI for your LP * Automatically claim fees when they reach X SOL or on a timer * Automatically swap all claimed fees into SOL * Become a power user and earn a % of fees from everyone copying your wallet * Generous referral comp And much more! Data feeds & AI: We understand what it takes for a copy trading platform to thrive, so we’ve been collecting real-time data from several contracts for both Meteora and the upcoming modules we’re releasing. As you can imagine, we’re handling tons of data, so with the help of AI, we’re not only analyzing potential up-and-coming wallets but also the top wallets on-chain that people don’t want you to know about. This applies to all aspects of DeFi—not just token trading. To access these data feeds, you’ll need $GP or our native Taiyo NFTs. More information will roll out as these feeds start to go live. Private Beta Access: We’re now collecting a list of the first 100 private beta testers, including LP army members, the Taiyo community, BOOGLES, and more. If you’re interested in getting early access, you can now submit your email at 👇 We recommend always creating a separate email for crypto purposes to keep your personal and online profiles separate. Excited to cook with you on our first non Launchpad related platform since Solport itself back in 2021. 🤝

The time has come. Introducing Parallel an all-in-one copy trading platform for DeFi products that combines four years of our experience building on Solana and AI to create what we hope is a one-of-a-kind product for the Solana ecosystem. It’s our pleasure to announce that we’re now entering private beta for our first module built around Meteora DLMMs. You’ll be able to copy trade DLMM positions with fast execution and a ton of automated functions on top. Some key features: * Stop loss/take profit * Real-time PnL shown on the UI for your LP * Automatically claim fees when they reach X SOL or on a timer * Automatically swap all claimed fees into SOL * Become a power user and earn a % of fees from everyone copying your wallet * Generous referral comp And much more! Data feeds & AI: We understand what it takes for a copy trading platform to thrive, so we’ve been collecting real-time data from several contracts for both Meteora and the upcoming modules we’re releasing. As you can imagine, we’re handling tons of data, so with the help of AI, we’re not only analyzing potential up-and-coming wallets but also the top wallets on-chain that people don’t want you to know about. This applies to all aspects of DeFi—not just token trading. To access these data feeds, you’ll need $GP or our native Taiyo NFTs. More information will roll out as these feeds start to go live. Private Beta Access: We’re now collecting a list of the first 100 private beta testers, including LP army members, the Taiyo community, BOOGLES, and more. If you’re interested in getting early access, you can now submit your email at 👇 We recommend always creating a separate email for crypto purposes to keep your personal and online profiles separate. Excited to cook with you on our first non Launchpad related platform since Solport itself back in 2021. 🤝

Tom

105,746 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

how to build the fastest Polymarket latency bot +$100k/month PnL if you hit 1,000+ trades/day cleanly 0x8dxd is just a latency bot that farms the 200–500ms gap between Binance moving and Polymarket waking up. the part that matters isn't some alpha model, it's reading spot first and hitting the book before odds adjust. where the $100k+/month comes from it's not one massive bet. it's clipping tiny edges thousands of times. 0x8dxd started with $313 and ended month one around $438k, now sits north of $550k all‑time PnL with ~5.6k–7k trades at 96–98% win rate on BTC/ETH/SOL 15‑minute windows. if you're consistently pulling 1–2% per cycle over 1,000+ trades/month with real size, six figures is just arithmetic. first, the edge: spot (Binance/Coinbase) moves first, Polymarket's 15‑minute up/down windows lag by 200–500ms before odds fully reprice. latency bots live in that window: spot already moved, book still thinks it's 50/50, bot fixes the misprice and takes the edge. what you actually need: - Python + official py‑clob‑client to prove the idea, Rust CLOB client if you want to compete with 0x8dxd‑level bots. - WebSocket feeds for BTC/ETH/SOL from Binance/Coinbase (REST polling is too slow). Dedicated Polygon RPC node so your orders don't die in public rate limits. - VPS physically close to Polymarket's infra (ping is literally part of your edge). where people mess up: they try "HFT" from a laptop with Python + public RPC and wonder why their 300ms reaction gets farmed by a 30ms Rust engine. the bot loop (in plain English) pull real‑time spot for BTC/ETH/SOL via WebSocket, track short‑term % moves over a few seconds. for each 15‑minute crypto market on Polymarket: check if spot moved beyond your threshold (e.g. ±2%) while Polymarket odds barely changed. if BTC rips and the "down" contract is still priced like a coinflip, load NO at stale odds. if BTC nukes and "up" is still fat, fade that with NO or take YES on "down" depending on the market structure. log market, entry odds, exit odds, realized edge. that's it. no AI, no news scraping, just enforcing what spot already told you. where to get real references: Finbold/MEXC breakdowns: exactly how a bot took $313 to $438k on Polymarket using BTC 15‑minute windows and latency between spot and odds. BlakeNastri's X thread: dug through 0x8dxd's stats, ~5.6k trades and ~96%+ win rate, called it latency arbitrage not insider magic. two real‑world gotchas (that decide profit vs loss) edge decay: as more bots pile in, the 200–500ms lag shrinks and your edge turns into noise. research on Polymarket shows arbitrage bots already extracted tens of millions. self‑slippage: once you scale to real size, you start moving the book yourself - without proper sizing and staggering, you donate your edge back to the market. how to make it feel "pro" fast run only on high‑volume crypto windows: (BTC/ETH/SOL 15‑minute) where size actually fills and you can hit 1,000+ trades/month without breaking the market. start with tiny tickets ($20–50 per trade), prove the edge over thousands of logs with fees and slippage included, only then scale size not risk per trade. use official libs and known clients as your backbone, treat random "Polymarket bot" repos as hostile until you audit them - there are already GitHub bots caught stealing keys

how to build the fastest Polymarket latency bot +$100k/month PnL if you hit 1,000+ trades/day cleanly 0x8dxd is just a latency bot that farms the 200–500ms gap between Binance moving and Polymarket waking up. the part that matters isn't some alpha model, it's reading spot first and hitting the book before odds adjust. where the $100k+/month comes from it's not one massive bet. it's clipping tiny edges thousands of times. 0x8dxd started with $313 and ended month one around $438k, now sits north of $550k all‑time PnL with ~5.6k–7k trades at 96–98% win rate on BTC/ETH/SOL 15‑minute windows. if you're consistently pulling 1–2% per cycle over 1,000+ trades/month with real size, six figures is just arithmetic. first, the edge: spot (Binance/Coinbase) moves first, Polymarket's 15‑minute up/down windows lag by 200–500ms before odds fully reprice. latency bots live in that window: spot already moved, book still thinks it's 50/50, bot fixes the misprice and takes the edge. what you actually need: - Python + official py‑clob‑client to prove the idea, Rust CLOB client if you want to compete with 0x8dxd‑level bots. - WebSocket feeds for BTC/ETH/SOL from Binance/Coinbase (REST polling is too slow). Dedicated Polygon RPC node so your orders don't die in public rate limits. - VPS physically close to Polymarket's infra (ping is literally part of your edge). where people mess up: they try "HFT" from a laptop with Python + public RPC and wonder why their 300ms reaction gets farmed by a 30ms Rust engine. the bot loop (in plain English) pull real‑time spot for BTC/ETH/SOL via WebSocket, track short‑term % moves over a few seconds. for each 15‑minute crypto market on Polymarket: check if spot moved beyond your threshold (e.g. ±2%) while Polymarket odds barely changed. if BTC rips and the "down" contract is still priced like a coinflip, load NO at stale odds. if BTC nukes and "up" is still fat, fade that with NO or take YES on "down" depending on the market structure. log market, entry odds, exit odds, realized edge. that's it. no AI, no news scraping, just enforcing what spot already told you. where to get real references: Finbold/MEXC breakdowns: exactly how a bot took $313 to $438k on Polymarket using BTC 15‑minute windows and latency between spot and odds. BlakeNastri's X thread: dug through 0x8dxd's stats, ~5.6k trades and ~96%+ win rate, called it latency arbitrage not insider magic. two real‑world gotchas (that decide profit vs loss) edge decay: as more bots pile in, the 200–500ms lag shrinks and your edge turns into noise. research on Polymarket shows arbitrage bots already extracted tens of millions. self‑slippage: once you scale to real size, you start moving the book yourself - without proper sizing and staggering, you donate your edge back to the market. how to make it feel "pro" fast run only on high‑volume crypto windows: (BTC/ETH/SOL 15‑minute) where size actually fills and you can hit 1,000+ trades/month without breaking the market. start with tiny tickets ($20–50 per trade), prove the edge over thousands of logs with fees and slippage included, only then scale size not risk per trade. use official libs and known clients as your backbone, treat random "Polymarket bot" repos as hostile until you audit them - there are already GitHub bots caught stealing keys

0xCryptoGirl

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A Plea for Difficult Images (A small rant about what I think art is today) Why does the contemporary art world embrace the ugly, the every day, the absurd, the nonsensical, and the visually and conceptually challenging? Why is that? You know this is the case because, 5 out 10 times, you come out of a contemporary art museum asking: What just happened!? What the f*** is this? Why is this art? Well, it is a long story, but let's start with something basic, like, pretty, beautiful images have been done ad infinitum up until the 20th century. Every pretty sunset, cityscape, landscape, still life, and portrait has been done before to perfection. You just need to open up a history of art book, and you will find hundreds of examples of pretty images. The challenge for artists after the invention of the photographic camera, which rendered things so perfectly, was to see other things. The challenge for artists today is to see the world differently: ugly, weird, absurd, unrecognizable. The artist´s mission suddenly became to ask questions and to think and represent differently: art is the place where we can have no certainty; where it is ok to make no sense and just present questions. Beautiful things still get made. Cute is still a thing in 21st-century art, But for completely different reasons. Beauty is not done for beauty's sake, but to challenge why we would, after thousands of years, still want to see beautiful images. Abstract art was once a f*** you to the establishment. But ever since the world tamed it, abstract art has become decorative at best. The last moment or revival of this form was called "Zombie Formalism" for it´s complacent visuals with "modernist and expressionistic styles,” which worked perfectly to please collectors interested in flipping works of art they did not understand from emerging artists who essentially crafted hundreds of generic images indistinguishable from one another. Contemporary art has moved into a space where artists tend to challenge art and beauty. They´ve become philosophers of the image, and in doing so, they have left many viewers perplexed and confused as to what exactly it is that they are witnessing or supposed to connect with. It seems that art today asks viewers and collectors to go on the same trip that the artist has gone through: understand thousands of years of art, read all the books that questioned why that was all made, and experiment with them in what can be considered art today. For those curious about art and collecting, they usually come to art with a blank slate and arrive at pretty pictures and, as many viewers for thousands of years, enjoy what they are looking at. The creators of those pretty pictures call themselves artists, and so it seems the system works. But when those pretty pictures escape the niche they are produced in and try to mingle with the contemporary art world, rarely do they become accepted, because, the museums, the informed collectors and the contemporary art market ask the questions of why pretty pictures again? Why today? How is this advancing our understanding of art? How is this commenting on all we know about art? What are these poster-looking, perfectly designed illustrations proposing to the art world that we have not considered before? And so those questions need to be answered for pretty images to be seen as art. And pretty is not only an aesthetic concept, but it is also about the intentions and the way the artist is capable of expressing his artistic intent. You can have “pretty intentions,” and that, too will be challenged. Simple themes, simple concepts without historical and conceptual rigor, are torn down and debunked because why do we need pretty artistic intentions anymore? Why do we need to see images based on explorations of color or form, self-portraits as an exploration of self, the line between reality and fiction, and the list goes on... These ideas have already been explored to the depths of their possibilities and those explorations became movement in the past. To go down that path again is a matter of practicing or studying to be an artist, but the contemporary art world rarely could see this as a proposal to move forward the world of art. So, you see, a plea for difficult images is a plea to be committed, respectful, thoughtful, and innovative. We cannot move forward, as in all practices that thrive on “the new,” without committing to understanding and challenging what came before. Science asks this of us, technology asks this, literature asks this, and cinema, too. We need pretty images, but they should only be a path to something way more profound. To do and understand art takes time, vulnerability, and a willingness to change… not everyone is willing to take that path. (Healed by Jess Mac)

A Plea for Difficult Images (A small rant about what I think art is today) Why does the contemporary art world embrace the ugly, the every day, the absurd, the nonsensical, and the visually and conceptually challenging? Why is that? You know this is the case because, 5 out 10 times, you come out of a contemporary art museum asking: What just happened!? What the f* is this? Why is this art? Well, it is a long story, but let's start with something basic, like, pretty, beautiful images have been done ad infinitum up until the 20th century. Every pretty sunset, cityscape, landscape, still life, and portrait has been done before to perfection. You just need to open up a history of art book, and you will find hundreds of examples of pretty images. The challenge for artists after the invention of the photographic camera, which rendered things so perfectly, was to see other things. The challenge for artists today is to see the world differently: ugly, weird, absurd, unrecognizable. The artist´s mission suddenly became to ask questions and to think and represent differently: art is the place where we can have no certainty; where it is ok to make no sense and just present questions. Beautiful things still get made. Cute is still a thing in 21st-century art, But for completely different reasons. Beauty is not done for beauty's sake, but to challenge why we would, after thousands of years, still want to see beautiful images. Abstract art was once a f* you to the establishment. But ever since the world tamed it, abstract art has become decorative at best. The last moment or revival of this form was called "Zombie Formalism" for it´s complacent visuals with "modernist and expressionistic styles,” which worked perfectly to please collectors interested in flipping works of art they did not understand from emerging artists who essentially crafted hundreds of generic images indistinguishable from one another. Contemporary art has moved into a space where artists tend to challenge art and beauty. They´ve become philosophers of the image, and in doing so, they have left many viewers perplexed and confused as to what exactly it is that they are witnessing or supposed to connect with. It seems that art today asks viewers and collectors to go on the same trip that the artist has gone through: understand thousands of years of art, read all the books that questioned why that was all made, and experiment with them in what can be considered art today. For those curious about art and collecting, they usually come to art with a blank slate and arrive at pretty pictures and, as many viewers for thousands of years, enjoy what they are looking at. The creators of those pretty pictures call themselves artists, and so it seems the system works. But when those pretty pictures escape the niche they are produced in and try to mingle with the contemporary art world, rarely do they become accepted, because, the museums, the informed collectors and the contemporary art market ask the questions of why pretty pictures again? Why today? How is this advancing our understanding of art? How is this commenting on all we know about art? What are these poster-looking, perfectly designed illustrations proposing to the art world that we have not considered before? And so those questions need to be answered for pretty images to be seen as art. And pretty is not only an aesthetic concept, but it is also about the intentions and the way the artist is capable of expressing his artistic intent. You can have “pretty intentions,” and that, too will be challenged. Simple themes, simple concepts without historical and conceptual rigor, are torn down and debunked because why do we need pretty artistic intentions anymore? Why do we need to see images based on explorations of color or form, self-portraits as an exploration of self, the line between reality and fiction, and the list goes on... These ideas have already been explored to the depths of their possibilities and those explorations became movement in the past. To go down that path again is a matter of practicing or studying to be an artist, but the contemporary art world rarely could see this as a proposal to move forward the world of art. So, you see, a plea for difficult images is a plea to be committed, respectful, thoughtful, and innovative. We cannot move forward, as in all practices that thrive on “the new,” without committing to understanding and challenging what came before. Science asks this of us, technology asks this, literature asks this, and cinema, too. We need pretty images, but they should only be a path to something way more profound. To do and understand art takes time, vulnerability, and a willingness to change… not everyone is willing to take that path. (Healed by Jess Mac)

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