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The plot thickens…🤔🕵️‍♂️ RUMOR: jan leaves DFINITY Foundation 🤝 joins Coinbase 🛡️ Could this be the most bullish plot twist in $ICP history? or am I just inhaling that sweet hopium? 😶‍🌫️☁️🫡 Brian Armstrong dom | icp Cloud Foundation ☁️ Video Cred — BasedGiant 🫡♾️

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something's not adding up with $ICP and i can't shake this feeling. look at what's happening. volume went from 60m to 1.43b while everything else was dumping. someone's accumulating hard - we're talking tens of thousands of ICP per buy. and it keeps pumping overnight when the US is asleep. that's not retail money. here's where it gets interesting. DFINITY Foundation is a World Economic Forum member. you can't just buy a ticket to davos - you have to be invited. they're sitting at the table with the biggest money on the planet. people are connecting dots to major asset managers. Coinbase 🛡️ announcing they're moving on-chain - how else would they pull that off? CEX partnerships brewing under NDA. strategic ties with binance, bitcoin, ethereum, solana ecosystems. something called utopia being piloted with major institutions behind closed doors. dom | icp just posted about dfinity 2.0 - they're restructuring for mass market adoption. the tech is ready. the infrastructure is there. partnerships are forming. they haven't even started marketing yet. whatever's pushing this price action, it's not just or AI hype. something bigger is happening that we can't see yet. i genuinely think ICP is about to become one of the biggest chains in crypto. $100 is coded. the signs are all there. trillions. ~ spec
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something's not adding up with $ICP and i can't shake this feeling. look at what's happening. volume went from 60m to 1.43b while everything else was dumping. someone's accumulating hard - we're talking tens of thousands of ICP per buy. and it keeps pumping overnight when the US is asleep. that's not retail money. here's where it gets interesting. DFINITY Foundation is a World Economic Forum member. you can't just buy a ticket to davos - you have to be invited. they're sitting at the table with the biggest money on the planet. people are connecting dots to major asset managers. Coinbase 🛡️ announcing they're moving on-chain - how else would they pull that off? CEX partnerships brewing under NDA. strategic ties with binance, bitcoin, ethereum, solana ecosystems. something called utopia being piloted with major institutions behind closed doors. dom | icp just posted about dfinity 2.0 - they're restructuring for mass market adoption. the tech is ready. the infrastructure is there. partnerships are forming. they haven't even started marketing yet. whatever's pushing this price action, it's not just or AI hype. something bigger is happening that we can't see yet. i genuinely think ICP is about to become one of the biggest chains in crypto. $100 is coded. the signs are all there. trillions. ~ spec

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46,894 views • 8 months ago

INTERNET COMPUTER'S CLOUD ENGINES REPRESENT AN INFLECTION POINT... Founder of Internet Computer (DFINITY Foundation), Dominic Williams (dom | icp), while celebrating the protocol's five-year journey, provided a detailed preview of “Cloud Engines." Cloud Engines is the sovereign frontier cloud technology that the network will soon provide via opencloud(.)org. He stated that Cloud Engines will enable anyone to spin up their own tamperproof sovereign cloud by selecting and configuring nodes within the mathematically secure Internet Computer network. The founder emphasized that the technology is built specifically for the AI era, enabling AI agents to create and update online applications and services without the need for security teams or sysadmins. Additionally, software hosted on Cloud Engines is immune to infrastructure hacks, guaranteed to run as long as sufficient nodes remain operational, and protected by orthogonal persistence in the Motoko language, which automatically detects and prevents “lossy” AI-generated updates. He added that users will soon be able to develop and deploy apps directly from AI platforms such as Claude or Perplexity, with seamless integration through caffeine, while maintaining full tech sovereignty. Cloud Engines allow owners to choose node operators and locations, mix Big Tech instances (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google), add sovereign AI nodes, and scale capacity instantly without downtime or vendor lock-in. In summary, Cloud Engines is an inflection point in the Internet Computer’s history.
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INTERNET COMPUTER'S CLOUD ENGINES REPRESENT AN INFLECTION POINT... Founder of Internet Computer (DFINITY Foundation), Dominic Williams (dom | icp), while celebrating the protocol's five-year journey, provided a detailed preview of “Cloud Engines." Cloud Engines is the sovereign frontier cloud technology that the network will soon provide via opencloud(.)org. He stated that Cloud Engines will enable anyone to spin up their own tamperproof sovereign cloud by selecting and configuring nodes within the mathematically secure Internet Computer network. The founder emphasized that the technology is built specifically for the AI era, enabling AI agents to create and update online applications and services without the need for security teams or sysadmins. Additionally, software hosted on Cloud Engines is immune to infrastructure hacks, guaranteed to run as long as sufficient nodes remain operational, and protected by orthogonal persistence in the Motoko language, which automatically detects and prevents “lossy” AI-generated updates. He added that users will soon be able to develop and deploy apps directly from AI platforms such as Claude or Perplexity, with seamless integration through caffeine, while maintaining full tech sovereignty. Cloud Engines allow owners to choose node operators and locations, mix Big Tech instances (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google), add sovereign AI nodes, and scale capacity instantly without downtime or vendor lock-in. In summary, Cloud Engines is an inflection point in the Internet Computer’s history.

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I don’t know if it’s my excess hopium, but… Could #InternetComputer be the digital infrastructure for the U.S. National Crypto Reserve? In recent days, the crypto market has faced extreme volatility due to global economic uncertainty and Trump’s new tariff policies. Bitcoin has held its support at $90,000, gaining dominance but negatively impacting altcoins, including #ICP. However, the real focus isn’t on the present—it’s on what’s coming next: the imminent decision on the U.S. National Crypto Reserve. 🔥 📍 Davos 2025 and ICP’s Key Role At this year’s World Economic Forum, Internet Computer played a pivotal role with major announcements regarding its decentralized digital infrastructure. Additionally, it secured strategic agreements with #HBAR to merge the best of both technologies, all under the watchful eye of 𝙺𝚒𝚖𝚋𝚊𝚕 𝙼𝚞𝚜𝚔 🤠. This signals an increasing alignment between Web3 innovations and global geopolitical leaders. 🏛 Trump and the U.S. National Crypto Reserve At Davos 2025, Trump signed an executive order formally recognizing the importance of digital assets and establishing a task force to regulate and potentially create a National Crypto Reserve. If the U.S. truly seeks a secure, efficient, and decentralized infrastructure for this reserve, #ICP stands out as the best option. 🔗 ✅ Smart contract hosting on a fully decentralized blockchain ✅ Complete independence from centralized servers (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure) ✅ Maximum security and digital sovereignty for the U.S. 🚀 The HBAR-SpaceX Connection & Cardano’s Integration with ICP • #HBAR already has ties to SpaceX, with the launch of a satellite for decentralized infrastructure. 🚀 • Charles Hoskinson has publicly expressed interest in integrating ICP’s Chain Key technology with Cardano, opening the door to a new level of blockchain interoperability. • We are witnessing the birth of a technological convergence where the most advanced blockchain infrastructures are aligning to shape the future of digital sovereignty in Web3. 🌍 And What About the European Union? The EU has rejected Bitcoin as a reserve asset due to environmental concerns. But ICP provides the perfect solution: ✅ ckBTC enables scalable Bitcoin transactions with minimal fees ✅ Chain Key eliminates the need for centralized bridges ✅ Complies with the EU’s environmental commitments If both the U.S. and Europe need a secure, decentralized digital infrastructure… what better option is there than ICP? 🔥 The Ultimate Question: If the U.S. government is truly seeking a secure digital reserve, how will it ensure its custody without relying on centralized and vulnerable infrastructure? ICP is the only viable solution to host, secure, and manage digital assets in a fully decentralized way. 📌 Are we witnessing the formation of the blockchain infrastructure that will power the U.S. National Crypto Reserve? Or should I lay off the hopium? 🚀♾️ #InternetComputer #ICP #Cardano #ADA #HBAR #Web3 #ChainKey #SpaceX #Decentralization #Bitcoin #Crypto #Trump DFINITY Elon Musk Donald J. Trump Bloomberg Forbes CoinDesk
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I don’t know if it’s my excess hopium, but… Could #InternetComputer be the digital infrastructure for the U.S. National Crypto Reserve? In recent days, the crypto market has faced extreme volatility due to global economic uncertainty and Trump’s new tariff policies. Bitcoin has held its support at $90,000, gaining dominance but negatively impacting altcoins, including #ICP. However, the real focus isn’t on the present—it’s on what’s coming next: the imminent decision on the U.S. National Crypto Reserve. 🔥 📍 Davos 2025 and ICP’s Key Role At this year’s World Economic Forum, Internet Computer played a pivotal role with major announcements regarding its decentralized digital infrastructure. Additionally, it secured strategic agreements with #HBAR to merge the best of both technologies, all under the watchful eye of 𝙺𝚒𝚖𝚋𝚊𝚕 𝙼𝚞𝚜𝚔 🤠. This signals an increasing alignment between Web3 innovations and global geopolitical leaders. 🏛 Trump and the U.S. National Crypto Reserve At Davos 2025, Trump signed an executive order formally recognizing the importance of digital assets and establishing a task force to regulate and potentially create a National Crypto Reserve. If the U.S. truly seeks a secure, efficient, and decentralized infrastructure for this reserve, #ICP stands out as the best option. 🔗 ✅ Smart contract hosting on a fully decentralized blockchain ✅ Complete independence from centralized servers (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure) ✅ Maximum security and digital sovereignty for the U.S. 🚀 The HBAR-SpaceX Connection & Cardano’s Integration with ICP • #HBAR already has ties to SpaceX, with the launch of a satellite for decentralized infrastructure. 🚀 • Charles Hoskinson has publicly expressed interest in integrating ICP’s Chain Key technology with Cardano, opening the door to a new level of blockchain interoperability. • We are witnessing the birth of a technological convergence where the most advanced blockchain infrastructures are aligning to shape the future of digital sovereignty in Web3. 🌍 And What About the European Union? The EU has rejected Bitcoin as a reserve asset due to environmental concerns. But ICP provides the perfect solution: ✅ ckBTC enables scalable Bitcoin transactions with minimal fees ✅ Chain Key eliminates the need for centralized bridges ✅ Complies with the EU’s environmental commitments If both the U.S. and Europe need a secure, decentralized digital infrastructure… what better option is there than ICP? 🔥 The Ultimate Question: If the U.S. government is truly seeking a secure digital reserve, how will it ensure its custody without relying on centralized and vulnerable infrastructure? ICP is the only viable solution to host, secure, and manage digital assets in a fully decentralized way. 📌 Are we witnessing the formation of the blockchain infrastructure that will power the U.S. National Crypto Reserve? Or should I lay off the hopium? 🚀♾️ #InternetComputer #ICP #Cardano #ADA #HBAR #Web3 #ChainKey #SpaceX #Decentralization #Bitcoin #Crypto #Trump DFINITY Elon Musk Donald J. Trump Bloomberg Forbes CoinDesk

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10,260 views • 1 year ago

I had to see it for myself to believe it and here it is. 🚨 $ZBCN is LIVE & AVAILABLE to PURCHASE inside Coinbase🚨 Not a rumor. Not second-hand. It’s functional in-app. So why no “Coinbase listing” announcement? Because availability ≠ listing. What’s live is access, not a spot-exchange listing. Coinbase is acting as an interface, routing purchases through external liquidity (DEX / wallet infrastructure) rather than hosting $ZBCN on its own order books. That distinction matters. This approach lets Coinbase: •allow user access without assuming inventory or market-making risk •observe real demand, liquidity behavior, and slippage in live conditions •avoid premature promotion or speculative volatility In other words, this is infrastructure first, marketing last. What this actually signals: $ZBCN has cleared enough internal checks to be supported, indexed, and transactable inside one of the most compliance-sensitive platforms in crypto, without being formally listed. No conclusions to jump to. No guarantees implied. But it’s a real milestone and a meaningful one. $ZBCN Zebec Network Coinbase 🛡️ Base Simon Sam Thapaliya Brian Armstrong
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I had to see it for myself to believe it and here it is. 🚨 $ZBCN is LIVE & AVAILABLE to PURCHASE inside Coinbase🚨 Not a rumor. Not second-hand. It’s functional in-app. So why no “Coinbase listing” announcement? Because availability ≠ listing. What’s live is access, not a spot-exchange listing. Coinbase is acting as an interface, routing purchases through external liquidity (DEX / wallet infrastructure) rather than hosting $ZBCN on its own order books. That distinction matters. This approach lets Coinbase: •allow user access without assuming inventory or market-making risk •observe real demand, liquidity behavior, and slippage in live conditions •avoid premature promotion or speculative volatility In other words, this is infrastructure first, marketing last. What this actually signals: $ZBCN has cleared enough internal checks to be supported, indexed, and transactable inside one of the most compliance-sensitive platforms in crypto, without being formally listed. No conclusions to jump to. No guarantees implied. But it’s a real milestone and a meaningful one. $ZBCN Zebec Network Coinbase 🛡️ Base Simon Sam Thapaliya Brian Armstrong

👑Crypto Queen👑

42,474 views • 6 months ago

Coinbase CEO Explains “Reverse Prompting” and the Rise of the AI CEO Brian Armstrong: “One of the big pushes we made in the last year was we got our own internal hosted AI model that was connected to all of our data sources, right?” “So it's like every Slack message, every Google doc, Salesforce data, Confluence, you know.” “So now the data is all aggregated and I've started to ask it really… it's not just like prompting it, ‘Hey, can you write this kind of memo for me,’ or something.” “I'm asking these AI agents now, ‘As CEO, what should I be aware of in the company that I might not be aware of?’ And it'll tell me, ‘Did you know that there's actually disagreement on this team about the strategy?’ And I was like, actually, I didn't know that.” “This is like reverse prompting. So instead of telling the AI agent what you want it to do, you ask it what you should be thinking more about.” @jason: “It's a mentor. It's a coach.” Brian: “Yeah. Like, what could make me a better CEO? And it's like, ‘Well, I looked at how you spent your time in the last quarter and here's how you said that you wanted to spend it, but you actually spent 32% of your time on this instead of 20%.’” “I've asked it other questions like, ‘What's the thing that I changed my mind on the most over the last year?’ Things like that.” “It'll prompt you with information you should be thinking about instead of the other way around.” Thanks to our partner for making this happen!: Our episode is sponsored by the New York Stock Exchange - a modern marketplace and exchange for building the future. It all happens at the NYSE 🏛.
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Coinbase CEO Explains “Reverse Prompting” and the Rise of the AI CEO Brian Armstrong: “One of the big pushes we made in the last year was we got our own internal hosted AI model that was connected to all of our data sources, right?” “So it's like every Slack message, every Google doc, Salesforce data, Confluence, you know.” “So now the data is all aggregated and I've started to ask it really… it's not just like prompting it, ‘Hey, can you write this kind of memo for me,’ or something.” “I'm asking these AI agents now, ‘As CEO, what should I be aware of in the company that I might not be aware of?’ And it'll tell me, ‘Did you know that there's actually disagreement on this team about the strategy?’ And I was like, actually, I didn't know that.” “This is like reverse prompting. So instead of telling the AI agent what you want it to do, you ask it what you should be thinking more about.” @jason: “It's a mentor. It's a coach.” Brian: “Yeah. Like, what could make me a better CEO? And it's like, ‘Well, I looked at how you spent your time in the last quarter and here's how you said that you wanted to spend it, but you actually spent 32% of your time on this instead of 20%.’” “I've asked it other questions like, ‘What's the thing that I changed my mind on the most over the last year?’ Things like that.” “It'll prompt you with information you should be thinking about instead of the other way around.” Thanks to our partner for making this happen!: Our episode is sponsored by the New York Stock Exchange - a modern marketplace and exchange for building the future. It all happens at the NYSE 🏛.

The All-In Podcast

80,524 views • 5 months ago

Dear ICP community, the Internet Computer has now been running strong for 5 years 👏👏👏 Here is a celebratory preview of ICP "cloud engines," the sovereign frontier cloud technology the network shall soon provide from Main points: — Cloud engines enable anyone to spin up their own sovereign frontier cloud. The technology involves an extraordinary inventive step, in which cloud is created from a mathematically secure network of nodes. The nodes run as part of the Internet Computer network ( but are selected and configured by the cloud engine's owner. — The frontier cloud provided by engines is strongly focused on enabling AI agents to build and update online applications and services for us. The world is changing fast, and nearly all new online apps and services are already being built with the help of AI, and thus cloud engines target the future of cloud. — Software hosted on cloud engines is tamperproof, which means that it is immune to infrastructure hacks, because it runs inside a mathematically secure network protocol, rather than on computers directly. This means that AI agents, and those building with them, don't need to have a security team in the loop, or to trust someone else's security team. This is crucial, because in the future, non technical people will demand the freedom to build with full automation — where they just need to issue instructions to AI about what to build, and don't need to worry about anything or anyone else. Of course, apps and services running on engines are also vastly safer from the new breed of hacker being enabled by frontier AI. (The cloud engines themselves are also "tamperproof." Even if a hacker gains physical access to some portion of a cloud engine's nodes, and can make arbitrary changes, the computations and data of the hosted apps and services cannot be corrupted or interrupted so long as the network's fault bounds aren't exceeded. The recent hack of Vercel, a major cloud platform, which gave hackers access to the apps it hosted, provides additional perspective on the importance of this advantage.) — Software hosted on cloud engines is guaranteed to run, so long as a sufficient number of the engine's nodes are running. This means that AI can build applications and services without the need to have a human systems admin team constantly tinkering with the underlying platform to keep it running, which is again crucial, because in the future, non technical people will expect the freedom to use AI to build without the support of others. — New frontier programming language technology, in the form of the Motoko language developed by Caffeine Labs, leverages seminal "orthogonal persistence" technology that unifies program logic and data to deliver further unlocks for AI (Motoko is the first computer language being developed that targets agents that are writing software rather than humans engineers per se). Nowadays, AI can build and update production apps at a prodigious rate, even at the speed of conversation. But it can also make mistakes, and there's a risk that an update it creates might be "lossy" in the sense it causes some transformed data to be lost. Again, in this new world, it's both undesirable and impractical for everyone to have to have a systems admin team on-hand to detect lossy updates and roll them back, but Motoko provides a solution: it can detect new software updates are lossy before they are applied, reducing potentially catastrophic errors by AI to harmless coding retries. — Software hosted on cloud engines is "serverless" but unlike traditional serverless software, directly it directly incorporates data through "orthogonal persistence." Another key purpose is simplify backend software logic and fuel the modeling power of AI by increasing abstraction (sorry for the technical language!!!). Put simply, this enables AI to produce more sophisticated backends, faster, and at dramatically lower costs, as measured by the number AI API tokens consumed during coding. (Tip for the technical: orthogonal persistence is a new paradigm where "the program is the database," and data lives inside program variables, which is possible because it's as if hosted software runs forever in persistent memory). — An expanding database of skills at shall make it possible to develop and directly deploy apps and services to your cloud engines directly from Claude Code, Perplexity, Codex and other AI platforms. Further, your account on can be connected, so that new apps and updates created through conversation automatically appear hosted from your cloud engine. In the future, R&D is going to be very seamless. You converse with AI, and your secure and unstoppable apps or services are created or updated. Cloud engines are designed to directly support this "self-writing cloud" future where we can work hands-free. — Tech sovereignty is becoming a huge issue worldwide, with governments and corporations seeking to create sovereign tech stacks owing to geopolitical tensions. Increasingly, people are realizing that tech provided by foreign nations can come with hidden backdoors and kills switches, from the base platform, right up through hosted apps and services. ICP technology is open source, and those building on ICP using AI own their own source code. When you have the source code, you can verify that there are no backdoors, and when you own the source code thanks to AI, you can update it at will, freeing you from vendor lock-in. But cloud engines take sovereignty much further... — You create a cloud engine by selecting the nodes that will be combined. You can choose the class of nodes used, and their number, but more importantly, you can choose who operates the nodes, and where they are located. Almost any configuration is possible, because the Internet Computer scales the security privileges afforded to hosted software within the network according to configuration (software hosted on cloud engines can directly interoperate with software on other engines and traditional subnets, but base restrictions are applied according to security rules). A cloud engine can be created within a region such as Europe, to comply with regs such as GDPR, or completely within a sovereign state like Switzerland or Pakistan. But cloud engines go further still... — Sovereignty is also about freedom from vendor lock-in. Cloud engines are essentially ICP (Internet Computer Protocol) network configurations, and this means the underlying compute nodes they combine can be swapped out without interrupting their hosted apps and services. This is a big deal. In addition, cloud engines now support nodes that are instances running on Big Tech's clouds, in addition to nodes that are dedicated specialized hardware, as per the Gen I and Gen II nodes that dominate the Internet Computer today. For example, it is possible to have an engine running across different AWS data centers, say, and then reconfigure the engine to run across a mixture of AWS, Google, Azure and Hetzner for even more resilience, without the users of hosted apps and services noticing a thing. That's true freedom. — Sovereign AI is becoming increasingly important too, and cloud engines allow special "AI nodes" to be added to them, so that hosted software can perform inference on hardware provisioned by the owner from a location the owner has selected. Even though the AI nodes are only accessible within the cloud engine, they can still benefit from the forthcoming Internet Intelligence Gateway (IG), which will make it possible to validate inference performed on key frontier open weights LLMs, even when the inference is performed on completely independent AI clouds. When the results of inference are received, this technology can verify that neither the prompt+context (input) nor the inference result (output) have been modified, and that the results were produced by the precise LLM expected. This ensures that AI clouds don't cheat by running inference on cheaper models than are being paid for, and bad actors aren't modifying the inputs or outputs to surreptitiously insert advertising into results, say, or change facts, or insert malware when code is being generated. What's super cool about this technology is the cost of the verification is scalable. A very valuable additional security can be achieved with only 1-2% of extra cost. — Scaling apps and services when they hit capacity limits is another thorny problem that cloud engines help the world address. Engines make scaling possible without rewriting or reconfiguring software. The query workload capacity of hosted software can be horizontally scaled simply by adding new nodes to an engine, and nodes can also be added in geographical proximity to demand. Meanwhile, update workload capacity can first be scaled-up by swapping an engine's nodes out for the next class up, and then when no larger class of node is available, horizontally scaled-out by "splitting" the engine into two, which doubles available capacity. (Technical tip: horizontally scaling update capacity by splitting engines requires multi-canister architectures). — For those who have been following how Caffeine builds apps that can efficiently store large numbers of files, I should mention that apps built on cloud engines will also support the new ICP Blob Storage cloud network (since cloud engines currently have up to about 3 TB of memory, which apps storing large amounts of files can easily exceed). We are also working on allowing blob storage nodes to be added to cloud engines, to enable sovereign mass blob storage within an engine, similarly to how AI nodes can be added currently. — Lastly, but certainly not least, I should mention that cloud engines are multi-blockchain capable, and ready for digital assets, thanks to the clever math at their core. For example, an e-commerce service built on a cloud engine can securely accept and custody stablecoin payments, or a multi-chain DEX could be hosted. Further, engines can support software autonomy (software orchestrated and controlled by other autonomous software, in a decentralized way) and can themselves be orchestrated by SNS technology, and thus run autonomously too. Today, though, the focus is on *mainstream* cloud. This year, the cloud industry will generate approximately one trillion dollars in revenue. That number is already huge, but is expected to grow to two trillion dollars by 2030. After years of continuous development, which have seen more than $500m spent on R&D, the Internet Computer network is now tacking directly toward this mainstream cloud market with cloud engine technology. In their first version, cloud engines are not meant to be a cloud panacea. For example, currently they are not ideal for working with big data. You should use something like DataBricks for that. Cloud engines are carefully targeted at enabling AI to produce traditional online applications and services, including SaaS, in a safer and more productive way, which represents a new market segment with tremendous potential. Of course, DFINITY will continue to work relentlessly to push forward ICP's capabilities, so expect further developments. It's worth mentioning that this cloud segment isn't just about creating new apps and services using AI, it's also about replacing legacy systems and apps built on super expensive SaaS services. Caffeine Labs is working to produce technology (Caffeine Snorkel) that can study an enterprise's legacy systems and app built on SaaS, create replacement systems and apps, and migrate the data, while supporting key stakeholders through the process over email and chat, with full automation. Thus the legacy systems and SaaS markets shall also be addressed by cloud engines. Zooming out, and reasoning in a more metaphysical way, we believe, as we always have, that there is room for a new kind of cloud created by mathematical networks, that provides seminal advances in the fields of security and resilience, as well as true sovereignty and freedom from lock-in. That this same technology, with the help of additional technologies like orthogonal persistence and Motoko, enables AI to build for us without the need for so much oversight, and to create more backend sophistication while consuming fewer AI API tokens, enables ICP to bring game-changing advances to the world. Cloud engines will work synergistically with the Intelligence Gateway, which will enable apps and services running on engines to seamlessly leverage AI, wherever that AI is running, while providing verifiability at extremely low cost for open weights frontier models. We believe that cloud engines represent an inflection point in the storied history of the Internet Computer project, and I'm very proud to be sharing the details with you on the network's fifth birthday 💪 I'll be back with more news soon!!
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Dear ICP community, the Internet Computer has now been running strong for 5 years 👏👏👏 Here is a celebratory preview of ICP "cloud engines," the sovereign frontier cloud technology the network shall soon provide from Main points: — Cloud engines enable anyone to spin up their own sovereign frontier cloud. The technology involves an extraordinary inventive step, in which cloud is created from a mathematically secure network of nodes. The nodes run as part of the Internet Computer network ( but are selected and configured by the cloud engine's owner. — The frontier cloud provided by engines is strongly focused on enabling AI agents to build and update online applications and services for us. The world is changing fast, and nearly all new online apps and services are already being built with the help of AI, and thus cloud engines target the future of cloud. — Software hosted on cloud engines is tamperproof, which means that it is immune to infrastructure hacks, because it runs inside a mathematically secure network protocol, rather than on computers directly. This means that AI agents, and those building with them, don't need to have a security team in the loop, or to trust someone else's security team. This is crucial, because in the future, non technical people will demand the freedom to build with full automation — where they just need to issue instructions to AI about what to build, and don't need to worry about anything or anyone else. Of course, apps and services running on engines are also vastly safer from the new breed of hacker being enabled by frontier AI. (The cloud engines themselves are also "tamperproof." Even if a hacker gains physical access to some portion of a cloud engine's nodes, and can make arbitrary changes, the computations and data of the hosted apps and services cannot be corrupted or interrupted so long as the network's fault bounds aren't exceeded. The recent hack of Vercel, a major cloud platform, which gave hackers access to the apps it hosted, provides additional perspective on the importance of this advantage.) — Software hosted on cloud engines is guaranteed to run, so long as a sufficient number of the engine's nodes are running. This means that AI can build applications and services without the need to have a human systems admin team constantly tinkering with the underlying platform to keep it running, which is again crucial, because in the future, non technical people will expect the freedom to use AI to build without the support of others. — New frontier programming language technology, in the form of the Motoko language developed by Caffeine Labs, leverages seminal "orthogonal persistence" technology that unifies program logic and data to deliver further unlocks for AI (Motoko is the first computer language being developed that targets agents that are writing software rather than humans engineers per se). Nowadays, AI can build and update production apps at a prodigious rate, even at the speed of conversation. But it can also make mistakes, and there's a risk that an update it creates might be "lossy" in the sense it causes some transformed data to be lost. Again, in this new world, it's both undesirable and impractical for everyone to have to have a systems admin team on-hand to detect lossy updates and roll them back, but Motoko provides a solution: it can detect new software updates are lossy before they are applied, reducing potentially catastrophic errors by AI to harmless coding retries. — Software hosted on cloud engines is "serverless" but unlike traditional serverless software, directly it directly incorporates data through "orthogonal persistence." Another key purpose is simplify backend software logic and fuel the modeling power of AI by increasing abstraction (sorry for the technical language!!!). Put simply, this enables AI to produce more sophisticated backends, faster, and at dramatically lower costs, as measured by the number AI API tokens consumed during coding. (Tip for the technical: orthogonal persistence is a new paradigm where "the program is the database," and data lives inside program variables, which is possible because it's as if hosted software runs forever in persistent memory). — An expanding database of skills at shall make it possible to develop and directly deploy apps and services to your cloud engines directly from Claude Code, Perplexity, Codex and other AI platforms. Further, your account on can be connected, so that new apps and updates created through conversation automatically appear hosted from your cloud engine. In the future, R&D is going to be very seamless. You converse with AI, and your secure and unstoppable apps or services are created or updated. Cloud engines are designed to directly support this "self-writing cloud" future where we can work hands-free. — Tech sovereignty is becoming a huge issue worldwide, with governments and corporations seeking to create sovereign tech stacks owing to geopolitical tensions. Increasingly, people are realizing that tech provided by foreign nations can come with hidden backdoors and kills switches, from the base platform, right up through hosted apps and services. ICP technology is open source, and those building on ICP using AI own their own source code. When you have the source code, you can verify that there are no backdoors, and when you own the source code thanks to AI, you can update it at will, freeing you from vendor lock-in. But cloud engines take sovereignty much further... — You create a cloud engine by selecting the nodes that will be combined. You can choose the class of nodes used, and their number, but more importantly, you can choose who operates the nodes, and where they are located. Almost any configuration is possible, because the Internet Computer scales the security privileges afforded to hosted software within the network according to configuration (software hosted on cloud engines can directly interoperate with software on other engines and traditional subnets, but base restrictions are applied according to security rules). A cloud engine can be created within a region such as Europe, to comply with regs such as GDPR, or completely within a sovereign state like Switzerland or Pakistan. But cloud engines go further still... — Sovereignty is also about freedom from vendor lock-in. Cloud engines are essentially ICP (Internet Computer Protocol) network configurations, and this means the underlying compute nodes they combine can be swapped out without interrupting their hosted apps and services. This is a big deal. In addition, cloud engines now support nodes that are instances running on Big Tech's clouds, in addition to nodes that are dedicated specialized hardware, as per the Gen I and Gen II nodes that dominate the Internet Computer today. For example, it is possible to have an engine running across different AWS data centers, say, and then reconfigure the engine to run across a mixture of AWS, Google, Azure and Hetzner for even more resilience, without the users of hosted apps and services noticing a thing. That's true freedom. — Sovereign AI is becoming increasingly important too, and cloud engines allow special "AI nodes" to be added to them, so that hosted software can perform inference on hardware provisioned by the owner from a location the owner has selected. Even though the AI nodes are only accessible within the cloud engine, they can still benefit from the forthcoming Internet Intelligence Gateway (IG), which will make it possible to validate inference performed on key frontier open weights LLMs, even when the inference is performed on completely independent AI clouds. When the results of inference are received, this technology can verify that neither the prompt+context (input) nor the inference result (output) have been modified, and that the results were produced by the precise LLM expected. This ensures that AI clouds don't cheat by running inference on cheaper models than are being paid for, and bad actors aren't modifying the inputs or outputs to surreptitiously insert advertising into results, say, or change facts, or insert malware when code is being generated. What's super cool about this technology is the cost of the verification is scalable. A very valuable additional security can be achieved with only 1-2% of extra cost. — Scaling apps and services when they hit capacity limits is another thorny problem that cloud engines help the world address. Engines make scaling possible without rewriting or reconfiguring software. The query workload capacity of hosted software can be horizontally scaled simply by adding new nodes to an engine, and nodes can also be added in geographical proximity to demand. Meanwhile, update workload capacity can first be scaled-up by swapping an engine's nodes out for the next class up, and then when no larger class of node is available, horizontally scaled-out by "splitting" the engine into two, which doubles available capacity. (Technical tip: horizontally scaling update capacity by splitting engines requires multi-canister architectures). — For those who have been following how Caffeine builds apps that can efficiently store large numbers of files, I should mention that apps built on cloud engines will also support the new ICP Blob Storage cloud network (since cloud engines currently have up to about 3 TB of memory, which apps storing large amounts of files can easily exceed). We are also working on allowing blob storage nodes to be added to cloud engines, to enable sovereign mass blob storage within an engine, similarly to how AI nodes can be added currently. — Lastly, but certainly not least, I should mention that cloud engines are multi-blockchain capable, and ready for digital assets, thanks to the clever math at their core. For example, an e-commerce service built on a cloud engine can securely accept and custody stablecoin payments, or a multi-chain DEX could be hosted. Further, engines can support software autonomy (software orchestrated and controlled by other autonomous software, in a decentralized way) and can themselves be orchestrated by SNS technology, and thus run autonomously too. Today, though, the focus is on *mainstream* cloud. This year, the cloud industry will generate approximately one trillion dollars in revenue. That number is already huge, but is expected to grow to two trillion dollars by 2030. After years of continuous development, which have seen more than $500m spent on R&D, the Internet Computer network is now tacking directly toward this mainstream cloud market with cloud engine technology. In their first version, cloud engines are not meant to be a cloud panacea. For example, currently they are not ideal for working with big data. You should use something like DataBricks for that. Cloud engines are carefully targeted at enabling AI to produce traditional online applications and services, including SaaS, in a safer and more productive way, which represents a new market segment with tremendous potential. Of course, DFINITY will continue to work relentlessly to push forward ICP's capabilities, so expect further developments. It's worth mentioning that this cloud segment isn't just about creating new apps and services using AI, it's also about replacing legacy systems and apps built on super expensive SaaS services. Caffeine Labs is working to produce technology (Caffeine Snorkel) that can study an enterprise's legacy systems and app built on SaaS, create replacement systems and apps, and migrate the data, while supporting key stakeholders through the process over email and chat, with full automation. Thus the legacy systems and SaaS markets shall also be addressed by cloud engines. Zooming out, and reasoning in a more metaphysical way, we believe, as we always have, that there is room for a new kind of cloud created by mathematical networks, that provides seminal advances in the fields of security and resilience, as well as true sovereignty and freedom from lock-in. That this same technology, with the help of additional technologies like orthogonal persistence and Motoko, enables AI to build for us without the need for so much oversight, and to create more backend sophistication while consuming fewer AI API tokens, enables ICP to bring game-changing advances to the world. Cloud engines will work synergistically with the Intelligence Gateway, which will enable apps and services running on engines to seamlessly leverage AI, wherever that AI is running, while providing verifiability at extremely low cost for open weights frontier models. We believe that cloud engines represent an inflection point in the storied history of the Internet Computer project, and I'm very proud to be sharing the details with you on the network's fifth birthday 💪 I'll be back with more news soon!!

dom | icp

261,937 views • 2 months ago

"The crypto world has one very powerful idea going for it, and that's the idea of forks..." - George Hotz 🌑 I consider the ability to fork as the most underrated aspect of crypto. People forget it's the power to fork that allows cryptocurrencies to avoid centralized control, and ensure resilience against censorship, and disagreements within the community. This is what happened to the Bitcoin Cash network in late 2020. The lead developers forked the network when they dissented with the majority and decided to chart their own path by creating eCash - old handle placeholder. Anyone who held BCH through the eCash fork would now also hold an equivalent amount of XEC. Just as George describes in the clip below, holders are faced with a choice. They can split their coins, choose to sell one fork to buy more of the other, or do nothing and hold onto both. But if you held your BCH on Coinbase 🛡️, Gemini or Kraken, those exchanges have so far acted as if this fork never happened. In other words, their customers have been prevented from making a choice. While I can understand wanting to see if a fork is even viable before listing it on your exchange, the fact is over the past four years, eCash - old handle placeholder has proven itself to be one of the most technically proficient development teams in all of crypto. XEC is listed on many top tier exchanges such as Binance and Upbit Global and the team is available to offer any assistance if needed. I am urging Brian Armstrong and Jesse Powell, as well as Emilie Choi 🛡️ and Rishi to take a look at the eCash project. I am asking as respectfully as I can, please do the right thing and give your customers their eCash and let them choose for themselves. Plus, wouldn't it be great for your customers to suddenly be rewarded with free eCash they likely didn't even know they had? I'm guessing it would.
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"The crypto world has one very powerful idea going for it, and that's the idea of forks..." - George Hotz 🌑 I consider the ability to fork as the most underrated aspect of crypto. People forget it's the power to fork that allows cryptocurrencies to avoid centralized control, and ensure resilience against censorship, and disagreements within the community. This is what happened to the Bitcoin Cash network in late 2020. The lead developers forked the network when they dissented with the majority and decided to chart their own path by creating eCash - old handle placeholder. Anyone who held BCH through the eCash fork would now also hold an equivalent amount of XEC. Just as George describes in the clip below, holders are faced with a choice. They can split their coins, choose to sell one fork to buy more of the other, or do nothing and hold onto both. But if you held your BCH on Coinbase 🛡️, Gemini or Kraken, those exchanges have so far acted as if this fork never happened. In other words, their customers have been prevented from making a choice. While I can understand wanting to see if a fork is even viable before listing it on your exchange, the fact is over the past four years, eCash - old handle placeholder has proven itself to be one of the most technically proficient development teams in all of crypto. XEC is listed on many top tier exchanges such as Binance and Upbit Global and the team is available to offer any assistance if needed. I am urging Brian Armstrong and Jesse Powell, as well as Emilie Choi 🛡️ and Rishi to take a look at the eCash project. I am asking as respectfully as I can, please do the right thing and give your customers their eCash and let them choose for themselves. Plus, wouldn't it be great for your customers to suddenly be rewarded with free eCash they likely didn't even know they had? I'm guessing it would.

Cain's Chronicles

11,395 views • 1 year ago

If Erika Kirk's ACTUAL FRIEND'S (Matt Walsh, Graham Allen, & Tracy Martin) are trying to form a hasbara FRONT against Candace Owens by unifying with the Dan Bonginos of the world... Then it is time for the independent investigative community to take a similar and stronger STAND! Candace CANNOT do it alone. I cannot do it alone. But those of us who are serious cannot continue to SHARE space with people we know are GRIFTING and are NOT concerned with the truth. The opposing side is becoming unified and they are about to turn up the heat. 🔑 We must act NOW!! IT IS TIME FOR US TO BUILD A UNIFIED "FOUNDATION OF FACTS"!! "If no one knows what to believe, then non-belief itself becomes our easiest defeat." ~Me 🤷🏾‍♂️ It is true. Seriously folks... Without the critical step of finding a SOLID place to build from, we cannot get justice for Charlie Kirk. 🔑 READ THAT AGAIN. Without solidifying our foundation of facts we can't ensure that a young man isn't sent to prison for the rest of his life. 🔑 READ THAT AGAIN. Without unifying our energy and efforts in a harmonized direction, we will NOT make progress to the point of actual completion. 🔑 READ THAT AGAIN. Our opponent, the "deep state" that is beginning to take over, is organized and intentional. If we want to maintain the same constitutional freedoms that we have all come to love, we must be organized and intentional as well. That starts with building a foundation of facts. We cannot allow the grifting in Charlie's name to continue from week to week and theory to theory. It's getting ridiculous after 6 months. I will be building a questionnaire this week so that we can all be on the same page regarding the facts that we could all see with our own eyes. Everything that is on the questionnaire will be verifiable by EVERYONE in the public. 🔑 What does that mean for all of us? It means we'll have a starting point of understanding on which creator's theories are answering all of the evidence that we can all collectively see, or which creators are purely just making content for the sake of making content. Charlie's family deserves closure. Charlie had real parents... Robert and Kimberly. It's time to do the right thing! Let's start to develop a foundation of facts together... That is the only way forward. I spoke about the questionnaire on another post on X. Expect that questionaire sometime this week. 🫡🪖🇺🇸
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If Erika Kirk's ACTUAL FRIEND'S (Matt Walsh, Graham Allen, & Tracy Martin) are trying to form a hasbara FRONT against Candace Owens by unifying with the Dan Bonginos of the world... Then it is time for the independent investigative community to take a similar and stronger STAND! Candace CANNOT do it alone. I cannot do it alone. But those of us who are serious cannot continue to SHARE space with people we know are GRIFTING and are NOT concerned with the truth. The opposing side is becoming unified and they are about to turn up the heat. 🔑 We must act NOW!! IT IS TIME FOR US TO BUILD A UNIFIED "FOUNDATION OF FACTS"!! "If no one knows what to believe, then non-belief itself becomes our easiest defeat." ~Me 🤷🏾‍♂️ It is true. Seriously folks... Without the critical step of finding a SOLID place to build from, we cannot get justice for Charlie Kirk. 🔑 READ THAT AGAIN. Without solidifying our foundation of facts we can't ensure that a young man isn't sent to prison for the rest of his life. 🔑 READ THAT AGAIN. Without unifying our energy and efforts in a harmonized direction, we will NOT make progress to the point of actual completion. 🔑 READ THAT AGAIN. Our opponent, the "deep state" that is beginning to take over, is organized and intentional. If we want to maintain the same constitutional freedoms that we have all come to love, we must be organized and intentional as well. That starts with building a foundation of facts. We cannot allow the grifting in Charlie's name to continue from week to week and theory to theory. It's getting ridiculous after 6 months. I will be building a questionnaire this week so that we can all be on the same page regarding the facts that we could all see with our own eyes. Everything that is on the questionnaire will be verifiable by EVERYONE in the public. 🔑 What does that mean for all of us? It means we'll have a starting point of understanding on which creator's theories are answering all of the evidence that we can all collectively see, or which creators are purely just making content for the sake of making content. Charlie's family deserves closure. Charlie had real parents... Robert and Kimberly. It's time to do the right thing! Let's start to develop a foundation of facts together... That is the only way forward. I spoke about the questionnaire on another post on X. Expect that questionaire sometime this week. 🫡🪖🇺🇸

WeAreNotGoingToMars

30,076 views • 3 months ago

Watching Fran talk about her home in Altadena broke me. The enormity of the loss in the LA area is hard to comprehend and is ongoing as the fires continue to expand and new ones pop up. For people who either don’t live in LA or have never lived in LA, there’s this idea that everyone impacted by the fires is wealthy and doesn’t need support. Nothing could be further from the truth. While there are some very wealthy people who have lost their homes—people who have the resources to rebuild—there are so many people who have been impacted by the fires who desperately need support. People in communities like Altadena, where fires have ravaged so many homes, are, for the most part, not wealthy. Many of them have lived in their homes for decades and bought them when Altadena was a much more affordable community. There are also many renters who have been impacted by the fires. And this doesn’t even address all of the hourly workers who have lost customers and clients now that so many houses have burned down. I have linked to two GoFundMe pages below. The first is the GoFundMe Foundation’s fundraiser, which will provide grants to people in need. Since the money is going to the foundation, your donations are tax-deductible. The second link is for a page that lists GoFundMe pages that GoFundMe has verified and authenticated. You can feel comfortable that your donations to any of these pages (the listing of verified pages is over 13 pages long) will go to people in need. There will be so much more to do. GoFundMe Foundation grants for people in need (donations are tax-deductible): Verified individual GoFundMe pages: (Video by Brian Entin)
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Watching Fran talk about her home in Altadena broke me. The enormity of the loss in the LA area is hard to comprehend and is ongoing as the fires continue to expand and new ones pop up. For people who either don’t live in LA or have never lived in LA, there’s this idea that everyone impacted by the fires is wealthy and doesn’t need support. Nothing could be further from the truth. While there are some very wealthy people who have lost their homes—people who have the resources to rebuild—there are so many people who have been impacted by the fires who desperately need support. People in communities like Altadena, where fires have ravaged so many homes, are, for the most part, not wealthy. Many of them have lived in their homes for decades and bought them when Altadena was a much more affordable community. There are also many renters who have been impacted by the fires. And this doesn’t even address all of the hourly workers who have lost customers and clients now that so many houses have burned down. I have linked to two GoFundMe pages below. The first is the GoFundMe Foundation’s fundraiser, which will provide grants to people in need. Since the money is going to the foundation, your donations are tax-deductible. The second link is for a page that lists GoFundMe pages that GoFundMe has verified and authenticated. You can feel comfortable that your donations to any of these pages (the listing of verified pages is over 13 pages long) will go to people in need. There will be so much more to do. GoFundMe Foundation grants for people in need (donations are tax-deductible): Verified individual GoFundMe pages: (Video by Brian Entin)

Yashar Ali 🐘

476,549 views • 1 year ago

Brian Armstrong tells the founding story of Coinbase: “Nothing was working” After quitting his job in 2012 and joining Y Combinator to build Coinbase, Brian faced setback after setback: “I was struggling to find anybody who would join my team and work with me... I almost cofounded it with one person and that all exploded in dramatic fashion… I finally found the right cofounder, Fred Erhsam, we got off to the races, and someone sued us three months later.” But as Brian explains, this is the norm for startups: “Startups are moving from one setback to the next with enthusiasm… nothing is working, and that’s kind of the default state… If it feels like that, just don’t give up. That’s the main thing. A lot of times I’ve seen people: they have an idea, they have a team that comes together, it doesn’t work, and four months they have a big cofounder fight, blow up, and they all go home… And it’s like, well, you didn’t really try it because there’s no idea that works on the first try.” He continues: “You have to put something out there, and then grind it out for two or three years. Talk to your customers, improve the product, talk to your customers, improve the product… If you look at almost every successful startup, it feels like it was an overnight success, but really that’s just how history gets written in hindsight. If you talk to most of those founders in the early days, there was a period where any reasonable person would have quit. Nothing was working… And all of them somehow persevered and pushed through and finally found something that started to work.” This was especially true for Coinbase. There was no way to buy and sell crypto in the first version. A couple hundred people signed up after Brian posted it on Reddit, and they all left. After emailing five of the people who signed up and churned, he realized some people liked the app but couldn’t use it because they didn’t have Bitcoin: “I remember this light bubble that went off in my head, and I was like, well if there was a simple way to buy [Bitcoin] in the app, would you have done it? He’s like, yeah, probably. And so I hung up and the next few months I had to start thinking about how do we build a simple buy button? And there were a million things that had to go into that: bank partners, legal, licensing, and all this kind of stuff. But that’s when we finally got product/market fit. And that was just one example of hundreds of times where I did that. And I was trying to find something that works… So talk to your customers, improve the product. That’s all we did. And that was one of the things I would recommend.” Video source: a16z crypto (2023)
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Brian Armstrong tells the founding story of Coinbase: “Nothing was working” After quitting his job in 2012 and joining Y Combinator to build Coinbase, Brian faced setback after setback: “I was struggling to find anybody who would join my team and work with me... I almost cofounded it with one person and that all exploded in dramatic fashion… I finally found the right cofounder, Fred Erhsam, we got off to the races, and someone sued us three months later.” But as Brian explains, this is the norm for startups: “Startups are moving from one setback to the next with enthusiasm… nothing is working, and that’s kind of the default state… If it feels like that, just don’t give up. That’s the main thing. A lot of times I’ve seen people: they have an idea, they have a team that comes together, it doesn’t work, and four months they have a big cofounder fight, blow up, and they all go home… And it’s like, well, you didn’t really try it because there’s no idea that works on the first try.” He continues: “You have to put something out there, and then grind it out for two or three years. Talk to your customers, improve the product, talk to your customers, improve the product… If you look at almost every successful startup, it feels like it was an overnight success, but really that’s just how history gets written in hindsight. If you talk to most of those founders in the early days, there was a period where any reasonable person would have quit. Nothing was working… And all of them somehow persevered and pushed through and finally found something that started to work.” This was especially true for Coinbase. There was no way to buy and sell crypto in the first version. A couple hundred people signed up after Brian posted it on Reddit, and they all left. After emailing five of the people who signed up and churned, he realized some people liked the app but couldn’t use it because they didn’t have Bitcoin: “I remember this light bubble that went off in my head, and I was like, well if there was a simple way to buy [Bitcoin] in the app, would you have done it? He’s like, yeah, probably. And so I hung up and the next few months I had to start thinking about how do we build a simple buy button? And there were a million things that had to go into that: bank partners, legal, licensing, and all this kind of stuff. But that’s when we finally got product/market fit. And that was just one example of hundreds of times where I did that. And I was trying to find something that works… So talk to your customers, improve the product. That’s all we did. And that was one of the things I would recommend.” Video source: a16z crypto (2023)

Startup Archive

141,137 views • 8 months ago

Brian Armstrong on what he learned about management from Balaji Srinivasan “Balaji is a brilliant guy. He’s probably one of the top couple smartest people I’ve ever met in my life,” Brian begins. “He was briefly the Chief Technology Officer of Coinbase. He came in through an acquisition and did some amazing work. And he taught me how to manage a totally different type of person.” Brian continues: “Balaji is kind of unmanageable. He’s what some people might call a ‘free radical’ within an organization. He kind of bounces around, absorbing vast amounts of information — even things that aren’t his responsibility — and occasionally he would come back to me with these incredible insights.” Brian gives one funny example: “At one point he came back to me and said, ‘These are all the salespeople that are making more revenue than their salary, and these are all the people that are not.’ And the first thought I had was, ‘You’re not supposed to have access to anybody’s salary. How did you get that?’” Balaji replied, “Don’t worry about it. I found it in some database that I wasn’t supposed to have access to.” The next question Brian asked was, “How did you connect that all up?” The previous week Brian asked the data team to connect Salesforce to Coinbase’s salary data so they could start running some reports to have more accountability. But it was supposed to be a three-week project. Balaji responded, “Oh well I couldn’t sleep this weekend, and I just knew something felt off. So I had to code it up and put it all together.” When the data team completed their analysis three weeks later, they confirmed that Balaji was 100% right. “He was continually doing things like that,” Brian explains. “And he’s incredibly high in disagreeableness, which I learned from him as well. He would go into a team and ask, ‘Why isn’t this functioning well?’ And he would suffer no fools. He would not be afraid to go in there and turn half the people on a team — whether he had the permission to fire them or not… He was a very contrarian figure. I’d say about once a week someone would come into my office and say, ‘I can’t work with Balaji. He’s causing so much collateral damage.’ And I’d say, ‘Yes, but he’s also generating an enormous amount of value and I need you to learn how to work with him.’” Brian knew Balaji wasn’t going to last forever at Coinbase because it was incredibly disruptive, but ultimately he taught Brian how to be a “turnaround CEO” when needed: “In the past I was opting a little more toward trying to be liked instead of being clear about what we’re doing, where we’re going, and what the bar is. He helped me become a better CEO and have a little more disagreeableness.” Video source: Stripe (2025)
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Brian Armstrong on what he learned about management from Balaji Srinivasan “Balaji is a brilliant guy. He’s probably one of the top couple smartest people I’ve ever met in my life,” Brian begins. “He was briefly the Chief Technology Officer of Coinbase. He came in through an acquisition and did some amazing work. And he taught me how to manage a totally different type of person.” Brian continues: “Balaji is kind of unmanageable. He’s what some people might call a ‘free radical’ within an organization. He kind of bounces around, absorbing vast amounts of information — even things that aren’t his responsibility — and occasionally he would come back to me with these incredible insights.” Brian gives one funny example: “At one point he came back to me and said, ‘These are all the salespeople that are making more revenue than their salary, and these are all the people that are not.’ And the first thought I had was, ‘You’re not supposed to have access to anybody’s salary. How did you get that?’” Balaji replied, “Don’t worry about it. I found it in some database that I wasn’t supposed to have access to.” The next question Brian asked was, “How did you connect that all up?” The previous week Brian asked the data team to connect Salesforce to Coinbase’s salary data so they could start running some reports to have more accountability. But it was supposed to be a three-week project. Balaji responded, “Oh well I couldn’t sleep this weekend, and I just knew something felt off. So I had to code it up and put it all together.” When the data team completed their analysis three weeks later, they confirmed that Balaji was 100% right. “He was continually doing things like that,” Brian explains. “And he’s incredibly high in disagreeableness, which I learned from him as well. He would go into a team and ask, ‘Why isn’t this functioning well?’ And he would suffer no fools. He would not be afraid to go in there and turn half the people on a team — whether he had the permission to fire them or not… He was a very contrarian figure. I’d say about once a week someone would come into my office and say, ‘I can’t work with Balaji. He’s causing so much collateral damage.’ And I’d say, ‘Yes, but he’s also generating an enormous amount of value and I need you to learn how to work with him.’” Brian knew Balaji wasn’t going to last forever at Coinbase because it was incredibly disruptive, but ultimately he taught Brian how to be a “turnaround CEO” when needed: “In the past I was opting a little more toward trying to be liked instead of being clear about what we’re doing, where we’re going, and what the bar is. He helped me become a better CEO and have a little more disagreeableness.” Video source: Stripe (2025)

Startup Archive

474,332 views • 11 months ago

The Alzheimer's Shield is REAL. And it's being ignored. New research reveals a staggering 73% of Alzheimer's cases could be PREVENTED. The key? A powerful nutritional synergy that mainstream medicine is overlooking. Here's the game-changing discovery👇 1. The Brain Shrinkage Crisis Your brain is literally SHRINKING. Why? Omega-3 levels have crashed. These fats are so vital, the more Omega-3 you have, the more physical brain matter you have. It's the foundation of cognition. 2. The "SMASH" Protocol You can't reverse the trend without the right fuel. The solution? SMASH it: - Salmon - Mackerel - Anchovies - Sardines - Herring These oily fish are your brain's best defense. 3. The Critical Co-Factor You're Missing But here's the plot twist Omega-3s are NOT a solo act. Oxford University researchers made a landmark discovery: Omega-3s and B vitamins are an inseparable duo. One DOES NOT work without the other. B12, critical for brain health and found in meat/fish/eggs, is poorly absorbed as we age. Vegans are at extreme risk with ZERO natural B12. 4. The 73% Reduction Protocol The Oxford study gave B vitamins to people with pre-dementia. The results were explosive, but ONLY in those with sufficient Omega-3. In this group, brain shrinkage was slashed by 73% in just one year. Let that sink in. Alzheimer's is brain shrinkage. They found a way to stop it. The Bottom Line: You must address BOTH. - No Omega-3? Your B vitamins can't do their job. - No B Vitamins? Your Omega-3 is ineffective. This is the powerful, synergistic shield your brain needs. It's not just about one pill or one food. It's about the alliance. Share this vital information. It could save a mind.
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The Alzheimer's Shield is REAL. And it's being ignored. New research reveals a staggering 73% of Alzheimer's cases could be PREVENTED. The key? A powerful nutritional synergy that mainstream medicine is overlooking. Here's the game-changing discovery👇 1. The Brain Shrinkage Crisis Your brain is literally SHRINKING. Why? Omega-3 levels have crashed. These fats are so vital, the more Omega-3 you have, the more physical brain matter you have. It's the foundation of cognition. 2. The "SMASH" Protocol You can't reverse the trend without the right fuel. The solution? SMASH it: - Salmon - Mackerel - Anchovies - Sardines - Herring These oily fish are your brain's best defense. 3. The Critical Co-Factor You're Missing But here's the plot twist Omega-3s are NOT a solo act. Oxford University researchers made a landmark discovery: Omega-3s and B vitamins are an inseparable duo. One DOES NOT work without the other. B12, critical for brain health and found in meat/fish/eggs, is poorly absorbed as we age. Vegans are at extreme risk with ZERO natural B12. 4. The 73% Reduction Protocol The Oxford study gave B vitamins to people with pre-dementia. The results were explosive, but ONLY in those with sufficient Omega-3. In this group, brain shrinkage was slashed by 73% in just one year. Let that sink in. Alzheimer's is brain shrinkage. They found a way to stop it. The Bottom Line: You must address BOTH. - No Omega-3? Your B vitamins can't do their job. - No B Vitamins? Your Omega-3 is ineffective. This is the powerful, synergistic shield your brain needs. It's not just about one pill or one food. It's about the alliance. Share this vital information. It could save a mind.

Camus

176,103 views • 8 months ago

We are living in what I call the 3rd Arc of American history, a period as consequential as the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War. Today, the threats we face are not only abroad but also here at home: infiltration, radical ideologies, and forces that seek to dismantle the very foundation of our Constitutional Republic. I’ve spent years at war overseas, but I have come to realize the most significant battle is right here, fought not with weapons, but with courage, conviction, and truth. This is not just the Donald J. Trump ‘s fight, nor the fight of those who have worn the uniform. Each of us has a responsibility. Don’t simply ask what others are doing, ask yourself: What am I doing to serve my country now? This is an existential moment for America. New York City, our Nation’s bellwether, is a warning sign. Our borders, our sovereignty, and our freedoms are all under attack. But we are not powerless. We must come together, take decisive action, and safeguard the future of our beloved nation. The future of America will not be decided by the deep state, the globalists, or foreign powers; it will be decided by We the People.
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We are living in what I call the 3rd Arc of American history, a period as consequential as the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War. Today, the threats we face are not only abroad but also here at home: infiltration, radical ideologies, and forces that seek to dismantle the very foundation of our Constitutional Republic. I’ve spent years at war overseas, but I have come to realize the most significant battle is right here, fought not with weapons, but with courage, conviction, and truth. This is not just the Donald J. Trump ‘s fight, nor the fight of those who have worn the uniform. Each of us has a responsibility. Don’t simply ask what others are doing, ask yourself: What am I doing to serve my country now? This is an existential moment for America. New York City, our Nation’s bellwether, is a warning sign. Our borders, our sovereignty, and our freedoms are all under attack. But we are not powerless. We must come together, take decisive action, and safeguard the future of our beloved nation. The future of America will not be decided by the deep state, the globalists, or foreign powers; it will be decided by We the People.

General Mike Flynn

446,360 views • 10 months ago

🚨BREAKING: New PLOT TWIST In The Charlie KIirk INVESTIGATION —Was There a BOMB SCARE at Utah Valley Regional Hospital FORCING Them to Timpanogos?😱 A NEW tip just dropped from Laissez Faire Lounge — that if true, will throw a major wrinkle in the offical narrative. She says she has spoken to multiple legitimate sources inside the Intermountain Utah Valley Regional Hospital ecosystem who claim there was a bomb scare at that hospital right before or during the time Charlie Kirk was shot — putting the hospital on lockdown. Allegedly that would explain why they bypassed the much closer, higher-level trauma center (Utah Valley Regional) and went straight to Timpanogos Regional Hospital instead. She’s also hearing that staff were allegedly forced to sign NDAs about the incident. My honest take (and why I’m skeptical): I’ve gone through every single police dispatch recording from that entire day. I never once heard any mention of a bomb threat at Utah Valley Regional. Second, NDAs for a bomb threat? That feels extremely unusual. Hospitals deal with bomb threats — they don’t usually gag employees with NDAs. And there’s zero chance they could force patients or visitors to sign one. Third, even if a bomb threat did happen, Charlie’s security detail wouldn’t have known about it in real time — they never called an ambulance. They drove straight to Timpanogos. I still believe Timpanogos was deliberately chosen because it was controlled. That said… I could be wrong. This needs to be checked. If you have any information — whether it confirms or debunks this claim — please reach out to me immediately. Did you work at Utah Valley Regional that day? Did you hear anything about a bomb threat or lockdown? Were NDAs actually signed? Any patients, nurses, security, or staff who were there? Full anonymity guaranteed. I will protect your identity. DM me here or email: projectconstitutionvideos@gmail.com This is exactly the kind of detail that could crack the “why Timpanogos?” question wide open. Drop video below if you’ve wtinesses it. Let’s get eyes on this. What do you think — credible lead or clever misdirection to throw Laissez Faire Lounge off track? Tag Candace Owens and anyone who might know something. We need the truth. Video from Laissez Faire Lounge, Go FOLLOW Her!
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🚨BREAKING: New PLOT TWIST In The Charlie KIirk INVESTIGATION —Was There a BOMB SCARE at Utah Valley Regional Hospital FORCING Them to Timpanogos?😱 A NEW tip just dropped from Laissez Faire Lounge — that if true, will throw a major wrinkle in the offical narrative. She says she has spoken to multiple legitimate sources inside the Intermountain Utah Valley Regional Hospital ecosystem who claim there was a bomb scare at that hospital right before or during the time Charlie Kirk was shot — putting the hospital on lockdown. Allegedly that would explain why they bypassed the much closer, higher-level trauma center (Utah Valley Regional) and went straight to Timpanogos Regional Hospital instead. She’s also hearing that staff were allegedly forced to sign NDAs about the incident. My honest take (and why I’m skeptical): I’ve gone through every single police dispatch recording from that entire day. I never once heard any mention of a bomb threat at Utah Valley Regional. Second, NDAs for a bomb threat? That feels extremely unusual. Hospitals deal with bomb threats — they don’t usually gag employees with NDAs. And there’s zero chance they could force patients or visitors to sign one. Third, even if a bomb threat did happen, Charlie’s security detail wouldn’t have known about it in real time — they never called an ambulance. They drove straight to Timpanogos. I still believe Timpanogos was deliberately chosen because it was controlled. That said… I could be wrong. This needs to be checked. If you have any information — whether it confirms or debunks this claim — please reach out to me immediately. Did you work at Utah Valley Regional that day? Did you hear anything about a bomb threat or lockdown? Were NDAs actually signed? Any patients, nurses, security, or staff who were there? Full anonymity guaranteed. I will protect your identity. DM me here or email: [email protected] This is exactly the kind of detail that could crack the “why Timpanogos?” question wide open. Drop video below if you’ve wtinesses it. Let’s get eyes on this. What do you think — credible lead or clever misdirection to throw Laissez Faire Lounge off track? Tag Candace Owens and anyone who might know something. We need the truth. Video from Laissez Faire Lounge, Go FOLLOW Her!

Project Constitution

70,437 views • 4 months ago

Dear Mom, family members, friends, and most specifically Palestinian friends who have been bombarding me with angry messages everywhere, I am not anti-Palestine. I am anti-Hamas. I am anti-terrorism. Palestinians are my brothers and sisters. I went to school in Yemen with many Palestinian refugees. But here’s the ”plot twist” – Israelis are also my brothers and sisters, and that does not sit right with many of you. I grew up my entire life caring about Palestinians and demonizing Israelis. Thankfully, I grew up and had the chance to meet Jews and Israelis outside of Yemen, and it opened my human eyes. I have also come to care for and understand Israelis. Israelis are human beings, just like the Palestinians, and they are worthy of peace and love. This has been the centerpiece of what I have been saying all along –pushing for coexistence and peace. I have not taken part in the war discourse. I have only taken part in the human discourse. My Yemeni culture, the schools I studied in, and the mosques I prayed in, stripped me off my humanity. I am proud to have regained my humanity and to share this with people. It’s not ”bad timing” to be expressing this. On the contrary, in times of division and hatred, when I see millions of my Arab and Muslim brothers and sisters popularize Jew hatred and the destruction of Israel, it is more important than ever for me to voice support to Israelis and Jews. I am not a war expert. I am not a war analyst. I don’t delve into subjects I do not know about. What I do know is, however, that Hamas are cold-blooded terrorists. They are our enemy. They are Israel’s enemy, and they are the Arab and Muslims’ communities' enemy. It doesn’t take a war analyst to understand this. I have seen the footage. I have personally spoken to October 7 survivors in Israel who miraculously fled from Hamas’ massacre, and everything they told me sent chills down my spine. Hamas are no ”freedom fighters.” They are terrorists. They kill their own people, they slaughter Israelis, they mutilate, rape, behead, and kidnap women. There is no difference between the horrors and terrorism of Hamas, ISIS, and AlQaeda. And saying all of this is not a defense of Israel’s war in Gaza. These are just facts. Calling these terrorists ”freedom fighters” or ”liberation fights” is a part of disinformation propaganda that has succeeded. The truth is, Hamas is the one who wants to continue this war. They are the ones who started it. And they are the ones who have promised to pull an October 7 over and over again. This needs to be understood, to understand the extremism that we are dealing and fighting with. And by we, I mean us: Arabs, Muslims, and Palestinians. We have to fight against the extremism and language of violence that are inbred in our societies, in our schools, and our mosques. I'll keep saying this: The enemy is not out there. The enemy is within.
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Dear Mom, family members, friends, and most specifically Palestinian friends who have been bombarding me with angry messages everywhere, I am not anti-Palestine. I am anti-Hamas. I am anti-terrorism. Palestinians are my brothers and sisters. I went to school in Yemen with many Palestinian refugees. But here’s the ”plot twist” – Israelis are also my brothers and sisters, and that does not sit right with many of you. I grew up my entire life caring about Palestinians and demonizing Israelis. Thankfully, I grew up and had the chance to meet Jews and Israelis outside of Yemen, and it opened my human eyes. I have also come to care for and understand Israelis. Israelis are human beings, just like the Palestinians, and they are worthy of peace and love. This has been the centerpiece of what I have been saying all along –pushing for coexistence and peace. I have not taken part in the war discourse. I have only taken part in the human discourse. My Yemeni culture, the schools I studied in, and the mosques I prayed in, stripped me off my humanity. I am proud to have regained my humanity and to share this with people. It’s not ”bad timing” to be expressing this. On the contrary, in times of division and hatred, when I see millions of my Arab and Muslim brothers and sisters popularize Jew hatred and the destruction of Israel, it is more important than ever for me to voice support to Israelis and Jews. I am not a war expert. I am not a war analyst. I don’t delve into subjects I do not know about. What I do know is, however, that Hamas are cold-blooded terrorists. They are our enemy. They are Israel’s enemy, and they are the Arab and Muslims’ communities' enemy. It doesn’t take a war analyst to understand this. I have seen the footage. I have personally spoken to October 7 survivors in Israel who miraculously fled from Hamas’ massacre, and everything they told me sent chills down my spine. Hamas are no ”freedom fighters.” They are terrorists. They kill their own people, they slaughter Israelis, they mutilate, rape, behead, and kidnap women. There is no difference between the horrors and terrorism of Hamas, ISIS, and AlQaeda. And saying all of this is not a defense of Israel’s war in Gaza. These are just facts. Calling these terrorists ”freedom fighters” or ”liberation fights” is a part of disinformation propaganda that has succeeded. The truth is, Hamas is the one who wants to continue this war. They are the ones who started it. And they are the ones who have promised to pull an October 7 over and over again. This needs to be understood, to understand the extremism that we are dealing and fighting with. And by we, I mean us: Arabs, Muslims, and Palestinians. We have to fight against the extremism and language of violence that are inbred in our societies, in our schools, and our mosques. I'll keep saying this: The enemy is not out there. The enemy is within.

Luai Ahmed

474,499 views • 2 years ago

People seem to be very confused about my dynamic with my husband Don and my boyfriend Brian. I think it’s important to explain this and make people realize it’s okay to have complicated relationships when life gets tough. I met Don in 2009 and married him in 2015. He had a stroke in 2019 and I became his full time caregiver. In 2022 I realized life was too short so I made the tough decision to find myself again and make myself happy. Thats when I moved Don into a facility so the professionals could take over. I will admit I was a better caregiver but I can’t do the work of an entire team of people. Unless you have been in my shoes and been a caregiver for your spouse, you wouldn’t understand. It was so overwhelming, I quit my job of eight years to care for him. I wanted to care for him. But stress turned to anxiety and depression and into panic attacks. Caregiver burnout is real and has even been shown to decrease your life expectancy. You are caring for your loved one but you are mourning their loss… even though they are still there. Now I’m mourning him again as he physically passes away! I met Brian and he became my boyfriend. He came into my life at a very emotional time. It also happened to be during a category 5 hurricane. Things happen for a reason so I do want to thank Hurricane Ian for bringing Brian into my life. I still am married to Don but Brian helps support me emotionally in ways Don used to but can’t anymore. I can go home to Brian and get a hug after sitting in the ICU all day with Don. Brian helped me be Don’s court appointed guardian. He helped me have difficult conversations with lawyers. But most of all he stuck around and supported me. People made smart ass comments about us looking happy on thanksgivings. But the photo doesn’t show the phone call that interrupted dinner about Don being an organ donor. The photo doesn’t show me shedding tears in the restaurant parking lot as everyone inside is laughing and enjoying their time with family. It’s a blessing to have the support Brian offers. Don would have been okay with it. He wanted me to be happy. I didn’t just leave Don the second he started dying. This has been a long and very emotional process. I don’t post a video every time I am crying or upset with myself. To literally quote the words Don has sang to me himself many times over the years: “If you're reading this There’s going to come a day When you'll move on And find someone else And that's OK Just remember this I'm in a better place Where soldiers live in peace And angels sing amazing grace” He always sang songs that spoke to him. He didn’t sing them to just sing. Him singing, even 16 years ago gives me peace and closure that I wouldn’t have thought would be possible. ❤️❤️❤️
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People seem to be very confused about my dynamic with my husband Don and my boyfriend Brian. I think it’s important to explain this and make people realize it’s okay to have complicated relationships when life gets tough. I met Don in 2009 and married him in 2015. He had a stroke in 2019 and I became his full time caregiver. In 2022 I realized life was too short so I made the tough decision to find myself again and make myself happy. Thats when I moved Don into a facility so the professionals could take over. I will admit I was a better caregiver but I can’t do the work of an entire team of people. Unless you have been in my shoes and been a caregiver for your spouse, you wouldn’t understand. It was so overwhelming, I quit my job of eight years to care for him. I wanted to care for him. But stress turned to anxiety and depression and into panic attacks. Caregiver burnout is real and has even been shown to decrease your life expectancy. You are caring for your loved one but you are mourning their loss… even though they are still there. Now I’m mourning him again as he physically passes away! I met Brian and he became my boyfriend. He came into my life at a very emotional time. It also happened to be during a category 5 hurricane. Things happen for a reason so I do want to thank Hurricane Ian for bringing Brian into my life. I still am married to Don but Brian helps support me emotionally in ways Don used to but can’t anymore. I can go home to Brian and get a hug after sitting in the ICU all day with Don. Brian helped me be Don’s court appointed guardian. He helped me have difficult conversations with lawyers. But most of all he stuck around and supported me. People made smart ass comments about us looking happy on thanksgivings. But the photo doesn’t show the phone call that interrupted dinner about Don being an organ donor. The photo doesn’t show me shedding tears in the restaurant parking lot as everyone inside is laughing and enjoying their time with family. It’s a blessing to have the support Brian offers. Don would have been okay with it. He wanted me to be happy. I didn’t just leave Don the second he started dying. This has been a long and very emotional process. I don’t post a video every time I am crying or upset with myself. To literally quote the words Don has sang to me himself many times over the years: “If you're reading this There’s going to come a day When you'll move on And find someone else And that's OK Just remember this I'm in a better place Where soldiers live in peace And angels sing amazing grace” He always sang songs that spoke to him. He didn’t sing them to just sing. Him singing, even 16 years ago gives me peace and closure that I wouldn’t have thought would be possible. ❤️❤️❤️

Jeremy Judkins

354,708 views • 7 months ago

IOTA is being born. 🐣 For almost a decade, the IOTA Foundation has been the mother of IOTA. It carried it, protected it, fed it, corrected it, rebuilt it when necessary, and kept it alive long enough to turn a technological intuition into real infrastructure. But no decentralized network is meant to live forever under its mother’s protection. A foundation is not the final form of a public DLT. It is the womb. The incubator. The structure that allows something immature to survive until it is ready to breathe on its own. And that moment is now approaching. With IOTA Rebased, Move at the base layer, staking, validators, real programmability, and now Starfish live on Mainnet through Protocol Version 24, IOTA is no longer a promise guarded by its mother. It is becoming an adult network. Not just a project. Not just a vision. Not just an architecture waiting for its moment. It is public infrastructure for the real world. 🌍 🔹 The IOTA Foundation is now entering its great year of delivery. One year, maybe a year and a half, in which it will have to consume part of its tokens, not as a sign of weakness, but as the final stage of separation. 🔹 Many will read this as bearish. To me, it is exactly the opposite. It is the umbilical cord being cut in front of everyone. 🔹 Because no truly neutral infrastructure can depend forever on a European foundation. Not Africa, not ASEAN, not America, and not any major global trade corridor will fully trust a public DLT if they perceive that one legal entity still holds too much power over it. That is the key. For IOTA to become bigger, the IF has to become smaller. For IOTA to become more neutral, the IF has to stop being the center. For IOTA to become global infrastructure, it has to stop looking like a network protected by its mother and start behaving like a network that belongs to the world. 🌍 During this phase, some validator nodes supported by IF-delegated tokens will disappear. And although some people will misread this, it is part of the natural process. Those nodes were scaffolding. They helped raise the initial structure, gave stability to the launch, and allowed the network to start walking. But the scaffolding is not the building. When the building is ready, the scaffolding comes down. First, only a few independent validators will enter. Then more. Then competition. And eventually, a real economic fight for validator positions inside a network that no longer depends on its mother’s initial protection. That is decentralization entering adulthood. 💎 The IOTA Foundation also has to become independent from IOTA. Its natural path should no longer be to act as the permanent treasury of the network, but to build real products on top of it. That is where TWIN comes in. TWIN can become the major enterprise, institutional and commercial layer built on IOTA. A SaaS layer for global trade, traceability, digital identity, compliance, digital product passports, logistics, customs, exporters, governments and supply chains. 🧬 The IF would then stop being the mother feeding the child and become something much healthier and much more powerful. 🔥 A customer of IOTA. 🔥 A builder on IOTA. 🔥 An operator using neutral infrastructure to deliver real products to the market. 🔥 That is the right model. Bitcoin does not need a foundation to feed it. It does not need a CEO. It does not need a treasury to keep it emotionally alive. Bitcoin simply exists and offers what it is. Scarcity, settlement, monetary resistance and neutrality. IOTA has to do the same in its own territory. Not only as money, but as digital trust infrastructure for trade, data, identity, real-world assets, machines, institutions and entire economies. 🔹 In 2027 or 2028, TWIN could spin out as an autonomous SaaS business, with recurring revenue, institutional clients and the ability to attract real capital rounds. 🔹 Not crypto grants. Not community funding. Real institutional capital. 🔹 If it proves traction, adoption and revenue, we could be talking about Series A or Series B rounds, each in the tens of millions of dollars. And major investors are already keeping one eye on this coming opportunity.👀👀👀👀👀💰💰💰💰💰 Meanwhile, IOTA would become freer and freer. 💎 Free from dependence on its foundation. 💎 Free from a central treasury. 💎 Free from institutions. 💎 Free from founders. 💎 Free from non-decentralized decisions. 💎 Free even from the need for someone to “save” it. A public network does not reach maturity when its mother protects it better, but when it no longer needs protection. That is why this moment is not bearish. It is brutally bullish. The child is ready to leave home. And when a decentralized network leaves home, it stops being a project and starts becoming infrastructure. Bitcoin needed one paper to decentralize money. IOTA has needed a decade to decentralize real-world trust. And maybe the market will take time to understand it, but the most bullish moment in IOTA’s history may be exactly this. Some will see a mother letting go of her child’s hand. Others will see a network finally being born as sovereign, neutral and free infrastructure. To the untrained eye, the truth may look bearish. To the wise, it will look exactly the opposite. Bullish in its purest form. 💎 Born to be decentralize! #IOTA #IF #Move #TWIN #ASEAN #AfCFTA
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IOTA is being born. 🐣 For almost a decade, the IOTA Foundation has been the mother of IOTA. It carried it, protected it, fed it, corrected it, rebuilt it when necessary, and kept it alive long enough to turn a technological intuition into real infrastructure. But no decentralized network is meant to live forever under its mother’s protection. A foundation is not the final form of a public DLT. It is the womb. The incubator. The structure that allows something immature to survive until it is ready to breathe on its own. And that moment is now approaching. With IOTA Rebased, Move at the base layer, staking, validators, real programmability, and now Starfish live on Mainnet through Protocol Version 24, IOTA is no longer a promise guarded by its mother. It is becoming an adult network. Not just a project. Not just a vision. Not just an architecture waiting for its moment. It is public infrastructure for the real world. 🌍 🔹 The IOTA Foundation is now entering its great year of delivery. One year, maybe a year and a half, in which it will have to consume part of its tokens, not as a sign of weakness, but as the final stage of separation. 🔹 Many will read this as bearish. To me, it is exactly the opposite. It is the umbilical cord being cut in front of everyone. 🔹 Because no truly neutral infrastructure can depend forever on a European foundation. Not Africa, not ASEAN, not America, and not any major global trade corridor will fully trust a public DLT if they perceive that one legal entity still holds too much power over it. That is the key. For IOTA to become bigger, the IF has to become smaller. For IOTA to become more neutral, the IF has to stop being the center. For IOTA to become global infrastructure, it has to stop looking like a network protected by its mother and start behaving like a network that belongs to the world. 🌍 During this phase, some validator nodes supported by IF-delegated tokens will disappear. And although some people will misread this, it is part of the natural process. Those nodes were scaffolding. They helped raise the initial structure, gave stability to the launch, and allowed the network to start walking. But the scaffolding is not the building. When the building is ready, the scaffolding comes down. First, only a few independent validators will enter. Then more. Then competition. And eventually, a real economic fight for validator positions inside a network that no longer depends on its mother’s initial protection. That is decentralization entering adulthood. 💎 The IOTA Foundation also has to become independent from IOTA. Its natural path should no longer be to act as the permanent treasury of the network, but to build real products on top of it. That is where TWIN comes in. TWIN can become the major enterprise, institutional and commercial layer built on IOTA. A SaaS layer for global trade, traceability, digital identity, compliance, digital product passports, logistics, customs, exporters, governments and supply chains. 🧬 The IF would then stop being the mother feeding the child and become something much healthier and much more powerful. 🔥 A customer of IOTA. 🔥 A builder on IOTA. 🔥 An operator using neutral infrastructure to deliver real products to the market. 🔥 That is the right model. Bitcoin does not need a foundation to feed it. It does not need a CEO. It does not need a treasury to keep it emotionally alive. Bitcoin simply exists and offers what it is. Scarcity, settlement, monetary resistance and neutrality. IOTA has to do the same in its own territory. Not only as money, but as digital trust infrastructure for trade, data, identity, real-world assets, machines, institutions and entire economies. 🔹 In 2027 or 2028, TWIN could spin out as an autonomous SaaS business, with recurring revenue, institutional clients and the ability to attract real capital rounds. 🔹 Not crypto grants. Not community funding. Real institutional capital. 🔹 If it proves traction, adoption and revenue, we could be talking about Series A or Series B rounds, each in the tens of millions of dollars. And major investors are already keeping one eye on this coming opportunity.👀👀👀👀👀💰💰💰💰💰 Meanwhile, IOTA would become freer and freer. 💎 Free from dependence on its foundation. 💎 Free from a central treasury. 💎 Free from institutions. 💎 Free from founders. 💎 Free from non-decentralized decisions. 💎 Free even from the need for someone to “save” it. A public network does not reach maturity when its mother protects it better, but when it no longer needs protection. That is why this moment is not bearish. It is brutally bullish. The child is ready to leave home. And when a decentralized network leaves home, it stops being a project and starts becoming infrastructure. Bitcoin needed one paper to decentralize money. IOTA has needed a decade to decentralize real-world trust. And maybe the market will take time to understand it, but the most bullish moment in IOTA’s history may be exactly this. Some will see a mother letting go of her child’s hand. Others will see a network finally being born as sovereign, neutral and free infrastructure. To the untrained eye, the truth may look bearish. To the wise, it will look exactly the opposite. Bullish in its purest form. 💎 Born to be decentralize! #IOTA #IF #Move #TWIN #ASEAN #AfCFTA

Salima

20,405 views • 2 months ago

You’ll want to watch this whole video🔥🤝 Wise leaders don’t spray their money across 20+ tickers and pray for financial freedom. They have a system to get rich for SURE. Here’s my current portfolio: 1. #XRP: Positioned to become the bridge currency for global institutional settlement. I believe this is one of the most asymmetric positions available right now. I am continuously more bullish. 2. #Tesla: Exposure to the greatest entrepreneur of our generation + the AI, robotics, and energy shift. I believe Tesla will be a $20 trillion+ company in the coming years. 3. #Gold & #Silver: God’s money. Real money. A hedge against worthless, degenerating fiat money and inflation. Plus a hard asset I can pass to my kids. 4. #STRC: Short-term cash-flow engine—currently giving me 11.5% monthly. Pretty sweet. That said, I may roll this into a dedicated XRP treasury or other dividend stock once I meet my liquidity goals. 5. IUL (Indexed Universal Life): Tax-advantaged life insurance policy linked to the S&P. This vehicle has infinite banking mechanics and a death benefit that protects my family if I croak. Big fan of life insurance—thanks shamie♥ I used to have over 20 assets in my portfolio. And if you include my allocation in the S&P 500, among other ETFs, I had over 500 assets. I have researched every single one of the investments I now hold extensively. These are long-term positions for me and assets I am stacking every month inside our family treasury. As we scale, I will diversify into other asset allocations💰 Remember, concentration builds wealth. Diversification preserves it. It’s time to rise and get your shit together! Love you guys xo.
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You’ll want to watch this whole video🔥🤝 Wise leaders don’t spray their money across 20+ tickers and pray for financial freedom. They have a system to get rich for SURE. Here’s my current portfolio: 1. #XRP: Positioned to become the bridge currency for global institutional settlement. I believe this is one of the most asymmetric positions available right now. I am continuously more bullish. 2. #Tesla: Exposure to the greatest entrepreneur of our generation + the AI, robotics, and energy shift. I believe Tesla will be a $20 trillion+ company in the coming years. 3. #Gold & #Silver: God’s money. Real money. A hedge against worthless, degenerating fiat money and inflation. Plus a hard asset I can pass to my kids. 4. #STRC: Short-term cash-flow engine—currently giving me 11.5% monthly. Pretty sweet. That said, I may roll this into a dedicated XRP treasury or other dividend stock once I meet my liquidity goals. 5. IUL (Indexed Universal Life): Tax-advantaged life insurance policy linked to the S&P. This vehicle has infinite banking mechanics and a death benefit that protects my family if I croak. Big fan of life insurance—thanks shamie♥ I used to have over 20 assets in my portfolio. And if you include my allocation in the S&P 500, among other ETFs, I had over 500 assets. I have researched every single one of the investments I now hold extensively. These are long-term positions for me and assets I am stacking every month inside our family treasury. As we scale, I will diversify into other asset allocations💰 Remember, concentration builds wealth. Diversification preserves it. It’s time to rise and get your shit together! Love you guys xo.

Jacob Metzger

12,936 views • 2 months ago

Claude Code can ship a 45-second animated explainer ad in 30 minutes. No video editor needed, just CC + skills. Here's how I made this video for Soteri Skin 👇 1. /plan Concept Brief (Claude Code) I handwrite a concept brief, then chat with the agent to iterate on it. The agent gathers any raw materials we might need - context about the brand, product images, end card, etc. The concept brief details the concept, characters, visual style, script, etc 2. /prepare a moodboard (CC + GPT Image 2 + ElevenLabs) After reviewing the script, generate: - character reference images - voiceover samples for the characters / narrator - the storyboard (scene by scene grid) - a few keyframe scenes 3. /generate Keyframes for each scene (CC uses Nano Banana or GPT Image 2) Uses the character references from the previous step to generate keyframes for each scene. I probably should have done a round of iteration at this step – there's some character drift and the pH meter representation could have been better. 4. /animate Keyframe → Animated Clip (CC uses Fal Seedance) Generate 2-4 representative scenes first to see a preview. If it looks good, then generate everything. 5. /stitch (CC + ffmpeg + ElevenLabs) - Stitch clips together with hard cut - Add a music score + SFX - Sync clips to the VO - Add captions - Review and edit timing / pacing issues 6. /watch the final cut and review it - as a video editor for technical errors (mismatched voiceover and visuals, AI hallucinations, etc) - as a viewer (ICP). I delegate most of the review to the agent because it catches more things and keeps me out of the loop as much as possible. It also fixes any issues found in the review. That's it. This video took me 30 minutes because I have already created skills for everything I described above. Some day, this will be < 5 minutes. I just review and chat to provide direction and feedback. The skills do all the technical work. 7. /learn Extracts learnings and updates the skills. This final step is really important. It turns this process into a closed loop system that makes the next video much easier to create because all the learnings from the human-in-the-loop process get encoded into code. Skills are code too. If you want access to the skill, drop a comment, and I'll DM it to you (must be following). If you want to make AI video ads like this, DM me.
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Claude Code can ship a 45-second animated explainer ad in 30 minutes. No video editor needed, just CC + skills. Here's how I made this video for Soteri Skin 👇 1. /plan Concept Brief (Claude Code) I handwrite a concept brief, then chat with the agent to iterate on it. The agent gathers any raw materials we might need - context about the brand, product images, end card, etc. The concept brief details the concept, characters, visual style, script, etc 2. /prepare a moodboard (CC + GPT Image 2 + ElevenLabs) After reviewing the script, generate: - character reference images - voiceover samples for the characters / narrator - the storyboard (scene by scene grid) - a few keyframe scenes 3. /generate Keyframes for each scene (CC uses Nano Banana or GPT Image 2) Uses the character references from the previous step to generate keyframes for each scene. I probably should have done a round of iteration at this step – there's some character drift and the pH meter representation could have been better. 4. /animate Keyframe → Animated Clip (CC uses Fal Seedance) Generate 2-4 representative scenes first to see a preview. If it looks good, then generate everything. 5. /stitch (CC + ffmpeg + ElevenLabs) - Stitch clips together with hard cut - Add a music score + SFX - Sync clips to the VO - Add captions - Review and edit timing / pacing issues 6. /watch the final cut and review it - as a video editor for technical errors (mismatched voiceover and visuals, AI hallucinations, etc) - as a viewer (ICP). I delegate most of the review to the agent because it catches more things and keeps me out of the loop as much as possible. It also fixes any issues found in the review. That's it. This video took me 30 minutes because I have already created skills for everything I described above. Some day, this will be < 5 minutes. I just review and chat to provide direction and feedback. The skills do all the technical work. 7. /learn Extracts learnings and updates the skills. This final step is really important. It turns this process into a closed loop system that makes the next video much easier to create because all the learnings from the human-in-the-loop process get encoded into code. Skills are code too. If you want access to the skill, drop a comment, and I'll DM it to you (must be following). If you want to make AI video ads like this, DM me.

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