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TL;DR - Privacy on public blockchains has historically been fragmented and episodic. Umbra introduces persistent, expressive privacy by default. - Umbra is a private financial layer on Solana, enabling private transfers, swaps, balances, and yield within a continuous shielded environment. - Umbra combines client-side zero-knowledge proofs for anonymity with...

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What is Midnight? Midnight (Midnight) officially launched its mainnet in March 2026 after years of development by Input Output. Midnight is designed to bring programmable privacy and zero-knowledge technology to the Cardano (Cardano Community) ecosystem. Unlike Cardano, Midnight runs its own ledger, consensus mechanism and smart contract environment. (1) Midnight uses zero-knowledge proofs to let applications verify information without exposing the underlying private data. (2) It introduces programmable privacy, allowing developers to decide which information stays private and which data becomes publicly verifiable. (3) Midnight also separates its capital asset from transaction costs. NIGHT is a utility token that generates DUST, the shielded resource actually spent on transactions. Governance is a planned future role for NIGHT, not its defined one today. (4) NIGHT is connected to Cardano through its partner-chain model, with the token existing across both Cardano and Midnight. So is Midnight a rival to ADA? Not really. Midnight is designed as a complementary network that expands what the Cardano ecosystem can offer. Cardano remains focused on its core blockchain, while Midnight targets privacy-heavy use cases such as regulated DeFi, identity and institutional applications. The bigger question is whether Midnight can turn Cardano’s privacy ambitions into real-world adoption. Midnight describes itself as a Cardano partner chain, not a Layer 2 or replacement for Cardano. Its transactions operate independently, while interoperability connects the two ecosystems. DUST regenerates roughly every seven days based on how much NIGHT a holder has, which keeps transaction costs predictable over time.

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Today, we are announcing our collaboration with NEAR Intents, the intent-based execution layer connecting assets and participants across 34 blockchain networks, which has processed more than $25 billion in all-time volume. Shield Swap is working with NEAR Intents to make it easier for market participants to move assets across blockchain networks and trade without exposing their activity inside the venue to the public market. NEAR Intents is a multichain transaction protocol that allows users to specify the outcome they want, and competing solvers quote the execution. That removes much of the work normally involved in moving assets across chains. Participants do not need to choose a bridge, build a route, or manage gas tokens across several networks. They choose the asset they want to move and the result they want to receive. Solvers handle the route and compete on price. Shield Swap takes a similar approach to confidential trading. Participants are able to execute a trade without publishing their identity, holdings, and strategy to the market. This is difficult to achieve on a transparent blockchain. Wallet addresses are persistent identifiers, and positions can be reconstructed from transaction history. Over time, trades reveal patterns that other market participants can use against the trader. Inside Shield Swap, participant identities stay off the public ledger, portfolio balances remain encrypted to the participant's keys, and trades do not expose the participant's full activity to public observers. Each transaction also creates a compliance record that can be disclosed to authorized parties when required. Working with NEAR Intents connects these two parts of the trading process. A participant can state the outcome they want and source assets from supported EVM and non-EVM networks. Solvers compete to deliver the best available route. Once those assets enter Shield Swap and are shielded, subsequent holdings and trades remain confidential inside the venue. Transactions on origin networks remain visible. Confidentiality begins when assets are shielded within Shield Swap. This gives participants access to liquidity across networks without carrying public transaction history into every trade they make afterward. Early access is open to organizations and individual market participants at

Shield Swap

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

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

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What is Plume Network? Plume (Plume) is a blockchain built specifically for bringing real-world assets onchain and making them usable in DeFi. Unlike blockchains that treat tokenization as just another application, Plume is building an entire financial ecosystem around real-world assets, or RWAs. Treasuries, private credit, commodities, funds, and other traditionally illiquid assets can be represented as blockchain-based assets and then used across decentralized financial applications. Plume calls this model RWAfi, or real-world asset finance. So what makes Plume different? (1) ) It is purpose-built for RWAs Plume launched its Genesis mainnet in June 2025 as a permissionless blockchain designed around RWA finance. In October 2025, Plume was approved by the SEC as a registered transfer agent, a regulatory step most general-purpose chains don't hold. The network is EVM-compatible, allowing developers to use familiar Ethereum tooling while accessing lower-cost execution. (2) It focuses on more than tokenization. Plume wants tokenized assets to actually do something once they reach the blockchain. Its ecosystem allows RWA-backed assets to be used for lending, borrowing, trading, staking and yield strategies. Its flagship Nest protocol, for example, lets users gain exposure to institutional-backed assets through yield-bearing RWA positions that can then become useful across DeFi. (3) Compliance is built into the infrastructure. Real-world assets come with regulations, investor restrictions and identity requirements that ordinary DeFi tokens usually do not face. Plume has therefore built compliance and screening capabilities directly into its network rather than treating them as an afterthought. Its blockchain includes protocol-level AML, ATF and sanctions screening infrastructure. (4) It is trying to make institutional assets composable. A tokenized Treasury or private credit position does not have to sit idle in a wallet. The goal is to make these assets usable across different financial applications, similar to how USDC, ETH and other crypto assets move through DeFi today. Plume's Portal already allows users to swap, lend, borrow, loop and earn against RWA-backed assets. (5) Plume is also building cross-chain infrastructure. Its SkyLink infrastructure is designed to distribute RWA yields across other blockchain networks. That means Plume does not necessarily need every investor to move onto Plume itself. Instead, the network can act as infrastructure for bringing institutional yield into other ecosystems. (6) The network has attracted major institutional names. Apollo Global Management, WisdomTree, Hamilton Lane and Securitize are among the institutions connected to Plume's ecosystem. Securitize, for example, announced plans to deploy assets through Plume's Nest protocol, linking institutional tokenization infrastructure with Plume's RWA holder base. So where does PLUME fit in? $PLUME is the network's native token. It can be used for gas, staking, governance, collateral and ecosystem access. Plume also says protocol fees can eventually support token buybacks, ecosystem incentives and further network growth. Plume is betting that the next major phase of crypto adoption will not only involve digital-native assets. It will involve putting traditional financial assets onchain and making them programmable. The challenge is turning that vision into deep liquidity, compliant infrastructure and genuine demand. If Plume can solve those problems, it could become an important piece of the infrastructure connecting traditional finance with DeFi.

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What is the XDC Network? XDC Network (XDC Network) is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 built around payments, trade finance, tokenization, and enterprise blockchain use cases. Put simply, XDC is trying to bring blockchain infrastructure closer to traditional financial markets. The network launched its mainnet in 2019 and uses XinFin Delegated Proof of Stake, known as XDPoS. So, what makes XDC different from other Layer 1 networks? (1) It focuses heavily on financial infrastructure. XDC was designed with global trade and financial applications in mind. That includes trade finance, cross-border payments, real-world asset tokenization, and decentralized finance. Businesses can tokenize assets such as invoices, bonds, commodities, and other financial instruments on the network. (XDC Network Docs) (2) It is compatible with Ethereum. XDC is EVM-compatible, meaning developers can use familiar Ethereum tools and Solidity smart contracts. That makes it easier for existing Ethereum applications to migrate or expand onto XDC. The network also supports token standards such as XRC20, XRC721, and XRC1155. In Jan 2026, XDC did its Cancun hard fork, syncing with Ethereum's own upgrade and bringing EIP-1559 fee burns on-chain. (3) XDC is built for fast and inexpensive transactions. The network targets roughly two-second block times and supports more than 2,000 transactions per second. Transaction costs are also designed to remain extremely low, making high-volume financial activity more practical. That combination is particularly important for applications handling large numbers of transactions. But speed alone is not what XDC is betting on. Its bigger pitch is whether blockchain can become useful infrastructure for financial institutions and global commerce. So, how does XDC secure the network? XDC uses XDPoS 2.0, which combines delegated proof of stake with Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus. Token holders participate by supporting masternode candidates, while elected masternodes help validate transactions and produce blocks. XDPoS 2.0 also uses the HotStuff consensus protocol and adds forensic monitoring for malicious validator activity. The upgrade went live on mainnet in September 2024. It introduced three-block finality, with transactions reaching finality roughly six seconds after block inclusion. Worth noting, financial applications generally need predictable settlement rather than transactions that can remain uncertain for long periods. Then there is another important part of the XDC architecture: Subnets. XDC Subnets allow organizations to operate permissioned blockchain networks while connecting them to the broader XDC ecosystem. Companies can maintain greater control over governance, privacy, and infrastructure without abandoning interoperability with XDC. That structure is particularly relevant for institutions that cannot put sensitive commercial information directly onto a public blockchain. A company could therefore operate a private environment while using XDC Mainnet for checkpointing and broader interoperability. This creates a bridge between private enterprise infrastructure and public blockchain networks. Rather than competing purely for retail users, XDC trying to position itself as financial infrastructure for tokenized assets, trade finance, payments, and institutional markets.

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

Zest Protocol

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

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

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160,475 次观看 • 2 年前

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

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23,404 次观看 • 1 年前

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

Capybara on Sui

27,276 次观看 • 1 年前

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

Linus ✦ Ekenstam

6,101,307 次观看 • 2 年前

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

Zest Protocol

28,549 次观看 • 1 个月前

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

Canellecitadelle

371,889 次观看 • 2 年前

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

wab.eth

18,274 次观看 • 8 个月前