Tried in earnest to tell several people at this YC meetup tonight what we’ve been up to for the last year…

Plenty of blank stares and ”sounds like gibberish to me”. This is why I tell crypto founders they should do Alliance!

The last few days before the Bitcoin halving have seen a lot of excitement in on-chain activity.

Transaction fees are increasing. Users bid up fees and do RBFs to land their transactions.

I expect even higher fees after the halving with the launch of Runes and multiple L2s

Happy Bitcoin Halving Day!

This halving is very unique given the number of high-quality ideas, and Bitcoin L2s that will launch in tandem.

I look forward to using Runecoin ▣⛏️, BOB | Build On Bitcoin (🔜Mainnet) and many other cool projects.

The Bitcoin renaissance is real 🔥

We are stoked to announce that we have closed pre-seed/seed founding rounds from Nascent BanklessVC with participation from a16z crypto CSX, Daedalus, Dialectic, and Public Works 🌐 and many builders that we respect.

Fantasy is paving the way for the next generation of SocialFi and consumer crypto apps.

We are excited for their launch.

I have been diving into restaking and what use cases naturally align with ETH restaking vs the use cases that will be created from scratch

LAGRANGE ⭕️'s zk processor is an example of the former. Proving statements about Ethereum state should be done by provers who restake ETH

1/ Announcing Lagrange’s public testnet ‘Euclid’, a ZK Coprocessor and Ethereum’s first Verifiable Database 💫

Read the blog: bit.ly/3U3UgX9

More below👇

TradFi primitives (banks, bonds, derivatives) don't work for Islamic finance.

Simple example: A tradfi bank has to make money from the cash you deposit. It also has to guarantee your deposits. How do you do that w/o interest-based loans? 🤨

Trying to get Islamic finance to work

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Gmino, a Friday morning confession:

One of the benefits of being an extremely paranoid person is that risk analysis work and code safety work is what puts me at ease and gives me joy 😂

We spend an unbelievable amount of time testing at Kamino Lend and it's one of the things

dePIN operates at the intersection of crypto and real-world utility, transforming how we coordinate resources like storage, bandwidth, and computing power. By leveraging cryptographic primitives, these networks creates a more efficient, decentralized system that could turn

I am hosting an intimate founders/investors mixer with Santiago R Santos | #9159 @ Token2049 Dubai

Apply if you’re a founder / investor in the space.

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🔥 First ever FHE Summit EthCC - Ethereum Community Conference

Full day focused on FHE in web3 on July 10th in Brussels.

Explore our vision and top speakers here 👇

. Richard | Tensor (sol/acc) and ilmoi | Tensor r the most frequently cited founders at Alliance . their story inspires new founders cohort after cohort.

2 devs, 2 trucks of coffee, 2 hours of sleep per day, and wild dreams

ggwp

If you or your buddy is not already in the inshallah TG, you're going to want to join before the end of Ramadan.

Share the khayr.

TG: t.me/+4QpGNFQ29JBiY…

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Time for a new age of Islamic finance.

Building out a revolutionary Islamic defi ecosystem leveraging staking, restaking and more, built from the ground up to facilitate the flow of pure money.

Join us: t.me/+4QpGNFQ29JBiY…

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rwa outperforming ai is the biggest narrative violation of the year

vast majority of retail and vcs on ct missed it

This is hilarious 😂😂😂😂

GGWP!

I love the debates happening on Bitcoin land.
- Runes vs. BTC-20 V2 vs. Taproot assets
- Op_cat and why/why not reactivate it
- Bitcoin L2s and whether BitVM can make them actual Bitcoin Rollups

It has been a while since Bitcoin had such diversity in opinions and excitement