Considering starting a business in 2026? Some friendly advice from someone who has experienced both success and failure - thankfully more success than failure. I’ve built businesses, run businesses, invested in businesses. It is hard bloody work. Do not underestimate that. Long hours. No holidays. Safety net? What safety net. It’s on you. Take responsibility. But here’s a few thoughts that you may wish to consider if you are thinking of going for it. And despite everything, the risk is still worth it... Cash flow is everything. Profit is nothing until it’s in the bank. Cash is fact. Plenty of good businesses fail not because they weren’t viable, but because they ran out of money at the wrong moment. Watch it obsessively. Chase your invoices. Do it politely, but firmly. You did a job, get your money for it. Find an unregulated or lightly regulated sector if you can. The modern British state has an extraordinary talent for smothering initiative with compliance, paperwork, and box-ticking. Regulation favours incumbents, not newcomers. The less of it you have to navigate, the better it is for you. Avoid fashionable sectors. If everyone is talking about it, your opportunity is already gone. The best opportunities are usually dull, unfashionable, and misunderstood. Boring often pays very well. Be careful with import-heavy businesses. Sterling is overvalued. If your margins depend on a permanently strong pound, you are exposed. This is why domestic businesses, particularly tourism, can still do well. It’s good news for places like Great Yarmouth, so a good place to invest if you are considering it. I’ll happily advise any businesses wanting to invest in our constituency. Own hard assets where possible. Land, property, plant, stock. Always worth something. Invest where possible. Beware of experts. Experts are trained to tell you why something can’t be done. Entrepreneurs are paid to find a way to do it anyway. Don’t outsource judgement. Trust your gut, and beware of the advisers trying to create a role for themselves. Don’t grow too fast. Slow, controlled expansion lets you fix problems before they become business threatening. Bite off more than you can chew, you’ll choke. One step at a time. Ask for help if you need it. Find good subcontractors and treat them well. Control your costs. Small leaks sink ships. Pennies add up to pounds, lots and lots of pounds. Good approval processes save pennies, which then save pounds. It all adds up. Credit is suspicion asleep. Cheap money hides bad decisions and turns small problems into awful ones when conditions tighten. Use credit sparingly, understand its true cost, and never build a business that only works if borrowing stays easy. It won’t. Things will change, I expect them to soon. Know when to say no. Bad customers, bad partners, and bad contracts can destroy a good business. Walking away is often the smartest decision you’ll ever make. Don’t get blinded by cash. Be sensible, take your time and operate with the right people. It may mean giving up money in the short term, but it’s often worth it. Play the long game. Understand tax properly. You don’t need clever schemes, but you do need competence. Poor tax planning kills more businesses than competition. You are going to get screwed. Just try to get screwed as little as possible. Easier said than done. Thanks, Rachel. Reputation is an asset. Especially outside big cities, word travels fast. How you treat customers, suppliers, and staff will follow you. It’s worth investing a few quid in showing your customers, staff and even suppliers how much they mean to you. A small investment goes a long way. Keep decision-making tight. Committees slow businesses down. Responsibility should be clear. Someone must own the outcome. With success rewarded, failure punished. Incentives matters. Take responsibility. If it goes wrong, take it on the chin. Don’t assign blame. You’re the boss. Own it. Watch the markets. The partially gold-backed yuan challenging the dollar is happening. The era of endless money printing is wobbling (don’t get me started on QE). Just how much in 2026 is yet to be seen. Precious metals will prosper again, and I expect them to do particularly well in 2026. Ignore this at your peril! Use the digital age properly. Technology allows small, nimble businesses to compete with giants. But don’t overly rely on it. AI isn’t that smart. Yet. Most importantly? Train your staff properly and treat them well. Loyalty, pride, and competence are built - and they repay you many times over. We have employees at our companies who have been there decades. Over 50 years in some cases. It matters, more than anything else. Without these people, your business is nothing. So act like it. Starting a business has never been easy. It certainly isn't now. But in business let's control what we can control, and not stress too much about what we can't. Monitor, but don't let it paralyse you. For those willing to think independently, take calculated risks, and work hard? The reward is still worth it. We need a Britain of entrepreneurs willing to risk their capital to make things happen. THEY built Britain, they drive the economy, they create wealth and opportunities. Done right, it will be one of the best decisions you can ever make. If you are considering giving it a go, I sincerely wish you well.

Finally ORX had that capitulation event. I was actually expecting we’d go even lower, but it looks like sellers are exhausted and the weak hands are gone. Now you can clearly see accumulation stepping in — people who understand what’s coming and believe the Stablenet protocol will be a game changer. ORX and AURYN rising hand in hand is not a coincidence. This is positioning. This is preparation. And when the volcano effect finally kicks in… it’s go time. @Ouroboros_ORX #ORX #AURYN #Au #Stablenet #Crypto #DeFi #USDX #Accumulation #NextNarrative #VolcanoEffect #ETH #DEFI #LENDING #TitanX #DragonX

Auryn did a 198x from launch with almost zero supply unlocked. Now people are panicking because ~85M tokens are about to hit the market — but everyone seems to forget what USDX, ORX and Auryn actually are. Sentiment is in full fear mode, but the fundamentals haven’t changed. USDX tech doesn’t rely on TitanX or the B&B wallet. Shadowy has said this dozens of times: the Buy & Burn was never the engine — deployments and external integrations are. Here’s the part most forget: We haven’t even started yet. When the first deployments begin rolling out, here’s what happens: •New communities enter the ecosystem •New capital flows into USDX minting •Fees and value start streaming back to Auryn •ORX supply begins to permanently shrink •Auryn becomes the connective asset across chains •Word spreads fast because this is real utility, not hype Shadowy already confirmed teams are working on deployments, and the goal is to establish a footprint on every major chain. TitanX was only the incubator — the small fish in the pond. The big pond is everything outside of it. The panic now is the opportunity. Because once the first external deployment hits, the entire narrative flips overnight. This is what the ecosystem was designed for — not a DEX token pump, but a multi-chain stablecoin engine. The foundations are built. The supply unlock is noise. Deployments are the signal. Stay focused. The real cycle hasn’t even begun. ⸻ #Auryn #ORX #USDX #Stablenet #VolcanoTech #DeFi #Ethereum #Base #Crypto #BuildOnTitanX

You will find majority of stablecoins aren’t truly stable. Until you find a fully onchain, over collateralised stable. Use your noodle and educate yourself on the decentralised stable network.

If you've been on DexScreener trending most recently, you've likely seen Auryn up there. $0.01 > $1.9 in not even 24 hours. Why? A crazy dedicated community who know what they have in their hands. Do you want to know why $1.9 is fud in the long term? youtu.be/6P137-W-w4o

ORX didn’t choose a tiny LP, it started with 200k. TitanX being 10× lower today compressed it to ~20k. That’s market conditions, not a project flaw. Auryn was built to reignite speculation, focus attention, and ultimately become a leveraged play on ORX itself. The reflexive mechanics make that obvious. And the fundamentals? Auryn taps into future deployments, more ecosystems, more revenue paths, more value flowing back. If you zoom out, the design is intentional: ORX is the base. Auryn amplifies it. Deployments extend it. Value rises through the stack, like a volcanic blast straight into the sky. The cycle is only just beginning. 🌀🔥 #ORX #Auryn $TitanX #BuildOnTitanX #Crypto #DeFi #Ethereum

🚨 It’s finally happening. $AURYN liquidity goes live in the next 6–9 hours — and this is the moment DeFi has been waiting for. $AURYN is the deployment-sharing token powering the expansion of USDx, the most advanced multi-asset, oracle-resistant stablecoin infrastructure in crypto. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, check out @Ouroboros_ORX and read the WP — this is your chance to be early to something genuinely revolutionary. The next cycle won’t be led by memes. It will be led by stablecoin tech, real yield, and scalable deployments. AURYN sits at the center of all of it. ⚡️ #TitanX #Eth #Aave #Devve #Fias #BTC #DeFi #Lending #USDX #USDT #USDC

⚡ Auryn raises $3.3M ⚡ 90% of all deposits go straight toward buying and burning $AU fueling one of the most deflationary launches in DeFi. 76% of total supply is already minted. 46.5% of $ORX’s market cap has already flowed into Auryn. Demand is extreme. Supply is scarce. Auryn is the key to the next wave of USDx tech deployments across the cryptoverse. ♾️ 👉 stablenet.tech/auryn #Auryn $AU #ORX #Ouroboros #DeFi #Ethereum $TitanX #BuildonTitanX

With everything happening on @Ouroboros_ORX , I went ahead and made an explainer video to shed a light on what we are sitting on. If you’ve seen news of the expansion, have a watch and jump in the telegram to get involved: youtu.be/DCjwvvamxCY?si=aXHp… $ORX $USDx $Au

Stablenet Protocol Giving protocols a TVL powerhouse CDP stablecoin bananza coming soon Locking up your favorite protocols token, in exchange for their own stable sound good? Take a look Stablenet.tech

75% of $Auryn supply already minted and we are not even 3 days after launch. We surpassed the ORX minter within 10 minutes, after months of ORX minting. Are you ready ?

Mechanical Breakdown of the $AU Minting Process Extreme tl;dr ~> Earlier, and heavier participation is more rewarded, but it's much more competitive than $ORX. - For those who minted $ORX, $AU will feel the same on the UI, but it's a completely different beast economically. Don't let the similar UI influence your decision making! Cost to Mint? - $AU starts out at a fixed cost of 2.5c per token. $TitanX, $ETH, and $ORX are converted to $ values on input. A slippage fee is applied to both TitanX and ETH, read more here: docs.ouroboros.foundation/ou… Is there Vesting? - Yes, but you can early claim. All created AU is vested, and the first $500k of deposits share the minimum lockup terms. As more $'s enter the minter, the vesting terms of newly created tokens stretches. When either $5m enters the minter, or three months passes from the launch date, all new tokens minted will share max vesting terms. Between 500k, and 5m, the terms gradually increase: docs.ouroboros.foundation/ou… Are there any bonuses? Speed: For the first 7 days, you will receive 8% more AU, and this bonus decreases linearly down to zero. Size: deposit between $1k-$100k to receive a proportional bonus in the range of 0%-8% What are the funds used for? - $ORX is burned 10%, and used to buy $AU - $ETH buys $TitanX ~> $ORX ~> $AU - $TitanX buys $ORX ~> $AU

Tonight is the night! $AU go-live is scheduled for UTC midnight 🎉 (or to be more exact, Thu Nov 06 2025 23:58:20 GMT 0000). Make sure you have notifications on, in case you didn't have time yet to read the whitepaper which is published @ docs.ouroboros.foundation/ou… I'll be going over the super condensed tokenomics associated with $AU Look out for a link to the overhauled UI, which contains all the new functionality and the $AU minting interface. Going live over the following days, we have: - $WETH collateral (already queued up and a button click away from listing) - Some new LP incentives for USDx - $AU, and the associated buy and burns - Some single asset staking incentives for various assets 😄 Next up... $AU tokenomics and use-case in a nutshell!