We’re in 2025… so why does moving money still feel stuck in 2005? A small moment with my friend made me realize how outdated our financial systems really are And that’s exactly why projects like Mantle and USDT0 stand out. I broke the whole moment down in this short podcast-style story. Watch the mini-episode 👇🎥 @Mantle_Official @scribble_dao @MantleIntern_

The official Farlands Playtest V1 announcement is finally here. ⚔️ 5-day countdown begins now! Playtest V1 is a vertical slice of the world - an introduction to basic mechanics, combat, exploration, and AI interaction. Cindrel is shipped locally with the build, so no external downloads are needed. We’re just finalising the last SFX pass and compile builds. To receive access, you must be in our Discord or registered through the Development Portal: discord.gg/farlands farlands.world/development-u Thank you for your patience. The gates open soon. - The Farlands Team #Farlands #IndieGameDev #UE5 #Playtest #AI #RPG #GameDev

said web3 gaming isn't completely dead, glad to see @FarlandsWorld shipping things here. ive been working with the team for a while now and yh I can attest to that. if youre a gamer or love gaming, you can check this out. tho, still in beta phase. will be dropping more info on it this week. and also join their discord to get early access. link in the quoted post. lets cook.

Crypto Person of the Year 2026. I used to help my mum sell tomatoes before sunrise and spend the afternoon posting about crypto to an audience smaller than the queue at her stall. The neighbours said I was unemployed. The customers asked when I would get a real job. Today I'm accepting this award from @RallyOnChain. When I called my mum, she laughed and said, "So the phone finally paid salary." That trophy is nice. Hearing her say that is why I'm keeping this one.

Personal branding is what happens when talking about the work starts generating more rewards than doing the work. Someone spends a year mastering a skill. Someone else spends a year posting about mastering it. Online, they can end up looking equally accomplished. That's a strange incentive. The internet made visibility feel like progress. It isn't. Progress exists even when nobody sees it. Visibility exists even when nothing changed. That's why so many people get stuck. The updates start producing more validation than the work itself. At that point the work becomes content. The content stops serving the work. The work starts serving the content. That's the trap. The internet treats attention like evidence. Most of the time it's just attention. @RallyOnChain What's something people mistake for progress because it looks like progress?

The strongest network effect in finance is not users. It's compliance approvals. Every bank that clears a settlement rail makes it easier for the next bank's legal team to approve the same rail. That is why the current activity on @zksync matters. Deutsche Bank's DAMA 2.0 platform is already deployed through Memento. ADI Chain is live with First Abu Dhabi Bank, the Central Bank of the UAE, BlackRock, Mastercard, and Franklin Templeton. BitGo is integrated with Prividium. Cari Network is currently onboarding five U.S. regional banks representing $600B in combined deposits, with production rollout planned for later in 2026. Most people see announcements. Compliance teams see precedent. And precedent compounds faster than technology. The first institution proves something can work. The second proves it wasn't luck. The tenth turns due diligence into a template. That is how standards emerge. The architecture matters: privacy by design, institution-controlled execution, cryptographic finality, and atomic cross-chain composability. But the bigger advantage in 2026 may be simpler: @zksync is not just building infrastructure. It's accumulating regulatory trust that the next institution can inherit. Technology scales. Trust scales faster. $ZKIN

Gm friends. Although the week is coming to an end, I hope everyone is still ramped up for the weekend!! Stay cooking 🫡👨‍🍳🔥

i think most crypto games get one thing wrong. they expect me to care about a jpeg before giving me a reason to care. so when i opened a free pack on @CUPcards_sol i wasn't expecting much. then i pulled a country card. and suddenly i caught myself doing something weird... checking football brackets. looking at group stage predictions. thinking about which teams actually have a path to the final. because on cup.cards, country cards double in value every time that country survives another round. a team keeps winning? your card keeps growing. a team crashes out? you can still burn the card back for roughly 60% of its value. that's the part that clicked for me. it's not really a card game. it's a way to turn football stories into decisions. every underdog run matters. every upset matters. every extra-time winner matters. you stop watching matches as a spectator and start watching them like you're part of the story. and unlike most sports collectibles, the cards actually do something. lineups. predictions. marketplace trading. forging packs. all settled in $CUPC. with the 2026 world cup getting closer, this feels like one of the more interesting ways i've seen football and crypto come together. opened my free pack here 👇 cup.cards/kols what country are you betting on? @CUPcards_sol

everyone talks about funding traders. Not enough people talk about funding creators. a trader can get access to more capital and potentially scale faster. a creator usually just gets told to "keep posting" and hope opportunities show up. that's why I found the @solanafunded creator program interesting. instead of one-off rewards, they're building a system where creators can climb ranks, unlock bigger campaigns, earn affiliate commissions, and compete for a share of $30,000 in rewards. whether you're a trader or a creator, the idea is similar: prove your value first. unlock bigger opportunities later. crypto has spent years building for traders. maybe it's finally time creators get their own lane too. what's harder to grow in crypto today: capital or an audience?

Most people think banks are deciding whether to move onchain. That decision is already behind us. JPMorgan's Kinexys has processed more than $1.5 trillion on blockchain rails. DTCC is advancing SEC-cleared tokenization of U.S. Treasuries. NYSE is building tokenized securities infrastructure with BNY and Citi supporting the cash leg. The debate in 2026 is no longer "if." It's "whose rails become everyone else's dependency." Financial infrastructure has a strange property: every successful upgrade makes the next upgrade less likely. Once institutions integrate around a settlement network, the costs stop being technical. Compliance teams build procedures around it. Auditors certify it. Operations teams train around it. Counterparties connect to it. Years later, replacing the system means rebuilding all four at the same time. That's why SWIFT scaled from 239 banks to more than 11,000. Not because alternatives stopped existing, but because every new participant increased the cost of choosing differently. The same compounding dynamic exists in onchain settlement. 10 institutions create 45 potential settlement corridors. 100 institutions create nearly 5,000. Each new participant doesn't just add volume. It increases the number of relationships the network can support and makes the network more useful to everyone already inside it. This is what makes @zksync interesting right now. The conversation isn't about theoretical architecture anymore. The network already has live institutional deployments and active engagement across banks, central banks, sovereign issuers, custodians, and tokenization platforms. The real question is whether 2026 becomes the year these early deployments stop looking like individual announcements and start looking like the foundation of a settlement standard. Because history suggests something uncomfortable: In financial infrastructure, the winner is rarely the system that becomes available first. It's the system institutions become unwilling to leave. The real question is this: At what point does a settlement network stop being a product and start becoming public infrastructure?

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We know you’re waiting for the playtest builds. So are we. Farlands is moving from “look at this” to “step into it.” We know build one won't be perfect, and we know the next step involves growing and evolving with our community. Thanks for sticking with us. We’re close. Watch this space 👀 #Farlands #FarlandsWorld #InGameFootage #Gameplay #GameDev #IndieGameDev #UnrealEngine #RPG #OpenWorld #Playtest

FIFA World Cup season is finally kicking off And suddenly every prediction market has a World Cup challenge waiting for you If you think you’re a football expert, you should probably take a look. I’m definitely not, so I’ll be hanging out on @Polymarket & @JupiterExchange

I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years. If there’s one belief I’d keep, it’s this: I used to think being wrong was expensive. Looking back, most of the damage came from staying loyal to ideas I had already stopped believing because admitting I was wrong felt like admitting I had wasted time. The strange part is that almost every good thing that happened after started with changing my mind a little sooner. Maybe that’s why I find what @RallyOnChain is building interesting. The internet gets better when people are rewarded for what they genuinely contribute, not for pretending to be certain all the time. What belief took you the longest to let go of?

I'm waiting Fifa world cup start and i will rooting for Portugal how about you?

RT @Rasdamsama: The institutional story around @ZKsync is often framed as a technology story. I think it's actually a coordination story.…