The welfare state has been more destructive to the black family than slavery just by restructuring the incentives. In 1960, nearly a century after emancipation, only about 22% of black children grew up in single-parent households. By 1990, after the Great Society welfare expansions, that number had more than tripled. Thomas Sowell has long shown this wasn’t the lingering shadow of slavery or some vague “legacy.” The destruction of the black family was the direct result of welfare policies that subsidized single motherhood and penalized marriage. The incentives changed, and family structure collapsed accordingly.

Be proactive. There's always a next step 👌🥲

The institutional crypto shift is about infrastructure, not memes. Solarious is building a Layer-1 Proof-of-Energy network for renewable energy settlement: • verified energy production • on-chain proofs • $SOLAR rewards • 200-node infrastructure narrative • Tri-Cameral governance • Alpha Node premium tier The target is a $10T energy market without native settlement rails. First Solar Miner is already working. TGE phase: May 2026. Alpha Nodes: 50 slots, 2.5x multiplier. @solarious_us is a serious RWA-energy watchlist project.

NEW: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns an AI future dominated by a few models is “not stable.”

Spent a few hours with the team going through @MonkeFoundry applications. We're only 1/4 in. Already encouraged by what's coming through - teams reinventing TradFi, RWAs, consumer apps, security, legacy industries. Make no mistake - the builders are here, & they are on @solana

Punks, pixels, and the people behind them. This weekend's @cryptopunks brunch at @NFCsummit celebrated the power of art bringing people together. 💙

First, you downloaded Binance on Apple. Now, you can buy Apple on Binance.

"Bitcoin can't possibly fall any lower." Listen, I'm as long term bullish as the next guy but let me share with you the harsh reality of the current state of the crypto market: Bitcoin can ABSOLUTELY fall lower. The macro headwinds are there. Here is how it could happen THIS YEAR: JUNE: Mega IPOs/AI suck up capital JULY: Stocks crash & bear begins AUGUST: 10-year treasury hits 6% SEPTEMBER: Fed hikes rates OCTOBER: Clarity Act fails to pass NOVEMBER: Midterm election chaos DECEMBER: Black swan Look, I'm not saying this is likely to happen. In fact all of that playing out in the next 6 months would probably be extremely UNLIKELY. But... price could absolutely go lower. Like I said, I'm long term bullish, but it's important to plan for all scenarios. But what do you think?

⚡ INSIGHT: SpaceX may have to wait until 2027 to join the S&P 500, per Reuters.

Take control. New assets. New ways to trade. And 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦. June 16. 3PM ET.

June 2026. TGE this month. The first Solar Miner is live. Real validators are running. The chain is producing blocks. July - first airdrop through Verdex Wallet. September through November - exchange listings, ICO, hardware deployment scaling to homes and farms. By 2027, industrial solar, data centers, and RWA integrations. The roadmap is public. The infrastructure is real. solarious.us ⚡

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Payments are becoming programmable with @oobit. On the Arbitrum Platform, businesses can build payment systems with instant settlement, predictable costs and customizable infrastructure built around how their products already operate. Now Oobit users can spend directly from onchain balances at 150M Visa merchants worldwide.

Monad v0.14.4 has been released to Monad mainnet. This version features a fix for the `eth_fillTransaction` convenience RPC method released recently, as well as additional preparatory work for deterministic raptorcast and zkVM. I love the power and elegance of the Monad client, and it's only getting better as @category_xyz continues to put in the work on the next 3-4 major features.

OpenAI Robotics is hiring, looking for exceptional full-stack hardware, ops, systems, and ML engineers to help us program and manufacture robots that are useful for society. AI should be able to help people in the physical world. In the short term, we are focused on robots to support skilled workers to build our future infrastructure; in the long term, we imagine everyone having a personal robot doing anything they need. Our world simulation research program, led by Aditya Ramesh (@model_mechanic), has evolved over the past year into OpenAI Robotics. Progress is rapid, and based on a foundation of co-design between robotics hardware and ML research. If you love working hands-on across the robotics stack and want to build the future, please consider joining us. Send an email with your background and evidence of exceptional accomplishment to: robotics-recruiting@openai.com

Gold-backed stablecoins sit in a weird but powerful middle ground: @USDKG_Official too real for pure degen narratives, too on-chain for old finance to ignore. That is exactly why the category is interesting.

JUST IN: Iranian ship labeled “IRGC Toll Collect” has reportedly appeared in the Strait of Hormuz, according to MarineTraffic data.

Gold: “We're down 10%” Crypto: “First cycle?”

What really happened to crypto on 10/10? 🤔