Throwback to Crypto Expo Dubai! I have met 100 interesting Web3 people on that day, 20 potential Web3 Projects! I am consulting 3 Web3 start ups met in Crypto expo Dubai! Super bullish for Web3 💪🏻

I lost ₹3L listening to FAKE crypto gurus I sat with @Yax22 & finally opened up about everything In this podcast: - My first investment - The 2017 Bitcoin miss I still regret - My dad broke my phone - The silent retreat that saved me - Why I’ll never shill tokens - Playbook to spot fake influencers - How non-tech ppl can earn in crypto From a small-town boy to a 400K family, this is the full story 🤍 Here’s the link 👇

Coinbase just cut 14% of staff. But the layoff isn't the story. The story is what Brian Armstrong is replacing them with. In 2022, Coinbase cut 18%. In 2023, another 20%. Both were defensive moves. Crypto winter, FTX fallout, survival mode. Today's cut is different. The company is well-capitalized. Revenue is diversified. They didn't need to do this. They're doing it anyway. Read the memo carefully and you'll see the actual blueprint. Org flattened to 5 layers max below the CEO. Senior leaders now carry 15 direct reports while shipping as individual contributors. No more pure managers. Every leader is now what Armstrong calls a "player coach." Then the part nobody is talking about. Coinbase is rolling out "AI native pods." Some will be one person teams. A single human handling engineering, design, and product, backed by a fleet of AI agents. This is not a layoff. It's an operating model rewrite. For context, Armstrong said in September that 40% of daily code at Coinbase is already AI generated. The target was 50% by October. Roughly 700 humans were still in those workflows. Now they're not. Here's what crypto founders should actually take from this. The biggest US crypto company just told the market that you no longer need 5,000 people to run an exchange. You need a few hundred operators who know how to manage agents. If that math works at Coinbase scale, it works everywhere downstream. Wallets, prop firms, market makers, KOL agencies, research desks. Most teams in our industry are still hiring like it's 2021. I've been running my own ops on a multi agent stack for months now. It's not theoretical. It's already cheaper, faster, and more accurate than my old hire-more-people instinct. Coinbase just made the same call publicly. The next 18 months in crypto won't be won by who raises the most. It will be won by who figures out the smallest team that can ship the most. Are you building for an AI native org, or are you still hiring like the cycle before this one? #Web3 #Crypto #AI #Coinbase #FutureOfWork

The S&P 500 just recovered from war losses in 11 days. That's the fastest recovery in market history. Faster than COVID (103 days). Faster than the 2008 crash (1,021 days). Faster than the dot com bust (1,166 days). 11 days. After the U.S. went to war with Iran. Now sitting at 7,209 with its strongest month since November 2020. Let that sink in for a second. Markets used to take years to digest geopolitical shocks. Now they take less than two weeks. The cycle has compressed because liquidity, AI capex, and Big Tech earnings are absorbing fear faster than fear can spread. Here's the part most people in crypto are missing. If equities can shrug off an actual war this fast, the old macro fear equals crypto winter playbook is dead. BTC didn't crash to 40K. Risk assets didn't unwind for 6 months. The recovery happened before most traders could even reposition. The new macro reality: shocks are sharper, recoveries are faster, and the people who freeze during the dip miss the entire move. Speed of conviction is the new edge. What's your read, is this a healthy market or the most expensive complacency we've ever seen? #Crypto #Web3 #Markets #DubaiCrypto #Trading

YaxVaani just crossed 1.8M views. I won't pretend this was the plan. I started this podcast while building Z#**, consulting for 20 Web3 clients, and running operations across three time zones. Most people told me to drop it. "You can't build a prop firm and a media property at the same time." A year in, here's what I've actually learned: Content isn't a side project for a founder. It's the cheapest distribution moat you'll ever build. Every investor meeting, every KOL intro, every hiring conversation warmer now because people have already spent hours with me on their commute. Consistency beats genius. I'm not the best interviewer on YouTube. Not even close. But I showed up every week while better creators took breaks. The boring work compounds. No episode went viral. Not one. 1.8M views is the result of ~25 episodes each doing their quiet job. If you're a founder sitting on a podcast idea but telling yourself you're "too busy", that's the same lie I told myself for two years before I started. What's the one piece of content you've been putting off? #yaxvaani #yax #crypto #web3 #podcast

Figma dropped 7% the day Anthropic launched Claude Design. Down 85% from its post-IPO peak. Six months ago this was the cleanest tech IPO in years. $60B valuation. 95% of the Fortune 500 as customers. 13 million monthly active users. Then one product launch from a foundation model lab took out a fifth of what's left. This isn't a Figma problem. It's the SaaSpocalypse playing out one vertical at a time. February wiped roughly a trillion in software market cap. Atlassian posted its first ever decline in seat counts. Adobe's PE compressed from 26x to 16x. The pattern is the same every time Anthropic ships. Cybersecurity tool drops, related stocks drop. Legal tools drop, LegalZoom drops 20% in a session. Cowork ships, the entire IGV ETF craters 30%. Now design. The old assumption was that AI would stay generalist while specialists owned their workflows. That assumption is dead. One interface now covers code, design, research, financial analysis, customer support. Each release forces another category to ask if their moat actually exists. Here's the part most people are missing. The companies dying aren't dying because the software stopped working. They're dying because the unit of value shifted from "access to a tool" to "completion of a task." Per-seat pricing assumes you need 100 humans logging in. Agentic AI says you need 5 humans and 95 agents. That math kills SaaS independent of how good the product is. For builders in crypto and Web3, the lesson is sharper than people realize. Most of our infrastructure copies the SaaS playbook. Subscription dashboards, per-user analytics tools, KOL platforms, on-chain data products. Same model, same exposure. If you're building anything where the buyer pays per login, you have maybe 18 months before the same conversation comes for you. The survivors are the ones that become essential inside AI workflows, not adjacent to them. Either you're the data the agents query, the rails the agents settle on, or the trust layer the agents need to operate. Everything else gets absorbed. What I'm doing about it, We're building so the AI co-pilot is the product, not a feature bolted on top. Traders interact with intelligence, not interfaces. If you're building a Web3 product right now and your roadmap still treats AI as "we'll add it later", you're already late. Which SaaS category do you think gets hit next? #Web3 #SaaSpocalypse #AI #CryptoFounders #BuildingInPublic

Honored to be speaking on this at @LawBlocksAI's event in DIFC on April 28th. If you're in Dubai, come say hi 🇦🇪

Everyone said stablecoins would kill Visa. In 2026, Visa just became the biggest stablecoin distribution channel on earth. 100 countries. 175 million merchants. USDC in your Phantom wallet now spends at the chai stall in Mumbai, the bodega in Bogotá, the grocer in Lagos. I’ve spent the last 6 years advising crypto projects across exactly these markets. The pattern is always the same. Users don’t want decentralization. They want dollars that work. The disruption narrative got flipped on its head. The same card network crypto wrote obituaries for is the one bringing stablecoins to a billion people who will never open MetaMask. Here’s what actually happened. Stripe bought Bridge for $1.1B. Bridge plugged into Visa. Visa piped it to fintechs. Now any wallet with an API key can issue a card that lets you spend USDC like salary. The lesson nobody wants to admit: real adoption doesn’t come from replacing legacy rails. It comes from riding them. Crypto’s biggest unlock of 2026 isn’t a new L1. It’s a plastic card with a Visa logo. Which emerging market onboards fastest to stablecoin cards: India, Nigeria, or Brazil? #Web3 #Stablecoins #Crypto #Fintech #DubaiCrypto

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Iran just turned the Strait of Hormuz into a Bitcoin toll booth. $1 per barrel of oil. A fully loaded supertanker? That's $2 million. Payable in Bitcoin. Seconds to pay. No SWIFT. No tracing. No freezing. A sanctioned nation controlling 20% of the world's oil supply is now collecting crypto tolls at the most important chokepoint on earth. Their parliament already passed it into law. Everyone's sharing the viral math. 130 ships a day, 3,600 BTC daily, 8x Bitcoin's entire mining output. The math is right but the context is wrong. The strait is still 90% closed. 800 ships are stranded. Maersk won't touch it. But that's not the point. The point is a country just proved you can run sovereign revenue collection on Bitcoin infrastructure. Outside the dollar system. At gunpoint if needed. Even at 10% of normal traffic, Iran pulls in $20M a day in crypto. Trump floated a "joint venture" with Iran on the tolls. Read that again. The petrodollar didn't die today. But it just got a preview of its funeral. Now imagine what happens when other nations start taking notes. #Bitcoin #Crypto #Geopolitics #StraitOfHormuz #Web3

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🚨 Oracle just fired 30,000 people via a 6 AM email. The stock went up 5%. Let that satisfying little irony wash over you. Oracle, a company that just reported $6.1 billion in GAAP net income last quarter (up 95% year over year), woke up 30,000 employees before sunrise on March 31st with an email signed “Oracle Leadership.” No phone call. No meeting. No heads up from their manager. Just a cold paragraph telling them their role has been “eliminated as part of a broader organizational change” and today is their last working day. Some of these people gave Oracle 10 years. Some had stock vesting in June, just 2 days away. Forfeited. Immediately. The reason? Oracle needs $8 to $10 billion in free cash flow to fund $156 billion in AI data center buildout. They’ve taken on $58 billion in new debt in two months. Their stock has lost more than half its value since September 2025. So the solution wasn’t to slow down. Wasn’t to recalibrate. It was to delete 18% of the workforce and redirect their salaries into GPU racks. And Larry Ellison, Oracle’s chairman, CTO, and a man worth over $200 billion, owns 98% of a Hawaiian island he bought for $300 million. He owns the grocery store. The gas station. The cemetery. The hotel. The newspaper. He literally owns the town. That man decided 30,000 families can figure it out. But this isn’t an Oracle problem. This is the playbook now. → IBM cut 7,800 and replaced them with AI in 2023. → Amazon laid off 27,000 while reporting record revenue. → Meta has been doing rolling layoffs while printing money. → Google dropped 12,000 while sitting on $100 billion in cash. → Block just cut roughly 40% of its workforce and the stock surged. Every single time: record profits, mass layoffs, stock goes up. They told you to learn to code. You learned to code. They told you to upskill. You upskilled. They told you to “add value.” You added so much value that net income went up 95%. And then they replaced you with the thing you helped build and sent the termination letter before your alarm went off. The company made record profits. And the reward for the people who made it happen? An email at 6 AM and a forfeited stock vest. Meanwhile, Wall Street celebrated. Oracle stock jumped 5% on the news. Because in this economy, your termination is someone else’s alpha. This is not innovation. This is extraction. And if you’re sitting at your desk today thinking “at least it’s not me,” understand this: you’re not safe. You’re just not expensive enough yet. Stay sharp. Build your own leverage. Because loyalty to a corporation is a one way street and they just proved it. Again. What’s your take? Is this the new normal, or are we going to start demanding better? #OracleLayoffs #AI #TechLayoffs #FutureOfWork #CorporateAmerica #Leadership