Career update! After ~3 years on the BD team at @SolanaFndn, I’m excited to share that I’m starting a new chapter at @raincards 🌧️ Rain’s mission is as impactful as it gets — building a global payment network powered by stablecoins, one that advances how people and businesses move money around the world. Just wrapped up my first week and can confirm the hype is real … @rooqster and @cnaut have built an exceptional org. My time at Foundy was deeply formative. I’m incredibly grateful for the leadership from @toly, @rajgokal, @calilyliu and for the opportunity to grow alongside so many close colleagues — @knimkar, @jnwng, @Pedromiranda to name just a few — as well as the countless inspiring teams across the @solana ecosystem (which will ALWAYS be home 🫶). I’ll continue to be based here in NYC and working with partners across the crypto world. Looking forward to reconnecting with many familiar faces along the way— reach out if you wanna chat @raincards !

Rain is now a @Mastercard Principal Member. That means greater choice for our partners, backed by the same stablecoin-powered authorization and settlement technology under the hood. Partners will be able to offer cards that work everywhere Mastercard is accepted across 210 countries and territories. Read more: rain.xyz/resources/rain-is-n…

A favorite BP moment — Day 2, after everyone left, @weretuna and I were sitting to the side having our first IRL convo since working tg for months The one and only @drpeepee serendipitously walked by and turned out to be a huge fan of @addicteddotfun and talked about all the specific in-game elements to a tee. Will never forget the look @weretuna had when he realized he found his home on @solana ✨

.@Solana is the consumer chain @SolanaConf Breakpoint was home to the most exciting announcements in crypto. Here are some of my favorite fun ones (so far!)👇

incredible progress from incredible people. @JillianCasalini @benjileibo embody the best qualities of Solana founders. Excited for @pumpdotscience future

If you're an indie game project building on Solana, we want to give you the chance to showcase your game at Breakpoint, the biggest conference in the Solana ecosystem. Apply below for a 2 hour slot at our gaming booth👇

The future is being built on Solana. And Solana wants to help you🫵build it. Join our Founder Success accelerators @Pedromiranda and @_JerryLi as they host Office Hours during the first day of Breakpoint '25. They've put together a roster of the best minds in the ecosystem to give you the feedback, perspective and support you need to help you turn your product idea or MVP into the next big thing! @mert @mattytay @CryptoMagellan @CarlKVogel @ramzyyalii & more will be on hand to share nuggets of wisdom and inspiration, and give you real insight into taking your product to the next level. Apply at the link below 🔽

Wake up babe, @solana just got its own kickstarter! 🎉 Back @SOLYD_STORE as they're raising to make premium Crypto themed poker sets, and benefit if they're successful. Limited supply. FCFS. Live now 👇

1. Resilience Perena is named after perennial flowers. The perennial doesn't survive because it's the prettiest flower. It survives because it's not afraid of winters. 2. Fail fast It's not that Numéraire couldn't work. It very well would've (and still might!), but it wasn't generating enough revenue for us or our LPs. Shutting down a points program was daunting, but we did it and continued building. I wish we failed faster. 3. Find PMF or die trying YC says this. I thought crypto could ignore the basics with pumpanomics. I was wrong. 4. Roadmap is a prayer, not a promise Our May roadmap was ambitious. We hit some milestones, and we missed others. That's okay. The point isn't to predict perfectly. It's to move with intention and articulate thoughts, but have the humility to adapt when reality disagrees. I used to see pivots as a failure of not thinking things through, now I embrace them as part of the ride. Perena has pivoted once, and I know we can and will change course again. 5. Make revenue Another YC cliché I ignored. "We're building infrastructure, revenue comes later." No. Revenue is signal. Revenue means someone values what you built enough to pay for it. 6. Stop counting competitors It can feel like the stablecoin space is insanely crowded with neobanks and delta-neutral synthetics. The question isn't how many teams are building, it's whether the TAM is tapped. It's the same for AI, phones, or really any revolutionary technology. Majority of the world hasn't touched onchain money yet, so there's our answer. 7. Fomo copy and get rekt Everyone (esp. VCs) will tell you "study XXX, they crushed it." 2 months later that XXX might be the worst PR headline of the year. The next home run won't come from copying the last one. 8. Max simplify Perena aimed to build stablecoin infrastructure to redefine money. However, after months of "research", I shifted from first principled reasoning to way overthinking. The simple question: how do we make money better? 9. Talent doesn't fit in your box In the beginning, I pigeonholed myself looking for Solana devs with DeFi background. Turns out some of the best people I've met came from totally unexpected backgrounds. 10. Surround yourself with those who inspire and energize you Life is too short to talk to boring people.

founder alpha from today: - everything is a product. from how your org operates to how you engage with the community - optimize it the same way you would your actual product - evaluate the advice you get from various lenses. would you treat feedback you get from a user the same way as if you got it from your VC? why not? - be laser focused on finding PMF, esp in the beginning. it's human to want to help others, but preserving your energy is often the right choice - @solana 's moat is founders going to bat for each other. @vidor_solflare and @JosipVolarevic2 are great examples of this (when they're not busy roasting each other🫠) who should we have on next?

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hearing scuttlebutt that both @vidor_solflare @JosipVolarevic2 will shave their heads if we get 200 listeners👀

Wym you have 10 SOL just lying around? in this economy?? Here are 10 fun things to try on @solana🙋‍♂️ - Pull an Elite Pokemon Gacha Pack at @Collector_Crypt - Predict the #1 most Googled person on @wormdotwtf - Deposit SOL in a @Loopscale Vault to earn stable yield - Join the 13k steps challenge on @moonwalkfitness - Buy a bottle of Wild Turkey Bourbon on @BAXUSco - Launch a longevity compound on @pumpdotscience - Grab the free @solanagaming pass powered by @MagicEden & @dripshop_live - Purchase and stake institutional-grade digital gold with @orogoldapp - Get ahead on holiday shopping with @dupe_solana - Buy your Late Bird ticket to @SolanaConf before we run out

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we're working on Founder Success @SolanaFndn ! DMs are open for unsolicited feedback :)

Only at a @Kalshi x @Solana football happy hour could you be deep in convo about micro betting, crash games, and composability — all before halftime. Great crew, thanks for hosting.