In 2023, FTX sold its 5% stake in Cursor for $200k as part of its bankruptcy proceedings.
Today, that stake would be worth over $3,000,000,000 after SpaceX $SPCX acquired the startup for $60 billion.
LATEST: 💰 Raoul Pal called crypto "humanity's pension plan," arguing investors have four years to own as much as possible before AI rewrites the global economy.
13 Valentine’s Day Texts Only Crypto People Would Send
Because flowers are temporary but emotional volatility is forever ❤️
If your love language includes charts, conviction, and mild delusion, this one’s for you...
1. “Are we long-term or just a short-term trade?”
2. “I’m not selling you, ever”
3. “You’re my highest conviction play right now”
4. “Let’s merge!!”
5. “Be my exit liquidity?”
6. “I’d stake with your validator pool”
7. “You had me at mainnet”
8. “This isn’t a pump & dump I swear”
9. “I definitely see long-term value here”
10. “We’re still early… right?”
11. “I promise this isn’t a rug”
12. “I’d hold through the dips with you”
13. “gm ❤️” (for the culture)
"Solana is just a glorified SQL database"
Okay, but it’s a SQL database that just processed 2 years' worth of Ethereum transactions in a week while the validators were actively quitting
This chart is showing the total number of daily transactions on the most important chains.
It is not difficult to see that @solana is not like the others.
Prediction Markets: The Secret Sauce Behind the Magic 🔮
Have you ever wondered how platforms like Polymarket or Kalshi actually know who’s going to win the election or whether Taylor Swift’s wedding will cause a measurable spike in global GDP?
Let's examine the carefully designed system of trust and incentives...
Behold! The inner workings of Prediction Markets 🧵👇
5/ Summary: Choose Your Fighter 🥊
Picking a platform depends on what you value:
Crypto & Speed? Hit Polymarket.
Finance & Regulation? Go with Kalshi.
(Basically, if you want to bet on the apocalypse, go on-chain. If you want to bet on a boring bill passing, go off-chain)
6/ The Bottom Line
Prediction markets are the future of how we aggregate truth. Whether it's robot oracles or human judges, they all aim to turn the "wisdom of the crowd" into a crystal ball.
And in a world of fake news, prediction markets are the only place where people have to put their money where their mouth is. If you're not betting, you're just guessing.