After 2.5 years at @LayerZero_Core, I’m stepping away to build. Grateful doesn’t begin to cover it. What a ride. I joined as employee #50. When I left: → Grew to 150 person team → Shipped V2 of the protocol (modular security, horizontal composability, etc) → Token launch at $3B valuation (a16z & Sequoia co-lead; first time ever) → Onboarded 700 incredible partners (stablecoins, RWAs, chains etc) → Built Zero blockchain (100x improvements to network, storage & compute) I fully believe LayerZero will be one of the most consequential blockchain companies in the world. @PrimordialAA, @ryanzarick, @caleb_banister, @Bakxys, & @MaybeMaxPower - thank you for setting the standard. To the team (and now friends) - wouldn't trade it for the world. To our partners and community - the relationships we have built are for a lifetime. Now, a story most people haven't heard. 48hrs before LayerZero's TGE, the office was buzzing. It's 2am and the last thing I wanted to do was commute home just to come back 6hrs later. So naturally, I asked the new product guy (we’d known each other for a month), @0xmitvh, if I could crash on his couch 😂 2:30am, we're talking. "The office energy is electric" "The team is dialled" Talking about how one day we wanted to build something the same way. We agreed that night, whenever the time came we had an idea we were convicted on, we would drop everything and go all in. Two years later, that moment arrived. And you best believe it was none else than for prediction markets. But the experience right now isn't great. Open any prediction market app today. You are hit with categories, subcategories, charts, order books. 40 cents, 60 cents. Pages of the "what" but never the "why." Give this to the regular joe and he's lost. What if markets came to you based on your interests, before you even knew you cared? What if instead of charts and order books it was content; entertaining, informative and backed by real money? That is what we are building. Meet @pulsepredicts. The Prediction Media Application. Where Markets Are Media. The world is going to consume information differently in the future. We intend to be the reason why. ;P

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Morning miles ✅ Pulse mvp ✅ And if you like prediction markets, hmu let’s chat

World class team (and merch) Let’s ride @ethena

I’m building in consumer I dropped the ego and started creating content Can’t rely on a single platform for distribution Past 30 days, so far so good

We raised $16M so I bought a $600,000 car Thank you @pulsepredicts

I left LayerZero after two years. And no, this is not a vesting cliff reached situation lol. LayerZero is a 1 of 1 company. The kind of place that rewires how you think and work. I can honestly say I'm a 10x better operator and person than when I walked in two years ago, and I could not be more grateful for the time spent there. I left because of an idea that has been eating at my mind for months, and an opportunity so large I'd live a life of regret if I didn't go after it. So, @domdotx and I are building Pulse: The Prediction Media Application. Prediction markets are the perfect primitive to fundamentally change the way Gen-Z consumes and engages with media. Now imagine that packaged in a personalized experience that gets better every time you and your closest friends use it. That's Pulse (in maybe too abstract terms :). More to come @pulsepredicts Lastly, special thanks to @PrimordialAA @ryanzarick @caleb_banister @Bakxys @MaybeMaxPower for being inspirational leaders who I was proud to go to battle with every single day. And all the homies of course @danekshea @0x4C756B65 @labsUSD @0xLamps @Daryllautk @jessemillman @0xthlither @kramnotmark @ldf_gm @smokercrypto_ @0xnutzs @crosschaingah @PaikCapital @jjjjacobx Niall, Casey, Dasha, Jane, and so many more.

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time to become a conductor musicians will be replaced orchestration acceleration

The performance limitations of our industry – capped at around 10K TPS across all existing blockchains – cannot serve systems that demand millions of transactions per second. This means the largest organizations in the world cannot move onchain despite wanting to. We are offering the scale of legacy finance at the speed of the internet, with the underpinnings of the principles that matter. Zero is decentralized, permissionless, and censorship-resistant. It is the last blockchain because it is the first to scale to house all operations for systems like the NYSE, the DTCC, and Citadel Securities. Adoption of Zero isn’t about tokenization or a simple stablecoin implementation – it is about replatforming entire business models onto what we believe to be a better internet: blockchain. We can’t wait to bring Zero to the world later this fall with our world-class partners, who are genuinely the foremost experts and leaders in how markets work. I can’t think of a better group to build solutions with during the transition of global markets onto permissionless infrastructure. Much more to come. It’s time to build without compromise at scale.

It should be extremely obvious where the puck is heading. We chose to build with @LayerZero_Core not only because their team is world class, but because of their ability to ship true 0-1 innovations that attract the largest players in the world. They solved interop with $200B moved across chains, and now they're solving the blockchain scaling problem from first principles. GTE will be the global frontend for the tokenization movement and traders will only benefit from the speed, colocation, and UX improvements never seen before. GTE x LayerZero.

Why Zero? A conversation with @citsecurities, @The_DTCC, and @ICE_Markets. Speakers: - Dan Doney, CTO of DTCC Digital Assets - Marcin Sablik, Partner at Citadel Securities - Michael Blaugrund, VP of Strategic Initiatives at Intercontinental Exchange

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