I’m 22. From India. And I’m building in crypto. Not because it’s easy. Not because it’s trendy. And definitely not just for money. I’ve always wanted to solve real problems. After spending years in this industry, I started @RevalonFinance with my close friend @Meetjaiin. We come from the same city, and now we’re building something we truly believe in. But this didn’t start with success. Before @RevalonFinance, we tried everything. Stablecoin indexing. Prediction market indexing. Arbitrage. Most of it failed. And to be honest, failure hurts. It humbles you. It makes you question yourself. It makes you wonder if you’re really made for this. But failure also teaches you. It forces you to grow. It shows you who you are when nothing is working. We had limited resources. No big backing. No safety net. Just belief, long nights, and money from our own pockets. And still, we kept going. It’s only been 20 days since we started building @RevalonFinance, but this is the most locked in we’ve ever been. The market is bad. VCs are careful. Things are slower than ever. But our belief is stronger than the market. Because when you know the problem is real, and you know your community needs what you’re building, you don’t stop. You build anyway. You keep showing up. You keep cooking. This is bigger than a company for us. It’s a dream. It’s proof that two people from one city can start with almost nothing and still choose to build. We’re just getting started. Stay close. Big things are coming. And yes, we’re looking for founding members who want to build with us.

Polygon Open Money Stack is now in technical preview. A first look at how your business can move money with stablecoins in one easy platform 🧵

Prediction markets have a capital problem. Revalon is the fix.

we shipped. @RevalonFinance — floor-aware lending for prediction market positions — is live on testnet. borrow USDC against your @Polymarket and @Kalshi positions without closing them. invites sent. onboarding the first wave now. app.revalon.finance

Kalshi did first

We’re excited to announce OneFootball has named Polymarket as their exclusive prediction market partner. Our odds & football markets will now be accessible to OneFootball's global fanbase of over 600M fans. Stay tuned.

equity markets: you can margin your position futures markets: you can margin your position options markets: you can margin your position prediction markets: you cannot the most information-rich market in crypto has the most primitive capital infrastructure @RevalonFinance

We're building On-chain Credit Layer on Kalshi & Polymarket. Still I m Looking for 1 founding Quant to join the team. You know probability, pricing models, and you think in distributions — not opinions. Based in India. Founding equity on the table. Math nerds, DM me. 🇮🇳

Prediction market researchers & creators We need to talk. Something is coming and I want you involved early. Follow @RevalonFinance

$1.2B sits locked in open prediction market positions right now. traders can't exit without closing their thesis. that's the problem we're solving. private beta invites going out soon. revalon.finance/request-acce…

The winners take it all, Higher you rise more hate you get, It doesn’t matter, Your winning.

Wow, Looks like limitless is winning.

Prediction markets are broken. Not the odds. Not the UI. The capital. $1B sitting locked with nowhere to go. We're Revalon Finance and we're fixing it. Early access → revalon.finance/request-acce…

Prediction markets still haven't solved their most fundamental problems: → Resolution oracles are slow, expensive, & gameable → Infrastructure is fragile and not production-ready → Cross-market correlation is completely ignored And VCs are still writing checks. What exactly are they funding?

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They are many things to solve in prediction market right now > on-chain credit layer solution > Resolution oracle > infra > privacy > cross-market correlation yea agree , we have many problems in prediction market

You've been rejected by 10 investors. Here's what to do next. No bullshit. Keep your chin up. You're probably starting to think every investor is a clueless prick and the game is rigged. Maybe so.....but the negative mindset helps no one, especially you. Take a breath and reset your head before you go back to your deck and strategy. 10 nos is not a final verdict. If anything, it is data that you can use to your benefit. The hard truth is that something in your story or your numbers are not landing. Remove the ego and take a step back. I've personally been rejected by 50 LP's and 30 VC's when I was a founder.....I blamed them all......I only achieved results when I took ownership over every single aspect of the fundraising process. Figure out which "no" you got.....it's generally 1 of 3.... –not you (team) –not this (idea) –not now (timing) Three different problems, three different fixes. Get comfortable with asking for feedback if you have had the opportunity to pitch via call or face to face.......if you don't get feedback after a meeting, the VC or Investor is a dick.....you didn't want them anyway.....trust me. Still firing decks into cold inboxes? A warm intro beats the best cold deck. I don't necessarily agree with the "only warm intros work" mindset, but given the high volume of cold decks Investors receive....the unavoidable fact is that you have to make yourself stand out.....is it always fair.....No, but do what you have to do to stand out. When I raise capital....I do the following... List 20 "dream" investors. Find who knows them (their own portfolio founders = gold) Don't beg for an intro. Ask a portfolio founder for advice first. Let it come natural. A founder they backed vouching for you is everything. Then fix the leak before you raise again. Don't burn 20 warm intros with the same pitch that got you the 10 nos. That's lighting your network on fire. You worked too hard, up till this point, to fuck it up and revert back to your previous strategy. Get one more proof point. Come back as a different conversation, not the same one. Never go bitter. The ones who make it get told no, shrug, adjust, come back stronger. Resilience is a muscle.....Train it. Finally....Your worth has got fuck all to do with Investor opinions. Godspeed.

Some of my perspective on where the @ethereumfndn is going. First of all, this is only my own view. The board is not just me, and I have no extra special powers on the board that the other board members do not. @aerugoettinea is the one executing much of this transition. My input has been largely on technical questions. The board is in the process of expanding, and my own power within the org will continue to decrease, which is honestly what I want. The 2025 era brought many important improvements to EF and its ability to execute. Many issues were resolved, and EF continues to benefit from its improved efficiency and greater focus on concrete goals to this day. And so with those problems resolved, early this year, the largest remaining hole that I perceived was something different nagging at me: I would regularly spot people saying things like "vitalik says these beautiful things about ethereum needing to be decentralized, and have privacy, and be a sanctuary technology, but why do the EF's actions not reflect that?" Now, you may have been hearing something different. You may not have been sensing a feeling of crisis at all, and maybe were hearing people saying that finally we were taking execution and BD seriously and the main task for us is to keep going that way and be even better and faster. Then probably there is genuine difference between you and me, in what kinds of criticism I take most seriously, and what kinds of critics through their criticism are most able to make me feel pain. As an analogy, let's briefly switch over to a different domain. One belief you can have about Google is that it is a success story, and has brought a lot of good to humanity in organizing the world's information. Another belief you can have about Google is that they had a beautiful idealistic beginning, but at some point the corruption of mainstream corporate attitudes seeped in, and they slowly bit by bit completely abandoned the "don't be evil" slogan. My belief on Google specifically is probably somewhere between the two. BUT, if you had taken me back in time to ~2008, and offered me a button to press to make Google one or two standard deviations more "dogmatic", eg. give Richard Stallman permanent veto power over some key policies, I would immediately press it. Why? Because a choice for one company is not a choice for the world, or even one country. Google existed and exists in the context of a technology industry generally drifting away from early idealistic don't-be-evil roots and toward greed for financial gain, totalizing visions of accelerated superintelligence, infiltration by sociopaths, and craven capitulation to (or worse, active participation in) government pressure for ideological control, surveillance and war. And so *one company* doing something different, positioning itself to be what George Bernard Shaw calls the Unreasonable Man, resisting the trend of the times, would have been better for freedom, balance of power and stability of society as a whole, than *all* large companies bending to dominant trends. This is a part of my version of pluralism. This line of thinking is not just mine, but I also is not too far off from what Aya and others had in mind with the Mandate. Now how does this all get to the role of the EF? EF is not a "center of Ethereum", rather EF is "one node, with a defined purpose, alongside other nodes". We've always said that the EF should be the latter, but many in the Ethereum ecosystem (and even within the EF) wanted us to be the former. Now, we are taking action to ensure that we will be the latter. This is particularly important because EF is a limited organization, with limited resources and limited organizational capacity. The EF has only ~0.16% of all ETH (less than many other individual ETH holders), whereas among other blockchains it's common for "the central foundation" to have 10-50%. Fiscally, the EF was originally designed to fulfill a limited work scope defined in the token sale docs and other pre-launch materials (building the chain software; getting through Frontier, Homestead, Metropolis, Serenity), which was fully completed in 2022; it was not designed to be an eternal steward. And so today, the EF is choosing to use its remaining resources to pursue longevity over breadth (yes, this means we sell less ETH). The EF focuses *specifically* on those activities critical to the success of ethereum as a censorship/capture-resistant, open, private and secure system, that would not happen otherwise. This means making hard choices, and in some cases even activities that we highly approve of and people that we highly respect becoming outside of the EF. People of great technical talent, public respect and even alignment with the mission and CROPS being outside of the EF is in fact necessary if we want important tasks to be able to attract outside capital. This also means the EF taking opinionated stands culturally. This is all intended in cooperation with all other parts of ethereum. We recognize that many other parts of the ethereum world highly respect CROPS and related values. But highly respecting is not the same as choosing to specialize and totally dedicate to a domain (Compare in a different domain: I think reducing animal cruelty is important, and I like vegan food, but am not full unconditional vegan myself) EF is still in a transition period, and we expect its new long-term form to stabilize over the next few months. What are the guiding principles of this new form? Again, I am only one person, but I can give my answer from a technical perspective (there are also critical non-technical aspects). At the core, *Ethereum must be impressive*. We are living in an age of highly intelligent AI and all kinds of other technological acceleration. "Status quo EVM, with a hard fork or two a year to optimize for short-term needs of users" is not interesting. To some, "impressive" means: 250ms latency and 1M TPS. I think Ethereum trying to go that route is a mistake. Being as fast and as scalable as possible, and only a small epsilon more decentralized than the others, is a route to mediocrity, and if we try it we will lose. I think Ethereum should scale. But I think Ethereum should strive the hardest to be deeply impressive in a different dimension: the CROPS dimension. This means things like: * Provably bug-free Ethereum. This is a goal that all cybersecurity researchers would have thought is absurd and impossible, up until roughly 6 months ago. Now, it's on the cusp of being possible, thanks to AI-assisted formal verification. So we should be frontrunners in doing this. * Available chain consensus. Ethereum is, and with lean consensus will cotninue to be, the ONLY chain that has both (i) traditional-BFT style properties that it's safe under asynchrony up to a high level of fault tolerance, and (ii) the bitcoin PoW-style property that under synchrony it's safe up to 49% attackers. As far as I can tell, literally no other chain has this or is planning for it; bitcoin goes for (ii) only and most other chains go for (i) only. Some will remember I fought hard for this, Unreasonably insisting that it is not OK for ethereum to rely on social consensus and hard forks to rescue ethereum from 34% of nodes going offline. It's OK for chains like hyperledger, bnb, solana, tempo, etc. It's not OK for bitcoin or ethereum or eg. zcash. * Intermediary minimization. The fact that smart contract wallets, protocols like railgun, etc have to send transactions through intermediaries to get included onchain is honestly embarrassing, and it's a constant point of fragility. Hence the work on FOCIL and EIP-8141 (and 7701 and years of work before) to make transaction sending intermediary-minimized with public mempool and strong inclusion properties, in a truly general-purpose way, that covers not just eg. secp256r1, but also privacy protocols and much more. Kohaku is pushing intermediary minimization at the user layer, pulling Ethereum away from the dystopian status quo world where our wallets don't even verify the chain, send our private data out to a dozen third-party servers, and toward a brighter CROPS future. Some of these goals are Unreasonable - maybe Ethereum would be "fine" getting only 50% of the way - what if we depend on intermediaries, but make it easy to switch? But going 50% of the way would not make Ethereum Deeply Impressive in the CROPS way. So we push for 100%. Fortunately all these goals are compatible with high TPS, this is a major focus of research (esp. on scaling the state). Well-designed L2s can also help, especially L2s optimized for specific applications (eg. high-volume trading, privacy...). These goals are even compatible with significantly lower slot times, thanks to Raul's work on erasure-coded P2P, and many other optimizations. The most high-value "product" of the ethereum blockchain, financially speaking, is ETH the asset. Ethereum secures $250 billion of ETH. The types of properties of Ethereum that I mentioned above are very good for ETH the asset. Nearly 90% of my net worth is in ETH, and most of the remainder is ~$40m of onchain fiat of which every dollar has already been allocated for some open-source biotech or software or hardware initiative. That said, there are aspects of supporting ETH the asset - *necessary* aspects even - that are outside the scope of the EF. This is where we need other heroes (some of whom hold more ETH than the EF does) to step in and help. EF has been recently thinking more about how it will relate to other such organizations, and give them needed initial support. EF will be a smaller ship than in previous years, a more opinionated one - in some cases more opinionated in ways that might be difficult to comprehend - but a longer-lasting one, and one suited to making sure that ethereum brings something meaningful to the world. We are grateful to all those inside and outside the EF who are helping to make this happen.