Barbell strategy for killing it in an age of superhuman AI: Simultaneously get as close to AND stay as far away from AI as humanly possible. 1. Get close — play with AI models, use them to help you think, ask them to teach you about the world, get them to help you create, work with them to write code, understand what makes them tick, embed them into your everyday life, have fun. 2. Stay far away — learn to tell stories, make eye contact, build a team, lead with courage, connect far-flung ideas, build lifelong friendships, debate persuasively, think forbidden thoughts, handwrite ideas, confess your fears, fall in love. Spend less time trying to master mental transformations that are purely mechanical — building spreadsheets, analyzing trades, balancing accounts, writing code by hand, following playbooks, searching for needles in haystacks. These are the emerging no-man's land, squarely the domain of AI. Venture to the extremes. That’s where all the fun is anyway.

Solana launched @solanapayments with some of the biggest names in finance. It's live and already moving $2T quarterly stablecoin transfers. The next step is making these payment flows safe for institutions. Fairblock is coming to Solana to help protect against info leakage.

Solana launched @solanapayments with some of the biggest names in finance. It's live and already moving $2T quarterly stablecoin transfers. The next step is making these payment flows safe for institutions. Fairblock is coming to Solana to help protect against info leakage.

Introducing the Stabletrust Confidential Transfer SDK Simply add confidential transfers to an existing app or build apps for workflows (payroll, checkouts, P2P transfers, agentic payments, etc.) where amounts stay private and disclosure is supported for compliance when needed.

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone. first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay. we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly. i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures. a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers. we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward. to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow. jack

Stablecoins offer instant settlement and programmable money. But they also leak business operations onchain. Every treasury move, payroll run, or supplier payout becomes a signal competitors can track and exploit.

really impressed with what we shipped in just a few months - launched stabletrust on testnet with 6 chains including @tempo @arbitrum @ethereum @base @stable @arc - expanding to @solana @noble_xyz and more soon highlights for me: - send and receive stablecoins on public blockchains with encrypted amounts/balances - fast onboarding, one-click transfers, no extra wallets with @privy_io - wallet addresses remain transparent so composability works - additional privacy features including anonymity for KYB/KYC-scoped users

Usable Privacy: The Last 1000x Fairblock and Privy (@privy_io) are making confidential transfers actually usable: fast onboarding, one-click transfers, no extra wallets, and no steep learning curve typical of privacy products.

Usable Privacy: The Last 1000x Fairblock and Privy (@privy_io) are making confidential transfers actually usable: fast onboarding, one-click transfers, no extra wallets, and no steep learning curve typical of privacy products.

Vitalik Buterin says @ethereum has sacrificed way too many core values—like decentralization, privacy, and financial self-sovereignty—just to chase mass adoption. He stresses that this has to end now. According to Vitalik, starting in 2026, Ethereum needs to zero in on reclaiming those lost values by: - Boosting private payments. - Making it easier to run nodes. - Building truly decentralized apps that don't rely on centralized servers. - Giving users better control over their data and assets. Ethereum also needs to be tough enough to last for decades, even centuries, without depending on the dev team, while pushing decentralized stablecoins so users aren't tied to the traditional financial system.