⚠️ If you don‘t align your assets with your values, you will end up aligning your values with your assets. Choose wisely.

🏆 The DFC Pitch Competition in Berlin is a wrap! Congratulations to our winners: 🥇 @Saffron 🥈 @dopamynAI 🥉 @ReineiraOS 10 startups pitched in front of our VC jury, founders, investors, and ecosystem leaders. Thank you to all who joined us in Berlin. Special thanks to @Arbitrum, our partners, and prize sponsors: @EuEthInstitute @SecurityOak @ChainstackHQ @Cointelegraph @KernaStudio @InteropVC @blockwall_vc @greenfield_cap

The Earn feature my crypto app needs:

What most people don’t get about Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar net worth: A trillion-dollar net worth does not mean someone has a trillion dollars in cash. In @elonmusk's case, it means he owns large stakes in companies that were once worth $0 and are now worth trillions. You could theoretically live under a bridge while your shares go up by $1 trillion. Net worth is mostly ownership, not consumption. The reason great entrepreneurs become wealthy is that capital allocation matters. The better resources are allocated, the more value society gets from the same limited resources. So what is the real concern with wealth? Not ownership. Consumption. A yacht is consumption. A 50-room mansion is consumption. A collection of supercars is consumption. Owning productive companies is different. Those companies build factories, rockets, cars, software, and infrastructure that create value for millions of people. Maybe we focus too much on net worth and not enough on value creation relative to consumption. The real question isn’t: “How rich is this person?” It’s: “Did they create more value than they consumed?” That’s the metric that actually matters.

Inexperienced founders hate inconvenient truths. Experienced founders seek them out.

This is too good.

We’ve assembled a strong jury and some great opportunities for founders at @BerBlockWeek! If you’re a serious builder, I’d love to see your application.

Only in Berlin. luma.com/a-swers-guide-to-zc…

Would love to see @EnsoBuild quote from multiple geo locations, as latency is location-dependent and network latency directly impacts quote accuracy. Comparing results from different regions would provide a more accurate picture of real-world performance. shield.enso.build/dashboard

Great tournament by the Swiss hockey team 🇨🇭 So close once again. Let’s win the World Cup instead 🏆⚽️

There are two types of people using AI: Those who use AI to do less. Those who use AI to achieve more.

Stablecoins pay 4% interest. Banks pay 0.4% interest. Mind the gap.

When banks are fighting the CLARITY Act this hard, it tells you how important it is. x.com/i/status/2060433884915…

Thinks that make me happy these days:

Honest question: how good was Sam Altman, really? If your biggest contribution was inheriting elite talent, then watching them leave to build competitors, while one former “employee” builds a more valuable company despite your massive head start… what was the actual value creation?

Anyone who tells you this is the worst bear market in crypto is new here. Fundamentals are stronger than ever. Real builders, real money, real activity. What's dead is the market for speculative tokens with rigged tokenomics. It always dies in bear markets. Good riddance if it's dead for good.

How I'm spending my Friday nights at 37.