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Anti-CV: I once spent 20 minutes looking for my glasses while wearing them. I have a notebook called "important" that contains a grocery list, three business ideas, a sketch of a chair, and almost nothing important. I've restarted books halfway through because I forgot I was already reading them. My career is basically a trail of abandoned rabbit holes, unfinished curiosities, and a few accidents that somehow worked out. The strange part is that none of those things would survive a LinkedIn edit, even though they're probably more responsible for where I am than anything that would. Maybe that's why @RallyOnChain resonates with me. Most systems reward polished profiles. This one is built around what you actually create. Now I'm curious: what's the one thing on your Anti-CV that explains you better than your real CV ever could?

Everyone is obsessed with AI models. Almost nobody is paying attention to what happens when those models start making decisions and taking actions on their own. The biggest AI disruption may not come from chatbots at all, it may come from autonomous agents replacing tasks people still assume require humans.

One of our best private dinners yet! Merging tech, and TradFi. 📍NYC VIP Soiree Ritz Carlton. Kelsey Brungo @ NVIDIA @annamolo @ Amazon Matt Meade @ JP Morgan Karlo Anton @ Anthropic @cryptog8rl @ Citi Axel Svensson @ Palantir Sanjana Jain @ Stripe Alex Ivsky @ Barclays Adam Fern @ Robinhood @willhamilogden @ Grayscale John Orozco @ Checkout(.)com John Long @ Eleven Labs Grace zhuang @ Brex @Jameson0x8 @ WisdomTree Karan Karia Director of bd @ Paxos @amylquan Founder @ Borderless Tom Fraser @ Cantor Fitzgerald Ezra Cohen @ Checkout @rssh23 @ Cooley @notjk @ DCG @the_futt @ Deel @Chloeeewrx @ Fenbushi capital @0xtangelo @ Finality Capital @0xBludex @ KPMG Rrydhima @ Moody's Corporation Quincy Olatunde @ NBCUniversal @NavXHQ @ NXUM Group @CryptoJeter @ S&P Jake Tomm @ S&P @gooddegen VP @ SVB @Davidtollemache @ Techdollar @kendicross @ Wire Network @Hui_Huangg @ YZi Labs (prev Binance Labs) @linfluence @ reforge @dollardrifter @ stable @stablecoin_p @ stablewatch/Osero

I'm leaning towards France, but this is the kind of match where Senegal could make all predictions difficult. On paper, France is the safer bet, but the World Cup is never a place where things go exactly as planned. Like that crazy scenario where Cabo Verde held Spain to a draw.

Looking for someone who can setup a 24/7 live stream. Think bloomberg meets TBPN. Is for a new media account we are starting. DMS OPEN.

You don’t stop building. Why should we? Last week, an invite-only soirée. The week prior, an exclusive, private dinner. And this week? We're getting the whole community involved. The love continues for Cali 🤙🏄‍♂️ June 17. Assets & Access at Bar Darling SF. @Google @AMD @Macquarie @animocabrands @galaxyhq And the Bay Area's top founders, investors, and operators. If you’re in San Francisco, pull up.

Maybe a hot take: Control the media. Control the public. Republican billionaires are outsmarting Dems on media acquisition. Rupert Murdoch just acquired Roku (100M households) already owns Fox, WSJ, NY Post etc. Ellison and co own CNN, CBS, TikTok US. Elon owns X. Bezos owns WaPo. Collectively, right-leaning influence now owns 75% of media distribution. Don’t hate the player. Hate the game.

There's a rather interesting perspective on the asset tokenization market that I think many people are missing. Much of the attention right now is focused on market size. How many billions of dollars worth of stablecoins? How many billions of dollars worth of RWAs? How many institutions are experimenting with blockchain? But for banks, the more important question is: "Which system will they build on?" That's a decision being made right now by major financial institutions globally. JPMorgan Kinexys has processed over $1.5 trillion on its blockchain infrastructure. DTCC is pushing ahead with tokenizing U.S. Treasury bonds. The NYSE, BNY, and Citi are building infrastructure for tokenized securities. Meanwhile, Ethereum is currently the payment gateway for the majority of tokenized assets in the U.S. This shows that the financial industry has moved beyond the testing phase. The focus now is no longer on "whether or not to tokenize," but rather "which system will become the standard for operating it." Financial history shows that infrastructure decisions often take a long time to materialize. SWIFT didn't become a global standard simply because the technology was better. It became the standard because more and more banks connected to the same network. Visa developed in a similar way. When the network is large enough, joining becomes more logical than building a new network. Settlement networks have a very different characteristic compared to typical applications. Each new organization not only brings more transaction volume, but also opens up new connections for the entire network. 10 organizations create 45 payment corridors. 100 organizations create nearly 5,000 corridors. That's why the gap between the leader and the rest doesn't usually narrow over time, but tends to widen. However, to become the underlying infrastructure for regulated organizations, scalability alone is not enough. Banks cannot operate on a system that exposes transaction data, positions, or counterparty information. Privacy is not an add-on feature; it's a condition for participation. This is why I believe @zksync is in a noteworthy position at this stage. Instead of viewing privacy as an additional layer on top, ZKsync's architecture is designed to address this issue at its core, while incorporating organizational control, transaction finality based on validity proofs, and interoperability between networks. More importantly, this is no longer just a story on paper. Deployments like Deutsche Bank DAMA 2.0 via Memento, ADI Chain involving First Abu Dhabi Bank, Central Bank of the UAE, BlackRock, Mastercard, and Franklin Templeton, or Cari Network with a group of US banks holding over $600 billion in deposits, show the race is underway at the level of physical infrastructure. I think 2026 may be remembered as the year when financial institutions begin locking in the architectural choices that will shape the next decade. And in such shifts, the biggest advantage often doesn't come from who speaks louder. It comes from who gets chosen to build first.

This week has been a clear reminder that the market doesn't always move according to short-term fundamentals. A company might maintain the same outlook, but cash flow, sentiment, and macroeconomic events can cause the price to move in a completely different direction. That's also why I always try to differentiate between what's happening with the price and what's happening with the story behind it.