Better believe it.

it's not lack of compute that's the issze. it's that in Europe, it's unthinkable to pay a guy in his mid 20s $600k salary and give him resources and freedom to train models without having oversight by a committee of gerontocratic professorswho don't keep up with the research

My name is Christina. After 10 years in crypto, I still believe. This is why. It was around 2013 when I got pulled into imagining a new economic model. Central banks and monetary policy had failed us. The financial crisis had pulled economics out of the specialist drawer it used to sit in, and the assumptions that came apart in 2008 stayed apart for a generation who were now wondering what else was possible. Studying business had given me dissatisfying answers. Studying philosophy had given me an instinct for better questions. Now I was asking them. Bitcoin started as a passing mention, but within a few years it was most of what I wanted to think about. Crypto was the best playing field I had ever found for the things I cared about: how societies get governed, how organisations really make decisions, what economics does when you speed-run things in months instead of decades. But the road was hard. What came next was not the straight line of progress. Through painful corrections and black swans I watched my industry cycle through manias and crashes, through long stretches where the loudest version of crypto was a casino engineered to make people feel clever while it relieved them of their money. Through collapses and calamities something endured: the provocation underneath. That there was a new finance threatening to emerge that looked different. At first crypto seemed to just survive each wave like a disruptive cockroach, but slowly something substantial has begun to change. It is proof that the original vision of crypto has started to arrive: now the counterparties are stablecoin issuers and the institutions that spent a decade dismissing all of it. The tone has turned serious because the stakes are finally global, and the question I walked in with is getting answered at a scale it never had when it was just a toy. Crypto has product market fit. It has a place in world finance. And if crypto keeps succeeding, it keeps multiplying. New chains arrive whenever someone needs something the existing ones cannot give, more scale, more speed, a different security model, and each answer becomes its own island. A pile of islands is not an ecosystem, and that gap is the opportunity for us. @squidrouter is the unglamorous, necessary version of the thing I had been chasing since I was nineteen: the theoretical question of how value ought to move between people and systems, turned into the operational one that is now the whole job, which is to move it, across all of it, for whoever shows up. I believe crypto is going everywhere and you need something to hold the pieces together, which is most of why I am here. The job’s not done.

Who needs a CRM now that everyone in the company can have the interface they need

And the cash is going to support innovation and development. No.

Bermuda is setting a standard for governments’ use of AI for handling citizen data with @near_ai. When a public servant submits their personal data to AI, even the infrastructure provider shouldn't be able to see it. AI systems that handle sensitive information should support confidentiality by design.

Its worse when an techdude looks at law

Two weeks ago we wrapped up the latest R[3]sidency cohort with Demo Day in London. 16 weeks in the making. 8 teams. One final stage. @autodotfun_ @kash_bot @polldotfun @robinmarketsxyz @rosetta_hl @unifiedmargin @betterasaweb @lexifinadotcom Thank you to our partners @base @coinbase @animocabrands @foundersfactory What a day. Here's the recap 🎥👇

We’re still early

Idea: An anonymous “vote to end meeting” button on Teams where if 50% of people press it, the meeting ends immediately.

Niklas never embraced mediocrity atomico.com/insights/atomico…

Consultants are back👇

I’ve never left this flight thinking ‘wow, that was brief’

CCD and Verify & Access are now live in the Bitcoin.com Wallet App on iOS and Android. Verified Humans. Verified Agents. One Protocol. Learn more 👇 concordium.com/article/the-i… @Concordium

Go Geoff !!! Skype co-founder's project B aims to break NBA's US monopoly chosun.com/english/national-…

Here’s a free version I vibed : Seed-to-qr.lovable.app Works best on $BTC

And … the French state vehicle register just got hacked. So even more very personal data in public domain. I’m so happy for the GDPR click box.

holy fuck, a hair dryer at a Paris airport broke Polymarket weather markets & made someone $34,000 richer - polymarket was settling Paris temperature bets on a single Météo France sensor sitting near the Charles de Gaulle runway perimeter - basically unguarded - the guy bought the long-shot outcome (like "22°C" when everyone expected 18°C) for pennies, since nobody thought it'd hit - then he walked up to the probe and briefly heated the air around it with a portable heat source, spiking the reading just long enough to register as the daily max - temperature snapped back to normal in minutes, the market resolved in his favor, and he cashed out - twice, on April 6 and April 15, before Météo France caught on and filed charges hyperstitions.

Revolut has integrated Belgium's itsme digital ID app into its onboarding process for Belgian customers. New users in Belgium can now select itsme during sign-up. This automatically pulls verified personal data (name, address, ID details, etc.) securely from itsme. No manual data entry and document uploads are required, making the process faster and smoother. Manual process still exists, but it's positioned as the preferred/quickest method. itsme is widely used in Belgium, with over 80% of adults using it. It handles millions of secure actions daily, and it's backed by major Belgian banks, telcos, and the government. It's the country's official digital identity solution, compliant with high European security standards like eIDAS.

Sequoia's thesis that the next $1T company will sell work, not software, is the most important reframe in AI right now. The argument: if you sell a copilot, you're competing with every new model release. But if you sell the outcome — books closed, contracts reviewed, claims handled — every AI improvement makes your margins better, not your product obsolete. The key insight most people miss: for every $1 spent on software, ~$6 is spent on services. The entire SaaS playbook was about capturing the software dollar. The AI playbook is about capturing the services dollar — at software margins. Not "AI for accountants." The AI accounting firm. Not "AI for lawyers." The AI law firm. The companies that figure this out won't look like SaaS companies. They'll look like services firms rebuilt on software infrastructure. That's a fundamentally different company to build, fund, and scale. And most founders are still building copilots.

Sad news from Nurburgring. Juha Miettinen has died following a multi-car crash in the ADAC 24h Nurburgring Qualifiers. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.