GC @category_xyz | Monad builder | Ex-@aptoslabs / @Meta | tweets/likes ≠ legal advice/endorsements

Joined June 2009
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Misconceptions about Perps set straight by the Commissioner👇
There have been misconceptions circulating around perpetual futures contracts. I want to correct the record on these important matters related to the perpetual contract structure and the @CFTC’s recent approvals of these contracts. 🧵👇
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In sports, the referees never lose. There’s a lesson in there.
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This likely applies to the Legal space as well. Frontier models > specialized models
Medicine discovers the bitter lesson: frontier LLMs (here GPT 5.2, Opus 4.6, Gemini 3.1) outperform specialized "clinical AI" (e.g. OpenEvidence) in a blind test. Even funnier that hospital IT are more likely to approve the *specialized* versions despite them being worse.
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Data > headlines Optimism > pessimism
People ask me how I stay so optimistic. The honest answer: I read the data, not the headlines.
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Well deserved recognition for @monad in @FortuneMagazine's list of crypto innovators.
Meet the Fortune Crypto Innovators, the 30 companies and projects that are pushing the digital assets ecosystem forward. Companies include: ➡️ @Kalshi ➡️ @cryptocom ➡️ @dbsbank ➡️ @nubank ➡️ @Polymarket ...and many more! 🔗 See the full list here: bit.ly/4vEHj74
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Giga 🧠s @category_xyz keep 🚢
Monad v0.14.5 has been released by @category_xyz for mainnet This release makes perf improvements to `eth_sendRawTransactionSync`, and `eth_getBlock*`, & other node internals It also continues the staged rollout of infra for Deterministic Raptorcast Category keeps shipping!
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Confidence > Ego
Many people are doing.
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Most still see AI blending into the old economy. @sama slips in the truth in his essay. The economy is reorganizing around AI capabilities. That's the real phase shift.
Here is our current plan for OpenAI: openai.com/index/built-to-be…
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I think this is one of the most underappreciated implications of AI for startups. @naval recently said on his podcast that he no longer uses lawyers for basic legal tasks. I have a feeling a lot of founders are starting to do the same. The routine legal work that used to get done by junior lawyers or paralegals can now be done much faster with AI. That doesn’t make lawyers less important. If anything, it makes good judgment, practical advice and the ability to navigate uncertainty even more valuable.
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Wall Street price targets = the oldest rule in finance. Incentives > fundamentals.
JP MORGAN HAS RAISED IT’S TESLA PRICE TRAGET TO $475 FROM $145 THIS IS AFTER THE BANK WAS CHOSEN BY ELON MUSK TO BE PART OF THE SPACX AND EARN 100’S OF MILLIONS IN FEES I HOPE PEOPLE CAN SEE THRU THIS BS $TSLA
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Nothing more "concerning" than a product people actually want to use 24/7.
Terry Duffy, the CEO of CME, said he is “very concerned” about the rise of so-called perpetual futures, an increasingly popular kind of financial contract that recently won key US regulatory approval bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Peter Nadimi retweeted
Welp, that happened faster than I predicted. Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history. radar.cloudflare.com/traffic…
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Drop and give me longevity.
Men, take a break from whatever you're doing and see how many pushups you can do. How many did you do? It's a predictor of your heart disease risk. . 20 reps is linked to a 75% lower risk . less than 10, you gotta get off dat ass Data from 10 yr study of 1,104 men aged 21 to 66. Pushups outperformed submaximal VO2max at predicting events, likely because pushups capture muscular strength and power on top of fitness, two of the strongest protective biomarkers known. Limitations: the cohort was middle-aged male firefighters, so do not extend to women, older adults, or sedentary populations. The under 10 group was also older, heavier, and smoked more, so some signal is residual confounding by overall metabolic health.
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Follow the signal, cut out the noise. Another trading app migrates to @monad. No better place to build the future of capital markets.
HelloTrade is moving to @monad. We remain focused on our mission to make global capital markets more accessible to everyone around the world. We’re excited to build alongside the Monad team, who share our vision of bringing this future to life at global scale. Stay tuned for further updates as we continue progressing through Alpha testing.
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Best blockchain research team in the game and it ain’t even close.
We are thrilled to learn that 6 of 34 total accepted papers at this year’s Science of Blockchain Conference (SBC) were co-authored by Category Labs researchers, including some of our interns from last summer. See 🧵👇 for details on the individual submissions and stay tuned for the presentations at the conference at Stanford July 27 - 29.
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Reading this while traveling internationally hits hard. @bryan_johnson is not wrong about your body and mind taking a toll. There may be some things in life worth taking such a hit. The perspective gained from traveling outside of your home country is not replicable and is a medium to so many long term benefits that the short term impediments are easily outweighed.
Replying to @bryan_johnson
Modern life has tricked us into thinking travel is good. It's kind of barbaric for the body. Last time I went to Asia we measured my biomarkers. The data was bad… 9 days for blood glucose stability 9 days to re-entrain my circadian rhythm 18 days for sleep architecture recovery The research: people who travel constantly for work (3 wks a month) have measurably more anxiety, depression, and drinking problems than people who don’t repeated jet lag is linked to memory-region shrinkage in flight crews your immune system takes a hit. Dry cabin air dries out mucous membranes that block infection which can leave you more exposed to getting sick This is intuitive because the body runs on a clock. Biological processes kicked off by another, with sleep sun running the show. Cabin altitude is ~7,000 ft. Hypoxia alone disrupts cortisol and suppresses nocturnal melatonin for hours after you land. Cabin humidity drops as low as 5% (drier than the Sahara). If you’re budgeting your international trips: I’d suggest no more than once every 3 months. Evidence shows you need ~1 day per time zone to re-entrain, and east is worse than west. Once Kate gets back she’s starting the female protocol. This also means she can’t travel internationally for at least a few months while we collect baseline measurement. The body understands time zone changes as trauma. I hope that this is my last international trip for a very long time.
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Peter Nadimi retweeted
Replying to @romlib_
Crypto is a legit and indeed inevitable technology. Usually such things are net positive.
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The NFT Renaissance will be one to remember. Not there yet but it will come. No better place than @monad
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BRING BACK NFTS
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.@lufthansa is like the German Spirit Airlines
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Damn. Need Complex Kitchens in every city to do these cleanings.
.@sneakkyklean pulled up to the Complex office and gave our sneakers a spring cleaning 🧽
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