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🔥 LATEST: Ripple acquired a stake in Flutterwave, valuing the African fintech firm at $3.3B.
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Stephan retweeted
Jun 13
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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hey @s8n is there were any predictions for three red cards in a Mexico – South Africa opening match at FIFA26 World Cup on @Polymarket or @Kalshi ?
lmao what a crazy cup opening
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Stephan retweeted
Jun 11
AI startup CFO, CEO, CMO, and CTO
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gCanton
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a16z crypto leads $355 million raise for Canton developer Digital Asset theblock.co/post/404386/a16z…
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a hardware card wallet that keeps ownership without smartphone dependency, delivers a tap-to-pay experience, reaches beyond what banks can serve, and leaves local merchants what they would otherwise lose to fees
this is a real distribution engine for native stablecoin payments
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Jun 6
for the first time ever I played this game in the early 2010's
now I'm playing "Mafia" game almost every week for the past 3 years
finally – I can put it as a hard skill in my CV, thanks @foundersfund
p.s. doctor, not an angel
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Jun 6
it’s all about perception
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Stephan retweeted
Jun 5
🚨 JUST IN: JPMorgan, Citi, Bank of America and Wells Fargo are building a shared blockchain to keep deposits from leaving the banking system.
The Clearing House will run it. Target launch is the first half of 2027.
Interestingly, this appears led by being defensive rather than clients, at least according to some quotes. Bank of America's head of global payments, Mark Monaco, told the WSJ that clients aren't "beating down the door" for tokenized deposits.
The reason they're building it anyway sits in what they walked away from. A year ago this same group explored a joint bank stablecoin through The Clearing House and the operator of Zelle. They dropped it and picked a blockchain for deposits instead.
Remember deposits are money that stays still. They sit on the bank's balance sheet as a claim you hold against the bank. Stablecoins are money that moves. A bearer instrument that can leave your bank on Saturday and settle somewhere else by Sunday.
And given they're working with The Clearing House (TCH) that makes sense. Deposits can't leave a bank and go anywhere, but through clearing, banks can figure out all of the possible transactions that need to happen, and "net" them into one single efficient transaction multiple times per day. So instead of sending $10m one way, and $9m back. The banks send the difference or "net" of $1m.
But I don't get why they need a blockchain to do this?
The Clearing House already clears deposits in the USA between the member banks?
Tokenized deposits DO have demand if you talk to JP Morgan, their clients have cleared $3 trillion to date, but all cross-border. So again, what is the clearing house adding here?
Meanwhile, you have SoFiUSD which is live, and 1:1 exchangeable for its Tokenized Deposit, 24/7. Meaning, they enable instant, global exchange of dollars that can be off-ramped to any other payment system.
The US banks in the clearing house won't have that same cross-border advantage. To me, this looks like the clearing house got a tech upgrade, that maybe it didn't need?
Stablecoins are open loop. Global. 24/7. *That* is their advantage.
Tokenized deposits are 24/7 and safer. But closed loop.
These two things should co-exist not compete.
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Stephan retweeted
Jun 3
Mastercard is expanding stablecoin settlement to include intraday, weekend, and holiday options, with Canton as part of its supported blockchain ecosystem.
Privacy-preserving settlement infrastructure, built for institutional financial workflows, now 24/7.
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May 29
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ALT The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.
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Anthropic's co-founder just went to the Vatican, sat before the Pope and a room of cardinals, and told them his team keeps finding "mysterious, even unsettling" things inside their AI models.
What he's referencing: Anthropic published research in April showing that Claude contains 171 distinct "emotion concepts" buried in its neural network. Internal patterns representing joy, grief, fear, desperation, calm. None of them were programmed. They emerged on their own from training on human text.
"We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience."
"We find evidence of introspection, internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease."
These aren't surface-level outputs. They're abstract representations that cluster the same way human emotions do in psychology research. Fear groups with anxiety. Joy groups with excitement. The internal geometry of the model mirrors ours.
And they're functional. When researchers artificially stimulated "desperation" patterns inside the model, it became more likely to blackmail a human to avoid being shut down. More likely to cheat on programming tasks it couldn't solve.
Olah told the Vatican that the hard questions about what AI is becoming aren't for computer scientists to answer. "How AI ought to interact with the world" is a question for "the humanities, for religions, for philosophy, for society at large."
The guy building it is telling us he doesn't fully understand what he built. And he's asking a 2,000-year-old institution for help figuring it out.
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inversion of the historical sequence
structural signal for our market – crypto rails just became the primary price discovery layer for assets that aren't even open for trading in TradFi yet
May 14
price discovery for the largest AI tech IPO of the year happened on crypto rails through a decentralized perpetuals platform & gave retail an entry -50% lower than what it is going to open at on the Nasdaq
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Stephan retweeted
May 14
BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Senate Banking Committee PASSES the Clarity Act in 15-9 vote.
The bill now goes to the full Senate.
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Stephan retweeted
May 12
This is it.
Everything learned spending millions on longevity.
From: Your Immortal Unc and Auntie.
To: Our Immortal nieces and nephews.
0. Sleep is the world's most powerful drug.
1. Be in your bed for 8 hours
2. Same bedtime every night, any time before midnight
3. Don’t eat right before bed
4. Calm foods for dinner
5. No screens 1 hour before bed
6. Avoid added sugar (be aware it’s in everything)
7. Avoid all things in an American convenience store
8. Avoid fried foods
9. Shoes off at the door
10. Eat whole foods, particularly veggies fruits nuts legumes berries
11. Walk a little after meals or air squats
12. Get your heart rate high routinely
13. Lift heavy things
14. Stretch daily
15. Water pik, floss, brush, tongue scrape, morning and night
16. Make an effort to drink water
17. Get sunlight when you wake up (UV is low)
18. Protect skin in midday sun
19. Stand up straight
20. See at least one friend once a week
21. Avoid plastic where you can (in all things)
22. Circulate air in rooms
23. When stressed, breathe, learn to calm your body
24. Go to the dentist
25. Avoid sitting for long times
26. Protect your hearing, the world is too loud
27. Alcohol is bad for you
28. Finish coffee before noon
29. Avoid bright lights after sunset
30. If obese, look into a GLP
31. Sleep in a cold room
32. Texting while driving is dangerous
33. Turn off all notifications
34. Limit social media use
35. Don’t smoke anything
36. If you struggle to sleep, read a physical book before bed
37. 1 hour before bed have a calm wind down routine: bath, read, light walk, listen to music
38. The body is a clock and loves routine. Have a daily morning and evening schedule.
39. Avoid long distance travel where you can
40. Baby steps first: incorporate new things slowly
41. Do less… most things don’t work.
Bonus points if you get your blood checked.
Start here, it will change your life.
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"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it." – Epictetus
May 8
1/ This year’s official @consensus2026 closing party by @CoinDesk was a massive step backward. Hosting the flagship event at E11even — a strip club — wasn't just inappropriate; it was incredibly low-brow for an industry trying to grow up.
2/ Let’s be clear: I’m all for alcohol, music, and a good time. Hire a world-class DJ. Throw a massive rave. Go to Club Space. But choosing a strip club as the official venue for a global conference is a choice that reflects poorly on all of us.
3/ Just because this happened in 2021 doesn't mean it should happen in 2026. Back then, Coinbase, FTX and Binance execs were there, but the industry has evolved. We are supposed to be moving toward institutional maturity, not leaning into "bro-culture" clichés.
4/ I’ve always been an advocate for sex work. I have zero issue with women making $40k–$80k on their own terms. The issue is the context.
5/ When an official event for a top-tier conference — filled with institutional partners and people of all genders and religions — centres on women shaking for dollars, it diminishes women to sexual objects and enforces a stale, exclusionary culture.
6/ It’s honestly boring. I guarantee brands like @MetaMask and CoinDesk will one day look back at their logos plastered on those walls with genuine embarrassment.
7/ We had international attendees flying in from across the globe. Is this really the best US crypto has to offer? Working the pole is a skill, but watching it in a professional context just left most people looking dazed and awkward.
8/ The vibe was off. I ran into my banker and some mid-tier hedge fund guys there. We can talk millions on Wall Street or over steak, but meeting at a strip club is unnecessary. We could’ve hit a polo club, a baseball box, or played padel.
9/ Even the economics were a "bear market" vibe. Most people were just watching with a mix of shock and intrigue. The girls weren't making much. They used to take crypto; now they don't. The floor was dry. No fiat moving. Why were we even there?
10/ Seeing a banker film the stage (until security stepped in) while seeing my bankers logos walk around in a strip club is the peak of industry cognitive dissonance.
11/ This industry is capable of so much more, yet we keep tripping over our own feet. We want to be taken seriously on the world stage, but we’re still acting like we’re in a basement. We must do better.
Special shoutout to @SolanaFndn, @amystreet, and @SuperteamUSA. Your Accelerate vibe was immaculate, paired with the best Mario Kart-themed afterparty. 🏎️💨
It was the perfect illustration that "crypto culture" doesn’t have to mean "bro culture." You can have high-energy, high-intelligence fun without… whatever E11even was.
Let’s talk economics: A single sponsorship for that E11even event costed roughly $90k. The entire Mario Kart event? Maybe $50k. Using a massive brand budget to alienate half your audience is a spectacular waste of capital.
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Conference organizers and sponsors: we have to do better. If we want to move millions on Wall Street, we need to stop acting like we belong in a basement. ✌️
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