"Creating" a new standard is an entirely futile endeavor Become the standard (i.e. consensus), and everything else follows

It's highly likely that institutions are looking at this data and making allocation decisions based on it. Just saying.

The best chart in crypto???

My new favorite data platform is @RWA_xyz and it's not really close 🤷‍♂️

Only one asset this week beat Tether Gold for the biggest onchain RWA transfers: A reinsurance product on Solana, $20M+ clips

The bar for early-stage enterprise sales is much higher than many founders realize. I often get cold emails from founders asking for help—advice, airline intros etc. I want to help, and I do respond to great cold emails—but I am often disappointed at how little effort has been put in. It's common that founders haven't done their homework on me or on the person/company they're asking for an intro to. No, I am not going to forward a generic email to my most important customer, which links to a demo that doesn't apply to their use case and demonstrates zero homework to understand them, their business, and how your product helps. When I pursued Virgin during YC, I'd read Richard Branson's book. I'd studied the history of Virgin Atlantic. I knew what he cared about and what mattered to the airline. I showed up with a model of the Overture airplane beautifully painted in his favorite livery I loved our airplane model so much—it was the only one we had—that I didn't gift it to him. Fortunately, I realized this was dumb, went back, found his EA, and got her to hand deliver it to him. Had I not, probably there would be no Virgin deal during batch and Boom likely would have died long ago. It's a very noisy world out there—particularly with the explosion of AI drivel—and founders need to demonstrate that they've done an exceptional amount of homework when they reach out. End of rant.

Lol also made an uber fare app using the API during a microsoft internship

The @FinancialTimes on the tokenization story

Tokenized stocks on Solana have entered the arena. All-time high transfer volumes for the asset class

The legend really got us all