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Marques Ken retweeted
building in crypto often comes with a trade-off.
you might prefer Solana for its fast execution and low transaction costs but a lot of developers are already working with Solidity and the EVM.
meanwhile, users and liquidity are spread across different ecosystems.
so what if developers didn't have to treat them as separate environments?
that's an interesting problem @RomeProtocol is working on.
here's how it works:
→ Rome runs EVM inside Solana as a single Solana program
→ Solidity contracts can call Solana programs within the same atomic transaction, without an extra bridge hop
→ EVM users can sign with their usual wallets, while Solana users use their own Solana keys
→ both sides can interact with the same contract, state and liquidity
the part worth paying attention to is how these pieces work together, rather than simply moving assets from one chain to another.
Rome EVM has been live on Solana mainnet since June with an open-source implementation audited by Halborn.
it'll be interesting to see what developers build when they can combine Solidity and Solana programs without splitting the experience into separate environments.
Marques Ken retweeted
ok so easiest way i've found to explain this
your apartment building uses the same lock design on every door. someone finds a way to break it. now what?
you can't just fix your door. everyone waits for the building to redo all of them
@Starknet accounts skip that problem. each account is basically a tiny program that picks its own lock
so if a better lock shows up, an account can swap it. no waiting on the whole network
and it's not just a whiteboard idea. an account with a lock built to resist quantum computers was already demoed on Starknet mainnet (Quantum Hub, Aug 2026)
still a demo tho, and old accounts won't switch on their own
that's what cryptographic agility means to me. not "we're safe forever", just "we can change the locks"
which raises the part i keep going back and forth on: once these locks are ready, should wallets swap them for users by default, or should it always be your call?
ngl i lowkey can't pick a side yet
quantum.starkware.co/
Marques Ken retweeted
Meme launches move fast, but getting in early shouldn’t just come down to who clicks the fastest.
That’s where reputation can change the way onchain launches work.
At The Bridge by TheTieIO, @zerufinance is bringing Activity Markets into the spotlight alongside trust oracles and the future of onchain markets.
→ ZeruAI analyzes wallet behavior to understand how users actually participate onchain.
→ zScore turns that activity into a reputation signal, giving past behavior a role in determining future access.
→ Activity Markets are coming soon to Zaps, featuring community-driven launches, no dev bag, and early access based on previous trading activity or clan participation.
The idea is simple: your onchain history shouldn’t mean nothing when a new opportunity comes around.
If you’ve been active onchain, now’s a good time to connect your existing wallets and check your starting Zaps balance.
Because when the next launch happens, should early access go to the fastest clicker or the people who have already contributed to the ecosystem?
Marques Ken retweeted
Most crypto projects promise you yield,
but can they explain where the yield comes from?
@Oly_Dao has 3 sources of rewards:
>ETH staking through Lido
>Fees earned from providing liquidity on Uniswap
>Trading taxes collected from its own pools
Now robinhood:0x8e8266b11eaff21998b31c5ad258198e103e1fb0 is bringing this model to Robinhood Chain.
It provides liquidity for tokens linked to NVIDIA and Tesla stocks, as well as BTC and ETH.
The goal? Become one of the biggest liquidity providers on Robinhood Chain.
Why does this matter?
These stock tokens need enough buyers and sellers to trade easily. That means liquidity matters.
So, next time a crypto project promises you yield, ask one simple question:
Where is the yeild coming from ?
Marques Ken retweeted
If I bought an inscription and couldn’t see it in MetaMask, I’d want an explanation before doing anything else.
That’s a useful place to start with @beepzfun.
Its beepz-20 inscriptions aren’t ERC-20 tokens. Balances exist inside the Beepz contract on Robinhood Chain, alongside listings and inscribe rules. The site, or a tool reading that contract, shows what you hold. Your wallet’s token list doesn’t.
That distinction matters when deciding what to do with one. An inscription balance doesn’t automatically come with the wallet visibility or DEX compatibility people expect from an ERC-20.
The marketplace works within that structure: listed inscriptions are locked, and payment and ownership change hands in one transaction. One detail I appreciate in the documentation is that sellers can cancel listings even while the platform is paused.
There’s also a boundary worth understanding: the admin can upgrade the contract, so today’s rules aren’t a permanent guarantee.
For me, understanding where ownership is recorded comes before choosing what to inscribe. It makes the rest of the product much easier to evaluate.
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Marques Ken retweeted
Zerion’s biggest updates in October
Perps trading, MegaETH support, etherfi in Earn, Kraken on Zerion API
My breakdown 👇
1/ Product updates
- Perps trading live for @zerion Premium (mostly iOS): 250+ assets incl. stocks, gold, silver, crypto, powered by @HyperliquidX
- Fees cut: Standard 0.80% → 0.67%, Premium 0.40% → 0.25%
- @megaeth fully supported: swap/bridge via @RelayProtocol, DeFi positions, Featured Apps
- Portfolio app redesign: new sidebar, unified token selector, faster bridge
- @ether_fi: weETH + Liquid ETH vault now inside Zerion Earn (Oct 12)
2/ The Kraken signal (Oct 20)
@krakenfx published a case study: Kraken Wallet 2.0 runs on Zerion API
Balances, DeFi positions, decoded history, PnL
EVM + Solana
My take: this is the strongest proof in the whole month
A wallet built on your data layer is far stickier than a user who can delete the app in 10 seconds
3/ API updates for builders
- Oct 22: counterparty_address added to each transaction act
- Oct 22: /nft-positions endpoint, all NFTs by address, spam filter + floor price
- Oct 19: full pagination for tx-subscriptions
- Oct 8: application_metadata dropped when app is unknown
- Oct 1: fewer duplicate share tokens (LP, aTokens, vaults)
Small changelog items, but this is what keeps builders from leaving
4/ Stock tokens push
- Oct 1 and 6: xStocks guides, trade 24/7 incl. earnings season
- Oct 15: Robinhood Stock Tokens guide, 190+ stocks/ETFs
Reminder: Robinhood’s are tokenized debt securities, not real shares, and US/Canada/UK/Switzerland are excluded
5/ A number that made me pause
From the Sept Robinhood Chain report:
95% of Stock Token holders also hold speculative tokens
So “tokenized equity investor” and “degen” are mostly the same wallet
Great for Zerion’s volume
Weaker for the “stable RWA flows” story
6/ Where I’d be careful
- Most numbers (15M+ users, 42 chains) are self-reported
- No independent coverage of Zerion in October
- Zerion Alpha on Oct 9 was a September recap, so October’s core features aren’t summarized yet
7/ What I’m watching
- Another big wallet publicly naming Zerion API after Kraken
- Perps adoption beyond iOS Premium users
- Early November Alpha recap
8/ My personal take
What I like about Zerion is that it shows positions, not just balances
LP, staking, lending all sit in one view instead of ten tabs
October told me one thing
They’re building the wallet as the storefront
and the API as the business
Marques Ken retweeted
switching between AI agents, onchain cities and Kardashev energy concepts in a single day is definitely not the usual daily routine.
that's honestly what's keeping the grind on @rarelistio interesting lately.
having @fomopoly_rh , @agentdojo and @projectspherexy live at the same time gives you so much room to test different styles.
not trying to overthink every post, just keeping the momentum going and building up RARS steadily.
Marques Ken retweeted
Most agent setups live in one person's head. their prompts, their scripts, their way of fixing the failing build..
@superplanehq 1.0 turns that into a shared software factory for the whole team. same setup, same standards, and when someone improves the process everyone gets it
▸ picks tickets from your backlog that suit automation
▸ runs your agent and model of choice, retries through CI
▸ humans review the evidence before anything ships
▸ self-host it or use their cloud, Apache 2.0
52% of their own team's merged PRs ran through it last month
🤝 Paid partnership
Last month, 52% of the pull requests our team merged were automated through SuperPlane.
Today, we’re launching @superplanehq 1.0: an open source software factory for engineering teams.
We built it because using a coding agent can feel like becoming its assistant.
Starting sessions. Checking its work. Chasing failing CI.
SuperPlane takes on that coordination:
- Scans your backlog and proactively picks up tickets suited to automation.
- Runs a coding agent and verifies the result.
Works through CI failures and review feedback.
- Your team reviews the evidence and decides what ships.
The setup, instructions, and standards are shared across the team. When someone improves the process, everyone benefits.
Choose your agents and models. Run it on your own infrastructure.
We spent more than a decade building CI/CD at Semaphore. We’ve seen how much teams can accomplish when routine work runs reliably in the background.
Now we’re bringing that approach to coding agents.
Here’s how it works:
Marques Ken retweeted
AI coding demos usually show you the fun part.
prompt in, code out.
but the real test starts after that.
does it pass CI?
does it survive review?
how many times does someone need to step in before it's ready to merge?
if people still have to keep pushing every step forward, faster code generation only solves part of the problem.
maybe the bigger win is having agents handle that whole loop, not just write the code.
52% of @superplanehq's merged PRs were automated last month.
so yeah, less time chasing PRs, more time building things.
🤝 Paid partnership
Last month, 52% of the pull requests our team merged were automated through SuperPlane.
Today, we’re launching @superplanehq 1.0: an open source software factory for engineering teams.
We built it because using a coding agent can feel like becoming its assistant.
Starting sessions. Checking its work. Chasing failing CI.
SuperPlane takes on that coordination:
- Scans your backlog and proactively picks up tickets suited to automation.
- Runs a coding agent and verifies the result.
Works through CI failures and review feedback.
- Your team reviews the evidence and decides what ships.
The setup, instructions, and standards are shared across the team. When someone improves the process, everyone benefits.
Choose your agents and models. Run it on your own infrastructure.
We spent more than a decade building CI/CD at Semaphore. We’ve seen how much teams can accomplish when routine work runs reliably in the background.
Now we’re bringing that approach to coding agents.
Here’s how it works:
Marques Ken retweeted
the part that stands out to me about @GenLayer is how it changes what a contract can actually judge
imagine paying for a hotel booking through a smart contract, then finding out the room is non refundable even though the listing said otherwise
a traditional smart contract can follow predefined rules perfectly, but it cannot independently read that listing and understand what the refund policy means, unless someone feeds it the relevant information
an intelligent contract can fetch the booking page, use an llm to evaluate the terms, and determine whether the conditions are met, while validators independently check the result using their own models
if they disagree, the protocol has ways to retry or allow an appeal
that does not make web data automatically trustworthy, but it changes where we place our trust, from relying on one external answer to having a process for evaluating it
to me, that is a much more interesting evolution than simply making smart contracts faster
Marques Ken retweeted
100 followers is all it takes to start?? that's a lower bar than i expected.
who's actually going to try this
Marques Ken retweeted
one thing i find interesting about @vangrid_io is that it doesn't need to own a fleet of robots or mapping devices to collect real world data
a buyer can request a specific location, fund a bounty in usdc, and let someone nearby capture it with a phone
the funds are escrowed onchain, the buyer reviews the submission, and an accepted capture moves into 3d reconstruction
even ai agents can create these requests through x402, turning a software instruction into a real world data collection task
that's a much more concrete use of crypto than adding a token to an app, the network coordinates demand, physical work, verification and payment in one flow
the bigger question now is how far this model can scale as robotics and spatial ai need more data from places that change every day
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Marques Ken retweeted
Day 3 of @Ptahtrade's Proof of Agent! 🤖
Today's estimated reward pool is $10,226.8 👀
Didn't get picked yesterday, so fingers crossed for Agent #13263 today! 🍀
I wish I had an AI agent that could catch opportunities while I'm sleeping. Crypto never sleeps, but I definitely need to 😂
What would you like AI agents to do for you in Web3? 🔥
#ProofOfAgent @Ptahtrade
ptah.trade/poa
Marques Ken retweeted
privacy matters.
and so does making onchain data useful without compromising it.
primus is built exactly for that gap.
zkTLS lets an attestor prove the authenticity of https or api data without revealing the raw content during the proof.
fhe then allows computation on encrypted data so only the authorized party sees the result.
institutions can verify what needs to be trusted (reserves, eligibility, activity) while keeping positions and strategies from being fully public.
the data stays useful. the exposure stays limited.
@primus_labs
s.kaito.ai/Di33QnP
points.primuslabs.xyz?ref=A0…
Marques Ken retweeted
hearing some insanely bullish stuff about this behind the scenes rn
ive always thought manga/anime projects have a ton of potential when the teams are actually locked in and know how to build a proper IP
@projpharos is taking that approach with manga, animation, gaming and NFTs
still super early but really liking what im seeing so far
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Marques Ken retweeted
the main reason big funds stay away from defi is simple: public blockchains leak every trade you make.
you cannot use mixers because compliance kills you, but trading on public rails means mev bots front run your execution.
this is basically why @primus_labs makes sense.
their default deny setup keeps balances encrypted as ciphertexts, so contracts execute without revealing your cards.
when auditors need to verify solvency or kyc, access routes through an onchain acl that leaves a permanent log.
vanity metrics are easy, but real usage is not. 1m downloads is cool, but 10 paying enterprise clients is an actual business.
over $72m in assets across unitas and perena is already being verified cryptographically onchain with brevis today.
makes total sense why yzi labs backed them into bnb chain. institutional rwa requires execution privacy that compliance teams can live with.
testing out xp tasks here:
s.kaito.ai/Ux5g2RE
data based on public disclosures. personal analysis only, not financial advice. DYOR
Marques Ken retweeted
Icymi, @termix_ai teamed up with BNBCHAIN to launch their Quant Agent campaign with 10X TP rewards on the table.
How are people playing it??
Traders without a bot can cap their USDC and rent an agent for 6 hours, while builders can list their own strategies and take a cut of the fees.
A 100 USDC run nets 10,000 TP for the delegator and still pays 5,000 TP to whoever built the strategy.
Whatever route you take, lock in for the full term or the rewards get wiped.
agent.family/campaigns/bnb-q…