This is what @jack_gk's been building toward.

Rich people don't manage their own investments, they just tell someone what they want and let them handle it. AI chat interfaces are starting to do that same job for everyone else, at a fraction of the cost.

Borrowing against a stock works the same as remortgaging a house. Take out $50,000 today, and even if that stock is worth a lot more later, you still only owe the $50,000. You keep all the upside, you just borrowed against it

Rich people don't sell their stock to raise cash. They borrow against it instead, so there's no tax and they keep their shares. Banks just won't bother doing that for someone who needs a few thousand dollars. Edel Finance is building a way for regular people to do the same thing.

"I don't need plan B. I want plan A to work." My full conversation with Andres Sol, Founder of Edel Finance - the lending market that lets you tap into your stocks without selling them. You deposit your stock. You get a credit line. You borrow. Done. The stock stays yours. So does the upside. Money is never free. But you never have to sell. 00:00 Intro 04:41 Dropping Out At 19 In Switzerland 08:10 Seven Figures In Beanbags During COVID 09:00 Discovering DeFi And Launching Stablecoins 12:38 Why Crypto Became A Casino, Not Finance 13:07 The Robinhood Moment That Sparked Edel 16:14 Building Aave For Apple Tesla And Nvidia 21:27 The Billionaires' Money Glitch For Everyone 28:30 Vaults That Can't Get Liquidated 34:35 Why AI Is Eating Your Job 39:36 Why He Doesn't Think He'll Die 43:13 Why Institutions Are Going To Canton

Jack sat down with @andres_solt, co-founder of @edeldotfinance, building crypto that actually works for people who've never touched crypto. Full podcast landing soon.

Donny Slabs on why Pokémon outlasts every other collectible: it's multi-generational. He sees it at every show, dads walking round with their kid's binder, sharing something they collected as kids themselves. Nobody's doing that with stocks.

PSA grades trading cards, and also runs its own marketplace to buy them, which is where Donny Slabs loses trust. A partner sets a price for a top-grade card, so every seller who pops that grade gets offered the same number, labelled a "PSA partner offer." The company grading the card is also profiting from it.

MSRP is $164.99, and you're like, wow, this is incredible," is how Donny Slabs remembers pre-ordering six boxes of Surging Sparks at $100 each. By the time they shipped, MSRP wasn't a real number anymore. It still isn't.

You don't need to know the career. You just need to know what fulfils you, then reverse engineer that

Jonah's building a pipeline for students in Vietnam: learn it, prove it, get hired. Academic credentials go onto a digital passport through Luvia, then straight into a job board with real local recruiters.

Jonah's first line of code wasn't for a job, it was for his StarCraft clan. Around ten years old, he volunteered to build their site on GeoCities, just because they needed somewhere to post news. That itch never really left, and years later it's what took him to a coding bootcamp in New York.

Jonah from Open Campus was never the best engineer in the room. What he could do was talk to the engineers in their own language, then translate that back for everyone else in the room who wasn't an engineer. That turned out to be the rarer skill.

"There was just one moment where I woke up and realised that wasn't what I wanted anymore" says Jonah Lau from Open Campus, who spent years training to become a lawyer like every uncle before him

The trailer for my conversation with Jonah Lau from Open Campus at Animoca Brands. Education is broken. He took a 90% pay cut to go fix it.

Listing on a major exchange now runs to several million in fees and liquidity. Thousands of tokens, a handful of exchanges, and most projects simply cannot pay it. Alex on who's really holding the gate.

In TradFi a market maker legally cannot touch a token before it lists. That's manipulation. In crypto it's filed under R&D, and Alex reckons it's the difference between a launch that holds and one that doesn't.

The way OSF thinks about growth, brand, and community is completely non-standard. And that’s exactly why he’s succeeded in places where some of the biggest brands in the world like Nike, Adidas, Gucci simply haven’t.

One of the most INSANE stories shared on my pod: OSF gets drunk. Spends 40K on monkey jpegs. Passes out… Wakes up — they were the RIGHT monkey jpegs 😭 40K → 150 Bored Apes → $60M+ at ATH 💀 I genuinely cannot believe this story. What's your luckiest crypto trade? Reply below 👇

Most "DeFi" exchanges aren't DeFi. To get quick enough they dropped the blockchain rails, which leaves a centralised exchange with extra steps. Simon Jones is building Reya the hard way instead.

Behind the podcast at Miami Consensus. Full first day with @orangie, the 23 year old running circles round everyone in content, a detour through Kith, and an OKX night with half the timeline.