UpBlock

Introducing Upblock, our new weekly live show on X. We go live weekly to cover frontier tech, crypto news, marketing, RWA, and DeFi. Every stream covers the week’s headlines, one topic in depth, lessons from recent campaigns, and a live Q&A. See you on the first stream soon.

Livestream: Insured L2s & Corporate Bitcoin Treasuries with @sirsamjenks and @DrVinMenon nitter.gq/i/broadcasts/2onzdMRQn…

LIVE this Wednesday: The Decision Model That Says “I Don’t Know” Sage2 from @levantolabs reads conversations live, spots when a customer accepts an offer, and triggers the quote. When it’s unsure, it hands off to a human. Christopher Kocurek (@bigironchris), CGO and co-founder of Levanto Labs, joins @sirsamjenks to explain how it works. Wednesday 11 November · 1 PM GMT+1 · live on X

LIVE tomorrow on Upblock: building a blockchain institutions will use. @DrVinMenon, CEO of @MindWaveHQ (NYSE American: APUS), joins us to talk about: ➤ Client networks in climate, sports media, and insurance ➤ MindChain, the insured EVM L2 behind @nilatoken ➤ Corporate Bitcoin treasuries ➤ The road to mainnet Tuesday 10 November · 12:00 GMT · live on X

Nvidia’s board is investigating its own CEO. $NVDA shares fell about 6% in early trading after the board opened an independent probe into Jensen Huang. The latest on it: ➤ Huang admitted to an affair with Megaspeed executive Alice Huang ➤ US intelligence reportedly suspects she spied for China ➤ Megaspeed bought $4.8B+ in Nvidia chips since 2024 The board sees no sign that secrets were compromised. Markets are watching for preferential GPU allocations.

Livestream: How business loans can earn yield? with @sirsamjenks and @SPQR74 nitter.gq/i/broadcasts/2LPXzYMyO…

Everyone now has access to good models. Businesses with an established channel to qualified users have the advantage. @shannholmberg explains why ↓

LIVE this Friday on Upblock: on-chain private credit with @credilabs CREDI funds SME loans through on-chain liquidity pools. Liquidity providers earn yield from that credit. @sirsamjenks talks with founder @SPQR74 about how CREDI works. Tune in on X at 12 PM UTC on Friday.

Canton Network Weekly Recap @temple_ny joined @The_DTCC for the launch of its Tokenization Service. @Ledger Wallet now supports Canton, so Ledger users can manage Canton assets from their own wallet. More from the ecosystem this week: ➤ @CantonStrategic plans to offer tokenized share trading under an SEC exemption ➤ @kiln_finance runs the second validator for Ledger’s Canton support. Both validators must confirm every transaction, and the keys came from an air-gapped ceremony ➤ @edeldotfinance partnered with @Anchorage for institutional custody across private markets and onchain credit ➤ @cancore_io raised $7.2M to scale its liquidity OS for tokenized finance. It has settled $86M+ across 160,000+ trades since going live in April ➤ @ibexmarket is live on mainnet. Traders can open perps without showing their size on a public order book and earn points that convert to the IBEX token ➤ @Rocky_exchange launched its trading platform, and @thehub_io went live as a SocialFi app where users earn $CC based on trading volume ➤ @Canborsa_DEX received Tokenomics Committee approval for Featured App status. The Super Validator vote comes next ➤ @HandlPay plans to release 2.0 in mid-December, with early access for selected users ➤ @ZenithFdn shared a local pilot that connects Canton assets to EVM payments and lending. The flow runs from bond purchase to borrowing, then repayment or liquidation Each week, more of Canton’s activity comes from live products: custody, trading, credit, and payments.

Upblock #3: The AI business race and Anthropic's IPO nitter.gq/i/broadcasts/1qKDzWNrQ…

LIVE This Friday on Upblock: the AI business race and Anthropic's IPO Join @TimHaldorsson, @shannholmberg, and @sirsamjenks for the week's headlines and a deep dive into who is winning the AI enterprise race and what the IPO means for the rest of the space Live on X at 11 AM GMT+1 on Friday

UpBlock #2 — Who Captures the Value? nitter.gq/i/broadcasts/1PKqrNORj…

LIVE TOMORROW: The onchain revenue saga we will cover all revenue generating apps, protocols and who captures the most value by hosts: @TimHaldorsson @Jackhaldorsson @shannholmberg @sirsamjenks

the three things every chain is fighting for right now > perps > tokenized stocks > defi perps print revenue, look at hyperliquid tokenized stocks are still a tiny fraction of the stock market, trade 24/7 & open to everyone time to accelerate ⚡️

why robinhood chain is working > around 30M active users > a trading platform already in place almost every L1 team I talk to is now pivoting to their own perps or trading venue, Somnia building a dex, Katana with katana perps without a retail app to fuel transactions, a chain is a very hard business ⚡️ with the hosts @jackhaldorsson, @shannholmberg @sirsamjenks

Livestream: The Next Chain War Is Distribution with @TimHaldorsson, @sirsamjenks, @shannholmberg, and @Jackhaldorsson nitter.gq/i/broadcasts/1pKdRDdQY…

Tomorrow on Upblock: the next chain war is distribution. Join @TimHaldorsson, @sirsamjenks, @shannholmberg, and @Jackhaldorsson live on X at 11 AM GMT+1 for the latest in crypto, a deep dive into chain distribution, plus a live Q&A. Reply with your questions, and we will answer them during the stream.

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