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Corey 🌐 retweeted
como quitar la depresion en un video de 1 minuto:
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Corey 🌐 retweeted
I stole this idea and now use it with every single employee.
It’s the best illustration I’ve seen of teaching someone to be high agency.
It says there are 5 levels of work:
Level 1: “There is a problem.”
Level 2: “There is a problem, and I’ve found some causes.”
Level 3: “Here’s the problem, here are some possible causes, and here are some possible solutions.”
Level 4: “Here’s the problem, here’s what I think caused it, here are some possible solutions, and here’s the one I think we should pick.”
Level 5: “I identified a problem, figured out what caused it, researched how to fix it, and I fixed it. Just wanted to keep you in the loop.”
Using this framework, here’s what I say to every new employee…
You will live at Level 4 from Day 1 and as we build trust you will rise to Level 5.
Being high agency doesn’t just mean tackling problems in this way. It means your entire way of working should be oriented to being a Level 4+ employee.
Plz feel free to steal it as well.
And ty @stephsmithio for the framework!
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Tokenisation unlocks the long tail of financial assets, here's how:
Before the internet, commerce needed physical proximity. You needed enough local demand to justify stocking a product in a shop. Most niche products couldn't clear that bar.
eBay changed that by aggregating demand globally. Today it has 2.5 billion live listings. Products so specific that no shop would ever stock them can now find buyers because the demand pool is the whole internet.
Reddit did the same for communities. There are 138,000 active subreddits. Special interest groups so niche that no local club could sustain them, thriving because you only need 200 people across 40 odd countries.
Both proved the same thing: the long tail is enormous, but only accessible when you aggregate demand globally.
Now look at finance.
The entire global financial system has roughly 7 million tradeable instruments. 350x fewer than eBay has listings.
The reason is that creating a market requires concentrated liquidity. If you can't fill an order book the asset doesn't get listed.
Crypto removes that constraint. Tokenisation drops the cost of creating an instrument to near zero and defi provides global, permissionless distribution and liquidity aggregation.
This will enable things like: derivatives hyper-local prediction markets, revenue shares in small businesses, lending against things that have never been borrowable.
And those examples are just the obvious stuff. The most interesting instruments probably haven't been imagined yet.
This is especially true when you add in ai agents - the long tail has a way of surprising you.
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we've integrated a lot of chains but @Aptos is different -
been working closely with the Aptos team and what convinced us wasn't a roadmap or a deck - it's the fact that they're already doing what everyone else theorizes.
Aptos is already embedded with biggest banks, TradFi, and institutions. when you look at the team behind aptos, you'll understand why institutions trust them, and why they're the ones building the infrastructure that moves real capital on-chain.
this kind of alignment doesn't come around often.
@useTria isn't just a card app for crypto people. we're building the place where users from anywhere or any device - trade the fastest perps at midnight, earn yield on their idle assets, and tap their card for chipotle next morning - same account, self-custodial, unmatched perps, your money.
to make that and more work at the scale we're going after, you need partners with institutional reach, global distribution, and the conviction to go all in.
crypto doesn't go from $3T to $30T without ecosystems like Aptos pulling TradFi on-chain. and it doesn't get there without products like Tria making it feel like a normal neo-finance product.
we're not talking about what's coming. we're shipping it. you'll see it very soon.
new product. new markets. millions in rewards. and a trading UX that'll ruin every other platform for you. that's all i'll say for now.
🚨 HUGE: The fastest-growing neobank in crypto chooses Aptos.
@useTria, with 500K+ users across 150+ countries, just went live on the Global Trading Engine.
Corey 🌐 retweeted
Aptos is the only chain that can 10x their gas fees and still be cheaper Solana, Sui, MegaETH, and Monad
Corey 🌐 retweeted
If I look at the last 15 years of knowing people in startups, and then seeing who became successful and who didn't, I'm starting to see some general patterns
The people I know who became successful (and very rich) regularly asked for help and feedback, and then applied that feedback very quickly (think minutes) and shipped fast while maintaining their own vision
The people who didn't become successful are the ones who worked on stuff for months/years without asking for help or feedback, or when they did took weeks/months to apply it
So I think the feedback -> implement loop and speed of it is possibly very important
Corey 🌐 retweeted
Global credit markets hold $300 trillion in debt but are still running on infrastructure built decades ago.
@pactfinance is rebuilding structured credit from the ground up, fully onchain.
Traditional structured credit depends on layers of intermediaries, each adding fees and friction. Upfront diligence alone is expensive. Covenant enforcement happens quarterly. Borrowing base shortfalls can go weeks undetected.
Most onchain credit platforms function as refinancing layers rather than native lending systems. They tokenize existing offchain loans, but the underlying origination, servicing, and enforcement remain dependent on traditional intermediaries.
PACT Protocol rebuilds the system from first principles bringing all components fully onchain. Rather than using blockchain as a passive record keeping layer, it embeds compute, data, and execution directly into the credit lifecycle.
Loans originate directly as NFTs onchain with embedded repayment schedules, covenant logic, and payment routing.
Each loan NFT carries a unique identifier (similar to a CUSIP), borrower data, collateral details, and performance metrics.
The NFT is the loan itself. PACT calls this "farm to table RWAs": assets native to blockchain infrastructure.
This eliminates the reconciliation gap that plagues tokenized credit. When a borrower pays, the entire system updates in real time, adjusting principal balance, payment history, waterfall distributions, and facility metrics automatically.
Double pledging becomes impossible since a loan NFT can only have one owner. Covenant checks execute on every draw request. Violations are caught immediately.
The composability unlocks the full structured credit stack. Loan NFTs aggregate into loan books, which get pledged as collateral to facilities. Borrowing base logic and concentration limits are all enforced through code.
And to date, PACT has been able to scale quickly. The project has originated over $1.9B in loans across more than 900k borrowers.
Corey 🌐 retweeted
It’s been >15 years since the launch of Bitcoin, and the market is more focused than ever on real products solving real problems for real people. Real-world adoption has early signs of success and will grow exponentially in the coming years.
In the past years since Aptos mainnet launch in 2022, we’ve built best-in-class infrastructure - the most scalable, fastest, and cost-effective blockchain ever created. We created products like Aptos Keyless to enable smooth Internet adoption and Geomi to accelerate builders. We made powerful strategic partnerships with builders to drive scale and adoption.
During these same years, we also rushed and messed up the airdrop. We focused on the wrong metrics, like TVL. Alongside many incredibly valuable strategic partnerships, we also made some bad business arrangements that didn’t deliver value to the ecosystem we were expecting. We have learned much from these mistakes, made significant leadership changes and have done a lot of clean up this year. Difficult, out of the spotlight hard work, but necessary. These necessary changes laid the groundwork and strengthened our ability to execute much more in the future.
My passion has always been the mission: unlocking financial freedom and financial equality. Historically, we’ve been conditioned to think of global equality in terms of the legal system and human rights. It’s not enough. Perhaps, the 1776 Declaration of Independence says it best that we are all “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” True global equality requires inclusive access to the world’s financial systems, from capital markets and money movement to wealth-management tools and stable stores of value. More powerful financial tools for everyone.
It can be odd to think of fair and equitable global trading as a societal accomplishment, but the opportunities are not equal today. IPOs and private funding have limited access. Many other investment strategies have limited access, especially globally. A global trading engine can be built on a highly-customized and decentralized technology stack. It can be accessible to all with all the rules and operations codified. It can offer fair features not found in any centralized market today - such as protection against front-running, sandwich attacks, and hidden costs. Trading tools like delta-neutral strategies can be available for anyone to deploy and understand. No more hidden agendas and a level playing field. Ultimately, everyone having the same access to financial markets, global currencies, investment opportunities, and more is going to change this world for the better. We’ll look back at this time as the path to how we unlocked financial freedom.
Our thesis-driven bets toward our mission are as follows:
* Equitable and advanced global markets: Decibel, incubated by Aptos Labs, is the first fully decentralized exchange that will match the Binance/Coinbase speed and ease of use. At the same time, Decibel is innovating with new trading primitives, user protections, assets, and markets. With a successful Testnet underway, Decibel is accelerating toward a Q1 Mainnet and will iterate on the product quickly.
* Next-gen cloud, data & AI: Shelby is the first hot decentralized storage protocol. It solves the data lifecycle challenge (i.e., hot, warm, cold) for AI use cases, creator use cases, and enterprise cloud infrastructure. Not only cheaper due to reduced egress fees when compared to traditional cloud infra, Shelby is cloud failure resistant, programmable, yet with full creator control.
* Aptos Internet expansion with Namespaces: Namespaces offers turnkey, tailor-made blockchain infrastructure built on Aptos’ proven tech stack for any bring any enterprise or institution to bring its users into crypto and expand the Aptos ecosystem, similar to the way the Internet was built. The new Archon architecture fully enables fast and reliable connectivity for namespaces internally and across them.
While it is still early for these products and protocols, the response from investors, partners, and the community has been strong and validating. Building the product vision, not just a tech narrative, is what sets Aptos apart. Our strategy is to deliver utility that drives organic revenue in every product and sustains the mission. This is a significant change to the previous years in how we have operated and we’ve been realigning and rebuilding for nearly a year now. The Aptos Foundation is working with us on how to best allocate resources to support these changes.
The market continues to evolve rapidly and APT isn’t reflecting the fundamentals, ecosystem growth or progress in the mission. I continue to hold every token that was granted to me as a co-founder because I believe it's the right thing to do to serve this mission. Not many founders can say that more than 3 years post token launch. Mission not yet accomplished. And while we’ve done a lot of learning from and cleaning up past mistakes, we will look at every option to ensure our mission will be sustainable and successful.
Looking back, we’ve learned from our mistakes, rebuilt, aligned, and are now executing on thesis-driven bets toward the mission. Our world-class team has never been as focused and effective as it is today. The world needs financial freedom and equality more than ever, especially in a world where AI is creating more information asymmetry and inequality. Let’s level the playing field for the future generations of humanity.
Too many teams rush a TGE without asking the only question that matters: why does this token need to exist?
If you're building on @Aptos and planning a token launch, this thread🧵 is for you.
I’ve seen multiple TGEs across the ecosystem, which taught us a few lessons. Here are some things to consider when evaluating whether or when to launch a token.
Corey 🌐 retweeted
If you are pinging someone who’s busier than you, you should have a single well-thought-out specific ask. Only ask for something you truly cannot do on your own, and where you have done everything you possibly can by yourself.
For example, if you’re asking someone to send an email on your behalf, you should have a draft message ready. If you’re asking them to sign something, you should prepare a docusign beforehand with the signature blocks indicated. Or if you’re asking for an appointment, you should do it at their convenience.
Asking for time is like asking for capital, so be efficient with your asks.