Today was an eventful day in crypto. It was fun to be on @BloombergTV to talk about crypto regulation and enforcement. Interview starts at 15:18. bloomberg.com/news/videos/20…

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Reg crypto it is.

No one can tell you what to do with your BTC.

JUST IN - EU President Ursula von der Leyen says that people's savings accounts are a problem and that she must put this money "to the service of European companies" says her plan to "securitize them" and "supervise them" They're coming for your savings, Europe.

If you're unsure whether talking to the government has an actual impact on policy/regulation, I am here to tell you it does. Here's an analysis of citations in the SEC's new Reg Crypto, which it released yesterday.

My first call with @mickymalka was the day after SVB collapsed. It was a very busy Saturday for him, but I remember how excited Micky was to talk about bitcoin that day. The @RibbitCapital team is truly world class. Fortunate to have their support @AlpenLabs from early days.

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Built a full chat-to-trade interface for Perpl with Claude in a day Everyone should get to building, the tech is incredible

Today is the second anniversary of Celestia's mainnet. Two years' worth of iterations, learnings, ups and downs, and thousands upon thousands of Git commits. When you're building something new, you can get some things right, but you also get a lot wrong. We certainly did. I've been working on Celestia for 6 years, and have been in crypto for 15 years. I've seen the industry evolve and mature over time, from the early cypherpunk days in 2010, to the ICO craze in 2017 where everyone believed that Web3 will entirely replace Web2 and we're going to put everything on chain, to today: a more matured perspective on where blockchains actually have product-market fit. Similarly, Celestia also launched with a "build whatever" mindset, trying to be something to everyone, without a clear focus on what kind of chains people were actually going to build on Celestia's high throughput. We burned many cycles going down unproductive rabbit holes. But taking this approach led us somewhere more powerful than we could've planned: we found a hot spot of product activity. Over the past year, numerous high-performance onchain trading products have begun choosing Celestia. Why? Today, Celestia is the *only* way to ship the lowest latency onchain trading venues by any metric. You get: • 2ms latency with rollup frameworks like Sovereign SDK, • 6 second finality on Celestia (100x faster than other rollup base layers), and • ~200k TPS worth of bandwidth. Celestia is the only product that offers this combination, with projects like Bullet, Hibachi, VEX, RISE, Ethereal, and XO Market already pioneering this frontier with Celestia underneath. And while building around the needs of these projects... we now have a short-cut for doubling down in this direction :) More soon.

💥🔫 Glock: A new standard for verification on Bitcoin Alpen Labs’ focus has rapidly evolved to a new frontier over the last few months. We'll soon unveil Glock, short for garbled lock, a primitive that takes the safety of Bitcoin-based systems to new heights.

Let's assume the Genius Act becomes the law (passes the House). Banks that have federal charters will have a roaring first start, and will issue stablecoins on private networks. Bank customers will enjoy cheaper, faster transactions (sometimes without knowing that they are using stables). Would this help Web3?

As part of the Proof of Pitch prize package at Proof of Talk 2025, we’re excited to announce exclusive mentorship support from Joon Kim (@itsjoonkim) and JK Advisory. Joon is the Founder & CEO of JK Advisory, a Swiss-based firm providing legal and business consulting to early-stage companies in emerging tech. Before founding JK Advisory, he was Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at Goldman Sachs. He's also an adjunct Professor at Cornell University, teaching blockchain and artificial intelligence laws. With a strong “insider” mindset and deep experience across Web3, fintech, and startup ecosystems, Joon has advised some of the space’s most ambitious builders. Now, he’s bringing that expertise to the next generation of founders. Startups selected through the Proof of Pitch competition will receive tailored mentorship from Joon and JK Advisory, helping them navigate legal strategy, business development, and go-to-market with clarity and confidence. The results of Proof of Pitch will be announced soon. Secure your spot at Proof of Talk 2025: proofoftalk.io/tickets

Did altcoin skip leg days?

I remember teaching a class on what a real-world usage of blockchain could look like, and pointed to @blackbird as the example. It is exciting (and not surprising) to see that they are now building on @celestia!

Excited to announce our $9.25M funding round led by @dragonflyvc, @ErgoniaTrading, and other leading investors. Perpl is handcrafted with knowledge from decades of market-making expertise and advanced EVM engineering.

When Google says it plans on using zkps, are they using blockchain or just zkps within a centralized system? If latter, not very bullish on zk crypto

Decisions on the latest batch of RFRVs have been delivered by the @bgtfdn on behalf of the Guardians. New reward vaults across DeFi, Bitcoin, stables, and consumer applications have been approved, expanding PoL utility across the Berachain ecosystem. This batch includes new vaults built in preparation for the upcoming Boyco unlock, giving depositors clear paths to deploy liquidity, earn rewards, and capture yield opportunities across the ecosystem. Read more: blog.berachain.com/blog/bera…

Today, there's a palpable "burnout" felt by many in Web3, with some saying the only PMF for crypto is BTC and stablecoins. They are not wrong, but I would not fade what I call the third category - financial innovation. @berachain, imo, leads this category. Its PoL, while not the most intuitive to understand, has created an ecosystem where liquidity is reinvested back into the community and the apps, almost in a game-ified way. And governance has come to serve an important pillar of this system. As a representative of @bgt_fdn - which, together with Guardians, helps steward governance for @berachain, I'm proud to support @berachain , @SmokeyTheBera, the team, and the community. While the road may be bumpy at times, projects like Berachain might be building an end game worth fighting for - the reason why we might've joined Web3 in the first place.

Berachain Governance Update: Guardians Assemble. RFRV Batch 3 is now live, incorporating recent improvements to governance guidelines. The full 5-member Governance Guardian council is announced, and will ratify reward vaults moving forward. Read the full update at blog.berachain.com/blog/bera…