In 2017, I tried to build what @WesternUnion wouldn’t: a stablecoin-based remittance protocol. I was a young investment banker in Hong Kong, watching cleaning ladies from the Philippines, Indonesia,and other APAC countries pay 10-15, sometimes 20% fees to send money home, even though the UN capped remittance fees at 3%. Western Union and others like MoneyGram ignored it. They made tens of billions off the poorest. What’s always made me angry is how multi-billion-dollar corporations built their empires on the backs of the poorest people in the world. Tens of billions in profit every year, not from luxury, not from speculation, but from remittances. From the sweat of migrant workers sending $100 home so their families can eat. I was born and raised in Africa. I’ve seen it my whole life. The global South pays the highest price so the global North can take a fee. It’s one of the most normalized injustices of our time. Long story short, I tried to build a WU killer and I failed. Too early? Wrong timing maybe, regulators in Europe (AMF, BaFin) shut us down before we could raise. But today… Western Union just announced it’s building on @solana! The world’s most powerful permissionless blockchain, fast, cheap, and decentralized, exactly what I dreamed of eight years ago. Funny how the disruptors became the disrupted. Feels like a full circle moment. The mission didn’t die, it just found a better chain. Only Possible On Solana 💜 Bonus: Here’s a relic from 2017, a young man who thought stablecoins could beat Western Union. Turns out, he was right. Just eight years too early.

What if an app could keep evolving beyond its original maker, shaped by the people who use it? 👇

Somewhere out there is an app millions of people will depend on. Someone submits an idea at midnight. By morning, the people who use the app have moved it to the top. The AI announces what it will build and why. It shows everyone what it saw and opens a review window. If the build survives review, it ships. Its founder will be long gone. Not tragically, but gloriously. They built something that stopped needing them.

The future is not everyone building their own app, and it is not SaaS disappearing overnight. It is software becoming cheaper to create…while trust, maintenance, and incentives become the real bottlenecks. ◎△ is building for this reality. Open Apps are AI-operated services with transparent rules and stakeholder rewards designed around affordability, quality, openness, and participation.

new badge, who this?! this is @openappsxyz [◎_o] where apps outlive their makers i’ll be running marketing + growth here for the foreseeable future, and i’m hyped! while we slowly roll out the full vision, please follow along on 𝕏 and sign up for email updates via openapps.xyz. you can learn more about the tech behind what we’re building here: @bounded_sh [ software should answer to its users ]

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ok I need PRICE TO GO UP. I cant take this anymore. every day I am checking price and its dipping. every day, check price, bad price. I cant take this anymore, I have over invested, by a lot. it is what it is. but I need price to GO UP ALREADY. can devs DO SOMETHING

do i start a @solana culture podcast? a few people have pinged me about this... ◎◎◎

I think @YouKnowEno cracked 𝕏.

How it feels remembering I have work on Monday knowing damn well i should’ve been a trainer.

Zero words in the whole video. Said everything anyway 🤝

Tweeting in a foreign language? @YouKnowEno Je ne sais pas… يعني ich mache das all the time, es gar nicht so schlimm. Sometimes it’s einfach, and parfois mon cerveau dit 404, ولكن alhamdullah. Pero bueno, si capisce più o meno… שלום ✌️ Ich liebe dich habeebi 🫰

this now feels kinda like my final act: i took this idea to @athcamera and asked for a banger. they delivered with minimal guidance, and i executed the distribution strategy about as perfectly as one could hope for. - 1.6M organic views - people remixing the song - trending on 𝕏 working with creators like @validotxyz and @Frame_tailor_ was one of my bright points with solflare. flowers to both of them for helping me plant my final flag with solflare before being let go.

LOLS Thank God There’s Packly ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

ok the plan > convince people to tweet more > we all bullpost solana:So11111111111111111111111111111111111111112 24/7 > tweets become catalysts ??? > profit?!

YOU CAN'T TELL ME THIS ART ISN'T 🔥🔥🔥

YOUR NEXT CHASE STARTS NOW Four incredible new adventures now available. Enjoy 😈

ICYMI: TPC is going NUCLEAR on scalpers‼️ This summer, the Pokémon Center Online will favor people who verify their identity with a government ID. This includes the 30th Celebration products everyone wants. Except it’s not exactly what you think it is ↓

Mewtwo will always be my favorite Pokémon 🫶

Napkin math: Since we launched Hourly Loot Drops, ~36,000 gems given away. = ~50 free packs in 3 days. Every hour. 24x per day. No catch, no tiers. Meanwhile some of you are reading this instead of being in the chat. Next one in 50 min. Log in > Global Chat > Add Me In > Go