Last week, I got a first look at the new DeCard Visa at the media roundtable with @DCS_DeCard and @Visa - one card, top-ups in fiat, USDT, or USDC.
Game-changing stuff. cards.dcscc.com/decard
Appreciate the invite, @Roy0x1 & @emerge_grp.
Blockchain’s real value isn’t speculation.
It’s building trust where institutions fail.
Honored to join the @ChainforGood as an Advisor - backing projects using Web3 for impact, not hype.
Building in this space? DM me.
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• @AdamFlinter, Founder and CEO of GroVe
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In 2020, Sadyr Zhaparov was locked in a prison cell.
Today, he’s President of Kyrgyzstan—and just signed an MoU with CZ to build a national crypto ecosystem.
This isn’t a comeback.
It’s a political speedrun meets Web3 power play.
Why did Zhaparov capture CZ's attention?
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Sadyr Zhaparov is not your average Web3 ally.
He’s not tweeting memes.
He’s not hosting panels.
He’s playing for nation-state stakes.
And now he’s placing a long-term bet on blockchain.
The question is—will he follow through?
That’s how a former prisoner became one of the most unexpected power players in crypto.
In 2025, leadership isn’t inherited.
It’s seized
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In 2020, Sadyr Zhaparov was locked in a prison cell.
Today, he’s President of Kyrgyzstan—and just signed an MoU with CZ to build a national crypto ecosystem.
This isn’t a comeback.
It’s a political speedrun meets Web3 power play.
Why did Zhaparov capture CZ's attention?
🧵
That’s how David Sacks became the most powerful man in crypto.
In 2025, legitimacy isn’t granted.
It’s coordinated.
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Most people know Sir Martin Sorrell built the world’s largest marketing empire.
But fewer understand how he did it—and why he’s still reshaping the ad industry decades later.
Here’s the playbook behind WPP, S4 Capital, and the mind that built them:
10/ Sir Martin Sorrell changed the shape of the global ad industry.
Not by being louder—but by being earlier, faster, and more structurally precise.
He didn’t just build a marketing empire—he engineered one.
11/ I’m building a series on iconic founders who’ve shaped their industries through strategy, structure, and long-term vision.
These are stories for builders—founders like you and me—looking for signal in a noisy world.
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Most people know Sir Martin Sorrell built the world’s largest marketing empire.
But fewer understand how he did it—and why he’s still reshaping the ad industry decades later.
Here’s the playbook behind WPP, S4 Capital, and the mind that built them:
🚨 Bybit just delivered a masterclass in crisis communications after experiencing the largest hack in crypto history. The situation is still live, but they’ve already succeeded in calming markets.
It’s a teachable moment for the rest of us. Here’s what they did right—and why it
DeepSeek just proved the 'worthless' GPT wrapper startups are actually the ones with real moats.
A week ago, nothing was more LOW status than being a 'GPT wrapper' startup.
But I think we're learning that's DEAD wrong. Turns out they were just early to the only game that matters
While DeepSeek, Meta, Anthropic and Microsoft battle over benchmark scores, these 'wrapper' companies have been quietly building the only moat that matters: interface loyalty.
Because of how big owning the LLM is for national defense and the economy, the next breakthrough model is always 2 weeks away. DeepSeek launches today, someone else drops a better one tomorrow.
But getting millions of people to make your product part of their daily workflow - that's the real barrier to entry. ChatGPT didn't win because it had the best model. It won because it was dead simple to use. And I think it has staying power because of that.
This is why all those AI startups we dismissed are actually positioned to win. They're not competing on model performance - they're competing on being the default way humans interact with AI.
Frontier models are becoming commodities. User habits aren't. While everyone obsesses over the next architecture breakthrough, the real game is being played in the interface layer. The moat isn't in the model - it's in being the tool people reach for without thinking.
Technology advantage is temporary. Interface lock-in is forever.
Keep shipping those wrappers, my friends.
The bold first draft of the AI agent economy, @virtuals_io, is groundbreaking, but flawed.
Scams, complexity, and misaligned incentives hold it back.
The opportunity? Fix these gaps and build the next generation.
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The AI agent economy is here, and @virtuals_io is a bold first step. But scams, complexity, and silos hold it back.
I analyzed 12,000+ support messages to uncover the gaps: trust, usability, and better incentives.
For builders, these flaws are opportunities.
Read more: read.felixsim.com/p/the-gaps-in-…
Naval Ravikant once said: Meditate 60 minutes for 60 days.
So I did.
But after 60 days, I was still struggling and falling asleep.
Just when I was about to give up... Things got CRAZY.
Here's the story of my Out-of-Body Experiences (and how you can do it too):
The best software doesn’t invent needs—it meets them.
From 240,000+ messages on @pumpdotfun and @GraFunLabs: users want solutions.
Track tokens. Fix transactions. Simplify wallets.
The answers are in their frustrations. Listen. Build. Repeat.
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