“Peter Thiel says that to be an entrepreneur you have to be contrarian—and right.”
“You have to be comfortable looking stupid for like a long time.”
“When I was calling those banks and saying: Hey we're a crypto company want to do this? They would hang up on me.”
“I'd go pitch the 30th venture investor and get a no.”
“We're willing to be misunderstood for a long time.”
“Entrenched interests will fight you.”
“Everything that's truly innovative and
breakthrough is going to upset an entrenched incumbent, eventually intersect with the government, and just
piss off some segment of the population who are like “How dare you question the status quo?”
— @brian_armstrong founder of Coinbase.
It's Algorand's 7th birthday today.
Seven years of reliability, technical excellence, and real-world utility.
We were ready in 2019, and we're just as ready in 2026.
Here's to the next seven.
🏅 Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Swift Hackathon, @chainlinklabs and @DeutscheBank!
Chainlink secured the Business Challenge title with a solution that combines its automated compliance standard with the trusted verifiable Legal Entity Identifier (vLEI) framework to enhance regulatory compliance.
Deutsche Bank took the Technical Challenge with a digital-to-fiat bridge using ISO 20022 to enable interoperable CBDC and digital currency transfers across jurisdictions.
Congratulations also to the runners up, @CreditAgricole in the Business Challenge, and Currency Network Ltd in the Technical Challenge.
We’d also like to give an honourable mention to @BancoGuayaquil and @exactpro for their creative approaches and strong execution.
Read more about this year’s winning solutions: swift.com/news-events/ne…#swiftatsibos#sibos#blockchain#iso20022#digitalcurrencies
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If you're a founder reading this and you're still believing in your vision, still building, still pitching despite endless rejections:
Just know that the people who actually matter in this industry see you.
And we'll remember who showed up when nobody else did.
If you want to be an innovator, you have to be comfortable looking stupid for a long time.
You’re going to piss some people off and you’re going to get a lot of nos. That’s the only way to start having valuable breakthroughs.
Tokenization changes everything.
Oil. Gold. Silver. Stocks. Bonds. ETFs.
The most important assets are coming onchain, making access global by default.
Our long-term vision for SMEs is to :
1️⃣ Streamline financial data management (micro to macro)
2️⃣ Create Industry-specific capital markets to fuel growth
3️⃣ provide SME-focused financial services,
#SME#Nigeria#Fintech@mrstephendeng
@wearegst I believe a major cause of this is Financial blindness. A large number of nigerian SMEs are running on impulse, decisions are instinct driven.
I wrote a thread on this
x.com/i/status/20275…
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