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ETH smashes $4K, BTC steady, regulators turn bullish, ETFs in full swing, whales & 401(k)s eye crypto next!

Welcome to the Tso’s Tweets newsletter! Every month, I curate my best thoughts, ideas, and observations on crypto and the industry at large.

One thing that I do not do on this blog is provide investment advice. And this post is certainly not that. But here's an idea and thought exercise that relates to urban mobility. Let's assume you own a personal vehicle that is currently valued at US$30k, and that this car is what you use to go about your daily life. Now imagine that you sold this car today, harvested all of the proceeds, and invested them into the following three companies: Uber, Alphabet, and Tesla. If you did this equally, ...

GM! This week, Adrienne was doing a lil traveling so Melissa Burr @burrrrrberry joined as guest cohost on Wednesday, chatting betrfold poker and announcing the winner of the "Get Betr Together" video contest. Plus, we finished up a 4 game poker series with Aptos this week! See all the episodes right here!

Base dominates Farcaster developer mindshare, but Arbitrum is stepping up with systematic funding across DeFi, gaming, infrastructure, and developer tools. The programs target teams that can demonstrate measurable impact on network activityHow It WorksArbitrum operates two funding models. Grants provide milestone-based payments for development work. Incentive programs distribute ARB tokens to users through your application—airdrops, rewards, liquidity mining. Both serve the same goal: more bu...

This is nothing. See that? Already you probably think it’s something. It isn’t. It’s nothing.

The above charts — taken from a recent Financial Times article by John Burn-Murdoch called "The troubling decline in conscientiousness" — should be viewed as alarming. For some of our key personality traits, it is showing a decline in extroversion for all age groups, a decline in agreeableness (except for the 60+ crowd), a spike in neuroticism (again, except for the 60+ crowd), and a massive decline in conscientiousness, particularly for young people aged 16-39. Why does this matter? Well, ac...

💎 ETH Breaks $4,000 ⏹️ All Base Assets Now on Coinbase ⛓️ Ronin Becoming an L2

Over 100 million users can now trade tokens on Base via DEX using a self-custody wallet directly within the Coinbase mobile app.

Another week in the books and we're making a lot of changes to provide more information and color on the songs and artists on Coop Recs. We want to be the go-to hub for finding in-depth context on trending artists and songs and have our tokens be a true reflection of the attention and virality of these songs in the real world. So be on the lookout for more detailed info around Spotify streams, popularity scores and social links to find our artists in the places they are most prominent. If one...

How one conviction is forcing crypto to confront an uncomfortable truth about building 'unstoppable' tools

In the rainforest, a strangler fig begins its life high in the canopy, germinating not in the soil but in the crook of another tree. It sends tendrils downward, encircling the host. Over time, the fig thickens, strengthens, and slowly takes over. Eventually, the host withers, leaving a hollow column of living wood where something else once stood. Software engineers know this as the strangler fig pattern — a way to modernize legacy systems without tearing them out wholesale. You build new comp...

Highlighting Farcaster community conversations on gift economics and the structural issues involved in funding creative work sustainably.

This week was packed with insight, from the decisions behind embedded wallets, to Hyperliquid’s ascendance...

Tying the Threads of Tradition and Technology 🏵️🪢🌐

One of the first things the guys told me when I wanted to learn the handstand was: "Sara, you have to learn to fall before you learn to stand." Why?

At the risk of sounding obvious, pricing is fundamental to the functioning of markets. It determines profitability, it allocates resources, and it influences customer behavior, among other things. Take the example of electricity pricing. In Ontario, we use something called time-of-use (TOU) pricing. What that means is that electricity rates vary according to the time of the day and the time of the year. In the summer, the expensive peak usage period is the afternoon (because of air conditioni...

We're looking at melting ice in issue #257 of your weekly poetry shot

Everything happening in the ENS DAO this week — in five bullet points.

💎 Fundamental To Buy $5b in ETH ⚖️ Core Devs Agree on ePBS in Glamsterdam 📜 U.S. Allows Crypto in 401(k) Plans