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I’ll tell you why Solana Agent Kit by @sendaifun is growing like fire –– the unique flywheel –– and what’s next 🧵 1/ Think of Solana Agent Kit (SAK) as the base layer for any agents looking to deploy on Solana and perform Solana actions –– and completely Open-Source.

Typical 2-sided Marketplace:
— Solana Protocols & AI Integrations [Publishers]
— Agentic Apps built using SAK [Consumers]

Don’t Buy, Earn Your First Crypto.

Here's the only no bs guide you'll need to start earning in crypto — starting with the first $1k, $10k, $100k, and beyond 🧵 1/ Why even work in crypto?

Apart from high pay (e.g. fresher developers get $100k-$200k/year), crypto offers:

–– Inherently Remote and 24/7
–– Portfolio > Pedigree [Proof of work matters]
–– Free range [work for 3-4 projects at a time]

Stripe acquired Bridge for $1.1 billion.

I'll explain why, for a company, you probably never heard of 🧵 1/ Firstly, Stripe is going BIG on stablecoins:

–– Stripe co-founder demo'd stablecoins acceptance on @solana using @phantom, earlier this year.
–– have launched both crypto payout/payins i.e any US merchants can accept stablecoins like USDC and settle in USD

Ethereum VCs have EBOLA.

[Ethereum Bags Over Logic Affliction]

I'll explain how this highly contagious disease started and how you can vaccinate against it.

Mega Thread 🧵 1/ Two weeks ago at @_choppingblock, @hosseeb, and @tomhschmidt from @dragonfly_xyz made a bunch of arguments in an Ethereum v. Solana segment.

Roughly Solana has;
→ Incomplete VC ecosystem
→ Less volume of capital than Ethereum
→ Memecoin chain
→ Starting on Ethereum is like 'starting up' in the US and much more EV+

VCs hate memecoins but I will explain why there’s no difference between memecoins and governance tokens.

Governance tokens are just memecoins dressed in a suit. Mega thread 🧵 1/ [Chapter 1]: Governance Tokens are Memecoins w/ extra steps.

All governance tokens are essentially memecoins, valued by the memetic provenance of the protocol. Why?
- No revenue sharing (due to security laws)
- Governance tokens don't work well in a community-oriented decision-making framework.

RWAs are hot on the EVM planet & touted as the next big theme in DeFi.💫

However, the RWA narrative is often overlooked in the Solana community.

So, I wrote an exhaustive article (18 min read) to dive deeper into the Solana RWA space and what’s ahead.

An overview 🧵+ essay👇 1/ Simply put, Real Word World Assets (RWA) bring any off-chain financial assets on-chain.

These assets can be anything from Real Estate to Credit, T-bills, Green Bonds, and even commodities like Whisky!

Tokenized Securities [On-chain T-bills/ETFs] are going strong with over $220 Million Market Cap - almost all in the last 4-5 months!🔥

What's going on in the space - why it's booming, how it works, and what's ahead? 🧵⇩ What are Tokenized Securities?

Think of them as USDC but for publicly traded instruments or 'Real World Assets' like T-Bills, ETFs, or Stocks instead of US Dollars as the underlying asset.

On-chain 'representation' and 'ownership' of Off-chain securities!

Open Financial Technologies raises $50 Million at a $1 Billion Valuation, and becomes the 100th Unicorn of India🦄🇮🇳

What’s Open? A Billion-dollar Neobank, you’ve probably never heard of!🤔

Let’s decode👇 Open is an SME-focussed Neobank. Wait, do Small Businesses even need a Neobank?

Yes! A huge number of small businesses struggle to maintain multiple bank accounts, manage their daily spending, pay salaries, and so on. The banking experience is even worse for 60 Mn+ SMEs!

CredAvenue becomes the fastest FinTech startup in India to join the Unicorn club in just 18 months🤯🦄

What’s CredAvenue, a billion-dollar Indian startup, probably you’ve never heard of!🤔

Let’s understand👇

An explainer Thread🧵🍿 Founded in 2020 by @gaurav_irma, CredAvenue basically runs a “marketplace for enterprise loans”. For instance, Any time a company needs a loan they can go on to CredAvenue and find a willing lender.

It is a one-stop platform for all borrowing needs of enterprises and NBFCs.

Zeta (@zetasuite) becomes the latest unicorn at a valuation of $1.45 billion, after a $250 Mn raise from Softbank vision fund II.

Simply put, it's a B2B startup, providing banking technology & enabling Embedded Banking.

But, what makes it valued so much?

An explainer thread🧵 1/n

Founded in 2015 by Bhavin Turakhia (@bhavintu) who has previously founded and exited multiple billion-dollar startups like Directi, Flock, Media:net, and a few more, along with Ramki Gaddipati (@gramki), who is a BITS Pilani grad & worked with Morgan Stanley and Directi.