🟡 GM - It's YZi Talent Monday. Open roles this week: @BitwayOfficial → Quantitative Researcher @perena → Perennials Growth Lead, Solana Protocol Engineer, Marketing Lead, Legal & Regulatory Counsel Join the teams helping capital move, compound, and coordinate more intelligently. Explore more openings at

As software gets easier to build, the bottleneck moves downstream: trust, liquidity, and distribution. For fintech and stablecoin startups, the harder questions are: > How do you earn trust? > Where does liquidity come from? > Who already has the users you need? > Which market can you become indispensable in first? A strong early wedge often comes from concentrated distribution. From @AlexLWitt at our @EASYResidency workshop.

For DeFi builders, payments are the entry point to a much larger financial system: Payments → user growth → network effects → capital retention → liquidity → financing. As the system evolves, so does the source of power: first distribution, then liquidity, and ultimately capital allocation. The winners will be those with an edge difficult to commoditize - whether in regulation, distribution, risk management, user quality, institutional access, or product design. Insights from @Stanford Professor @ruizhejia at the @EASYResidency workshop.

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Stablecoins are moving beyond cross-border payments into domestic settlement. As banks and local-currency issuers enter, the edge will increasingly lie in distribution: regulatory access, payment integrations, liquidity, and customer reach. Read @odagius's piece in @Forbes ↓

At their best, prediction markets are economic systems for producing, rewarding, and aggregating information. Just as crypto exchanges evolved through multiple generations, prediction markets will go through their own regime shifts. Over the next five years, the winners will return to the fundamentals: better incentives, better information, and better decisions. Insights from @Stanford Professor @RuizheJia at the @EASYResidency workshop.