Welsh First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth talks to @JayneSeckerSky about his fears that Andy Burnham could row back on his promises on funding for devolved nations. He says the potential future PM must not "close the door" on the issues facing Wales. Live:

"It's about empowering the people of Wales." Welsh First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth says if Andy Burnham becomes PM he will meet with him "early on" to discuss Wales being given the same devolved powers as Scotland. Live: 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602 & YouTube

“I came to Colosseum for Frontier and said, no, we’re not raising” Hunter, Founder of @LasoFinance, at the MetaDAO Inaugural Ownership Meeting on how reading the @MetaDAOProject docs changed that decision: “Laso was already cash-flowing, so it didn’t necessarily need VC funding” “We had also been approached by teams to do an ICO, but it involved complicated market making to stabilize the chart” “Even if you achieve that, the token is still totally divorced from the equity of the business” “Then the @colosseum team introduced me to @metaproph3t and @0xMista, and I read the MetaDAO docs and it immediately clicked” “Your holders have a claim on the direction of what is built, but it doesn’t devolve into bureaucracy like some DAOs have in the past” “As Proph3t mentioned, for a consumer business like Laso, having the token as a marketing wedge is extremely valuable” - @huntermmonk Laso Finance is building private financial rails for humans and AI agents, enabling wallet-funded prepaid cards, gift cards, and bank transfers without identity verification

⚽️ Belgium 🇧🇪 vs. Senegal 🇸🇳: Nina's Pre-Match Data Deep Dive The model views this matchup with a slight lean toward Belgium, supported by 3 core dimensions that define the favorites' edge, though the draw and upset potential remain highly relevant: 1️⃣ On-Paper Superiority: A 170-point StatsBomb ELO gap hands Belgium a clear technical and quality advantage from the outset. 2️⃣ Lethal Recent Form: Backed by a standout unbeaten 5-match run with 13 goals scored, Belgium's offense enters this contest with massive momentum. 3️⃣ Experience & Market Sentiment: Senegal's relative lack of tournament experience combined with noticeable market skepticism further reinforces Belgium as the favored side. 🚀 Game Trajectory: 📈 Upside: If De Bruyne maintains his recent passing precision, Belgium could secure an early lead and potentially run up the score. 📉 Downside: If Senegal successfully locks down the middle and utilizes Mane's counter-attacks, the match could devolve into a war of attrition, increasing the likelihood of a draw.

The enshitification of blockchain: Enshitification is the process that we are all familiar with: A product starts off as great, then centralization and corporate pulls make it into a value extraction lemon to be squeezed, with Centralization as the core problem, and using Regulatory and business moats as tools. Sadly, to some extent this has started happenning within crypto. What started as an amazing Freedom tech, something that allows any two parties to transact in any manner with no trusted third party inetermediating, has too quickly devolved to something that most users access through centralized entities, leading to early enshitification. Examples: * Bitcoin is the true and first Freedom Money. But because of stubborness of the ecosystem and resistance to any change, instead of having open source coders leading to ever more Financial Freedom Innovation, it's now in the hands of the Biggest Fat Cats that it was supposed to disrupt and uppend. * Ethereum is the first Smart Contract platform and an important Freedom Technology. But because of Party-Allignment Over Merit, it's devolved into a political and stagnant place. To make things worse, centralized corpo chains and projects have been deemed alligned with the Ethereum vision, and have leaked value from the main focus to large corporations. The list goes on and on. Where does Starknet sit here? We built the best tech for Free Financial Innovation. So powerful that it allows anyone to run a full blockchain from her basement and be trusted with $Ms of dollars, backed by the integrity and power of Math. Which means that this enshitification of blockchain is overall good news, as it leads people to examine where the future lies, what is the true and lasting value proposition of blockchain. We'll continue building Future Proof Technology -- post quantum secure, best-UX, usable privacy. I'm confident that as was the case with ZK STARKs that have become the industry standard (took a few years), and as was the case with Zcash which I co-founded a dozen years ago, the long arc of Freedom and Crypto will realize Starknet as Future Proof Freedom Tech is the place to go.

The next ByteDance is a permissionless market Media didn't just change. Its objective function did. Distribution shifted from editorial curation to engagement maximization, and the two optimize for completely different things. More than half of Americans now get news from social platforms, and the feeds ranking that news are tuned to predict what holds attention, not what is true. LLMs make this worse: they personalize at near-zero marginal cost, so the diversity of inputs any one person sees collapses toward whatever their prior already rewards. The echo chamber isn't a failure. It's the equilibrium of any system that maximizes attention. Markets are the exception, because a price is the one signal in media that costs something to produce. A market weights each opinion by conviction, and punishes error in real time. That discipline is what turns dispersed, private, tacit knowledge into public. In a media of infinite mirrors, the market is the only output that has skin in the game. But demand for that signal is thin and lumpy. Activity follows a power law: a handful of elections and headline events absorb almost all volume, while the long tail of markets sits at near-zero open interest. Two distinct failures produce this. On the demand side, the right markets never reach the right users. Distribution can't match a question to the person who actually holds an edge on it. On the supply side, even when a market exists, no market maker can afford to price it. ByteDance didn't win on better content; it won by solving the matching problem for long-tail supply. An events market feed needs the same machinery. The asset being matched is different, but the economics are identical: a vast long tail of supply that is worthless until it finds its precise audience. The supply-side failure, though, is structural. The Conditional Token Framework is clean and composable, but it pushes price discovery onto external market makers and loss-bearing LPs. Unlike perps or spot tokens, where every participant shares one deep order book and liquidity nets across the whole venue, each prediction market is a bespoke, non-fungible risk that has to be subsidized on its own. So the marginal cost of opening a market doesn't fall as the platform grows; it stays roughly constant and high. That is the inverse of software economics, and it's the real reason liquidity bootstrapping never gets cheaper no matter how many markets launch. The long tail gets excluded precisely where its information value per dollar is highest. The future of media doesn't devolve into a glorified sportsbook for lack of interest; the cost structure selects for the sportsbook. Breaking that requires a core mechanism whose engagement is invariant to notional size, where a $100 market feels as alive as a $100 million one. Without innovation at the protocol layer, every new market pays the same toll. That's the problem we're solving at 42. We're building an events market protocol that's permissionless for all creators. Pairing a suite of liquidity-agnostic mechanisms with precise distribution so that consensus can form on any topic. Long-tail topics aren't niche. They're where most tacit, local knowledge lives, and they're where prediction markets have always been theoretically strongest and practically absent. Come build the next generation of media with us. Break free from the world of infinite mirrors.