Before and after Starfish Huge impact on reliability and robustness on the IOTA network. Especially during high throughput, Starfish consensus delivers predictable and reliable confirmation times. Exactly what businesses need. Next up: Making it even faster (below 500ms) 🚀

"With backing from global institutions and live deployments in government systems, IOTA is positioning itself as the trust layer for global trade. Rather than promising a future use case, it is already embedding blockchain into the infrastructure of the real economy."

🎙 QTalk April Session Highlight #3# How will investors evaluate assets five years from now? Sean from @iota shares his view: Five years from now, access to assets may no longer be the main differentiator. As assets become commoditized, the question shifts from: “Is this a good asset?” to: “Is this a good agent?” Competition may move beyond asset selection. What matters next is strategy performance.

People keep confusing a bubble with “stocks go up and get overvalued”. A bubble is when when a prevailing trend and a prevailing misconception about that trend interact reflexively, each reinforcing the other until the gap between perception and reality becomes unsustainable. A bubble is not when everyone realizes that right now every iota of AI demand eventually, at some point upstream, must move through memory OEMs. Nor is it when estimates continue rising because things are better than expected. And it’s not just when stocks trade expensive to historical valuations. The reason behind the moves in the AI infrastructure layer so far have been simply that we don’t have enough. They’ve been driven by the fundamental reality more than the perception of the future. It’s why the bulk of the most bullish parts of this cycle have been lumpy and centered around earnings season when companies uniformly come out and confirm there’s still not enough. In the bubble, the reality is driven by the market - not the other way around. Everyone keeps saying “people are gonna freak out if it’s not a bubble!”. I think that’s silly, we have a transformative new technology that needs crazy capital to fuel it coming to fruition, that has and always will result in a bubble as long as we have financial markets. But if you want to call the top in a bubble, you need a much stronger view on what the misconception is and what negative catalyst forces broad perception to align with realizing it than you do on valuation.