Elon Musk built a second internet above the first one. Nobody asked him to. Thousands of satellites orbit at 550 kilometers. Moving at 25 times the speed of sound. Talking to each other through lasers in the vacuum of space. Musk: “Thousands of satellites providing low latency, high-speed internet throughout the world.” Before Starlink, satellite internet lived at 36,000 kilometers. Geostationary orbit. Signals traveling a tenth of the way to the moon before bouncing back. The lag made it barely functional. Musk dropped the altitude by 98%. One decision rewrote the physics of an entire industry. But the altitude wasn’t the real play. Musk: “There are laser links between the satellites. It forms a laser mesh. The satellites can communicate between each other and provide connectivity even if the cables are cut.” Every internet connection you’ve ever used runs through cables. Fiber optic lines buried in soil. Dragged across ocean floors. Threaded through chokepoints that every military maps before anything else. A single anchor drop can black out a country. An earthquake can sever a continent. The entire digital world hangs from threads in the mud. Musk built a network that doesn’t touch the ground. No cables. No trenches. No ocean floor. No single point of failure. A constellation of machines whispering to each other through light at the edge of the atmosphere. The men who tried before him weren’t fools. Gates backed Teledesic at the height of Microsoft’s power. Motorola built Iridium with the best engineers alive. Both paid someone else to reach orbit. Both went to zero. Musk owned the rocket. SpaceX made launch reusable. Built the satellites in-house. Flew them on its own rockets. Owned every inch of the chain from factory floor to orbit. That isn’t a cost advantage. It’s a moat no one can cross without first building a rocket company from scratch. Starlink passed 10 million subscribers as a side project. Every telecom executive on Earth watched it happen. Not one of them can explain the architecture underneath. They think he built a better satellite company. He built the only network that survives when the ground gives out. And the ground always gives out.

The market remains difficult to trade for the inexperienced. Conditions remain significantly weighted on the downside and the momentum is all there. Adapting to the side with the momentum is incredibly important but that doesn't make it a necessity to trade. For many of you sitting on the sidelines and doing other things if the biggest alpha I can bestow upon you. During any momentum shifts it takes time to appreciate and accept what is occurring. This is why in any market conditions, participants spend the first % of a newly emerging trend taking the opposite side of the market. We know that all markets have established downtrending conditions, yet the primary positions you'll see posted on your feed will be those people attempting to get long. Without experience, knowledge and the ability to execute successfully in these conditions you're going to engage in a process of draining accounts via a thousand cuts. Many of you will hand back profits, many already have. You don't need to time the bottom, you don't need to be there as soon as a reversal has formed, you don't need to sit staring at charts all day in the hope some hidden message will be revealed to you. I understand right now that achieving value in these conditions is difficult, and it almost feels as though the market has taken away your opportunity for easy returns, now you're trying to work harder to secure whatever scraps you can. Let things settle down, reduce your emotion when it comes to timing the market, all you need is the green light to show that the market is ready to move again and be positive. I don't know when that is, but all I know is that you need to survive until then so you can thrive again. This illustration of the BTC chart is the best example of this. When $31k broke, you didn't need to have timed any bottom along the way, you didn't need to have sat for weeks on end trying to secure some entry, you just needed to start participating again in the market when the momentum had changed. That's all you're waiting for. Enjoy the time off, don't let addiction to shit conditions ruin your summer. The money is made in the meat of the move. Addiction is for green markets, not shit markets.

Over the past year, many people I talk to have expressed worry about two topics: * Various aspects of the way the world is going: government control and surveillance, wars, corporate power and surveillance, tech enshittification / corposlop, social media becoming a memetic warzone, AI and how it interplays with all of the above... * The brute reality that Ethereum seems to be absent from meaningfully improving the lives of people subject to these things, even on the dimensions we deeply care about (eg. freedom, privacy, security of digital life, community self-organization) It is easy to bond over the first, to commiserate over the fact that beauty and good in the world seems to be receding and darkness advancing, and uncaring powerful people in high places are making this happen. But ultimately, it is easy to acknowledge problems, the hard thing is actually shining a light forward, coming up with a concrete plan that makes the situation better. The second has been weighing heavily on my mind, and on the minds of many of our brightest and most idealistic Ethereans. I personally never felt any upset or fear when political memecoins went on Solana, or various zero-sum gambling applications go on whatever 250 millisecond block chain strikes their fancy. But it *does* weigh on me that, through all of the various low-grade online memetic wars, international overreaches of corporate and government power, and other issues of the last few years, Ethereum has been playing a very limited role in making people's lives better. What *are* the liberating technologies? Starlink is the most obvious one. Locally-running open-weights LLMs are another. Signal is a third. Community Notes is a fourth, tackling the problem from a different angle. One response is to say "stop dreaming big, we need to hunker down and accept that finance is our lane and laser-focus on that". But this is ultimately hollow. Financial freedom and security is critical. But it seems obvious that, while adding a perfectly free and open and sovereign and debasement-proof financial system would fix some things, but it would leave the bulk of our deep worries about the world unaddressed. It's okay for individuals to laser-focus on finance, but we need to be part of some greater whole that has things to say about the other problems too. At the same time, Ethereum cannot fix the world. Ethereum is the "wrong-shaped tool" for that: beyond a certain point, "fixing the world" implies a form of power projection that is more like a centralized political entity than like a decentralized technology community. So what can we do? I think that we in Ethereum should conceptualize ourselves as being part of an ecosystem building "sanctuary technologies": free open-source technologies that let people live, work, talk to each other, manage risk and build wealth, and collaborate on shared goals, in a way that optimizes for robustness to outside pressures. The goal is not to remake the world in Ethereum's image, where all finance is disintermediated, all governance happens through DAOs, and everyone gets a blockchain-based UBI delivered straight to their social-recovery wallet. The goal is the opposite: it's de-totalization. It's to reduce the stakes of the war in heaven by preventing the winner from having total victory (ie. total control over other human beings), and preventing the loser from suffering total defeat. To create digital islands of stability in a chaotic era. To enable interdependence that cannot be weaponized. Ethereum's role is to create "digital space" where different entities can cooperate and interact. Communications channels enable interaction, but communication channels are not "space": they do not let you create single unique objects that canonically represent some social arrangement that changes over time. Money is one important example. Multisigs that can change their members, showing persistence exceeding that of any one person or one public key, are another. Various market and governance structures are a third. There are more. I think now is the time to double down, with greater clarity. Do not try to be Apple or Google, seeing crypto as a tech sector that enables efficiency or shininess. Instead, build our part of the sanctuary tech ecosystem - the "shared digital space with no owner" that enables both open finance and much more. More actively build toward a full-stack ecosystem: both upward to the wallet and application layer (incl AI as interface) and downward to the OS, hardware, even physical/bio security levels. Ultimately, tech is worthless without users. But look for users, both individual and institutional, for whom sanctuary tech is exactly the thing they need. Optimize payments, defi, decentralized social, and other applications precisely for those users, and those goals, which centralized tech will not serve. We have many allies, including many outside of "crypto". It's time we work together with an open mind and move forward.

Been thinking a lot about the Clarity Act this week and honestly I think most people are still underestimating what is actually happening right now. As I'm typing this the Senate Banking Committee is holding the markup hearing in Dirksen 538. Tim Scott gavelled in at 10:30. This is the session that was supposed to happen in January and got pulled at the last second after Coinbase walked away over the stablecoin yield fight. Bitcoin already pushed above $81k on the open and the market is starting to wake up to what a committee passage actually signals. Warren came out swinging in her opening, calling it a bill "written by the crypto industry for the crypto industry" and pointing to that CoinDesk survey showing 1% of voters rank crypto as a top issue. Predictable. There are dozens of amendments queued up, most of them from Warren and Reed, and almost none of them are going to survive. Lummis called it the hardest piece of legislation she's ever worked on and the Republican majority looks whipped. If Scott has the votes lined up the way reporting suggests, the bill clears committee today and that is a very big deal. Here is why I keep banging this drum. For years the real blocker to institutional capital was never volatility or narrative. It was that legal and compliance teams at every major allocator could not get a straight answer on what crypto even is under US law. Security? Commodity? Both? Neither? Pension fund managers cannot sign off on an asset class living in regulatory limbo. Insurance regulators won't approve products without a statutory floor. Bank custody desks have been sitting on their hands for the same reason. Clarity fixes that. It draws an actual jurisdictional line between SEC and CFTC, defines what a digital commodity is, and finally builds a real compliance pathway for exchanges, brokers, and custodians. The 1:1 reserve mandate on stablecoins is exactly the hard rule traditional finance has been quietly begging for so they can stop treating this entire space like radioactive material. The piece that gets missed in all the X takes is this. Once allocation committees at the big shops get a green light, the money that flows in is not retail. It's pensions, endowments, sovereign wealth, corporate treasuries, RIAs, family offices, the entire long tail of capital that has been writing legal memos and waiting for cover for two years. You don't need much rotation from a pool that size for the impact to be enormous. Even one or two percent of addressable AUM is measured in the trillions. People keep asking why ETF flows have plateaued and why institutional adoption felt slower than expected. This is why. The plumbing didn't exist. Clarity builds the plumbing. XRP is the most obvious example sitting right in front of us. Trading around $1.37, stuck in a $1.35 to $1.45 box for weeks despite spot ETF inflows. The chart isn't broken, the legal classification is. Today's markup is the first real crack in that ceiling. Yes the conflict of interest fight is still unresolved. Yes the bill still needs to be merged with the Ag Committee version, then survive a floor vote where 60 yes votes means at least seven Democrats have to cross. Yes Washington can break anything on the way to a finish line. Lummis has been blunt that if we miss this May window the bill realistically slips to 2030 after the midterms. But the direction of travel is set, the White House is pushing for July 4, the banking lobby's last stand on the Tillis Alsobrooks compromise is losing, and in my view the market has not even started to price what a final signed bill actually does to the capital pipeline. Bullish doesn't really cover it. Today matters.

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan sat down with CNBC’s Jim Cramer to talk about Apple; Intel 14A rivaling TSMC's top chip production technology; Shortages of CPUs and substrates; and the state of Intel's turnaround. How to know when Intel signs Apple or other foundry customers: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan: “Over time, the IP will be ready so we can serve some of these customers. I think the best indication, when you see I increase my capex, I’m putting money to buy equipment, that means I have real customers. That’s the discipline I have.” Intel 14A manufacturing process and EMIB-T advanced packaging: Intel CEO: “(A14) is 1.4nm, this is the most advanced. To be candid with you, in 2028 we will have risk production. 2029 will be volume production. It will be the same time as TSMC. So that is a major, major breakthrough, and I’m so excited. And we already have multiple customers engaged with us, and we have 0.5 PDK available.” Taking advantage of TSMC’s CoWoS shortage Intel CEO: “Our technology is called EMIB-T, this is the next generation of advanced packaging. We really have the best technology and now we are making sure we can bring it into volume production with reliable yield so the customer can count on us.” CEO: “You know, CoWoS…(TSMC) ran out of capacity, so in a way we’ve become in the unique position to support that and that’s something we are very excited (about).” Shortages of CPUs and Substrates CEO on the CPU shortage: “I’ll give you one example. I had one customer say Lip Bu, we gave you the forecast for this year, but we want to increase 3x, and I say I cannot do it overnight but give me a few quarters and I will catch up. So, I think this demand is not short term, it’s the next couple of years. It’s a great opportunity.” CEO: “Right now, as I mentioned, CPU is in high demand. And that’s good for me. I cannot even ship enough to the customer. It used to be the CPU to GPU ratio for training was 1-to-8. And now, because of inference and agentic AI, and more agents you have to manage, and orchestration, and reinforced learning, CPU is actually better, so that becomes 1-to-4 and 1-to-1 and some people even talk about 4-to1, and so that’s a huge opportunity to me to drive the CPU....” CEO on Substrates: “A couple of customers have prepaid for substrates, because the substrate supply chain is very tight – so I need to put up the money to secure this material…(and it shows) the commitment to me – so that’s very exciting.” Intel’s Turnaround CEO: “We used to have leadership in data center, and over the years we lost it…We made some big mistakes,” he said, adding he’s brought back some talent to refocus the product lines and that “Coral Rapids will have multi-threading, and will come out very strong.” CEO: “When I took over, the 18A yield was not good, so I had to ask some of the ecosystem partners to help me look at the data, see how to improve. The best practice is to see 7% or 8% yield improvement per month, and now I’m seeing it.” CEO: “The other part is supposed to be the yield performance, defect density, you know at the end of the year to see the target. Now I see that even before the end of the year – so that is very big encouragement for me and also that’s why Panther Lake can be shipped in volume now. And now some customers knock on my door and say Lip Bu, now we hear you are making great progress, can you now open up to outside customers? So that is very exciting. It’s a lot of hard work, it’s a lot of teamwork, it’s a lot of talent I’ve brought on board.” CEO: “In the past we made a lot of mistakes and now we correct the mistake and we’ve simplified the roadmap. By the way, from Day 1 I came on board as the CEO, I have all the engineers report to me so I have an understanding, hear from the customer, and know where are the mistakes.” Cramer: “They didn’t report to the previous CEO?” CEO: “No. And in a way, they had too many silos, too many people reporting…So I decided, the best thing is to really understand where the problem is, so I can focus on the engineering, how to redesign, simplify the product and then get the real killer products out.” Cramer asks about China, Taiwan and the importance of US manufacturing: CEO: “I was very glad for President Trump understanding the strategic importance for the United States to have (chip manufacturing supply chain) and their support is so valuable to me – it’s so critical for the country to have the technology, R&D development, manufacturing in the United States. That’s why I came back in, as a U.S. citizen – as a calling – to do that.” CEO: “From time to time I update President Trump and also (Sec.) Howard Lutnick and they are big supporters of me and we are delighted to have their support.” Going forward: CEO: “I recruited some key talent…and now, by the end of June, I will have my team, what I consider my team, so that we can work on the next 5-years, 10-years, how to become a different company. I call it the New Intel, work at the speed of light, work as a team to progress forward.” $INTC $TSM #Samsung# $UMC $GFS #semiconductors#

🌹 Happy Labor Day A real thank you to everyone who's collaborated with us, talked with us, or stepped in front of a camera with us.❤️ Every drop of sweat catches the light. Every act of effort lights a way forward. Here's to everyone still chasing the light. #CHAINISLE# | Powering the Global Web3 Creator Economy

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