Internet pioneer and Domain Name System (DNS) inventor Paul Mockapetris on AI risk, human oversight and one of the “deep secrets” behind AI. From the @america250 x Forbes America Innovates stage. #Forbes250# #A250#

As pioneers in tokenization, we have learnt a lot of hard lessons. On stage at @money2020 Asia in Bangkok, HashKey RWA CEO Anna Liu shared the 4 lessons we learnt on institutional tokenisation. The short answer: tokenisation is not just about putting assets on-chain. It’s about compliance, growth and smart contract programmability.

That “Rocket Pioneers” photo you see in space museums? It’s not wholesome American ingenuity. It’s the direct product of Operation Paperclip—the U.S. government’s secret program that imported ~1,600 Nazi scientists, engineers & technicians after WWII. Let’s look closer at this 1956 photo and who’s in the shot: ✅ Wernher von Braun (seated right) — Nazi Party member and SS officer who built the V-2 using slave labor from concentration camps. ✅ Ernst Stuhlinger (seated left)—Key V-2 guidance expert, brought over with the team. ✅ Hermann Oberth (foreground)—Von Braun’s mentor, supported the Nazi rocket program. Joined the U.S. team in the mid-50s. ✅ Major General Holger Toftoy (standing)—The American Army officer who ran Paperclip for the rocket scientists. He hand-picked the Germans, oversaw their extraction, and relocated them. After arriving in 1945, these Paperclip Germans (and Toftoy directing them) first went to Fort Bliss, Texas. 🚀 From 1946 to early 1950 they fired captured V-2 rockets at White Sands Proving Ground near Alamogordo, NM—reverse-engineering and testing the very weapons Hitler used on London and Antwerp. By 1950 the whole operation moved to Huntsville, Alabama (Redstone Arsenal / ABMA). The 1956 photo captures them there, already building the Redstone/Jupiter missiles that led straight to NASA’s Saturn V and the Apollo moon missions. Toftoy didn’t just “oversee” it—he was the guy who convinced the Pentagon to bring the Nazis over, paper-clipping their files to bypass war crimes scrutiny. 🧐 America “won the space race”…by importing the Nazi rocket team from Germany. The soviets had also snagged Nazis for their aid of this “race.” History books and museum plaques love the “genius immigrants” story. They’re silent about the Paperclip bargain: morals traded for tech in the name of beating the Soviets and building lies and propaganda from a nefarious set of building blocks. Your tax dollars, your “moon landing,” and Nazi V-2 expertise. 🤑 🤥 Money, lies, and the good old boys’ network. Just another “pragmatic” chapter in the real history they don’t put on the big plaques. What do you think—a necessary evil or a deal with the devil? You know my pick. 😏 #OperationPaperclip#

Gene Winchester pioneered pre-blended, packaged concrete under the Gemaco Quikrete brand in 1951. His three sons took over the family business three decades later and helped build it into a privately-held giant. Full story: (Photo: Charles Krupa/AP)

George Washington Carver pioneered agriculture with concepts of crop rotations. He taught farmers to plant nitrogen-fixing crops such as peanuts and soybeans. However, he was making history years before when he became the first Black student at Iowa State University, where he earned his bachelor's and master's degrees. After, he became the first Black faculty member. His contributions to agriculture planted him on the #Forbes250# list honoring historic innovators: Photo: Heritage Images via Getty Images

Introducing a true pioneer in the Hyperliquid ecosystem as our Headline Partner @HyperionDeFi 🏛️ Hyperion DeFi, Inc. is the first U.S. publicly listed company building a long-term strategic treasury of Hyperliquid’s native token, HYPE. The Company is focused on providing its shareholders with simplified access to the Hyperliquid ecosystem, one of the fastest-growing, highest revenue-generating blockchains in the world. Shareholders benefit from a gradually compounding exposure to HYPE, both from its native staking yield and additional revenues generated from its unique on-chain utility. Connect with the team at their station on May 6.