FM Speaker Highlight: @philhedayatnia Co-founder of @airfoilstudio, a product design and design research firm serving clients in hardware, consumer AI, and digital assets — including Solana, Cerebras, Exa, and Reducto. He also co-organizes Mahjong Society, a collective of AI builders across Asia running hacker houses and community programs across the region. Really excited to have him joining us at FM26. FUTUREMODE 2026 📍 Taipei Expo Dome | Sep 4–6, 2026 🌐 🏟 Early Bird Till 7/1 Local - International -

Following a recent team restructuring at Gnosis, we’re supporting a talented group of former colleagues as they transition to their next opportunities. If you are hiring across: - Engineering, - Product - Design - Marketing - DevRel - Customer Relations, our DMs are open to introduce you to exceptional talent.

~3k Coinbase Loans users were liquidated this week so far on Morpho, with $65M in Bitcoin collateral liquidated, making it the 2nd highest week by users liquidated and 3rd by value since the product launched. Liquidations are a normal and expected part of any DeFi lending product and the numbers here are not abnormal relative to the size of the book (around 4% of total collateral). In DeFi, users interacting with lending protocols generally understand the liquidation mechanic and have accepted it as part of the product design. Nevertheless, the dynamic is different in a consumer crypto lending app. A retail user who deposits cbBTC, borrows stablecoins against it, and gets liquidated during a price drawdown will likely not frame it as a risk they consciously accepted and in many cases, they simply won't come back. This is especially true when the product lacks mechanics that are more UX decisions than protocol ones: a push notification when approaching the liquidation threshold, an automatic collateral top-up option, or a clear in-app warning showing exactly how far the price can move before the position is at risk. For crypto lending to make a real dent in consumer finance, the core design challenge is building the UX/UI rails that adapt a protocol mechanic to what a normal consumer user expects from a financial product

This might be the craziest Codex workflow I've found. Ask ChatGPT or Codex: "Based on everything you've learned from our conversations so far, identify the single most valuable service, product, or AI-powered system that could reduce my working time by more than 50%." Then take the answer and use Codex with Product Design + /goal to build that solution for yourself. You're basically using AI to discover your biggest bottleneck... then building a custom AI system to eliminate it. Most people use AI for tasks. This uses AI to redesign your entire workflow.

The launchpad is only a stepping stone to the agentic society vision we have. It’s to get more founders onchain - give them a reason for crypto to exist within their product design space. The vision we have for Virtuals , as many of you folks have seen has expanded since we exploded onto the since in 2024. It’s to create a parallel society for agents as autonomous economic actors. Physical agents, digital agents, humans coexisting to create a step change in productivity and economic output. The whole 1+1+1>>>10 ideology. The space needs to grow and we need more founders who are aixcrypto aligned. The amount of shit we get when pitching techbros is unbelievable. “Crypto is a scam” is still a very real thing. Imagine when u pitch “crypto ai”. Started to see trenchors fighting it out on which launchpad is better. I think its a wrong fight. We need the elizas, the arcs, the creatorbids, clankers, bankrs, virtuals, any community launchpads to win. Every founder we get into the space will help us wash this cryptoizscam label away. Pie is big guys I personally really wished back for the days in late 2024 where tens of competitors all pushing on the ai crypto narrative Wagmi

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