Huge diplomatic win for China after backing Iran during the war 🔥 🇮🇷 Iran will now give China steep discounts on Strait of Hormuz transit fees.👏 🇨🇳 China gets 90% of its oil from Iran. China also provided advanced weapons to Iran during the war. That’s what real allies do. Trump will have nightmares seeing this 🔥

when Carl Jung said, “No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown allies will seek you out.” He was saying that real work has a frequency. When you commit to your path with truth, discipline, and solitude, the people meant for your journey eventually find you. So don’t fear the lonely season. Sometimes God removes the noise so your real allies can hear you clearly.

How many Americans know that after the 1991 Gulf War, five hundred and eleven Japanese sailors sailed wooden ships straight into the deadliest minefields in the Persian Gulf for the United States Navy? At the time, television commentators around the world mocked Japan for only sending money during the war. Those critics never bothered to look out at the burning waters off Kuwait. In April 1991, Captain Taosa Ochiai led six Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force vessels eight thousand miles across the ocean for Operation Gulf Dawn. Four of his ships were tiny coastal minesweepers built out of wood. They had to be made of wood. A steel hull triggers the magnetic sensors inside underwater bottom mines and blows the crew to pieces. Working in one-hundred-and-twenty-degree heat beneath black oil smoke and waters swarming with venomous sea snakes, the Japanese sailors volunteered for the shallow, high-risk sectors alongside U.S. Navy minesweepers. Because their wooden hulls had no air conditioning powerful enough for the Arabian summer, Japanese sailors slept on the scorching decks at night and hunted live acoustic and magnetic mines every morning. Over ninety-nine brutal days, those Japanese crews found and detonated thirty-four live Iraqi naval mines without losing a single man. Politicians talk about alliances on television. Real allies sail wooden boats into a minefield so American ships can come home safe.

Nethermind has appointed Alvin Su, @realAlvinSu, as Chief Executive Officer, effective September 14. Daniel Celeda, @_D4nie1_, steps down as CEO to focus fully on the CTO role, following his decision that the growing demands of company leadership and the pace of change in AI and engineering require dedicated focus. He has chosen to concentrate on the areas where he believes he can contribute most. Alvin Su, who has been with Nethermind for over three years and has been instrumental in driving client relationships and expanding Nethermind’s commercial offer, takes on the CEO role. As demand grows for partners combining deep protocol expertise with institutional-grade execution, Alvin will lead the next stage of Nethermind’s development. Full announcement:

Tokenization makes every dollar more efficient. Head of Franklin Crypto @perkinscr97 explains why institutions hold collateral on standby to prepare for long weekends, and how those dollars can be put to work in a tokenized world. via @RealAllinCrypto

The AI race isn't just about who has the best ideas. It's about who has access to compute. @ionet CEO @gaurav_io joined the @RealAllinCrypto Podcast to talk about the infrastructure battle happening underneath AI: → Why GPU demand keeps accelerating → How DePIN unlocks unused compute around the world → Why crypto found its most important real-world use case → What happens if AWS, Google and Microsoft control AI's infrastructure When a handful of companies control the infrastructure, they also control who gets access to intelligence. But there is another way. Watch the full conversation ↓