Budget AI vs Premium AI: The only PMF question that matters: Is the problem you're solving worth the price you're charging? Budget AI wins on volume × good enough. Premium #AI# wins on quality × irreplaceable. Both need to find the space the other can't touch. For Budget AI builders：Your moat is razor thin. A cheaper model ships every quarter. If your only edge is price, you don't have an edge. For Premium AI builders：Your "irreplaceability" is being eroded constantly. You need to keep moving, or Budget AI catches up.

"An overnight success that took five years" @_ConorMoore at @CoinDesk Live on finding pmf: blockchain rails make loan origination and settlement atomic, neoclouds needed capital that tradfi couldn't move fast enough to provide, and the AI boom brought both together.

🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇷 Israel’s Minister of Economy is already talking about Round 2 with Iran… Nir Barkat told Channel 14 that if Iran doesn't grasp the determination of both Trump and Netanyahu at the negotiating table, Israel will resume fighting and finish what it started. "We will fight again and achieve the objectives and goals of the war." Barkat is close to Netanyahu and Channel 14 is the PM’s preferred media platform. The clock is ticking… #Iran# #IranWar#

In Honor of the King and Queen of the United Kingdom, who have just left the White House, soon headed back to their wonderful Country, I will be removing the Tariffs and Restrictions on Whiskey having to do with Scotland’s ability to work with the Commonwealth of Kentucky on Whiskey and Bourbon, two very important Industries within Scotland and Kentucky. People have wanted to do this for a long time, in that there had been great Inter-Country Trade, especially having to do with the Wooden Barrels used. The King and Queen got me to do something that nobody else was able to do, without hardly even asking! A wonderful Honor to have them both in the U.S.A. President DONALD J. TRUMP ( TS: Apr 30 2026, 2:30 PM ET )

The Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about! If Iran had a Nuclear Weapon, the whole World would be held hostage. I am doing something with Iran, right now, that other Nations, or Presidents, should have done long ago. No wonder Germany is doing so poorly, both Economically, and otherwise! President DONALD J. TRUMP ( Donald J. Trump - TS: Apr 28 2026, 2:25 PM ET )

Lee and Kim Greenwood, two of the most spectacular people, had their first grandchild on April 17th. They were with me from the very beginning - Total loyalty, and Lee gave me the greatest walk on song of all time, nothing even close!!! Congratulations to you both!!! Love, President DJT ( Donald J. Trump - TS: Apr 26 2026, 10:52 PM ET )

Palestinian Chuck Schumer is hiring Eric Holder, famous for handing guns to Mexican cartels under the Barack Hussein Obama administration, as part of a Democrat-led "Election Integrity Group" that will no doubt try to suppress Republican voters, and interfere in our Elections. Furthermore, Marc Elias, a terrible lawyer with a horrible track record, is also involved. This is the same disgusting individual who was responsible for the fake Russia dossier from a foreign nation to meddle in the 2016 Election, which I won in historic fashion. The Democrats are totally unhinged and we will not allow them to threaten the integrity of our Elections. During my Historic Election in 2024, when I won every single Swing State, and decisively won both the Electoral and Popular votes by wide margins, the Republicans had an Election Integrity Army in every single State to preserve the sanctity of each legal vote. We will be doing the same again in 2026, but it will be much bigger and stronger. All Americans should have their voices be heard by casting a vote. Be assured this Election will be fair! President DONALD J. TRUMP ( TruthSocial: May 10 2026, 2:42 PM ET )

AI-native software engineering teams operate very differently than traditional teams. The obvious difference is that AI-native teams use coding agents to build products much faster, but this leads to many other changes in how we operate. For example, some great engineers now play broader roles than just writing code. They are partly product managers, designers, sometimes marketers. Further, small teams who work in the same office, where they can communicate face-to-face, can move incredibly quickly. Because we can now build fast, a greater fraction of time must be spent deciding what to build. To deal with this project-management bottleneck, some teams are pushing engineer:product manager (PM) some teams are pushing engineer:product manager (PM) ratios downward from, say, 8:1 to as low as 1:1. But we can do even better: If we have one PM who decides what to build and one engineer who builds it, the communication between them becomes a bottleneck. This is why the fastest-moving teams I see tend to have engineers who know how to do some product work (and, optionally, some PMs who know how to do some engineering work). When an engineer understands users and can make decisions on what to build and build it directly, they can execute incredibly quickly. I’ve seen engineers successfully expand their roles to including making product decisions, and PMs expand their roles to building software. The tech industry has more engineers than PMs, but both are promising paths. If you are an engineer, you’ll find it useful to learn some product management skills, and if you’re a PM, please learn to build! Looking beyond the product-management bottleneck, I also see bottlenecks in design, marketing, legal compliance, and much more. When we speed up coding 10x or 100x, everything else becomes slow in comparison. For example, some of my teams have built great features so quickly that the marketing organization was left scrambling to figure out how to communicate them to users — a marketing bottleneck. Or when a team can build software in a day that the legal department needs a week to review, that’s a legal compliance bottleneck. In this way, agentic coding isn’t just changing the workflow of software engineering, it’s also changing all the teams around it. When smaller, AI-enabled teams can get more done, generalists excel. Traditional companies need to pull together people from many specialties — engineering, product management, design, marketing, legal, etc. — to execute projects and create value. This has resulted in large teams of specialists who work together. But if a team of 2 persons is to get work done that require 5 different specialities, then some of those individuals must play roles outside a single speciality. In some small teams, individuals do have deep specializations. For example, one might be a great engineer and another a great PM. But they also understand the other key functions needed to move a project forward, and can jump into thinking through other kinds of problems as needed. Of course, proficiency with AI tools is a big help, since it helps us to think through problems that involve different roles. Even in a two-person team, to move fast, communication bottlenecks also must be minimized. This is why I value teams that work in the same location. Remote teams can perform well too, but the highest speed is achieved by having everyone in the room, able to communicate instantaneously to solve problems. This post focuses on AI-native teams with around 2-10 persons, but not everything can be done by a small team. I'll address the coordination of larger teams in the future. I realize these shifts to job roles are tough to navigate for many people. At the same time, I am encouraged that individuals and small teams who are willing to learn the relevant skills are now able to get far more done than was possible before. This is the golden age of learning and building! [Original text: ]

What a month! Groundbreaking developments across the board. Check out this month's highlights 👇 📈 Token Momentum New listing → $PRL (Perle @PerleLabs) was listed on Binance Alpha, Bybit Futures. Secondary listing → $CYS (Cysic @cysic_xyz) was listed on Bithumb, having been previously listed on Binance Alpha and Futures. 💰 Funding & Acquisitions → @StartaleGroup announced second close of its Series A round, securing $50mn from SBI. → @MyriadMarkets announced its seed round with investors including Verda Ventures, Auros, and EVG, Tom Lee, and others. → @animocabrands announced a strategic investment in Ava Labs. 🚀 Product Launches → @babylonlabs_io launched the private alpha testnet for Trustless Bitcoin Vaults (TBV), enabling users to post and borrow against BTC via Aave v4 spoke while keeping BTC on Bitcoin. → @perpltrade’s private mainnet on Monad demonstrated strong initial traction, accounting for 13% of gas usage post-launch. → @animocabrands launched Animoca Minds, a no-code platform for creating and deploying AI agents for commerce on the blockchain. → @KaitoAI launched its beta, focusing on ambassador and creator matching. → @pendle_fi shared new features for its 2026 launch, including direct access to Pendle on CEX Earn and one-click auto-leverage, and looping etc. → @cysic_xyz launched which allows users to set up their own AI agents. → @brevis_zk was selected as one of four teams for the Ethereum Foundation’s On-Prem Proving Initiative through ETH Proofs. 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼 Ecosystem Expansion / Partnership → @plumenetwork partnered with @ether_fi to integrate RWA yields through Nest vaults; their head of legal appeared in the Senate to advocate for tokenised stocks. → @babylonlabs_io integrated into @Ledger wallets, providing native Ledger signer support to Babylon Trustless Bitcoin Vaults. → @peaq partnered with OKX wallet @wallet to manage a tokenized robo-farm in Hong Kong using AI agents. → @CIMG_IMG, a NASDAQ-listed company, signed an MOU with @izumi_Finance to explore a strategic partnership in digital asset infrastructure. 💼 Business/Financials → A Messari report on @HumaFinance stated it processed $2.2bn in transaction volume in Q4, a 27% increase QoQ from $1.7bn. → @Sign and @PerleLabs were both added to Coinbase’s listing roadmap. → @Sign reported strong interest from Middle East OTC desks and South Korean CEXes. They have been building stablecoin-backed payment rails and CBDC for nations in the Middle East and Central Asia. → @animocabrands successfully secured a Dubai VARA VASP license. → @OPLabsPBC announced a round of layoffs. → @plumenetwork appointed a former FINRA examiner as its new Head of Compliance. 📥 Call for Partnerships → @BlockdaemonHQ is an institutional gateway to crypto and calls for chains, RWA projects for partnership. → @Bgin_Blockchain looks to acquire small BTC mining farms in northern Europe. 📰 HashKey News Flash → @HashKeyGroup released 2025 annual results on March 27, reporting total revenue of HK$723mn. Hong Kong operations saw a 72.3% yoy increase in trading volume, reaching HK$530bn. → @HashKeyGroup was named to the Financial Times' 2026 Asia-Pacific High-Growth Companies List. → @CantonNetwork was officially listed on HashKey Exchange on March 24, 2026. → @HashKey_Capital released a full report "Future of Institutional Digital Asset Trading" on three structural opportunities in the orchestration layer (OEMS/PMS/RMS) for 2026. → @HashKey_Capital released HashStack #030# and #031#. → @HSKChain calls on projects in DeFi and RWA to build on its compliant, institution-grade infrastructure, offering grants, branding support, and access to a network of regulated distribution partners across Asia. → @HashKeyCloud, a leading global Web3 infrastructure provider and core member of the HashKey Group, is looking to support emerging networks with its professional, secure staking and validation services, backed by experience across 80+ blue-chip chains and protocols. Please reach out to Portfolio Management team on telegram @ a79206 if you are interested in connecting with the above PortCos. The ecosystem is thriving! Follow @HashKey_Capital for April's update.