On paper, @Uniswap built the better launchpad on Robinhood Chain. Trading there costs 4x less, the tech is newer, and they've got the biggest distribution in DeFi behind them. Yet a launchpad called @ponsdotfamily is still outtrading them 3 to 1 on Robinhood. What's going on? Why this war matters This is all happening on @RobinhoodCrypto's own chain, and a lot of people expect Robinhood to be the Solana of next season. The early numbers back the hype: • 2.6M+ daily transactions • 200K+ daily active addresses • $300M+ in daily DEX volume Launchpads drive a big chunk of that activity. Everyone watched print on Solana last cycle, so if Robinhood really is the next home chain, whoever owns its launchpad owns one of the best businesses of the cycle. The incumbent Pons wasn't even the first king here. A launchpad called NOXA dominated the early days until it abruptly stopped issuing tokens on July 11, and Pons absorbed the entire market within days. At its peak, Pons processed 1.65M trades in a single day, more than half of all transactions on the whole chain. The challenger Then @Uniswap decided it wanted the market for itself. What's ironic is Pons is built on Uniswap's own rails, and Uniswap had featured it in their launchpad aggregator just six days before launching @TradePools to compete with it. This wasn't a quick money grab, it's a solid product: • Trading costs 0.25% instead of the 1% Pons charges • Fees compound straight back into each token's locked liquidity • Every token plugs into Uniswap's entire distribution surface on day one Hayden Adams framed it as a bet that users "will prefer quality tech and a level playing field." You'd expect Pools to eat this market inside a week. The result And for about 48 hours, it looked like they would. Pools out-launched Pons on day one, 10,506 new tokens against 7,210, and grabbed roughly half of all launchpad volume on the chain. Then attention shifted back home Six days in, Pons is back to around $50M a day while Pools sits near $15M, and not one of those ten thousand tokens has crossed a $10M market cap. Only two have even crossed $1M. Distribution bought Uniswap a spike in attention, but it couldn't buy retention. What actually wins So what's going on? Follow the money. Run $1M of volume through each platform: • Pons collects $10,000, hands $7,000 to the token's creator, and burns PONS with most of the rest • Pools collects $2,500, and the creator gets $500 if they even turned the fee on A creator earns 14x more per dollar of volume on Pons, and that one number explains everything. The 1% fee everyone calls extractive is really Pons paying its supply side. Creators shill their coins every day because their income depends on the volume, and holders evangelize because every trade burns PONS. Uniswap built the perfect product for traders and forgot that traders follow attention instead of creating it. So Pools got ten thousand tokens from people with zero reason to promote them past hour one, while Pons kept the tokens people actually fight over. The takeaway Launchpads are ATTENTION businesses, and the tech is table stakes. Pools is six days old, so this war isn't over, but winning it means out-paying Pons for the people who bring the crowd, not out-engineering them. So next time a launchpad war breaks out, skip the feature comparison and look at who's getting paid to fill the room. "Show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcome"

Betting on who I believe is the greatest entrepreneur of our generation set me financially free at 31. My story started long before that. I joined Apple at 22. From the outside, people thought I had it made. It was a great company, awesome benefits, and I had a clear path ahead of me. Nothing was “wrong.” I was on the path everyone tells you that you’re supposed to want… but deep down, I knew it wasn’t the life I wanted forever. I was way more excited about investing. Building things on my own. Trying ideas that could completely fail. Learning about businesses. Studying where technology was going. Putting my own $ money behind what I believed in. And eventually, I became obsessed with Tesla and what Elon was building. The team’s willingness to take risks most people wouldn’t touch. Electric cars when people laughed at them. Reusable rockets when people said it couldn’t be done. Then AI, robots, autonomy and everything that came after. So I made a bet… there was significant risk. I didn’t know exactly what would happen. No one really ever truly does. I made the bet bc I believed the upside of being right was far greater than the downside of being wrong. And that decision changed my life. By 31, I had reached financial freedom. But strangely enough, the $ wasn’t even the biggest thing I gained. It was freedom over my time. It was the freedom to leave a career that looked perfect on paper. Freedom to be with my kids. Freedom to build things bc I wanted to build them. Freedom to wake up and work on me instead of somebody else’s dream. That’s why I always tell people… There’s nothing wrong with having a great job. There’s nothing wrong with climbing the corporate ladder. But make sure the ladder is leaning against a wall you actually want to climb. Apple gave me an incredible start. Investing changed my financial life. And Teslaconomics gave me something I was missing the entire time… which is something that actually felt like mine. And 𝕏 is the platform that enabled this. I’m forever grateful for where I am today and everyone that has supported me along the way.

KD on the best team on paper he’s ever been a part of: “I would say Brooklyn.” I agree. We never seen 3 top 10 scorers ever on the same team. They were going to sleep walk to a championship if it weren’t for injuries.

Wallets started on paper. Now they’re learning to work with AI agents. At #TOKEN2049#, we sat down with @MetaMask and @Trezor at our booth to talk about where wallets are heading: simpler cross-chain swaps, smoother onboarding, and AI agents that act for you while you still sign off on every move. 🎙 Francesco, Director of DevRel, @MetaMask 🎙 Denis, Software Product Lead at @Trezor 🎙 Yana, our Head of B2B & Partnerships Moderated by Kelvin Sparks of @TheBlockCo One point they all agreed on: trust comes first, features second. Would you let an AI agent use your wallet? Watch the full interview:

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Elon just congratulated Anthropic on Claude Opus 5.5 And this is something about him that people often miss Whenever he sees someone or a company making real progress, he appreciates the work behind it and gives them credit for what they accomplished AI safety has been something Elon has cared deeply about for years He encourages companies putting serious effort into safety, alignment and building AI that ultimately benefits humanity And when he sees an AI company not taking safety seriously enough, he speaks up, engages directly with the people building it and keeps pushing the conversation toward a safer path for humanity Elon has spent years inspiring the entire industry to take these risks seriously instead of waiting until the technology becomes too powerful to control Elon has also laid out some of the most powerful approaches to AI safety.....something that doesn't just look on good on paper, but actually maps onto reality He has also brought AI companies to the table and pushed powerful conversations around AI safety that major AI leaders could actually agree on The AI race is insanely competitive Anthropic is a direct competitor to SpaceXAI, yet Elon can still look at what they built, recognize the hard work behind it and simply congratulate them on the achievement That says a lot about the kind of leader he is