Ben Grossman
@ben_grossman
Brought stocks to the world onchain. Tokenization x Crypto. Head of Marketing @Ondo. Views are my own.
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James Bond is a dead franchise.
What’s he even going to do? Hunt down people who make offensive social posts?
If you’re not using agent bots you’re ngmi
Ever heard of SPY or QQQ ?
John is the guy who built those into household names at Invesco for 20 years.
Now he's brought portfolios onchain to Solana
TradFi spent decades figuring out portfolio construction.
Crypto figured out global, programmable distribution.
The combination is going to be pretty powerful.
According to spotify, I was the #1# top listener of Italian opera in the world. I used to go to the NYC Met Opera at least once a month, sometimes more.
Fair to say, I believe I have an informed opinion on the prequel debate.
George was right
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“The prequels are operatic.”
“No they aren’t, have you ever seen an opera?”
“No, have you?”
“No.”
Excited to bring the largest portfolio tokens to Solana.
For the first time, Solana investors can get exposure to professionally designed investment strategies through single tokens without having to buy each asset, set target weights, and manually rebalance positions themselves.
24/7, fully permissionless
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BREAKING: Ondo Intelligent Portfolios are live on Solana, including three powered by BlackRock.
Seven portfolios spanning income, growth, and thematic exposure, each one a single transferable token.
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What if Apple released a DUO+ the size of an iPad that folds?
We brought Touch to the Mac!
From the all-new iPad mini to the 14-inch MacBook Pro and iMac... and now MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch, creators have new tools to do their best work yet.
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Very good point
They should go private then. If they want to be publicly traded then they should allow the public to trade them at the venue of their choosing
The PNW cities are the crown jewels of the US, now lying in the gutter because of terrible, and deliberately malicious, policies and stewardship.
These cities can be fixed overnight, someone just needs to pick up the crown.
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Around half of Seattle businesses report that are considering moving or shrinking, blaming a business environment that they say is getting worse and don’t believe it looks like it will get better, according to a survey from the Downtown Seattle Association and Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce.
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Tokenization super cycle
The DTCC Tokenization Service is now live, and this is only the beginning.
Explore the service:
No company has yet appropriately budgeted the real costs of unsloppifying AI work
What's the concern? More liquidity?
Uniswap stable hook is now being used to create pairs between Robinhood and Ondo tokenized stocks on Robinhood chain
Impact:
- more onchain liquidity for tokenized stocks
- users can LP to earn stable yield on stock tokens and profit from like-kind stock arb
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Big tech companies will build adult daycares, then act surprised when employees treat it like a daycare instead of working
Very cool. Ondo Stocks on Robinhood Chain introduces new arb opportunities + ways to trade and earn LP fees, all withOndo Stocks’ 24/7 liquidity
One of the largest tokenized stock issuers is now on Robinhood Chain, with Uniswap as its liquidity layer
@Ondo Stocks and Robinhood Stock Tokens are the same shares, pegged 1:1 like USDC/USDT
That’s what StablePair Hook was built for, now in its first use beyond stablecoins
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same energy lmao
I recommend we allocate a portion of our ICBMs to be aimed at San Francisco
“Do you think that getting married young has made you less ambitious?”
Welcome to the first episode of SOTA Wives with Sarah Chieng (Head of DevX at Cerebras, @MilksandMatcha) x Vivian Midha Shen (General Partner at Y Combinator, @vivianmshen).
In episode 1: finding your person before getting rich, turning down startup funding to finish MIT, what a YC partner sees in founders, and how a birthday post became “psychological violence.”
4:08 Finding your husband before the exit
8:48 Did we marry away our ambition?
18:04 The internet called Sarah's birthday “psychological violence”
20:47 Does your YC partner secretly think you’re doomed?
23:47 Building a startup with your ex-boyfriend
28:54 SF cat parties
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In 10 years, the stock market closing at 4pm will sound like driving to Blockbuster before it closed to rent a movie.
Another record:
Today, Ondo's tokenized tbill USDY surpassed both BlackRock's BUIDL and Circle USYC to be the #1# largest by TVL
CT casually watching midterms
Bad week to be a pumpkin
