I am a technology optimist. I believe: 1. decentralization and censorship-resistance (real versions of these properties, not larps) matter to human freedom in the coming age of AI 2. self-sovereign money, implemented by code and maintained through decentralized consensus, is the final form of money. But it needs to be truly decentralized -- cut out every possible weakness, trust assumption, keeper, etc. Of course there will be connectors to the real world - harden those maximally 3. AI will write most smart contract code. Spec-driven development with Formal Verification will be how new contracts are written rigorously. FV will also be crucial to securing all the infra including the blockchain itself 4. AI will harden our surfaces, with some unfortunate hacks in the process, but ultimately the crypto and financial industries will come out stronger 5. properly-constructed and properly-indexed data lakes will enable agents to build software far more productively 6. governments will move to restrict AI usage in the future, causing true decentralization and CR to matter in dramatic fashion 7. quantum security will be a must for any ledger where people trust their assets. And specifically, blockchains will need to deliver quantum-resistance while retaining programmability and performance. Again, no larping 8. ZK will be an important part of the puzzle too, as it'll be increasingly important to prove off-chain computation and utilize the result on chain. But again, performance and effortlessness for users will be the differentiator 9. pragmatic and composable privacy will be the missing piece for real adoption. People will use apps that stack together stablecoins, DeFi, blockchain settlement, passkey or MPC authentication, and friction-free onramps, but the part that gets fintechs over the line is knowing that user balances will remain private while still being able to tap into shared liquidity 10. blockchain will serve as the global, universal marketplace, for anyone anywhere to get the best opportunities. For that we will need guarantees of fair execution, protection from frontrunning, and a convergence of all of the best assets At @category_xyz and the @monad Foundation, we are assembling all of these missing pieces in parallel with extreme urgency, and I hope this is clear from our actions. See you in the future

It’s been a pretty crazy 4 months. Before entering the summer, we had about $20K left in the bank and all of us were getting close to calling it quits. Then we got accepted into @nitrodotacc by Monad, received a $500K investment, mentorship, and a chance to change everything in New York surrounded by some of the best founders you can think of. We launched 3 separate times, once in May, relaunched in June, and again in July. After 2 months of building, we were stuck at 1K users, had little retention, and had no way to push ourselves out to the public. July came around and we took a step back to move forward, taking everything we learned from months 1 and 2 and applying it to month 3. We figured it out. We entered Demo Day with 20K users and $250K in trading volume. August came around and we went viral across socials once again, generating $10M in trading volume and reaching 30K registered users in just 30 days. Now it’s October and we’re still moving forward with the best support behind us. We have some huge announcements coming next week and the week after, and we’re looking to finally push ourselves to the top of the prediction market leaderboard globally. Trusting the process is probably the biggest lesson I’ve taken from all of this. Keep going.

forever grateful for this community, our partners, and my goated team ❤️ the mint is smooth, and people are experiencing the best of the best. there’s so much more to come for our holders. time to expand the CHOG WORLD ORDER! 🦔