raj 🖤
@rajgokal
@solana accelerationist. giga-techno-optimist. bad jokes are my own. rt's and likes are not endorsements. do your own research.
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going back to China for the first time in a while. excited!
import market structure
Armani Ferrante, CEO of @Backpack, on why Solana is becoming the aggregation layer for everything
“Solana has always been marching towards something much bigger than any single exchange. You could call it an API for all of finance, or a parallel economy and financial system. But I think the end state is Solana as the aggregation layer for everything."
"It’s all about importing market structure. Not just crypto-native assets, but the entire economy, because the network effect is money.”
@armaniferrante @KyleSamani
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LATEST: 📊 Solana's network growth has jumped 124% since early September, with roughly 1.71M new wallets created daily, according to Santiment.
one of the more under-discussed developments this cycle is how competitive SOL is becoming with centralized exchanges
with platforms like Sunrise and Backpack expanding access to crypto assets and tokenized stocks, more spot trading activity can move directly onchain
Solana's low fees and fast execution make it possible to build trading infrastructure that can compete with centralized venues, sometimes even offering better spreads
i'm also keeping an eye on Wormhole, which plays an important role in cross-chain infrastructure and looks interesting after such a significant drawdown
haven't bought any yet, but it's worth watching as tokenized assets continue gaining traction on SOL
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in case anyone was wondering
🚨JUST IN: @Solana users don’t need “bunker mode,” says Solana Foundation’s VP of Technology @jacobvcreech, responding to @drakefjustin’s warning about quantum and AI threats.
“Solana remains secure today and has a defined path forward.”
He says breaking Solana’s Ed25519 cryptography would expose a derived signing key, but not the secret seed. A network upgrade could let rightful owners prove knowledge of that seed and move to a safe signature scheme. A working proof of concept already exists.
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In Q2 2026, Samsung became the world’s #1# smartphone maker, shipping 62 million Galaxy devices globally.
Last year, Samsung sold 240 million phones, surpassing 1 billion total active devices.
This is humanity-scale digital money, powered by Solana.
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this feels like another one of those "fast takeoff" weeks
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robots will help make every detail of the world more beautiful
Pretty incredible impacts of the timing of autonomous mowing on dollar spot development. On the peak disease date of Aug 12, 2026 there was a 96% reduction in DS when mowed at midnight compared to 9 AM and a 91% reduction when mowed at 3 AM. The pics below tell the story
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Powerus has received an order of $82 million for counter-unmanned aerial systems, the second order placed under an existing U.S. government IDIQ contract. Deliveries are expected over the next several quarters.
We build these systems in the United States, using NDAA-compliant components. IDIQ means the customer can keep ordering against the same contract as requirements come up.
"I served alongside the men and women who use this equipment. Now we build it for them." @CharlieKeebaugh, Executive Vice President of Sales
Full release linked in comments.
$PUSA
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co-sign
New rule: if you cook up a bioweapon in a lab and release it to the world, your economy is quarantined and the people responsible get executed.
this was supposed to happen in 2029 the acceleration is accelerating
Arguing about consciousness in 2026 is pretty cool though.
the graveyard is much much bigger than this.
many more graves to be dug
Backpack Supercycle
Really clean onboarding for Backpack.
Foolishly didn't listen to our analysts when they said to buy $BP at $120m fdv.
I'm in at $1.3b... still cheap for potentially the hottest exchange of this cycle and a clean bet on tokenization.
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centralized competitors to Solana don’t stand a chance for the same reason a company without a culture of self agency and initiative are also doomed
on Solana it is already in our DNA that anyone can identify a gap as an opportunity to be filled, after which competition begets the apex predator products
on centralized chains everyone just waits around for dev to do something/to be told what to do and hopes to ride the tails of distribution of whatever famous brand or corp
ive seen teams dysfunction this way in human orgs as well
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indian excellence
ONE YEAR AGO, Captain Smit Machchhar was asked what's a bigger high: A smooth landing, or an on-time arrival?
His answer: "None. Safe. You don't have to think about on time. They've hired other people to take care of that."
"A positive landing. Safe landing where I'm supposed to land. If it turns out smooth, perfect."
Today, stabbed by his co-pilot, he still got the cockpit door open so passengers could stop the hijacking.
He saved the lives of all 174 passengers, and they had a safe landing.
Thank you, Captain Machchhar.
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indian excellence
Had this man not found the courage to fight back after being repeatedly attacked with an axe capable of cutting through metal—while bleeding profusely—and had the presence mind to trigger the hijack/emergency code, initiate the emergency response and open the cockpit door to allow passengers to assist him, the aircraft’s subsequent dive could have had catastrophic consequences.
Had that aircraft not been recovered, the geopolitical consequences for the Middle East could have been profound and potentially irreversible.
Sometimes history turns on the courage, resilience and presence of mind of one person.
Yes. One Indian man.
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if solana could talk this would be its first words
