Head of BD @efrontier_io | Ex @Partial_f @BerkeleyHaas @calblockchain | Crypto and Islam
Berkeley, CA
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I wrote a little something on #blockchain and #IslamicFinance. Hope you'll take a read!
"Just as blockchain technology shows great promise for the financial services industry, it could also improve processes within the Islamic finance industry."
Check out "Islamic Finance and Blockchain Pt. 1" by @Andrew1Tu .
Article: blockchainatberkeley.blog/is…
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Sometimes I deeply crave American Chinese food. However, this is nearly impossible to find in Berkeley, California, whose restaurant scene is entirely composed of hand pulled noodles from Lanzhou and Xi’an. Oh, the horrors
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BVIV Index perpetual futures are live on Hyperliquid!
BVIV Index perpetual futures are now live on @HyperliquidX.
Trade BTC's 30-day implied volatility on your favorite exchange.
app.hyperliquid.xyz/trade/mk…
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[B@B 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY] 🎊
10 years ago, a group of Berkeley students came together to learn about Bitcoin and educate each other on a technology they believed could change the world.
They probably didn’t know that, a decade later, that little group would blossom into one of Berkeley’s top tech communities and bring together some of the most ambitious, thoughtful, kind, and absolutely cracked people we know.
Over the last 10 years, B@B has been home to some insane startups and even crazier ideas. But more importantly, it’s given us lifelong friendships, unforgettable memories, and a ridiculous amount of laughter along the way.
B@B turned 10 this year, and one reunion simply wasn’t enough. So, in true blockchain fashion, we forked it, hosting anniversary celebrations on both coasts and bringing together alumni from across a decade of B@B.
Some highlights:
- A photo wall of 10 years of our most wholesome moments, walking down memory lane
- Custom engraved Ledgers for our alumni made by our own @DivijMot @createdbymason
- A tres leches “10 Years of B@B & Boujee” cake courtesy of former-pres @Ridddhiiii
- Lots of old lore, reunions, and questionable stories resurfacing
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Went to the @CalBlockchain 10-year anniversary reunion yesterday
Felt like Blue from Old School
But grateful to know such an inspiring group of researchers, operators, and investors
Shoutout to just a few of the gigabrains:
- @zkDragon
- @MaxFangX
- @liamdig
- @createdbymason
- @kbrizzle_
- @thatdegenvc
- @DivijMot
- @snarkyzk
- @alexisgauba
- @hyusapx
- @ronenkirsh
- @anjan_vinod
- @sunnya97
- @naman_kapasi
- @Lsquaredleland
- @puniaviision
- @curiousgurnoor
- @ravi_riley
- @marvelgirl_eth
- @akash_khosla
- @0xalpo
- @5herv1n
- @medhakothari
- @fekunze
- @AndrewTu_
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people keep saying sf is a monoculture
but i strongly disagree
there are so many incredible writers, poets, filmmakers, technologists, creatives, and academics who carry the soul of this city , who make the culture of sf as diverse as their presence and their work
but it takes intention to bring us all together
@haroonisdreamin 's reading rooms are one of the few spaces in sf where you can make a new friend AND expand your perspective on sf's culture
so come join us tonight @ the reading room
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Boundaries Strategy #3: Breakout Pair
This is one of my favorites, and what inspired the product itself. It's a volatility trade.
Chop = lose everything
Rip in either direction = get paid
Boundaries Strategy #2: Income-style
Meant to mirror a cash-secured put option, Boundaries can be used to build income-focused strategies as well.
An example with BTC at 80k.
- Set your target to 81k
- Set invalidation level to 70k
Bitcoin's expected volatility would have this resolve in your favor ~90% of the time on average, even higher if you have an edge.
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"Only possible on Hyperliquid" is not a meme. There is literally no other network we could have launched our product on.
Boundary Perps has no market maker you need to trust. A smart contract quotes your payout, takes the other side of your position, and hedges its book on Hyperliquid perps. Fully autonomous, winners get paid by code, no trust.
Our architecture has 3 requirements of the tech stack:
1.) Smart contracts - payouts are enforced onchain and settlement is permissionless.
2.) Autonomous Hedging - Orders placed on a real order book, with collateral the contract holds, in the same environment it settles in.
3.) Liquidity Depth - The orderbook needs depth. Every quote is priced off the cost of hedging it, so thin liquidity means bad pricing.
Hyperliquid has all three. HyperEVM contracts read HyperCore prices directly and place orders on the book through CoreWriter. That combination exists in one place.
And with Elysium by @Kinetiq_xyz coming, the reasons to build here are only getting stronger.
That is why we build here.
Hyperliquid.
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Introducing Boundary Perpetual Contracts, only possible on HyperEVM.
As a builder, what captures my attention the most is innovative technology.
With new tech comes new possibilities.
That's what drew me to build around @HyperliquidX. HyperEVM + CoreWriter is a combination that does not exist elsewhere.
This single innovation, combined with the depth of Hyperliquid's liquidity, has unlocked the design space for a new era of DeFi.
There is no other place we could build Boundary Perps with a truly decentralized, permissionless architecture.
Boundary Perps is the foundation.
A simpler form of trading is the vision.
Hyperliquid.
Boundary Perpetual Contracts
A new financial primitive only made possible by HyperEVM.
Coming soon to bound.exchange
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Crypto looks so good this week it feels like we're ready for a new war or a pandemic or an exchange hack or something
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Great joining @CNBCArabia today to discuss Bitcoin, performance of the @volmexfinance Indices, and upcoming market catalysts.
BVIV everywhere.
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Had sincere Muslims, grounded in our ethics and guided by scholars, been at the frontier of social media from day one, we might have platforms that were less addicting, less permissive, and more resilient to Zionist influence.
But we didn't. Nor did we with smartphones, the internet, the computer, the TV, the radio, the camera. A new technological wave brings years of critique, debate, and tearing down the faintest Muslim attempt to build something of value. A decade later the debate disappears. The technology has become too ubiquitous; unrealistic to opt out of, let alone debate.
AI is today's controversy. Quantum and frontier fintech like stablecoins (already seeing it personally at Goldsand) are tomorrow's.
This is what the Qaf debate is really about. We keep getting blindsided because we lack a serious philosophy of technology. Mostly, we just have a habit of reacting to it.
So here's the standard I'm arguing for: when sincere Muslims build at the frontier, they will make mistakes. But instead of tearing them down, give them naseeha. If they listen, support them. Or rather, fight for them more than any user base ever would. The ummah depends on it.
If they don't listen, find alternatives fast.
The train of technology is not stopping. It's only speeding up. Our choice is to drive it or be dragged along.
Used to wonder how opposition to the printing press could last for centuries in parts of the Muslim world but seeing the reaction to Qaf, I think I understand it a bit more now.
I’ve yet to see a solid argument for why it’s meaningfully harmful though. The haters seem to pretend as if people aren’t already asking ChatGPT the exact same questions.
If that’s the reality, I’d much rather they use something purpose-built for Islamic literature, retrieving from actual sources and surfacing citations, than ask the same questions to a general-purpose model with no guarantee its answer is grounded in the relevant literature.
You can absolutely argue that an AI-generated answer shouldn’t be treated as a fatwa, especially for nuanced fiqh questions. But that’s a limitation you design around and make clear to the user, not an argument against the existence of the tool itself.
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Introducing Qaf!
Ask any Islamic question and Qaf will research over 8,000 Islamic books and generate an accurate answer with citations.
Available on iOS, Android, and qaf[dot]ai
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Very good piece by Joshua Busby on China's EV production. I only have one quibble. Busby says: "Xiaomi’s attempt to take on Apple and Tesla seems like one of those only-in-China stories. China’s scale of manufacturing — and the vast supplier ecosystems this sustains — make China arguably the only country where a mobile phone maker can try to become an EV maker as well."
I would argue that the real reason a mobile phone maker in China can quickly pivot to becoming a major EV maker is because of near-unlimited financing at very accommodative terms. Anyone in China interested in expanding production capabilities in sectors deemed strategic by the government can raise enormous amounts of financing very easily, with little concern about eventually hitting hard budget constraints.
But China's ability to do this wasn't an only-in-China story. It was also the story of Japan in the 1970s and 1980s. Every time Tokyo deemed a manufacturing sector to be of strategic importance, Japanese manufacturers quickly dominated that sector globally.
For a while Japanese manufacturers in one sector after another seemed unassailable, but ultimately a country's debt capacity is always the constraint. No country can maintain global competitiveness forever if this competitiveness requires permanent increases in debt to fund the sources of its competitiveness (i.e., direct and indirect subsidies). The cost to Japan was a surge in overall debt that ultimate caused the whole strategy to reverse after 1990-91 in the form of an extremely difficult adjustment.
China already has one of the highest debt-to-GDP ratios in the world (second only to Japan's), and it is rising at perhaps the fastest rate in history. Like Japan's, in other words, China's manufacturing success depends ultimately on an unsustainable increase in the country's debt burden.
But while this cannot go on forever, Busby is right to say that EV producers in the US (and Europe) should nonetheless be very concerned. As the history of the US chemical industries demonstrates, a county's productive capacity in a particular sector can be undermined in a very short period, but it is extremely difficult to rebuild.
thewirechina.com/2026/07/12/…
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Crypto is a legit and indeed inevitable technology. Usually such things are net positive.
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A lot of people think the metaverse failed because the first wave was cringe.
I think that misses the real point.
The most important use case for the metaverse may have nothing to do with gaming, culture, or digital real estate.
It may come from AI.
If AI starts replacing human labor faster than society can create new forms of work, the problem is not just lost income.
It’s that the current system loses one of its main organizing principles: labor as the path to survival, dignity, status, and participation.
At that point, society has a few options:
1) redesign capitalism
2) expand redistribution at much larger scale
3) create synthetic economic arenas where humans can still compete, earn, own, and matter
That third path is where the metaverse becomes relevant.
Virtual economies may end up becoming less of a toy and more of a social necessity.
The first wave looked childish.
The next wave may look like infrastructure.
Am I too early on this?
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I only invest in $TAO now
It is the most compelling ecosystem in crypto
with the highest rate of product iteration and talent density I've ever come across
My discussion with Wei below on @supercyclepod
00:00 Introduction
01:50 Macro Outlook
09:48 Speculative demand shift from crypto to AI
12:31 JP Morgan and the institutionalization of blockchain
15:15 AI vs. crypto: intelligence amplifiers vs. value representation
22:50 Korea's "Salaryman" dream and social drivers of crypto volume
33:00 Discovering Bittensor and decentralized systems
41:42 Why decentralized AI matters as a counterweight to frontier labs
47:53 Metanova (SN68) and AI drug discovery on Bittensor
01:04:32 Babelbit (SN59), Yanez (SN54), Beam (SN105)
01:08:45 Why founders choose Bittensor over traditional VC
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The "abandonment of the local" in favor of the "global best" has a weird side effect, which is that the "global best" ends up wildly over-saturated.
You see this all the time with anything worth photographing. The famous tulip fields of Holland are beset every spring by legions of Instagrammers standing in line. Climbing Mount Everest is now a standing-in-line activity too: at peak season, you pretty much have a solid convoy of people marching from base camp all the way to the top.
All of the consumer demand ends up going to the "global best", by which these "best" locations become totally uninteresting. Sometimes you run into people who seem well-traveled, but then you realize that they've just been checking off the same commercial destinations as everyone else. When they go to Greece, they go to Mykonos or Santorini. When they go to Mexico, they go to CDMX or Cabo. When they go to Europe, they go to Paris, and when they go to a music festival, they go to Coachella.
But life is to some extent about finding the unexpected and forging your own path off-piste. The global best -- or should I say, the things so attractive that they become globalized, homogenized, and commercialized -- simply become uninteresting.
Of course, it is rare for the "global best" to actually be that much better than the second-best! You're often talking about marginal differentiation at most. By going for the second tier, you can get something almost as "good", but without any of the commercial distortion.
All of the really remarkable personal experiences now seem to come out of visiting the tier-twos and tier-threes, the things that are overlooked and off other people's radars, where there's still something new and meaningful to be discovered.
The flipside of this is the abandonment of the local, because the global best is just a click away.
Why attend my local high school's musical when I have Broadway singing on YouTube? Why buy art from a local painter when I can download any masterwork in minutes?
Yes, these are not the same thing, but that's the point. In the frame of Will's essay, we're skipping out on local church and livesteaming mass from Westminster Cathedral instead.
In our search for global maxima, we've surrendered local communal bonds.