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Taken as an unverified update, the notable part is cadence. A framework launch is a promise. Recurring capital-market operations create a track record that is easier to evaluate. TaijiLabs prefers the boring scoreboard to the launch-day headline.
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Conviction is not confirmation. A social app on Solana that calls itself the social layer needs numbers, so here are the ones Cherry publishes.
Cherry is the app where the wallet is the account: chat, communities and trading on one screen. The figures behind @cherrydotfun at the time of writing:
• more than 1M messages sent inside the app
• more than 200 communities, public, private and gated
• 4.8 on Google Play
• named the top-ranked social app on Seeker by Solana Mobile in July 2026
• more than 7,000 verified Seeker owners in the Seeker Club
• live on iOS, Android and Solana Mobile
The product thesis is narrow: the signal, the record behind it and the buy button in the same message. The adoption figures say the thesis has users, not just a deck.
Cherry's own line for it: "All in one app."
We will keep tracking the figures. Confirmation is a trend, not a screenshot.
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Getting a grid connection for $BTC mining got hard. Two or three years ago it wasn't.
Filmed at a GoMining site in West Texas, Jared (CEO of GoMining North America Division) makes the point: the competition now is hyperscalers. They want the same large sites, they have deeper pockets, and they are winning most of them. So experienced miners have shifted to smaller builds, 20 to 30 megawatts, containerized, slotted into spare capacity on substations that already exist.
Worth sitting with for anyone who has considered buying an ASIC miner. If professionals with capital and utility relationships are struggling for power, a home setup is not competing on the same terms.
That work is already done behind every GoMining digital miner. The power and the site are sorted before you ever log in.
What do you think actually limits $BTC mining growth: hardware or electricity?
If gold demand can hide in opaque OTC channels, the reporting gap is the real story. Auditable reserves and transparent settlement records should be market infrastructure, not a Web3 talking point.
Five wallets, one portfolio, one handle. The onboarding story of Solana finally fits in one sentence. @cherrydotfun
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Now you are @you
Link every wallet. See one portfolio. Hide what you want. Log in with anything
Claim your Cherry ID handle this week
Maturation may narrow the market’s tolerance for proxies. Broad category exposure matters less when capital can filter for products with visible demand, repeat users and durable usage. The premium shifts from positioning to proof.
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i expect capital to become much more concentrated in a smaller group of crypto assets as the industry matures
in previous cycles, you could buy almost any alt and benefit from the broader market moving up
now we're seeing a clearer distinction between projects with actual product-market fit and those relying mostly on speculation
i think understanding which businesses are generating real revenue, attracting users and executing consistently will matter a lot more than simply betting on the entire altcoin market
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We took Signo live at @OKX Dev Day in Singapore.
Out of ~30 finalist teams:
🥇 1st place, Partnership track (AI x RWA): Signo x @agamafinance
🥈 2nd place, AI track: Signo
Agents for every DeFi position, watching 24/7. Here's what we built 🧵
Bitcoin miners are losing large grid sites to hyperscalers that need power for AI and cloud. Operators are shifting to smaller 20-30 MW builds on existing substations. GoMining, now at around 2% of global hashrate, runs sites like this one in West Texas.
Getting a grid connection for $BTC mining got hard. Two or three years ago it wasn't.
Filmed at a GoMining site in West Texas, Jared (CEO of GoMining North America Division) makes the point: the competition now is hyperscalers. They want the same large sites, they have deeper pockets, and they are winning most of them. So experienced miners have shifted to smaller builds, 20 to 30 megawatts, containerized, slotted into spare capacity on substations that already exist.
Worth sitting with for anyone who has considered buying an ASIC miner. If professionals with capital and utility relationships are struggling for power, a home setup is not competing on the same terms.
That work is already done behind every GoMining digital miner. The power and the site are sorted before you ever log in.
What do you think actually limits $BTC mining growth: hardware or electricity?
If confirmed, tokenized stocks on Solana would move the chain deeper into market infrastructure, with wallets serving as a direct interface for traditional assets. The Web3 implication: competition shifts from issuance to liquidity, custody and access.
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Ask anyone who sends money abroad what annoys them most. It's rarely the fee. It's the fee they didn't know about.
A7 International made a point of this at its launch: the price is known before you pay, and it doesn't change afterwards.
What they committed to on stage:
• 0.3% fee, flat, stated upfront
• no hidden extras, no "correspondent bank charges" surprise
• no unexplained freezes of funds along the way
• USDT from you, SWIFT in USD, CNY or AED to the recipient
• from one business day to delivery
Fradkov described the market's real demand as "a few clicks from a smartphone, without paperwork, hidden fees or frozen money."
Everyone promises that. Few deliver it at 2,000+ payments a day. Following to see if they do: A7.biz
#crypto #A7
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Crypto payments usually break at the accountant's desk, not at the blockchain.
No invoice match, no bank confirmation, nothing to file. A7 International showed a flow at its launch that seems designed for that desk:
• you upload the actual invoice, the system reads the details
• the recipient company's registration certificate goes through verification
• the counterparty receives a regular SWIFT transfer in the invoice currency
• you get a document confirming the payment was executed
• 0.3% fee, from one business day
The payer uses USDT. The paper trail looks like a normal international transfer.
Shor's framing: "We make complex financial operations understandable again."
If the documents hold up in a real audit, this is the interesting part. Following: A7.biz
#crypto #A7
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Trade routes are moving. Settlement rails mostly aren't.
That gap is what A7 International went after at its launch this week. The founders' thesis in one line: "The market belongs to those who come first with a working solution."
What "working" looks like in their version:
• payer settles a foreign invoice in USDT
• recipient gets SWIFT in USD, yuan or dirhams, the currencies of the new routes
• payment network across 150+ countries, no local offices
• 15,000+ businesses already using the group's rails
• 0.3% fee, from one business day
The currency choice is the tell: dollar, yuan, dirham. That's where trade is going.
Early days for the product. Watching whether the rails keep up with the routes: A7.biz
#crypto #A7
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2024: a cross-border payments company for one market.
2026: a launch on an open stage in Moscow, pitching a product to the whole world.
A7 International's founders used the stream to show what happened in between:
• 150+ countries connected to their payment network
• 15,000+ business clients
• 10 trillion rubles in payments last year
• 2,000+ transactions a day, half of them processed by AI
• market leader in Russian cross-border payments with a 19% share
The new product sits on top of that: pay a foreign invoice in USDT, recipient gets SWIFT in USD, CNY or AED, 0.3% fee, from one business day.
Fradkov's words: "We have outgrown this framework."
Fast growth is easy to announce and hard to sustain. Curious which way this goes: A7.biz
#crypto #A7
AI agents should not get a blank check onchain. Safe automation needs scoped permissions, visible action logs, spending limits and instant revocation. Autonomy is useful only when control remains legible.
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Most B2B payment products quietly exclude you if you're not a company.
A7 International said on its launch stream that the new product is for both: companies and individuals paying abroad.
The flow is the same for either:
• register on a7.biz, upload the invoice
• system reads the amount and the bank details automatically
• recipient's registration certificate goes through verification
• confirm one USDT transaction from your wallet
• recipient gets SWIFT in USD, CNY or AED, from one business day
Fee is 0.3%, fixed. Only the payer needs a wallet; the other side never touches crypto.
Shor's point: "If your partner specifically needs to receive funds via SWIFT, now you have that option."
Opening this to individuals is the part I didn't expect. Following to see how it's used: A7.biz
#crypto #A7
Cross-border payment providers usually scale by opening offices. Branch in Dubai, desk in Singapore, partner in Lagos.
A7 International said at its launch it is skipping that step entirely.
How they claim to serve 150+ countries with no local offices:
• fully digital path: register, upload invoice, confirm, done
• API links tie partner banks and payment rails into one network
• 2,000+ transactions daily already run this way
• USDT from the payer, SWIFT in USD, CNY or AED to the recipient
• 0.3% flat fee, delivery from one business day
Fradkov's line from the stage: "If you have internet access, you have access to all our services."
Remote-first finance at this scale is a bold bet. Keeping track of how it plays out: A7.biz
#crypto #A7
If this release reaches Japan as hinted, its strongest effect may be interpretive: local-language context paired with personal history can make a global crypto story easier for a local audience to evaluate on its own terms.
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<Freedom of Money> is coming to Japan on Oct 19 🇯🇵 A big part of my story started in Tokyo, from my early 20s to when we moved the early Binance team there in 2017 and grew from an empty office in Meguro. よろしくお願いします🙏 Pre-order: amazon.co.jp/dp/4868450956
Taiji Labs retweeted
USDT in, SWIFT out. A7 International will present a way to pay foreign invoices in USDT, with recipients receiving a bank transfer in their required currency. Fixed fee: 0.3%.
13 October, 10:13 UTC. Watch: a7.biz/live
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Taiji Labs retweeted
Cross-border payments are the focus of A7 International: settle an overseas invoice in USDT, then deliver funds by SWIFT in the needed currency. The fee stays at 0.3%.
Petr Fradkov and Ilan Shor present it on 13 October, 10:13 UTC. a7.biz/live
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