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I'm a former restaurant owner. In 2013, I started taking $BTC as payments to fight back against credit card fees. All savings from fees goes straight to the bottom line - and has major impact for a restaurant with thin margins.
Now, over 10 years later, we finally have a scalable solution for restaurants to improve profitability not only from lower fees but also better loyalty.
Congrats @blackbird! This is a long time coming.
🚀 The future of restaurant payments starts now.
Flynet is live—our purpose-built transaction network designed to cut fees, give restaurants control over their data, and create a new economy of loyalty.
Restaurants deserve better. This is how they get it.
📖 Read more from our CEO and founder, @benleventhal: bit.ly/4gZtY1E
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Nick V 🪩 worldli.eth retweeted
The agentic economy is taking off. Payments. Cards. Commerce. Frameworks. Wallets. Analytics.
Agentic finance will be the reigning theme going forward. I've compiled and made a market map of the names and players you should be aware of.
The future belongs to our AI overlords.
Nick V 🪩 worldli.eth retweeted
Visa and Stripe's Bridge are launching stablecoin-backed cards in 100+ countries.
This is SO different from how cards used to work.
You used to have to launch country-by-country.
Now its possible via one single API.
How? 👇
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Bridge (which Stripe acquired in 2025) is the connector.
Wallet companies like Phantom come to Bridge, get branded debit cards, and their users spend stablecoin balances anywhere Visa is accepted.
Users who live anywhere in the world can get paid in stablecoins instantly.
And attach a card to that wallet to spend.
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There's been a massive rise in companies launching "stablecoin-linked" cards. Growing from $1bn TPV to $5bn TPV in two quarters.
Why?
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@cuysheffield, my cohost on @TokenizedPod and Visa's head of crypto, nailed it
"If you're building a stablecoin wallet and want people to spend in the real world, you need a card."
That pesky real world is so true.
Cards work.
It's settlement that doesn't.
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Bridge is also joining Visa's pilot to settle charges on-chain — replacing traditional bank transfers with stablecoin settlement on blockchains.
That's the actual long-term story.
The spending side uses existing Visa rails.
The settlement side replaces the slow, expensive correspondent banking network.
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The battle moved.
It's no longer crypto vs. cards.
It's who controls the wallet layer — and what happens when settlement moves on-chain at scale.
Nick V 🪩 worldli.eth retweeted
Big news: Crossmint is partnering with Google to enable agentic finance for everyone.
We will be using Google’s Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) to let agents buy anything with either credit cards or stablecoins.
This protocol ensures agent transactions are secure and seamless.
Nick V 🪩 worldli.eth retweeted
I've been in crypto for 8 years. There's never been anything like #bittensor.
It's a self-improving, capitalistic network where only the most useful ideas survive. Build something better, or be out-built.
Bittensor pioneered the concept of decentralized AI (deAI), a hive-mind of AI scientists advancing open intelligence across decentralized training, DeSci, compute, financial trading, betting markets, and more.
Others may try to imitate it, but they can't replicate what Bittensor is. Its ever-evolving nature means it only gets stronger by the day.
This is a new paradigm for AI innovation. It rewards utility and grit. Clean and clear.
$TAO
"We're missing the crucial ingredient: a mechanism that rewards building useful things rather than building over-hyped useless things."
"What if ... projects had to create value first, then get rewarded? That’s #Bittensor."
By @0xarrash
Opinion.
trib.al/0o0if5V
Nick V 🪩 worldli.eth retweeted
I thought music nfts and "web3" was our best chance to meaningfully change the music industry.
I still do.
But we are in a deep rut.
So it's time for a vibe check. Who's still here? And where are the opportunities right now?
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Nick V 🪩 worldli.eth retweeted
The Bitcoin economy starts today.
Mainnet is live: decentralized, EVM-equivalent, built on Bitcoin.
As publishers gate content and prevent crawling, the wire has now become a way to feed the bots your company news. This can be a valuable visibility tool in such a fragmented market.
Everything old is new again...
Nick V 🪩 worldli.eth retweeted
JM, Jupiverse 😼
Drip Labs has been acquired by @JupiterExchange.
Our mission has been to build a better internet for creators through digital ownership and crypto payments, and we are excited to continue and expand upon our mission as part of Jupiter's family of products. 🧵
Nick V 🪩 worldli.eth retweeted
Before I joined the DRiP Team, I launched as a Creator. And it changed my life.
Before @drip_haus , I was wandering between chains and platforms, trying to find the experience that best fit my creative workflow. But I was stretching myself thin.
Once on DRiP, I found an innovational format that created an experience I'd never seen before. And I wanted to bring that experience to my audience.
Immediately I knew it was where I'd call home.
Highlights from the creator side:
- I paid off my personal loan
- I activated a consistent source of income
- I made extremely incredible friends
- I experienced TRUE community
- I found a true home for my body of work
Through the many changes I've seen in this past year, I'm more bullish than ever on where we're headed.
Change presents the opportunity for evolution, and I'm ready to evolve in this next phase 💧
Nick V 🪩 worldli.eth retweeted
23andMe situation is a turning point:
> 15M users took a genetic test to get health insights
> Years later, the company struggles financially
> All user data now risks being sold to the highest bidder without anyone's consent. Maybe to an AI or insurance company?
This isn't how data is supposed to work..
Users should have a say over what happens to their data (especially genetic data). Nobody ever opted into this.
If the data is sold to one of the big AI companies, 15M users will have no say over how their data is used and revenue will just go to the AI company.
This is the beginning of an inflection point around data. Society generally agrees: the genetic data of 15M people who didn't consent shouldn’t be put up for auction. But what's the alternative?
The fundamental problem at play is a misalignment of incentives: the company that holds the dataset is different from the data contributors. If the data contributors owned the dataset and decided what to do with it, they could even build a better dataset, adding deeper genetic information with a new test or their up-to-date health records to train a predictive health AI model which they own.
DataDAOs on Vana are a new fundamental structure that align these incentives, allowing data contributors to collectively decide how their data is used, like a labor union for data.
Similar to the 2008 financial crisis sparking interest in decentralized finance, the 23andMe situation has already sparked mainstream interest in self-sovereign alternatives for data and AI. The next 10 years will be defined by data and AI, but that doesn’t mean it just has to be a few companies all bidding for data without anyone’s consent.
The same basic rights that we take for granted in the physical world - that you own your property - should exist in an AI world, too. That doesn’t mean we have to stop building AI - it actually means we can build better AI, we just have to make sure that those who contribute to it actually have a say in how it’s used and are rewarded for the economics it creates.
Vana is designed to solve this through cryptography, rather than hope and privacy policies.