Head of vibes at @lofty_ai and @alphaarcade I craft bugs, then fix them in production.
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It's UPtober now!
We just upgraded @pyteal_nerd to the finished side of the basement.
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You tap send.
A few seconds later, it is done.
Not pending.
Not “give it an hour.”
Done.
It costs about a tenth of a penny.
A dollar or ten thousand dollars, same price.
The network has not gone down since 2019.
Someone in another country can get paid before a bank wire even leaves the building.
Someone here can buy a $50 slice of a rental house and collect their share of the rent the next day.
A computer can pay another computer for a task, instantly, for less than the cost of a postage stamp.
This is money that moves like a text.
That is Algorand.
$ALGO
$ALGO at ~$1.05B / rank ~#76 is one of the cleanest disconnects in crypto.
The market is valuing Algorand like a leftover alt.
The network already looks like infrastructure:
• 10,000+ TPS capacity
• Instant finality. No rollbacks.
• ~2.8s block time
• Standard fee: 0.001 ALGO (~$0.00012). Live average ~$0.00016. Post-quantum txs: 0.003 ALGO.
• 0 downtime since 2019
• ~90% of the 10B max supply already circulating
• Carbon-neutral since 2021
• Native post-quantum accounts live on mainnet
Now look at the market-cap rating next to other L1S:
$SOL ~$71B
$ADA ~$9.5B
$NEAR ~$6.4B
$AVAX ~$4.8B
$HBAR ~$4.1B
$ALGO ~$1.05B
That means Algorand is priced at:
~1.5% of Solana
~11% of Cardano
~22% of Avalanche
~25% of Hedera
Those chains aren't 70x better at what matters for real settlement: finality, uptime, cost, and certainty.
Algorand already has the hard part built. What it lacks is the narrative premium.
That gap is the opportunity.
Not financial advice.
$ALGO #Algorand #Layer1
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Karim retweeted
We’re excited to announce our new whitepaper outlining the future of the $alpha protocol and our short-term plans to apply for the federal regulatory approvals required to offer regulated prediction market products to US users.
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Coding with AI agents is starting to feel exactly like bad genetic replication.
Every time an agent generates, refactors, or patches code, it introduces a tiny bit of mutational entropy. Left unchecked, the codebase eventually degrades into fragile, unmaintainable mush. Here is why:
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In biology, enzymes constantly scan and repair transcription errors to keep the organism alive.
In software engineering, humans must act as that vital evolutionary filter. We are the ones fixing silent telemetry gaps, enforcing rigid architectural templates, and steering the structure before mutations take over.
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poly taker delay went 50 → 150ms and people felt it in their fingers.
We don’t have a taker delay because the book lives on chain.
not a flex 😉
just a different machine
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More than 15 years ago, when I was starting my working life, I entered a coding interview, they handed me an old ThinkPad and asked me to create a product page, take the data from an xml file, create an api for a shopping cart and connect the product page to it. With no Google, no Stack Overflow and no IDE. Just notepad.
The interviewer abandoned the room after explaining the rules and then went out.
I didn't just died inside, but outside too.
Stared 10 straight minutes into the laptop screen, questioning me why I didn't chose graphic design as a career path. Then just went out of the building, without telling anyone.
i walked out of a coding interview today. the rule was no ai. i knew that going in. once the process started and i wrote some code by hand, i immediately died a little inside. i even said out loud, i want to use ai for this. the interviewer was so nice and he agreed, yeah we all use ai too. the interview process tho hasn't evolved. it's a rule at most companies that no ai is allowed. so at fifteen minutes in i decided that i didn't want to write code by hand and i didn't have to. so i broke the rules. i used ai anyway. i showed him and explained the generated solution and why it worked and then politely ended the interview.
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SEC dropped a whole “crypto assets” thing.
People in my timeline: so houses on-chain are legal now right
Me: the house was already a house the chain didn’t baptize it
read the footnote or don’t. I’m not your lawyer. I just work here
The Regulation Crypto Assets proposal is our most historic step yet to cement America as the Crypto Capital of the World—and is consonant with our belief that Congress should send the CLARITY Act to the President's desk.
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