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1/ Extremely excited to announce that Kamino will be an official integration partner for xStocks on Solana Shortly after launch, Backed xStocks will be onboarded as collateral to Kamino Lend, and will be available to buy/sell on Kamino Swap Welcome to a new era for DeFi

Tokenized equities are coming to Solana, powered by Raydium LPs and trading will go live soon

This is awesome - like a bunch of stuff in crypto, was tried way back in 2020 with Mirror but was too early and synthetic nature of tokens was a key flaw. Doing it right now - with real counterparties, a mature user base, and better infra - is a game-changer. Feels like

The cost...$0.00032 😂 BUT this also ignores the additional horrendous hidden costs most global users would pay to get the USD to buy TSLA on a US exchange.

First spot solana staking ETF is officially live. Healthy start to trading for a new ETF with ~$8 million in trading in first 20 min.

Another datapoint of tradfi discovering crypto use-cases/things on a 4 or so year timelag to the crypto sandbox version...

Around 14% of all BTC is now held by ETFs and public/private companies - and that share is growing. Add to that a growing incremental pool held by financial engineers. Added to the fact tradFi continues to see the opportunity in stables, BTC yield/lending looks like one of

Memecoin Wars getting violent - trenches on $BONK surging as it flips Pump for activity

How does a big tariff on a freely available, essential commodity make sense? Isnt it just a gift for local US producers/hit for local manufacturers? Only rationale would be if you thought local production somehow constrained which would seem odd and would take many year (and

Getting more extreme now - letsBONK.fun taking over meme generation market over the last week - interesting timing.... Pump hasnt had graduation numbers this low since Sept 24

I think of this as the "cost" of a strategy. The cost of being short has been too low for some time - rallies have poor to no follow-through so shorts live to fight another day. Cost of shorting rose over the last 24hrs - may it continue to keep rising! Key low cost strategy has

🎉 Edition 30 of my newsletter, The Funding, is live! Many thanks to Diogo Mónica, Richard Galvin, Cosmo Jiang, Rob Hadick ＞|＜, Jeff Dorman, Ed Roman and Kavan Canekeratne for sharing insights 🙌 theblock.co/post/362357/ne…

Solana-based decentralized lending protocol Kamino integrates tokenized xStocks as a collateral option theblock.co/post/362284/so…

Surely one of the greatest investments of all time?

As mentioned below - link to the discussion with Sid Powell 🥞 re his Maple journey and the road ahead. Incredible story of rebuilding from near zero to a $3bn loan book with a $10bn+ 24 month target. 💪 As more tradfi and financial engineers own Bitcoin and other crypto

Had a great conversation w/ Richard Galvin about how Maple is bridging TradFi to DeFi and how onchain asset management remains a $1T opportunity.

We have allocated a total of $190.4m to buyback $RAY This brings our total amount of accumulated $RAY to 69.1m or 25% of the circulating supply