mert | helius.dev
@0xMert_
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CEO @heliuslabs, nCMO @solana — Solana RPCs & APIs: https://t.co/J2To2Mz9GF — seeker of good explanations and bare-knuckle typist
United Arab Emirates
Joined September 2020
I'm hiring 4 sr. backend engineers for @heliuslabs . (15k prize for successful referrals). you get:. - to work on low-latency, high scale distributed systems, databases, bare metal, indexers, developer tools etc.- to shape the future of solana and hence all of crypto.- real.
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Been totally off caffeine for over 2 weeks now. Have noticed 0 positive benefits. Fascinating. Does it take longer or is this a scam.
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.@elonmusk physically makes no sense as a human. this guy started or helped start Paypal, Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, Boring, SolarCity, OpenAI, xAI, turned around Twitter and is now . *checks notes*. restructuring the federal gov of the USA. while being a top 20 diablo player. ok
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guys. If quantum computing breaks encryption . I guarantee your magical internet money would be the least of your worries.
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in the span of a few mins, twitter / social media was able to get you:. - several iconic photos including this one.- realtime footage from many citizen and corporate sources.- realtime commentary by the world's most influential people. while CNN gave you: "trump fell"
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@morganhousel How 70-80 year olds are generally regarded as unemployable due to mental decline / skill mismatch - yet they're exclusively running the country.
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job applicants from India are beasts lmao. USA person: "hmm sorry but this is like 24 minutes later than I can stay, I need to go to my spin class". Indian person: "ok brother I know we're 12 hours apart but I will sleep during the day and work at night to ship this".
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Folks, I launched the most beautiful Trump coin yesterday, absolutely beautiful. Everyone was saying "Sir, this is the greatest coin launch in history.". But then Melania - and listen, I love Melania, fantastic woman, used to be my favorite wife - she comes out with her own coin.
this obviously leads to a divorce right.
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This new Canadian law is the craziest thing I have ever seen in the west. According to this, they can:. - accuse, fine, and jail you for PAST speech (before the law went live). - put you on house arrest AND take away all communication rights if they even suspect you MIGHT say
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@MKBHD ? . they could accuse you of not being able to read based on this reply. the worst I'd accuse you of is being a perpetually pessimistic cynic around a piece of tech with the potential to change the internet and getting a sick joy out of trying to minimize the work of thousands of.
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XRP is actually about to flip SOL in mcap. now that's cinema
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the big news is here. today we're introducing ZK compression to Solana, directly on the L1 — without requiring L2s. this changes everything you thought you knew about Solana and scaling L1s. TL;DR — we compress onchain state to get 10,000x scale improvements and get 1 step closer
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If you're still using Coinbase as a Solana person — you are either lazy or stupid. This is embarrassing, no other exchange has this issue — i know how the coinbase systems work, I know how Ledger and the indexers work — this is beyond incompetence at this point, 13 incidents in 2
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@TiffanyFong_ hi Tiffany, long time reader, first time replier. it seems that Mr Musk has taken an interest in your tweets. would you be able to tweet something like "if you're worth 300B but dont full send Bitcoin over 100k, then we can't date". appreciate your cooperation 🙏.
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lmao @ conspiracies . you'd need:. - a shooter to hit a small ear 300ft away in a crowd.- that shooter to be ok w getting headshot by SS.- no one around to see the details.- perfect camera execution by everyone.- no one to leak it.- no one to mess up.- Trump to be ok w getting.
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this might sound silly. but this image will likely single-handedly change the world — and is the most important thing to come out of today. right at a time when american / western exceptionalism was in question. there's nothing more powerful than the meme
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uhhhh chat. this is huge. the founder of Stripe just used Solana during a live demo to announce they're now supporting crypto payments . 🤯🤯🤯
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XRP could flip SOL 😂. extremely bullish. could not ask for a better example of SOL being drastically undervalued
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Just woke up and it seems. > guy has daughter with rare brain cancer, needs funding for research lab.> drops sol address.> sol ppl make coin and give him half the supply.> instead of 100k, raised over 20M?. great work manlets
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The great rebrands. Betting -> Prediction Markets. Chatbot -> AI Agent. Casino -> Crypto. Criminal -> KOL. Server -> Layer 2 blockchain. Political science major -> Crypto researcher. Dev -> Guy who clicked launch token on pump . Gambling addiction -> Trenches.
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The fact that Cardano is up 70% this week definitively proves that we will not be a serious industry for at least another 5 years and that there is no god.
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I shit you not. I went on rolex's website ONCE. and 1 second after, bitcoin went down by 10k in one candle. cant make this up
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- SOL ETF.- zk compression.- blinks.- new 60M solana startup fund. all within 5 days. ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED. but wait. there's more.
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hawk tuah girl @HalieyWelchX just came to my Solana event. She told me she's extremely bullish on low latency chains with multiple concurrent block producers like Solana and that she's excited to firedance. This timeline absolutely can not be real. NFA
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Jeff Bezos: "When I raised money for Amazon, I had to raise 1M. Which I raised from 22 different investors, 50k each. They got 20% of the company for the million. 40 people told me no." . Crypto founder: yeah I'm gonna need 300M to build this API.
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the french arrested the ceo of telegram for not leaking user chats. weeks after the british started arresting people for saying potentially mean things on the internet. we're up against the nastiest of bureaucrats who have zero respect for individuals. crypto must win
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according to blockworks, solana did 30B in volume yesterday. for reference, the NASDAQ does over 300B per day. so we are 10x behind now — but a few months ago we were 100x behind, and before then, 1,000x behind. the gap is closing, and the world is moving onchain
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@Jason lol Jason stop pretending you can comprehend the alphabet, yet alone a chart with numbers. i) SOL is up 60% since the last time you did this a few months ago (see screenshot). ii) Facebook is up more than 200% since you sold it all. iii) Palmer started another billion-dollar
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hmmm I wonder if it's a coincidence that 40 influencers all at once started shilling the same chain during the same hour 😉.
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first it was Visa. then it was Shopify Pay. then it was Stripe. now it's PayPal. all on Solana. nfa.
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Lol . I love Canada . highest taxes and worst housing bubble on earth. solution? limit people buying crypto. (so you can spend it on legalizing crack injections for homeless people)
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after leaving toronto canada and being in dubai for a while now, here's my conclusive review:. dubai is better in every single conceivable way and it's not even close — I hate everyone for not making me do this sooner. if you are in canada, leave now.
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LMAOOOOO get rekt Elizabeth . I just community notes'd a sitting senator. No one man should have all this power
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> be me.> quit job with a ton of equity left at Coinbase.> FTX collapse.> eat literal shit and glass for 3 years trying to make a startup work.> break up with gf of 5 years to focus more on work.> fight FUD every day. end result?. this is the end result. stab me in the cornea.
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this is arguably the best application of crypto I've seen yet — everyone needs to talk about it more. traditional mapping is a monopoly, expensive, and inefficient. how it works is that Google has cars that drive around and gather data periodically and charge super high fees
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unfortunately twitter has banned me from changing my name and I am now stuck with xrp mert 😭.
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@RealRossU welcome back Ross!. in a few days, you might notice an email from someone called "Bankless" — it is very important that you mark this as spam and delete it right away.
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I LOST ALL MY HAIR, PERSONAL LIFE, AND SANITY FOR THIS. LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MANLETS. ACCELERATE
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Been in Dubai for a while now, here's a review in case it helps:. Pros.- obviously, no taxes .- even though there are no taxes, the government is extremely competent and modern — everything is digital and fast (IDs, housing, utilities, paperwork, etc). Think if the DMV were a
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- we are not early.- retail is not coming, you are retail.- you are also a normie, you just have a chrome extension.- you do not & cannot know what part of the cycle this is.- we do not need "mass" adoption, we need adoption.- forget the next billion, focus on the next million.
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this is insane. Solana:.- block limits increasing.- dynamic issuance/inflation coming.- firedancer live soon.- new internet layer being built.- 5 ETFs filed.- David Sacks (SOL bull) head of crypto in USA.- Pudgy Penguins releasing token on SOL. ACCELERATE.
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> escape turkey to get better education in west.> study engineering and math for years.> work hard at banks, startups, coinbase.> start company on sol.> ftx.> fight FUD for next 3 years losing hair and life.> woohoo SOL ATH again!.> ????.> get flipped by XRP. cinema 😭.
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if you're a curious person, crypto is a generalist's dream. you get to mix:. - hardware.- software.- cryptography.- economics.- game theory.- governance .- politics.- startups.- payments.- finance.- networks.- open source.- art.- culture.
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When you send SOL on coinbase, there is a msg that pops up at the bottom:. "Use a faster and cheaper network for future sends"
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Not sure people have understood today. Frankendancer did not just run a benchmark on a single machine and got like 50k tps. They ran 100 commodity machines that are globally distributed at 1M tps. 1M. Not colocated . And not even full firedancer. That is fucking insane.
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Top 100 places after 3 months of straight travel:. 1. Dubai.2. Singapore.3. NYC.4. Istanbul.5. Kuala Lumpur.6. Lisbon.100. London.
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Coinbase's biggest mistake will be not prioritizing Solana.
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solana is the most undervalued asset in all of finance.
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getting a paycheck in dubai is crazy because you just get the amount that the payroll said you'd get and the government takes none of it. ???. wild.
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wow. Helius is now the number one validator on Solana!!!!. what a journey. insanely thankful to all the manlets for helping us get here and to compete against billion dollar giants. but job is not finished — accelerate
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mfers thought we were playing
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ok hold up let me get this straight. we have:. - bill ackman waging war on the entire higher education industry by pledging that he will review *every single academic paper they've ever published* for going after his wife. - epstein letters being released — indicating Bill Gates,.
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we've raised a Series A to accelerate crypto development at @heliuslabs!. in mid-2022, my co-founders (@liamvovk and @nick_pennie) and I left Coinbase & AWS to make a dent on a big problem facing crypto: . a shortage of quality products. it was (and still is) too hard to build
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nature will not be healed until XRP and ADA are out of the top 10
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LETS DO THIS DONALD. I VOTE FOR YOU AND YOU VOTE FOR SOL
@0xMert_ . AMERICA: TODAY IS ELECTION DAY!. IF YOU HAVEN'T YET -- MAKE SURE YOU VOTE TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. BRING YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TOO!. #VotedforTrump. Reply #stop to opt-out.
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@IOHK_Charles your scam chain literally does 0.4 TPS lmao — you are the biggest charlatan in this industry. kindly recommend commenting when you have over 6 users . study this chart
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THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS A SHITCOINER. THE WHOLE WORLD NOW KNOWS WHAT POLYMARKET IS. STRIPE ACQUIRED BRIDGE. GARY GENSLER IS ABOUT TO GET PWNED. THE CRYPTO GOLDEN AGE IS ABOUT TO COMMENCE. FASTER
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@paulg the flaw in this reasoning is thinking that Kamala's character is known . Not liking Trump's character is fair, but comparing it to an unknown entity (that is heavily media fabricated) is just as risky no?. Similarly, if your main conclusion is asymmetrical risk — then one could.
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"Solana is centralized because hardware requirements". Reality: Solana has ~3k nodes which is only slightly less than the number of Ethereum nodes — but it's also 10,000x cheaper and has at least 100x more capacity. seems like a tradeoff worth considering. "Ok but those nodes
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reminder, Solana in 2025:. - will double blockspace.- will release firedancer.- will fix congestion issues present in the current client (currently wasting over 90% of its capacity!).- will have several ETFs go live.- will use doublezero for faster network speeds.- will reduce.
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most of you don't wanna hear this but. Warren Buffet is kind of a shit person and absolutely a false idol . funding sugar factories and shady banks + insurance firms to make a fortune while building nothing is not a good example.
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If it were even remotely possible to break encryption anytime soon, this would be more nuclear than actual nuclear weapons and you can bet your ass the government wouldn't let anyone even dream it — they tried to ban fancy autocomplete ffs.
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It seems Cardano was DDoSd attacked from . *checks notes*. Someone sending it several transactions (less than 200). The attack cost 250$/hour for 12 hours and was stopped by *checks notes* deregistering the attacker. Ok
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colossal news tomorrow. solana will not be the same after. no further comments at this time.
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so. - zk compression.- blinks.- new solana startup accelerator.- big jupiter upgrade for swaps.- new SVM infra. and it's only Tuesday. what if I told you there is more?.
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LMAOO. "Abdul is the head of the Taliban. He's still the head of the Taliban. And I told Abdul, 'Don't do it anymore. You do it anymore, you're gonna have problems.'. And he said 'why do you send me a picture of my house?'. I said 'you're gonna have to figure that one out Abdul'".
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I used to get mad at memecoins. I thought: "This is disrespectful to those of us building real things — why is this industry sabotaging themselves? This is not why I'm here". over time, you realize this is a silly way of thinking. memecoins or "culture coins" are essentially a.
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my father, who has literally known i work on Solana for the past 4 years but apparently has dementia. just msged me "have you heard about Solana? apparently Trump is investing, did we invest in it?". me:
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a perfect demonstration of solana's engineering . in the past day, for fees:. Solana avg: 4 cents.Base avg: 10 cents. Solana median: 0.2 cents.Base median: 2 cents. the catch? Base did 6.5M txns, while Solana did 92M txns. so — Solana has a 2.5x lower avg cost and a 10x lower
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you guys are not ready for what's being released on Solana this week.
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???. anyway. bullish Solana probably.
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attention crypto people. for the love of christ: wear deodorant, take a shower, and use a damn breathmint or something holy shit this is insane.
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@Jason > no one can name a single one that has any scale. there are 482 replies to your post (each with multiple entries) lmao — you are just ignoring them to push a false narrative. this is the problem with being early and getting lucky once — you start to think you have the competence
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dear noob,. quit your job. start a business or join a startup where you take on real ownership . a bloated, slow corpo job is modern-day slavery and bad for the soul. do more.
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