Georgios Vlachos🇬🇷
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Connecting 1,000,000 chains @axelar Opinions are my own, not investment advice
Joined March 2021
📈 $300,000,000,000 📈. This is the FDV of assets that have chosen Axelar Network in their canonical interoperability solution. Axelar is the only interop network to cross the >$100B milestone - and has already 3x'd it.
11 digits. Those are the $ numbers I see interop players posting on X, representing the aggregate valuations of assets using them for their canonical bridges; mid-11 digits, to be precise. Who can guess the Axelar number, using the same methodology?
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Cosmos is dead. No builders left, except for @dYdX @CelestiaOrg @axelar @MANTRA_Chain @THORChain @babylonlabs_io @noble_xyz @burnt_xion @osmosiszone @injective @berachain @akashnet_ @Fetch_ai @Sagaxyz__ @dymension @stride_zone @ojo_network @squidrouter @agoric @XPLA_Official.
People have been way too quick to write off Cosmos. In my view, one of the top 4 crypto ecosystems along with Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana. Will become very obvious with time.
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Imagine operating a 2-of-2 multisig for years, while virtue signaling about decentralization and immutability. Rebrand to LarpZero.
Imagine tcp/ip going down for a casual 2 hours of downtime. Immutable messaging protocols not 3rd party messaging services. Imagine your app having externally enforced scheduled downtime without your say or ability to prevent it. Choose defi and decentralization.
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Love to see @axelarnetwork's organic volume compared to @LayerZero_Labs's airdrop activity. They have to try. Now let's compare what matters, the respective ecosystems across important verticals👇.
After recent FUD and statements against @LayerZero_Labs, we became interested in looking at the statistics of other protocols🔢. @AcrossProtocol, @axelarnetwork, and core of LayerZero - @StargateFinance. Let's examine the numbers and compare achievements 🧵. #LayerZero #omnichain
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I saw a few similar critiques against Ripple over the last few days, and I genuinely don't understand this line of reasoning. XRPL has been live in production 3 years longer than Ethereum, and introduced many innovations. Now XRPL is being augmented with multiple battle-tested.
Ripple likes to take well-established concepts, repackage them, and present them as a whole new thing. An AMM DEX where the gas token is used for liquidity, an EVM sidechain, private forked chain instances, a USD-pegged stablecoin. This isn’t 2017 anymore… these aren’t.
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Building interoperability infra is hard. It requires conviction, especially in an industry where it’s so easy to cut corners and prioritize short term profits. Kudos to @LayerZero_Core and @StargateFinance for building a service that people care about. @axelar, @LayerZero_Core.
Things happen when you’re in the arena building. Cheers to the @StargateFinance team for continued effort to build tech that is helping push the industry forward.
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Back in 2023, Axelar core contributors recognized the importance of the Ripple ecosystem and started working to integrate XRPL. With the imminent launch of the XRPL EVM sidechain + Axelar integration, XRP holders will soon be able to:.- Use Axelar bridged XRP (the gas token of.
“Finally opening up DeFi opportunities on the XRPL is one of the biggest things we see and are prioritizing.” - @yorgosv_ from Axelar closes out #XRPLZone Korea with @joelkatz in a live taping of the Blockstars podcast.
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@Northerntrust recently published a whitepaper on interoperability. tl;dr Interoperability is significant for Financial Institutions 🏦🏦🏦. Their whitepaper evaluated @axelar as an interoperability platform for trading tokenized real-word assets, and compared benchmarks with
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Missed this one. I love finding out about new projects using Axelar, and this time it's an L2 on @hedera launched by @KarateCombat. @axelar is @hedera's canonical interoperability solution. Bridge over and join the fight anon!. 1,000,000 chains, connected by Axelar.
The first L2 on #Hedera ☝️. @KarateCombat brings us UpOnlyGaming, built on @hedera, for white label and for free with the $UP token coming in 2025 @UPLAYERTWO . $KARATE $HBAR.
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Universal Savings Accounts. Crypto was founded on the belief that access to sound money is a fundamental human right. As acceptance grows, we're closer than ever to delivering stablecoins to everyone. Yet, stablecoin holders are consistently losing money to inflation. What if we.
TON will integrate with @axelar's Mobius Development Stack (MDS), bringing their open interoperability platform to our ecosystem! 🌐. MDS will allow projects to connect seamlessly to 68+ blockchains, enhancing scalability and adoption. This integration has the potential to link
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In 2 months, Axelar mainnet will celebrate its 3-year anniversary as the only decentralized interoperability platform in existence. Either everyone else is too lazy to decentralize, or decentralization is hard and requires being a key design consideration from day 1.
Over the years, I've heard over a dozen of attempts to "rebuild" @axelar , even given its open-source code. 0 mainnets. Interop talk is cheap. Execution is hard.
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Most compelling argument I've seen for this:.- AI will soon make it easy for anyone to deploy Web2 apps through simple prompts. But Web3 apps are different, because any mistake can result in billions of dollars lost. - What if AI could fully automate smart contract auditing?.
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Thanks @sentosumosaba, it was a pleasure chatting with you!.
Published!.The @axelar Integration to Unleash #XRP's Potential - Exclusive Deep Dive with Georgios Vlachos (@yorgosv_) | 2025.👉 #GasTokenForEVM
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Here’s why RWAs are hitting an inflection point. @fintechfrank was joined by @axelar co-founder @sergey_nog and @Ripple Head of Product @jazzicoop to break down the state of the RWA sector. OUTLINE .00:00 Introduction .01:12 Interoperable RWAs .04:18 Regulatory Clarity
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When people tell you interoperability is boring because it's 90% asset transfers; wait until every asset in the world is tokenized and you need to bridge those assets between appchains in order to do anything. Every real world action will correspond to a cross-chain transaction.
77,000 new tokens in 1 day. That's 3200 new tokens per hour. 53 a minute. Almost 1 new token every second of the day. Y'all need some serious help.
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The future is interoperable 🤝. As we move towards a 1,000,000 chain reality, the need to make productive assets available across ecosystems will become increasingly obvious. Over the past few years, the @axelar ecosystem has been building infrastructure for this new reality.
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I really enjoyed this conversation! We covered how institutions are approaching the space and discussed the recent Institutional Interoperability report by @axelar and @metrikaco, which @Mastercard contributed to. Multiple great insights from Martin!.
Mastercard’s Martin Etheridge went in-depth with Axelar protocol co-founder @yorgosv_ on the path to interoperability between institutional systems and public blockchains. Tldr: It's not easy, but the opportunity is apparent 👇🧵
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All assets in the world will be tokenized, and available on all chains through @axelarnetwork. Proud to see @OndoFinance, one of the early adopters of Axelar tech, continuously innovating by tokenizing new assets classes.
Ondo Finance has already tokenised BlackRock IShares ETFs for both short-term U.S. Treasuries and Money market funds aswell as innovating in yield bearing stablecoins backed cash equivilants. Proud to be a recent backer of the future blue chip RWA asset. $ONDO
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On the importance of blockchain interoperability, from the legend @JoelKatz. Axelar is coming to connect XRPL to all major blockchains🌐.
Interoperability of layer 1 blockchains such as XRPL, XLM, IOTA, HBAR, ALGO, QNT is key to constructing a unified ledger to allow for the seamless movement of money.
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It's been a real privilege to work with Boon and the Deutsche Bank team!. Slowly but surely, we'll tokenize the world 🌎.
In a 1:1 with Axelar protocol co-founder @yorgosv_, Deutsche Bank's Boon-Hiong Chan describes blockchain interoperability across permissioned banking environments, comparing it to the internet itself. 🧵⤵️
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Axelar is the most popular interoperability platform across developers, the single metric that matters for adoption. Hype matters in the short term, fundamentals always win in the long-run.
Axelar better than LayerZero but LZ is more popular. Nym is better than Ator but Ator is more popular. The difference is quality and influencers/community. Let’s see how this kind of setups will play out in the coming months.
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Start a company only if you are prepared to spend 10+ years on it. As a founder, that’s why it’s important to deeply care about the problem you are solving.
There is a massive advantage of being an employee vs a founder that people don't appreciate much. As a founder, you can't really quit. At least if you succeed, you probably need to spend 10+ years on it. And you can't go and do something else because so much depends on you. Of.
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Celo is one of the few crypto projects fulfilling Bitcoin's original promise: bank the unbanked. Celo's integration into Opera browser's wallet is actively used by people in Africa to hold and transact in USD: Hoping Coinbase reconsiders its stance.
It's disheartening that @Coinbase has chosen not to support the Celo L2 upgrade. This feels like a wrench in Ethereum's layer-2-centric scaling roadmap. Why would other EVM-compatible L1s follow suit now?.
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A renaissance awaits.
A renaissance awaits. Beyond the Cosmos. Beyond Ethereum. Beyond what you thought was possible in Web3. Everything connected. Imagine how great we could be. The stakes have never been higher. The promise has never been greater. Liquidity. Tokenization. Compute. Security.
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I’ll take the ivy league founder coming from a developing country 11 times out of 10. How do you think they got there? Deep reserves of determination, resilience and hard work required. Literally creating opportunities out of nothing.
"good" founders on paper (i.e. those who attended top schools, worked at "top" companies/institutions previously) are often entitled, spend too much money on the wrong things and rarely listen to feedback. I'll take the hungry state school failed founder 11 out of 10 times.
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The top 2 tokenized U.S. Treasuries products by TVL, @OndoFinance and @Hashnote_Labs, are using @axelar in their canonical bridge implementations. Congratulations to Hashnote on the 30-day growth, largely driven by their integration with @usualmoney
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Layerzero team gets triggered faster than LINK Marines. @PrimordialAA why is half your team on the Axelar TL these days? Could it be because you keep losing all the big deals to Axelar?. @MaybeMaxPower @lz_warlock @BrutalTrade.
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Keep an eye out for @Printrgobrrr🖨️🖨️🖨️. Launch anything anywhere in 1-click. Coming to a trench near you soon!.
What is Printr? 🖨️💵💵💵. Printr is a cross-chain platform that allows degens to launch and trade tokens across 69+ chains in one click, consolidating liquidity and uniting the trenches. Powered by @axelar & @squidrouter
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Pleasure discussing the future of RWAs at @CosmoverseHQ today with @JoshuaBMaddox, @jayantramanand, and Guy from @coinbureau. Excited to collaborate closely with @MANTRA_Chain and @provenancefdn in the years ahead to tokenize everything! 🚀
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Just realized how many blockchain were co-designed/built by Greek engineers:.- @SuiNetwork, @Algorand, @Cardano and new ones like @ithacaxyz and @poddotnetwork. Not bad for a country with 0.12% of the world's population. Which chains am I missing?.
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A wild 4pool has appeared on Osmosis @samkazemian @ItsAlwaysZonny 👀.
🚀New incentives for @osmosiszone pools on Frontier!. - $OSMO / $USDC - 4pool - $100K+ in $OSMO rewards daily per pool over next 30 days. - Users can obtain $USDC / $USDT / $FRAX through Satellite: 💰💰💰.
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It was a pleasure to discuss what's next for @axelar in 2025, RLUSD's role in expanding cross-chain utility, and more, with @jazzicoop on @paulbarrontv. Thank you for the invitation @paulbarron🫡.
XRP Ledger = $140 BILLION Liquidity going Cross-chain💣💥w/@jazzicoop & @yorgosv_. WATCH NOW👉 @xpmarket @Kirjakulov @TheRootNetwork @DropCoinXRPL @RippleXDev @rplsripples @RippleXrpie @PongoXRP @Ripple @JoelKatz @MagneticXRPL @UpholdInc $XRP #XRParmy
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Congrats to Lido and BNB for this massive leap forward for DeFi, taking the biggest DeFi asset ($26B) to one of the biggest chains 🎉🎉🎉. This marks only the 2nd time Lido expands outside ETH, following last year's Cosmos expansion through @axelar.
🟠 NEW CANONICAL BRIDGE APPROVED 🟠.Bringing @LidoFinance #wstETH to @BNBCHAIN, powered by Axelar + Wormhole:.⏲️ The connection is pending testing + UI. 🌊 2nd time Axelar links Lido beyond Ethereum L2 ecosystem. 🗳️ Community-driven process w/ on-chain governance. 🧵 👇
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BREAKING: Chainlink CCIP beats @axelar at something. Congrats Chainlink community on the milestone. It's laughable to see the usual Link Marine claims (with zero evidence) that votes are VC-driven when CCIP loses. Chainlink is one of the most well-resourced companies in the.
BREAKING: Chainlink CCIP adopted as Ronin network canonical bridge - once again beating @axelar & @LayerZero_Core in head to head comparison & governance votes not swayed by VC influence. "CCIP's Level 5 security is the most sophisticated form of cross-network security" - @MAS_sg
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When I tell people that @axelar is building for a 1,000,000 chains, I often get push back on the UX implications. Beyond chain abstraction, AI agents will be the biggest users cross-chain. They don't care about chain complexity - to them, it's all just bytes 🤖⛓️.
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Won't stop. Literally heard about 3 new L2s today:.- @KarateCombat .- . while typing I realized the other 2 may not be public info😅. Anyway, 1,000,000 chains.
@axelar Aaaaagh make it stop.
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Biggest interoperability news in a long time🔥. While everyone is arguing about the best cross-chain standard, @OpenZeppelin is launching a simple standard to settle this question for good. The key has always been the underlying verification layer (not the standard), let's agree.
🐣 Axelar network devs + @OpenZeppelin are joining forces to solve liquidity fragmentation in the EVM ecosystem + unlock interoperability for Web3 builders with a single click 🦾 🟠. In short, Axelar network integration + EIPs are coming 🧵👇
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Interoperability is the future of blockchain.
Interoperability is the future of blockchain. With the upcoming #XRPL EVM Sidechain + @squidrouter (powered by @axelar), developers can:. 🔗 Connect 80+ blockchains .⚙️ Simplify cross-chain swaps with 1 SDK.⚡ Leverage #XRPL’s low fees & speed. ➡️
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In an appchain world, 25% of all blockchain activity is going to be cross-chain. Cross-chain volumes are going to dwarf any single chain.
When people tell you interoperability is boring because it's 90% asset transfers; wait until every asset in the world is tokenized and you need to bridge those assets between appchains in order to do anything. Every real world action will correspond to a cross-chain transaction.
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@PrimordialAA Half the replies to your post agree with my QT. The other half ask for airdrop).
Imagine operating a 2-of-2 multisig for years, while virtue signaling about decentralization and immutability. Rebrand to LarpZero.
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AI agents is how all users will eventually interact with blockchains. Agents don’t care about UX, interacting with 1 chain will be as simple as interacting with 1,000,000 chains. Agents will be the power users of interoperability tech🦾.
Hot take. Fudding social AI agents is mid. Yeah 90% of agents that *only* tweet-to-entertain will die off but you’re missing the bigger picture:. These social dynamics are going to 100X the user experience for anyone interacting online. It’s going to solve crypto’s #1 problem:.
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Great to see all the discussions on the timeline about Willow, but everyone has an opinion and it’s hard to filter through all the noise. For quality perspectives on Cryptography, Quantum Computing and AI, follow @sergey_nog:.- Received best CS PhD thesis award at MIT.- Seeded.
It was great chatting with @NYSE today right after the bell ringing by @realDonaldTrump . US is back on track to lead innovation across multiple verticals with many experienced founders joining to help guide the new administration.
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Printr is my highest conviction bet. I've worked closely with the founders in the past, they are one of the best teams in crypto🙌. Printr is building the tokenization platform of the future, powered by @axelar's ITS. I will be writing a lot more about @printrgobrrr as they are.
It's official. we've raised $2.5M to change the memecoin meta forever!. Printr is the first chain-abstracted token marketplace: LAUNCH memes on multiple chains and TRADE across all chains, in one click. JOIN THE WAITLIST ON OUR WEBSITE FOR EARLY ACCESS, POINTS & AIRDROP 🧵👇
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100 cross-chain tokens deployed through @axelarnetwork over the last few days. Each token takes 2 mins to deploy (, ~3 hours total dev time spent. @LayerZero_Labs and @chainlink deployments take >1 week. 2 years for a task that Axelar enables in 3 hours.
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Wait, are Fantom community members using their personal funds to help the ecosystem🤯. Incredible to see everyone rallying to support decentralized interoperability infrastructure. Security first!. @Equalizer0x🤝@axelarcore.
Inlight of the current situation as we need to move away from Multichain assets, I have personally bribed the axlUSDC/FTM pool with 2000 $EQUAL. lets get some liquidity in assets backed by the security of @axelarcore . #APR is buzzing, use the for $axlUSDC
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Reminder: You don't grow when you are comfortable. Ripple and the XRP Family learnt this lesson over multiple years, and came out stronger. This will be a fascinating documentary🌊🌊🌊.
Rarely in American politics has a new industry spent so much money, with such apparent impact, as the cryptocurrency business did in the last election. This Sunday, Margaret Brennan reports on the industry's hopes for the new “pro-crypto” administration.
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I've always been impressed by @biconomy team's focus on UX for normal users. Excited to enable seamless transactions for all @0xRhic @aniket_jindal08.
Can a dApp be chainless? 🤯. Axelar and @Biconomy are partnering to enable a chainless user experience ✨. Developers can now build natively cross-chain networks that are permissionless, decentralized and truly chain-agnostic using Biconomy’s newly released SDK 🙌
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Can't wait to dive into this integration at the Cardano Summit tomorrow, so much to unpack!. @Cardano is one of the few chains that were designed from the ground up on solid theoretical principles. I believe Ouroboros was the first PoS consensus protocol with formal security.
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@ddawsoncrypto Cardano getting IBC - connecting to Axelar and more to go multichain in a big way.
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@BarHBARian @HBAR_foundation @hedera @axelar Hashgraph is cool, I remember reading the white paper 7-8 reading ago when we were designing Algorand. For Axelar, we built it on the Cosmos SDK, which does the job well. The current implementation has been battle tested for almost 3 years now, and has a clear path to scale.
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All asset classes will be tokenized, powered by @axelarnetwork.
This morning, @DeutscheBank announced participation in @MAS_sg Project Guardian, testing compliant asset tokenization applications. Institutions participating in Guardian have picked Axelar for interoperability 2 years in a row. Thoughts on why interop is critical for RWAs 🧵⤵️.
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To anyone saying there's not going to be 1,000,000 chains because it's bad UX; agents won't care.
the first genuine ai agent that can do on chain transactions for me and works, I will be aping in my entire networth. it solves the UX problem, I will now use the blockchain by prompting, doesn’t matter if it’s cross chain.
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Signs of maturity for the industry. Some applications don't need a token.
More and more people are asking lately if @AnodosFinance will launch a token, and the answer is no. I know that a token would make us more popular and would make our lives easier in terms of money and engagement, but we are not interested in that. Our focus is on building and.
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@vegaslunaa @axelar @osmosiszone @berachain @noble_xyz @CelestiaOrg @dYdX @IBCProtocol You need a hub to scale interop, it's linear vs quadratic scaling. And @axelar is the only hub-and-spoke solution in production today, that works across ecosystems. As for security, pairwise connections are good as long as nothing breaks. But if something breaks, a hub can
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Crypto founder's dilemma to date has been:.- Spend years building a great product .- Launch a token and figure out product later. This is starting to change. Most infra is in place, leading to shorter product cycles. But back in the day, teams had to spend years just to get to a.
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The tech is great! Cosmos SDK will remain relevant for a long time, because a critical mass of strong + well-funded projects are built on it: @axelar, @osmosiszone, @berachain, @noble_xyz, @CelestiaOrg, @dYdX etc. But Cosmos/IBC have long lost the interoperability narrative.
Given the intertwined nature of @axelar and @cosmos… I’m wondering what @sergey_nog and @yorgosv_ think about this recent @BanklessHQ article and the future of @cosmos in general? 🤔. Probably too hot to touch, but still….
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This Saturday at 12:25pm, I’ll be presenting Axelar at #TONGateway in Dubai!. Crypto was founded on the belief that access to sound money is a fundamental human right. The @axelar x @ton_blockchain integration takes this one step further by enabling the bridging of savings.
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Stablecoins are genuinely a paradigm shift.
Another, personal example on why stablecoins are genuinely a paradigm shift: . My husband, who is South African-Canadian is the beneficiary of an inheritance. Turns out, the South African government has made it prohibitive for neobanks & fintechs like Wise or Revolut to enable.
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Fun conversation with @JuhyukB at @DeSpreadTeam headquarters in Seoul. Had a blast spending the week with the Korean community at @buidl_asia!. 우리를 초대해주셔서 감사합니다.
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It’s always sad to see such cases. Many people dream of building something valuable, then realize they can cut small corners. It starts small, but once one starts taking shortcuts it’s hard to stop. This applies to everything in life. Almost everyone starts with good intentions,.
I knew her at Wharton (she was either my year or +/- 1). She had a great aura, was a kind person and clearly started off building something valuable. Sad to see it all turn out this way.
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Every month it feels like a new ecosystem is dominating, but long term all those chains will do great. And interoperability will make the multichain usable.
Seeing Solana struggle to defend its narrative against .-hyper liquid(faster, nicer to use).-base ( as fast, but better ramping and access to liquidity ). Is interesting. Solana does have a story. But it may need to be more than just “fast”.
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Your community copy pastes memes. Axelar community writes serenades. We are not the same.
I made a song that introduce the general public to Axelar and the key concepts of the Axelar network. @axelar . I hope the team loves it 🥰.@CipherClout
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My coziest panel so far, good beanbags. Thanks @Cryptocito and @CosmoverseHQ team for hosting everyone for another year!. One of this panel's discussion topics was.- Is connecting all chain pairs directly through ZK-based light clients the futute?. My answer: Absolutely not.-.
Our co-founder @badconfig_eth discussing the future with:. @0xMert_ from @heliuslabs & @yorgosv_ from @axelar & @DeanTribble from @agoric
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