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One of my 2025 goals has been to become as good at DeFi as some of the people I meet on here. If I think honestly about this industry, it's where I've spent the least time. I figured the best way to start going about this would be to start using protocols that I've been hearing about in the DeFi space and then to write about them. For my first attempt at doing this, I wrote about starting to stake $SOL with Inshallah.Fi. Going to stake some $ETH with them next now after the seamless experience. It made even more sense to go with this first because I've been spending time trying to explore the link between Islamic Finance and crypto can come together to bring the 2 billion Muslims on chain. A massive influx of capital is coming into crypto from the team(s) who solve this. Curious to hear thoughts and would love opinions on protocols I should try next. https://www.azeemkhan.com/p/shariah-compliant-crypto-bridging?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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What I aimed out to do in writing this article though was helping elucidate that successful memecoins in the longer term are actually much harder than they're made to seem by the general public. I'm not saying that the difficulty being unknown is intentional but I do believe people will be better off trading when they understand what it actually takes to plan out a good memecoin launch. Curious what everyone's thougts are after taking a look at this though. https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2024/12/12/memecoins-are-not-easy-money

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The biggest meta of 2024 has absolutely been memecoins in web3. Some people are fans. Other people aren't. What I chose to write about for CoinDesk on this one is that regardless of where you stand on memecoins, they're simply not easy money. Especially easy as the way people are made to believe when they think about trading them. Unlike other critics of memecoins, I'm absolutely in favor of people trading them as much as they'd like, and I do believe if you're good about them, they do seem like the easiest way to generate large amounts of personal capital very quickly. In light of all the high FDV, low float infra tokens that have launched this year at bloated valuations that leave no upside for retail, it only made sense that memecoins would take off. A place where retail could earn double and triple digit on their money in a short period of time.

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I actually wrote about this too https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2024/12/12/memecoins-are-not-easy-money Let me know your thoughts

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In the past week and a half there's been so many speculations as to what happened with Haliey Welch aka Hawk Tuah and $HAWK. From the moment the token launched, multiple things just didn't seem to add up to me. Instead of being just another account on here speculating for engagement farming though, I decided to see if I could actually tell the story with CoinDesk. That evening I reached out to overHere, and put together a story as to what happened without speculating too much either. Let me know your thoughts! https://t.co/RbqHfeTycD

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We quietly launched a new https://www.coindesk.com last Sunday. This was the culmination of 8 months of work and countless hours. Our engineering team went above and beyond, with the last 5 weeks of the push seeing many of them working 7 days a week and all night long in some cases. I'm thrilled at how well it has gone. We have released a hotfix daily and still have over 190 tasks and bugs to address, but the site is crazy fast now and our tech and tools are so much better than what we had before. I'm finally taking a holiday after working 11 days straight, which is nothing compared to what many of our engineers did. It's really nice to take a breather, though, and celebrate what we have done.

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Oasis Onchain 2025 early bird tickets are live! Join us in The Bahamas in January, for a consumer crypto conference that is: - focused on apps(!) - bringing together both builders and users - practical and experiential https://lu.ma/f830eg1c

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Bluesky is having a moment.

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Octant Accelerator Cohort 1 Space! Time to meet this amazing group, and in the words of @azeem, one of which "could easily be a unicorn"! Tuesday, 8 October, 10 am EST | 2pm UTC. Set your reminder 👇 https://x.com/OctantApp/status/1843289182829203669

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Congrats! Much deserved

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Before y'all go out and touch some grass, a quick Accelerator update 📯 Cohorts: We're hoping to announce the final list on Monday. We got so many applicants and we're making sure we don't overlook anything. Thank you for your patience 🙏 Mentors: We're still accepting applications. 👇 Speakers: We've begun highlighting the amazing lineup of speakers and so far we've announced: @azeem @chicago @tpan and @bsiegz.eth https://octant.fillout.com/mentors-form

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Thrilled to announce our first speaker, Azeem Khan! @azeem is the co-founder of @morphl2 , an EVM Layer 2 scaling solution, and also a venture partner Foresight Ventures and consultant to the UNICEF Crypto Fund. As a columnist for CoinDesk and a contributor to the Forbes Digital Asset section, he brings deep insights into web3, blockchain, and crypto investments. He was previously Head of Impact at @gitcoin and and has perfected the art of dealmaking and partnerships. We’re excited for our cohort to hear Azeem share his insights on this crucial sustainability skillset.

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So at Edcon I got a chance to talk about nouns and some of my experiences and thoughts on crypto. I was super nervous since I am the most unlikely champion for crypto but I think that I did pretty great even with the stuttering and mumbling . What do you think https://x.com/btctn/status/1833366115797635182?s=12&t=MoDQdRXDfjIqb6tOpIGuvA

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Have been involved in China's chain the past few weeks and doing a small writeup of notes to share. The official announcements will happen on Sep 13th. 1. Multichain system built on solidity. Early discussion about compatibility with foreign chains, earliest announcement Q2 2025. Connected to the tianping chain of internet courts. Standard fees will be done through a digital RMB system synced with alipay/wechat 2. The chain will operate as a public chain with "diverse node types" supporting various segments of the industry. There will be a variety of nodes split by industry, city, and other criteria. Nodes will be the differentiator for projects who want to access read/write records onchain. Think of this as a bookkeeping node. 3. No mention of the word "NFT" which has been replaced by Digital Assets. These digital assets must be government certified. All assets will be synced to the National Culture Big Data System, the official infrastructure of China's national cultural infrastructure.

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Where is this at? I need to check it.

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@azeem and I sponsored a Proposal for a Nounish writing contest by the @kiwi team. Would love to hear any feedback (ideally on camp). https://www.nouns.camp/candidates/nounish-writing-contest-3e6c23cdaa52b1b6621dbb30c367d16ace21f760

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If there’s someone who can get this done it’s definitely Frankie

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Start of the day w August and https://open.spotify.com/track/4n93SK7dQsQVu9BM5QzvAx?si=59127ea1e68b40ad

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