Vajresh Balaji

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Today, substack announced @polymarket embeds that will let any substack writer embed live market data in their post. Micro-Experiences like this will make web3 more accessible and familiar. Want to read more about how embedded micro-experiences can drive adoption? https://blog.vajresh.com/embedded-web3-how-micro-experiences-can-drive-mass-adoption

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It's on-chain summer. It's BUILD Trust Summer! We've been working to launch a very cool experience to expand the $BUILD utility and market outreach. Everything is scoped, but we need the community's help to build it, get it out, and spread the word. Funds will be used to develop a nomination and attestation app, run a campaign, and onboard more people to the $BUILD economy. If you are a developer, a social animal, a killer BD, or a super connector and you want to help us launch this, please comment or send a dc https://crowdfi.withfabric.xyz/campaign/build-trust-summer-199kb66q4hekg

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Embedded Web3: How Micro-Experiences Can Drive Mass Adoption?

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Speedrun the points and claim your 10 GP ⚡️ Prize Pool: 1M Governance Points (GP) To claim 10 GP and start playing: - Follow @infinex-app & connect a wallet to Farcaster - Like & recast GP will be sent to your wallet, & can be migrated to your Infinex Account soon. https://farcaster-memecrash.infinex.xyz/gppromo

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Farcaster is an incredible place to cold start your nascent onchain product. Their latest focus on "channels & direct casts" gets me even more bullish. /perl : - waitlist (before we launched) - game discussion (now) Direct Cast : - customer support - partnership HIGHER 📈 https://far.quest/contracts/degen/----7

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Protocols without a token will eventually die. For a protocol to be aligned with its network participants, grow and maintain adoption long-term, there needs to be a way to share value with the network. A token is the best way of doing this.

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Started off my Dubai trip with some banger Ethiopian Food.

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Updates since this piece: - The Value of onchain US Treasuries is now > $1 Billion - Franklin Templeton ($FOBXX) is the largest issuer making up 36% of the market & BlackRock's $BUIDL comes in 2nd making up 27% - HSBC just announced a tokenized gold offering for their HK clients powered by Orion, a private blockchain

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Of course, token mergers aren't all upside. Aligning incentives, governance, and operations across previously separate ecosystems will be challenging. A perfect place for professional governance participants/delegates to add value.

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This is an exciting moment! This is the second token merger I'm aware of (First being Rari Capital and Fei 3 years ago) I think we'll see a lot more token mergers to come. Projects can concentrate liquidity, talent and tech to have a real chance at competing with trad companies https://shorturl.at/kySX5

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As the space matures, I believe we'll see the development of improved diligence procedures & trusted 3rd-party providers to help investors navigate these challenges (maybe gating access to data based on certain credentials/conditions) Platforms that effectively balance disclosure and transparency will be successful.

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Thanks for your comments! You're absolutely right about the challenges of disclosures around pvt assets. Public REITs have brought more transparency to previously private assets, and we see similar trends in other asset classes. Platforms like RallyRd & Masterworks are increasing access by providing more data...

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Wrote a piece explaining why RWAs should be represented onchain http://blog.vajresh.com/tokenized-assets-why-real-world-assets-should-be-represented-onchain

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This reminds me of Chris Dixon’s quote “The Next Big thing will start out looking like a toy” A large % of launched memecoins end up obsolete. Some become toys & a select few go beyond Not an easy task to level up from a toy but there’s immense upside for those that pull it off.

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One of the features in Noggle is the Social Credentialing System that uses onchain and social data to award badges to users. These badges help users showcase their involvement in the Nouns ecosystem. Check out the frame to dive deeper into why we love badges! https://frames.neynar.com/f/66fe8cd6/22ce2e05

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Just submitted our proposal for the Nouns x Farcaster round. (Working with @minh @affan and @megbutton Here's a preview of Noggle, our vision of a custom farcaster client for the Nouns community. https://prop.house/0x767a3bdf2aa3b3201b794927a997fcf4e50d4702/36

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I just proposed Noggle in Nouns x Farcaster. Looking forward to building an amazing experience along with the Nouns community! https://prop.house/0x767a3bdf2aa3b3201b794927a997fcf4e50d4702

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Getting my first job after college. Started searching around Dec 2019. Got my first offer in March & was rescinded a week later when lockdown was announced After that, I think I applied to about 1000 jobs. Maybe got 10 interviews & 2 offers Now I’m not affected by rejections which is a good skill as a founder

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