Merlin Egalite

@merlinegalite

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→ Wallets and Fintechs are converging. Web3 native apps and services are way too complicated for newcomers to navigate. To onboard the next millions onchain, there’s an urgent need to improve the UX and accessibility. At the same time, wallets must find a path toward usability and profitability to continue innovating and provide their users the best experience and safety. They need ways to provide value-add beyond just access to onchain apps in their products. Both @ledgerofficial and @trustwalletapp are leaders in non-custodial wallet spaces and both are exploring value-add services on top of their core offerings. It will be clear that wallets and fintechs will look very much alike in a few years.

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Morpho & @kiln team up to offer the best Earn product for millions of @trustwalletapp users. → DAI, USDC, USDT assets → Morpho as top-featured protocol → Full sovereignty from wallet to protocol Wallets will all offer native loan products, with Morpho in the back.

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Woke up polygoned today. Morpho reached $100m total deposits on @polygonchain, making it the 5th largest protocol there.

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Today is the best day to do focus work and just think.

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Alright, Hyrox Paris was a lot of fun! 1:26:58 + 5min penalty (did an extra lap at run 3 lol or maybe because I crossed a line at sled push) Learnings: - Count your laps well (obviously) - Sled push and pull & wall balls were harder than I thought - I need to gain weight, especially for sleds - Pace is important not to blow up - Eat light in the morning - Penalties hit hard Will do it again for sure and aim for below 1:20 (and avoid penalties)

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Got a ticket for Paris Hyrox. Am I ready? ofc not.

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Why L1s become L2s (check Kydo's article https://x.com/0xkydo/status/1906050837186584983) mirrors why lending protocols switch to Morpho. TLDR Less operational, development & bootstrapping cost. At the same time, Morpho will become the base layer for onchain loans, offering security, efficiency & liquidity as a service. @seamless is a vgood example: they were spending $30k/m + human resources to maintain their Aave v3 fork. Now they're switching to Morpho Stack to cut that cost & focus on what matters. They're joining @sparkdotfi @moonwell Compound Indexcoop etc for those reasons.

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$100m+ of interest generated on Morpho. $8m of projected ARR for curators. Morpho makes building profitable businesses possible.

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Today, I'm sharing Nicolas Colin's takes on the European startup landscape, which I think are enlightening and that we, as Europeans, should be lucid about. I hope they'll get more visibility. Nicolas is a former co-founder of The Family (a famous French accelerator that went to a halt). Even though it's closed now, I think they've been pushing many ambitious young people to build stuff. I believe @alexmasmej.eth can relate. So here's the recap: 1. Europe is falling behind on every metric VS the US. 2. European companies should follow their own playbook and not follow Silicon Valley's one that isn't working here. 3. What Europeans should be building: "building profitable tech companies with a multinational footprint that happen to be headquartered in Europe" with the goal of maximizing Europe's ROIC. 4. How? By developing "a unique positioning that leverages our distinctive attributes rather than trying to copy approaches that succeeded elsewhere." We need to make trad-offs.

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DeFi Mulleted and you?

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Was a bit hard after yesterday’s WOD

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A glimpse at what an hyrox looks like. 35’52

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AGI or The New Arms Race: https://paragraph.xyz/@merlin-egalite/the-new-arms-race

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each month i believe my dopamine level can't get higher. each month i'm reminded it can. so many things happening rn, people are not ready

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Building on Morpho allows teams to hyper-specialize on what matters the most - making a killer product and grow.

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The Morpho Story started 3 years ago with this gong announcing Morpho's deployment on Compound. We were young, hacking a full month non stop from 7am to 2am everyday in the middle of nowhere in the French country side. Fast forward today, we're going full. Compound is now building on top of Morpho's open infra: → $3m of incentives on @polygonchain → Vault curated by @gauntlet → Interface by @papercliplabs → Compound can focus on growth while tapping into Morpho's network and keep flexibility over market listing and exposure Compound joins a growing list of projects, including @moonwell, @sparkdotfi, Indexcoop, etc, moving onto Morpho's infrastructure to focus on what they do best. Morpho is an open infra for onchain loans.

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For any great invention you need very creative minds, and a team that know how to implement and execute those ideas. At @morpho we have both. People are not prepare for what's coming.

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$21m borrowed by @coinbase users. DeFi mulleted.

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We’re here to build tech that does not require benevolence or the virtue of a group of people to work. It must just work. At any time, everywhere for anybody.

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