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Every investor is looking for a company worth backing. Every founder is looking for investors worth building with. FairClub brings them together. Introducing FairClub: where private capital forms. The internet changed how companies are built. Raising money still runs through spreadsheets, group chats, cold DMs and whoever happens to be in your phone. FairClub brings the whole raise into one place – from first introduction to final close. For founders, that means: • build a private Deal Room • find aligned investors who fit the round • see the warmest path in your network to reach them • track questions, follow-ups and registered interest • prepare the legal handoff and close using stablecoins For investors, it means one place to: • discover curated private deals screened for compliance and supported by industry leaders • meet and talk to the team • review the terms, documents and available diligence • register non-binding interest if they want to go further Every deal has its own access rules, eligibility requirements, minimums, availability and legal documents. FairClub is non-custodial, and every raise on the platform settles in stablecoins on @solana. Our goal is simple: Your network should open doors. It should not decide where opportunity ends. One more thing... Comment below and we’ll run an audit on your X account to reveal your Investor Social Score - what builds trust, what weakens your signal and how to improve it. Then we’ll publish your Investor Social Score in the replies. Watch the FairClub film below 👇

Crypto spent 15 years trying to onboard humans. AI agents may get there faster. After building @blockchain through Bitcoin's rise and crypto's biggest crashes, @Nickocary thinks machines could become some of crypto's biggest users. He explains why in Ex Machina Ep. 4 with @richardmuirhead. Watch ↓ ⏱ Highlights 17:53 — Millions in Bitcoin hidden in Yorkshire 23:48 — Privacy in the age of AI 37:46 — Surviving crypto's 2022 collapse 40:39 — Europe's startup challenges 47:00 — Why AI agents could adopt crypto faster than humans

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BREAKING: @Solana has moved $5 trillion in stablecoins in 2026, with more than two months still left in the year.

Today is probably a good time to check in on things with @privy_io, which became part of @stripe just over a year ago. Our acquisition was predicated on three factors: stablecoin growth, self-custody as a key enabler of broader global coverage, and rapidly increasing demand for programmable financial infrastructure. As we said at the time, "money has to reside somewhere, and Privy builds the world's best programmable vaults." Since then, the Privy team has executed exceptionally well: assets in Privy wallets have grown ~25x, monthly active developers are up ~3x, revenue is up ~9x, and Privy now facilitates nearly $25B of monthly transaction volume. @tryramp, @Deel, @Klarna, @felixpago, @HyperliquidX, and thousands of other businesses are building embedded banking functionality on Privy. At Stripe, we're deeply integrating Privy into Treasury, @Link, and Connect. In each case, it's accelerating our global expansion, and enabling us to build better functionality faster. (Coming soon: @Link balances.) We're also seeing that Privy's wallet infrastructure is the ideal substrate for agents to transact and earn -- live today with @merit_systems, @orthogonal_sh, @Nevermined_ai, @prlnet, and more. Developers prefer programmable financial infrastructure, but agents need it. We expect that the agentic economy will continue to grow extremely quickly. The Privy team has maintained remarkable product velocity, with major launches this year including deposit addresses, earning on Privy balances, digital asset accounts, custodial wallets, and Stripe's own stablecoin cards. It's also been neat to see how Privy has been accelerated by Stripe, with better onramps, @stablecoin payment rails and licenses, Stripe's fiat capabilities and issuing stack, and integration with @Tempo. Together, we're building one API for holding stablecoin balances and earning yield, moving money in and out of fiat, and orchestrating spend with cards. We still have a lot of work to do, not least in integrating everything across Privy, Bridge, and the rest of Stripe -- there's been so much feature and functionality expansion that we haven't yet had much time to reconcile everything. Overall, though, I'm very happy with how things are going, and excited by where these capabilities are headed. If you're interested in working on the future of stablecoins, agentic payments, and crypto's deployment in the real world, you should get in touch with @sternhenri (now leading all of @StripeCrypto) or others on the team.

how do we run stablecoin supply back turbo? obviously you dont want to do technical analysis on this chart and stablecoin supply doesnt directly equal crypto liquidity but it hasnt really expanded for a year now if we want another massive leg higher, we need reasons for entirely new dollars to come onchain imo: (i) crypto neobanks need to break outside of crypto (ii) defi yields need to become attractive again (iii) stablecoins need to become useful for people who have zero intention of buying crypto (i) and (iii) is where the biggest opportunity is imo

Welcoming @0xBalanceXYZ as a curator on FairClub. 0xBalance is a Web3 growth studio. They handle growth and distribution for crypto products, helping teams get in front of the right users and turn attention into traction. As a curator, 0xBalance will bring opportunities from the teams they work with, along with a clear read on which projects can actually find users once the raise is done. Private capital runs on relationships. Great curators make those relationships more useful. Welcome to FairClub.

All in. Every time. Julia Garner and Anthony Boyle star as Caroline Ellison and Sam Bankman-Fried in this limited series about the love scorned prodigies behind the FTX scandal. The Altruists premieres November 19.

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