cx @fun | cx maxi | prev: @uniswap @nativemarkets | annoyingly enthusiastic about defi, financial access, & the human condition
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steph bell gulati retweeted
After 7 years quietly building, it was fun to share some of my mistakes & learnings @MIT this week.
@fun's last financing was done at a $425M valuation, and we’ve now grown 9x since our $72M Series A. Our 30d volume just crossed >$100B annualized.
A few of my mistakes along the journey 🧵
steph bell gulati retweeted
someone should invent a version of Gmail that can search your inbox and return the emails that match the term you're looking for
Me in every Uber: entire head out the window like a golden retriever, dodging an air freshener headache
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steph bell gulati retweeted
When Native Markets secured the right to deploy USDH eight months ago, we had a simple thesis: people care about stablecoins that deliver value to the networks and their users.
Today, we see a validation of that thesis with Coinbase deploying native USDC as an AQA that shares the vast majority of its reserve yield. This transition to Coinbase immediately activates yield on nearly $5B worth of stablecoins and aligns Hyperliquid with one of crypto’s strongest policy advocates.
I'm proud of what @fiege_max and our entire team have built to date — designing the Open Issuance product alongside the Bridge team, building an exceptional onramp with USDH.com, and beyond.
To those that supported USDH, thank you for your vote of confidence. There’s more to come, stay tuned.
divorce prevention: claude doing my bracket this year so I can stop disappointing my husband’s family
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Genuine question for @Zendesk:
If your site is full of AI and automation jargon/messaging, why is it so hard to get a response from sales?
Tried multiple forms/emails to sign up this week but I've been waiting to hear back for several days. Would love a faster path!
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steph bell gulati retweeted
gas fees → transaction fees
whitelist → early access
mint → buy, create, post
tokengate → paywall
hot wallet → account
cold wallet → vault
snapshot → record
bridge → transfer
stake → deposit
burn → delete
chain → network, backend
yield → interest, savings rate
token → asset, money, currency
NFT → art, skin, collectible, ticket, pass, membership
one of the most persistent problems in crypto is when a project decides to define new term in attempt to own category and create new verb (ie. google it), instead of opting to choose language people understand.
queue an industry with jargonitis so bad it's a barrier to consumer adoption.
if my normie friends hear 'fungible' or 'fiat' one more time chat, it's literally so over for us.
steph bell gulati retweeted
Uniswap House NYC: Day Two 🦄
teapaw.org/i/broadcasts/1MYxNwkBj…
steph bell gulati retweeted
“You can’t fork trust and safety”
@haydenzadams on whether forks indicate a loss of value capture and the commitment to building open source
steph bell gulati retweeted
Our Smart Wallet is nearly ready for rollout! 🦄
It was a fullstack effort that took coordination across nearly all of the eng teams at @Uniswap
Since we maintain a dapp, wallet, and protocol (and a chain!) we really had to think through the end-to-end experience
steph bell gulati retweeted
✨Designed for DeFi
Thank you to the 80+ apps and partners launching on day 1, including @coinbase, @circle, @across, @lidofinance, @morpholabs
We're shipping more to scale onchain markets in 2025 — even faster blocks, rollup boost, the Unichain Validation network, and more coming soon
We can't wait to see what the community builds on top 🦄
steph bell gulati retweeted
Uniswap v4 is here🦄
Users can LP on v4 through the Uniswap web app and swapping is rolling out over the coming days on web and wallet as liquidity migrates to v4
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