Google Street View started as a project to scan the real world. Cars with cameras photographed streets to collect data. It worked, but everything that made a place feel like a place was gone. Until @andyszy prototyped what it could feel like as a product designed for people. The prototype was completely fake. The map didn't work and the imagery wasn't real. But it let people feel what it was like to stand on the street. An engineer saw it and said "let's ship it." Andy had to explain there was nothing to ship. This "smoke and mirrors" prototype convinced the team to throw out years of work and rebuild Street View through the eye of a human instead of a machine. I talked with Andy about the whole story, including the prototypes, the key design decisions, and how Street View became one of the most beloved products on the internet. Full story (with more early prototypes) in the replies 👇

Congrats @ethlabs_org team on their launch! I am delighted to be an initial donor and supporter. Props to @ethereumJoseph, @Sharplink, @BitMNR and @fundstrat for anchoring this new organization. A few thoughts having spent time watching how @adietrichs, @barnabemonnot, @casparschwa, @rudolf6_, and @_julianma work together and iterate: Observations on Eth Labs: 1. The team is very open to feedback, learns quickly, and is taking feedback much faster than any prior Ethereum-related organization I've seen. 2. The explicit focus on $ETH as a store-of-value is a deliberate decision. It is very much needed from an Ethereum ecosystem blessed organization. Finally. 3. There is finally a team that acknowledges DeFi is a killer use case and needs support. Love that they are pragmatic about it. 4. They were deliberate in getting many builders in the community to support them. They are genuinely open to input and want more builders from the ecosystem to be a part of this.

Exposing your entire onchain history to the world is insane. But you do it with every purchase on your crypto card and every transaction to a friend. That ends today. @AnomaPay V1 is LIVE on @ethereum. Get started: anomapay.app

Ren (@0xren_cf) dropping some knowledge on Bitcoin and quantum!

RE TGE is coming soon. A new era for the internet native insurance capital market begins. More details here: blog.re.xyz/re-governance-to…

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In the early Google X days of what would later become Waymo, designer YooJung Ahn asked a handful of engineers to sketch what came to mind when they imagined a self-driving car. → The safety engineer drew a giant mattress. → The LiDAR engineer drew a cone. → Others referenced futuristic sci-fi vehicles. The exercise surfaced an important problem: the team had powerful pieces of autonomous-driving technology, but no shared design vision yet for what a self-driving car should actually feel like to the people around it. So YooJung asked a more fundamental question: Why are we building a self-driving car? The answer became surprisingly important to the design process. The team believed self-driving vehicles had the potential to make roads safer, help reduce crashes, and expand access to mobility. That clarity helped shape the design work that followed. Firefly wasn’t designed only to function technically. It was designed to feel approachable and understandable to people encountering autonomy for the first time. The team explored hundreds of vehicle forms and rethought basic assumptions about cars: → What should the inside of a car look like when nobody is driving? → What information helps passengers feel calm? → Should passengers face each other or forward? → What physical details make a vehicle feel approachable rather than intimidating? Even choices like windshield height, body shape, interior layout, and color were tied back to trust and human perception. I spoke with YooJung about the behind-the-scenes design decisions that shaped early Google X prototypes, Firefly, and the work of designing autonomy for the real world. Full story in comments.

Finance is the new entertainment. The team at Legend Trade is creating the platform where traders are athletes, markets are media, and the game is trading. @ryohhno, @spaghetti_codes, @apemoney and the Legend team are extraordinary builders. Who will become the greatest trader in the world? I can't wait to find out on Legend. Congratulations!

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Legend starts with one simple question: who is the best trader in the world? In 1 year, I believe a Legend-native creator will be born who will be making 1M+ natively on the platform. I assume they will be technically smart, an unbelievable trader, and given the platform to showcase their personality and be a breakout star on the internet and generate unbelievable economic value for their generation. If Robinhood brought mobile equities to the masses, Coinbase brought crypto ownership to the masses, and Twitch brought gaming spectatorship to the masses, Legend brings markets as a new form of true financial media. Legend is: - Social (60% of our active users are in clans) - +EV (our users are as profitable as a cohort as Insilico, 30% more than MetaMask/Phantom perps users), - native features that make perps easier to trade and more fun while being non-extractive vs. memecoins, without compromising pro-level execution - IRL: we build the Legend Trade Series, where we showcase our culture and the best financial athletes in the world. Our NYC LTS had over 3M+ impressions and 10k+ live viewers and drove 200% deposit growth on the platform. In <1mo in our invite-gated alpha, Legend has generated over 80M+ in volume, with our 7d volume being a top 20 @hyperliquidX builder project. We are now publicly available, with our alpha iOS app in the App Store. Super excited to continue working with @mariashen at Electric and the goated team at @ambergroup_io and @GSR_io on this next stage.

We're pleased to announce that Legend has raised a $3.5 million seed round, led by @ElectricCapital, with participation from @ambergroup_io and @GSR_io, bringing our total raised to over $5 million.

The 2026 DeFi security stack: - Audits (human, agentic) - Formal Verification - Guarded Launches - Rate limits, settlement gates with emergency overrides - Bug bounties - First loss junior capital tranches - Multisig opsec review - Gsuite/slack/telegram/X opsec review - DNS / package dependencies / Web2 stack security audit - Collateral asset review and disclosure (market, operational, oracle) - Infra dependency risk (bridges, pools, oracles, etc.) - Realtime monitoring - Incident response run-books - Periodic reviews to catch drift in any of the above - Review depth and sophistication that scales with value at risk What am I missing?

One of the reasons I got excited about @infiniFi in the first place was a strong belief that we had to build a bunch of new duration-aware primitives in DeFi to truly power all of finance. The team has built the first "duration-native" vault, and that allows the to then do all kinds of other interesting things, especially when it comes to RWAs 👇

Amazing work by @MariaShen to map this all out. Takeaway: there are so many more RWAs to bring onchain.

Great analysis of which off chain assets might come on chain next

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We mapped 501 sources of real-world yield in traditional finance. Only 34 have any meaningful on-chain presence. We break down: - what keeps the other 467 off-chain - why distribution is the biggest bottleneck - what needs to be built to bring them on

Stablecoins hold more US treasuries than Hong Kong, India, and Brazil. Circle + Tether alone hold $162B. One of the biggest shifts in how money moves is happening right now. Stay current with 18 charts on stablecoins at data.electriccapital.com/pos… Follow for more data & insights