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It is with a heavy heart that we announce we are winding down the Botanix network. This decision is the hardest one we have made in four years, and we want to share the reasoning openly because the people who backed us, built with us, and used what we shipped deserve more than a quiet shutdown notice. First off, an immediate practical consideration for the Botanix community: please withdraw your Bitcoin and other assets before July 9th, 2026. When we started in 2022, the pitch was simple enough to say in a sentence: bring real utility to Bitcoin. What that actually meant in practice, and what we have spent nearly four years building toward, was more ambitious than that sentence made it sound. We were trying to build a Bitcoin-based blockchain that could find genuine product-market fit as a platform for Bitcoin applications, without using token incentives to drive growth, manufacture users, or simulate utility. Almost every chain that has launched in the last cycle has reached for the same playbook (issue a token without PMF, engineer the incentive surface, point at the resulting metrics), and we did not believe this route is a viable strategy in the long term. We wanted to know whether a Bitcoin chain could earn its users on the strength of what was built on top of it, the value it brings in the market with Bitcoin itself as the only meaningful economic primitive in the system. And we built it. The Spiderchain went live and stayed live, a year of mainnet operation with one hundred percent uptime and zero security incidents on a genuinely novel cryptographic architecture. We built Dynafed, a dynamic federation that turned the Spiderchain from a static multisig set into a rotating, decentralized one, the technical milestone that most people in this space said could not be built on Bitcoin without compromising trust assumptions. Twenty-five million transactions, two hundred thousand wallets, and tens of millions of dollars in assets moved across the chain, every single number of that earned organically without a token, without airdrops, without points programs, or any of the manufactured-demand machinery. Chainlink, Morpho, GMX, Dolomite, Fireblocks, Alchemy, Galaxy, OKX Wallet, all integrated. We shipped a Bitcoin neobank with BINK on iOS and Android, with self-custodial email login for Bitcoin (something that had never existed before), native Bitcoin yield, and the lowest borrowing rates against Bitcoin anywhere in the world, all of it downstream of owning the infrastructure. The point of saying this is not to argue with our own conclusion. The protocol works, the product works, and our team and ecosystem worked in concert to do exceptional work. We have run this experiment in earnest, with a working protocol, real applications, and a serious team, for over a year on mainnet and nearly four years in total. The honest answer we have arrived at, after living inside it every day, is that it did not work, at least not in this market and not on this timeline. We want to share what we think we learned, with the caveat that some of this is conviction and some of this is still suspicion, and we would rather be transparent about the difference than pretend to have clarity we do not have. The first thing I've had to sit with is timing. Bitcoin utility, making Bitcoin programmable, productive, and integrated into real financial activity, isn't where the real world users sit right now. The conversation is still on Bitcoin as a reserve asset, on its monetary and political positioning, on base-layer conservatism. Those questions are upstream of the ones a Bitcoin L2 needs people to be asking. I still believe Bitcoin gets there, but belief in the destination is not the same as being able to predict when, and nobody can. It's also possible the destination never materialises at all, and that Bitcoin's role as a reserve asset is simply where it settles. If that's true, there will never be a market for what we were building, and no amount of time or capital would change that. The second is the token question. We intended to eventually launch a token. We saw it, and still see it, as a genuinely new form of equity, something closer to an IPO than an airdrop, to be done when you reach product market fit and the moment is right. That moment never came. What became clear over the last year is that the market largely stopped rewarding even the more considered versions of that playbook. Token launches across the board have broadly underperformed, and those that did go to market with tokens haven't seen the outcomes or PMF that the model is supposed to produce. The third lesson is about where DeFi demand on Bitcoin actually lives. For most use cases that exist today, lending, yield, leveraged exposure, WBTC on a mature general-purpose L2 is genuinely sufficient. Users have voted with their behaviour, and the verdict is that the trust assumptions of a wrapped representation on Ethereum are acceptable to almost everyone who wants Bitcoin-denominated DeFi. Decentralisation matters to people in principle and in conversation; in practice, when something cheaper and easier is in front of them, they use it. The security case for a dedicated Bitcoin L2 is real, but it only matters for a narrower band of applications than our thesis required, one of the clearer lessons this market has taught us. The fourth lesson is structural. The on-chain economy is consolidating around venues that own the user relationship: Hyperliquid, Robinhood, the major CEXes, and now TradFi participants absorbing an ever-larger share of attention, flow, and revenue. Convenience and institutional credibility win, every time, as soon as they're available. As retail participation thins, that concentration only deepens. We were, and still are, believers in decentralisation, but the current direction of on-chain growth is running through distribution, and any team building base-layer infrastructure today is rowing upstream against that current. We were no exception. The fifth lesson is the most concrete. Both of the above played out directly in our economics. The users we attracted were primarily using Bitcoin as a store of value for yield, a legitimate use case, but not the high-frequency transaction volume that drives fee revenue on a network like ours. BINK was our answer to that: a Bitcoin neobank designed to bring daily usage of BTC and stablecoins on-chain, driving the transaction volume the network needed. It was the right strategic instinct, and one we never got the chance to fully test. BINK only landed on both app stores in the last few weeks, a product that by its nature could only be built once the underlying infrastructure was proven and live. When users choose the convenient option and economic gravity pulls toward distribution, what's left on a decentralised infrastructure layer is a user base that costs more to serve than it generates. Infrastructure costs are what they are, and the fee income never came close to covering them. If you would like to see how we were imagining a Bitcoin future and what we have been working on since September, feel free to download BINK and give it a spin: it’s a full-fledged self-custodial Bitcoin Neobank with email login, one click borrowing, a Lightning integration and more. App store: Play store: This UX is where we think Bitcoin is ultimately heading towards although it feels too early. You can use invite code 1SD31R, but remember to remove your funds by July 9th. We could keep going. We have chosen not to, however, because continuing past the point where additional time stops producing additional learning is not conviction, it is something that looks like conviction from the outside while corroding into something else on the inside. We would rather stop now, with integrity intact and resources available to take care of the people who took a chance on us, than push the experiment past the point where it still has something to teach us. Reminder: Please withdraw all your assets by July 9th. After this, the federation will sweep the remaining Bitcoin. Any other assets or tokens on the network from then onwards will unfortunately be unrecoverable. After this, the federation will sweep the remaining Bitcoin. Any other assets or tokens on the network from then onwards will unfortunately be unrecoverable. To our investors, who backed a thesis that was harder to defend than it should have been, to our partners who built alongside us and bet pieces of their own roadmaps on ours, to the developers who deployed on Spiderchain, to our users and the BINK community who showed up for something experimental and stayed, and most of all to the Botanix team who shipped a genuinely novel system with rigour and care and who made every hard day worth the difficulty: Thank you, more than the words available here can carry.

Peter Thiel on the type of company more startup founders should build Thiel first emphasizes his belief that when starting a company, you should always ask: “Can this company become a monopoly?” He then lists three of the most common types of monopolies: Super fast distribution on a very thin product (e.g. Twitter) A technological advantage that is continually built upon with iterative improvement and compounds over time (e.g. SaaS software) A truly brilliant breakthrough (e.g. Bitcoin) But he argues that there’s a different monopoly category that’s continually overlooked: “A different modality for innovation that we do very little of and we don’t even recognize as an important category is what I would describe as ‘Complex Coordination,’ where you take a lot of different pieces and the challenge is to coordinate them into something new.” Thiel continues: “This is the thing that’s maybe 180 degrees antithetical to the Lean Startup ethos. It’s complicated. You have to put all the pieces together in just the right way. I think this is on some level what really drove Apple as an innovative company in the last decade… What was new about the iPhone? There was no single component that was new. It was just that you put all of these things together in just the right way… and once you built it, it was actually super hard for people to replicate. You had an advantage for many years.” He points to Tesla and SpaceX as more recent examples. “There’s no component to the Tesla that’s actually that new. It’s just that you put all of the pieces together. You re-engineered the whole distributor network. It was this complex coordination that made it work. There’s like this lost art of accounting where you figure out how much things cost and add them all together. And Elon has discovered this lost art of accounting which no other people practice.”

THE 1948 MANTELL INCIDENT: The Day a Pilot Shot Down a UFO and Live Aliens Were Captured 🛸 On January 7, 1948, one of the most dramatic and controversial events in UFO history unfolded in the skies over Kentucky. What began as a routine investigation of an unidentified object by Captain Thomas F. Mantell ended in tragedy, a crashed alien spacecraft, and the brief capture of three living extraterrestrial beings. Interrogation and the Venusian Connection: For three days, the beings were interrogated by Air Force intelligence officers. According to the account, they claimed to originate from Venus, which they described as the capital planet of a solar system-wide civilization. They stated that other craft in the area were crewed by beings from Mars, Saturn, and Pluto. Their mission was peaceful observation of Earth’s nuclear activities and technological progress. They explained that their craft had an automated defense system that responded when fired upon. They expressed genuine regret for Captain Mantell’s death, stating they had not intended to kill him. While the aliens were held in the guardhouse, additional UFOs were tracked hovering high above the base. Fearing reprisals, authorities were uncertain how to proceed. The Mysterious Escape: On the second night of detention, the aliens vanished from their locked cell without any signs of forced entry or escape. A 100-foot craft reportedly descended over the guardhouse and projected a beam of white light with a greenish tinge. Witnesses claimed the three beings were lifted through the ceiling of the cell and taken aboard the ship. Later, a message was received via telex and radio transmission from a companion craft. It reiterated their peaceful intentions, apologized for the loss of Mantell, and warned pilots not to fire on their vessels. The message also promised that one day they would reveal how the rescue was accomplished. The captured UFO was reportedly transported to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for study, generating over 2,000 pieces of official correspondence between various military agencies. Legacy: The Mantell Incident remains one of the most extraordinary accounts in UFO lore — not only because a decorated pilot lost his life, but because it allegedly resulted in the first confirmed capture and interrogation of live extraterrestrial visitors on American soil. While the official U.S. Air Force explanation attributes the event to Mantell chasing a Skyhook weather balloon and suffering from hypoxia at high altitude, many researchers believe the full story involves a far more significant encounter between humanity and beings from other worlds. This case continues to fascinate those exploring the possibility that we are not alone — and that contact may have already occurred more than seven decades ago.

I've storyboarded on some big films. There's no "sanctity of the art" on a film. Infact most of your drawings end up in the trash. They are entirely disposable pieces of working media designed to communicate an idea. The art is in sequence design, not drawing. You ABSOLUTELY want to streamline this process. You want to empower sequence designers with the simplest and fastest method of keeping characters on model, and iterating ideas. You want to empower storytellers, not just "good drawers". The fact that people who can "draw good" are the only ones let into the room that defines the cultural narrative of humanity is a grave injustice. The stories that need to be told aren't only the stories of those with a mastery of drawing. Everyone's story deserves to have the opportunity to be told. Storyboarding isn't primarily art, but language. And language belongs to everyone. For reference, here's one of Scorcese's own boards. No one could accuse it of being art, yet it served as a functional blueprint for what would become a great film. AI allows more filmmakers to work faster, iterate more quickly and communicate to collaborators at a higher fidelity.

I’ve been noticing how the flow between tools starts feeling smoother when each one handles a different gap in your day. Spending feels natural on @useTria, research threads stay alive inside @TheARCTERMINAL, and liquidity on @RiverdotInc keeps moving instead of sitting still. What stands out is how none of it feels forced. Just quiet pieces that fit together: easy payments persistent context assets that stay productive Feels like the first time these systems are starting to match how we already live online. The shift usually starts subtle, then becomes normal before anyone notices @wallchain

#STEPN# & #STEPNGO# May Townhall Recap 📝 🔹 Last two months retrospective 🔹 Challenge Capsules 🔹 STEPNathon 2 Missed it? We got you covered 👇 🔄 Last two months retrospective The Townhall opened with a look back at some of the main updates from the last two months: 🔸 Rabbids 🔸 Marathon Season 2 🔸 LSD for Legendary holders 🔸 Android Marketplace removal On the Android side, the team acknowledged that the Marketplace had to be removed due to Google Play restrictions. 🐰 Rabbids The Rabbids event leaned fully into community participation, with users posting April Fools content, memes, fake breaking news, and all kinds of chaotic entries to earn Rabbids GGBoxes. Those GGBoxes included chances to win 100 Rabbids co-branded Solana Genesis Sneakers, along with rewards like 100k GMT, 1k USDT, and $50 worth of XAUT. And importantly, there are still some Rabbids Genesis Sneakers left to be found in GGBoxes. 🏁 Marathon Season 2 The Townhall also looked back at Marathon Season 2, with a strong focus on how Teams have changed the tone of the challenge. A few highlights: 🔹 Players are not only competing for themselves, but also for their team 🔹 Teams have made the Marathon more collaborative, more competitive, and more social 🔹 Team Takeover was introduced during Round 4 🔹 The top 3 teams and 4 random active teams could earn additional rewards The team also confirmed that work on Season 3 is already in progress, and community feedback is welcome through Discord and the ambassador team. 🐈‍⬛ LSD Legendary Schadenfreude Day was another highlight of the last two months. The event gave Legendary holders with unlucky or disappointing stats a chance to share why their Sneakers deserved better. Selected entries had a chance to receive improved stats, although usually with a trade-off involved. The result was a playful event with a strong identity, while also creating a fun way to engage directly with Legendary holders. 🎟️ Challenge Capsules Challenge Capsules were the main product topic of this Townhall. The team clarified that while some users expected Charm in STEPN GO to eventually connect to avatar pieces or characters, that direction is no longer being pursued, even if that expectation came from how Charm was described in the STEPN GO whitepaper. The reason is simple: 🔸 It was not fun enough 🔸 It was also technically difficult to deliver at the level the team wanted So instead, Charm is being redirected into a new feature that adds more gamification to both apps. Challenge Capsule is a game mode built around movement, task completion, reward opportunities, and discovery. The core loop is simple: 🔹 Open a Capsule 🔹 Reveal the challenge 🔹 Complete it 🔹 Earn a Ticket 🔹 Join the draw for a prize A few key points: 🔸 Challenge Capsules will work with both STEPN and STEPN GO through FSL ID 🔸 Users enter a Capsule by paying an entry fee 🔸 Each Capsule has its own challenge, conditions, and reward pool 🔸 Users need to complete the required challenge within the given time limit 🔸 Completing the challenge successfully gives the user a Ticket for the reward draw And importantly, this is not passive participation. Users need to move, complete the challenge, and earn their chance. For STEPN GO: 🔹 Charm will now have a clearer role in the system 🔹 Charm runs can help users earn more Tickets and improve their chances at winning the Capsule’s draw For STEPN: 🔹 Resilience becomes the key attribute in the system 🔹 Resilience now gets more utility through Challenge Capsules 🔹 STEPN players will also have a chance to obtain a new type of Mystery Box containing Challenge Capsule Tickets 🔹 Those Tickets give users more chances to win the Capsule reward The feature will go live in limited access beta within the upcoming weeks, with more details to be shared soon. 🏃 STEPNathon 2 The Townhall also included an exclusive first announcement for STEPNathon 2. From June 22 to June 29, players will be able to take on the challenge by completing either 21 km or 42 km in a single session using STEPN and or STEPN GO. To participate: 🔹 A Season Pass is required 🔹 Every finisher automatically enters a Genesis Sneaker raffle 🔹 There will be one raffle for STEPN and one for STEPN GO Event rewards will depend on both the app and the distance completed. In STEPN: 🔸 Players can earn exclusive badges, backgrounds, and GGBoxes In STEPN GO: 🔸 Players can unlock exclusive backgrounds and GGBoxes A few more infos: 🔹 Completing 42 km also unlocks the 21 km reward tier 🔹 Each badge and background is unique to the app and to the distance 🔹 Teams also matter this time The Marathon team with the highest total Energy spent during the event week will receive additional exclusive rewards: 🔸 A unique badge 🔸 A special background 🔸 5 GGBoxes plus 1 Key for each member So STEPNathon 2 keeps the spirit of the original challenge, while connecting more directly to the team dynamics introduced in Marathon Season 2. That’s the May Townhall recap. Challenge Capsules are introducing a new gamified movement layer across STEPN and STEPN GO, STEPNathon 2 is coming back, and the last two months have continued to push both products toward a more social and more interactive direction.

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Elon Musk just measured your existence by how many times your atoms have been inside a dying star. Musk: “How many times have your atoms been at the center of a star? I think it’s like on average three or four times.” Every atom in your body has already survived the core of a star. Multiple times. Crushed under pressures that would flatten planets. Superheated to millions of degrees. Blown apart in explosions so violent they forged new elements. Then gravity pulled those scattered pieces back together. New stars formed. And the cycle repeated. For 13.8 billion years, your atoms have been fuel for the most violent process in the universe. And they are not done. Musk: “In terms of existence as measured by the number of times your atoms will be at the center of a star, we seem to be roughly halfway.” Halfway. Your atoms have been through the furnace three or four times. They will go through three or four more. But right now, in this impossibly thin sliver between cycles, those atoms are doing something they have never done before. They are conscious. For billions of years before you, they burned through stellar cores with no awareness. No memory. No sense of what they were or where they had been. After you, they will return to that state. Unconscious matter drifting through space until the next star claims them. This is the only moment in their entire journey where they can look back at the stars that made them and understand. Musk: “If you want to look at the big picture… that’s the really big picture.” The big picture is not that we are small. Everyone already knows that. The big picture is that we are temporary witnesses to a process that does not need witnesses. Stars do not need observers to burn. Atoms do not need anyone to understand where they have been. The universe ran for billions of years with no one in it. It will run for billions more after the last conscious thing disappears. But right now, matter is examining itself. That has never happened before in 13.8 billion years. You are not a person who happens to contain ancient atoms. You are ancient atoms that briefly figured out how to think. The universe did not design consciousness. It designed stars. Consciousness was the accident. And the accident is half over.