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"Hey thanks for the dinner earlier. I had a great time! And wah, I still don't know how you got a reservation at Burnt Ends!" Andrea exclaimed, gently caressing David's hands as they walked towards her block from the carpark.
David let out a slight smirk as he snuck in a gentle kiss on her cheek. "This FirstDate so many kang tao one." He thought to himself. There was a special offer guaranteeing a reservation for 2 at the highly coveted Burnt Ends restaurant along with a 25% discount.
There were some terms and conditions but David skimmed through it, eager to turn off the FirstDate warning that his DBS bank account was on the low side and perhaps he should pick somewhere more affordable for his date.
"Well, we've reached." Andrea's eyes quickly darted around before she playfully tugged his hands. "My parents are not home. Do you want to come up?"
"Oh sure." David struggled to contain his excitement despite his seemingly nonchalant response. He had not PCC-ed for a few days and naughty thoughts started flooding his mind as he snuck a quick glance at Andrea's low cut dress. But a faint frown flashed across David's face.
"I think I left something in the car. How about you go up first, I'll come up later?" Andrea nodded, relieved that she had time to touch up her makeup and check if she needed a quick shave. "I'll text you the unit number." She smiled as she headed up.
David heaved a sigh of relief too as he immediately rushed over to the nearby 7-11 he saw on the way here. He had used up the condom he had in his wallet with some skanky xmm he met at Marquee in the past week.
And thankfully for him, nothing else came out of it. There were rumours about FirstDate informing female partners that their dates were found to be at lapsup massage parlours that were raided by anti-vice. Some sentient AI feature working with location trackers. Maybe because it was a classy hotel for him so it didn't set it off or perhaps he and Andrea had not set their relationship as official yet in the app.
David walked into the 7-11 and went straight for Okamoto Sensation and headed to the counter, while eagerly checking his phone for Andrea's message.
"IC or Singpass?" David groaned as he held up his Singpass barcode.
There was an error sound. "Eh sorry ah, system say you cannot." The 7-11 cashier took the condoms back with an apologetic smile.
"You sure anot? Can check again?" David was confused. There was a recent BTO scheme where extra ballots were given to married couples in return for a 5 year ban on condoms and other birth control purchases. But David and Andrea were nowhere near that stage.
He opened his FirstDate app where a warning message had now appeared, reminding him that he now had a temporary ban on all birth control purchases for up to 6 months as a result of using the Burnt Ends voucher.
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Did two 6 month stints at a hedge fund and an asset manager, learnt more than my school ever taught me
Seems like it’s becoming the norm
Intern-maxxing
A particularly brutal race to the bottom is playing out among Singapore's youngest workers: singapore-samizdat.com/p/sin…
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Jonathan retweeted
Je suis tombé sur ce truc ce matin et j'ai explosé de rire tout seul devant mon écran.
Quelqu'un a transformé le carnet d'ordres du Bitcoin en jeu vidéo. Un vrai champ de bataille en 3D 🤯
Les acheteurs qui chargent d'un côté, les vendeurs de l'autre, les baleines qui débarquent comme des gros chars, les liquidations qui se font dégommer en direct sur le terrain.
Le pire c'est que c'est le vrai order book, en live. Et moi je suis là, à 8h du mat, à tourner la caméra pour regarder mes liquidations préférées se faire éclater.
Dix minutes de perdues et zéro regret.
C'est débile, c'est génial et je pouvais pas garder ça pour moi.
Jonathan retweeted
The UR team is at @money2020 this week!
@ngyingzhong, CPO and @0xjlow, Ecosystem Growth Manager are meeting with teams building across stablecoins, digital wallets, embedded finance, and the future of money movement.
Reach out to discuss how UR can help your platform embed compliant fiat and digital asset accounts and card features.
Will be in Amsterdam to meet more folks in the payments landscape
Keen to find out more about how UR can power your payment and account needs?
Catch you in my DMs
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Jonathan retweeted
.@0xjlow: ETH is becoming part of institutional portfolios, with staking yield taking shape as a core layer.
mETH enables that yield to move as liquid capital across markets, through infrastructure built to scale.
Have been stabled up farming from mid 2025 till Jan (with a few decent plays Q3/Q4 but low capital commit)
Good start to Jan moving more from stables to quality equities and precious metals. Not convinced it's time to bid alts, I have no edge + not my style to scalp.
Been seeing more uncertainty in views on curve steepening from the inversion last year on 2-10s and talks of late-stage cycle (Both down 6M, 10s reacting less than 2s)
Will see where this goes over the next quarter while increasing more exposure to quality/trad haven from DeFi
Kept it relatively safe the last 4-6 months (albiet with defi risk):
- @EchelonMarket USDC/USD1/USDe(~12% average, it has halved now to 6+%, previously went as high as 20+%)
- @0xfluid / @aave USDe/USDC/USDT (3-5%, consistent)
- Delta neutral some higher liquidity (AKA boring) pairs across @Lighter_xyz @HyperliquidX and Binance (@Bybit_Official wen SG) (~20% 4x)
- Short vol on spot BTC and ETH on Deribit (is there any other better platform so far?) (~40% 1x, keeping it very very very short dated, mostly 2 DTE)
Been using @LorisTools alot more (Thanks chad 👏👏👏)
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Jonathan retweeted
if you care about ETH yield, liquidity timing matters more
most LSTs still depend on multi-day exit queues which @mETHProtocol's Buffer Pool upgrade solves by introducing a different setup
smaller withdrawals are served from the buffer pool, while larger ones access from lending liquidity (like @aave ) targeting 24hrs redemptions under normal conditions
Once you watch the video, the design makes a lot more sense
Jonathan retweeted
Introducing the mETH Buffer Pool upgrade.
Faster and predictable mETH-to-ETH redemptions targeting ~24 hours.
All while enjoying enhanced yields and no additional fees.
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Jonathan retweeted
If you don't know where the yield is coming from, you are the yield
BTC is cascading, funding is flipping, liquidations are blowing out across the board...moments like this are when stablecoin risk shows its face. The recent depegs in xUSD and USDX, plus the temporary funding shock in USDe, were all reminders of a simple truth:
**High stablecoin yields always come at a cost**
Not all yields are created equal. If you don't know where the yield is coming from, you are the yield
This isn’t a guide on where to park funds, it's a breakdown of how yields are created, where risk hides, and what differentiates real yield from reflexive yield
Jonathan retweeted
As one of Bybit’s leading LST partners, mETH Protocol drives adoption and expands real yield opportunities for 70M+ users globally - @jesswpotato
