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🏝️ Great day judging the @AvaxTeam1 Hacktahon at Blockchain Beach 2026 in Pescara: AI x @avax , one day, real prototypes.
🏆 Congrats to EventPass by Silvio Iovino!
🙏 Thanks to @ijaack94 , Team1, Avalanche and @OfficinaDefi .
See you at the next one 🇪🇺
Alessandro Brigato retweeted
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Take a photo directly on TokNox using your phone, and tokenize it in just a few steps.
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Alessandro Brigato retweeted
Varla has officially completed its submission to the @colosseum hackathon 🏛️✅
Prediction markets are becoming one of the most important primitives onchain, but capital in open positions stays locked until resolution. Varla changes that: traders can borrow stablecoins against their positions without selling them.
Where we are today:
🔹 Lending is live in public beta on @0xPolygon , with @Polymarket positions as collateral
🔹 Our new @JupiterExchange integration brings prediction market trading on @solana directly through Varla
🔹 Next milestone: collateralized lending on Solana
A huge thank you to @superteamITA for the support and guidance throughout the process. The Solana ecosystem has been incredibly welcoming 🙏
Check out our project page, pitch and demo 👇
colosseum.com/arena/projects…
Alessandro Brigato retweeted
Varla Public Beta is live.
Starting today, the protocol is open to everyone.
No whitelist, no approval process, no waiting.
Thank you to everyone who helped shape the Private Beta.
Now it's time to open the doors.
👉 app.varla.xyz
Alessandro Brigato retweeted
Your files. Tokenized.
TokNox connects files to unique tokens on the blockchain, giving you a record you can verify.
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Alessandro Brigato retweeted
Most positions lock your capital until the event ends.
A token doesn't have to. 🔓
@Polymarket positions are ERC-1155 outcome tokens on @0xPolygon, built on the Conditional Token Framework.
Transferable. Composable. Collateralizable. 🧩
That's the whole difference. The position keeps running. The capital starts working.
Deposit as collateral, borrow $USDC, stay exposed to the outcome.
Our Head of Growth @Bridge984 on prediction markets, composability and looping. Full interview with @AIBC_World 👇
Alessandro Brigato retweeted
More than $300M sits in open interest on @Polymarket.
Much of it won't resolve for weeks.
It earns nothing. It margins nothing. It just waits.
Varla makes it collateral. Deposit positions, borrow $USDC, keep your exposure.
Private beta, more markets live.
Apply → varla.xyz/sign-up
Alessandro Brigato retweeted
Every prediction market position has two costs.
The one you chose: the capital behind your view.
The one you didn't: every trade you couldn't make
while it sits there.
Varla removes the second.
Beta is open → varla.xyz/sign-up
Prediction markets: new financial infrastructure or just digital speculation?
I spoke with @AIBC_World about how @tryvarla and DeFi turn prediction-market positions into collateral — so capital no longer sits idle until an event resolves.
Read 👇
aibc.world/news/prediction-m…
Are prediction markets just betting sites?
Reducing them to that misses the point — and on the @WMFWeMakeFuture stage, I argued why.
A position on a decentralized prediction market isn't a bet that dies with the house. It's a programmable financial asset: you own it, with no intermediary holding it for you. You trade it peer-to-peer, 24/7. And you compose it with the rest of #DeFi.
That last property — composability — is where it gets interesting.
Because the right positions don't have to sit as idle capital. Under the right conditions they can become liquid, and even act as collateral. Not every position qualifies — liquidity, time horizon and resolution risk all matter — but the ones that do open up something new.
It's the shift from frozen capital to productive capital. What we call capital efficiency.
And it's exactly what we're building at @tryvarla : the infrastructure that turns a prediction-market position into a usable asset, not inert capital.
The next phase of on-chain finance won't just tokenize what already exists — it'll make it composable and productive. That's the kind of future WMF is built to make.
🙏 Thanks to @GabrieleDelmese , @gaudenzio_eth and the #WMF26 team for the stage, powered by @Moneyviz_ — and for finally giving this space room for many voices and perspectives.
Alessandro Brigato retweeted
🚪 ⚡️ The gates are open!
The Varla Private Beta is live on @Polymarket
Borrow against your positions, without selling a single share.
Up to 80% LTV, non-custodial.
Getting in is only the beginning.
Show up, compete, earn your place among the first ⚔️
Details soon 👀
app.varla.xyz/
Alessandro Brigato retweeted
The Varla quest is live on @Galxe 🚀
Complete a few simple tasks and you're in the draw: 10 winners share 1,000 USDC.
Discover the DeFi lending layer for prediction markets 👇
app.galxe.com/quest/b6Sb2aGR…
Alessandro Brigato retweeted
Varla is about to open the gates of its Private Beta, powered by @Polymarket
Borrow against your Polymarket positions, and keep your exposure up to 80% LTV.
Only a few days left to get whitelisted.
Spots are limited and team-approved.
Subscribe now to secure your spot 👇
varla.xyz/sign-up
Happy to join @eth_milano again this year 🔵
Looking forward to connecting with builders, researchers, and partners from the ecosystem.
If you’re curious about @tryvarla (DeFi lending & yield infrastructure for prediction markets), @Toknox_ , or exploring institutional collaborations with Blockchain Italia — come find me or drop a message.
See you there 👋
Alessandro Brigato retweeted
JUST IN: SEC prepares to legalize blockchain-based, tokenized stock trading.
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The future of marketplace commerce is on Polygon.
@Meta launched stablecoin payouts for creators on the Polygon Chain.
Live in Colombia and the Philippines, with 160+ markets coming, users now get faster settlement with USDC while gaining access to dollar denominated assets.
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The EVM ecosystem has over 30 million monthly active wallet users. Until today, none of them could access Algorand dApps without creating a new wallet.
That changes now with xChain Accounts.
xChain Accounts launches today with @alphaarcade, one of the top prediction markets in crypto by transaction volume.
Connect with supported EVM-compatible wallets like MetaMask, Rabby, Coinbase Wallet, or any other EVM wallet.
No new wallet or seed phrase required.
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Europe's largest energy producer @EnelGroup is tokenizing renewable energy on Algorand.
Italian citizens can purchase tokenized shares of wind and solar plants, backed by real-world infrastructure, reducing their electricity bills.
RWAs on @Algorand are just getting started.
A trader may have pocketed $34K on Polymarket by allegedly pointing a hair dryer at an unguarded Météo-France sensor near Charles de Gaulle Airport runway.
Bought YES on temperature targets.
Heated the sensor.
Collected the winnings.
Did it twice.
No smart contract exploit.
No zero-day.
Just physical access to the weakest link in the oracle chain.
This is the oracle problem nobody talks about: #blockchains can be trustless.
The thermometer in a field cannot.