Today we're launching Iris, the financial network telecom operators plug into to earn on what they already own. Operators built the roads the digital economy runs on. Everyone else got rich building the city on top. From 2012 through 2025, traffic on operator networks grew more than 50% a year. Operator revenue grew about 1%. The companies on top took the difference. Operators own what those companies pay dearly for: distribution, the billing relationship, daily engagement. And money already runs through all of it, in subscriber payments, top-ups, advertising and settlement. Iris sits underneath all of it. Same business, new revenue, settled in dollars. Iris runs the rails. The operator keeps the economics. VIVA, a licensed carrier in Bolivia, is the first operator live on Iris. Real transactions, settled in USDi, operating reserves held in dollars. Until now, operators built everything and kept almost none of the value. Now they build almost nothing and keep almost all of it.

Flare and Red Date launch the world’s first decentralized identity KYC trial. The trial enables Mainland Chinese to register anonymously on a regulated stablecoin app and facilitate the purchase of tokenized financial products with the stablecoin. flare.network/flare-red-date…

If you're an early-stage investor looking for growth potential – look to women's health. Why? @katelin_cruse broke it down ↓ First, the facts: → Half the population are women → Women have specific healthcare needs → Women control 80%+ of healthcare spending decisions Then, the reality: Women deal with a healthcare market still largely designed & built by men, causing a massive disconnect between what they want & what options they have. "Maybe, just maybe, there are some billion-dollar companies to be built serving this market." — @katelin_cruse to me Duh. 🤦‍♂️ Since then, @sevensevensix has found great investments across every stage in a women's healthcare journey, including ⤵️ 🧡 @poppyseedhealth – making pregnancy, postpartum and loss support accessible for everyone 💜 @elektra – evidence-based menopause education, care & community for the 21st century woman 🔄 @aavia_io – your personalized guide to understanding how your hormones make you feel My advice to founders looking to build a billion-dollar business: Find market segments that have been notoriously underserved. Figure out what problems need to be solved. Build solutions. Scale them.

Sator is coming to @solanamobile in 2024 🎉 Milestone 1 of the brand new Sator Saga dApp is completed ♦️ web3 authentication ♦️ basic user profiles ♦️ profile access control