Update from East Africa

Finally, $MOVE is now available again to Coinbase users across the world. So many users in the US have been asking us how and where they can trade MOVE, and the answer is Coinbase. You will see that MOVE has a “DEX” tag because we deployed on Aerodrome. Coinbase’s new policy towards the democratization of assets paved the path for us. Thank you to @brian_armstrong, @jessepollak and the @aeroxyz team. We continue marching forward in the new era of Movement. Gmove to the believers.

And who determines who the despots are? And why stop at despots? Is Iraq better after Saddam fell? Framing this as a “if you don’t support this, then you are a despot supporter” doesn’t click for me. US bombs. Innocents die, soldiers die. Then foreign corporations come in and rape all the resources. This is straight up imperialism. And if you support downright imperialism then we have different values. “I’m bombing you for your own good” argument doesn’t make sense to me.

MOVEMENT IS OFFICIALLY AN L1! The M1 Upgrade is complete. Validators. $MOVE Staking. Move 2. It’s all live. To the untrained eye it might not seem like a big deal…but our team essentially swapped out an airplane engine mid flight. No hard fork. No changes to the MOVE token. Just a surgical operation and a buttery 🧈 smooth transition. In the first half of the year, the Movement chain was unusable. Slow, clunky, and a nightmare for our builders. We made the decision that we must pivot away from the “Frankenstein Chain” thesis. Step 1 was the Monza 🏎️ Upgrade in June, and Step 2 is now finally complete with the M1 Upgrade. M1 is crucial in enabling us to achieve our strategic initiatives in 2026 and beyond. 100m users. InshaAllah.

One of my greatest mistake in crypto was believing that anyone on this app is impartial. Every fucking person has an agenda and is either directly or indirectly pumping their bags. (Only caveat might be @cobie) VCs? Use all the financial linguistic soup de jour to pump their latest investment or investment that is about to begin unlocking. Unless of course it can create blowback and impact future deal flow. Then we stay quiet. Podcasts/Streams? If you’re a sponsor, you are protected. If podcaster is on good terms with the founder, the sharp topics will swerve around you. How many ETH podcasts criticize Ethereum in a meaningful way? Slightly maybe? and even then with velvet gloves. Same with the teams more aligned with Solana. Look at the TPS debate for the past few days. who gives a shit? What Solana counts as TPS doesn’t matter. What matters is that Solana is fucking dominating. They are winning. Technology is led by talent, not the other way around. Right now Solana has the gravitational pull of blackhole. The top young builders and minds (generally) are going to Solana. This doesn’t mean they have won and Ethereum has lost. But the longer my Ethereum bros ignore this harsh reality, the longer it will take for them to make their epic comeback. But for the sake of your dignity, please don’t pretend that Ethereum is winning. Losing doesn’t mean you have lost. @toly is the top mental real estate tycoon in all of crypto. Back to the original topic. Several L1 tokens down 90%+ this cycle but only a handful get shit on. Why? Why is the question you must always ask yourself. Builders? Hard to critique your current partners and definitely can’t praise your current partner’s rivals. Cloaks and daggers. KOLs? Do I need to say anything? Referral link or not…it’s all the same. I’m not even making a moral judgement. This is purely an observation. Water is wet, sky is blue, and everything we see is psyops. This is a crypto red pill. Feigning ignorance will only hurt you. Anyways anon, Gmove.